so the way that some. of our. an investigation into the murder of afghan civilians allegedly involving american soldiers is abandoned after the u.s. denies access to the suspects we hear from a journalist who says he's got proof u.s. soldiers to blame. the special forces and their translators were indeed responsible for these man's fate. the sanctions they america prolongs the state of emergency and its relations with iran and someone even tougher restrictions despite attempts to seal a nuclear agreement. have been a british citizen for at least thirty years in this country. we meet a man who was targeted by controversial british government campaign. illegal immigrants top stories.

from a studio center in moscow this is r.t. with international news and comment an investigation 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 and over a dozen men were detained during u.s. raids in afghanistan's wardak province between twelve and february twenty eighth they disappeared ten bodies were discovered just several hundred meters from an american military base and u.s. insists its troops were not to blame and had no knowledge of illegal killings but journalist matthew spent five months investigating the incident and in rolling stone magazine he claims to have seen evidence proving the guilt of america.

soldiers. had the chance to ask him what he found. to the special forces team the green beret 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. so i essentially investigating allegations of the body of testimony from locals from officials. about two confidential u.n.

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 if 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 because all the speech is ongoing but in the five months that i spent reporting this 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 the. leaders 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 severe. 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 the sort of accountability for individuals who are at the 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 you have a geisha as of aggravated tensions between washington and kabul over a joint security pact that agreement defines the future of u.s. troops off to other foreign forces would drop by the end of next year and american soldiers immunity to afghan law is the most crucial part of the deal is what he's going to explains 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 buffed 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 stay in of ghana's stay in past twenty four teen and that's what the obama administration wants unity 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. live here in moscow with you twenty four hours a day still ahead for you this hour the money woes that are pushing french farmers to take their own lives the statistics suggest there is one suicide every two days . the biggest number on one family a day. but workers on a cattle farm in britain they say their plight is even worse than official figures suggest the report is coming your way in just

a few minutes. but first despite an apparent for a new 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 lawmakers on capitol hill want even more restrictions put in place. as more. 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 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 of 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 accusing israel reporting from new york . r.t. when earlier i spoke to so you'd love the he's an expert on middle east politics from the school of oriental and african studies he believes the u.s. should not jeopardize

a possible agreement by imposing more sanctions. bronner's provided a golden opportunity for. the global community to come around the table and iron out an agreement about introducing new sanctions at the same time they're inviting for that in negotiations is quite counterproductive and. the confidence of really. to continue the negotiations and the only thing iran is trying to achieve is kind of for a go commission by five plus one about legal enrichment and to having rights for peaceful nuclear technology. the diplomatic wrangling around iran's nuclear program is debated in today's crosstalk and. just how serious the west was about finding agreement. i want to know times of it was that i'm spoke directly saying that binyamin netanyahu one directly off of use that if the

deal was a bad deal then there would be immediate we can buy israel on the certain number of . nuclear plants ok michael it sounds like there was that six store shooting 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 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 here. cross talk throughout the day here on. the u.k.'s home office is being heavily criticised for a 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 auntie's or smith investigates what effect it had. your phone. is a text message a friend asking if you. or your mom just checking your ok but no it's the home office telling 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 said 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 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 chance 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 bans texts and raids all add up say activists to an anti immigrant campaign

and jeremy corbyn m.p. who represents a 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 you put it's a pretty unseemly 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 that it's all day the home office reports just eleven illegal immigrants of god haven as a result of the violence she put in full simply removing them apparently but at the cost of the good will of immigrant communities country laura smith r.t. . this controversial go home campaign is being compared on some social media to the two thousand and six movie children of men here is a look why. we

. should. take. the money that. we spoke to a member of the u.k.'s socialist workers party we asked him whether the grim scenes of dystopia in the movie children of men any comparison to the reality of britain today. i think it's a very dangerous and toxic policy which does indeed threaten to create the sorts of conditions which that film we've just seen indicated and in some ways is a throwback to the racist and fascist policies of the one nine hundred thirty s. i think we're seeing a two pronged attack one is to strike fear to intimidate immigrants to tell them

they're not welcome here to try and stop them coming here and to reduce the rights of people who have come to britain to work and to study the other and indeed perhaps more important from the government's terms is to offer up immigrants as a scapegoat for the rest of the population to say that there are real problems in society bad housing lack of jobs no future for young people and instead of blaming those who are really responsible the politicians the big businessmen and the bankers instead we are encouraged to blame our neighbor our workmates someone at school with us and to say that the immigrant is the problem not the rich. an apology from abroad potence president says sorry to moscow often nationalists protesters attacked the russian embassy in mosul moral mats and other stories after the break.

negotiations continue but that is not stopped the blame game from raging we are told around in the western powers are on the verge of a new agreement regarding to end this 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. exactly what happened there i don't know but i won't get killed. piers later is when i got arrested. for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results. and people to confess to police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is like meant no because the psychological techniques are

more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse they were often they could get what they wanted they could say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said. the president of poland has apologized for an attack on the russian embassy it was carried out by nationalists protesters earlier this week when an independence march spiraled out of control and turned violent pool sculpts has the details. the polish president has apologized on behalf of the country for monday's incident which the country's prime minister has described as an unacceptable act of aggression now monday was poland independence day and to mark the occasion a march was organized through the streets of warsaw but was hijacked by far right nationalists who provided the russian embassy with stones and firecrackers and

slogans and banners with anti russian sentiment some protesters even attempted to scale the walls of the embassy before the police dispersed the crowd with pepper spray and rubber bullets and around a dozen people were arrested in total now the incident has prompted the polish president bronislaw komorowski to suggest that changing in the polish law so that protesters are prohibited from covering their faces future demonstrations and he also claims that some are using this incident it is just that poland is a russophobe nation and that is something that he strenuously denies. playing off key can sometimes be simply criminal. the need start of the spanish pianist ends in a seven year jail sentence for offending her neighbors sensitivity is more details than that ability to. close america's sweeping surveillance could backfire

washington is one of the n.s.a.'s activities could be the provocation for new terror attacks overseas and the danger is coming from one of its closest allies find out which one i'm going to a website. right to see. first street. and i think that you're. on a reporter's twitter. and instagram. could be in the.

argee dot com is launching a special project to mark the appalling scale of violence in iraq. we want you to know. this immediately bustle we need to be. of the same push to secure. your party visible. issues that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from . politic. china is seeking to diversify its economy with more emphasis on markets and the private sector it's a new direction from the country's ruling communist party and the specific details

when their announce could affect the entire world china expert andrew k.p. change is needed to prevent social discontent and maintain the party's leadership. if china doesn't change and china will be stuck in in in the kind of low level development in the middle income trap as it were but time is more is built on energy in intensive. current economy and and profit margins are being squeezed by as they shouldn and grows as become increasingly unsustainable. particularly with the probable and if you scan city and of course pollution and rising this content because of the inequalities so all these are in total drivers for change to maintain the parts leadership in order to

enhance the legitimacy of the party. time now for some of its national news in brief and we start in egypt dozens have been injured after clashes broke out between supporters and opponents of the ousted president mohamed morsi a man syria diversity both groups threw stones flares a model top cocktails at each other forcing people to intervene with tear gas shop windows were smashed cars destroyed and a guard's office set on fire rest erupted shortly after the government lifted a three month curfew and state of emergency. right one hundred demonstrators marched to the hague in protest against racial violence respirator out a day before french right wing leader marine le pen met a dutch counterpart in the netherlands protesters rallied through the city chanting and holding up racism banners. also this hour the syrian army has retaken control of the southern damascus suburb hit here with the help of hezbollah fighters from lebanon it's also reported share militants

from iraq took part in the operation there is being held by the opposition for over a year and local media reports of resistance remain on the outskirts. the french economy may be showing signs of growth but it's too late for many farmers driven to despair the suicide rate in the agricultural industries is soaring. i went to meet those working in the worst affected region to find out why . since two thousand and eight we 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 his bank manager told him he credited won't be renewed. we were very long hours seven days a week they were simply disconnected from the rest of french society because 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 for hours a research 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 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 warn of the reality is even worse for insurance reasons when a farmer kills himself it is said to be an accident because the bank won't pay for his loan if it issues aside so the figures are wrong one farmer a day committed suicide in strong when farmers are indebted the bank not immediately sent a debt collectors and with someone else in the social system who can assess the situation to help find a solution brittany were isabella's from is the french region with the highest

number of suicides the good nick says the suicide rate among foremost 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 with it so doc sickly 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 really. small farmers french president francois lot has already pledged to shift almost of one billion euros towards the livestock farmers and away from the better off caught farmers but the frustration has long boiled over isabelle hopes to change comes before another farmer she knows throws in the towel does our sylvia r t do it to me. that brings up that i'll be back with the team with more for you in just over half an hour from that i mean thomas promised peter the bell and crosstalk take the floor.

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hello and welcome across for all things considered i'm peter lavelle negotiations continue but that has not stopped. the blame game from raging we were told iran 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 land 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 emmanuel 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 french foreign minister had signed off on a unified text for presentation to iran he then went on radio.