standard morning in moscow headlining this morning human rights watch claims an iraqi army division previously trained by the u.s. has carried out extrajudicial killings in mosul. to the two tickets of the cia's post nine eleven torture program could be set to go on trial in the us later they'll find out later today anyway we speak exclusively to a colleague of one of those men. and the u.s. senate overwhelmingly approves a new round of sanctions against russia which president putin condemns is a violation of international law hope to bring a lot of comment on back. either

friday morning here in moscow this is out international's me kevin owen very good morning to you and there's a developing story coming in first of all from the spanish city of barcelona bad news their train crash this morning at least forty eight people have been injured seems that incident happened during the morning rush hour of course as it is there now the driver of the train is among those injured these are the first pictures through video from the scene shows that the train apparently hit the buffers badly damaging it it seems the images on social media showing the front end of the train pretty crumpled in the casing partially torn off. officials are saying on twitter at least eighteen take it to hospital listen to the friend see a station there we'll keep you posted as we get more through. next. human rights report claims that iraqi soldiers have executed dozens of prisoners in mosul the rights groups say they were suspected islamic state fighters

international observers cited in the report describe what they saw in that city. a group of iraqi soldiers the 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 rope around his legs to sixteenth division soldiers the school said one observing showed the seven headed with the soldiers said was an american female isis sniper whom the hard to capture sated it was not clear whether they be compensated her life. 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 extrajudicial killings by iraqi forces of men they say or linked i think without

any charge without any file simply executing them on the battlefield really all the iraqi forces that are involved in this fight against isis have been committing rampant abuses including war crimes we have yet to see a single incident be properly at investigated by the iraqis or any commander to be held accountable the report claims the executions were current one iraqi unit that played a significant role in the liberation of mosul that unit had received american training and assistance while fighting iceland twenty fifteen. from whom 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 done training the iraqi military think division that it called on its own website has press releases up highlighting the training and support that the us has given to the specific division now we as human

rights watch do not know if support to the sixteen division is ongoing but we have not seen anything being to suggest that that support ended in the recent. torture and killing allegedly carried out by the iraqi previously been documented by a camera been embedded with one of the units he claims to have filmed abuse judicial executions some of which she said but also recorded by the officers themselves who were of senior correspondent spoke to the cameraman back in june we must warn you the disturbing images of. understand the dark background is intended to conceal the way you watch 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. she wrote to my father on facebook said they would come night and kill them they can contact me

because i was hiding of course i understand that my life is in danger you spend 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 the rocket forces and especially difficult to gain their trust but what was your position with the emergency response division that you know every minute how can women work together every day together to spend more time with and then with my family i thought they were heroes you have to be so brief fighting on the frontlines every day but then i saw the other side to torture the raping killing first they don't want to. the torture and other eventually they relented and gave me permission how did you feel when you first witness these two which is seen said how did you feel as time went on and this brutal and violent didn't 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 and 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 they knew it was important he tortured people and killed them over and over. as i remember it happened on december twelfth. insurgent hider came back and started to show us a video we saw how sergeant hyder started to shoot he showed a man six nine times and we heard the voice of no more fighters stop the sonos want to talk to him then he shot the man three times and so. another photographer recorded the devastated city and its residents cheering the battle for mosul after the city was liberated and 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 has sort of existed for thousands of years you know dating back to mass but tamia but the spiders have also dug in their own tunnel network system underground in mosul and there was just this you know it was a very aggressive push by both the iraqi forces and the coalition to just pretty much and i await their remaining fighters kind of 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 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 that 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. of the headlines in front of the u.s. senate approved a new round of sanctions against russia iran and north korea an overwhelming majority voted in favor of the bill during the hearing some of his emphasize that russia is being targeted for its alleged meddling in last year's u.s. election a strong message to vladimir putin and any other aggressor that believe will not tolerate attacks on our democracy that's what this bill is all about. let us finally finally finally officially condemn and forcefully respond to that

attack on our country for this stunning breach of all right as sovereign nation not to have our elections disturbed by a foreign capital in response libya putin is lambasted the proposed sanctions which no need donald trump signature to come into force he says that if they are implemented moscow will have to respond jacqueline vogel reports. the short debate that took place before him was for anti russian rhetoric and again repeated accusations of russia having meddled in last year's presidential election 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 its political advantage for business purposes so when the news of these sanctions are completely illegal they go against international law and the rules of the world

trade organization we're being very patient and very reserved but at some point we will have to respond because we can't endlessly tolerate aggressive behavior towards our country and what you're actions can be perceived as aggravation and i would even say exceptional cynicism just the sanctions 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 so many now see president trump as being in a tough position either he must take a hard line on the kremlin or his party and try and go against the will of congress or could for him. john vause that is where the where is it going to go how's it going to go get the form from him why troublous new communications to rates around these scaramucci said these sanctions could actually be amended maybe even tougher is that likely. look. comments look very much to me like bait and switch it appears to me to be an attempt to draw the congress into

a delaying action on implementation of the sanctions that's just my reading is a political advisor. i do not think that trump has any scruples about vetoing if he needs to we have to remember that f.d.r. franklin doing a roosevelt exercise more than three hundred and fifty vetoes during his presidency so this should be nothing new to the democrats yeah but i suppose it's the subject he'll be seen as supporting rush or if he does it would make. you know in my estimation of donald trump i don't think he cares that much about what an opposing senator in opposing congress thinks about him his votes came from the american people he is the head of the executive branch of the u.s. government the executive branch leads in foreign policy under the supervision of congress and what's happening here is congress is attempting to take over

presidential power and as the president the president must veto this if he wants to retain his full powers it's possible that somebody might be advising trump to let them play their game a little bit but i'm relatively sure there's miss through that i think you'll receive didn't it. you get to see kids more about what does not matter really with the public market no it does not matter you know that's where you draw the line you are the president there is one president in the united states of america there are hundreds of members of congress the president got a mandate from the american people to lead foreign policy his main objective in foreign policy is to stop the incessant never ending wars around the world and to turn the american economy toward business this situation is one in which i would advise the president to exercise

a veto even if it were to be overturned because if he exercises veto it brings all the members of congress back to congress in the middle of the summer it ruins their holidays it exercises his authority and if they overturn his veto and subsequently the american economy loses hundreds of millions of dollars and there russia germany pipeline is built without american participation we're going to see punishment to the american economy of a size not registered in many deck it would cause we don't know one of the what the ramifications are going to be from russia russia is still taking its time to consider what it might do depending on whether or not this gets president stumm if it does go ahead with these sanctions be for u.s. russia relations. first of all. viewing things from the russian perspective every time the united states congress presses the president to put sanctions on russia we can presume that that's because the lobbyists are being paid

to run the agenda of congress the president is usually not subject to these lobbyists but they're a lobbyist out there spending millions of dollars to direct foreign policy if they can through congress what this offer to what this offer is to russia is an opportunity to become more self-sufficient to plant more crops of its own to develop more industries of its own and to become a more autonomy as self-sufficient country which depends more on its closer allies in europe who have a symbiotic relationship with russia so this is a win win situation for russia gives the sanctions are imposed it will require russia to become more autonomy and more self-sufficient and to develop its own industry in partnership with germany and the european union what if the if the sanctions are not imposed that will demonstrate that russia is becoming of such a value to the world economy that they can't be cut out so either way it's

a win win situation for russia and trump has to take this opportunity to assert himself as president and i think in these six months that we've seen so far he has come to the point of becoming a mature president well we'll follow what you do. for your input the smaller job of political commentator. my pleasure and also of course as he was saying the if is in the e.u. the proposed sanctions would hit european companies germany's economy ministers criticize the u.s. over the plans she says that washington's abandon the shared position on until russia's such ns and even suggested council measures next cullom open goes on to the streets of new york to us new yorkers they'd feel about having sanctions imposed on them. the economic minister of germany is saying he wants to put sanctions counter sanctions on a country in coordination with the world trade organization. crash may be the u.s.

. the u.s. then a sway i probably in the states on the united states all you know well and how do you feel about that i faked that our trade policies under the present current administration has got it right i can't believe it because the president are trying to protect themselves with trouble being president you got to expect a lot of crazy things not good but we have to stand out 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 with becoming less and less important it's a trade war a trade war between us and the jar and the germans us and the rest of the world it saves 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 of a worse situation and we were and were needing 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 a lot more coming clearly a blocks put on u.s. support one rebel group in syria will give you the details why after the break. seemed wrong wrong wrong just don't call. me. yet to say proud disdain comes to educate and in games from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest race in truth to stand down the news business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answer. the. question. it's. high game to military psychologist regarded as the architects of the cia's enhanced

interrogation program will discover friday whether or not they're going to stand trial over their participation in acts of torture bruce jessen and james mitchell created and personally tested torture methods and formed a company that profited from the agency's program their techniques have been used on suspected terrorists held in secret cia prisons in the wake of nine eleven a twenty fourteen torture report released by a senate committee said that some of those who were subjected to the brutal interrogations had not even been involved in extremist activities. michael kearns the work of one of the psychologists have devised a program to help us save us from withstand torture he says his work on syria as

it's known was used by one of the men to develop 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 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 circe 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 e.i. tease the enhanced interrogation program. brutal techniques. the lawyers of the two psychologists in question say their client's innocence and should be viewed like the suppliers of poison gas to the nazis were that is simply

doing business in line with the contractual agreement when the former cia agent a whistleblower told us that the men receive 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 winging 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 american led coalition's officially ended cooperation with a rebel group in syria saying u.s. partners should only fight islamic state it's the first time such a groups been excluded. the shahadah. commonly referred to as the

shook 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 function of the free syrian army operating in the sun for the country before exclusion it was among the so-called vetted syrian forces those but by the us led coalition. has more after a 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 the president 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 after. 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 when the 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 his. and 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 no i am 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

still stays but there's definitely more cooperation now than before and the big change as well that there is no more open calls from the white house administration on regime change in syria but the main priority now is fighting isis and this is something from had also promised during his election campaign we'll see where there will be any more changes in the coming weeks. but a space technology news for today a big day a soyuz spacecraft to blast off from international to the international space station a day is said to carry the next crew to that old but they're still doing their work well. baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan for us to watch the big lift off in about six hours time. this is the story is rocket that will carry its three months through to the international space station where they will spend one hundred thirty nine days in all base enjoying the time they won't just be enjoying views and they have a list of experiments they need to get through and some of those sounds more peculiar

that. 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. 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. when it's there is a device you put your finger inside the voice begins to squeeze as soon as you feel a little pain shot so there's also a thermal sensitivity to how you put your hands on it and it starts to heat up when it comes to what you remove the device ridges to paint from. over the years experiments in space. have touched on everything from the way it's wonderful but

the question is that most people really want to know the answers to all of a little less complex. question that. was what this piece is. just. so that having to answer the same old questions is a small price to pay for the incredible journey he says nicky aaron reporting for from. question more quick update on the new story a commuter trains crushed emboss a load of this morning seems to hit the buffers at station. forty eight. eighteen in hospital you can continue to follow the rest of the news this friday morning at . next live update with me kevin owen here in half an hour's time.

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