a dubbed a war of and they had nation devastating tolls and civilians in iraq a syria is a very highly critical analysis of the airstrikes that were carried out by the u.s. led coalition that involved britain and france on the city of raka from june to october twenty seventeen in their fight against isis and this amnesty international report talks of decimated families and neighborhoods says that not enough was done to protect civilians and that some of the attacks resulted in violation of international humanitarian law and indeed talks of potential war crimes as a result of the these strikes the report finds that one hundreds of people died and thousands were injured despite the coalition saying they did everything they could to minimize casualties. we did everything we could in our intelligence assessment in our planning to minimize to the maximum degree possible any chance of civilian casualties the coalition's claims that it's precision air campaigns allowed it to

bump islamic state out of iraq while causing very few civilian casualties do not stand up to scrutiny on the ground in iraq who witnessed a level of destruction comparable to any single seen in decades of covering the impact of wars you know when you're fighting an enemy. uses noncombatants as collateral damage you know it's very difficult when you when you fight it we like to completely avoid. any casualties of war like this but i can tell you we have a process that we go through. to minimize you know civilian casualties that cost well amnesty international interviewed one hundred twelve civilians in as many as forty two locations of airstrikes for this report and some of their focus was specifically on four families who had lost very big numbers of family members in these airstrikes they look at one family that lost as many as eight now. ambers and

one airstrike another lost sixteen another family lost eighteen and a fourth family that lost as many as thirty nine people in those airstrikes and of course while we know the coalition says that in this case as others they did all they can to minimize casualties and in these kinds of scenarios according to them this is inevitable according to amnesty international that is just not good enough and they have called for investigations and justice for the victims of those strikes or two he was in syria while the u.s. led campaign to liberate iraq was ongoing these are some of the reports filed the by our correspondent on the extent of the devastation and residents were affected by the buck the u.n. estimates that's an average of twenty seven people are being killed in iraq every day nothing is left in iraq except for destruction because of the coalition and the strength of the coalition were some villages worldwide towns some neighborhoods

were demolished in the unlikelihood more than eighty people civilians were killed in to us strikes near the syrian city of braca many have been killed. in an airstrike but the massacres in iraq are committed by isis and the coalition warplanes together what can i say the streets are full of good bodies. ok another story we're closely following today germany's refugee agency is being investigated for corruption it's accused of offering asylum for bribes chancellor merkel also being dragged into the scandal it claims she was aware of the problems but they did nothing to reform the organization or europe correspondent peter over has more from burnet as the cash for asylum investigation into the german federal office for migration and refugees all omf gappers speed public focus has turned to the german chancellor angela merkel and what she knew about the agency's problems

its former head frank here good advice gave an interview to a leading german sunday tabloid which he said he held face to face meetings with the chancellor and made it explicitly clear that his agency couldn't cope with the pressures being put on it by refugee policy. there was no structure or organized development in the form of specific tasks set of priorities or occult collation of personality acquirements since no instructions were available everyone could work as they saw feet in response to those claims a spokesperson for angle merkel had this to say. of course there was an ongoing intense process of changing the work of the german federal office of migrations and refugees when the refugee crisis broke out i'm just trying to make clear that mr vice is repeated reported on these changes in the prove months to the how the federal states the blunder stock the cabinets he spoke at press conferences and again and again to the public and major league the chancellor was informed about

the plan of the reform and the measures taken in this agency. the investigation began after it was alleged that an employee at the un fought for us in bremen wrongfully granted asylum to twelve hundred people on the list though security services say were two islamic extremists one of whom they describe as an actual terror threat while forty four others belonged to islamist groups prosecutors allege that the female employee took both money and gifts to grant asylum wrongfully between twenty thirteen and twenty sixteen as the investigation continues she did nice those charges against her politicians both from the opposition and from within and glimmer of course on coalition partners saying they want answers. it is not about accusations it is not about the vindication of a conspiracy theory but rather about a sober investigation. we have to investigate the accusations of negligence and

corruption and you have to do it quickly and everyone who was involved should give testimony the former refugee card to nato and the interior ministry there is a way to be done in this investigation last month the country's largest opposition party alternative for germany launched a last. suit against calls refugee policy they say that the chancellor's decision to welcome around one of the half a million refugees to the country should have gone through a vote in the stock and the fact that it didn't is unconstitutional and so we put the legal course in front of the court to question whether there there is a legal. explanation or a legal reason to open our borders hopefully you will have a special committee to go into that scandal well the point we're making is probably the scandal is not something about the so one. office environment and has

to do with political responsibility and we have to look at who is responsible for everything what has happened there but for now the big question remains if the chancellor knew that the migration and refugee agency was struggling why was nothing done to relieve the pressure betrayal of r.t. earlier. the international nuclear watchdog house confirmed that iran is preparing to restart the production of a chemical compound i can be used to produce nuclear weapons earlier sent an official letter informing the organization that its stepping up its enrichment capacity. right now the alleged infrastructure and utilities in the towns are ready for hundreds of thousands of separate it work you know we started the work yesterday we sent a letter about the start of some activities to the i.a.e.a. . they had developments come with the iran nuclear deal on the verge of unraveling the twenty fifteen accord was the result of long drawn out negotiations lifted

international sanctions against iran and in turn to run to give up its nuclear aspirations and significantly limited its enrichment program but now that the u.s. has scrapped the agreement sanctions are being imposed again washington is warning there's more to come. we will apply unprecedented financial pressure on the iranian regime the leaders in tehran will have no doubt about our seriousness these will indeed end up being the strongest link in history when we are complete european union has reacted to around this latest move saying that although it doesn't constitute a breach of the deal the revival of enrichment activities by tehran exacerbates the already fragile situation meanwhile both iran and washington are putting pressure on europe such as issuing threats and ultimatums to each is the u.s. going to impose sanctions on european companies that continue to do business with

iran i think it would give the answer you know the answer is it's possible it depends on the conduct of other governments. european countries seem to expect the iranian people to pose suffer from the sanctions and give up the nuclear energy activities abiding by the j c p o e limits i'm telling those countries that this is a dream that's never going to come true this will never happen. sayyid mohammad marandi a politics professor at the university of tehran believes a ram has shown remarkable restraint and that the ball is now in europe's court. i think without a doubt the iranians have shown a great deal of patience so far when the americans pulled out many expected the iranians to pull out immediately as well because after all this was a multi lateral agreement and the united states is the key antagonists and if when the united states pulls out the. agreement really becomes almost

meaningless however the iranians showed patience and they told the europeans that if they're willing to throw back bone and stand up to the americans protect their citizens protect their business people and their corporations and companies and banking and financial institutions with real commitments if there have solid if they bring forth solid commitments to show the iranians that they're willing to do this then iran can stay within the agreement but otherwise if the the europeans are just going to give verbal support and back down and allow their companies to be sanctioned and punished by the americans then there is absolutely no reason why the iranians should stay in agreement. on police in the u.s. state of maryland broken into the house of whistleblower chelsea manning after she posted messages on twitter entering a suicide. it's

very fishy that this happened to chelsea manning and it was her home that was raided she's a former whistle blower who was sentenced to thirty five years in prison after leaking government documents to wiki leaks now she's also an activist who routinely takes part in protests the last one was in may where she was protesting against the prosecution of those arrested during trump's inauguration and she's running for senate but even though i she's had a history of suicide attempts it's pretty controversial that. the police broke into her house for some questionable tweets under the promise of a wellness check and this is all captured on camera and the video showed officers breaking in and searching her apartment with their weapons drawn now manning wasn't at home when this happened and her friend was actually relieved when she found out she wasn't at home saying that the raid could have resulted in manning's death if she was at home now mental experts are opposed to these so-called wellness checks

arguing that they shouldn't be done by police in the first place now the american civil liberties union has also raised concerns about this practice saying that potentially suicidal people need professional help not police raids the montgomery county police department however feel differently at first they question the authenticity of the footage and then they defended their actions saying that they only conducted the raid after receiving calls from quote concerned parties now when they were asked for the need for weapons the police captain said that the decision to draw weapons depends on the officer and the circumstances but as for manning her friend says she saved but she's also asked to give manning some more space but to provide some statistics these raids sometimes don't end very well and twenty eighteen a loan officer shot dead sixty four people and it's definitely suspicious that it's happened to chelsea manning who's been on the government's radar for quite some time now. u.s.

federal prosecutors working on the trump russia probe accuse the american leaders former campaign manager of pressuring witnesses to give false evidence ahead of a trial paul monna ford is said to have failed to register as a foreign agent when he lobbied for ukraine in twenty twelve but as you know examines when it comes to interfering the u.s. has prior. the alleged meddling in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election still dominates headlines stateside russian meddling into the twenty sixteen election russian interference and russia is again trying to disrupt our elections russia did meddle in the two thousand and sixteen election but you don't need a history lesson to understand that foreign meddling is a global game one that the u.s. plays very well. through our history when we tried to manipulate or influence elections or even overturn to governments it was done with the best interests of the people of that country in mind given the traditional reverence for human rights

according to studies between nine hundred forty six and their two thousand great powers intervened one hundred seventeen times in foreign affairs with the us making up a large chunk of those statistics. part design of the cold interventions in other what situations when great powers that intervene in elections in other countries in an attempt to determine the election result the united states intervened in elections of this. election's in this manner in forty seven countries for this purpose between one thousand nine hundred ninety six and two thousand here's a few examples the say i publicly admitted it was behind the notorious nine hundred fifty three k. of iran's democratically elected prime minister he insisted on oil should be nationalized which perhaps wasn't in the best interest of iranians or washington so it seems so he was overthrown and the shell small installed for the next twenty six years to safeguard the west's all ambitions in the country until it all ended and

the west an islamic revolution. the one who's in the me is america there is not based on prejudice or a pessimistic point of view but rather it stems from experience from a proper and real understanding of the actual realities of the world from a wrong to chile two decades on and the cia is supporting a bloody military coup in south america the pinochet government prisoned torches and killed some forty thousand and also political enemies including us citizens and the f.b.i. surveillance like caesar peering into the colonies from distant rome nixon said the choice of government by the chileans wasn't acceptable to the president of the united states but the attitude in the white. have seemed to be if in the wake of vietnam i can no longer stand in the marines then i will send in the cia with this in mind is alleging russian meddling in the us election

a little hypocritical the reelection campaign a former russian president boris yeltsin was secretly managed by three american political consultants they spilled the beans to a us magazine about their collaboration with the clinton white house to bump up his approval ratings although the americans spoke no russian and worked through translators they began secretly laying out an american style campaign to counter the public sentiment running against yeltsin the plot was thrilling so much so showtime made a movie about it based on a true story told the russians how deeply you did not your government whether they wanted. to look for hope today apparently looking for it seems as though outside intervention in domestic politics is as old as politics itself and when it comes to u.s. meddling it's all change your country for the best whether you want it why not. it is nine days. until four polls show produced tournament kicks off right here in

moscow thirty two nations will go about to get their hands on the world cup trophy and earlier we got a close up look at the biggest prize in this border. i'm really proud to tell you that there is more than just a special reason for me to be wearing this golden tie because here in this studio right now we're going to show you a very special shiny gold can we please have a look. is this the actual proof the world cup winners get their hands on after the final the winning team will lift this exact trophy above their heads and this is the one that they keep only for a short while. before the ultimate possession they get a so-called the so-called winner's trophy which it looks like exactly this one but

only made of bronze and it's a gold plated bronze so even lionel messi seen as the best footballer today can't touch it indeed this is the one in on li made of eighteen karat solid gold. official fee for world cup trophy and only heads of state and people world cup winners can touch this magnificent pulled the price how far has the trophy traveled on its tour trophy traveled from kaliningrad to latinos talk literally a massive geography we estimated that around forty million people lives in the nearest proximity to the cities where the traffic visited any special moments in russia in kaliningrad for instance a young guy made a marriage marriage proposal to his girl and that was really really touching and almost you know i almost had tears in my eyes and a lot of new words coming to see this trophy after their wedding there was

a. longtime fan of football it was around sixteen years of age and the guy was crying and i haven't seen you know a sixty year old guy crying at the side of the trophy. well as the excitement builds over which country will be lifting the world cup in the final in moscow next month r.t. has been picking the brains of perhaps the most famous manager i there just say marino on how the tournaments will play out and we invite you to challenge the special one and make your own predictions i don't want to be emotional to be able to contradictions because you know what my play is the weekend with the also one of my players to go on a holiday so this is going to be. you think a deep about isn't a if you feel up to testing your knowledge against the might of marine you head on to facebook or twitter and follow the hush to easy as pie it's called much marino to make sure you don't miss any of the games there will be two rounds of

predictions from the group stages to the knockouts with the first starting wednesday. meanwhile teams are beginning to arrive in russia head of the world cups opening matches the iranian squad with the first time in moscow they are in a tough group b. in the tournament will face one of the favorites spain as well as portugal and morocco the iranian coach described making it to the russian world cup as a dream come true a run dominated their qualifying group by the way which included south korea and syria. the fifty six that mission to the international space station is set to blast off on whedon's there from the baikonur launch site in cassocks them on board are an international crew of three who are expected to take two days to reach the orbiting laboratory. is on the launch site for us. we rode into the baikonur cosmodrome as the sun was rising in order to catch the first glimpses of the craft as it left

you suddenly platform to slowly surely and ever so cautiously make its way to the launch pad. the so you system is actually made up of two parts the rocket and the spacecraft itself first of the gate was the rocket which contains the most eye catching aspect the first stage boosters which pressure around twenty metres long it will burn for only one hundred eighteen seconds before falling away at which point the stack and the third stage rockets take over the top half is the actual spacecraft and it can also be broken down into three sections at the very top of the orbital module where the global sit for take up. clearly the site you system is the only one in the world used to get crewmembers back and forth to the international space station behind me you can see the rocket taking its final position on the platform before

takeoff. to the final in place here at launch pad one also known as the garden start named in honor of yuri good are in the first man ever launched into space back in one nine hundred sixty one and that was just a few years after the first artificial satellite was also launched right from here and on wednesday i'm going to get a chance to witness my very own lift off. more world news with me in thirty and see that there are no for more great programs martine international.

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yes he's already here so that's what happened and what's going to happen you're going to follow this with like this and this is what happened this is what they said i'm not sure if i'm going to be equal. i need your vehicle and then i. i'm not sure if he felt like this or like this but he felt he felt toward you as he were to. so is this guy here getting in this wasn't this guy getting the only option if he fell for discovery here shot it he went over it in a vehicle that's only way if this guy was leaning forward on the street where he was given the vehicle and get shot from inside the vehicle and that's what they all say that he wasn't getting in the vehicle when the shots were fired. here but they said he did it and he said i didn't see it because i was just getting in the vehicle because he's wanted done it. this guy was a woman and he knew of only option as the only person that could have shot him they

just they ramrodded let. this guy get into that shot and that's they. don't want to. shoot. it goes very fast so what happened in between and we were just broadened along. it's like get out there. i get go knock on the door nobody answers on our door nobody answers because i'm getting in on the if you know it was a pontiac grand prix or grand am to your car if if you sit in there or see someone else sit in the present seat and you have to lean your seat forward first for the person to get the back seat you liked is two shots back where were these bullets placed in the head clint was sitting in the passenger seat. so he it turns out it was. but in your first statement you said the bullets were on the right of his head

right that's why i would get because he was like this probably going to be alone in their own i don't know exactly where they had him i just know they had him somewhere in there drove this and you know they had been left. they could have hit it on the left that's it that's in the papers. could have had a minimum that could have trees sure. on the on the second murder. is my worry is there was a cake of a base ok they've made a statement as one of the forensics are so important because they have those and all they have is go to the testimony there's no d.n.a. there's no fingerprints me at two vehicles and life organs there's not one for your birth for me. first you stated that clean took the final shots right you know in your first state only in the first i guess

why did she do that say mark i got told because you were friends i've known mark a lot longer and i don't claim. i got told investigators first to investigators i shan't say more. can i ask you a very very honest question. and i hope you're not offended but this is my common sense again speaking so i'm not attacking you and i'm not judging because i wasn't there this is what i think. i think it's really hard to believe that someone lies in court to protect his friend. and i will not lie to protect his own life. i never lied in court to protect my friend you said. that was a state it was a statement but it was really really important it was your first statement you said clinton chap this guy. he killed him he said.

enough savior and as i figured you shoot someone in it you think they're going to. do it do you want to trista come out truth and out. well everyone says something different so. i want to show you standing the trees. a nice eighty.

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