rights watch claims iraqi army division previously trained by the u.s. discourage that extrajudicial killings in mosul. the two architects of the cia's post nine eleven torture program is set to go on trial in the united states we speak exclusively to a colleague of one of the. u.s. senate overwhelmingly approves a new round of sanctions against russia which president putin condemns as a violation of international law. this is the international for good morning to you first today

a new report from human rights watch claims that the rocky soldiers have executed dozens of prisoners in mosul rights groups say they were suspected islamic state fighters international observers cited in the report describe what they saw in the city. a group of iraqi soldiers that food naked men down an alleyway after which they heard multiple gunshots. through the doorway of a damaged house the bodies of a number of naked men lying in the doorway they said one of the dead men was lying with his hands behind his back and appeared to have been handcuffed and there was a rooper around his legs two sixteenth division soldiers the school did one observe and shoot the seven head of the soldiers said was an american female isis sniper the high decapitation it was not clear whether the decapitated her life after her death this is one of a series of reports that human rights watch has issued on the final weeks of the

battle in mosul against isis and in these reports what we have seen is numerous and three additional killings by iraqi forces of men that they say were linked to isis without any charge without any trial simply executing them on the battlefield really all the iraqi forces that are involved in this fight against isis has been committing rampant abuses including war crimes we have yet to see a single incident be properly at investigated by the iraqis or any commanders to be held accountable. the report claims the executions were carried out by one a rocky unit the played a significant role in the liberation of mosul that unit had received american trying to get assistance while fighting and still in twenty fifteen bocas field from your rights watch again says it's unclear though whether the iraqi troops are still being supported by washington the u.s. has publicly for a long time publicized the work that it's done training the iraqi military

sixteenth division sent calm on its own website has press releases up highlighting the training and support that the u.s. has given to this specific division you know we as human rights watch do not know if support to the sixteenth of vision is ongoing but we have not seen anything thing to suggest that that support ended in the recent past. torture and killing allegedly carried out by the iraqi army previously been documented by a cameraman embedded with one of the units he claims to have filmed abuse and extrajudicial executions some of which he said were also recorded by officers themselves. correspondents spoke to that camera and back in june we got to warn you to the images coming up a disturbing. understand the dark background is intended to conceal where you are how serious is the threat to your life after you made these revelations

about all this torture and wrongdoing in iraq. my family received many threats from the especially from captain omar's our she wrote to my father on facebook he said they would come night and kill them and they can contact me because i was in hiding of course i understand that my life is in danger you spent a lot of time embedded with iraqi forces and i know i spent some time in mosul i know how hard it was to you know get in touch and embed yourself with iraqi forces in the specially difficult to gain their trust but what was your position within the emergency response division. and how to work together every day we all slept together i spent more time with them than with my family i thought they were heroes yes they were so brave fighting on the frontlines every day but then i saw the other side the torture the raping the killing first they didn't want me to film the torture another padstow eventually they relented and gave me permission how did you

feel when you first witness these torture scenes and how did you feel as time went on and as they got more brutal and violent and fatal. first it didn't register during the second week i went home and my relatives asked me what was wrong with me after that it all changed it affected me my psychology thinking about the torture of those people and their suffering it got worse worse and. after five weeks it became so horrible that i decided to publish everything. i know it was unbearable but i made myself continue to film because i knew it was important to torture people and kill them over and over. as i remember it happened on december twelfth katz an insurgent hider came back and started to show us a video we saw how sergeant hyder started to shoot a shot a man six nine times then we heard the voice that's no more tighter stop that's

enough i want to talk to him then he shot the man three times and still. another photographer recorded the devastated city and its residents touring the battle for mosul and after the city was liberated to. in the last couple days we witnessed there was really just this tremendous push to just just crush the remaining fighters who were very deeply entrenched i guess in the city there's this vast tunnel network i guess that is sort of existed for thousands of years you know dating back to mesopotamia but spiders have also dug in their own tunnel network system underground in mosul and there was just this and it was a very aggressive push by both iraqi forces and the coalition to just pretty much and i await their remaining fighters at you know i will result in being kind of a heavy civilian cost i think that what you know what the mainstream media sort of sort of does they try to they try to generalize you know the conflict in what's

happening they try to package it into these very easily accessible headlines you know like most of those liberated and so you know you read that headline and you think oh you know the battle is over you know the operations are over and you know everything must be tied up and tidy but that's just not the case so i guess that that was one of the biggest shocks to me was that you know there's this this narrative that you know the fight is over and you know it wasn't the case at all and the scale of destruction in mosul is just you know it's an unimaginable hell the city is littered with. you know unexploded ordinance from you know from airstrikes and it's just going to take you know decades to rebuild this city. the next morning two military psychologist regarded as the architects of the. interrogation program said to discover later today whether or not the trial over their participation in tool it said the bruce jessen the james mitchell created personally tested methods and then formed

a company that profited from the agents program the techniques had been used on suspected terrorists held at secret cia prisons in the aftermath of nine eleven a twenty fourteen told to report released by a senate select committee for. that some of those who were subjected to the brutal interrogations were innocent and hadn't even been involved with extremist activities. michael kearns you were one of the psychologists a devised a program to help u.s. servicemen withstand torture he says his work i'm sorry as it's known was used by one of the men to develop then new and more brutal torture techniques. the resistance to interrogation program we don't actually use the word torture in the

training however there are torture techniques that are used to certain levels during the training this is all part of a program that's called sere s e r e survival evasion resistance to interrogation and escape so what we were doing were protecting those operators those people on strategic reconnaissance flights doing operational work of around the world to collect intelligence and also those that were operational and working in counter terrorism how to resist enemy interrogations and those techniques were educated to fill a very precise and were not used to hurt or harm the students and every student had a stop code a code that they could use at any time to have all activity stopped so again torture in the mind of a student is different from being tortured for days and days and weeks which is what we're hearing about the bush she torture program all of the activities that

one on by the cia were grossly beyond anything at the school standards for my opinion please understand that i retired from the u.s. air force in one nine hundred ninety one only in two thousand and six or two thousand and seven did i even have an inkling that these people that i haven't seen for dozens of years were doing this roger aldridge bruce jessen and jim mitchell were the people behind the torture program it was the people that i worked with for several years that had taken and reverse engineer. the harsh part. and turned it into the tease the enhanced interrogation program. brutal techniques. the lawyer of the two psychologists in question says his client is innocent and should be viewed like the supplies of poison gust of the nazis were for example one form with agent and whistleblower told us that they had received eighty one million dollars for their work. the reason why mitchell and jessen were

put in charge of this this terrible this important program was because the cia simply had no experience in this kind of thing nobody in the cia was trained in interrogation that's an f.b.i. job but the cia wanted to be the organization that did it themselves and it's because the cia blamed itself for the nine eleven attacks well because they had nobody internally who could do these interrogations they decided to hire mitchell and jessen at a cost of eighty one million dollars to come in and teach the cia how to torture people at the end of the day mitchell and jessen were the ones who flew out to the secret prison site overseas and actually carried out the torture themselves we know from the senate torture report for example that it was mitchell and jessen who were personally torturing these prisoners there was no discussion of ethics there was no discussion of morality and once the memo was signed by the president there was no discussion of legality it was it was as though the cia was just linking it they

were taking it one day at a time they didn't care if they were breaking rules they didn't care if they were violating the laws they didn't care about professional ethics when vice president dick cheney said that we were going to turn to the dark side they meant it they meant that the cia was going to go overseas and it was going to kill or capture everybody that it encountered and then just deal with the fallout later that's why guantanamo was created. the u.s. senate has approved a new round of sanctions against russia iran and north korea an overwhelming majority voted in favor of the bill during the hearing senators emphasize that russia is being targeted for its alleged meddling in last year's us election a strong message to vladimir putin and any other aggressor that we will not tolerate attacks on our democracy that's what this bill is. now this vote

lead is finally finally finally officially condemn and forcibly respond to that attack on our country or this stunning breach of our right as a sovereign nation not to have our elections disturbed by a foreign capital to move putin's lambasted the proposed sanctions which now only need donald trump's signature to come into force he says that if they are implemented moscow will have to respond to actually vulgar reports the short debate that took place beforehand was full of anti russian rhetoric and again repeated accusations of russia having meddled in last year's presidential elections allegations that have yet to be backed up by real proof the sanctions against russia were included in a bill which also counter so-called aggression from iran and north korea but these measures have already received a lot of international backlash with president vladimir putin saying that the new round of u.s. sanctions against russia are extremely cynical accusing washington of using it for political advantage for business purposes so when the news of the sanctions are

completely illegal they go against international law and the rules of the world trade organization are going to be as we're being very patient and very reserved some point we will have to respond if we can't endlessly tolerate aggressive behavior towards our country actions can be perceived as aggravation and i would even see. the sanction is now had to trump steps to be signed into law but it's unclear what will happen given that the white house has sent muddled messages on the legislation. many know see president obama's being in a really tough position than either he must take a hard line on the kremlin or let his party. go down this party or try and go against the will of congress karen quite kautsky is a former u.s. air force lieutenant colonel she told us the sanctions bill is an attempt to limit the american leaders power clearly the congress the house and senate have overstepped their ability to understand and influence foreign policy they don't. understand the infective sanctions by extending this sanctions to other companies

allied companies that may work with the targeted nations that is really. the height of arrogance and also ignorance and the fact that so many people of both parties voted both in the house and the senate only the independent thinkers and there's very few in fact we know who they are the three in the house and the two in the senate that voted against these measures they're the only ones that are independently thinking about the impact of what these proposed sanctions will have i think it's important to see this is a congressional act intended to damage mr chung and his ability to conduct foreign policy very bold acts or. there are also fears in the e.u. the proposed sanctions could hurt european companies germany's economy ministers criticized the u.s. over the plans she says that washington has abandoned a shared position on until russia sanctions and even suggested countermeasures

cullom open also new yorkers how they'd feel about having sanctions imposed on them the economic minister of germany is saying you want to put sanctions counter sanctions on a country in coordination with the world trade organization. russia maybe be us through to get us out of been a swear like probably you know the states on the united states all wide think you know wow and how do you feel about that i faked that our trade policies under the president current administration has got a right i can't believe it could be president that we're trying to protect themselves with trouble being president you got to expect a lot of crazy things not good but we have to stand or grow it's not good for us and it's not good for the world we think that we can exist by ourselves we can the world is a much bigger place now we're becoming less and less important it's a trade war. a trade war between us and the jar and the germans and the rest of the

world it's a lot of people i think voted for mr trump. because he was hoping not to keep our continual adventures in foreign countries to reduce the wars and what we're having here is just we're creating more a worse situation than were and we're alienating our european partners as well and we're basically we've got a congress imposing their own foreign policy without regard to impacts on europe nor really the considerations on the ultimate objectives of of mr president trump as well as a block is put on the u.s. support one rebel group in syria will tell you why that is what after this break. the law for selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles. that you stopped by to tell you

that the gossip probably. doesn't tell you. that we along. with one. if we take for instance the size large enough to destroy a city say forty meters or so of the million or so asteroids out there we have discovered perhaps a percent or so of that ten thousand of them. so in other words that means that ninety nine percent of them are undiscovered so you should expect that the great majority of asteroids it's come very close to the earth to come as a surprise. like

and the american led coalition's officially ended cooperation with a rebel group in syria saying u.s. partners should only fund islamic state its first time such a groups being excluded the. commonly referred to as the shock one of our partner forces there you know laterally without u.s. or coalition permission or coordination conducted patrols outside of the agreed upon deescalation zone and engaged in activities not focused on fighting isis the group in question is a faction of the free syrian army operating in the south of the country before exclusion it was among the so-called vetted syrian forces those but by the us led coalition. reports. after long months of basically zero cooperation between the united states and russia in syria things are now moving at

a rapid pace following the g. twenty meeting early in the month between presidents and putin the pentagon said that they will try to get all the weapons and equipment they have provided to that group back from the group because they thought they gave the equipment to fight isis and now the group apparently has different objectives and this comes just a week from decided to seize the cia training and arming the rebels program in syria which was again a major move of this program itself has been very controversial there have been times when cia backed rebels in syria clashed with those supported and armed by the pentagon and also there have been cases where weapons provided by the cia to those rebel groups were stolen and found themselves in the hands of the terrorists at the same time trump is refusing any suggestions he may be a fan of bashar al assad's government and this is what he said recently i'm not a fan of. how you and i will tell you that because we we had fifty eight

at a fifty eight or you could even say fifty nine out of fifty nine when we launched the tomahawk missiles now i'm not a fan of. certainly think that what he's done to that country and to humanity is horrible so the hardline stance of washington on still stays but there's definitely more cooperation now than before and the big changes well that there is no more you know open calls from the white house administration on regime change in syria but the main priority now is fighting isis and this is something some had also promised during his election campaign we'll see where there will be any more changes in the coming weeks election there were military analysts who spoke to says that getting any weapons from the rebels is going to be extremely difficult. be very hard to get these weapons back because if you look at where the americans are twenty thirty years ago. they were never able

to get the weapons they gave to the mujahideen became the taliban so similar here were to give weapons to most in their e non-state actors it's very hard to get them back the first thing that's going to happen is we're going to see that the u.s. is going to stop giving weapons and money to a lot of the groups on the ground however there's already a lot of weapons on the ground to the various multiple groups the big thing that we're going to see is the americans are going to clearly perhaps draw a line and not get further training and money. for next the soyuz spacecraft to blast off the international space station those are the fingers crossed to carry the next crew to the orbiter karens there at the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan for us for the big takeoff. this is the story is rocket that will carry its three man crew to the international space station where they will spend one hundred thirty nine days in all base enjoying that time they won't just be enjoying music

they have a whole list of experiments they need to get through and some of them sounds more peculiar at the end of it. one of the most peculiar sounding experiments to be conducted on the international space station this time involves testing sensitivity to pain in zero gravity i asked people how they think it will be done but you could do some tweaking like that but just project other the face but it's zero gravity i think because you know when you're in the gravity everything's very slow with imaginations running wild i decided to get the details from the crew themselves. while it's there is a device you put your finger inside it in small voice begins to scream as soon as you feel a little pain shot so there's also a thermal sensitivity to how you put your hands on the skin it starts to heat up when it comes to what you move your hand and. richesses information. over the years experiments in space have touched on everything from the weird to the wonderful but

the question is that most people really want to know the answers to all the little less complex your question. what the function that was what this piece smelled like. answer all. mushrooms to it having to answer the same old questions is a small price to pay for the incredible journey they are now long this is nicky aaron reporting for from. your fingers crossed the more followers on twitter like a song for you spoke wherever you are. called. morning from moscow. for

many particularly his critics a trumpet ministration is nothing less than chaos on steroids for some who know the president this is merely business is usual for him is this a winning strategy for the president america and the world. flora used to be a book bushnell hockey player won a stanley cup and the moment the girl who was living the dream but who sits in a dark side. the time i was fourteen to sixteen i was raped one hundred fifty times by a cold one was mustered in a dark room and so you know every time i close my eyes from sleep many years of

silence he speaks up and unites with other victims so you are going from toronto to ottawa walking and walking the walk it's to create awareness and promote healing around the subject child sexual abuse this type of behavior is obsolete because of the boat because of the sentences that are handed down through the justice system. welcome to sophie and komi sophie shevardnadze chad asteroids like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs don't cross the earth's past very often but smaller ones do all the time and while i live avoided the danger so far our planet is still

unprepared for any possible collision. can we stop armageddon if it comes to it or is to earth defenseless against an asteroid strike while we ask former nasa astronaut asked a physicist and and space. as our world becomes more familiar with what's beyond planet earth the potential dangers of space are becoming more apparent with the threats of asteroids able to wipe out entire civilizations scarily close to our atmosphere so can we count of these dangers before it's too late is humanity's existence simply a game of chance or is it in their own hands to define and protect. add blue physicists former officer not c o b six twelve foundation welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us thank you very much for having me on now is your foundation says there's around half

a million asteroids and planet earth neighborhood as big as the one that struck. in one thousand no weight which flattened two thousand square kilometers of forest on impact i mean i've heard warnings and massive spacewalk could reach us by october twenty seventeen so how big does an asteroid have to be to flatten a city well the one that we saw in. one thousand know it was only about forty meters across and it was more than enough to destroy a large cities as you said it flattened two thousand square kilometers and it was no larger than a small building but to tell us something what is more deadly about a meteor hitting earth its initial impact or it triggering tsunamis and earthquakes . well the danger from an asteroid all depends upon the size and obviously where it hits so the bigger ones can cause more damage the smaller ones such as we saw in

chelyabinsk just a few years ago exploded in the air and it was the shock wave that did the damage so it the answer to your question really depends upon the size big ones can cause tsunamis big ones can cause a mess of destruction small ones it's more like the explosion of a nuclear weapon in character so you so it can cost tsunamis and earthquakes yes you can for very large asteroids get tsunamis or earthquakes obviously if you hit in the ocean but you can get plenty of damage from smaller asteroids just due to the the shockwave from the explosion you know a huge asteroid flew by earth in april but does an asteroid even have to hit earth to wreak havoc sait hits to moon or just passes by a couple of kilometers away well in most cases to really do a lot of damage on earth you actually have to hit the earth hit the earth or its atmosphere so the ones that miss us.