thing 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 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 this 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 shouted directly into people's faces. a whole range of issues in my all rape. all sorts of very troubling aspects of the yukos interrogation policy none of which has been fully

explored and there is that there is a sort of odd sexual element to a lot of these claims is an exercise nature with 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 inturn ease force 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 the iraqis and then shades into other matters so for example one of our clients complains that one of the soldiers straddled his bunk and must. dani's 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 of there 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 complaints that are being made these are hugely serious allegations are made against british troops what kind of evidence is being provided it. should say against british 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 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 maim 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 for 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 you're speaking 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 them make you keep them 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 unlawful blatantly. 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. their abused calf 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 they're never charged and after days weeks months years their venture 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 oh you're going to be charged with x. y. and said allied forces they must be operating in 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 their bloody sunday enquiry which took twelve years the chilcote 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 inquiry the oral hearings 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 laws need to cooperate. which

needs to have a sensible approach to how long each. party is going to be heard in the recent corey the chess of william gage allowed us and others fifteen minutes only when you got to the end of the fifteen minutes that was that. there's no reason why with 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 there's a long way to go because we live action quite a right wing society with quite a. when 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 begin to realize that the game's up and 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 interests to spend public money proving that that 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 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. culture is the same of you are you going by your partner model is the taliban bad guys republican party to make itself felt in washington all this impact us foreign policy in the ongoing war in afghanistan.

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headlines. targeting europe third place remain host fourth place spot attack in the battle for european places the russian premier league reaches its what it. fortunate headway albeit athletic out to now in the madrid davita lipase lead by one point at the top of law into. going out to world record holder haile gebrselassie stuns the running world by announcing his retirement after dropping out of the new york american. first a football and this monday evening defending champions rubin could go second in the russian premier league if they went home to fourth place spot at moscow because on side have only lost twice all season but nine draws have seen them slip to a nine points between league leaders and some pages meanwhile spots have won four of the last five games and of pushing for at least a place you really believe and still the same chance of taking the champions league from high spot. while over in spain way around madrid have maintained their eleven

year unbeaten record against athletico madrid with a two nil hind victory in la liga after to go remain without a victory against their city rival since one thousand nine hundred nine while right out and yet to lose in the league so far this season two first off goal sealed the win for jos they were in years men ricardo carvalho opened thirteen minutes in. pinpoint process side the box easily said to close the keeper. six minutes later germany midfield that message and that's it thank you it's a cute victory in the capital da way to our ten to one point lead over boston i'm at the top of the table to get it finished. meanwhile ten was the time the three one victory cutoff a lino messi opened in twenty minutes i. and ten minutes later david beer runs through to double the visitor's lead. i had after the break. passing made serino after exploiting

a dreadful mistake from the toughest defense in school will do this i but with twenty minutes to go gerard piqué was penalized for humble in the area i received the second. i think he did go back to my school and i found the resulting penalty yes that was as much for fight back as the home side with mr six three once a barcelona have alongside one point behind leaders right now after ten games for an hour now and sebastian vettel led mark webber to read the one two in the brazilian grand prix to take the world title fights to the final race of the season in abu dhabi or red bull through strong stretches championship for the first time that are just relieved at the first corner and cruised to victory in sao paolo where that was second ahead of them and alongside the ferrari retains the championship lead there was hamilton of mclaren this force with defending champion jenson button this red bulls finish represented a strong comeback for the team after failing said any points with the previous race

in korea. i think it was the right answer for for all the people to come back here never mind what happened in korea just to stay focused and the whole team you know pulling on one string and 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 a thrilling finale is in store in abu dhabi where theoretically for driverless cars to take the title first place alongside you can afford to finish second in abu dabi and still take the crowd if weather wins or he could finish fourth and clinch the title if that holds wins the race how also retains only a sleigh mathematical chance he's twenty three points adrift of alongside with me all his rivals top disasters races to win a second driver strand while fifth place but cannot retain his title. now martin world record holder haile gebrselassie has announced his retirement from athletics the thirty seven year old ethiopian made the announcement after dropping out of his

best new york marathon after sixteen miles with a knee injury that it's only really him pick champion sets rational world record of two hours three minutes and fifty nine seconds rebelling in two thousand and eight he set twenty seven world best eight world title since nineteen ninety three ranging in distance from the fifteen hundred meters up to the marathon but he had flurries tendonitis in his knee and was unable to finish in new york this can actually get big if they marry him on the race on his first fatima ten toughest surge in korea and his money will tie them all to go to beijing two hours nine minutes before ten seconds at mexico got kenya won the women's race two hours twenty eight minutes and twenty seconds. i have been all discussion with my mind i did with anybody but i discuss with myself. why spitter to stop here. i never think about to retire but for

first time. this is a day let me stop and do other work after this let me do. the job let me give a chance for the youngsters was giving it more john support the youngsters when i miss you know. it's hard to meet our duty. because you know i want to sweating you know i want to thank all of you gulf now and from just come on in ari held his nerve to win the h.s.b.c. championship in shanghai after a gripping battle with the us word the italian i became westford by one shot in a spirited jewel. closed with a five under par sixty seven around the second wind the force korea has called the debut of westwood as the world's number one player or though the englishman of the

top fight wary of his ranking we were all in our one point two million u.s. dollars in prize money and moved up to number fourteen in the world ranking us. international olympic committee movement is indeed becoming global russian olympic committee already has a cooperation agreements with several countries such as the united states and cuba to name just a couple remaining became the latest nation to sign a partnership agreement with moscow national olympic committee president alexander should cough and octavian money ari have pledged to uphold common international policies as well as maintaining cooperation in the areas like training processes and sports science and finally curling is a fairly new sport for russians but the country sports bosses are keen for it to dominate the next winter olympics in sochi so the national olympic committee has turned to canada for help run kozyrev has more. i. 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 for requisites 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 of 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 we have to get fresh on the forefront to have a good level of growth competition and all that even after the women have rushed playing eleven said the standard that the involvement of the provides for women to roles to start playing really and so i think that has seen its question with a man if we can get the men where they qualifying to the road or the european championships playing at the world level and start showing some results at the

world level it will definitely make the sport a mathematician 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 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 teddy 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 big dreams 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 together and you know together with and with alexis alexander we know it would mean the world to them to get to you know

represent russia in a international competition if we can help them do that that would be enough for us human resources is just one of the signals that needs to be overcome in roots in the big lorry suitable infrastructure for curling is the next hurdle which will be tackled head on by russia sport boxes and according to hans woodbridge the chief ice maker at the vancouver olympics now hired by the russian olympic committee the success of curling is possible in russia the sport will get more popular ice as time goes on you know like in canada we have over one million not just goodness. it's just going to grow. it's going to grow you can have stick good england have ventured earning we can have all kinds of things that are new so you will have the you just need the facilities and we need a sneakers and you need the people that do 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 rim on cost or of artsy of it. and that's a nice this bonus in the back and the cup let us see that. for the full stop we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.

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