tonight torture sexual abuse and vicious beatings the damning dossier claiming widespread abuse by british troops of hundreds of iraqi detainees is handed to the war crimes tribunal. so the pointless privacy invasion an independent study reveals the n.s.a.'s real anti terror of fish and sea was significantly exaggerated by the white house. through suggestions of deciding on the next comes to fierce clashes with police as critics warn that yes result will further empower the army and. so we. should. look at that it's no laughing matter for

francois and fresh just now out of a three faceoff with journalist the french president dodged told by the secret romance will try to relaunch his plan fix the country's flag finance. tonight just past eleven pm in the scope first then 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 that keep out of that tribunal as our london correspondent 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 also as of this report the finger of blame extends to the very heart of the british government at the time so the head of the british army the former defense secretary and the former defense minister could face prosecution for what this 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 violence there of course says that british military commanders knew that their forces were committing war crimes and moreover that their civilians to perry as 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 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 control or 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 dossier is the most detailed document ever submitted to the international criminal court regarding alleged war crimes by british forces somehow interest music contains have already been made public among the abuses reported holdings beatings electrocutions various types of sexual humiliation even rape as well

family members of some inmates were also allegedly threatened by british troops and in at least one case actually harmed one man one of the scribe after beating him severely how soldiers brought in his eight year old son and then hit him to another witness alleges that during interrogation soldiers threatened to rape his sister and the rest is elderly parents. well in ten minutes we're going to discuss the allegations and the bid for a war crimes investigation with british m.p. jeremy called will be on the line with us so you can stay with us for that. since the national security agency's astonishingly widespread surveillance became public knowledge the white house let to defend it for preventing numerous terrorist plots but it seems that's not entirely the case by a long way as murder portnoy has been finding out. 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 thwarted if 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 marine up or down r.t. . as if the french president didn't have enough in his mind this week of his alleged affair with an actress a room full of prying press failed to get to reveal anything about his private life indeed instead spent a few hours trying to convince them about other vital statistics though that he's on the right track to reviving from says sluggish economy instead riff an option a no on from small arms domestic difficulties. so just like this one had 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 you know you couldn't hold ultima thule to much more together with belgium france is tax grab is the highest in the euro zone don't want to do

that so much where for. the last two hours french i was able to talk so well and two thirds of the country's population is clear cut so i don't write a two person with 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. this is a vicious circle my business has stopped working which means i cannot provide jobs for others and i can pay taxes to my country to help its development its like everything falls apart right up to the current taxation policy was part of the 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 out of new rule or rule taxes big game having to have a usually known for very optimistic speech in his new year address const what went wrong sounded rather concerned ok severely 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 all around and new hopes of the country's recovery but critics are still

vocal as they say plan is short on details and some are afraid it could simply be too little too late reflection r.t. from france. coming up in the program organic farmers in the u.s. again firm sells helpless against the. america's high court says it will protect them from being sued over crop copyright even if given advertently been sold monsanto sings we've got that story coming very soon and also to an expert opinion about why washington so reluctant to see around among the participants of the long awaited severe peace talks in a week's time. but next day one of voting in egypt for yet another constitutions be marred by deadly violence with eleven people killed in clashes between muslim brotherhood supporters and the police security is intense with more than two hundred thousand police officers on the streets with a massive deployment fails to prevent attacks and skirmishes just before polling

stations open a bomb went off in a cairo kauto slightly more message at the opponents of the latest constitution turn the document will submit the power of the military backed interim government voted to continue tomorrow well true reports next on the challenges and perils facing egypt's latest lesson in democracy. there was a bomb blast here in the capital in an area called at 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 had violence break up across the country in particular benes week which is an opposite egypt where we just heard that the brotherhood supporters and supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsy had taken to the streets in protest against the razor friend and that descended into street battles with the police there's also been violence and when we've also had reports of the big outbreak of street clashes

between security forces and mizzen brotherhood supporters and mohamed morsy supporters up in alexandria as well so really it's a very targeted day for the first day of this referendum and people here in egypt speaking to them they tell me they think it's going to get worse. yes 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 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 leader sorry general abdel 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 a say in the appointments and that's

a big change that in addition the military budget will also 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 is spending their money on on top of that so 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 in void as his constitution two thousand and twelve should be in place. true the report from car earlier spoke to an expert on these lovely movements he claims the proposed constitution only serves the interests of the corrupt political powers. this constitution represents the interests of those who were disaffected by the twenty five january two thousand and eleven revolution in egypt it's mainly the military and the corrupt business community associated with the military and some of those who lost in every single election that was conducted fairly since the ousting of president mubarak of the

defunct regime and therefore this constitution is a just a one in a series of measures that are considered from purely legal point of view to be illegal and illegitimate and many of the people who are probably all the people who go to the polling stations today will have to vote yes because those who were intending to vote no had already been intimidated and some to me to prevent and they are only this is a international live from moscow news continues with me kevin i went out after this quick break.

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logan seems britain america's patience for the syrian opposition members is wearing thin they're threatening now to rethink their support if its main faction decides against attending next week's geneva peace talks another potential player in the region is participations and here too is a ran with russia and the u.n. urging tehran's presence but washington is still sending mixed signals about that spoke to hillary mann leverett she's an expert on iran and u.s. foreign policy says policy she says if washington truly wanted to solve the syrian crisis it would take a different approach. 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 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 java as the reef 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 iran's participation and work with iran on this issue because stories could look like small you want to check them out online or to go call me britain soon seems you can go in the cupboard get over the limit on a website so discover how spa you soon need to speed to get in the green like to put the pedal to the metal plus to the first expulsion of americans from russia since the cold war but it will prompted moscow to day you get something from the country.

a top story now the international criminal court considering allegations of systematic war crimes committed by british troops against a rocky detainees in the war there let's go live to love the british and. party m.p. jeremy corbin joining us jere good evening to you foreign secretary hague or wants this bid to the i.c.c. rejected disney saying quote these allegations are either under investigation already or have been dealt with in a variety of ways have they been dealt with do you think sufficiently. there's been some internal investigations of the behavior of some british soldiers some events during iraq and in also in afghanistan what mr hague seems to forget is that

britain is a full signatory to the international criminal court and therefore we must abide by its rules and laws just as any other full signatory has however uncomfortable that might be obviously all soldiers are innocent until proven guilty and an investigation must take place and if there is evidence then there will be a case proceeding against individuals either for individual acts of torture or for collective acts of torture or for those that were in command at the time and whether any such order was given about the treatment of individual date detainees during the conflicts i mean do you believe military political leaders over a decade ago were aware of any alleged systematic abuse going on. there were many stories at the time of the treatment of individual prisoners and some have managed to bring cases the courts in the u.k. of allegations of mistreatment of detainees so it's not as if these things are

completely unexpected they have been around for some time but when one reads of the allegations of invade the treatment of individuals coupled with the biggest issue of the treatment of people of back room air bases in afghanistan after the invasion in two thousand and one and of course going to have a mobile one looks at a whole vista of abuse of human rights the whole point of the international criminal court was to make governments and military forces accountable for their actions in order to prevent this kind of thing happening in the future do you think we're going to see any senior figures brought to book know that it's gone to the i.c.c. . well we're in quite an early stage in the i.c.c. prosy. but a number of very prominent individuals have been named including former ministers as well as obviously senior figures in the armed forces and quite obviously if the case goes ahead and accusations of made then they will no doubt be invited to come

to the court to give evidence and they may wish to give evidence in their own defense but i just think the whole thing is unraveling about the policies pursued by the west particularly in both afghanistan and iraq you cannot lecture the world about human rights if you don't selves wish to abide by the rules that have been placed before a spy the rome statute on the international criminal court britain signed up for and i was very pleased when britain did the supported it in the house of commons at the time and so we'll have to see what happens is very sensitive that they exhibit rather reluctant to take this whole case on. there is a constant refrain that one hears that the international criminal court takes on cases that don't affect north american and european governments were couldn't affect the u.s. so not a signatory anyway and that they're much keener on going after africa because it's

all or it milosevic in the case. in the case of yugoslavia and so i think it's important that the i.c.c. recognize it has a global role it is a worldwide statute and it should be followed by all signatories to it including european governments german corben thank you for your time. 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 their fields are bit vertically contaminated with monsanto materials we have 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 of the supreme court the law brazenly by saying they never ever will sue farmers for inadvertant as the term is inadvertent. contamination of their fields but they have sued countless farmers

percy schmeiser farmer and canada is a bit example of that monsanto has a team of lawyers that go out and terrorize farmers in the us and canada when the wind blows the seeds from that field across two. months out of fuel that says ok you know you have to. offer someone centers public image is arguably among the worst in the world is to look at why they should wait searches point to the dozens of health risk connectivity nestle modified food including tumors and premature deaths in animals tested that's prompted a campaign for g.m.o. products to be clearly labeled but so far monsanto is refused to do that the company's also setting aside millions of dollars every year lobby for its interest big p.r. machine here in and as well its never to become the world's single biggest seed producer as a result. some other news now thailand's prime minister and says he will not step

down that's despite a second day of mass protests to try and bring to a standstill tens of thousands of demonstrators are vowing to tighten their blockade the main roads and government buildings are radical demonstrators are thought to be planning to storm the stock exchange the opposition accuses shit i want of trying to get a brother off corruption charges and to put him back in power. the skirmishes in northwestern police moving on to fracking companies several arrests were made at the site in manchester as protesters tried to prevent shale gas drilling over fears for people's health from the environment on monday the problems to attend to the win over local authorities and the public by saying they could keep tax paid by fracking firms. reports say security forces in bahrain a vandalised a shiite strike jury monday's anti-government protests the go kingdom's main opposition party says the attack shows leader's animosity towards the people since the beginning of the uprising in twenty eleven around forty religious sites is said to have been targeted by security forces. two hundred people fleeing the violence

in south sudan and drowned after the ferry sank in the white nile river officials think that boat was overloaded at the time meantime the army's repelling attacks rebels trying to take over the key city in the all producing up and niles state and heavy fighting is also continuing in the town of bor the largest under rebel control. the news that you service said twenty four seven a course at r.t. dot com continually updating for your information pleasure up next after the break max and stacey here with one eye on the corporate pickpockets prowling the city of london maybe i'll see you again in thirty four minutes time. millions around the globe struggle with hunger each day. what if someone

offers a lifetime food supply no charge only in the cherry sub take in the very strong position against g.m.o. and we think that. these genetically modified products are at risk due to. there is no. evidence that there is any problem with genetic engineering would you make a deal. or is free cheese always in a mouse trap i don't believe that. there are three. kinds of pride is profit. for these golden rice monarchy. when you are followed around when you are being investigated because of the whim of someone this is the beginning of the end of your freedom. to ski in and save me keenly intercept american citizens. text messages you know.

where the polls text messages so you trust and see everything without my knowledge actually basically and that's all legal absolutely legal yes when you bareback with the internet your bareback brother. prevails sleep peacekeepers for a president of concerned with monitoring please and those of you that post conflict environment nowadays there are increasingly asked to operate in a high risk of violence while belief system of angels are reduced. motionless with these people who have closed 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 were all slaves no.

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