human rights watch claims an iraqi army division previously trained by the u.s. has carried out extrajudicial killings in mosul. two architects of the cia's post nine eleven torture program could be set to go on trial in the u.s. they're going to find out today we speak exclusively to a colleague of one of those men. to head to the u.s. senate overwhelmingly approved a new round of sanctions against russia which president putin condemned as a violation of international.

eleven am here in moscow this is an international with me kevin knowing today very good morning to you first than a new report from human rights watch claims that iraqi soldiers executed dozens of prisoners in mosul the rights groups say that 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 fool 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 schools had one observe and showed the seven head of the soldiers said was an american female isis sniper whom the hard to care protected it was not clear whether the decapitated her alive . 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 were linked to isis without any judge without any file 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 commander to be held accountable. for goes on to claim the executions were carried out by want to rocky unit that had played significant role in the liberation of most so that unit had received american training assistance while fighting on seven twenty fifteen but his feel from hearing rights watch again says it's unclear 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 call on its own website has press releases up highlighting the training and support that the us has given to this is a big division you know we as human rights watch do not know if support to the sixteen division is ongoing but we have not seen anything thing to suggest that that support ended in the recent torture and killing allegedly carried out by the iraqi previously been documented by a cameraman embedded with one of the units he claims to have filmed abuse extrajudicial executions some of which he said were also recorded by the officers themselves. spoke to the camera back in june i must warn you some of the images coming up next still. 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 morningstar she wrote to my father on facebook said they would come night and kill them they can contact me because i was in 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 spend 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 have been helping women who 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. and other bad stuff but 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 as they got brutal and violent didn't fatal. i know at 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 and i kept 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 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 he shot a man six nine times then we heard the voice of cats no more quiet or stop the snow

i want to talk to him then he shot the man three times and sell. the photographer recorded the devastated city and its residents during the battle for mosul and after the city was liberated. in the last couple days we witnessed there was really this 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 the fighters 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 annihilate 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 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 i.d.'s and. you know unexploded ordinance from you know from airstrikes and it's just going to take you know decades to rebuild this city. next two military psychologists regarded as the architects of the cia's enhanced interrogation program set to discover later today 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 for me

a company to the profited from the program their techniques were used on suspected terrorists held at secret cia prisons following nine eleven twenty fourteen torture report released by a senate select committee found that some of those who were subjected to the brutal interrogations had not even been involved with extremist activities. michael kearns they work with one of those psychologists a devised a program to help u.s. servicemen 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 after that. 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 d 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 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 tease the enhanced interrogation program. brutal techniques now the lawyers of those two psychologists in question say they're innocent and they should be viewed like for instance the suppliers of poison gas to the nazis were that is simply doing business in line with a contractual agreement. one former cia agent a whistle blower told us that the men received eighty one million dollars for their work the reason why mitchell and jessen were put in charge of 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 michel 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. now the other big story rumbling on this friday the u.s. senate's 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 emphasized that russia was being targeted for its alleged meddling in last year's u.s. 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 all

about this vote let a spinal finally finally officially condemn and forcefully respond to that attack on our country for this stunning breach of our right as a sovereign nation not to have our elections disturbed by a foreign capital so where is it going to go next for one who's busted the proposed sanctions which now only be done will trim signatures to come into force he says that if they're implemented this is putin moscow will respond jacqueline vogel small the short debate that took place before him 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 and accusing washington of using it

a little advantage for business purposes in the news of the sanctions are completely illegal but they go against international law and the rules of the world trade organization who want to be that 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 these actions can be perceived as aggravation and i would even say exceptional cynicism to 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. many no see president trump as being in a really tough position either he was to one side take a hard line on the kremlin or the other let down his party and try and go against the will of congress political commentator john bosnich told me he thinks trump should veto the bill in order to exercise his authority but you know in my estimation of donald trump i don't think he cares very 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 leaves in foreign policy under the supervision of congress and what's happening here is congress is attempting to take over presidential powers and as the president the president must veto this if he wants to retain his four hours it's possible that somebody might be advising trump to let them play their game a little bit but i am relatively optimistic other ramifications there are also fears in the e.u. that these proposed sanctions will european companies germany's economy ministers criticize the u.s. over the plans already she says that washington's abandon the shared position on anti russian sanctions and even suggested counter measures to it next well into the streets of new york to ask new yorkers would feel if they 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. . u.s. i'm ben it's way and i probably in the states on the united states oh 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 in 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 the developing story in spain this morning a train crash in the spanish city of boston known as left at least forty eight injured the incident happened during the morning rush their worst of times the driver of the trains among those injured and this is video from the same scene said the train apparently hit the buffers after apparently failing to stop by the dummies the from then we'll keep you updated on that story. as they couldn't have the worst time but it seems the main damage has been to the front of that train

fifteen taking the hospital they will keep you posted the. meantime lot more to come here it's coming to eighteen minutes past eleven in the morning i'm kevin when we talk about a block being put on u.s. support for one rebel group in syria and why that is ninety seconds away. in case you're new to the game this is how it works the economy is built around corporate confirmations from washington to washington the media the media the. voters elect the businessman to run this country business it. must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. 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 those. so in other words i means that ninety nine percent of them are undiscovered so you should expect that the great majority of asteroids which come very close to the earth to come as a surprise. in the coalition's officially ending corporation with a rebel group in syria saying us punish 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 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 backed by the u.s. led coalition. explains more 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 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. will tell you that because we we had fifty eight out of 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 his. certainly think that what he's done. to that country and to humanity is horrible so the hardline stance of washington on sat still stays but there's definitely more cooperation now than before and the big

change as 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 strong had also promised during his election campaign we'll see where there will be any more changes in the coming weeks we will indeed the military analysts we spoke to says that getting any weapons back from the rebels will be extremely difficult in any case. it would be very hard to get these weapons back because if you look at what the americans did twenty thirty years ago in afghanistan they were never able to get the weapons they gave to. me became al qaeda and taliban similar have to give weapons to mercenary 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 start giving weapons and money to none of the groups on the ground however there's already a lot of weapons on the ground in various multiple groups the big thing that we see is that the americans are going to clearly perhaps draw

a line and not give training and money. a change of tone and pace so this chief exhibit with a bit of music music to our ears may be one of the most famous classical music festivals in the world and i went away in the austrian city of salzburg beautiful place and for the first time in its history it was opened by a russian conductor more than two hundred thousand people are expected at that event will have a chance to watch two hundred performances by the world's most renowned artist the setting lovely the festival is going to run until the end of august and here on out throughout the day i can let you know will sneak preview will be catching up with the russian news issue there will be coming up. let me talk to europe european commission press conferences may not be the most exciting of events unless they involve president claude younker that is. that's true because you begin to find to compromise on that issue so well that. that's my what. the.

problem is it's you know it was. all those pesky phones you'd never know who is going to ring you or young who was making a joint statement with a slovakian prime minister will need to study to try his hand at standup comedy and that's just one of course of the many stunts this charismatic politician has pulled during his many years in office. what's life. no sense of humor needed for our next story going to go well a soyuz spacecraft to to blast off the international space station again today the

guys all working really hard towards the. next crew to the. important nicky baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan for us for the preview of its taken off in a. market that will carry you. to the international space station where they will spend one hundred thirty nine days in all enjoying the time they will just be enjoying using the name of a whole list of experiments they need to get there and some of those sounds. one of the most peculiar sounding experiments to be conducted on the international space station this time in both 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. other the face but. i think because you know when you're in the grave 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 and see if ice begins to squeeze as soon as you feel a little pain. there's also a thermal sensitivity tom you put your hands on the stones when it comes to what you believe once ridge is. over the years of experiments in space have touched on. everything from the wind its to the wonderful but the question is that most people really want to know the answers to all the little less complex. you push to keep. the punishment. but the species as well i. really must say that having to answer this same old questions that is a small price to pay for the incredible journey this is making aaron reporting from on t.v. from michael. dunn about you but what about the training give us enough information

that it's just about six and a half to seven hours away we'll be covering it now follow us on twitter like us on facebook watch us wherever you are. i'm kevin i would a very good morning from moscow for me from the. manufacture of consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final. we can all middle of the room sit. room.

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