it was the day. off of advertising telling you are not cool enough and let's go buy their product please. all the hawks that we along with are on blah blah blah. human rights watch claims an iraqi army division previously trained by the u.s. has carried out extra judicial killings in the. two architects of the post nine eleven torture program could be set to go on trial in the u.s. the latest day 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 as a violation of international law.

by the. day here in moscow you're watching r.t. international and our top story a new report from human rights watch claims that iraqi soldiers have executed dozens of prisoners in mosul the rights group say those killed were suspected members of his law mixtape that face trial international observers cited in the report described what they saw in that city. a group of iraqi soldiers that for 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 to school did one observe and showed the seven head of what the soldiers said was an american female isis sniper whom the high decapitated it was not clear whether they decapitated her alive or

after her death this is one of a series of reports they do when rights watch has issued on the final weeks of the battle in mosul against isis and in these reports what we have seen is. extrajudicial 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 have been committing rampant abuses including war crimes we have yet to see a single incident be properly acts in best a gated by the iraqis or any commanders to be held accountable the report claims the executions were carried out by one a rocky unit that played a significant role in the liberation of mosul that unit had received american training assistance were fighting and stealing twenty fifty bocas feel from human rights watch again says it's unclear whether the iraqi groups and troops are still

being supported by washington the u.s. has publicly for a long time to publicize the work that it started training the iraqi military sixteen division that it calls on its own website has press releases up highlighting the training and support that the us has given to this specific division now we as human rights watch do not know if support to the sixteenth division is ongoing but we have not seen anything being to suggest that that support ended in the recent past torture and killing allegedly carried out by the iraqi army has previously been documented by a cameraman imbedded 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 goes to have spokes that coming back in june could warn you here there are some disturbing images coming out. understand the dark background is intended

to conceal the way you walk 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 mourns our she wrote to my father on facebook he said they would come in the 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 in bed 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 i'm. going to have 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 and other bad stuff but eventually they relented and gave me permission how did you feel when you first witness these two which is scenes and how did you feel as time went on and as they got more brutal and violent and fatal . 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 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 no more fighter stop the snow want to talk to him then he shot the man three times and so. another photographer recorded the devastated city and its residents during the battle for mosul and after that 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. 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. to military psychologist regarded as the architects of the cia's enhanced interrogation program will discover later today whether or not they'll stand trial over the patisserie. of torture bruce jessen and james mitchell created and

personally tested should methods for me a company that profited from the program the techniques we use on suspected terrorists held it secret cia prisons following nine eleven but a twenty fourteen torture report released by a senate select committee found that some of those who subjected to the brutal interrogations not ever being involved with extremist activity. oh all. right michael kearns you were one of the psychologists that devised a program to help u.s. servicemen withstand torture he says his work on say or as it's known was used by one of the men then 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 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 lawyers the two psychologists meantime question say they threw in a suit and should be viewed like the supplies of poison gas to the nazis were that is simply doing business in line with a contractual agreement when former cia agent whistleblower 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. the u.s. senate has approved a new round of sanctions against russia ran a 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 all about this vote

let us finally 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 in response legitimate putin's lambasted the proposed sanctions which now only need donald trump's signature that come into force he says that if they are implemented moscow will have to respond jacqueline vogel 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 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 with being very patient and very reserved but at some point we will have to respond we can't endlessly tolerate aggressive behavior towards our country these actions can be perceived as aggravation and i would even say this exceptional cynicism that the sanctions now had to trump tests 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 what next many know see president trump as being in a real tough position here either you must take a hard line on the kremlin or lead his party down and go against the will of congress political commentator john bosnich told us he thinks trump should veto the bill in order to exercise his authority that. 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 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 for power it's possible that somebody might be advising trump to let them play their game a little bit but i am relatively optimistic meantime there are also fears in the e.u. that these proposed sanctions would hit european companies germany's economy minister has criticised the u.s. over the plans she says that washington has abandoned a shared position on anti russian sanctions and even suggested counter measures but now caleb maupin next went on to the streets of new york to ask you your 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. russia may be the us. us then a sway 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 a right i can't believe it with the president they 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 needing our european partners as well and we're basically we've got a congress imposing their own foreign policy without regard to the impact on europe nor really the considerations on the ultimate objectives of of mr president trump as well. the train crash in the spanish city bus alone is left at least forty eight injured the incident homes during the morning rush hour the driver of the commuter train is among those injured videos from the scene show that apparently went off the tracks of the buses that the time to confront people to get out of the day. a block is put on u.s. support for one rebel group in syria was a well the details coming up ninety seconds away.

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nine percent of them are undiscovered so you should expect that the great majority of asteroids which come very close to the earth come as a surprise for. 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 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 sense of the country before exclusion it was among the so-called vetted syrian forces those but by the us led

coalition as election 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 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. how you and i will tell you that because we hit 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 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 from that also promised during his election campaign we'll see where there will be any more changes in the coming weeks the military analysts

we spoke to says the getting any weapons back from the rebels is going to be extremely difficult to. be very hard to get these weapons back because if you look at what the americans did twenty thirty years ago. they were never able to get the weapons they gave. me became al qaeda and taliban similar have to give weapons to most in the 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 a lot of the groups on the ground however there's already a lot of weapons of the ground to the various multiple groups the big thing that we really see is that the americans are going to clearly perhaps draw a line and not give training and money. most famous classical music festivals the world is now underway in the austrian city of salzburg for the first time in its history it was opened by a russian conductor more than two hundred thousand people are expected where they'll have the chance to watch two hundred performances by the world's most

renowned artists the first of all run until the end of august for the day here on our t.v. we're going to be going to the home of mozart to catch up with the russian musicians there is happening later this afternoon. you think we should news conferences may not be the most exciting of events unless of course they involve president claude it may be that he's. that's true because you really need to find a compromise from that to shoot so well. that's my word for. it was. you never know when that phone is going to go do you make in a joint statement the time of the slovakian prime minister when he decided to try it a standup comedy you can decide whether it works or not that's just one of the many stunts the charismatic politician of course pulled during his years in office.

the soyuz spacecraft to blast off for the international space station later today it's set to cover the next crew to the orbiting lab. baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan for the preview. this is the story is market that will carry the remount story 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 news and they have a whole list of experiments they need to get through and some of them sounds more peculiar that. 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 it like that but just other the face but it's zero gravity i think you know 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 in just a minute there is a device you put your finger inside the small device begins to squeeze as soon as you feel a little pain shot so there's also a thermal sensitivity to how you put your condoms in the stocks that you saw when it comes to what you believe you want richard to do for the. over the years experiments in space have touched on everything from the way it to those wonderful but the questions that most people really want to know the answers to all the little less complex. you're going to keep. it on the function that you talk

a lot it's what the studies say felt like. this answer all. or even mushrooms but having to answer the same old questions that is a small price to pay for the incredible journey this is the key aaron reporting for t.v. from baikonur. there wishing those guys all the best to be taken off in iraq but six hours time now as you can see the road to the bottom of the screen is there the ramifications may be starting already from the new sanctions being proposed from america against russia. we're hearing notes breaking news of the russian foreign ministry said that the u.s. should reduce the number of diplomatic stuff it has in russia but the first of september it's also announced that the u.s. embassy will no longer be allowed access to warehouses and the diplomatic compound it uses in moscow the move comes of course i was as i was saying after the u.s. senate gave the green light to a harsh new set of sanctions against russia it's not known whether president trump

is going to actually sign that into force as we've been talking about earlier in the program the foreign ministry's also said that this is only the first but not the last batch of measures that russia is now going to take in response to washington's actions that it views as hostile and a lot more on this throughout the day keep up to speed as well of course dot com i'm kevin zero in more for me in half an hour between now and then right after the break here on out international we got this clip of interview with nicholas mature of the president of venezuela and what's a particularly troubling time for his country right now. when you factor. in the ruling classes project themselves. with the famous.

nor middle of the room. 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 usually is this a winning strategy for the president america and the world. this with the with me. the most get a little bit because it was. the most i knew but i. know both of it was but i guess some kind of sign of this yes or no but if you dump on

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