some other country that they're putting a target on they would leap to approach human rights watch and amnesty international no question of these are going to sources these are these internationally recognized. us rick no human rights groups are accusing the committing war crimes with the strong through and documenting specific incidents that are recognized internationally to be more so for example in in the in the summary that we just gave talking about so-called secondary search where a targeted hit. so millions gather more on own people gather in on own people are assumed to be civilians unless otherwise others gather you help the wounded and then there's a second strike that is a war crime that is a war crime regardless of what else is true. you know if it happened in afghanistan you would be a war crime so girl most of claims about. you know the. two thousand and one authorization for use of military force doesn't apply to back at the that's all irrelevant if you document that the cia conducting secondary strikes and there is no there is a meta mool you know washington you know national law doesn't app

new studies of human rights watch and amnesty international indicate that we may have really stepped in the united states the drone programs in pakistan and yemen. both of these organizations human rights watch and amnesty international not weird lefty organizations these are internationally respected organizations by the united states are saying that there's a real problem here to stop a quadri could re amnesty international tells the story here it is written. on a sunny afternoon in october two thousand and twelve a sixty eight year old woman moment a baby was killed in a drone strike that appears to be directly targeted at a. grandchildren recounted in painful detail about amnesty international the moment when she was brought in blown to pieces in front of their very eyes while she was gathering vegetables so. and then and then we've also got this double double tap i think it's called where we don't just kill the person but then when people come in to rescue we send a second drone out this is the new policy that we're pursuing what's the difference between what you just heard and b

robot so these ones can fly this news arrives on the heels of condemnation by human rights watch and amnesty international who deem some drone strikes as war crimes not to mention the questions over privacy and civil liberties by using them here domestically knowing that the u.s. flies these things around the world has prompted other countries to create their own drones there really is like another arms race the fact of the matter is that the longer the u.s. continues to pretend that drone strikes are the most effective way to fight terrorism more terrorists will be created if we want to continue to spread democracy and let this be our foreign policy that we better be prepared to live with the consequences. after the break we'll talk about the latest on libya with well. you know people are worried and they would be worried if when we looked to islamic leaders such as when we saw different islamic leaders the iranian president say in . your freedom and through the woman's womb this that this is not things that we can you can just go along you can listen to even magic in this country he was alive he was the

robot so these ones can fly this news arrives on the heels of condemnation by human rights watch and amnesty international who deem some drone strikes as war crimes not to mention the questions over privacy and civil liberties by using them here domestically and knowing that the us flies these things around the world has prompted other countries to create their own drones there really is like another arms race the fact of the matter is that the longer the us continues to pretend that drone strikes are the most effective way to fight terrorism more terrorists will be created if we want to continue to spread democracy and let this be our foreign policy that we better be prepared to live with the consequences. all right guys after the break we'll talk about the latest on libya with well. it's not for. everybody to do. that you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and our proud. we've been hijacke

rights of all people not just the u.s. citizens. they want to make sure that the people accused of attacks on the u.s. receive fair and public trials. >> amnesty international and human rights watchccuse the obama administration of violating human rights and the use of the drones. the researchers have charged the u.s. of breaking their own promise of being more transpair transparent. they focused on strikes in pakistan. they researched nine of 45 known drone attacks. from january 2012 and august 2013. in one strike 18 laborers were reportedly killed. >> u.s. counter terrorism strikes are precise an lawful and protective. the u.s. does not take lethal strikes when we or our partners have the ability to capture the terrorists. >> that was white house press secretary denying the reports of human rights watch and amnesty international. here is more from their allegations,. >> the most challenging situation we had to face was the complete and utter secrecy of the u.s. authorities. because of that we cannot be 100 percent certain but we believe these killings documented in our report may include war crimes. we document cases where they could have been arrested and civiliancivilians cas

even begun to publicly acknowledge the existence of its drone program and both human rights watch and amnesty international were clear to state their reports are not aimed at condemning the drone program itself but instead condemning on lawful killings and the lack of transparency coming from the white house they called for full disclosure of the facts behind each drone. filling in the legal justification for their call for congress to reassert an oversight role they called for the families of those that indiscriminately killed by drones to be compensated and they called for an independent investigations in fair trials against those responsible for unlawful drone killings which could include the president himself. in washington same sex party and pakistani prime minister nawaz sharif spoke in washington d.c. today before he meets with president obama this is what he had to say about drone strikes in his country the use of green just not only going to you going to. what do you do to. get men to do what it is you want and if which even if you could reason from a country joining me now to discuss the findings

. >> human rights watch, and amnesty international's joint report demand the u.s.nd its secrecy surrounding drone strikes. in pakistan's north waz earise stan amnesty international investigated 45 strokes from january 2012 to august 2013. it cited cases like that of a 68-year-old grandmother. >> her grandchildren recounted the moment she was blown into pieces in front of their eyes. >> her granddaughter was filmed by the group as an eyewitness. >> human rights watch also carried out research on six specific air strikes in yemen inns 2009. >> the u.s.'s only publicly acknowledged two of the three strikes - those that have killed americans. it's as if the hundreds of yemenies killed in the attacks simple never existed. >> tuesday's report comes after two recent u.n. reports on drones, one of which indicated that as many as 450 civilians may have been killed in u.s. decade. >> u.s. counterterrorism operations are precise, lawful and effective. >> white house spokesman jay carney said the it administration disagreed with the claims and cited a speech by president obama

we have had discussions and open dialogues with human right's watch and amnesty international. ave already established a working's charter, and worked on contractual language that will go into all of our contracts to ensure that the minimum standards are adhered do and they will be above the internationally recognized standards, and we are sure we will be making this issue very seriously. there are a lot of example here in qatar where these standards are extremely high, and we're looking to have standards similar to those. >> if you have been looking at this for three years now, why are a lot of the workers still dyi dying? >> i can only speak to you on -- on -- as -- as a speaks person for the committee right now. these questions i think are better posted to the relevant authorities. i think you know that there is a an investigation. there has been an internationally recognized laugh that is looking into this, that are going to give their recommendation. >> will you be asking to see the results of that investigation? >> i'm sure these results are going to be shared with us. we

and which have killed innocent civilians. amnesty international and human rights watch say deadly strikes in yemen and pakistan violate international law and could be classified as war crimes. . >>> john kerry says reports of a rift between the united states and saudi arabia are overblown. the secretary of state is talking about comments made by the saudi intelligence chief who says the arab nation is shifting away from american policies. john kerry says the comments were made before a meeting with the saudi arabia foreign minister, and things are fine. >> the u.s. denies that it's spying on french citizens. in a statement released the director of national intelligence says: a french newspaper reported about u.s. intelligence operations in france, said the nsa collected millions of calls from business people, politicians, suspected terrorists. "consider this" is this with antonio mora. i'll see you back here at 11 eastern time. [ ♪ theme ] >> the blowback from drone strikes. human rights groups say they are killing more civilians than the obama administration admits. that could cause problems abroad. "consider this" is the u.s. bec

human rights groups zeroed in today on attacks by unmanned u.s. drones and civilian casualties. amnesty international and human rights watch focused on drone strikes in pakistan and yemen. they said the resulting civilian deaths may be tantamount to war crimes in some cases. we'll explore the issue in detail, right after the news summary. efforts to begin peace talks in the syrian civil war have run into a roadblock. the western-backed syrian national coalition laid down several conditions today. its leader said president bashar al-assad must be excluded from any new government and hard-line islamist rebels must be kept out of peace talks. in turn, secretary of state john kerry advised caution. >> woodruff: kerry said he's still optimistic that the rebel coalition will agree to take part in talks with the assad regime, starting in late november. the oil kingdom of brunei will soon be under islamic criminal law. the ruling sultan announced today that enforcement of the sharia penal code will begin in six months. penalties include amputations for convicted thieves and stoning for those who commit adultery. brunei already ban

. >> two reports by amnesty international and human rights watch say u.s. drone strikes to take out militants in pakistan and yemen may have been war crimes. the obama administration rejects the conclusions saying it's counterterrorism attacks are lawful and effective. >> amnesty international has been interviewing the relatives of civilian victims of drone attacks. one killed a grandmother. imtiaz tyab spoke with her family in north western pakistan. >> this is the family of mamana bibi. they say the 60-year-old mother and grandmother was killed in a u.s. drone strike in october of last year. all they have left to remember her by is the photo from her id card. mamana bibi's son, rafeequl rehman, says these x-rays show the injuries sustained by his children when the u.s. drone fired a missile near their home in ghundi kala, in north waziristan. >> everyone was working in the field where we have crops. that's where the drop hits. when the missile struck it was so powerful some fell down steps. >> in a wideranging report into drone strikes, the human rights wa

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effective weapon against terrorism, but human rights groups now say some of those strikes in pakistan and yemen may be war crimes. amnesty international and human rights watchay detail multiple drone attacks including several that have killed civilians. the highly critical reports come at a bad time. tomorrow president obama is due to meet with pakistan's new prime minister. jim sciutto is joining us live from new york with more. how is the obama administration reacting to these reports? >> well, would he have, they're reacting very strongly and say one, they take civilian casualties very seriously. two, they say they've taken measures recently to reduce civilian casualties and that is true. but to the league question in these reports saying that the administration may be be guilty of war crimes, the administration's reaction even more emphatic. here's how press secretary jay carney sondedsonded -- responde shows questions today. >> we would strongly disagree. the administration has repeatedly emphasized the extraordinary care that we take to make sure counter-terrorism actions will in accordance with all applicable law. >> we spoke this morning with the ne

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terror when they kill innocent people and they help terrorists recruit more terrorists most recently to report came out by amnesty international and human rights watch they looked into u.s. strikes in pakistan and yemen human rights watch found that in the strikes that they had investigated seven percent of those who died were civilians washington says they decimated al qaeda solution but it seems al-qaeda has metastasized and continue spreading with drone strikes and brewing civil wars in washington i'm going to check on. george kenney who's a former diplomat of the u.s. foreign service as washington keeps showing its war on terror as full of inconsistency is we should reasonably assume that within the u.s. government they have exactly the same data they know that the more that we attack terrorists the way that we're doing the more terrorism appears and so then the question is well if we're creating more terrorists through our end of terrorism activities why are we doing it there's no sensible strategy there's no consistent logical strategy behind us actions we're taking things one piece at a time so here we support one group there we suppress the

terror when they kill innocent people and they help terrorists recruit more terrorists most recently to report came out by amnesty international and human rights watch they looked into u.s. strikes in pakistan and yemen human rights watch found that in the strikes that they have investigated seventy percent of those who died were civilians washington says they've decimated al qaeda leadership but it seems al-qaeda has metastasized and continue spreading with drawn strikes and brewing civil wars in washington i'm going to check on. what we discuss this disturbing situation with journalist and broadcaster mill clucky believes the u.s. is simply not interested in curbing its influence in the region the fact is that if al qaeda didn't exist it have to be invented it serves an awful lot of good purposes for united states to push its again you around the world if the u.s. was really serious about al qaeda and wanted to deal with it they would do they wouldn't be supporting al-qaeda in syria they would be wanting a secular regime in syria to be toppled that they wouldn't be wanting regime change in libya would be a new clark oh so assiduously turmoil in ir

and the russian city of volgograd. america's unmanned killing machines draw a condemnation from amnesty international and human rights watch to conclude that drone strikes in pakistan yemen should be classed as war crimes. and the syrian government submitted its plan to destroy its chemical weapons to the hague while nineteen opposition groups refused to attend along the way to peace conference in geneva. it is four pm last you're watching r.t.l. marina josh welcome to the program. the german chancellor has been a target of u.s. surveillance for over a decade courting to leak and it's a document obtained by german media that follows earlier reports of american spies tapping the phones of dozens of world leaders in a phone call to president obama merkel said the monitoring would be a breach of trust if confirmed she also said that spying among friends does not work obama reportedly claims to have had no for a knowledge of such practices however germany's build newspaper goes as far as suggesting he actually encouraged the bugging of merkel's phone documents now show that her number was on the n.s.a.'s watch list since two t

terror when they kill innocent people and they help terrorists recruit more terrorists most recently two reports came out by amnesty international and human rights watch they looked into u.s. strikes in pakistan and yemen human rights watch found that in the strikes that they have investigated seventy percent of those who died were civilians washington says they've decimated its leadership but it seems al-qaeda has metastasized. and continue spreading with drawn strikes and brewing civil wars in washington i'm going to. discuss the situation further i'm now joined live by journalist and broadcaster neil clark the club how much of the turmoil and violence we're currently seeing in iraq and afghanistan are directly blamed on nature intervention i think they could all be directly blamed on the nato intervention because if we think back the so-called interventions that we need all build a humanitarian ventures work it was the benign nato powers led by the united states were going into these countries to liberate the people from these with dictators like saddam was say. exactly and in every instance of the so-called interventions the result has been death

question about that but later on just days after you made this statement amnesty international human rights watch doctors without borders and the international crisis group investigated those claims and they all sad that they were absolutely no evidence for claims of systematic rape moreover amnesty international said that rebels at times appeared to have knowingly made false claims or manufactured evidence or as things that stand now at this point it was a ruse there was never ever any avid dance to support that claim and yet you as the chief prosecutor of the world's highest court you went public with those allegations and those allegations help to turn global public opinion against gadhafi look we have evidence we have it we in our investigation different human i watch and i'm just a national i believe we have better investigations we collect information that the worst showing us the massive number of girls who are that attended in hospitals with. some cases in the view of the people telling us what happened but they were not ready to talk openly and we had this information of biography thing that was where i say i was t

and in a panic. to survivors of a suicide bus that hit a crowded bus in the russian city of volgograd. america's a man killing machine pistol condemnation from amnesty international and human rights watch to say the drone strikes in pakistan and yemen make calls to crime. plus the syrian government presents its plan to destroy its chemical weapons while nineteen opposition group.

and which have killed innocent civilians. amnesty international and human rights watch say deadly strikes in yemen and pakistan violate internationaled as war crimes. . >>> john kerry says reports of a rift between the united states and saudi arabia are overblown. the secretary of state is talking about comments made by the saudi intelligence chief who says the arab nation is

again civilians have violated international law and sparked a backlash that undermines the campaign against al qaeda. amnesty international and human rights watch called on the obama administration to reveal his full legal rationale for the strikes and investigate the killings detailed in the reports. president obama spoke by phone monday with the french president in a bid to alleviate tensions over reports that revealed massive spying for the national security agency in france. in a statement after the call, the white house said the pair had -- mexico meanwhile said it would send a diplomatic note to the united states demanding an investigation into spying on its officials following a report the nsa hacked the e-mail account of then-president felipe helder on calderon in 2010. president obama defended his signature health care law monday following weeks of technical failures that have prevented many from signing up. obama declined to say how many people have actually been able to enroll, but he admitted there have been technical roadblocks. >> the problem has been the website that is supposed to make it easy to apply for and purchase the insur

and panic talking to survivors of the suicide blast that hit a crowded bus in the russian city of volgograd. america's man killing machines to a condemnation from amnesty international and human rights watch you say the drone strikes in pakistan and yemen may constitute war crimes. and the syrian government presents a full list now of its chemical weapons that it plans to destroy them while one thousand opposition groups refused to attend the long awaited peace conference in geneva. hello very good morning if you just joined us money was kevin zero in it's live from moscow just after midnight here now and this is our weekly top stories the last seven days first the german chancellor has been a target of u.s. surveillance for over a decade according to a league tennis a document obtained by german media it follows earlier reports of american spies tapping the phones of dozens of world leaders in a phone call to president obama merkel said it would be a breach of trust if the monitoring is confirmed she also said quote spying among friends there she goes doesn't work a bomber apparently apologized and reportedly claimed to. no prior knowledge it was going on germany's build newspaper though

and in a panic talks to survivors of that suicide blast that hit a crowded bus in the russian city of volgograd. america's heartland killing machine pistol condemnation from amnesty international and human rights watch to say the drone strikes in pakistan and yemen may constitute war crimes. plus the syrian government presents its plan to destroy its chemical weapons opposition groups refused to attend the long awaited peace conference in geneva. over a good evening who just joined us it's eight pm my name is kevin o. and this is r t and it's the weekly a roundup of the top stories in the last seven days first the german chancellor has been the target of u.s. surveillance for over a decade according to a leaked n.s.a. document obtained by german media follows those early reports of american spies tapping the phones of dozens of world leaders well in a phone call to president obama merkel said the monitoring would be a breach of trust if confirmed she also said that spying among friends just doesn't work now reportedly apologized and reportedly claimed to have had no full knowledge of such practices however germany's build newspaper goes as far as suggesting he actually. courage the bugging of merkel