when you bareback with the internet you bareback lizard brothers. mock executions electrocution and a taste for breeding detainees these are just some of the accusations facing the british military over the iraq war with the international criminal court now urging an investigation. national security inefficiency an independent study finds the u.s. spy agency has been grossly exaggerating the effectiveness of dragnet data collection combating terrorism. and egyptians vote on a new draft constitution the third in three years as the military backed government seeks popular legitimacy after crushing the muslim brotherhood.

you're watching r t international live from our moscow headquarters where it's just after eleven o'clock on lindsay france thanks for joining me the iraq war continues to haunt the u.k. with lawyers representing hundreds of detainees at that complex now saying the british government is ultimately responsible for torture so brutal that amounts to sadism their testimonies have been submitted to the international criminal court but as artie's polly boyko reports the u.k. is determined to stop any investigation in its tracks. up until now the international criminal court at the hague had mostly tried african dictators and tyrants but the i.c.c. has been asked to investigate thousands of allegations of war crimes committed by british forces in iraq a two hundred and fifty page dossier presented by a human rights organization and a british law firm contains allegations of beatings of electrocution smoke

executions and sexual assaults committed by u.k. forces and according to the also as of this report the finger of blame extends to the very heart of the british government at the time so the head of the british army the former defense secretary and the former defense minister could face prosecution for what this calls systemic war crimes there are many hundreds of cases where the people have been interviewed in the provided reports about this abuse and it varies from what people might think are. relatively mundane examples of abuse to really quite appalling physical they're put says that british military commanders knew that their forces were committing war crimes and moreover that their civilian superiors cautiously ignored such information at their disposal but the u.k. foreign secretary william hague has already firmly rejected the suggestion that

those at the top here in westminster knew what was taking place on the ground in iraq we reject allegations of systematic abuse but whether all substantiated allegations of things going wrong these things have been or are being investigated that does not require references to the international criminal court the position of the british government has constantly been or were doing enough the point of this is simply that they still haven't done enough there are right now. at the international criminal court two heads of state one of them the sitting head of state of kenya and the other the former head of state of cold war they're both on trial at the international criminal court not for getting their hands bloody to do anything themselves but people under their authority or people who should have control who are committing the crimes so if it's good enough for the effort involved it should be good enough for the u.k. to the international criminal court has come under increasing pressure to act

against war crimes committed by western countries it's now up to the prosecutor at the i.c.c. to go through the claims of abuse and to decide whether to call high ranking british officials into the dock at the hague. artsy london. extracts from the dossier have been made public but most of the documents are being kept under wraps so they witness accounts that have come to light are alarming now among the abuses reported are beatings electrocutions and various kinds of sexual humiliation and even outright great family members of inmates were allegedly beaten by british troops and in at least one case actually harmed one man described how after being beaten his eight year old son was brought in and also attacked by an officer another witness alleged that during interrogation soldiers threatened to rape his sister and arrest his elderly parents. the

u.s. national security agency has gone to staggering lengths to hoard the private data of millions of people but an independent study now suggests that that information failed to produce the results the government had hoped for are to porton i explains when edward snowden first revealed the u.s. government's indiscriminate collection of every american's phone data u.s. president barack obama defended the program insisting that dozens of threats around the world have been overheard it courtesy of the national security agency and i say chief general keith alexander claimed metadata collection has warded to four different terrorism related activities post nine eleven now and. study shows that the numbers they're using well they've been slightly inflated because that analysis of two hundred and twenty five terrorism related cases in the u.s. since the september eleventh attack has found that the n.s.a.'s program has provided

evidence for only one case now the study by the national based nonprofit new american foundation has concluded the bulk collection of data by the n.s.a. has had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism researchers found that in the majority of post nine eleven terrorism related cases tips or evidence actually came from traditional law enforcement and investigative methods now these findings come as president obama is preparing to address the nation friday outlining his proposals to change intelligence operations and oversight geo political analyst eric draitser doesn't expect the president's promises to equate into significant action i think that the reality is that what we're looking at is a vast infrastructure with billions of dollars invested in it over the course of multiple decades so whatever obama might be able to say politically using whatever rhetorical cover he needs the reality is that the infrastructure is not going

anywhere the scaling back is only going to be superficial because as we know the surveillance program itself is all pervasive it goes to hardware it goes to software it goes to the companies themselves the servers the for the cables themselves so as i said it is a closed system that they've created so for obama to be able to say oh well i can scale back this system this is merely for public consumption just last month a task force appointed by the president himself also concluded that the n.s.a.'s counterterrorism programs are not essential to preventing attacks reporting from new york marine up or down r.t. . cation that stake the west threatens to cut support for syria's rebel government if it were fuses to attend peace talks. yes but the opposition is a step ahead calling the bluff and saying that between hardline islamist and the regime there is no other choice a report on the upcoming geneva peace talks around the corner. with over two hundred thousand police on the streets to provide security gyptian are voting on

a new constitution a yes vote would cement the power of the military backed interim government which replaced islamist president mohamed morsi after he was ousted in july last year belcher reports on how this would affect the troubled nation. well it's a heading to the polling stations once again to vote on a new constitution if it gets a yes from the people that would mean egypt's seen three constitutions and possibly three presidents in as many years and our people are voting on an amended version of the two thousand and twelve constitution which was thrown out by egypt's military generals after they overthrew islamist president mohamed morsi into law i know since then the government has launched a bloody crackdown on mr morsi supporters and also his grip the business brother has which was a terrorist organization on christmas day blamed for a spike in terror attacks it's the situation that's led the whole country to be on tenterhooks today as the police and the army are being stationed the polling stations preempting violence from the government hardline groups meanwhile human

rights organizations have expressed dismay at the state of freedoms here in the country particularly after seven members of a strong egypt party were initially in support of the military where arrested for putting up posters calling for a no vote in the referendum the streets here are literally awash with vote yes the constitution post is similar to being screened on radio and t.v. stations back to back however a no vote campaign is barely visible meanwhile the mizzen brother heads and that support is calling for a boycott now a high turnout and a yes vote is essential for the government as this would be the start of approval from the people for the roadmap that egypt's generals made back in july and it could pave the way for armed forces chief general abdel fattah el-sisi to become president now critics say that there are many articles inside the constitution the current constitution which people are voting on which would in fact strengthen military power over civilian governments leaving little hope for a democratic and peaceful future for egypt's. y l s cans are

a blogger and journalist working out of cairo says the language in the new constitution would provide legal and political immunity for the military. although there are a lot of egyptians that are really pro this called situation and they really seek stability there's very little chance that this constitution will do so and mostly because this vote on the constitution isn't a vote on the constitution itself but on a plethora of other factors including the muslim brotherhood whether the people want them back for not. general sisi but that whether people want him as president or not and the last thing it's about is the actual constitution surely serves the army at this point they want to be protected against any kind of accountability for anything they've done it's still valid to see that even if there is a democratic president as long as the army is in power and they have much power and

autonomy they can choose a pick and choose who stays on and who leaves and i don't think the the next constitution addresses that. no growth and no clear way out france is scrambling for economic answers and its president gets the cartoon treatment as he peddles like crazy to get things back on track we've got the latest on his new low tax approach coming up in the program. and when your mother land just doesn't love you back up ahead latvian limbo for those who've lived their whole lives there but with stateless passports that stripped them of key privileges enjoyed by ordinary citizens.

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britain and the united states are reportedly threatening to cut off support for the syrian opposition unless it agrees to attend the geneva peace talks next week but the syrian national coalition insists that with rebels in the one hand and assad's regime on the other there's no one else for the west to deal with meanwhile the roadmap for the peace talks is being hammered out in paris as you are pissed off reports one of the first things that we've heard from u.s. secretary of state is that russia the u.s. and the u.n. are completely on the same page that the only solution of the conflict in syria is a diplomatic one mr kerry also said that both the soon enough and to the opposition are equally responsible for the atrocities committed and i would also seeing it's a slight shift on iran since a lot of barbara he meet you on special envoy on syria and syria level off they both of course saying that they want to see iran taken part in this you needed two conferences is a key player in the region this was something that the u.s.

has previously against but now according. two u.s. secretary of state washington wouldn't mind seeing tehran there at geneva two if it's supports the agreements reached earlier at the geneva one now mr labral also said that the authorities in syria have now confirmed that they are going to take part in the conference although one of the sticking points right now is that it's really unknown whether or not the opposition is planning to do the same although we are possibly witnessing now positive tendencies somewhat of a positive tendency when it comes to the relationship between the opportunities there and the rebels since we've heard today about possible exchanges of prisoners and allowing humanitarian aid to get in but according to sergei lavrov right now regarding humanitarian aid the rebels are the key obstacles that's why moscow doesn't want to see the terror threats among the key issues to be discussed to be on the table there. to now we've heard nothing about calls for president assad

having to step down which is different from sunday since the french prime minister when he met with the syrian opposition he did make these calls for the syrian president to step down which shows that right now even though the key players now working on organizing this conference they are completely on the same page when it comes to lots of key issues some countries in the west are sending mixed signals which could theoretically undermine the success of the conference. the u.s. congress is also sending mixed signals at first the u.s. secretary of state welcome to iran's possible participation in the syrian peace talks but some time later we heard a different tune coming from washington saying iran hasn't yet proved itself ready . he was simply stating that there are ways around could show the world that they want to see a positive outcome and if they did so obviously that would mean that if they wanted

to play a role in geneva two on the sidelines we would look more favorably on that but certainly no one was indicating an openness to inviting them are these are things that if they do they would definitely be invited there are just things that they could do to show that they want to effect a positive outcome but again we have no indication they're going to achieve it too is in how many days so i think really that it's probably very. a mideast analyst told us that all powers with influence in the region must be invited. seeing contradictory signals and obviously the u.s. is undecided on this issue it is very unfortunate because it sends the wrong signal to iran even have adverse consequence so that with respect to confidence building on the new clearing sure so i think the united states should stop this self-contradiction send an invitation through the u.n. to iran so that all the parties that stake in this conflict could participate and

bring an end to this tragic catastrophic conflict. meanwhile the situation in syria is growing more chaotic by the day rebel factions are now in an all out war with each other with almost seven hundred opposition fighters killed just over a week that's worse what's worse actually the balance of power is quickly turning away from the relative moderates and in favor of al-qaeda and one of the most notorious of those is the islamic state of iraq and the levant it began a campaign called expunging filth which targets everyone opposed to it especially moderate rebels among the methods used by the jihadists are executions bombings and forstmann of sharia law and the capturing of those who do not share their beliefs the group is so brutal that even his leadership has denounced it and now controls chunks of syria and iraq that are all large that are larger than some cases than portugal as you can see here those areas are in black we'd love to hear your thoughts on the geneva two conference you can have your say by adding your comments

on our to dot com or in the poll we've got running there. also online torrent of support jailed founder of the world's most popular file sharing website the pirate bay gets a modest improvement in his prison conditions after over one hundred thousand people signed a petition to allow him access to books and other basic items. and license to speed british spies get immunity from road regulations allowing them to ignore traffic lights restroom crossings and speed limits that story and more at our to dot com. the french economic ship appears to be dead in the water and that's even compared to its struggling european neighbors it's a situation that's left the pro-tax president scrambling for a new way to spur growth and he's he looks ready to make a surprising political u. turn in order to do it. so the fact is why they've not done this video

clip lawns tax policies which are among the major reasons has become the least popular president in france as more than history you know you couldn't move the team or talk to much more together with belgium france is tax grab is the highest in the euro zone you don't want to do it but still it was a good way to head for. the last two hours french i was able to talk so well and two thirds of the country's population is clear cut so i don't suffer while eighty percent lose their presidents a criminal profiler so is misguided i don't inefficient gianluca is among those eighty percent and entrepreneur he was foolish to close his business down after taxes became too big to bear. this is a vicious circle with my business has stopped working which means i can to provide jobs for others and i can pay taxes to my country to help its development its like everything falls apart right up to the current taxation policy was part of the fine

then strategy chosen by the french government to fight economic crisis but almost two years later critics say it simply hasn't worked the country's credit rating has been caught the unemployment level or those table recently is still at its highest in almost sixteen years and for twenty fourteen the european commission for costs just zero point nine percent g.d.p. growth in france against one point seven percent in germany and two point two percent in britain people and businesses alike of oh my god another tax and another it's not that they're too high but there are too many and a combination of all these taxes makes it really heavy taxes today really break an economy. it seems that's also finally beginning to dawn on the country's leader examples out of new rule all rule taxes big. if you have a usually known for very optimistic speech in his new year address ponce one on

sounded rather concerned. the economic crisis turned out to be longer and deeper than we could have predicted. this initially sleeve pledged some true liberal changers such as cutting labor costs and public spending making people talk about a new on loaned end. of the country's recovery but critics are still vocal as they see plan is short on details and some are afraid it could simply be too little too late. raef notion r.t. from france as the french government struggles to find a remedy for its sluggish growth max kaiser shows us how big business manages to thrive charke spence. let's get back to the connection between surveillance and obesity because the surveillance technology you say could be surveilled by anyone they're not being surveilled by security looking for ways to keep people secure

they're selling the access to marketing corporations and big pharma and big agra big consumer products companies who then spy on you in ways to help them sell you stuff more trans fats foods more junk food more junk credit everything to make you on healthy more drugs everything that makes you lazy obese and stupid i.e. american that's what they're in it for and they're succeeded because you've got a jobless mass of obese trog abides while going around in their little tri cycles and wal-mart looking for new ways to help plum the nether regions other intestines because it's all clogged up thanks to bill gates or the twenty four seven surveillance apparatus which is meant to keep people on the way that they are just look at the average wal-mart shopper and throw up. well as the saying goes there's no place like home but for some there is no country

that can be called by that name hundreds of thousands of people in latvia have so-called alien passports even though they've never lived anywhere else and naturalization test intended for immigrants is the only way for them to get equal rights with all citizens parties pasco investigates you guys when you mean it but at the moment non-citizens have limited rights we can't vote can't occupy government positions or be policeman or lawyers in total there are ninety differences in november alexander invited un secretary general ban ki-moon to latvia for a congress on the issue the invite was politely declined. and you're going to have any of them there are around three hundred thousand of us and i'm one of them here's my passport it's an alien passport. when the soviet union collapsed latvia only gave full citizenship to people and their descendants who had lived in the country prior to nine hundred forty when it became

a soviet republic that was around fifty two percent of the population everyone else was classed as a non-citizen today one in seven people are considered alien canady is one of those affected he was born in latvia and although his mother is latvian because his father moved to the country after nine hundred forty eight was denied citizenship he eventually went through the process of naturalization when he was twenty two years old how did it make you feel having to go through that process despite the fact as you say you were born in this country well does your mother love you. right and that's the same if she does that you feel good and if she doesn't you feel a bit about and insulted the process of naturalisation the tests noncitizens on their knowledge of lobbying history culture and language many feel they're hostages to history claiming the latvian government are using them to avenge the past but

it's not just a moral issue it could also be economic benefits to ending this policy if that three hundred thousand people will be back into political and economical life will be very good fuel for the country to you know to finally move on further because we always look back into history who are trying to go further into european union security. and so on but we still had to turn back those fighting for their right to acknowledge they have a long way to go before they win the argument to say they're prepared to take their case step by step who's got forty latvia. for global headlines for you now an attempt by organic farmers in the us to get agricultural giant long santo to promise never to sue them for accidentally growing their modified seed has failed a national supreme court says at ground zero the appeal lodged by the farmers who say they risk being targeted by the company monsanto meanwhile says it's never sued for inadvertent use of their copyrighted seeds and doesn't intend to in the future

. tens of thousands of protesters who have brought central bangkok to a standstill are threatening to tighten their blockade of government buildings some said they all stormed the stock exchange of the prime minister refuses to resign dissolved parliament in december under pressure from opposition activists they accuse her of trying to get her brother off corruption charges and to bring him back into power. and next up as promised it's the kaiser report. millions around the globe. but hunger each. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge only in the they can the very strong position against g.m.o. and we think that's. the genetic anymore the right products are priest to

have it there is no. evidence that there is any problem with genetic engineering when you make a deal. or is free cheese always in the mousetrap i don't believe. that free. enterprise is profit. for these golden rice monarchy. when you are followed around when you are being investigated because of the whim of someone this is the beginning of the end of your freedom. those two units say routinely intercept american citizens'. text messages you know. where the calls text messages so you just see everything without my knowledge actually basically

and that's all legal absolutely yes when you bareback with the internet your bareback brother. sleeping. with morning please post conflict nowadays there are increasingly asked to operate in a high risk of violence while belief system of angels to stay. motionless with these people has closed over almost twenty years four million people killed millions of displaced and refugees tens of thousands of women raped. children recruited those soldiers were slaves no.

welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser sink estates are the u.k. equivalent to american ghettos council states with high levels of economic disadvantage and often blighted by high crime rates but there's a new sort of sink estate in the u.k. and it's not in peckham harleston or gospel oak and though this sink estate is right here in the city of london this moral sink estate is also nurtured by the government dole but rather than locking in high levels of economic disadvantage this think a state is plagued by intergenerational economic advantage and instead of being impossible for the residents to succeed it is impossible for the residents of this banking sink a state to fail and where the sink estates for the poor are nearly impossible to escape this banker sink estate is almost impossible to end.