torture sexual abuse and vicious beating said damning das here claiming widespread abuse by british troops of hundreds of iraqi detainees is handed to the war crimes tribunal. voting through the violence egyptians are deciding on their next constitution amid fierce clashes with police some critics warn that a yes result will give immense power to the army and. the street the gunmen are saying no shows the third if they have to take the good. and it's no laughing matter for francois lawn battling claims of being an indiscreet cheat while the rest of the country wants to know whether he's finally going to fix francis plaques and finances.

fortune hunter national coming to you live from moscow it's five pm here on marina joshing welcome to the program senior british politicians and military figures could become targets for the international criminal court for alleged war crimes committed by the country's troops in iraq two hundred fifty pages describing the widespread abuse of detainees amounting to torture has been headed to the hague the u. case fighting tooth and nail to keep out of the tribunal as our london correspondent pauline 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 stuff cia 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 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 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 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 are people they should have controlled for 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 probably boy k. artsy london. the d'arcy is the most detailed document ever submitted to the international criminal court regarding alleged war crimes by british forces some of the harrowing testimonies it contains have already been made public among the abuses reported are hooting beatings electrocution of various types of sexual humiliation and even rape family members of some inmates were also allegedly threatened by british troops and at least one case actually harmed one man described how after beating him severely the soldiers brought in his eight year old son and hit him another witness alleges that during interrogation soldiers

threatened to rape his sister and the rest his elderly parents when the friend spoke to a legal adviser with one of the groups behind a report about the of findings. evidence shows that it's not only about individual one single case this incident 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. any prosecutions in the country so now it's simply the time.

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

backed interim government belcher reports on the challenges of carroll's facing egypt's latest last in democracy. there was a bomb blast. here in the capital in an area called in that'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 none the less we have had violence break up across the country in particular benes week 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 in protest against the razor friend. turned it into street battles with the police there's also have been violence in the way and we've also had reports of the big an outbreak of street clashes between security forces and muslim brotherhood supporters and mohamed morsy supporters often on xandra as well so really it's 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 i the 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 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 leader sorry 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 null and void as his constitution two thousand and twelve should be in place while it's been there a journalist working out of cairo believes a yes vote will hand absolutely no munity 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 constitution 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 cost of tuition so 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 calls the next constitution addresses that. organic farmers in the us have again found themselves helpless against the g.m. giant monsanto american dischord won't protect them from being sued over croft copyright even if they've accidentally been sewing and sand to seed details and add later in the program here. plus the pointless privacy invasion we'll tell you about an independent study that reveals how the n.s.a. is real and tariff efficiency was significantly exaggerated by the white house. as a french president didn't have enough on his mind this week over his alleged affair

with an actress there are domestic problems of a more official nature he's got to answer for if he's to keep his new year's resolution to revive the country's debt have the sluggish economy now on friends while don's head aches. think so just like this way better than this video clip mocks consol ons tax policies which are among the major reasons his become the least popular president in france as more than history voting couldn't hold all to much more together with belgium france's tax grab is the highest in the eurozone you don't want to do that but something was way ahead for. the last two hours. tops as well and two thirds of the country's population is clear cut so i don't write eighty per cent of the president's economic policy is misguided and inefficient gianluca is among those eighty percent and entrepreneur he was forced

to close his business down after taxes became too big to bear a secular thyca this is a vicious circle my business has stopped working which means i cannot provide jobs for others and i can't pay taxes to my country to help its development it's 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 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 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 of new rules all rules taxes became have to have a usually known for very optimistic speeches in his new year address const what went wrong sounded rather concerned. the economic crisis turned out to be longer and deeper than we could have predicted. the socialist leader pledged some truly liberal changes such as cutting labor costs and public spending making people talk about a new or loaned and new hopes of the country's recovery but critics are still vocal as they say all arms plan is short on details and some are afraid it could simply be too little too late. see from france and it's also a taxing time for hundreds of thousands in libya who aren't officially recognized

in their own country i'll tell you why later this hour here on r.t. international. crosstalk rolls in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want.

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welcome back this is our senior national a soon as the national security agency is astonishingly widespread surveillance became public knowledge the white house leapt to defend it for preventing numerous terrorist plots but it seems that's not the case by a long way as marina fortnight 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 warded 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 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 growing up or ny or r.t. in britain soon to go on to cover and you can go over the limit on our website

right now discover our spies who need to speed are getting the green light to put the paddle to the model. first exposure to an american journalist from russia since the cold war find out what prompted moscow to ban david satter from the country. genetically modified food giant monsanto has won another battle against american farmers the u.s. supreme court says the firm can sue organic growers if they use its lab engineered crops even if their fields have been in a virgin lee contaminated with monsanto materials william and ali has written about g.m.o. man he says the company is terrorizing farmers. the implications of this are

huge because first of all monsanto lied in its statement and the supreme court made a law it brazenly by saying they never had it never will sue farmers for inadvertant as the term is inadvertent. contamination of their fields but they have sued countless farmers percy schmeiser a farmer in canada is it is a good 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 among the field across to a nominal sort of feel that says ok you know you have to pay. for someone sandoz public image is arguably among the worst in the world and let's now take a look at why while researchers spring to the dozens of health risks connected with genetically modified food including tumors and premature deaths in animal tests and this has prompted a campaign for g.m.o. products to be clearly labeled button santa refuses to do that the company is also

setting aside millions of dollars each year to lobby for its interests and has become the world's single biggest seed producer. now some more stories from around the world and thailand's prime minister shinawatra sist she will not step down that's despite a second day of mass protests in bangkok tens of thousands of demonstrators are vowing to tighten their blockade of made 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 bangkok. and reports say security forces and bahrain have vandalized a shiite shrine during monday's anti-government protest the gulf kingdom's main opposition party says the attack shows nearest animosity towards the people since

the beginning of the uprising in two thousand and eleven around forty religious sites are said to have been targeted by security forces. or few hundred people fleeing a violence in south sudan have drowned when their ferry sank in the white nile river and thought the boat was overloaded meanwhile the army is repellent attacks from rebels trying to take over the key city in the oil producing upper nile state having fighting is also continuing near the town of bor the largest under rebel control. an explosion at an illegal gambling site and. southwest china has killed fifteen people and injured seven more officials believe the blast was deliberate and have arrested eight people gambling is largely outlawed in china and venues are often connected with organized crime including trading guns and explosives. imagine being an alien in our own

country it's the reality for nearly three hundred thousand people living in the small baltic country a lot we're many of whom were born there as where their 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. than you knew me but at the moment non-citizens have limited rights 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. 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 gay 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 not it 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 sign if she does that you feel good and if she doesn't feel a bit about it and insults it the process of not you realize ation the tests noncitizens on their knowledge of lobby in history culture and language many feel they're hostages to history claiming the lobby and 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 in simple it's a killing economical life will be very good feel for the country so you know incidents to finally move on further because we always look back into history who are trying to go further. in so european union security zone and so on but we still had its tone but those fighting for their rights acknowledged they have a long way to go before they win the argument as they prepared to take their case step by step pull scott's oxy via and next it's a grain that feeds billions of people and is now at the center of a scandal over tam's to genetically altering coming out golden rice on our team.

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