disciplined but the swastika is only one nail hammered into the coffin of the reputation of the australian defense forces earlier this month the fairfax media company published the results of its own investigation into a string of actions in afghanistan it revealed for instance that in two thousand and nine senior officers forced a rookie to kill an unarmed elderly detainee as part of a blooding ritual initiation another soldier nicknamed wanted us apparently machine gun demand with a prosthetic leg which was then removed from the body taken to a strip and used as an improvised beer mug at the s.e.'s headquarters in perth the government takes all of the gay sions about australian forces seriously and would expect this allegation must be thoroughly examined independently from the chain of command but as new evidence continues to surface of the investigation could turn out to be as lengthy as the afghan war itself we spoke to political analyst. who told us what afghans make of the allegations of misconduct by foreign troops in the country. the general public do not really. the market are different shared w

disciplined but the swastika is only one nail hammered into the coffin of the reputation of the australian defense forces earlier this month the fairfax media company published the results of its own investigation into a string of actions in afghanistan it revealed for instance that in two thousand and nine senior officers forced a rookie to kill an unarmed elderly detainee as part of a blooding ritual initiation another soldier nicknamed wanted us apparently machine gunned a man with a prosthetic leg which was then removed from the body taken to australia and used as an improvised beer mug at the usa yes headquarters in perth the government takes all of the gay sions about australian forces seriously as a strategy and would expect this allegation must be thoroughly examined independently from the chain of command but as new evidence continues to surface that the investigation could turn out to be as lengthy as the afghan war itself we spoke to a political analyst. who told us what afghans make of the allegations of misconduct by foreign troops in the country. the general public do not really. demarcated

disciplined but the swastika is only one nail hammered into the coffin of the reputation of the australian defense forces earlier this month the fairfax media company published the results of its own investigation into a string of actions in afghanistan it revealed for instance that in two thousand and nine senior officers forced a rookie to kill an unarmed elderly detainee as part of a blooding ritual initiation another soldier nicknamed wanted us apparently machine gunned a man with a prosthetic leg which was then removed from the body taken to a strip and used as an improvised beer mug at the usa yes headquarters in perth the government takes all of the gay sions about australian forces seriously as a sturdy and would expect this allegation must be thoroughly examined independently from the chain of command but as new evidence continues to surface that the investigation could turn out to be as lengthy as the afghan war itself we spoke to political analyst mushtaq rahim who told it is what afghans make of the allegations of misconduct by foreign troops in the country. the general public do not really.

disciplined but the swastika is only one nail hammered into the coffin of the reputation of the australian defense forces earlier this month the fairfax media company published the results of its own investigation into a string of actions in afghanistan it revealed for instance that in two thousand and nine senior officers forced a rookie to kill an unarmed elderly detainee as part of a blooding ritual initiation another soldier nicknamed wanted us apparently machine gun demand with a prosthetic leg which was then removed from the body taken to a strip and used as an improvised beer mug at the s.e.'s headquarters in perth the same leonidas also reportedly kicked a detainee off a cliff and then shot him dead a mercy killing apparently astray and defense forces have been investigating rumors of its soldiers actions in afghanistan for years now but as new evidence continues to surface that the investigation could turn out to be as lengthy as the afghan war itself. the year after iraq's most school was liberated by iraqi and u.s. led coalition forces from islamic state and. joe levy has travelled to the wate

live in beijing there is an emeritus professor at the university of new south wales in the australian defense force academy he joins us now live from camera good to have you with us as the south china sea likely to dominate these meetings between the u.s. defense secretary the chinese president and his chinese counterpart. well it will feature but i think they're for three other issues before you get down to the south china sea the first is that secretary mattis wants to establish a transparent strategic dialogue. a military to military relations on track a second they to find out the how far china will cooperate on the nuclearization of korea thirdly is the taiwan situation which is really quite tense with china just having done in circle been exorcised as legislation that was referred to in the lead up and finally the south china sea where about us is really saying that the consequences will follow from chinese militarization so three major city tick issues on the plate plus the larger context of how the two countries should get along militarily it's his first visit to china ever and first the se