a probe into the murder of going to civilians allegedly involving american soldiers is abandoned after the you want denies access to suspects we'll hear from a journalist who says he's got proof u.s. forces are to blame. i essentially investigate 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 corroborate the allegations that suggested that the special forces and their translators were indeed responsible for these men's feet. the sanctions day say i should say america provos the state of emergency in its relations with iran and some won't even tougher restrictions despite attempts to seal a number of agreement. have been agreed to seduce him for at least thirty years in

this country. that will meet a man who was targeted by a controversial british government campaign to weed out illegal immigrants. international news live from moscow this is r.t. with me hello and welcome to the program. a probe into the killings of civilians in afghanistan has been dropped after the u.s. refused to cooperate american special forces are suspected of the murders but investigators have been refused access to them seventeen men were detained during u.s. raids in afghanistan's wardak province between october two thousand and twelve and february twenty third teen disappeared ten bodies were later discovered just several hundred meters from an american military base the u.s.

military insists its troops were not to blame and had no knowledge of illegal killings but journalist matthew akins spent five months investigating the incident and in rolling stone magazine he claims to have seen evidence proving the guild of american soldiers. had the chance to ask him what he found. the special forces team the green beret eighteen 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 investigate the allegations of the quality of testimony from locals from officials. about two confidential u.n. and red cross investigations that corroborate 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 saying that the from the speeches ongoing but in the five months that i spent with one of the story one of the witnesses that i spoke to had ever been contacted by u.s. military investigators so it really does beg the question of whether these. users 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 the u.s. and afghan allied custody as well as continued lack of any sort of accountability for individuals were implicated in this kind of abuse of detainees was 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 the. delegations have to tensions between washington and kabul over a joint security box that agreement defines the future of u.s. troops after the foreign forces withdrew by the end of next year and american soldiers immunity to the most crucial part of the deal as

a chicken explains 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 but not for 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 leave state of ghana's stay 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. still ahead for you this hour nancy the money was that of pushing french farmers to take their own lives to test it's so drastic there's

one sort of side every today. the figures are wrong one farmer a day commit suicide in throngs of workers on a cattle farm in brittany say their plight is even was that official figures suggest our reporters coming out in a few minutes. despite an apparent thaw in u.s. iranian relations officially they remain in a state of emergency america's decades long sanctions regime has been prolonged by president barack obama for another year and some long and even more restrictions put in place. u.s. president barack obama says it's necessary for the thirty plus years 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 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 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 sanctions on iran but in the meantime pro israel groups have reportedly been branding up lobbying efforts on capitol hill pushing for more unity of measures now some experts speculate that obama's ongoing state of emergency

against iran has more to do with accusing israel reporting from new york. r.t. . and in his daily briefing the white house spokesperson jay carney says the u.s. is not in favor a running back restrictions this administration has imposed the most crippling sanctions in history against your. tris that washington is aiming for a peaceful solution to the ongoing crisis around iran's nuclear program who spoke to us foreign policy analyst an expert on iran and psoriasis. she believes obama's latest move into kate's otherwise. i think 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 trusted in the negotiations start with the undersecretary of state wendy sherman saying this now does not recognize iran's right to enrich

uranium so they are interpreted. gratian treaty to see their politics i don't think that was ever the real desire to bring an end peaceful and. france for peace talks sampled it cold as again during talks on iran's nuclear program and was widely blamed for blocking an agreement international affairs columnist for the newspaper still explained what he believes paris is worried about france 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 that. the president of syria when the uprising began two years ago they said forty 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 to hangry 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 major suppliers to saudi arabia which of course is a hugely lucrative market. the diplomatic wrangling around iran's nuclear program is debated in today's crosstalk asks his guest just how serious the west was about finding agreement that. i want to know times of jerusalem spoke directly saying that binyamin did tell you one directly lot of abuse that if the deal was a bad deal then there will be immediate action by israel on the certain number of. nuclear plants ok michael it sounds like there was that's extortion right there ok there is heavy pressure 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 arises is the united states really committed to the kind of end game that was understood or when they began this round of talks and i think that iran may in fact be wondering whether that is the case i think that's the real danger of. the u.k.'s home office is being heavily criticized for a can pave aimed at forcing illegal immigrants out of the country thousands of text messages were sent to the mobile phones of suspected illegal migrants warning them to leave britain laura smith investigates or to fax it. your phone is a text message a friend may be asking 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 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. 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 surprises rains 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 as the general election approach. and it's essentially a battle for political ground between the right wing conservatives in the far right you could put it's a pretty seemly image that we're getting this is electioneering paid for by the

taxpayer nose strike rate data is available yet for the forty thousand text messages sent although the home office reports just eleven illegal immigrants have called behave as a result of the it's cheaper than full simply removing them apparently but at the cost of the goodwill of immigrant communities country whites laura smith. i wonder if you live in the queue. knowing your neighbor you could go to jail. with limited fine if needed. behavior comes into force will tell you right. but i will only react to situations i have read the reports i'm likely to put you know i will leave that to the state department to comment on your latter point i

completely. secure yeah because all you're talking welcome. thank you no more weasel words. when you made a direct question be prepared for a change when you when you should be ready for our. freedom of speech. and the freedom to watch. wealthy british study all. the time right. around the. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser reports.

again the says he welcomed by the french economy may be showing signs of growth but it's too late for many followers driven to despair the suicide rate in the agricultural industries is soaring sousing i went to made those working in the west affected region to find out why. since two thousand and eight mil can veto had to plow on the face of rising production costs and fall in profits with some farmers taking it much harder than other. fifteen days ago my colleague tried to commit suicide so we got here nine hundred two i use a credit when to be renewed to have to look. we were. going to do the right kind of there when suddenly disconnected from the rest of french the song was work hard and keep my hands down i look around we don't. want to actually house or damascus the

plight of french farmers has been causing a lot of frowns 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 and 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 warming the reality is even worse on their insurance reasons even if. it turns out to be not because the bank runs to pay for his alone overshoots so the figures are wrong on farmer day. when farmers are. dead polluters someone else. 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 we're talking about those producing. is thirty percent higher than the

general working population the same age the. problems. when they decide to take their lives they tend to. paradoxically france is the biggest beneficiary of farm aid nine billion euros a year the twenty fourteen to twenty twenty period but most of that money doesn't be. former french president francois law 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 former she knows throws in the towel does or sylvia r.t. britain. and west side know to see were in government request for military transport equipment to help move chemical weapons out of the country the us and its allies and says they do not want to provide assad's regime with any material support western diplomatic sources say that governments fear the requests of

equipment could be used by the masters in its fight against rebels in the vote own country see where has so far been abiding by international agreements on chemical design and a supposed to destroy all of its stockpiles by some of twenty four teams as political analysts in aloof believe this is just part of a western can paint aimed at making seaway at least. the west is trying to make it hard for the syrian regime to 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. into the

arms of the armed gangs in syria the so-called so wm or peaceful opposition. one of the world's top computer security experts has warned of a looming global cyber war you drink a spare ski claims russian nuclear plans could be a trace from crippling computer viruses the details of the story are touting it up . and america's sweeping some brains actually is could backfire washington is warns that the n.s.a. xox serious use could be the prover cation for new terror attacks overseas and the danger is coming from one of his closest allies find out which one by the intel website. right to see. her street. and i would think that you're.

going to. be in. china is seeking to diversify its economy with more emphasis on markets and the private sector does the indication from the country's ruling communist party with specific details expected shortly china expert dr thorson pad bug believes the new and chanda highlights how far the country has gone. into general secretary delivered to work. some for. the work reports modernization not for government. wants emphasis from. a moral problem service oriented government leaving the markets. decide. if you resources but it sounds like more government has bought the markets in

previous years we're just giving back as it grown so it's an improvement. is america's ongoing drawing board to be seen terrorism or merely slaughtering civilians coming up later this hour a monsoon takes on that issue in today's breaking the set. last night in 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 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 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 to george bush to push the limit certainly did change their minds and now we're completely detached from any. sort of warfare foreign policy that were perpetrated around the world.

in britain causing a nuisance may become a crime punishable by jail terms or unlimited fines the u.k. nor makers are considering a bill to toughen the response to antisocial behavior even children as young as ten could be charged for annoying behavior under the new legislation and it also allows punishment for activities carried out in public which harms the quality of life for those living nearby the bills a vague phrasing and tough approach has sparked major criticism among civil rights acts of it and carry on mendoza as one of those who launched an online petition to stop it from coming into force. attempting to do is give to police the also to make any lawful protest immediately illegal simply because i quote this directly from the legislation may. always likely to cause nuisance or annoyance that is you 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 bull issue which is really important what's even more unnerving about this piece of legislation is it also allows the police to then bar people from what they call a galaxy locality hasn't been defined so it could be a city according to a country. nobody really lays out again intervention of a court of law. now some other international news and brief this hour in egypt dozens have been injured after clashes broke out between supporters and opponents of president mohamed morsi at cairo's university both groups as as well. stones flares and molotov cocktails at each other forcing people to intervene with tear gas police rather stop shop windows were smashed cars destroyed and a guard off is set on fire and west russia shortly after the government lifted

a three month curfew and state of emergency. around a hundred demonstrators marched through the hague in protest against all racial violence the protests broke out ahead of a visit to the netherlands by french right wing leader marie maupin who will meet with her dutch counterpart protesters of rollitt through the city chanting and holding up until racism. at least twenty one people including two children have been killed by a string of insurgent bomb attacks across iraq the deadliest deadliest one occurred in the city of baquba northeast of baghdad where triple bombing targeting a shared religious procession left eight people dead to other targets targets his security checkpoints kelly people in the city of tikrit and four people west of baghdad there were no immediate claims of responsibility but iraq's security forces often at times by al qaeda linked militants trying to overthrow the sheer led

government. and coming up as promised abby martin takes on the show america's drone war in breaking this ad. 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 europe saw that all the shelves were empty. in november they bombed the day of steel warehouses it was the main storage

place for all the food in the city people eating the earth because it had small traces of sugar in it i tried to eat it as well but i couldn't. the third night it was incredibly heavy bombing and. it was a direct hit on that very shelter and everyone was buried underneath. all of them were dead.

what is up guys i might be martin and this is breaking the set so guess what mom and pop store is so generous that it's actually forking over turkey and mashed potatoes to all its employees on thanksgiving day that's right lawnmower only because of the opening the door on black friday just isn't enough anymore no wal-mart's actually forcing its underpaid employees to work on things giving now so yes stuffing and dumplings i guess is the least the store can do that conveniently overshadows the other headlines wal-mart has made this week like an unprecedented move more than fifty wal-mart employees were just arrested in l.a. protesting the company's new taurus the low wages arrests are deterring the workers from standing up a massive nationwide protest against wal-mart is planned for black friday the biggest shopping day of the year i heard about you but i'm excited that the.