turn world's attention to the place that some gulag of our times. broke into the mud obgyn civilians allegedly involving american soldiers is abandoned in the u.s. denies access to suspects we'll hear from a journalist who says he's got proof u.s. soldiers are all to blame. the special forces and their translators were indeed responsible for these men's fate. also this hour the sanctions stay america for long as the state of emergency and its relations with iran and some won't even tougher restrictions despite attempts to seal and you get agreement. have been a british citizen for at least thirty years in these countries. with me somali who was targeted by controversial british government campaign to weed out illegal immigrants.

and welcome to. news life for most. volatile top story now. a probe into the killings of civilians in afghanistan has been dropped out of the u.s. refused to cooperate american special forces are suspected of the murders but investigators have been refused access to them over a dozen that were detained during u.s. raids in afghanistan problems between october two thousand to twelve and february twenty fifth scene then 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 a journalist matthieu aikins spent five months investigating the incident and in rolling stone magazine claims to have seen evidence proving the guilt of american

soldiers. and i've had the chance to ask him and. the special forces team the greenbury 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 local server complaining that the special forces team in their 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 assembled a 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 potential war crime allegations that they prove to be correct has there been any accountability for what happened to matthew while the military. that opened a criminal investigation so they declined to comment for the story save the from the speeches ongoing but in the five months that i spent reporting the story no single 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 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 at the 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 that the allegations have tensions between washington and kabul over a joint security pocked that agreement defines the future of u.s. troops after the foreign forces withdraw by the end of next year and american soldiers immunity to afghan know what is the most crucial part of the deal as a she's got a natural chicken explain. 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 one

very stumbling block on the way to an agreement between the u.s. and afghanistan under which some u.s. troops would stay in of ghana's stay past twenty four teen and that's what the obama administration wants unity for the troops so that they can stay beyond twenty 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 and still ahead for you this hour the money woes that are pushing french from was to take their own lives sadistic such as one suicide every two days. you got wrong eighty one followed a day. but workers on a council farm in brittany's say their plight is even was an official figures to tranced our reporters coming up in

a few minutes. despite an apparent u.s. iranian relations officially they remain in a state of emergency america's decades long sanctions regime has been prolonged by president obama by another year and some lawmakers on capitol hill won't even more restrictions put in place and she's wearing a partner a small. 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 tougher sanctions on iran but in the meantime pro israel groups have reportedly been ramping 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 appeasing israel reporting from new york. r.t. . underneath the daily briefing white house spokesperson jay carney says the you want to see is not in favor. of. this administration has imposed the most crippling

sanctions in history against you when. he was how i became just tries that washington is still aiming for a peaceful solution to the ongoing crisis around iran's nuclear program and we spoke to us foreign policy analyst an expert on iran psoriasis but the rig obama's latest move indicates of hawaii. 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 at its base does not recognize iran's right to enrich uranium so they are interpreted. ration treaty to see their politics i don't think that was ever any real desire to bring going to a peaceful end. france where he's stuck supported cold at fool's game during talks on iran's nuclear program and was widely blamed for blocking out the raymond

international affairs columnist for the ghajini space steele explained what he believes paris has warned 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 they took a very hawkish line against bashar al assad the president of syria when the uprising began two years ago they say forty would be talking quickly and they feel that it's really science to russia diplomatically and iran militarily that assad is still there and they feel very annoyed of angry over that. the second reason i think is quite simply the 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 arm sales door and take over as one of the major arms suppliers to saudi arabia which of course is a hugely lucrative market. the diplomatic wrangling around iran's nuclear program

was debated in today's cross talk about asks his guest just how serious the west was about finding agreement. one hundred times jerusalem spoke directly saying that binyamin netanyahu one directly off of use 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 that 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 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 by campaign 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 lois meth investigates or affected. 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 for this country so.

it's all part of a government campaign to weed out illegals first they sent 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 record show have novell 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 community is pointing to what's there we're not welcome in this country chinatown in london's west end is where the majority of china's 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 large 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 and the far right ukip but 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 although the home office reports just. as a result of the bands cheaper than forcibly removing them apparently but at the cost of the goodwill of immigrant communities.

and also if you live in the u.k. beware of annoying your neighbor got to see or be slapped with an unlimited fine if new legislation against antisocial behavior comes into force we'll tell you more after this break. it's a. pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i roll researcher.

wealthy british study all. the time to. go. around the. market. really happening to the global economy with mike stronger no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. again this is also the welcome back the french economy may be showing signs of growth but it's too late for many farmers driven to despair the so assigned rate in the agricultural industries is so worrying to some senior went to meet those working in the west affected region to find out why. since two thousand and

eight years of milk and meat had to plough on the face of rising production costs and falling profits with some farmers taking it much harder than other. days ago my colleague tried to commit suicide so we can. see credit won't be renewed we do have to look. we were. going to do the right kind on the west simply disconnected from the rest of french society hazardous work hard and keep our heads down but mama look around we don't. want to actually house in damascus the plight of french farmers has been causing a lot in france a recent report showed the two thousand and seven in two thousand and nine a total of four hundred eighty five farmers had committed suicide but that's an average of one a 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 warm the reality is even worse on their insurance reasons

than if they just had to pay not because the bank wants to pay for it he's learned over issues so the figures are wrong on farmer day. when farmers or. someone else. assess the situation both to help find. brittany where isabel is from is the french region with the highest number of suicides they can exceed the suicide rate among. those producing. is thirty percent higher than the general working population the same age the. problems. when they decide to take no lives they tend to. dock sick leave france is the biggest beneficiary of your farm aid nine billion euros a year the twenty fourteen to twenty twenty period but most of that money doesn't reach farmers french president for. a lot is already pledged to shift almost of one

billion euros towards the livestock farmers don't wait for the better off caught farmers but a frustration has long boiled over isabelle hopes to change comes before another former she knows throws in the towel does or sylvia r.t. britain. the west has said no to syrian government to 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 their governments fear the required equipment could be used by damascus in its fight against rebels and they will stay on country syria has so far been abiding the international agreements on chemical design movement and is supposed to destroy all of its stockpiles by some twenty fold change its political analyst ibrahim aloof believes this is just part of a western campaign aimed at making see where luke. the west is trying to make it

hard for the syrian regime to abide by the convention a as phrased fully agreed to sign and implement having accepted to remove its chemical weapons the syrian regime needs certain what month 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 wm or peaceful opposition. getting on people's nerves can bring some one present. a unique style of a spanish pianist ends in

a seven good jail sentence for offending her neighbors sensitive there are more details on r.t. dot com for you. to mark a sweeping surveillance sixty riches could backfire washington is warning that the n.s.a. is experiences could be the problem cation for new terror attacks overseas and the danger is coming from one of his closest allies find out which one by going to a website. to see. first street. and i would think the true. recorders would. be in the little. china is seeking to diversify its economy with more emphasis on markets and the

private sector that's the indication from the country's ruling communist party with specific details expected shortly china expert dr thoughts and part by a believes the new agenda highlights how far the country has come. under general secretary delivered to the work. some for. the work report speaks of all the modernization not for our government. wants emphasis from. a moral public service oriented government and the remark or it's. dishonest of you resources that sounds like more government has bought the markets in previous years we're just giving back as it grows so it's an improvement. is america's and growing drone will defeat terrorism or merely slaughtering civilians . takes on but in today's breaking the set. last night

georgetown residents got an exclusive screening of a new drone movie outlining the 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 squarely 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 war 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 mindset 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 well he certainly did change the minds now were completely detached from any sort of warfare or 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. lawmakers 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 harm the quality of life for those living nearby the bill's vague phrasing and tough approach has sparked major criticism among civil rights activists and kerry and mendoza is one of those who launched an online petition to stop it from coming into. attempting to do is give the 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 as 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. issue which is really important what is even more unnerving about this piece of legislation is it also allows the police to then bar people from what they call

a paluxy locality hasn't been defined so it could be a city according to a country. nobody really lays out again with the intervention of a court of law. to some other international news in brief. in egypt dozens have been injured after clashes broke out between supporters and opponents of president mohamed morsi at cairo's monsoor university both groups threw stones flares and molotov cocktails at each other forcing police to intervene with tear gas shop windows were smashed cars destroyed and a god office setting fire and restaurant or shortly after the government. a three month curfew and state of emergency. around a hundred demonstrators marched through the hague in protest against racial violence the protests broke out ahead of a visit to the netherlands by french right wing leader marie le pen who will meet with her dutch counterpart there protests as rally 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 occurred in the city of baquba north east of baghdad where triple bombing targeting a shit religious procession left eight people dead two other tocs targeted security checkpoints killing eight people in the city of tikrit and four people west of baghdad and there were no immediate claim the responsibility but iraq's security forces are often at times by al qaeda linked militants trying to overthrow the shell a good government. up next the friends turned accounts of those who survived the blockade of lending rogering world war two in the leningrad siege reflection.

there is obviously more for the latest because it's pink. women wanted to avoid rape they really needed to buy guns environ how to use them i'm. sure this is the one that i want to go with them once again it's the field for women definitely the target of the gun lobby and one you don't kill them when the killing not even if somebody would he would piss with her. i've noticed that more and more if that's really scary marketing tactics which implies that women have some sort of moral obligation to own guns to protect their family and young girls shoot out here too so we do have a paying course. for kids young kids choke on food than are killed by firearms if being armed made us safer in america we should be the safest nation on earth were clearly not the safest.

exactly what happened that day i don't know but a woman killed. years later is when i get arrested for. for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results. and people to consider the police officers don't beat people. more i mean it just doesn't happen really are you going to course of a target you should why because there's been this is like meant no because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse and they were often they could do what they wanted they could say what they

wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said. my dear dear diary i am so happy this is been the best summer of my life. i am a student now and i'm going to the village with mom we will have strawberries and see on the terrace i'm taking my favorite guitar. wouldn't suit a full summer what a wonderful life is waiting for me. to bet on will the chinese friends made me a guitar note on the stimulus that is so i started playing the seven string guitar or i played it quite well he played it well to some of the.