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 a thank you very much for talking to r.t. now you're 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 and coerce including harshing where threats and insults of the shouted directly into people's faces. a whole range of issues is a male rape. all sorts of very troubling aspects of the yukos

interrogation policy none of which has been fully explored and there's 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 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 and sometimes when so some of our clients refused to strip so force was used to strip that the iraqis and then shades into other matters so. for example one of our clients

complains that one of the soldiers straddled 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 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 go 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 seem 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 complaints that are being made these are hugely theory of allegations are made against british troops what kind of evidence. it's been provided it. should say that again spoke to

soldiers and guards for sure but a lot of these are being made against interrogators. in terms the evidence while the evidence is that this is the signed witness statements of all of 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. 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 printed amounts of will 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 you're seeking 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 bar inquiry so we know for example that there was a policy of getting them naked get the make you keep them naked if they don't

cooperate the way in which there was to be searched the harshing we have video. the training video of this on the bomb mission 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 unlawful. 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 or what happened. but by and large they're in their homes usually sleep with their wives usually one o'clock two o'clock in the morning and the door is exploded open twenty soldiers rushin. they're abused caffe often rifle but 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 of release 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 but 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 well i wouldn't accept 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 the judiciary we are one in 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 bloody sunday inquiry which took twelve years the choke out inquiry which is still ongoing is there a chance that this if you get what you want could turn into one of their i doubt it very much but the. commenced in september two thousand and nine and it's all over in less than a year there's actually no reason why something like this should become anything

like a bloody sunday enquiry the the various sets of lawyers need to cooperate. which 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 ministry of defense and started taking a more objective approach there's 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 the people in high places within the ministry of defense i think of it need to realize that the game's up and they're just not going to get away with this cover up for much longer and you are the public interests lawyer do you think it's in the public's interests to spend public money proving that that is systemic corruption inside our armed forces i think is in the public interest that

if we go into a place like iraq. supposedly to enforce the rule of law and principles of democracy fanous and justice good old fashioned british principles that we behave in accordance with that and we haven't done it 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. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations are all day.

the official. from the. video on demand. and. with the palm of your. question. the headline. a controversial russian artist is putting his life into the internet user to promote freedom of expression. he was wanted for inciting religious hatred staved crucifixion could be electrocuted if on line voters. americans republicans will try to reject president obama's health care reform to

the party makes big gains in the midterm elections meantime and life expectancy is slumping in the u.s. with many saying government policy is to blame. and georgia is trying to break away from its past. symbols says the move will help tara and strengthen democracy but many just another attempt at history. the right time now to turn over to kate with a sports hello kate so big game tonight in the russian premier league yes that's right defending champions are being taken spots at moscow with both sides looking for places in europe all the build up. that's coming out. welcome to the sports news live from austin muscat and the list of the top stories

. talkers in europe that place for being hosted by spock in the battle for european places the russian premier league reaches its women. while thrilling finale the race to decide the f one drivers championship will go down to the final days for many still involving sebastian vettel but in brazil. i am trying out twelve records all the haile gebrselassie strong running world by not seeing his retirement after dropping out of the new york. first a vocal and this monday evening defending champions rubin could go second in the russian premier league if they win at home to fourth place spots like moscow like his own side have only lost twice all season but nine drawers have seen them slip to third and nine points adrift of lead to distance and petersburg meanwhile spots have won five sorry for the last five games and pushing for at least a place in likely to have a slim chance of taking the champions league on the front. row while on sunday leaders in it to go down to win five to ten city of uganda given the just two

minutes in which they were shut out of the second element. however i will level after just fifteen minutes played readymade the strong will to go back . before steve joseph and the nets that's are his own right. so let it break but three second half goals within six minutes gave the visitors victory danny six three two out of the hour. and then said guess tomorrow it's in the call that's it i'm sure it's finished it's too soon and i'm not going points clear at the top and just four points from the long. all going to take the title on the other hand seven hundred sixty history games left. one in the meantime to test out went second in the tehran office edging closer better for three a time just three minutes into alex and better sixty eight this side this head. was

getting ready to nail the striking. thing. to sixty seven minutes as the temptation to get out of sight was wrestle. however the visitors the house with the rallied all that got off the gold back to make it strong. and then with ten minutes ago the army went down to ten as it's still a straight red hot spot in the box. tennessee let's step. sometimes takes diet treats he says it is not like. that since then made it through to the minute remaining ninety six after the rebound insisting the song gets was thirty two off to school for korea instructors time off the record but it was to mr too late

and it finished her story the last second straight deceit season got to thirteen. elsewhere elias moved back to second bottom in the table after they played as a goal the store time to look latif moscow side remain six behind spot on goal difference as both sides battle face directly place. moving out to england on fernando torres scored a first half price as liverpool stunned league leaders chelsea two minutes on field and in a sense a day at the top of the english premier league the main striker showed two flashes of brilliance in the eleventh and forty fourth minutes to ensure the reds most nights with the third successive great victory cut chelsea's lead after top to see a full. earlier third place arsenal failed to capitalize on their title rivals and the carroll headed the winner on the stroke of half time as newcastle moved up to fifty one or victory at the emirates magpies first league when it began and since december two thousand and one manchester city meanwhile remain fourth after winning

two nil at west brom mario balotelli scored two first half goals in six minutes and then saw the reds just after the hour while albion was also a man down for the last eight minutes of yusuf long boehner sent off a bag is to tense. 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's abu dabi while red bull clinched the constructors' championship for the first time vettel took the lead at the first point out screws to victory in sao paolo webber second ahead of florida a londoner ferrari who retains the championship lead there is canada's mclaren this force was defending champion jenson button fifth and as we tally the trials for sixteen. i think it was the right answer for for all the people to come back here never mind what happened in korea just. the whole team you know pulling on one string getting us both up here one two and getting there is a construct

a championship one race before the end. so a quick look at the driver's standings reveals us training and knowledge is in story average abby where theoretically for drivers could still take the title first place and i'm so could afford to finish second in abu dhabi and still take the crown if weather wins or he could finish fourth and clinch the title if battle win is always how also retains only a slave mathematical chance he's twenty three points adrift of a long zone and we need all his rivals to have disastrous races to win a second drive was crowned while fifth place button cannot retain his title. now long distance legend haile gebrselassie has announced his retirement after failing to complete the new york marathon in the thirty seven year old ethiopian world record holder abandoning the waves of the sixteen mark this expected right knee injury and his compatriot did it give the nod and torrijos forty thousand runs ethiopian run out one on his first attempt at the american distance after surgeon clear kenya's emmanuel mutai with just over a mile to go there but

a man needed two hours nine minutes and fourteen seconds to complete the distance at max to play grass of kenya one women's race she finished after two hours twenty eight minutes and twenty seconds of 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 the spirited jaw while in ari closed with a five under par sixty seven the second reel of his career has called the debut of westwood as the world's number one player or though the englishman put up a fight where his ranking meanwhile molinari earned one clenched two million u.s. dollars in prize money up to number fourteen google rankings. and finally curling is a fairly new sport for russians but the country sports bosses are keen for it to dominate the next winter games in sochi so the national input committee has turned

to canada to help run costs or it has more. it's five. curling is traditionally popular in countries like canada switzerland 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 weather pyrrhic resists 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 ahead of the next cold 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 to have a good level of world competition and all that even after the woman russian punk eleven said instead that the ball hit with requests for women to earls to start playing really well so i think that has seen its creation with them and if we can

get the men where they qualify into the world and european championships playing at the world level and start showing some results at the world level it will def pick the sport up that much 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 need to stake a claim on the international curling circuit while the ladies scene 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 any good bridge but the players themselves are ready to go the extra mile to become actually citizens of russia to realize they're in the green 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. we spent so much time training together 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 russia and the international competition if we can help them do that that was down enough for us human resources is just one of the stickles that needs to be overcome the roots in the guru suitable infrastructure for curling is the next hurdle which will be tackled head on by russia sport boxers and according to hans woodbridge the chief ice maker at the vancouver olympics now by the russians have become easy the success of curling it's possible in russia the sport will get more popular os last time goes on you know like in canada we have over one million up difference. is just going to grow 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 you will have the you just need the facilities and we need a snake losing you need the people that do do precise work even though curling 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 rim on cos for of artsy. and that's a list this bulletin that will be back in less than two hours for the next update the weather is next i think. hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers.

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