torture sexual abuse and vicious beating to downing the das here claiming widespread abuse by british troops of hundreds of iraqi detainees is handed to the war crimes tribunal. voting through violence gyptian jury deciding on their own next constitution amid fears clashes with police as critics warned that a yes result will give immense power to the army and. serves a pretty good movie show the third about food that's the good but. it's no laughing matter for francois londe babbling claims of being an indiscreet cheat while the rest of the country wants to know whether he's finally going to fix france's flaccid finances.

which are again a national coming to you live from moscow i'm marina josh welcome to the program a senior british politicians and military figures could become targets for the international criminal court for alleged war crimes committed by the country's troops and iraq two hundred fifty pages describing the white spread abuse of detainees amounting to torture has been handed to the hague case fighting tooth and nail to keep out of the tribunals our london correspondent polly boyko explains. up until now the international criminal court at the hague had mostly tried to 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 assault committed by u.k. forces and according to the all says 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 cools 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 their report 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 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 a sitting head of state of kenya and the other the former head of state of cold d'ivoire they're both on trial at the international criminal court not for getting their hands bloody they didn't do anything themselves but people under their authority or people they should have controlled were committing the crimes so if it's good enough for the african countries 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 ali boy azzi london. the dot is the most detailed document adverse submitted to the international criminal court regarding alleged war crimes by british forces and some of the harrowing testimonies that contains have already been made public while among the abuses reported are hooting beatings electrocutions various types of sexual humiliation and even rape family members of some of inmates were also allegedly threatened by british troops and in at least one case actually harm one man described how after beating him severely the soldiers brought in he's eight year old son and had him another witness alleges that during interrogation soldiers

threatened to rape his sister and arrest his elderly parents lands in france spoke to legal adviser with one of the groups behind a report about their findings. evidence shows that it's not only about individual single cases and incidents it's really a systematic pattern of reparative. finding in our report or a communication to the i.c.c. it's mars and single isolated incidents ok there have been a number of attempts to bring the u.k. military to account for its actions in iraq none of worked what makes you think this will fare any different what we documented many more cases than were submitted before to the international criminal court or to oslo accords. it's now is a time because the u.k. had ten years to investigate to prosecute the direct perpetrators but also the higher ups. in the u.k. ten years. of prosecutions in the country so now it's simply the time

that the international courts have to step in. wasn't mentioned it's not the first major attempt to get the u.k.'s armed forces to answer for alleged iraq war abuses are teed up on that read about the previous inquiry into allegations that british soldiers torture detainees and mutilated the corpses of killed in iraq and the reaction it got from officials. as a voting age of for yet another constitution is being marred by deadly violence with at least one person killed in clashes with police south of the capital security is intense with more than two hundred thousand police officers on the streets but the massive deployment failing to prevent attacks and skirmishes just before polling stations opened a bomb went off in cairo courthouse luckily no one was injured opponents of the latest constitution claim the document will cement the power of the military backed

interim government belcher reports on the challenges and perils facing age of slater's lesson in democracy. there was a bomb blast here in the capital in. in an area called the it's a court room that was supposed to house all the ballots about particular area by the end of the day the explosion was so large that it managed to break the windows of the buildings adjacent to it however no one was injured nonetheless we have violence break up across the country in particular by the suite which is an office in egypt where we just heard that the brotherhood supporters and supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsi had taken to the streets and protest against the razor for random. descended into street battles with the police now we've heard that one protester has been killed in that particular instance and still bubbling on this also you've been violence and when we've also had reports of a big an outbreak of street clashes between security forces and muslim brotherhood supporters and mohamed morsy supporters often on xandra as well so it really is

a very targeted day for the. day of this referendum and people here in egypt speaking to them they tell me they think it's going to get worse when you go into the streets at the moment it seems to be overwhelmingly people are looking for a yes but there still is quite a hard core group of people who are saying either no to the constitution or boycotting the people that have worried about this constitution say that it will only cement military powers over the next civilian president there are a few articles there in the constitution which basically say that military trials to trials for civilians will be allowed which allows the minute to control that little bit of the judiciary in addition which is the key change here the defense minister which at the moment is the de facto leader lead story general of the fatah sisi his position will be protected for the next two times of the president's office this is because the supreme council the armed forces will be allowed to say in the appointment say that's a big change that in addition the military budget will still remain secrets this is a point of contention for a lot of activists and revolutionaries as well as human rights organizations who

want to know what egypt's military who are currently running this country and spending their money on top of the supporters of mohamed morsi just say the whole situation is illegitimate mohamed morsi they say is still president and therefore this constitution is not and void as his constitution two thousand and twelve should be in place while it's going to our journalists working out of cairo believes a yes vote will hand absolute legal immunity to the army. although there are a lot of addictions 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 cost situation itself but on a plethora of other factors including the muslim brotherhood whether the people want them back for another. general. sisi whether people want him as president or not and then 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 about much power and autonomy they can choose pick and choose who stays on and who leaves and i don't think the the next constitution addresses that organic farmers in the u.s. have gained and they have again found themselves helpless against the g.m. giant. america's highest court protect them from being sued over crop copyright even if they've accidentally been so when santa's seeds the details on that later in the program here on our team plus the pointless privacy invasion which tell you about an independent study that reveals how the nics real anti-terrorist efficiency was significantly exaggerated by the white house. that is if the french president didn't have enough on his mind this week over his alleged affair with an

actress there are demands to problems war official nature is going to answer for if he's to keep his new year's resolution to revive the country's debt have a sluggish economy. reports now in front of all loans headaches. think so just like this way better than this video clip mocks consol announced tax policies which are among the major reasons he's become the least popular president in france as more than history you know you can move the team or talk too much more together with belgium that france's tax grab is the highest in the eurozone nothing to do but so much where. the last two is french i'll have to assume your taxes whether two thirds of the country's population is clear cut so i don't suffer while eighty percent of the president's economic policy is misguided and inefficient gianluca is among those eighty percent and entrepreneur he was foolish to close his

business down after taxes became too big to bear to sell second if you're sick this is a vicious circle 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 it is like everything falls apart. the current taxation policy was part of the finance 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 all those table recently is 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 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 or rule taxes big game have to have a usually known for very optimistic speech in his new year address const what went on sounded rather concerned. the economic crisis turned out to be longer and deeper than we could have predicted. this is actually sleeve there are pledged some true liberal changes such as cutting labor costs and public spending making people talk about a new on loaned and new over the country's recovery but critics are still vocal as they say or long as plan is short on details and some are afraid it could simply be too little too late. from france. well more world news now from our to international in just a few moments ago. the.

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that's not the case by a long way as marina for now has been discovering. 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 a bit courtesy of the national security agency and i say chief general keith alexander claimed metadata collection has toward it the four different terrorism related activities post nine eleven now unfortunately for the white house a new 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 and that 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 the cables themselves so as. they 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 ring up or nile r.t. in britain soon go on a car and you can go over the limits on our website right now discover how spies we need to speed are getting the green light to put the pedal to the metal. and fukushima's contaminated catch scientists discover that fish near the crippled nuclear site contain radiation levels which are down to leave for humans.

and yet only modified food giant monsanto has won another battle against american farmers the u.s. supreme court says the firm can sue or downing growers if they use its lab engineered crops even if their fields have been inadvertently contaminated with monsanto materials well mandela has written about and g.m.o. and he says the company is terrorizing farmers. the implications of this are huge because first of all monsanto lied and that statement and the supreme court made a law it brazenly by saying they never had it never will sue farmers for you know as the term is inverted. contamination of their fields but they have sued cause

farmers percy schmeiser a farmer and cattle is that is an example of that but the monsanto has a team of lawyers that go out and terrorize farmers in the us and canada when the wind blows the seeds from a field across to a lot of field and says ok you know you have to pay now for salmon sand his public image is arguably among the worst in the world and let's take a look at why well researchers point to the dozens of health risks connected with genetically modified food including tumours and premature deaths in animal tests and this has prompted a campaign for g.m.o. products to be clearly labeled but monsanto refuses to do that the company is also setting aside millions of dollars each year to lobby for its interest and has become the world's single biggest seed producer. thailand's prime minister shinawatra insists she will not step down despite a second day of mass protest in bangkok tens of thousands of demonstrators are

vowing to tighten their blockade of main roads and government buildings while radical demonstrators are thought to be planning to storm the stock exchange the opposition accuses shinawatra trying to get her brother off corruption charges and put him back in power right now you're looking at live pictures coming out of thailand. and reports say security forces in bahrain have battle why is a shiite shrine during monday's anti-government protests called came to main opposition party says the attack shows leaders animosity towards the people this is the beginning of the uprising in two thousand and eleven around forty religious sites are said to have been targeted by security forces. over two hundred people fleeing the violence in south sudan have drowned when their ferry sank in the white nile river it's thought the boat was overloaded meanwhile the

army is repel the attacks from rebels trying to take over the key city in the oil producing upper nile state heavy fighting is also continuing near the town of bor the largest under rebel control. now imagine being an alien in your own country it's the reality for nearly three hundred thousand people living in the small bowl the country of labia many of whom were born there as worthier parents but all are considered non-citizens postcards been speaking to some of them about what it's like when birthright means having fewer rights. you got a new meaning but at the moment non-citizens have limited rights and we can't vote can't occupy government positions or be policeman or lawyers in november alexander invited un secretary-general ban ki moon to latvia for

a congress on the issue the invite was politely declined you know you are 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 tests noncitizens on their knowledge of latvian 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 feel for the country too you know incidents to finally move on further because we always look back into history who are trying to go further. into european union insecurities own song 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 postcards r.t. latvia. the next day sarah here next with one eye on the corporate pickpockets

prowling the city. because you don't states is the big dog the only hyper power and the cultural driving force of globalization it takes a lot of flak i mean hey globalization means the whole world gets hollywood and hot dogs and not the other way around so let's take a break from the negativity and talk about something truly amazing about america and as a guy who lives in moscow i could say that the constitution of the united states is something truly amazing in russia there is constant talk about needing a new national idea new ideology or political theory or big changes to the russian constitution and so on and it's hard for people in america understand this but

twice in the twentieth century the system that russians gave their lives for collapsed and the current constitution was written quickly after a period of violence and said collapse not after glorious victory now you see why people here aren't exactly memorizing amendments and founding fathers quotes here in america there are debates between liberals and conservatives but almost everyone believes the constitution and it is america's greatest strength there is a national idea that is a sacred document with a list of rules as almost universally agreed upon everyone with half a brain on the street but sadly not in congress knows when something is against the constitution or should i see against america near universal belief in the constitution is actually something truly exceptional about america but that's just my opinion.

welcome to the cut as a 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 is the sink estates for the poor are nearly impossible to escape this banker sink estate is almost impossible to enter but unlike the impoverished sink estate the enriched moral sink estate is always a no go area of high crime where your pockets will definitely be picked your savings month and your pension stolen oh stacey when we going. where here this is the city of london the more i think estate right here outside this office well of course you know the sort of high crime rate areas they often have one gangster thug who runs it all and the gangster thug the moral sink estate that is our banking establishment now we know j.p. morgan chase is worse than enron it's beginning to look as if j.p. morgan chase has had a hand in every major banking scandal of the last decade in fact it's the selling of wall street crime take a snapshot.