top stories this hour moscow tells the u.s. to reduce its diplomatic staff in russia the senate in washington overwhelmingly voted in favor of a new round of sanctions. human rights watch claims a u.s. trained iraqi army unit is allegedly carried out killings in mosul. the two architects of the cia's post nine eleven torture program could be set to go on trial in the u.s. we speak exclusively to a former colleague of one of the men. here

this friday the twenty eighth of july it's five pm here in moscow welcome to the news this hour first up for you russia is not ruling out additional countermeasures if it faces more pressure and restrictions from the united states that's according to the country's deputy foreign minister it follows moscow's decision a few hours ago to cut the number of u.s. diplomatic staff in russia after the u.s. senate approval of a new anti russia sanctions bill. has the story. let's look at the context of where this all started there actually began back in december when the u.s. expelled some russian diplomats and confiscated some diplomatic buildings basically some compounds and what's happened is that russia has effectively responded in kind it's saying that the same number of diplomatic staff also technical staff that the that they have in america must first fund it in kind with the americans across the whole of russia this is not just moscow so we're looking at four hundred fifty five people by the first of september what they've also said is that they want to stop

the americans having access to certain warehouses and also what they call a diplomatic compounds now that's not an embassy or anything like that it's effectively a leisure complex out in in the forests near the city well let's look at the breakdown of those four hundred fifty five people back in december the americans expelled thirty five russian diplomats but to even up the numbers to make sure they are exactly the same in the two countries the americans would have to take out over two hundred fifty of their own diplomats this is all come about i mean less than a day as we said over the fact that the the senate had voted on these new russian sanctions and then in these donald trump's signature really summit to make a go ahead for president putin said that russia had been patient for long enough and if he felt that it was about time that there would be a response and the response would become pretty soon 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 we can't endlessly tolerate aggressive behavior towards our

country these actions can be perceived as aggravation and i would even say exceptional cynicism meanwhile there's been a response from the u.s. ambassador to russia john test who said that he was deeply disappointed about the new measures after meeting with russia's deputy foreign minister so get a cough but this might not be the end of it if he doesn't see what he calls the end of russophobia mayhem on capitol hill. liberals know a president trumps cold many now say he's in a tough position right now either he must take a hard line on the kremlin or let down his party 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. but 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 powers and as the president the president must veto this if he wants to retain his focus our it's possible that somebody might be advising trump to let them play their game a little bit but i am relatively optimistic there are also fears in the e.u. that the proposed sanctions would hit european companies the german economy minister has criticized the u.s. over its plans she says that washington's abandoned shed position on mt russia sanctions and has even suggested countermeasures to tell him open as people in new york 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 the u.s.

through the u.s. 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 it right i can't believe it because the president are trying to protect themselves with trouble being president you've 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. to other news now weeks after the city of mosul was finally freed from islamic states and iraq more details of the liberation and the urging a new report from human rights watch suggests one iraqi military unit executed dozens of suspected members of eisel without trial this is how international observers describe what they saw him i was all. a group of iraqi soldiers that phool 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 observe and showed the seven head of what the soldiers said was an american female isis sniper whom the hard to capture sated it was not clear whether they decapitated her alive 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 extrajudicial killings by iraqi forces of men that 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 x. investigated by the iraqis or any commanders to be held accountable. the report

claims of the executions were carried out by an iraqi unit that played a significant role in the liberation they received american training and assistance while fighting iceland twenty fifteen his field from human rights watch again says there's no indication the washington stopped support to the division. the 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 u.s. has given to this is a big division now we as human rights watch do not know if support to the sixteen division is ongoing but we have not seen anything to suggest that that support ended in the recent past. torture and killing allegedly carried out by the iraqi army have previously been documented by a cameraman who was embedded with one of the units he claims to have filmed abuse

and extra dudish will executions some of which he said were also recorded by the officers themselves. have spoke to the camera man last month but again please be warned that there's some scenes of graphic violence are about to be shown. i 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 mourners are he wrote to my father on facebook he said they would come and 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 in bed with iraqi forces and i know i spent some time and most of all 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. we work together every day we all slept together i spent more time with them than with my family i thought they were heroes 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 for. five weeks became so horrible that i decided to publish everything. and

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 he shot a man six nine times then we heard the voice of cats no more quiet or stop to say no i want to talk to him then he shot the man three times and so. another photographer also recorded the devastated city and its residents during the battle for mosul and also after the city was liberated. in the last couple days we witnessed there was really there's 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 and 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. 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 psychologists regarded as the architects of the cia's interrogation program will discover at some point on friday whether they have to stand trial over the so-called participation in acts of torture bruce jessen james mitchell created and personally tested told you methods forming a company that profited from the program that techniques were used on suspected terrorists held at secret cia prisons when the country launched its war on terror following the nine eleven attacks but the twenty fourteen told to 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. the on.

michael cans who worked with one of the psychologists and devised a program to help u.s. service personnel withstand torture he says his work on sale as it's known was used by one of the men to develop new and more brutal torture techniques but the cia's methods go far beyond it. 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 went 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 e i t's the enhanced interrogation program. brutal techniques the

lawyers for the two psychologists in question say their clients are innocent and should be viewed like these supplies of poison gas to the nazis were in their woods simply doing business in line with a contractual agreement one former cia analyst and whistleblower told us that the men managed to earn eighty one million dollars doing such a business 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. morning rush hour train crash in spain is injured dozens of people i'll have the details about for you after a quick break. something

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we along with all on walking. welcome back a commuter trains crashed into the buffers at a station in boston learned in spain injuring at least fifty four people one of them seriously it happened during the friday morning rush hour shows the front of the train badly damaged the driver is among the injured cause of the crash has not yet been established but it's understood that the train did pass an inspection ten days ago the council on regions presidents of the matter of boston have visited the scene. police in jerusalem are preventing men under the age of fifty from entering temple mount also known as a ram al sharif and now reports it's

a move likely to reignite the already tense situation of. the situation here in west would a neighborhood of arabic east jerusalem is extremely tense this has been a flashpoint of violence in the past and police have fought in additional reinforcements there are heavy security barriers they've closed a lot of the roads into the old city and also have secured they checkpoints between east jerusalem and the west bank even more now the police have also that they are expecting casualties today indeed if violence explodes and there has been violence here in the past i. i. think i know i was but it was.

i don't believe it was. on tuesday night. dozens of palestinians were injured when clashes broke out at the last a mosque several were arrested by the israeli police particularly after group of youngsters climbed onto the mosque and flew the palestinian flag from there. was. the same time we are hearing that more than a hundred people have been injured the number of palestinians who've been killed in the last two weeks of violence has now climbed to six after eight youngster who was shot in the head succumb to his wounds overnight there have been three israelis who have been killed so what we're looking at really is two weeks of violence and hope that the situation will come under control soon but certainly the mood on the ground extremely tense particularly today as many palestinian groups call for

a day of rage. new this hour russia's deputy prime minister has been forced to postpone a diplomatic trip to moldova after his plane was barred from entering rumanian airspace here's a look at the route that the plane was supposed to take from moscow to the capital of moldova but when it was nearing romania and countries air traffic control called the plane to clarify the list of passengers and when they found out the russian delegation headed by deputy prime minister dmitri to go said was on board the plane was denied entry the air carrier operating the flight says this was done to total go to him being on a sanctions list but did not specify which list that was exactly the pilots then had to go back and land in those and says the decision put the passengers lives in danger because of a potential fuel shortage and he's promised that there will be a response. now in just over an hour from now

a soyuz spacecraft is due to blast off for the international space station carrying the next crew to the orbiting lab and here it is at the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan for us. this is the soyuz rocket that will carry its three months free to the international space station where they will spend one hundred thirty nine days in all base enjoying the time they would just be enjoying using the make up a whole list of experiments they need to get there 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 enfolds 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 see pontiac you know because you know when you're in the grave it to everything's very slow with imaginations running wild i

decided to get the details from the crew themselves indecently point is there is a device you put your finger inside the small 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 condoms in the stores you don't when it comes to what you believe you want riches who couldn't control. over the years of experiments in space have touched on everything from the weird to the wonderful but the questions that most people really want to know the answers to all the little less complex. your should you. get. the function that dopamine is what the studies smell like. dispenser all. the emotion mushrooms to it having to answer the same old questions it is a small price to pay for the incredible journey this is the key aaron reporting for t.v. from baikonur. warm up for one of the world's largest gatherings

of youngsters students who flock to the town of cypress for an open air festival it comes ahead of the main event which is the nineteenth world festival of youth. in students that's going to be held later this year in the russian resort of sochi it's an event that gives aspiring artists a showcase for that talents you can find out more about the festival installed on our website. don't call. us if now you can get in touch and tell us what you think of course we're on facebook twitter and you tube your next global news update from a in about half an hour from now join me that. 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 i means that ninety

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