angele dangerous products according to the ministry of internal affairs some thirty percent of all this mags in the country are counted from. now one of the lawyers who is staying out of iraq says against you can't techniques used to drawing the british campaign in the country speaks to our next david scheiner explains what he's quine's went through and why they demand a public inquiry. today i'm talking to fellow shina who is a human rights lawyer and the head of public interest lawyers there representing a group of iraqis who allege that coalition forces abused them during the occupation of iraq they'll sign it thank you very much for talking to r.t. now you were taking a case to the high court representing one hundred forty two iraq east tell me what that's all about. of these iraqi clients complain that over a period of time the whole time that we were in iraq actually from march two

thousand and three to december two thousand and eight. they complain of sense of deprivation with hoods or blacked out gobbles or in months all sorts of sexual matters various techniques designed to intimidate people and coerce including harshing where threats and insults of the shouted directly into people's faces. a whole range of issues is in my all right. all sorts of very troubling aspects of the yukos interrogation policy none of which has been fully explored and that is that there's a sort of odd sexual element to a lot of these claims is an exercise nature of it is a lot to do with nakedness are some accusations of pornography having been used yes well it's clear that the interrogation policy included a directive to all use of. strip that the iraqi

in turn is forced make us and keep them naked if they wouldn't cooperate. now this nakedness was to take place often in front of a group of soldiers who would be laughing and sometimes when so some of our clients refused to strip so force was used to. strip that the iraqis then shades into other matters so for example one of our clients complains that one of the soldiers start over his back and masturbated on his on his back when he was naked that kind of. kind of abuse can often follow from that struggle to strip clients but there are other aspects as well throw for example many of our clients complain that they were played loud hardcore pornography all night sometime in june ramadan obviously they were intended to render themselves

unclean or poor marks were left in the showers and the toilets and they'd be observed to see how they reacted to the. female and male soldiers and guards were having sex in front of our clients masturbating in front of a whole range. of sexual matters which are very troubling and no one has got the beginning of an explanation as to what on earth was going on this is all taking place within a secret compound. which is where the joint forward interrogation team was operating and they were a compound within a compound on simple not to the military chain of command but to london and no one seems to have gone anywhere near them by design. we're not aware that the red cross every inspected the the area that was the joint for interrogation team so they

seemed to be able to do what they wanted. and one of the. interrogators in the bar who meets inquiry gave evidence on the twenty sixth of april of this year saying the only limits to coercion were with the limits the stretches of one's imagination and you can see that very clearly in all of the the complaints that are being made. but these are hugely serious allegations are made against british troops what kind of evidence has been provided that should say against british soldiers and guards for sure but a lot of these are being made against interrogators. in terms the evidence war the evidence is that this is the signed witness statements of all these clients and i have to say that not one of our clients has been found by any court or inquiry to be embellishing the truth let alone lying and there's absolutely no reason why

that would make this up. because it's a matter of gross humiliation for a male muslim to be subjected to these matters are i myself have no doubts that what they're saying is the truth and it is a pattern for example. in august two thousand and six i'm a divisional internment facility scheiber logistics base there were two incidents where interrogators of superimposed our points photographs on two horrific paedophilic images of one. a man having sex with a young girl and another is a man having sex with. a ten year old boy our client is sure it's a ten year old boy and they've superimposed points of photographs on those images print them out said well if you don't tell us what we want to know then we're going

to distribute these to your commune to your family it's easy to imagine that these kinds of abuses could have been perpetrated by rogue elements in the armed forces but in fact your thinking to prove that this ill treatment is systemic in the armed forces there's no doubt that this is systemic within the interrogation. policy because we have those documents from the bottomless inquiry so we know for example that there was a policy of getting them naked get the make you keep them no good if they don't cooperate the way in which there was to be searched the harshing we have video. the training video of us on the bomb machine quite a website these are clearly systemic issues and it's absolute nonsense to suggest this is a few but. that's the interrogation policy needs to be exposed and we need to ensure that we never go into theater again with with an interrogation policy which

is blatantly or north. what kinds of people are these iraqis that are making these allegations tell me tell me a couple of their stories how they came to be arrested what happened. what bar laws there in their homes usually sleep with their wives usually one o'clock two o'clock in the morning the door is exploded open twenty soldiers rushin. they're abused caffe often rifle sometimes hooded sometimes the women and children are abused in two of our cases pregnant women have miscarriages because they've been so badly abused. our clients are iraqis and civilians they don't know what they've done they're never told the never charged and after days weeks months years their venture released but not before they've been subjected to all of this abuse kept in solitary confinement deprived of food and water deprived to sleep etc etc.

but they all seem to be by and large iraqi civilians who are going about their lawful business and they've no idea what they've done wrong and they still don't know what they've done wrong because no one ever told them oh you're going to be charged with x. y. and said allied forces they must be operating in a hugely difficult situation in that they were trying to eradicate an insurgency obviously unpleasant means had to be used but did they not contribute towards an end which was desirable what i want except that for a minute this isn't the heat of battle this is the occupation. we're supposed to be . running iraq we are the local and central administration we are the police we are training to do we are running the country if we take iraqi civilians into our custody and then over a period of weeks months subject them to that kind of ill treatment there's no

excuse for that whatsoever. unless you're suggesting that torture is not actually an absolute prohibition sometimes it's ok to use a bit of torture which is just plainly on acceptable and it's completely contrary to international law what's the objective of the case that you're bringing this week we want a single inquiry into the u.k.'s detention and interrogation policies in iraq across the board get it over with get it dealt with in public before judge. find out exactly what was going wrong who was responsible which policies and practices need to be trained out. and rewritten and so we can all move on and on all be assured that next time if there is a next time. where we go into a theatre like iraq. our armed forces and our interrogators want to scrapes the nation by behaving in this way. we the u.k.

is becoming known for length and expensive inquiries i'm thinking of the bloody sunday inquiry which took twelve years the child caught inquiry which is still ongoing is there a chance that this if you get what you want could turn into one of the. i doubt it very much but the inquiry the oral hearings commenced in september two thousand and nine and it's all over in less than a year as absolute no reason why something like this should become anything like a bloody sunday enquiry the the various sets of lawyers need to cooperate. the church needs to have a sensible approach to how long each. party is going to be heard in the by recent corrie the chair so william gage allowed us and others fifteen minutes only and when you got to the end of the fifteen minutes that was that. there's no reason why with some common sense and discipline this needs to take anything longer than

a couple of years or so it hasn't been plain sailing to get this far to bring this case you face quite a lot of opposition over a number of. in the past i've had death threats powers and all sorts of things sent through the post and the image is deliberately insistence at least. getting right wing press to write horror stories you know shock horror shine a x. for people who've murdered. u.k. soldiers if it was all cut and dried and these using legal aid etc etc but i think it's not got anywhere because people can see that there's something gone badly wrong here and slowly some elements of the press have turned away from the minister of defense and started taking a more objective approach is a long way to go because we live action quite a right wing society with quite

a. right wing press a lot of the press just follow the government line but i think the penny's beginning to drop and that people in high places within the ministry of defense i think of begin to realize that the game's up they're just not going to get away with this cover up for much longer you are the public interests lawyers do you think it's in the public's interest to spend public money proving that there is systemic corruption inside our armed forces i think is in the public interest if we go into a place like iraq. i suppose that the plea to enforce the rule of law and principles of democracy fanous and justice good old fashioned british principles that we behave in accordance with and we haven't done and i think it's in the public interest that that behavior should be exposed and eradicated and those who are responsible brought to account. thank you very much thank you very much.

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hello welcome to the sports news thank you for joining me until you have on. one hand on the trophies in its council two goals down to win five to receive nine points clear at the top of the russian premier league. while trouble at the top chelsea lose at liverpool also step up against newcastle match to city trial on a day of classes in english i really. simply the best francesco molinari wins the h.s.b.c. champions in shanghai off dress running battle with well but i wanted westward. so i was always football as it is and petersburg came back from two goals down to win five to rock bottom sabir and extend their lead to nine points at the top of the russian premier league to be a stunning visit just by taking a two goal lead with in six minutes make even i think just two minutes. before

posting it shellacked the other the second however is in reality and will level with just quarter map played like he made the staff to go back. to st joseph met the true he's a nice. side was levelled at the thirty three second half goals within six minutes gave this does big tree damage its in its three two up and now ah that again it's not it's over because now to ensure it finished five minutes now just two more points from the last four games to ensure the title is that it's a beer on the other hand now seven points from safety data ah. in the mean time ten months a scot went second in the table for edging to mr vettel four three at home just three minutes in and actually bet is that steve i think it was time to decide that . it suited. today the strike was only.

after sixty seven is on its own shut the gate out of sight of the us it was the visit is the end swiftly rally it even also called a go back to make it three one. with ten minutes to go the only language down to ten is paris it's a straight red card system on the course. was that something stepped up some insulting tendency ots three to two sets up and then this finale was that's it then made it through to the minute remaining easily taking the auster rebound and tied it was only set to catch also to score for korea in stoppage time. but it

was too little too late and it finished through three korea's second straight defeat system dropped to settings. elsewhere than a slip back to second bottom in the table after they paid ashley goes to come to look a martini for the moscow side remain six behind spot top notch on goal difference by science battles assist directly place. moving on to england and fernando torres scored a first half price is liveable stunned leaders chelsea two minutes and failed in an eventful day at the top of the english premier league the spain striker shared challenges of brilliance in the eleventh and forty fourth minutes ensure the red rose tonight for the third successive me victory and cut chelsea lately top to two points third place also failed to capitalise on that title rivals slipped off sandy carroll headed the window and stressed the soft time as newcastle moved up to fifty with a one else victory at the emirates not close first leaf when it got the since december two thousand and one much the city meanwhile remain falls off the early to no west

brom. teles scored two first half goals in six minutes then saw the reds just after the hour albion was also a man down to the last eight minutes yusuf milan both sent off the baggies that detent. formula one and sebastian vettel led mark webber to a red bull one to win the brazilian grand prix to take the world title fight to the final race of the season at abu dhabi while red bull clinched the constructors' championship for the first time took the lead on that and cruised to victory in sao paolo webber was second ahead of fernando alonso of ferrari he retains the championship lead this comments on mclaren was false defending champion jenson button fifth tennis metallica through the sixty. so a quick look at the standings reveals a thrilling finale is in store in abu dabi i fear retic leave for drivers could still take the title first place alonzo can afford to finish second did abu dabi and still take the crown if the weather wins or he could finish the bulls and clinch the title the battle wins the race retains only

a slim mathematical chance he's twenty three points adrift of a long as i would need all his rivals top disastrous races to win a second driver scratch this place but it can also retain his title. golf now and francesco molinari held his nerve to win the h.s.b.c. champions in shanghai after a gripping battle with lee westwood the italian overcame westwood by one shot in a spirited jewel while in ari closed with a five under par sixty seven currently the second win of his career at the school the debut with westwood as the world's number one player although the englishman finds his ranking in the mark molinari and one point two million u.s. dollars in prize money and moved up to number fourteen in the world rankings. i saw you now and the continental hockey league will now take a ten day break while the european nations take part in the cop in finland but before that in the last of sunday's eight matches second place did i was go took on league leaders measure that by mr gorst and the two conference leaders went ahead.

ahead in the russian capital gang stay tight throughout the first thirty minutes before metal finally managed to pry the deadlock. i was thinking i might even the score off the goaltender how lucky to have the option was denied to believe denise i'll take the sport in a bright white one i. see the red lights go on twice more in the last period than the clock in a race that size me one time is putting on our face i see the final score for want to do not like that's what's best for defeating the right however to balance by sticking to their bright thinking it's. very very happy to score because i've been struggling with her score for for many games so finally finally we weren't able to so i'm very very good god this is a very very good team and it's a challenge for us to kind of measure ourselves and see how we compare against the

best team from from the east so i guess if you look at it. maybe the years older more of it tonight kind of proves that we were boring at the. time belles was on but having gone you crossed sixty one time isis style about you life was surprisingly strong also sixty by far east atlanta sort of after the least for one defending champions x. boss came from three goals down to a full three top end of scots in petersburg also fought back to win three one time to say bad luck no to russia nefesh you make seven to constant i meant if issues has to defeat the chants. and finally coaling is a fairly new sport for russians but the country sports bosses are king for it to dominate the next winter games in sochi so the national olympic committee has turned to canada for help from uncle sam f. how small was girling is traditionally

popular in countries like canada us why. serlin sweden and denmark to name just a few and it's been that way there for hundreds of years however in russia which has had the same with it vereker this as those countries all along the sport of curling has somehow failed to reach the masses a fact which has been considered and major disadvantage especially head of the next whole winter olympics but russian sports authorities are aiming for nothing less than to defy the odds at the next winter games and have formed an experimental national team which includes a coach and players from canada i think what has to happen here is you have to get fresh on the forefront perhaps you can have a real competition and that even after the woman question think it happens and instead of having it all for the requests of women girls to start playing really and so i think that has seen its mission with them and if we can get the men where they qualify and the role of the european championships playing at the world level and start showing some results at the world level people deaf to the sport that

that in russia it will probably be a long while before the russians can embrace curling as a favorite sport or even pastime as has happened with bowling for example but first things first the country's national squads meets at stake a claim on the international curling circuit while the ladies team has already started making a name for itself the men's side is definitely lacking both in results and recognition it was hoped they invited canadian curlers would raise the level of russia's domestic competitions and that's already happening according to paddy woodbridge but the players themselves are ready to go the extra mile for the team and become naturalized citizens of russia to realize they're in the big dream if we're fortunate enough to go and help him to go i mean we'd be all too willing to make if it works make it happen you know when you're on a team you spend so much time training other and then you know together with and with alexis alexander we know it would mean the world to them to get to you know

represent by fan an international competition. if we can help him do that down now for us human resources is just one of the ellipticals that needs to be overcome in roots in a big lorry suitable infrastructure for curling is the next hurdle which will beat second head on by russia sport bosses and according to hans woodbridge the chief icemaker of the vancouver olympics now hired by the russian olympic committee the success of curling it's possible in russia the sport will get more popular os last time was on you know like in canada we have over one million up difference. it's just going to grow to more it's going to grow you can hops they could even have wheelchair curling you can have all kinds of things that are new so you will have to be just meet some of these and maybe they sneak through so you need people that do precise work even though occurring in russia at the moment is under developed to say the least the country's national teams are expected to deliver a good result at the one sort of big games in sochi and those home games in the

year twenty fourteen could become the necessary catalyst for the advancement of this so far exotic sport in the biggest country on earth or a man cost of artsy. and that's all the sports news by the now. hungry for the full story we've got it for us the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.

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