mention to the police that some. of our time. and afghan probe into a series of brutal civilian killings is scrapped off to washington refuses to help despite allegations from locals of american involvement in the deaths we hear from a journalist who says he's got direct evidence pointing to be ugly truth behind the operations in afghanistan. america prolongs its decades long sanctions regime against iran despite predictions that nuclear negotiations in geneva will achieve new breakthroughs. i'm britain topples its immigration problem by sending out threatening text messages vans with intimidating advertising put its effectiveness to simply testing the public's patience.

news team welcome to the program today i'm. top headlines for this hour afghan intelligence has been left baffled by the mystery surrounding the bodies of ten civilians dug up near a u.s. army outpost close to kabul but there seems little chance of those responsible will be found afghanistan has now decided to scrap the probe into the murders off the washington refused to cooperate that's despite the victims being identified as a group of locals detained by u.s. special operations forces who were operating in the area military officials in washington of long said that troops have no connection whatsoever to the killings and journalist i might tell you a spent five months investigating the incident in an exclusive interview with catherine off he claims the evidence he's seen suggests 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. to learn 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 while 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 a 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 and the case is certainly adding to tensions between washington and kabul over the security pact that will shape the future role of u.s. troops in the country beyond the main twenty fourteen withdrawal of picking up the story for us now it sees guy in a future. afghan authorities have repeatedly asked the u.s. to allow them to question the soldiers at the base but the u.s. repeatedly rebuffed 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 fun of afghan people still to come on the program here on our french culture taking a hit a report put suicide is the third highest cause of death among farmers unable to cope with the rising costs of low incomes as well those details are just ahead. but for now on the program despite some progress with the nuclear talks with iran in geneva america's relations with tehran remain in a so-called quote state of emergency the obama administration has renewed its sanctions regime first imposed nearly three decades ago after the iranian islamic

revolution were an important as this 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 on going to go between iran and western powers have been praised as constructive and comprehensive with discussions scheduled to contain 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 told or unless its nuclear program is completely dismantled now u.s.

lawmakers have promised to wait for a rethinking 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 branding 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 reporting from new york . r.t. . earlier my colleague my tresor spoke. with expert on iran and the u.s. foreign policy analysts she believes there was no will at all from the very beginning for america to put an end to the nuclear stalemate with iran. mr obama is sending a very clear message to tara that whatever agreement does make with iran in the future it cannot be trusted as it was not trusted in the past i don't believe for a moment that from the onset there was a need to start to reach

a deal or i mean the whole of the negotiations were just a modest piece of the actual x. and 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 it 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 mr carney it's dressing the american people he's not saying this to the ranch is going to be america's little one. now along with israel there's been another different magic roadblock in geneva this one though put out by france the country's foreign minister opposing a potential agreement calling the draft deal quote fulls game international affairs

columnist of the guardian jonathan steele explained why he thinks paris is getting tough. prancer is convinced to do ronnie's meddling in a region which was traditionally at least in colonial times under french influence i mean syria and lebanon and they feel they took a very hawkish line against bashar al assad the president of syria when the uprising began two years ago they thought he would be toppled quickly and they feel that it's really thanks to russia diplomatically and iran militarily that assad is still there and they feel very annoyed and angry over that and 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 they think they feel that they can get their foot in the arms sales door and take over as one of the major arms suppliers to saudi arabia which of course is a hugely lucrative market and for more analysis on the talks with terror ron and

the west but short of change people are bells program cross talk that's coming your way in about twenty minutes time. i wonder no it wasn't him spoke directly saying that's been you mean to tell you no one directly lead off abuse 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.

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ups and downs in the final. day. and the rest of a single day every week. it's all to live from moscow but ten minutes on cross talk for now 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 vehicles with advertising that says go home and that's all she's laura smith reports the ideas appear to be simply testing the public snubs. it's a text message a friend if you. 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 textbook we 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 for years in this country so. it's all part of a government campaign to weed out illegals first round threatening. and now 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 novelli 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 community pointing to what's there we're not welcome in this country chinatown in london's west end is where the majority of channels clients work and he says several of them have themselves received messages from the hope that together with a series of surprise 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 bans texts and raids all add up say activists to an anti immigrant campaign and jeremy corbyn m.p. who represents a launch multicultural constituency says we can expect to see more of it at the general election approach. and it's essentially a battle for political ground between the right wing conservatives in the far right

ukip and it's a pretty unseemly image that we're getting this is electioneering paid for by the taxpayer no strike rate data is available yet for the forty thousand text messages sent all day the home office reports just eleven illegal immigrants have called havens the result that it's cheaper than full simply removing them apparently but at the cost of the goodwill of immigrant communities the country why it's laura smith r.t. . to syria now where the government has asked western powers to provide a host of military vehicles to stay free transport chemical weapons out of the country however the police has reportedly been denied as the u.s. and its allies are unwilling to give damascus any material support a western diplomatic sources say their governments refused to help us saad strengthen his position in any way syria has so far been complying with international agreements on chemical disarmament and is due to relinquish all stockpiles by next summer but a political analyst or even him

a louche he says damascus has an awfully 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 implement having accepted to remove 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. a protected manner so these weapons would not fall prey. to the arms of the armed gangs in syria the so-called so when more peaceful opposition. can always find more news at on c dot com including for this hour one of the world's top computer security experts warning of a looming global cyber. passport askey claiming that russian nuclear plants could

be at risk from crippling computer viruses all those details that are right now. also how much more capture is needed to be splashed to bring fukushima back in order online we've got a report saying japan is a step away from boring many billions of dollars for a cleanup of the crippled powell applied. right to see. first rate. and i think you're. on a reporter's. before we get to the r t bald update to france we go with the dire economic times of

ruined many lives and it seems in france they've taken lives as well a recent report cites an alarming rate of suicides among farmers artie's tesser australia travel to one of the worst areas. since two thousand and eight years of milk and meat have 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 his bank manager told him he's credited won't be renewed. we worked very long hours seven days a week there were simply disconnected from the rest of french society who work hard and keep our heads down but mama look around we ask ourselves what do we actually have to mask. the plight of french farmers has been causing a lot of frags a recent report showed that two thousand and seven 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 when a farmer kills himself it is said to be an accident because the bank won't pay visa learn everything. so the figures are wrong one farmer a day commit suicide in song when farmers are in debt the bank not immediately same day dead collectors and with someone else in the social system who can assess the situation to help find a solution brittany where isabel is from is the french region with the highest number of suicides the good next is the suicide rate among farmers we're talking about those producing milk and meat is thirty percent higher than the general working population of the same age samas have more trouble talking about their problems and we observed when they decide to take their lives they tend to go

through that paradoxically france is the biggest beneficiary of e.u. farm aid nine billion euros a year in the twenty fourteen to twenty twenty period but most of that money doesn't grow. each small farmers french president francois la has already pledged to shift almost one billion euros towards the livestock farmers and away from the better off court farmers but the frustration has long boiled over isabelle hopes change comes before another farmer she knows throws in the towel does our cilia our tea brittany well the time here on the program to egypt we go which is lifting a three month curfew in a state of emergency which did originally give the military sweeping powers to make warrantless arrests of the measures were introduced in august after a crackdown on supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsy the military backed government is now preparing a new law to regulate public protests in an apparent bid to keep the islamist

opposition at bay. 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 or should be revised down to no more than two and a half thousand the government is currently struggling with relief efforts and is counting on incoming foreign support to help recover from the disaster. it might soon become costly for anyone to be annoying while in the u.k. if new anti social laws are approved getting on somebodies nerves could land you two years in jail or a fine opponents of the bill claim its phrasing is too vague and opens itself up to a wide interpretation among other things that also undermine people's rights to protest that's according to activist kerry and mendoza. attempting to do is give to police. to make any lawful protest immediately illegal simply because

and i quote this directly from the legislation may has always like to nuisance or annoyance as you can imagine the whole point of protest is to cause nuisance and annoyance is to get in the way to disrupt people in their ordinary daily lives 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 police to then bar people from what they call a palette and localities hasn't been defined to be a city county a country. nobody really lays out again the intervention of a court of law now is america's ongoing drone war defeating terrorism or merely resulting in civilian casualties and the end of the day who's to blame the modern take up the issue in today's breaking that's coming your way almost exactly one

hour from now. last night georgetown got the exclusive screening of a new drone movie outlining human cost of this covert warfare that was in a theater though instead it was on the side of the home and have it 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 where we at the white house is name is lloyd 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 minds he not only wanted to change getting into the war why we got into the iraq war but the minds got a sense of the iraq war and many people assume that meant he was going to change some of the basic american foreign policies to 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 were perpetrated around the world. it is good to have you with us here on r t today i'm sure receive as promised the talks on iran's nuclear program is going right under the spotlight in crosstalk people of ellen is guests coming your way next.

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hello and welcome to crossfire for all things considered i'm peter lavelle negotiations continue but that has not stopped the blame game from raging we are told around in the western powers were on the verge of leaving agreement regarding to iran's nuclear program then the talks stalled into the familiar stalemate the enemies of diplomacy appear to have the upper hand is war the only option left. to cross off the ground i'm joined by my guest michael c. hudson in washington he is the director of the middle east institute at the national university of singapore and he's a professor emeritus at georgetown university also in washington we have gareth

porter he's an investigative journalist and author of the upcoming book manufactured crisis and in paris we cross to emanuel to he is the president of the institute for perspective and security in europe originally cross-talk rose in fact i mean you can jump in anytime you want to go to you first weigh in on the blame game who's at fault here because we were told right at the weekend there's going to be an agreement and then i'll go to emanuel and then we also are told the french you know threw in the monkey wrench what you're reading well i think we have two problems not just one clearly the government of france was involved in an effort to throw a monkey wrench into the talks on saturday apparently after the the french foreign minister had signed off on a unified text for presentation to iran he then went on radio and gave this interview in which he referred to a con game.