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 its sense of deprivation with hoods or blacked out gobbles or in months all sorts of sexual matters of 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 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 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 its 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 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 masturbated on is on his back when he was naked that kind of. coin. 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 whose inquiry gave evidence on the twenty sixth of april of this year saying the only limits to coercion were the 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 that against british soldiers and guards for sure but a lot of these are being made against interrogators. into the air. wouldn't swap

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 they 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. 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 prince the man 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 to do 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. 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 inquiry 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 the. i doubt it very much but the bar most inquiry. commenced in september two thousand and nine and it's all over in less than a year there's absolutely 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 chester william gage allowed us and others fifteen minutes only when you got to the end of the fifteen minutes that was that and 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 he's 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 right wing press and 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 lawyer do you think it's in the public's interest to spend public money proving that there is damage corruption inside our armed forces i think it's in the public interest that if we go into a place like iraq. supposedly to enforce the rule of law and principles of democracy fairness 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. i thank you very much thank you very much. more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day.

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a highly capper selassie stuns the running world by announcing his retirement after dropping out of the new york marathon. first of all andrew being have risen to second in the russian premier league after last draw time to spartak moscow the league's leading scorer of allison took his goals tally to eighteen after open for the visitors after forty one minutes and spots that look sets to be taking all three points on saturday conan and equalized in the false minutes of stoppage time that snatched a point for the higher side for their ten stores this season which means the one place the second one point about. tax day falls in the right league places. and now where rail madrid have maintained their eleven year unbeaten record against athletico woodridge with a to no home victory in lego i'd let it go remain without a victory against their city rivals since nine hundred ninety nine yet to lose in the league so far this season two first off goal sealed the win for gerry same ring as men because i've been thirteen minutes in to receive

a pimple on the sidewalks these incentives to keep. them six months later germany midfielder mesut ozil met a free kick which victory in the capital dog israel retained a one point lead over bosler not at the top of the table. meanwhile ten month also claimed a three one victory against the tough eight. little missy opened in twenty five minutes. and ten minutes later vera ran through to double that is it is right. i. am after the break last i'm eighty three now after exploiting a dreadful mistake from the toughest defense. in this world this time. i got to twenty minutes ago gerard piqué was penalized for handball in the area and perceived a second yellow card. tapping will go back to.

school resulting penalty yet that was as much of a fight back as the home side could muster support for his three want to barcelona catalan side are one point behind leaders were out after ten games. for you are now and sebastian vettel led mark webber to a red bull want to win the brazilian grand prix to take the world title fights to the final race of the season in abu dhabi while red bull clinched the constructors' championship for the first time that all took the lead at the first corner and cruised to victory in sight how like whether you are second ahead of finland or alonzo ferrari he retains the championship lead there is hamilton of mclaren this force defending champion jenson button cis red bull's finish represented a strong comeback for the team after failing to take any points in the previous race interior. i think it was the right answer for for all the people to come back here never mind what happened in korea just 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 standings reveals a thrilling finale is in store in abu dabi with theoretically four drivers can still take the title first place along a certain finish and can afford to finish second in abu dabi and still take the crown if webber wins for he could finish full. and clinch the title to settle wins the race allison retains only a slim mathematical chance he's twenty three points adrift of alonso and would need all of his rivals top disastrous races to win a second driver scratch his place but it can also retain his title. and mass and 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 first new york martin after sixteen miles with an injury the two time olympic champion said imagine a world record of two hours three races and fifty nine seconds in berlin in two thousand and eight he set twenty seven world's best and

a twelve title since nine hundred ninety three ranging of distance from the fifteen hundred meters up to the american but he had fluid and tendonitis in his knee employers unable to finish a new this give a madam won the race on his first mathematicians after surging to kenya's minute tight with a mile to go finish in two hours nine minutes and fourteen seconds and that killer gats of kenya won the women's race in two hours twenty eight minutes and twenty seconds. in tennis it's only have successfully defended their fed cup title by beating the usa in the finals the italian squad had a commanding two male lead going into the second day after the singles matches however america's made it to one after stunning champion francesca schiavone in straight sets six three six one united states in the final but in the second match flavia pennetta cruised past kolker the end of a go also in

a straight set after six one six two it's really completed a three one victory for successfully defend their title italians have now won the trophy three times in the last five years. moving to the n.f.l. and michael thomas scored two touchdowns of the atlanta falcons beat the tampa bay buccaneers twenty seven twenty one just a joint first in the n.f.c. south china took the balkans to half. fourteen male lead shot about josh freeman the gaffe to seventeen fourteen past time in a forty nine touchdown pass to arrhenius ben. was. this fifty eight yarder to mike williams. but by the second half freeman's pass was intercepted by johnson bob and i said if i can't touch from past michael promised his friends preschool and i'm up right field goal fulton's ahead twenty seven fourteen but back can the box ensuring kick off the juice in except. in quite

a spot picked up the bouncing ball. and run eighty nine yards a touchdown but again i do game of it's. twenty seven twenty one. three even then guided to tampa bay drives that reach the atlantic. but they couldn't stretch across for a first down in the fourth and run out the clock so the trick. was let's take a look at the other results where atlanta every tampa bay on the right twenty seven twenty one baltimore also away winners at miami new orleans and the new york jets pledged and victories. elsewhere san diego defeated houston twenty nine twenty three while the new york giants a trashy atl forty one seven oakland needed overtime to play like twenty four twenty when either kansas city company starts or the other games are on your screen . now with less than two years to go into the olympic games in london remaining has become the latest nation to sign a sports agreement in russia russia's national limpet committee president alexander

zuckoff met his remaining counterpart mari ari and the two countries have pledged to uphold common international policy as it is maintaining cooperation in areas like training process is sports science as part of the four year agreement so i think. we share a common common past and. but it is something we need to treasure that is something we need to appreciate but i think we which is most important we have a common future. we have a longstanding friendly ties with remain athletes and coaches today we signed an agreement on holding joint training sessions and events i think that these days there are many kinds of sports to remain here that can be of great interest for russia. and finally russia sports bosses a king for the sport a calling to dominate the next one gangs in sochi and as the sport is falling into the country the national council has turned to canada for x.

but health care points he says 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 pericarditis 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 home 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 if not at all competitions i know that even after the woman russian think it looks a little sad that he falls into the request of women girls to start playing feeling

so i think that has seen its patient and if we can get the men where they qualify into the role of the european championships playing at the world level and start showing some results at the world level people death it's more than that 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 paddy woodbridge but the players themselves are ready to go the extra mile. for the team and become naturalized citizens of russia to realize there is a big dream if we are fortunate enough to go in the opting 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 train together and then you know together with and with alexa alexander we know it would mean the world to them to get to you know represent rush in a international competition if we can help them do that that one thousand now for us human resources is just one of the sickles that needs to be overcome in root's olympic glory suitable infrastructure for curling is the next hurdle which will bit sacral head on by russia sport bosses 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 ask us time goes on you know like in canada we have over one million not the students. it's just going to grow the more it's going to grow you can have steak could even have wheelchair curling you could have all kinds of things that all that are new so you will have the just meet some of these in me they sneak through so you need people that do precise move 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 winter and 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 among cost or of artsy . and that's all this poses i think it's. hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.

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