britain first standing up to nazi germany on the last day of his tour of the country the pontiff is now in birmingham where he's beatified nineteenth century theologian cardinal newman the state visit has seen a number of protests against the catholic church on issues like child abuse abortion and contraception meanwhile charges have been dropped against six men accused of plotting an attack on the pope. so john storm in new zealand has left tens of thousands of people without power heavy snowfall and high winds damaged buildings and caused the roof to collapse of a local sports stadium lightning also called several fires it is the second recent natural disaster to hit the country after an earthquake measuring seven on the richter scale hit the south island of fortnight ago. and in chile the thirty three trapped miners have joined their countrymen in celebrating the two hundredth anniversary of independence depth of a seven hundred meters the man gave

a hearty rendition of the national anthem and performed a well known folk dance they were also treated to a special menu of traditional pies the courage of the miners was cheered by millions in the capital. r. and i will take a short break and i'll be back in a few minutes with the headlines of today and all this week see you in a moment. wealthy

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coming to you live from. the headlines today this week choosing from the left and right. the country's parliamentary elections with the following rights group causing controversy over its hardline immigration. post court will decide on the extradition of one of russia's most wanted terrorist suspects who was detained on later released in warsaw. and russia norway agreed to a deal which put an end to a forty year disagreement over disputed waters in the energy rich baron see. you up to date now with the headlines on the top stories of the week next a special report we take a look at what happens when soldiers follow the. orders that's next right here on.

the cadet lease the roof of generals had planned a coup d'etat you know i wasn't intimate cool i was not contaminated by the desire to overthrow the government. and. want to put you at about eight thirty am. i received a memo from the division commander. ordering me to take control of the region of delta and to rest a governor and members of the regional government. and it will i gather my officers and told them what i thought about the whole thing. going to be bits of me until i gave them

a short verbal order maintain calm an order do not change the system. and respect the life of all citizens. of the m.b. on september eleventh. i was the mayor of the city of tulka and we see that the. we know my name is. an foresee. and i was a member of the communist party but that day the party had decided. that about ten thirty am. i would go to the military barracks to speak with. find out exactly what's going on. to assess the situation. i think i must be the only communist mayor in the country who went into military

barracks on september eleventh spoke with the military commander expressed reservations about the events of the day. down of their free to carry out my duties as mayor. but think on it if i spoke to this man if i agreed to see him it's because use a chilean citizen a man who had been elected mayor of talca by the population he had that title i could not despise and that's why i treated him like i did. i am alive today because. if rain. was the military commander. otherwise impossible for get it. i was among the first on the list of people to be eliminated. by the pushes. them for two

thousand and. nine when you think of later three years running to drive the new lease on time ninety six the news comes good morning bill a good morning to extend an american soldier who went a while rather than fight what he calls and oil driven war in iraq faces a current martial at fort stewart today and his trial is attracting international media attention spanish and canadian television crews joined local news teams to report he faces up to a year in prison for desertion if convicted. things holmes. today it is the first day of the trial in the court martial of staff sergeant peel. years charged with one specification of violation of article eighty

five of the uniform code of military justice you see m.j. desertion. i will introduce mr ramsey clark as you all know by now as a former attorney general united states in the sixty's certainly the johnson administration set to go beat leading the defense on the issue of whether international law defenses that we want to offer should be admitted in this case is that this is a or the most important issues in this case. are coming down to the station. you know. because it should such great importance. to our country tend to peace. in iraq you have soldiers accused of violating international law. the geneva convention. and for that matter domestic law course you can't prove

a lot of people under any circumstances under any law. here you have a soldier. who served in iraq. you describe leader. his squad was cleared in. two abuses that were violations of international law. you know they were they were stationed out at the international airport. they were handing detainees but what comes in is three sheen your men who had no dinner and have. only code names and they do the actual interrogation. but they order. these young soldiers around on how you handle the detainees when the actual impaired geisha isn't going on. and they were ordered to prise them.

forty eight hours. keep them blindfolded. jerk them around make them stand make noise. take your weapon to defuse may shoot the person right in the head at that time. he thought he had a duty to stay out of that. activity. and the violation of international law. that's what you want to soldiers to do. take more if you want to be a democratic society than a blind obedience to authority. and you see that an order is illegal and you're being ordered to commit a crime don't do it. yet they make the prosecution fears that a light sentence or make it will encourage other immigrant soldiers to desert the defense argues. had the right to obey his own conscience if you other than orders

from his commanding officers a ten person jury will hear testimony tomorrow from fort stewart georgia. univision . i. think. one of the soldiers who have been in my one. piece mother. mom i don't feel like my life belongs to me. why did you ignore me so much of the soldier said he did because i failed the same way when i was there. because we were told to go on missions that we knew were not for the

benefit of anyone other than the officers who were given such orders to go into such missions because we knew that there were officers there were pretty much instigating firefights and creating social distress because they had gone through so many years to have gone through entire military careers without having any type of experience and in order for them to have the experience that background they need to get their promotions and to make this one general perhaps i mean this combat experience. is very helpful. but.

they don't really care who you are all they care about is that when you go there and don't we get into firefights so they can get their medals so they can get their promotion so they can get their purple hearts. going. into said yep and then you ask yourself why did all this happen you know why did all these people die. why did i allow myself to be put in a situation where i have to kill in order to survive.

were. shovel cheating bush moved in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight there was no palestinian national authority. cities had their own town councils knew at the time that the palestinians could govern themselves to a certain extent. that it should one day. israel expelled the mayor of his brother. and the mayor of algeria to jordan. we must feel that the next day we were sent to patrol the city of heber.

the book but there was a huge demonstration to protest the expulsion of the two mayors and that would mean there were a lot of protesters. they were throwing stones at every government installation they saw whether military or civilian three. women shelled and then the government issued the order to open fire on the demonstrators. in we look for that if i said no i can't open find a lawyer billy i didn't have the capacity to break up a demonstration lee had no tear gas is no shield it's no rubber bullet. it's with the you had nothing at all i said i'm a soldier a fighter. i fire my weapon it's to kill me with someone asked me are you refusing to obey an order shoot she i said

yes i refuse because this order goes against my principles. no one can force me to kill if i don't want to do it i don't want to be a war criminal. he was doing this if so i was reprimanded and demoted. it to you in the yellow mingle one sunday i was in the government building if you want it and i received a phone call from the second in command we go on he said commander general i really annoys here to seal. that will because i told him i would be right there and immediately went to the barrel of a mean in

a moment think it will be when i came in the room because i saw a general in combat uniform butterwick in our glasses whiskey in one hand. previously and a machine gun on the other hand when you introduced myself and said general there is nothing to report in the area yes me what does that mean nothing to report it how many political prisoners she know how many detainees are there. but also i insisted nothing to report in general. but commander don't you know we are at war he asked me. he like i couldn't help myself and i said both of them did he want war are you talking about generally when i mean i know it's possible to declare war against neighboring countries but not against our own countrymen. went in with a very well he said you're dismissed wait in the next room but it may be

then midwest most senior officers in my unit and with his staff. and then he informed me that the military and john to i had decided that i should report to army headquarters and relinquish my command and get it went in to get him . it will simply add a thimbleful i was cord marshal and accused of dereliction of military duty to me

to get in dereliction of military duty immediately. to me that i was sentenced to five years in prison because. i went to prison but endured persecution slander threats of execution it was you know me and spent seventeen years in exile. we're going to have to start here let me just professor jules folke l l o l e is a full professor of international law at university it's for he's also the vice

president of the center for us to show right thing always gets forgotten midnight exhausted learns that the judge is not going to live i want to just start this fall what he would testify to that's. the underlying issue this case is really whether the united states government will comply with its international obligations treaty obligations and international. and therefore i would have testified that sought to make his absence from his unit was authorized under international under the treaties which we have signed and under the precedent which we are so. after world. at the nuremberg tribunals which the united states government was the chief prosecutor of decided that a soldier or

a command or citizen has obligations under international law then are higher than their duty to obey the best aquash superior orders even. cannot be considered in mitigation where crimes as shocking and extensive has been committed consciously ruthlessly and without a military excuse or justification. and that set the basic precedent that a soldier what this obey. own order that is here we go. and it would have been much better in the prison systems in iraq if more soul. had disobeyed it would have been better for our whole international image and our whole foreign policy and it's in the military's interest. even though most military people would say this has to be the key thing but what cost if the cost is committing war crimes and discipline has to give way to the broader principle that military should operate.

goodmorning everyone of us free so you're here in the newsroom is attorney say he's a good squad leader who took care of his men but the government says he left them behind when they needed in the most those are the opening arguments in the court martial of florida national guard soldier. he is accused of deserving is unit well

on a two week furlough from iraq last fall convicted he faces a year in prison this charge. the military court has reached a decision. very serene. he says he stands by his action it's. the latest news from fort stewart georgia.

three to seven. using. a army specialist jeremy sivits was the first to be charged and is expected to plead guilty to taking pictures of the abuse as part of his deal with prosecutors he would testify against the other soldiers sivits faces a maximum of one year in prison. might be getting sweeter. what is terrible is that the men who gave the orders not fully assume the responsibility of the commanding officer. they tire responsibility for the entire fall to their subordinates. one cannot delegate the command responsibility. response ability i can delegate

authority to my second in command my responsibility under no circumstances. i was willing. and i'm still willing to defend my home. to defend my country. but i am not willing and i will never be willing. to conquer. another nation. i think about the real price. that was paid for this war at. the time and not only by american and allied troops. but also by the families of

the soldiers who suffered a great deal. and mainly by iraqi city back at him who are oppressed now and who are paying them dearly. i think what i am doing now and where even if it costs me a few years in prison is a small price to pay and even if i go to prison if we lose and i will be free. i will have been free enough to make the right decision that i will feel that despite the contract i signed to become a soldier i gave myself the freedom to make the right decision.

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