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this is our breaking news a knife attack in a supermarket in northern germany leaves one person dead and four others injured a live update in just a few seconds. moscow tells the united states to reduce its diplomatic staff in russia after the senate from washington voted overwhelmingly in favor of a new round of sanctions. and human rights watch claims a u.s. trained iraqi army unit has carried out extrajudicial killings in mosul. with the new center in moscow where it's now seven pm it's six pm in germany which
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is where we start with the breaking news we got in the last ninety minutes or so of a stabbing attack in a supermarket in the northern port city of hamburg has left one person dead and at least four others injured our europe correspondent peter. ok peter any more that we know at this point. well the police spokesperson has been talking to the press he confirmed that one person has been killed and four people have been wounded after this knife attack took place in a supermarket in hamburg the suspect who carried out this attack is in police custody however as of yet police haven't spoken about any motive behind the they have said that they're investigating all possible motives including terror now some eyewitnesses at the scene said that the man shouted. god is great in our big before carrying out his attack however the police spokesperson didn't comment further on
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that what we are seeing though is around the area where this took place it's cordoned off by police very heavily armed police presence at the scene there. we also understand the terror units of the german police force are the scene as well this attack on friday evening in hamburg leaving one person dead four others have been wounded in a knife attack at a supermarket the police have confirmed now of course with such intense security there just a few weeks ago when the g. twenty was being held in hamburg ok peter if you get any more information we'll come back to you for now though thanks very much. other headlines story some other news is coming to us here at the r.t. news center north korea's fired a missile that landed in the sea off japan the pentagon says that it registered the launch and believes that the missile is a ballistic one however there have been no details of the range of this missile which tokyo says only flew about forty kilometers or so south korean president is
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called an emergency national security meeting following the launch there's also been a very angry reaction from the japanese prime minister when more details come in we'll of course keep you posted on what happened. russia's 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 here in russia after the u.s. senate approval of a new anti russian sanctions bill artie's k. partridge has the story. look at the context of where this all started this 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 respond in kind with the americans across the whole
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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 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 to the news of these sanctions are completely illegal they go against international law and the rules of the world
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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 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 sitting in the tomb on capitol hill today however russia's not rejecting dialogue with the u.s. where possible we don't let our emotions run high and we'll continue to fight for interests and search for solutions. on a phone call with his american counterpart russian foreign minister sergey lavrov
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highlighted that moscow was forced to reply with countermeasures to protect its interests he told rex tillerson that russia tried to do everything to improve relations but had to react to a number of hostile steps and provocation from washington the vote added that the response is adequate and in line with international practice i mean while many now see president trump as being in a tough position either he must take a hard line on the kremlin or let down his party and try and go against the will of congress political commentator john bolton and he 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
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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. and as we've been reporting on r.t. there are also fears in the e.u. that the proposed sanctions would hit european companies the german economy ministers criticized the u.s. over the planned she says the washington has abandoned the shared position on anti russia sanctions and even suggested counter measures to calum opens be to ask people in new york how much they knew about those measures. the economic minister of germany wants to put sanctions counter sanctions on a country in coordination with the world trade organization. russia maybe the us. the us then it's way and i probably in the states on the united states oh you know
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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 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
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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. weeks after the city of mosul was finally free from islamic state in iraq more details of the liberation and now in the aging 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 in mosul. a group of iraqi soldiers the naked men down an alleyway to 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
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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 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 at investigated by the iraqis or any commanders to be held accountable the report claims the executions were carried out by an iraqi unit that played a significant role in the liberation of mosul they received american training and
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assistance while fighting eisel in twenty fifteen gets mail from human rights watch again says there's no indication that washington has stopped its support to the division. the u.s. has publicly for a long time publicized the work that it's done training the iraqi military think 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 you know 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 torturing killing allegedly carried out by the iraqi army had previously been documented by a cameraman who was embedded with one of the units i must warn you though that some of the photographs which were about to show upsetting to look at. claims to have filmed abuse and extrajudicial executions some of which he said were also recorded by the officers themselves. spoke to the camera man last month but please be warned
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again the some of the images we're about to show you contain graphic violence. and 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 morningstar 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 and you spend a lot of time embedded with iraqi forces and i know i spent some time in mosul i know how hard it was to you know get in touch and embed yourself with the rocket forces and especially difficult to gain the trust but what was your position with the emergency response division letting you know every minute how can it work
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together every day we all slept together i spent more time with something 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 with this these two which is seen said 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 all 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 be tortured people and killed them over and over.
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as i remember it happened on december twelfth katz an insurgent hider came back and started to show us the video we saw how sergeant hyder started to shoot he shot a man six nine times and we heard the voice of higher stuff that's you know i want to talk to him and he shot the man two times himself the creators of the cia's war on terror interrogation program could be facing trial and tell you all about that after the break. the feeling of. every the experience. you get it. according to josh.
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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 we have discovered perhaps a percent or so of that ten thousand of them perhaps so in other words that means that ninety nine percent of them are undiscovered so you should expect that the great majority of asteroids are to come very close to the earth to come as a surprise. back to military psychologists for god it is the architects of the cia's enhanced
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interrogation program will discover at some point on friday whether they have 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 when the country launched its war on terror following the nine eleven attacks but a 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 can's who works with one of the psychologists had devised a program to help u.s. service personnel withstand torture he says his work on c.n.n.
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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
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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 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 te's the enhanced interrogation program. brutal techniques. well the two lawyers for the two psychologist in question say that their clients are innocent and should be viewed like the suppliers of poison gas to the nazis were in their words simply doing business in line with
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a contractual agreement and one former cia analyst and whistleblower told us that the man 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
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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. sometimes new communications director has learned the hard way about holding one to one conversations with reporters after one of them revealed an expletive filled rant about fellow senior white house staff let's go live to washington d.c. now jacqueline bouvier is that. this is been all over the internet and i guess
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choosing your words a little more carefully maybe the mr scaramucci i was is grabbing headlines. you know it is everywhere and before it seemed that trump took the cake with abusive tweets and obsessing over leaks coming from the white house but now it seems that his new communications director is giving him a run for his money to say the least this all started when a reporter from the new yorker tweeted about a dinner that scary mucci the president and a few others were said to have on wednesday. allegedly called that journalist and an effort to find out who his source was but things quickly escalated into an all out tirade when the reporter refused to name anyone the communications director began to threaten to fire everyone in the white house communication team then added later on that he wanted to kill all the leakers he also spent a fair amount of time during that conversation attacking the white house chief of staff were in spring abyss calling him a paranoid schizophrenic it's been reported that there is no love lost between the
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two of them and according to the transcript which of course we cannot verify you believe that priebus is out for him and priebus wasn't the only victim of scare him which is anger he also struck out at trump's chief strategist steve bannon using language that cannot be said on air in fact the conversation was chock full of explicit language scaramucci has since tweeted that he sums time sometimes uses colorful language but will refrain from doing so in the future he also added that he made a mistake and trusting a reporter but further apologies were not made now white house spokesperson sarah huckabee say sanders excuse the comments made by scary movie saying he simply let his passion for trump and terms agenda get the best of him and it's unclear if scaramucci will face any fallout over this but interestingly enough he didn't have one bad thing to say about the president himself and never has so perhaps trump will let this slide scare which he has only had this job for
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a week and with him coming out and others notably going out there was hope that things would change in the. white house might calm down but with so much infighting such as this it seems the situation is poised to get worse before it gets better. jacki the white house stuff christmas dinner is going to be want to put a feather she. in addition to the flags for the. next for you russia's foreign ministry is demanding an official explanation from rumania on why the country denied a commercial plane carrying a russian deputy prime minister and three to its space with us now in the studio francis santiago ago how does this. surprising turn of events here so be playing with the deputy prime minister dmitry rogozin was on its way to the capital just in now for a meeting with the president. which was actually scheduled by his request now as it was passing the romanian airspace the romanian air traffic control asked for
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a list of passengers and once they found out that goes it was on the plane the plane was told to turn around ok then of course we had the romanian foreign ministry not bothering to deny this and they did confirm this and of course then came mitri. reaction that. unfortunately. when they found out that the russian delegation was headed there they had to turn the plane around and of course the true goes and then. came out saying that. he is quite angry with this decision because the romanian. put the people. on that plane in danger because of fuel shortage and they had to land in minsk belorussia and then of course came igor dunn's reaction which was also.
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quite condemning of the fact that romania tried to sabotage a meeting between two switch egypt partners which of course moscow and just the now have been for quite some time. now just imagine call in if the sanctioned list of russia was to be followed through and not allow anyone on that list to fly over the russian air space that one of the biggest countries as far as land mass that would be some serious fuel spending for those entities so quite a surprising turn of events here yeah a lot of ill tempered diplomacy doing the rounds this friday miguel thanks very much for that thanks so much. a lot of developments going on in the past few hours and you know going to have the latest on that for you in the next thirty five minutes or so this is also international.
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