tonight torture sexual abuse and vicious beating damning dossier claiming widespread abuse by british troops of hundreds of iraqi detainees is handed to the war crimes tribunals. poking through the violence it just shouldn't say deciding on their next constitution and meet fierce clashes with police its critics was that a yes result will give a man's power to the army and. so we. should. lose the good man it's no laughing matter for francois right now he's trying to convince the country's got a grip on from says figures even those economic relaunch has been overshadowed by a fair allegation.

even for me kevin owen here r t tonight it's eight pm in the russian capital a top story that our 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.k. fighting tooth and claw though to keep out of the tribunal as a london correspondent polevoy carrick's planes. 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 dossier 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 civilians to parry is consciously 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 pair 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 ali boy k r t london. well the dos is the most detailed document ever submitted to the international criminal court regarding alleged war crimes by british forces some of the her intestines it contains already been made public among the abuses reported who digs beatings electrocution various types of sexual humiliation even rape in some cases family members of some inmates who were also allegedly threatened by british troops in at least one case actually harm to well when one man went on to describe how after beating him severely the soldiers brought him his eight year old son and hit him another witness alleges that during interrogation soldiers threatened to rape

his sister and the rest is elderly parents then the front 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 acts which are. 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've documented many more cases than were submitted before to the international criminal court or to other courts. it's now is 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 there are still hardly any prosecutions in the country so now it's simply

the time that international courts have to step in. but as you mentioned it's not the first major attempt to get the u.k. forces to for alleged iraq war abuses and i read about a previous inquiry into allegations that british soldiers told should take these mutilated the corpses of killed iraqis and the reaction that got them from. voting in egypt for yet another constitutions be 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 streets the massive deployments failing to prevent attacks from skirmishes just before polling stations opened a bomb went off in a cairo court house luckily no one was injured there opponents of the latest constitution claim that the document will cement the power of the military backed interim government well true reports next of the challenges are perils facing huge

its latest less than a democracy. there was a bomb blast here in the capital in an area called a bad back at a courtroom there were. 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 and protest against the razor for random. descended into street battles with the police this also have been violence and when we've also had reports of the bigger outbreak of street clashes between security forces and muslim 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 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 terms 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. well true reporting if we stay in touch with developments as they happen on twitter i spoke earlier to what i ask and there is a journalist working out of cairo he told us that yes vote will hand absolutely go immediately to the army although there are a lot of egyptians that are really pro this constitution 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 they were people want them back or not. general sisi 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 to see that even if there is a democratic president as long as the army is in power and they have that much power and autonomy that they can choose pick and choose who stays on and who leaves and i don't think the const the next constitution addresses that. coming up on the program very soon organic farmers in the u.s. of again found themselves helpless against the g.m. giant monsanto america's highest court now says it won't protect them from being sued over prop copyright even have inadvertently been so is nonstandard seed we talk about that just bit later in the program plus to the point this previous c. invasion we tell you about the independent study that reveals the n.s.a.'s real terror efficiency was significantly exaggerated by the white house. right now the president alone is trying to explain himself to the mast media in the country bird even though it says more personal domestic problems that some

everyone's minds they're the beleaguered french leaders aim is to convince people that he's got so steer on the country's debt ridden sluggish economy. next on front lawns headaches. so that that is why i have not done this video clip mox consol ons tax policies which are among the major reason this has become the least popular president in france as more than history you know you couldn't hold out here we're told to watch more food together with belgium france is tax grab is the highest in the euro zone you don't want to pay so much where for . the last two years french. taxes well then two thirds of the country's population is clear taxes aren't so so right 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 can to provide jobs for others and i can 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 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 effect if you have a good. usually known for very optimistic speech in his new year address the concert went on that sounded rather concerned a piece of evolution the economic crisis turned out to be longer and deeper than we could have predicted that will begin to please the socialist leader pledged some to a liberal changes such as cutting labor costs and public spending making people talk about a new all 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 riff nationality from france. were turned very soon to gauge the prospects were rather to taking part in the long awaited syria pace talk in

a week's time out loud comment on that shortly. there's a media leave us so we leave that maybe. i will see bush and security at the party is an. issue is that no one is asking with the gas that you deserve answers from it's all on politicking only on arctic.

pm here in moscow now britain america's patience with the syrian opposition members seems to be wearing thin they vote for them to rethink their support if it's main function side against attending next week's geneva peace talks and another potential player in the region to his participation is in the area ran with russia at the u.n. urging to runs presence but then washington sending mixed signals later yesterday so well this on the prospects for it hillary mann leverett some a lot an expert on iran and us foreign policy issues in washington either thanks to take the time to be with us from the u.n. secretary general just reiterated his support for

a big there he thinks they could be a key player surely that's enough to get them there isn't it all not. well unfortunately at this point it's not at this point both russia and the united states have essentially power on who may attend on which delegates may tenth delegations may attend russia's and the united states. that's right but the united states is not so at this point the united states is blocking iran's participation so will what was the. most of what was the problem. well i don't know if he would he messed up i think what it demonstrates is a real incoherence in strategy and policy coming out of washington out of london out of paris which seeks to somehow not just have a negotiation but to have essentially a table where syria just comes to surrender and that's not something serious going to do that's not something iran is going to support i don't think that's something

that russia or the vast majority of countries around the world would support but that is essentially what washington london and paris are trying to do but it ends up being incoherent because it's just not possible but we've heard the significant u.s. run relations as big good progress between them of the nuclear program was washington so hesitant so we'll have to run on syria. it's very very strange you know i worked when i was when i was at the white house and the state department with the u.s. government i negotiated with the current iranian foreign minister mohammad zarif over afghanistan we negotiated with the iranians with the russians very effectively to deal with the taliban in afghanistan so there's a real track record of the united states being able to work with with iran and with russia on a really difficult problem it doesn't make sense that the united states doesn't want to solicit and work with solicit iran's participation and work with iran on this issue except that iran america's so-called allies particularly in saudi

arabia and others in the gulf don't really want to see that iran's participation there because they don't want to be able to consolidate his authority in his country well let's look at the practical sort of this what kind of bring to the podium so-to speak. iran brings not only a deep longstanding relationship with the sitting government in syria the government of bashar al assad but it also brings an ability to work with countries around around syria as well it has a very good solid relationship with the current government in iraq the iranian foreign minister has a good working relationship with the turkish foreign minister and turkey has been heavily involved in the conflict in syria right now the iranian foreign minister is doing a regional twar visit to all of the countries surrounding syria to turkey to iraq to lebanon to jordan the iranian foreign minister is very very active is very

focused on using international law and conflict resolution to actually come to a political solution to a range of issues especially on syria so that's that's something credibly important because there is no military solution to the problem in syria you can't kill the assad government you can't kill all those who support it there is no military solution so if we want to have a political solution if we want to stop the killing if we want to stop the spread of radical jihadi terror throughout the middle east and even beyond the middle east then we need a political solution and that means we need iran at the table so what is your prognosis how this is going to pan a. there is an inevitability i think to iran's participation because there is no military solution i've been saying this though unfortunately for three years and over one hundred thirty thousand dead syrians later now

washington as you know in some ways is trying to think about whether or not maybe in some way shape or form iran could help maybe from the sidelines now that's not good enough but it's progress i just hope it doesn't take another three years another hundred thousand syrians before we come to you know come to reality come to some sort of sanity and work with iran and the key players for a political solution. they're all through an expert on iran live from washington thank you very much assumes the national security agency's a story she would spread surveillance became public knowledge that the defendant for preventing numerous terrorist plots did that but it seems that is not the case why alone would have put my husband 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 overheard it courtesy of the national security agency and i say

chief general keith alexander claimed metadata collection has thwarted fears 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 an 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 have 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 nile r.t. . reporting on law and in britain go on the cover and you can go over the limit it seems on a website i discover how to spot you need to speed to get a green light to put the pedal to the metal. also to the first potion of american journalist from russia since the cold war we've got that story to find out what prompted moscow to ban david south of the country. genetically modified food monsanto's one of the 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 the fields been inadvertently contaminated with monsanto materials were written about g.m.o. he says the company's terrorizing farmers. the implications of this are huge because first of all monsanto lied in that statement to the supreme court the law it brazenly by saying they never heard 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 a bit example of 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 mob field across to. nominate sort of feel that says ok you know you have to ok so relatively easy to get in trouble that for someone sometimes public image is arguably among the worst in the world in fact let's take a look at why research is point the dozens of health risk connectivity netaji

modified food including tumours and premature deaths in animal tests that they carried out this is prompted a campaign for g.m.o. products to be clearly labeled but monsanto is refusing to do that still the company also setting aside millions of dollars every year to lobby for its interests in fact has become the world's single biggest seed producer. more the world's top stories now thailand's prime minister should award insists that she will not step down unless despite a second day of mass protests to try and bring bangkok to a standstill tens of thousands of demonstrators of our own to tighten the 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 the vein of angrily fighting back over construction plans which they're saying will price poor people out of their homes police arrested several people of berg awesome it clashes which saw some protests to start fires because of

a proposed new boulevard in luxury housing development a similar rally at the weekend led to twenty three people being detained after shops banks were vandalized. reports coming in saying that security forces in bahrain a vandalized the shiites widely during monday's anti-government protests the goldfinger's main opposition party says the attack shows leader's animosity toward its people since the beginning of the uprising in twenty eleven around forty religious sites are said to be targeted by security forces. over two hundred people fleeing the violence in south sudan who drowned after the ferry sank in the white nile river and is thought that boat was overloaded at the time meantime the army's repelling attacks from rebels trying to take over the key city in the all producing state heavy fighting is also continuing near the town of bor to the largest rebel controlled area. maxes tayseer next with one eye on the corporate pickpockets

prowling the city of london next update from us for news update thirty three minutes time. because you know it states is the big dog the all. 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 a 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 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 fill and where is the sink estates for the poor are nearly impossible to escape.