and probe into a series of. killings after washington refused to help despite allegations from locals of american involvement in the deaths. we hear from a journalist who says he's going to evidence to the truth behind the operations in afghanistan. america. against iran despite predictions that nuclear negotiations in geneva will break new ground. immigration problem by sending out threatening text messages with intimidating advertising but its effectiveness is testing the public's patience.

all of us here. welcome to the program today. live from the russian capital with your top news headlines afghan intelligence has been left to bathilde by the mystery surrounding the bodies of ten civilians have dug up near a u.s. army outpost very close to kabul but there seems little chance those responsible will be found afghanistan has not decided to scrap the probe into the murders off the washington refused to cooperate and that's despite the victims being identified as a group of locals detained by u.s. special forces who were operating in that area however military officials in washington have long said that troops have no connection to the killings or journalist that might tell you they can see spent five months investigating this in an exclusive interview with t. he claims the evidence he's seen suggests directly of american involvement. the

special forces team the green beret a team as they're called was deployed to an isolated valley west of kabul where the taliban and other insurgent groups have a very heavy presence and what happened was over last winter the locals are complaining that the special forces team and the translators were murdering people torturing them abducting them and disappearing them just extraordinary allegations that at the time were essentially unproven after the special forces team was forced out of the area by the afghan government bodies started showing up outside the base bodies that they said were the bodies of ten men who had been seen rounded up by the americans and then were not able to be found either by the red cross or by the afghan government afterward so i essentially investigated these allegations and assembled a huge body of testimony from locals from officials. also learned about two confidential u.n. and red cross investigations that corroborated the allegations that suggested that

the special forces and their translators were indeed responsible for these men's fate potential war crime allegations that they prove to be correct has there been any accountability for what happened to matthew well the military says that it opened a criminal investigation so they declined to comment for the story save the queen all the speeches ongoing but in the five months that i spent reporting the story a single one of the witnesses that i spoke to had ever been contacted by a u.s. military investigator so it really does beg the question of whether these investigators are actually going to be able to establish any sort of accountability for what happened there well certainly disturbing indeed but this isn't the first time that we've heard of allegations of torture and abuse by western forces in afghanistan and i wonder if you can sort of speak more broadly about this in a wider context well while the allegations and these incidents are kind of unprecedented in their severity and scale they do fit part of a larger pattern of recurring abuse. of detainees in u.s.

and afghan allied custody as well as continued lack of any sort of accountability for individuals or it implicated in this kind of abuse of detainees as a recurring pattern of abuse and a recurring pattern of a lack of accountability and this incident really has to be seen in the context of that. suddenly adding to tensions between washington and over the security pact that will shape the future role of u.s. troops in the country beyond the main twenty fourteen withdrawal of the explanation here to ati's guy in a chicken. afghan authorities have repeatedly asked the u.s. to allow them to question the soldiers at the base but the u.s. repeatedly if we barfed the request u.s. forces are immune from afghan law not full long the immunity issue is the various stumbling block on the way to an agreement between the u.s. and afghanistan under which some u.s. troops would stay in afghanistan past twenty four teen and that's what the obama

administration wants immunity for the troops so that they can stay beyond two thousand and fourteen the same agreement that the u.s. wanted with iraq but iraq refused to grant u.s. forces further immunity from justice incidents like the killing of civilians in the word out province make it that much more difficult for the afghan government to justify such an agreement with the u.s. seen front of afghan people or still to come here on the program of french agriculture it's taking a report that suicide is the third highest cause of death among farmers unable to cope with rising costs and low incomes those details are just ahead for you here when i see. for now though on the program despite some progress of the nuclear talks with iran in geneva america's relations with tyrone remain in a so-called state of emergency the obama administration has renewed its sanctions regime first imposed nearly three decades ago after the islamic revolution the

timing looks given the failure of talks on iran's nuclear program but the white house denies there's a link. portnoy picks up the story. u.s. president barack obama says it's necessary for the thirty plus year state of national emergency against iran to continue due to the fact that relations between washington and tehran have not returned to normal ironically the move comes as the international community continues taking significant steps to broker a deal over iran's disputed nuclear program now although last week's marathon ministerial talks in geneva ended without a deal ongoing negotiations between iran and western powers have been praised as constructive and comprehensive with discussions scheduled to continue next week now the biggest obstacle to a breakthrough has been america's ally israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been publicly skeptical and fiercely opposed to easing sanctions against tehran in

toll or unless its nuclear program is completely dismantled now u.s. lawmakers have promised to wait for a briefing by secretary of state john kerry this week before deciding whether to impose tough new sanctions on iran but in the meantime pro israel groups have reportedly been ramping up lobbying efforts on capitol hill pushing for more punitive measures now some experts speculate that obama's ongoing state of emergency against iran has more to do with appeasing israel. r.t. and earlier my colleague. an expert on iran and the u.s. foreign policy analyst and she believes there was no will at all from america in the first place to put an end to the nuclear stalemate with iran. mr obama is sending very clear message to tara that whatever agreement does make with iran in

the future it cannot be trusted as it was not tested in the past i don't believe for a moment that from the onset there was a need to decided to reach a deal where i mean the whole of the it was the actions were just modest he said we actually listen to jay carney here we're going to run a grab from him where he said talks about washington's stance toward tehran and the american people. justifiably and understandably prefer a peaceful solution that prevents iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon the american people do not want a march to war what do you think carney was addressing there what side was that that statement aimed toward the united states farm policy has always be about influencing the public opinion the domestic public opinion so that they could push their foreign policy agenda and that this is exactly what it is it's a highly it's dressing the american people he's not saying this to the ranch is the time the americans are right. now meanwhile skeptics in the u.s.

congress are itching to impose new sanctions on iran and u.s. secretary of state john kerry will be addressing them later today hoping to convince them that will be a mistake talks in geneva last week were hampered by israeli outcries that to iran's nuclear program cannot be trusted with a side that's really believed to have muddied the waters was fraud it was u. turn on the deal surprised most experts international affairs columnist of the guardian newspaper jonathan steele explained earlier why he thinks piracy is getting what's in this in the. convince to do wrong is meddling in a region which was traditionally at least in colonial times under french influence i mean syria and lebanon i'm very feel they took a very hawkish line against bashar al assad the president of syria when the uprising began two years ago they said he would be talking quickly and they feel that it's really. thanks to russia diplomatically and iran militarily that is still there and they feel very annoyed to angry over that. the second reason i think is

quite simply money they see that saudi arabia is also having a row with the united states partly of iran but partly over other issues and i think they feel that they can get their foot in the arms sales door and take over as one of the marriage of suppliers to saudi arabia which of course is a hugely lucrative market in the meantime the israeli government is reportedly making plans to build almost twenty four thousand more homes in palestinian territories effectively putting a brake on washington led peace talks and that's happening as america desperately tries to get its diplomacy with iran out of a quagmire be sure to catch people avails program cross talk throughout the day here on r t the focus is what we're talking about. one journal times he was in and spoke directly saying that binyamin netanyahu one directly off of use that if the deal was a bad deal then they would be immediate. by israel on the such

a number of. nuclear plants ok michael it sounds like that there was that's extortion right there ok there is heavy pressure not not just from the israelis but also from the saudis and other gulf countries warning the americans not to go too far the question for iran then arises is the united states really committed to the kind of end game that was understood when they began this round of talks and i think that iran may in fact be wondering now whether that is the case i think that's the real danger of this nation. so that on june sixteenth one thousand forty one we had

a graduation party at school and the war broke out. the shops were always full of goods. but in september leningrad was blocked. one day mom went to sort of all the shelves were empty. in the vendor of the bomb the day of steel warehouses it was the main storage place for all the food in the city people would be eating there because it had small traces of sugar in it i try to eat it as well but i couldn't. look at the list and credibly every bombing. it was a direct hit on that very shelter. everyone was buried underneath. all of them.

if you're just joining us welcome to the program here on. the u.k. is attempting to curb its immigration problem with the use of a controversial campaign illegal immigrants are being ushered towards the exit with text messages and fear calls with bold advertising that says go home but as artie's laura smith reports the ideas appear to be simply testing the public's nerves. your phone is a text message a friend asking if your free for dinner or your mom just checking your ok but no it's the home office telling you you are illegal in this country and have to leave this is the text got fair enough if he was illegal but he's not and he doesn't even know how they got his details i have been

a british citizen for at least thirty years in this country so the tax is no reason why they. never gave them my number number it's all part of a government campaign to weed out illegals first they sent round threatening us and now they're sending threatening texts although the home office denies sending one to chan it's triggered two hundred complaints but the government defends the program we are taking proactive steps to contact individuals who records show have novelle it right to be in the u.k. some of which date back to december two thousand and eight we believe it's right to enforce the immigration rules chan who's an immigration case officer reckons it won't have any effect on genuine illegals they'll just get a new sim card but will intimidate and alienate entirely legitimate communities we also create an atmosphere of fear within britain within the minority

community is pointing to what we're not welcome in this country chinatown in london's west end is where the majority of chants clients work and he says several of them have themselves received messages from the hope that together with a series of surprises raids on restaurants by the u.k. border agency makes the u.k. a pretty scary place to be chinese or indeed any kind of ethnic minority at the moment fans texts and raids all add up say activists to an anti immigrant campaign and jeremy corbyn m.p. . he who represents a lot. constituency says we can expect to see more of it as the general election approaches it's essentially a battle for political ground between the right wing conservatives in the far right ukip and it's a pretty. image that we're getting this is electioneering paid for by the taxpayer knows strike great data is available yet for the forty thousand text messages sent

all day the home office reports just eleven illegal immigrants have gone home as a result of the vans cheaper than forcibly removing them apparently but at the cost of the goodwill of immigrant communities country whites laura smith. to syria now where the government has asked western powers to provide a host of military vehicles to safely transport chemical weapons out of the country but the plea has reportedly been denied as the u.s. and its allies are unwilling to give damascus any material support and western diplomatic sources say that governments refused to help president assad strengthen his position in any way syria has so far been complying with international agreements on chemical disarmament and it's due to relinquish all of its stockpiles by next summer but political analyst. he says damascus has one mighty big job ahead of. the west is trying to make it hard for the syrian regime

so i'll buy it by the convention at has faithfully agreed to sign and. having accept the move its chemical weapons the syrian regime needs certain the equipment to be able to transfer some of the costs of chemical weapons outside syria and that needs to be done and a protected manner so these weapons would not fall prey. to the arms of the armed gangs in syria the so-called so windy and more peaceful opposition thanks for joining us here on r.t. today one of the world's top computer security experts has warned of a global cyber war eugene claims russian nuclear plants could be at risk from crippling computer viruses story at r.t. dot com right now. also crisis what crisis that's wild website to find out how the

super rich managed to expand their wealth in recent years evidently untouched by the global economic downturn. right on the scene. first strike. and i think your. orders. are just a moment on the on the world update for now on the program though the die are economic times that have ruined many lives and it seems in france it's having an impact as well a recent report cites an alarming rate of suicide among french farmers tester

australia dispatched to one of the worst hit regions. since two thousand and eight do cers of milk and meat had to plow on the face of rising production costs and a fall in profits with some farmers taking it much harder than others. fifteen days ago my colleague tried to commit suicide because. he credited when to be renewed to rescue luke. we were sent along seven days a week they were simply disconnected from the rest of french society which is work hard and keep our heads down but mama look around we don't count when we actually have damascus the plight of french farmers has been causing a lot of frags a recent report showed that between two thousand and seven and two thousand and nine a total of four hundred eighty five farmers had committed suicide but that's an average of one suicide every two days making it the third biggest cause of death after cancer and cardiovascular diseases alarm bells are already ringing at the ministry

of agriculture but farmers warn of the reality is even worse on their insurance reasons one if they decide to be an accident because the bank loans to pay for his alone over issues so the figures are wrong on farmer day. when farmers are going to the bank. the same day dad collimators someone else from the social system assess the situation both to help find her solution brittany where isabel is from is the french region with the highest number of suicides they can exceed the suicide rate among us we're talking about those producing milk and means is thirty percent higher than the general working population at the same age have more trouble talking about their problems and. when they decide to take their lives they tend to go through that so doc sickly france is the biggest beneficiary if you farm eight nine billion euros a year of the twenty fourteen to twenty twenty period but most of that money

doesn't. farmers french president francois la has already pledged to shift almost one billion euros towards the livestock farmers don't wait for the better off farmers but the frustration has long boiled over isabel hopes change comes before another farmer she knows throws in the towel telstar cilia r t. time here on the program to egypt now which is lifting a three month curfew and the state of emergency which gave the military's sweeping powers to make warrantless arrests of the measures were introduced in august after a deadly crackdown on supporters of president the ousted president mohamed morsy and the military backed government now preparing a new law to regulate public protests in an apparent bid to keep the islamist opposition. the philippine president has sharply downgraded the expected death toll from last week's devastating typhoon benigno

aquino says the previous estimate of ten thousand victims should be revised down to no more than two and a half thousand of the governments currently struggling with relief efforts and is counting on incoming foreign support to help recover from the disaster. u.s. sources say the government will finally recognize nigerian islamist group boko haram as a terrorist organization after holding back for the past two years notorious al qaeda linked sect wants to impose islamic laura nigeria and has killed dozens of civilians in a series of attacks the u.s. move would allow washington to put financial pressure on the group and it's a growing influence in the african country. now it might soon become costly for anyone to be annoying in the u.k. if new anti social laws are approved getting on somebodies nerves could land you two years in prison or even to find opponents of the bill claim its phrasing is far

too vague and opens itself why dope into interpretation among other things it also undermine people's right to protest that's according to activists kerry and mendoza . attempting to do is give to police. to make any lawful protest immediately illegal simply because i quote this directly from the legislation may has always like. new since or annoyance energy can imagine the whole point of protest is to cause nuisance an annoyance is to get in the way to disrupt people in their ordinary daily lives so that you can have them focus on an otherwise ignore. issue which is really important even more unnerving about this piece of legislation is it also allows the place to then people from what they call a pallet and localities hasn't been defined to be a city county

a country. maybe really lays out again intervention of a court of law. america's ongoing drone war defeating terrorism or just merely resulting in civilian casualties. who's to blame modern takes it all on today's break in the coming years. last night georgetown residents got an exclusive screening of a new drone movie outlining human cost of this covert warfare it wasn't a theater though instead it was on the side of the home inhabited by department of homeland security nominee jay johnson yes code pink organize the event in order to bring light to the fact that johnson is one of the main individuals behind the legal justification for these unmanned killer robots and while it's true that many people are responsible for the creation and codification of the drone program one historian argues that the buck stops squarely at the white house his name is void gardner is the author of sixteen different books on u.s.

foreign policy is the latest is called the killing machine the american presidency in the age of drone warfare so lloyd your book is a strong indictment of obama's presidency in terms of foreign policy what has obama done to exacerbate the war on terror well that's a very complicated question he obviously inherited a very bad situation in iraq remember obama said he wanted to change the mindset he not only wanted to change getting into the war why we got into the iraq war but the mind that got us into the iraq war and many people assume that meant he was going to change some of the basic american foreign policies the george bush to push the limit while the certainly did change their minds and now we're completely detached from any sort of warfare or foreign policy that we're perpetrating around the world .

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