create awareness and promote healing around the subject. because of the senses that are through the justice system. this is breaking news a knife attack in a supermarket in northern germany leaves one person dead and several others. in just a few seconds. moscow tells the u.s. to reduce its diplomatic staff and russia the senate in washington voted overwhelmingly in favor of a new round of sanctions. human rights watch claims a u.s. trained iraqi army unit carried out extrajudicial killings in mosul. the two architects of the cia's post nine eleven torture program could be set to go on trial in the united states we speak exclusively to a former colleague of one of the. news

twenty four seven national. it's five pm in germany which is where we start with the breaking news that came through in the past half an hour or so of a stabbing attack in a supermarket in the northern port city of hamburg one person is dead several others are injured our europe correspondent peter all over in germany right now let's talk to. oh yes it has been confirmed that one person has been killed several of those wounded in a stopping attack in knife attack in a supermarket in homburg we still have no confirmed motive for the. possible robbery was floated is a. little while ago police haven't confirmed by. as of yet though what we're

hearing from eyewitnesses who were who have been speaking to the media is that the perpetrator of the shouted akbar god is great in our big before carrying out his attack. heavily armed police have the whole area sealed off around that supermarket right now we understand as well that terror units from the police force on the scene as well that's what we know so far one person dead several wounded after a knife attack in hamburg with no confirmed motive as of yet. or a piece of. the police in hamburg are saying we'll be right back with you if you can discover any more for us now there peter thanks. other news now though 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 to cut the number of u.s. diplomatic staff in russia after the u.s.

senate approval of a new anti russian sanctions build artie's kate partridge 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 be responded 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. 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 it go ahead 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. we're not. ruling out any steps so to say to bring those presumptuous russell foods to their senses who are setting the tone on capitol hill today however russia is not rejecting dialogue with the us where possible we don't let our emotions run high and we'll continue to fight for interests and search for solutions. president trumps cold of course many see him as being in a very tough position right now either he takes a hard line on the kremlin all lets down his party and tries goes against the will of congress political commentator john bolton and told us he thinks trump should veto the bill in order to exercise his authority 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'm 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 the plans she says that washington's abandoned shed position on anti russia sanctions and even suggested counter measures to cut them open has been to ask people in new york how much they knew about those measures 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 maybe the us

through the us then its way and i probably you know 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 it's got a 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 we're 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 pictures 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. weeks after the city of mosul was finally free from islamic state in iraq more details of the liberation and now emerging a new report from human rights watch suggests that one iraqi military unit executed dozens of suspected members of eisel without trial this is how international observers describe what they saw in mosul. 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 rooper 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 care presented it was not clear whether the decapitated her life after 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 have 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 that the executions were carried out by an iraqi unit that played a significant role in the liberation of mosul they received american training and assistance while fighting are still in twenty fifteen bocas fail from human rights watch again says there's no indication that washington has stopped its support for the division. the u.s. has publicly for a long time publicized the work that it's done in training the iraqi military sixteenth division cent com 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 things to suggest that that support ended in the recent past. the torture and killing allegedly carried out by the iraqi army have previously been documented by a camera man who was embedded with one of the unit i must warn you that some of his photographs are very disturbing to mock at katie's claims to have filmed abuse and

extra judicial executions some of which he said were also recorded by the officers themselves. ghastly of spoke to the camera man last month but please be won't again the some of the images you're about to see are graphic. 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 canton mourners are she wrote to my father on facebook he said they would come in the 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 in mosul i know how hard it was to you know get in touch and embed yourself with iraqi forces in the specially difficult to gain their trust but what was your position within the

emergency response division. and how to work together every day we all slept together i spent more time with them than with my family i thought they were heroes yes they were so brave fighting on the frontlines every day but then i saw the other side the torture the raping the killing first they didn't want me to film the torture 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 old. 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 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 the snow i want to talk to him then he shot the man three times and so. we're going to bring in british journalist martin jay world affairs journalist who's long documented what's been happening in that part of the world welcome back to our international the iraqi army unit in question has been trying to by the u.s. since twenty fifteen as i mentioned earlier what kind of advice and assist training would they have got do you think. you know that's really the big question isn't it i think um looking at what we know so far as can be very difficult to specifically accuse any of those american soldiers for for training iraqi soldiers specifically

in the craft of torture but i think it paints a very poor picture puts the americans. under a very poor lights in iraq generally i mean we've you know what are they doing there exactly i mean this sort of euphemistic visor i think the the myth has been busted i'm on exactly what those voices do in iraq so were many questions but also we shouldn't forget that this is not the first time that an extraordinary human rights abuses have been documented by the americans in iraq we look back to two thousand and three and the abu ghraib prison torture for example you know this is coming around again it seems to be something that we should start to get used to in iraq so given that there has been precedent set so long ago is it not if you can't maybe say that the people doing the training and advising are in any way culpable the u.s. has a responsibility surely to make sure that people affected in iraq the people who are holding suspects operate within the law no matter who these suspects may be.

i think they do have responsibility and i think that's part of the responsibility of civil society and media is also driving the same agenda i mean at some point you know we would hope that the administration and the pentagon and the state department would take specific responsibility for these sort of instances i'm you know international law is actually more important than most people realize it's not something that the media tackles very often head on but we seem to be seeing the auspices of international law slowly being recognized and certainly being played out by the americans in this region you know they've got an awful lot of blood on their hands and these sort of instances don't you know to do do tend to serve a purpose. of throwing a spotlight on human rights atrocities. if you look back in iraq in two thousand and eleven it was a bomber who couldn't let american troops stay on in iraq because of international

law because they weren't given the promises to be exempt from being sued for any of the atrocities that they may well have carried out an international law again seems to be play a certain role in some of trump's decisions in syria i think it's quite interesting and notable that just last week president trump is completely washed his hands of backing schools of. extremist groups in syria so you know this seems to be. international law international law seems to be permeating into into the white house and into the pentagon new you seem to suggest that it doesn't seem to indicate that washington is going to change its mind any soon on supporting the iraqi army in general there but do you think it's likely that washington knew that these prisoners were being tortured. oh i don't think we should be naive about that i think the military knows exactly what it's doing it's you know there's there's no

nothings made up of the last moment you know this new creative thought process when you talk about long term military strategies and working with these sort of these host governments in these regions but i also think that human rights watch and amnesty and other such groups also need to take a reality pill feel like i mean the parameters of modern warfare now has shifted so dramatically since two thousand and eleven you know we were dealing with extreme circumstances and extreme war crimes carried out by the people that were fighting that there doesn't seem to be a reality check from from the human rights groups as well i mean to be read to be realistic you know these appalling acts of torture of very much a reality of war and we should accept that in fighting extremists within. see more and more. coming up to the fray but i think the trump ministration should take more responsibility should have much more accountability from individuals working in

those areas a bleak assessment but a feel right. thanks very much for time. the creators of the cia's war on terror interrogation program could be facing trial all explain up for you next it's. called the feel we go through. every the world experience. and you get it on the old rule. the world according to just. come along for the. 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 and we have

discovered perhaps a percent or so of that ten thousand of them. so in other words that means that ninety nine percent of them are undiscovered so you should expect that the great majority of asteroids which come very close to the earth to come as a surprise. romania has denied a commercial plane carrying the russian deputy prime minister entry to it as space saying that goes it is on the sanctions list but they didn't specify which list exactly the russian deputy pm eventually had to postpone his diplomatic trip to moldova. here's the route that the plane was supposed to take from moscow to the

capital of moldova but when it was nearing remain of the country's air traffic control called the plane to the list of passengers when they found out the russian delegation headed by dimitri who goes in was on board the plane and was told to turn around the pilots had to turn and then land in belarus no goes and says that the decision to put the passengers lives in danger because there was a fuel shortage and he's also promised a response from moscow. to military psychologists regarded as the architects of the cia's enhanced interrogation program will discover at some point on friday whether they're going to stand trial over their so-called participation in acts of torture bruce jessen and james mitchell created and personally tested harsh torture methods forming a company that profited from the program that techniques were used on suspected terrorists held at secret cia prisons in the country launched its war on terror following the nine eleven attacks but a 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. michael cans who worked with one of the psychologists had devised a program to help u.s. service personnel withstand torture he says that his work on c.s.i. 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 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 interrogation 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 circe school standards for my opinion please understand that i retired from the us 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 te'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 the suppliers of poison gas to that seas were in their words simply doing business in line with a contractual agreement and one former cia analyst and whistleblower told us that the men managed to earn eighty one million dollars doing such 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 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. commuter trains crashed into the buffers or to station a boss alone in spain injuring at least fifty four people one of them seriously it happened during the friday morning rush hour video shows the front of the train is badly damaged the driver is among the injured the cause of the crash is not yet been established but it's understood that the train did pass an inspection ten days ago the catalan regions presidents and the matter of boston have visited the scene . in just over ten minutes time from now a soyuz spacecraft is due to blast off for the international space station carrying the next crew to the orbiting lab we're going to show you live pictures of the launch in a few minutes here on r.t.

first though nick aaron is at the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan forest and he's been following the crew's preparations. 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 in the middle of a whole list of experiments they need to get through and some of them sounds more peculiar at the end of this. 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 project other the face but it's zero gravity i see punching hitting no 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 indecently. 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 and starts to talk when it comes to what you believe you want richard to clean through. over the years experiments in space have touched on everything from the weird to those wonderful but the questions that most people really want to know the answers to our a little less complex here but if you. get. the function that you talk a lot it's what the studies just 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. just a recap of our breaking news this hour a stabbing attack in the german city of hamburg has left one person dead and four

others injured police say a man and to the supermarket suddenly began stabbing. at about three pm local time a suspect was arrested shortly afterwards the motive for the attack has not yet been confirmed that the area is still cordoned off some three hours later german anti terror police are at the scene when we learn any more we'll of course in full view. see. that's it for now don't forget you can get news alerts any time on the move by downloading the. in your store i'll be back with your next project. filling in for lindsay you're watching boom bust broadcasting around the world from right here in washington d.c. coming up russia and syria solidify military cooperation for years to come while relations between russia and it is serious now and the u.s.

to slopping more sanctions on high ranking venezuelan officials could president trump ban oil imports next and bitcoin but to morrow rests on the black market but the cryptocurrency continues to thrive that and more coming up on them but it all starts right now. russia staying in syria at least for the next half century russian president vladimir putin just signed a law that cements a deal between the two countries it allows russia to use the air base in the latakia province for the next forty nine years russia's military has been using this air base for nearly two years since intervening in the conflict the airbase has been used to carry out strikes against forces fighting against syria.