syria's national coalition. today should give the american people. their rights to the u.s. president bush. will be reined in. british military figures are accused of widespread abuse. which began in two thousand and three and they could end up standing trial in the hague.

to guantanamo bay in a bid to win the release of the only russian inmate held in the facility join the chorus of voices. today. thanks for joining us following months of uncertainty syria's main opposition body in exile has finally decided to meet face to face with the government. this is the first time the sides will be in the same room struggling to strike a roadmap for peace some key groups and members of the syrian national coalition had previously rejected talks and tried to impose preconditions for the. block's

participation in the meeting just there by fueling the internal disarray in the body right before the decision the country's foreign minister offered a prisoner swap with the rebels. reports from the latest now from syria's diplomatic front. with time running out before the start of geneva two conference on syria it was a busy week for global diplomacy it's our hope that in the face to face meeting of the regime and the opposition will be the beginning of the beginning. and to this unspeakable conflict never before have russia and the us been so united over syria holding damascus and the rebels both responsible for atrocities standing together for a political solution and going further still we wouldn't be going to try to send the signals to all the syrian sides on the need to establish localized ceasefires to consider the lists of prisoners of war including civilians and also used to allow

humanitarian aid. washington even turned around its stance on iran saying it could also take part in the conference so long as it supported previous international agreements on syria to keep our swing the foundation for he would say you are on the same page when it comes to the most important issues the same can be said about some western nations who may be risking it all off and perhaps right now just one wrong move is enough to bring down this diplomatic house of cards such as the mixed signals sent from france to the rebels who themselves took the whole week to decide whether they'll take part. we don't have the assad regime on one side and terrorists on the other it is the regime that is fueling terrorism. such statements may be music to their ears but these are cynical statements the western military alliance has been recruiting right from the outset and it's confirmed by numerous.

reliable sources from pairs the diplomatic ph moved to moscow which was visited by syria and iran's chief diplomats the market has confirmed it will be agreed with after much debate so has the opposition but still in question is iran's participation by widespread acceptance that it's a key player in the region and vital to peaceful solution for syria he was going to party. and charles schumer bridges i for my british counterterrorism intelligence officer he thinks the mistakes of the rebels is forcing now the west to work with us. the rebels are unable to deliver on their promises in any case perhaps of more immediate concern to the west and this is a particular case in the european capitals it's clear that elements of the syrian opposition comprising fighters jihadist fighters have gone from countries such as britain germany spain etc to syria to fight with al-qaeda linked forces there actually pose a threat to european countries themselves so this recognition has meant that

security services have of course been forced if you like to address this in the best way to their own national interests and of course inevitably that means particularly since it's likely more i think recognize now that assad will be around for some time to actually make those links even if discreetly with back with the regime's intelligence services another potential player in the region who's participation is in the air is that over iran with russia and the u.n. urging terrence presence washington though continuing to send mixed signals. but who is a middle east analyst told us that all regional powerhouses should be invited contradictory signals and obviously the u.s. is undecided on this issue that is very unfortunate because it sends the wrong signal to iran that really even have adverse consequence with respect to confidence building under a nuclear iran has

a state it is preparedness to participate and may construct the accounts contributions for political settlement. and there will be when you see tension by supporting the syrian chemical weapon disarmament so i think that the united states should stop this self-contradiction send then invitation through the u.n. to iran so that all the parties that have a stake in this conflict could participate and bring an end to this tragic catastrophic conflict. it's r t international top u.k. military officials could face trial in the international criminal court after victims of the iraq war submitted a dossier accusing forces of numerous assaults and torture in the meantime the british government rejects all allegations picking up the story from london. 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 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 their point says that british military commanders knew that their forces were committing war crimes and moreover that their civilian superiors consciously ignored such information at their disposal but the case foreign secretary william hague has already rejected the suggestion that those that hold 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 we're 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 are people they should have controlled 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 probably boy artsy london. the content of the dossier is held in secrecy although some extracts have come to light and those witness accounts paid public or rather alarming among the abuses reported beatings electrocution various kinds of sexual humiliation even going as far as outright rape the family members of inmates were also allegedly threatened

by british troops in at least one case they were harmed as well one of the victims said after being beaten his eight year old son was also injured by an officer reports from another witness suggest that while he was interrogated soldiers threatened to rape his sister and arrest his elderly parents now it's an international spoke to a legal adviser at the european center for constitutional and human rights which coauthored the dossier. 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 cured and finding in our report or communication to the i.c.c. it's mars and single isolated incidents 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 and there are still hardly any prosecutions in the country so now it's

simply the time that the international courts have to step in. are lots more still to come here on the program including the spanish road rage what began as a protest against a street project in an old in town spreads across the country in a wave of anti-government rallies some of them as you can see right there turning violent. and as the arctic ice melts there's a freeze looming between those who want its resources in a few minutes here on the program we'll look at the tricky task of sharing the riches under the frigid option. of the playing. field limbic spirit travels with the flame from its birthplace

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good to have you with us here on aussie international today the drip drip of secret information fed into the media by whistleblower edward snowden seems to a force the hand of u.s. president barack obama just this week he said he wants to rein in the activities of the far reaching n.s.a. a bomber that was being no more spying on foreign leaders friendly to the u.s. and limits will be placed on how troves of collected data are used both already as we also need a court order if they want to run a check on a phone number using the n.s.a. as extensive data critics however say the measures to be introduced will end up changing very little i wouldn't call it a reform i would call it the ongoing normalization of the outrageous policy of violating the fourth amendment on an enormous scale we're learning more as every week goes by about what they're collecting in terms of text messages and e-mails

and. data and it's it's voluminous and the president is is not can it mean that anything is been done wrong is not proposing to stop doing it is not suggesting we restore the fourth amendment to the constitution he's suggesting that this will continue and it will be reformed perhaps in part someday but he claims it's been a great step forward i don't see it. of the global spread of america's all seeing eyes of cost taxpayers a pretty penny as well the actual figures are as you would expect top secret but here's some leaked information that lifts the lid on the spy spending the so-called black budget reportedly amounts to fifty two point six billion dollars for twenty thirteen out of out over ten billion went to the n.s.a. its funding has actually grown by a half in just under a decade yet it surveillance methods are only used in terrorist attacks and the

ones that are used in that detection amount to only seven point five percent of the time now the n.s.a. is by no means the first spy agency to have seriously overreached his mandate as artie's peter all over found out with advances in technology mass spying can easily get out of hand. on finding out that the united states attempt to private mobile phone and gloom urkel confronted president obama with this claim. formal offices in the east german secret police which was known as the stars of a warning for the n.s.a. if they think must surveillance is the solution to a nation's problems who quote if it's even the best qualified and most advanced secret service cannot save the state we showed you that away from the professed shock of the politicians at the n.s.a.

spying ability how does it compare with the actions of the east german secret services during the cold war. this is exactly as illegal as some of the tactics that the stars are used to employ it is a breach of human rights but the government machine is so powerful that you can't stop it it would snowden's leaks about the shape and scope of n.s.a. surveillance show in germany as one of the top targets for u.s. snooping again. on top of the communist leaning to devil's mountain life the remnants of the last major n.s.a. spying program to look into the private lives of the people of berlin or it's abundant now but back in the day this post with ears to listen in normally private phone calls of thousands of citizens in both the east and the west of the fifty then it was thousands of calls now it's millions sometimes tens of millions of data connections that are tracked and logged with them electronically moved the way they

do it now is much more intensive your web browsing history credit cards they can build a profile on you way easier than was ever possible in my day. didn't have access to this type of technology they rely on developing personal contacts. even those who are working in counterintelligence in the west were ours even they said it we were pretty good even then the fear of being listened into was taken seriously as one former officer charged with looking into nato told us human those fyrst my superior office. is there any technology that they can use to stop eavesdropping on my calls yes just don't pick it up these veterans of the spy game might be impressed by the capabilities of the n.s.a. that they cautious about the quality of the information collected for lessons yet they relied too much on technology that technology might let you locate a person or listen to their calls it doesn't let you know what they think with the

usa doing all it can to justify its intelligence gathering the operation. two point zero by critics. continued for some time yet peter all of the germany are still to come here on the program on r.t. international a new blow for u.s. afghan relations as washington tries to lure president karzai into signing a crucial security deal eight civilians most of them children killed in a nato raid those details on the way. for the meantime though here on the weekly it has taken moscow officials more than a decade to get permission to visit the only russian citizen kept behind bars at guantanamo bay the delegation was told that his case will be reviewed in the near future russia says the notorious prison violates the basic rights of detainees and should be closed down our correspondent. has more from washington. visit

securing the release of the only russian nationals held at the detention center for over twelve years without charge reveal. the human rights commissioner reiterated russia's position on the detention center in guantanamo bay in his meetings with officials from the defense department and from the department of state he said that russia's position is that this detention center be closed down as soon as possible this detention the mere existence he said of this detention center is in violation of human rights and international law the most important probably. element of a visit was to meet with with those who do and to convey the message to the american representatives to the miracles. that we insist his words. and legitimate. it would be taken care of back in two thousand and eight barack

obama the u.s. president promised to shut down the detention center multiple times he said that he wasn't able to fulfill his promise because of the congress which. a number of occasions has vassals to make it harder and harder for the u.s. administration to either transfer their. detainees to other countries or to bring them back to the u.s. and try them on u.s. soil which has left the u.s. administration really in political limbo because this detention center has has seen the image and reputation of the u.s. and despite official reports the hunger strike could one ton of stopped in december human rights advocates claim the number of intimate still protesting stands at thirty three but the military authorities are refusing to release any new data in fact they say the release of information quote do trucks from the more important issues like the welfare of detainees and the security of troops clive stafford smith a lawyer for several guantanamo bay detainees he shared with us his impression of

the force feeding techniques. if a prisoner from camp six which is the least bad can goes on hunger strike they automatically get transferred not just count five but you can't fight back which really has been the most abusive place in all the content of the day prisoners are held in all steel cell and denied the most basic human rights just as a punishment for going on strike that force feeding techniques are very much an action unfortunately again it's the very abusive force feeding techniques i mean casting aside the question of whether it's aquaculture course being a troll in the world medical association says it's not you know unfortunately the techniques they're using ground tonneau are groups you're assisting. so for example and i've witnessed some of those that they used to leave but use up the prisoners noses to hurt so much they're still pulling those tubes out every single time twice

a day forcing them back up each time they're still forcing far too much food too quickly into the prisoner making prisons if you're sick they just carry on doing it it really is horrendous. just a few clicks away you can always head over to r.t. dot com for the latest updates about the facility and the international reaction to the never ending detention of those who were cleared for release many years ago there are plenty of other stories there for you right now including a u.k. politician says that he knows why storms and floods have been battering his country he says it's god's retribution for legalizing gay marriage you can read more about that online right now and why is this story as well fukushima radiation levels hitting another record ladies measurement suggests the worst pollution i have reacted well is now leaking directly into the ocean you can read more about the crippled power plant at r.t. dog. in the meantime though there were violent protests this week all across spain

including in the capital madrid fifty rallies reported dozens arrested several injured in the clashes with police and it was all spotted by a demonstration in the northern town of but of course people were angry at a costly plan to redevelop a street they said it would force some of the poorest locals right out of their homes so the mayor has since cancelled the scheme which would have cost up to thirteen million euros but the fact the protests continue nonetheless shows the overall level of distrust towards the government that's according to one political that. the demonstrators say that they will continue. protesting against this project because they they still don't believe that it's going to be the reason why people are so angry specifically because justin feet with the current situation of austerity of cutbacks seen in services this is an area which has suffered from

those cutbacks in public services recently so people they say they prefer it to other schools and hospitals rather than parking this is that very conservative c.t.'s is that other small city in space never happens something like that in a city like hudler so this is probably. one of the symptoms of how problematic is speed the situation on the whole in the whole of space. it's aussie international afghanistan has accused the u.s. forces of killing eight civilians seven of them children this during an anti taliban night raid on a house it's one of the many incidents to have tested relations between the nations as washington increasingly loses the argument as to why you should sign this security deal of the agreement is crucial for america as it would see a portion of its troops stay in the country apos the main withdrawal later this year foreign policy analyst caleb maupin says afghanistan is just another country

destroyed by the us military ambition. that's always the argument that the foreign powers make they always make it sound like they're invading a country just because they care so much about the people that are under attack but all over the world you can see the fruits of us foreign intervention and these kind of massacres are really built in to foreign interventions you can see it wherever this happens whether in the middle east africa asia anywhere the result is poverty misery suffering never improve the lives of the people in the people have the right to run their own country president karzai if he represents the afghan people should be demanding that reparations be paid to the people of afghanistan for the so many crimes that have been committed there for all the people killed for all the lives lost for all the poverty and misery created by us intervention and those reparations shouldn't come from ordinary working class americans it ought to come from halliburton it ought to come from general electric and all the military contractors that made so much money off of the destruction of the people in afghanistan and so many other countries in the world. mounting civilian casualties from american military operations is one of the key reasons the u.s.

afghan security pact remains on very shaky ground and washington's draft pushes for thousands of its soldiers to remain in afghanistan after the combat mission ends later this year although their role is supposed to support local forces the u.s. still wants its troops to be able to carry out attacks and raids on afghan homes all the while being immune to afghan prosecution president karzai of course reluctant to approve the deal demanding an end to airstrikes as a precondition for any agreement are still to come here on r.t. international that france is trying to wean itself off its tax fix for the president said so this week as he backpedals on his policy of eking out money from business and putting it into the state coffers. also a country where citizenship is not yours by birthright travels to latvia to talk to those who have never lived anywhere else but still can't enjoy the privileges of

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international politicians here in most goes this week because it was the economic forum which i went a little too i caught up with the world renowned economist jeffrey sachs on tax evasion and they gave in still being played on a wall street that's polls but let's start with mr dawoud all's well because he ruffled. feathers this week by warning that the u.k. could be forced to quit if the organization does not reform and here is what the chancellor out wants exactly the main points now he has been frustrated by what he sees as the storming of the free trade deal between the e.u. and the us by e.u. lawmakers themselves i think europe is being shown up by economies like china and india now the british public will get to decide in twenty seventeen in a referendum if they want to continue as a member of the e.u. now the main sticking points for the british people.