watching r.t. this morning sexual abuse and vicious beatings and damning dossier claiming widespread abuse by british troops of hundreds of iraqi detainees is handed to the war crimes tribunal. pointless privacy invasion an independent study reveals the n.s.a.'s real anti terror fissions he was significantly exaggerated by the white house. through the violent suggestion deciding on the next constitution with fierce clashes with police his critics more than a yes result will further empower the army and. so we. should think about the good plan it's no laughing matter for a face off with journalists french president dodge told me secret romance trying to

relaunch his plan instead to fix the country's flacid finances. for the morning says r.t. money is kevin and it's just after midnight now here in moscow and our top story this morning. british politicians and military figures could become targets for the international criminal court soon for alleged war crimes committed by the country's troops in iraq two hundred fifty pages describing the widespread abuse of detainees and torture have been handed to the hague yukos fighting tooth and claw to keep out of the tribunal as a london correspondent polly boy carex 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 stuff say calls systemic war crimes there are many hundreds of cases where the people who've been interviewed in the provider group ports about this abuse and it varies from what people might think are. relatively mundine 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 perry as. 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 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. or does is the most detailed document ever submitted to the international criminal court regarding alleged war crimes by british forces some of the how doing testimonies it contains have already made public two of only abuses reported who digs beatings electrocutions various types of sexual humiliation even rape in some cases to. also allegedly threatened by british troops in at least one case actually

one man went on to describe her. beating him severely the soldiers sprawls it is eight year old son and hit him as well another witness testifies that during interrogation soldiers threatened to rape his sister and the rest is elderly parents in the front spoke to a legal adviser with one of the groups behind the report about the findings evidence shows that it's not only about individual and 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 war 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 not as 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 there are still hardly any prosecutions in that country so now it's simply the time that international courts have to step in one of those you mentioned there it is not the first major return to get the forces to once and for alleged right before abuses and as you dot com our site read about a previous inquiry into allegations that british soldiers tortured detainees and butyl into the corpses of people directly as in their reaction that got from official. soon as 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 been important in 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 overheard it courtesy of the national security agency and i say chief general keith alexander claimed metadata collection has thwarted fifty four different terrorism related activities post nine eleven now unfortunately for the white house a new study shows that the numbers they're using well they've been slightly inflated because that analysis of two hundred and twenty five terrorism related cases in the u.s. since the september eleventh attack has found that the n.s.a.'s program has provided evidence for only one case and that the study by the national based nonprofit new american foundation has concluded the bulk collection of data by the n.s.a. has had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism researchers found that in the majority of post nine eleven terrorism related cases tips or evidence

actually came from traditional law enforcement and investigative methods now these findings come as president obama is preparing to address the nation friday outlining his proposals to change intelligence operations and oversight geo political analyst eric draitser doesn't expect the president's promises to equate into significant action i think that the reality is that what we're looking at is a vast infrastructure with billions of dollars invested in it over the course of multiple decades so whatever obama might be able to say politically using whatever rhetorical cover he needs the reality is that the infrastructure is not going anywhere the scaling back is only going to be superficial because as we know the surveillance program itself is all pervasive it goes to hardware it goes to software it goes to the companies themselves the servers the the cables themselves so as. they said it is a closed system that they've created so for obama to be able to say oh well i can

scale back this system this is merely for public consumption just last month a task force appointed by the president himself also concluded that the n.s.a.'s counterterrorism programs are not essential to preventing attacks reporting from new york marine up or down r.t. . as if the french president didn't have enough on his mind this last week or of his alleged affair with an actress a room full of prying press still failed to get friends were longer ability about his private life earlier instead he spread a few hours trying to convince them about other vital statistics that he's on the right track indeed to revive from says sluggish economy next on francois learns domestic difficulties. i. don't think so that that is why i have not done this video clip mocks consol ons tax policies which are among the major reasons has become the least popular president in france as more than history voting couldn't hold out to vote or too much more food together with belgium france's tax grab is

the highest in the euro zone the one thing to do but so much of the way for. the last two hours french i want to talk says whether two thirds of the country's population is clear cut says i don't write eighty per cent 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 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 having to have a usually known for very optimistic speech in his new year address council on sounded rather concerned at least 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 rif nationality from france. coming up for gun and farmers in the u.s. again from the most helpless against the sun to america's highest court most it will take them for being sued over copyright people have inadvertently been so in the center seat to talk about that later in the program also to come to the hole where you don't belong we've got the story of thousands of latvians consider aliens in the land they were born and. now it's the day one of voting in egypt for yet another constitution was marred by deadly violence for the leaven people killed in clashes between muslim brotherhood supporters and the police security is intense there with more than two hundred thousand police officers on the streets with

a massive deployments failing to prevent attacks and skirmishes just before polling stations opened a bomb went off in a cairo courthouse luckily no one was injured there opponents of the latest constitution clearly document will cement the power of the military backed interim government motu said to continue wednesday reports next on the challenges and perils facing egypt's latest lesson in democracy it was a bomb blast here in the capital in an area called berba 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 morsi had taken to the streets and 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 mr brotherhood supporters and mohamed morsy supporters are going out xandra 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 when you go onto 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 to control that little bit of the judiciary in addition which is the key change here the defense minister which at the moment is the de facto leader lead story general of the fatah sisi his position will be protected for the next two times of the president's office this is because the supreme council the armed forces will be allowed to say

in the appointment say that's a big change that in addition to 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 on top of the supporters of mohamed morsy 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. true reporting from cairo the miller spoke to me means an expert on islamic movements claims the proposed constitution only serves the interest of the corrupt political powers this constitution represents the interests of those who are disaffected by the twenty five january two thousand and eleven revolution in egypt it's mainly the military and the corrupt so business community associated with your ministry 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 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 if you know which way washington so reluctant to see iran among the participants of the long awaited syria peace talks and weeks time. millions around the globe struggle with hunger. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge. they can the very strong.

and we think that. the free products are. that there is no. evidence any problem with genetic engineering. is. the. golden rice.

britain america's patients are the syrian opposition members seems to be wearing thin the threatening to rethink their support if its main function decides against attending next week's geneva peace talks another potential play meantime in the region has participations in the air is a ram now with russia in the u.s. presence but washington sending mixed signals about it let's go to hillary mann leverett she's an expert on iran and u.s. foreign 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 has their reach 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 reporting along to britain sued go undercover if you want to go over the limit the power only discovered well you said need to speed up getting the green like to put the pedal to the metal plus well you know first of all should have the better it could be with russia since the cold war but i will prompted moscow to david satter from the comfort.

genetically modified food monsanto is one of the battle against american farmers the u.s. supreme court now says the firm can sue organic growers if they use its lab engineered crops even if the fields are but inadvertently contaminated with monsanto materials there's a catch every mandela has written about g.m.o. he says the companies terrorizing farmers the implications of this are huge because first of all monsanto lied in that statement and the supreme court the law it brazenly by saying they never heard it never will sue farmers for inadvertant as the term is inadvertent the contamination of their fields but they have sued

countless farmers percy schmeiser a farmer in canada is observe the example of that but the monsanto has a team of lawyers that go out and terrorize farmers in the us and canada when the wind blows the seeds from a lot field across to nominate sort of feel that says ok you know you have to play . well for some monsanto's public image is arguably among the worst the world must look at why should we or the news will hear research as point to the dozens of health risk connected with genetically modified food include tumors and premature deaths in animals that they're testing it on this is prompted therefore to a campaign to g.m.a. products to be clearly labeled that something monsanto still refused to do nonetheless the company's also setting aside billions of dollars every year to lobby for its interests huge interests huge p.r. machine here in fact become the world's single biggest seed producer as a result. news in brief now has thailand's promise a shit of what it says she will not step down on us despite

a second day of mass protests to try and bring bangkok to a standstill tens of thousands of demonstrators vowing to tighten their blockade of main roads and government buildings while radical demonstrators are thought to be planning to storm the stock exchange opposition accuses shearwater trying to get her brother off corruption charges and put him back in power. a fourteen year old boy in a thirteen year old girl have been airlifted to hospital in critical condition after a shooting at a middle school in the u.s. state of new mexico witnesses say the incident happened in the school's gymnasium before classes started after they saw a male student with a gun roswell police department's apprehended the suspected shooter we hear students have been released to their parents and schools currently closed we'll update you throughout the night. they've been skirmishes in northwest england as police moved in on an anti fracking campaign is its support several arrests were made at the site in manchester is protesters tried to prevent shale gas drilling over fears of people's health and the environment on monday the prime minister attempted to win over local authorities and the public by saying they could keep

the tax paid by fracking firms. for security forces in bahrain a vandalized a shiite shrine during monday's anti-government protests the gulf 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 are said to be targeted by security forces. over two hundred people fleeing the violence in south sudan drowned after the ferry sank in white river it's thought the boat was overloaded at the time and other news from there meantime the army's repelling attacks were rebels trying to take over a key city in the all producing upper nile state and heavy fighting two is also continuing near the town of bor of the largest under rebel control. imagine being an alien in your own country but it is the reality for nearly three hundred thousand people living in the small baltic country of latvia many of whom were born there where their parents but all are considered normal citizens for

scotsman speaking to some of them about what it's like when birthright means having fewer rights you guys when you mean it 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 denny in 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 is he saying you were born in this country well does your mother love you. right that's the same if she does that you feel good and if it doesn't feel a bit about insults it the process of naturalisation attests noncitizens on their knowledge of lobby in history culture and language many feel they're hostages to history claiming the latvian government are using them to avenge the past but it's not just a moral issue it could also be economic benefits to ending this policy if that three hundred thousand people will be back into political and economical life will

be a very good feel for the country too you know incidents to finally move on further because we always look back into history who are trying to go further. into european union insecurity though and so on but we still had its turn back those fighting for their rights of knowledge 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 r.t. latvia. about with her the next full news update on our team's nationals thirty four minutes time after the break that we look into the controversies run of the so-called golden rice genetically designed to feed millions but still raising safety concerns with many. when you're followed around when you are being investigated because of the whim of someone this is the beginning of the end of your freedom. goes to eunice

a new teen lee intercept american citizens'. text messages you know. where the calls text messages so you just see everything without my knowledge but actually basically and there's no legal absolutely yes when you bareback with the internet your bare back with big brother. ariel sharon has died and been given a state funeral he is called controversial and even a peacemaker by mainstream media and political plans and many other strong we reject these descriptions on this edition of cross talk with a simple question who was ariel sharon. one of the new posters on martin to watch the polish face i describe you know it.

was. a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. this genetically modified plant is at the center of a controversy a controversy about how we deal with one of the most powerful technologies mankind has ever created. a technology that is polarizing society. the protagonists include a now retired professor at e.t.h. who believes his golden rice will save children throughout the entire world. a swiss agricultural chemical corporation that first wanted to commercialize the

miracle rice then changed its mind. and a country where tests are being carried out that would be prohibited in other places. and. researchers who manipulate crops are demanding more freedom the freedom to conduct their research free of political constraints they feel the moratorium that has been imposed on genetic technology for years unfairly hinders them in their efforts but public distrust of genetic manipulation has been immense for many years. artificially modifying the.