torture sexual abuse and vicious beatings a damning das here claiming widespread abuse by british troops of hundreds of the rocky detainees is handed to the war crimes tribunal. holding through the violence egyptians are deciding on their next cause of tuition amid fears clashes with police as critics warn that a yes result will give immense power to the army and. so rebuild but amazing that showed that about the good bad it's no laughing matter for francois long babbling claims of being an indiscreet cheat while the rest of the country wants to know whether it is finally going to fix france's flaccid finances .

this is our senior national coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshing now 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 have been handed to the hague the u. case fighting tooth and nail to keep out of a tribunals 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. my zation of british law

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 they're put says that british military commanders knew that their forces were committing war crimes and moreover that this civilians to parry is consciously ignored such information at their disposal but the u.k.'s 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 called 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. artsy london dossier 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 and among the abuses reported are hooting beatings electrocutions 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 braun and his eight year old son and him another witness alleges that during interrogation soldiers threatened to rape his sister and the rest his

elderly parents lives in france spoke to a legal advisor with one of the groups behind the 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 which will cure it and that's the finding in our report or 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 not all the 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 that country so now it's simply the time.

that international courts have to step in. and the lindsay mentioned it's not the first major attempt to get the case armed forces to answer for alleged iraq war abuses on our t. dot com read about a previous inquiry into allegations of british soldiers torturing detainees and mutilated corpses of killed iraq the reaction it got from officials. the voting in egypt for yet another constitution is being marred by deadly violence with the muslim brotherhood claiming that at least six people have been killed in clashes with police south of the capital security is intense with more than two hundred thousand police officers on the street with a massive deployment failing to prevent attacks and skirmishes just before polling stations opened a bomb went off and a cairo court house luckily no one was injured opponents of the latest constitution claim the document will cement the power of military backed interim government

belcher reports on the challenges perils facing egypt's latest lesson in democracy . there was a bomb blast here in the capital 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 none the less we have had violent break up across the country in particular betty suite which is an office in egypt where we just heard that the brotherhood supporters and supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsy had taken to the streets and protest against the razor for random. descended into street battles with the police is also you've been violence in the way and we've also had reports of the big outbreak of street clashes between security forces and mizzen brotherhood supporters and mohamed morsy supporters up and down 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 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 you 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 null and void as his constitution two thousand and twelve should be in place. belcher aborning from car there well don't forget you can stay in touch with bell who's got the developments as they happen on twitter and we spoke to was can do are journalists working out of cairo who told us that 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 not. general sisi but that sisi whether people want him this 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 the next constitution addresses that. organic farmers in the u.s. have again found themselves helpless against the g.m. giant monsanto america's highest court protect them from being sued over copyright even if they inadvertently even so when when sam to see the details on that later in the program. what's the point less privacy invasion we tell you about an independent study that reveals how the n.s.a. is real and a terror efficiency was significantly exaggerated by the white house. to

french president didn't have enough on his mind this week over his alleged affair with an actress well there are domestic problems of a more official nature it's got to answer for if he's to keep his new year's resolution to revive a country's debt have a sluggish economy or even now on francois lines headaches. thank you so just like this why i have not done this video clip mocks consol ons tax policies which are among the major reason this has become the least popular president in france as more than history oh you couldn't hold ultima talk too much more together with belgium and france as tax grab is the highest in the eurozone you don't want to do pay so much where for. the last two years one child had to go tot says the other two thirds of the country's population feels top so i don't sell so right eighty percent of the president's economic policy 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 a second if you're sick 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 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 of 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 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 game having to have a the. usually known for very optimistic speeches in his new year address. sounded rather concerned. the economic crisis turned out to be longer and deeper than we could have predicted that. the socialist leader pledged some too 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 longs plan is short on details and some are afraid it could simply be too little too late rafe nationality from france we return very soon to meet the

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it's all here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks about specific ip interviews intriguing stories for you. in trying. to find out more visit our big don't know it's called. prevails sleep peace keepers for our president our concerns with monitoring peace deals in a post conflict environment nowadays there are increasingly asked to operate in a high risk obama while believe violence is still illegal to stay. motionless with these people has caused over almost twenty years four million people killed millions of displaced and refugees tens of thousands of women raped tens of thousands of children recruited those soldiers who are all slaves no.

welcome back this is r.t. international now as soon as the national security agency is astonishingly widespread surveillance became public knowledge the white house left to defang it for preventing numerous terrorist plots but it seems that's not the case by a long way as very important has been discovery. 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 day for 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. and britain is soon to go under cover and you can go over the limit on our website right now discover how guys who need to speed are getting the green light to put

the pedal to the metal plus the first six string all american journalists from russia since the cold war find out what prompted moscow to ban david satter from the country. genetically modified food giant when santo has won another battle against american farmers the u.s. supreme court says the firm can sue or getting growers if they use its lab engineered crops even if their fields have been inadvertently contaminated with monsanto materials well a man dollar has written about g.m.o. and he says the company is terrorizing farmers the implications of this are huge

because first of all monsanto lied in that statement and the supreme court made a law brazenly by saying they never had it never will sue farmers for inadvertant as the term is inverting. contamination of their fields but they have sued countless farmers percy schmeiser a farmer and cattle that is it is an example of 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 common sort of feel that says ok you know you have to pay for some one town's as public image is arguably among the worst in the world let's now take a look at why all researchers point to the dozens of health risks connected with genetically modified food including tumours and premature deaths in animal tests 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. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and thailand's prime minister shinawatra insists she will not step down that's despite a second day of mass protests try and bring bangkok to standstill kenza thousands of demonstrators are throwing 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. residents of a town in northern spain have been angrily fighting bad over construction plans which they say will price poor people out of their homes police arrested several people in the border awesome it clashes which saw some protesters start fires because of a proposed a new boulevard in luxury housing development similar rally at the weekend and led

to twenty three people being detained after shops and banks were vandalized. ports a security forces in bahrain have vandalized a shiite shrine during monday's anti-government protest the gulf kingdom's main opposition party says the attack shows leaders animosity towards the people and 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 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 repelling 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. imagine being an alien in your own country well it's the reality for nearly three hundred thousand people living in the small ball

the country of labia many of whom were born there as were the your parents but all are considered non-citizens have been speaking. just some of them about what it's like when birthright means having fewer rights and you guys winning immunity but are of the moments 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 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 it doesn't you feel a bit the bands and insults it the process of naturalisation the tests noncitizens on the knowledge of not the in history culture and language many feel they're hostages to history claiming the latvian government and 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 kill an 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. and so european union insecurities own saw it 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 to say they're prepared to take their case step by step pull scott's oxy latvia all or regulus at next nineteen or national to explore internet freedom and media efforts to airbrush legacy of the latest really prime minister ariel sharon. 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. does the union 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 legal yes when you bareback with the internet you bareback literally brothers. trivia sleep peacekeepers for our president our concerns with monitoring peace deals in that post conflict environment nowadays there are increasingly asked to operate in a high risk obama while the only violence is still illegal are we to stay. motionless with these people who has caused over almost twenty years four million people killed millions of displaced and refugees tens of thousands of women raped

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january eleventh marked the one year anniversary of the death of one of those brilliant innovators of our time aaron swartz and was a computer prodigy an internet activist who tragically took his own life at the age of twenty six c. aaron was facing thirty five years behind bars and was the subject of a merciless which by the department of justice for the crime of releasing information the footage that your scene shows aaron and during an mit electrical closet and download millions of academic articles from the online service. j. store which he intended to release for free this video was used against him by prosecutors who felt he deserved more jail time than murderers and rapists so why did swartz do it well he didn't care about making himself wealthy from uploading the files he cared to start about internet freedom civil liberties and making information accessible to everyone a spy of their academic or financial background considering the odds stacked against him tragically it seemed death was the only way out and his suicide was the

result of a two tiered justice system that puts profit over knowledge rest in peace erin now let's break the cycle. the cause of the sleep or the games they are the very hard to take out a little girl to get along well you better had sex with her right there are those. that are like. the two the little. little. little. a little. clip.