explosions at it. the cab you knew you will will will will will . one rt at guantanamo bay has been holding war on terror detainees for twelve during the facility is known for waterboarding force feedings and indefinite detention what other crawlers and what will happen to those still in limbo at the facility. we try to answer some of those questions. and on capitol hill a new bill was introduced to fast track trade deals that include the cpp tree deal but critics fear will help big business is over consumer is

the latest on that coming up in south dakota and indian reservation faces a host of problems from thencredibly high and flame into alcoholism. locals and worry what was then that the ban on alcohol is lifted. digging deeper look at this presentation later in the south. i am. it was friday in january. i'm the avenue washington d c and carrion boring you're watching rt america. tomorrow marks the twelfth anniversary of the teens from the war on terror at ensuring guantanamo bay the american military detention facility located in cuba. this by president obama is campaigning on a promise to close the camp back in two thousand eight hundred fifty five detainees remaining get mileage seventy seven and weights have been cleared for

breweries. our teens and suzie a turn on takes a look at the past dozen years at guantanamo bay. chin on a tropical island a symbol of promise is indeed being far from promises kept. they will leave in upholding them back in the history books and unless the people who who advocate for its continued existence when and if they win then in and then ben this suppose it's a nice irony is that america has will be gone forever. twelve years old he was brought to guantanamo its first dt needs of the war on terror the us in and powerful sections in the ruling class of the u s one and a place that openly defies international law it's a decision that's been named that they want displayed place that we can treat people. however we want to whenever we want to do to be is poured into the bank scandal surrounding torture and forced feedings mass hunger strikes of desperation

and dozens of suicide attempts that has something that has been an issue since i've been here in a facility that has long stopped making sense if it ever did. despite the rhetoric and really isn't about national security or prisoners being so dangerous that they can possibly be released. enough of the cabbage pot of seven hundred and seventy nine gt knees held at guantanamo in these past twelve years. only seven have been convicted and sentenced. we have seen eleven prisoners released between oldest in december last year compared to just five men in the whole of the previous three years says movements. but it would be un wise to think that in that we may be that they're off hundred and fifty five men sitting but sentiment and seventy six of those men what to knit for a nice meal was struggling with what to do with them and an even bleaker future still ahead for the other seventy nine prisoners facing the abyss of indefinite detention continues on here because there were somewhere. to give

some money. whether they're innocent and that is not one job for him to tf after majority of detainees went on hunger strike last year above his administration was to meet. the again we might like double standards and overlooking the law on international treaty obligations mean that we should be sending people back to countries where they face the risk of treatment and torture. this followed in some cases but completely ignored and others. two men were recently sent to algeria and the great concerns of possible persecution on the grounds that it was our collector known as. the it's been a sole adult life basically in europe and in canada. and there's really no reason why a college educated i was fluent in german and english and french. i should be sent home to algeria. and probably trapped there unable to operate because the stigma of guantanamo the future of some of those released over the years even more questions and increasingly grim as media claims surfaced that the cna might have reportedly

been engaged in recruiting some of the prisoners as double agents in exchange for freedom. our job here is to do the safe legal humane and transparent care and custody of the detainees. one unelected tug of war between the presidents well to shut the president and congress resisting this is officially used as an excuse to avoid simply closing the place down despite a personal promises to do so think the only reason he can get away with that or treating at the innocent girl credit mess it wasn't so somehow harder to get now. it was five years ago i have been impatiently and common sense. one of the hand of the struggle of guantanamo prisoners. i could sell meat mass of the last twelve years is already so hard to clean up their reasons to keep her rounds are likely to breed more anniversaries to come. this ensured that our team name. i have now completed the first

one tunnel carry out a perfume review board and just added twelve more does he need not new new high due to the list of people prove to be uber weeks at a press release the board said they found that contain law of war detention is no longer necessary to protect against a continuing significant threat to the united states and that means i need it and therefore eligible for transfer. although he has been approved for release is unfair when and where the money will be released and it's more about the guantanamo periodic review board that the military justice said at the detention facility and joined now by lieutenant commander having to go crappy he has not prevented the other detainees at guantanamo bay. thanks for treating us and ukraine. can you tell us a little bit more about obama three act review for it was their purpose and what have they accomplished in regards to close again what a great question president obama priest came up with the concept of where i should say first enacted

the concept of the periodic review boards in march of two thousand eleven with an executive of an executive order free. it then became part of our national law with the national defense authorization act of two thousand twelve nonetheless it took almost two years before the first. periodic review board was actually held which was held at the end of last year two thousand thirteen dollars an hour and that's right and we just got the results of the first four just now. so on a scheme that president obama set in place in march of two thousand eleven is only just starting to bear fruit. i will say that this result today is is great news for mr magi and for his lawyer david dreams. but to some extent. it illustrates the continuing problem of guantanamo bay. even though this periodic review board found that there's no need to

continue to detain mr iemma john had at guantanamo bay he now josh us from a category of people who were being an indefinitely detained. basically pending the end of the war on terror the category of people who are being indefinitely the change in tow we are comfortable enough with the diplomatic relations with young men to be a mother transferred to get us a whole nother issue. i as that has been a very slow mo lau and his trial yesterday. i aways and conducted via video teleconference and the board was looking in a secure location in washington dc and doubt. the detainee and his attorney or in guantanamo bay cuba. africa or the pentagon said it was quote and preparing to lead from reporters watched us the pentagon envoy for guantanamo closure is held the list was surprised to discover that detention center staff had no plans to accommodate the media for the hearings when a lack of transparency with this

process that the lack of transparency with the periodic review board process is exactly in line with the lack of transparency we've seen with everything related to guantanamo including the military commissions process where. we most recently. oddly the gated of motion arguing that the united states pursuant to the international convention against torture cannot use classification to hide evidence of torture and human rights abuses and yet we were shot down on that motion. and in effectively what the commission said is that the government can continue to classify and make secret all the evidence regarding its human rights abuses and torture but even president bush as a military review panel allow for the detainees to meet face to face with the board and allowed the pass to wide so other then that controversial treatments that we already know about and get most of

the waterboarding is heating teenagers for speeding in our teen suicides due to his administration is hiding in fields there. well the initial round of hearings which were the combatant status review tribunals those had a lot of problems too while it's true that the detainees may have actually face the members of the board. they were represented by lawyers the word as is true in this process represented by a non lawyer personal representatives with whom they've established absolutely no relationship so i wouldn't say that those hearings were fair those hearings were an attempt to to retroactively correct a problem which was that we didn't comply with the geneva conventions when we call these people. we didn't give them the proper article five tribunals they were entitled to determine what their status should be as as combatants captured on the battlefield and as a member of the navy's jack and someone that has about reason and the other kids he is white white and clean there's not a conflict of interest there. no there's no conflict of interest when i was

assigned to represent these men which was now five and a half years ago. my primary duty became their best interest and i've fought hard for my clients over the course of those past five years i've gone all around the world actually talking about how bad i can guantanamo is and all the problems with the military commission system all the problems with the periodic review board system one of which all know it was noted by iam american bar association in july of last year that these men are not entitled to be represented by lawyers of their own choosing. in form close relationships with all my clients but somewhat arbitrarily decided that maybe jags cannot have a new role in this process this periodic review board process so these men with whom i've form close relationships. i can represent them in their periodic review board represented by a non lawyer personal representatives with whom they have no relation to

say thank you so much that was having the backing of the unc am thinking. and west virginia a chemical spill into the alcove river causing governor are always humbling to issue this emergency and nine counties and a white armband for three hundred thousand people. over five thousand gallons of coal operation in the fall has escaped from a african industries in the state's capital dili was discovered at last and i need to but it's possible i've been going on for longer. our chief correspondent many lopez has more. state and federal authorities are working around the clock in charleston west virginia after a spill leach chemicals into the elk river just one mile upstream from the local water treatment facility. so this bill comes from a forty eight thousand gallon chemical storage tank from freedom that industry is my now less virginia governor already tomlin has declared a state of emergency for ninety

eight counties surrounding charleston was virginia schools and businesses have been closed and the three hundred thousand or so residents that have been affected by this bill are told not to drink the water not even to watch their heroes with it. only use it to flush the toilet and in case of a fire emergency meanwhile president barack obama has declared a federal emergency in west virginia scene i ended up on homeland security are both getting involved in the relief efforts right now. as investigators try to figure out how contaminated the water is how serious the problem is and how they can go ahead and fix it. now the president of korean industries a company that actually meets those chemicals put out a statement just a little bit down today and i won every part of it it says quote we have been working with local federal and safety and environmental and cds including the dpp has died. the engineers in homeland security and are falling all necessary steps to fix the issue you are seen as been working around the clock says the discovery to contain a leaf to prevent

further contamination. is going on to say the company doesn't know how it only happened in the first place it also doesn't know exactly how much on the chemical was manly's known as chemical it is a foaming agent use in the poll process. of course is a major industry in west virginia and this chemical is actually news that right before the call goes to market in order to do next something else the saudis don't know. as ours that this chemical has on the human body. so far no one has been reported as experiencing negative side effects as a result of this. however a number of people have gone to local hospitals to be checked for possible symptoms but again no one yet has been reported as being sick. now something else to keep in mind here is that some of the symptoms that are involved in this or that authorities are warning residents of his burning throat. if she knew hands and that all arms and stand and a

lot of other sentence that are just really scary to begin with local grocery store owners have described the mad dash by local residents there as pandemonium an hour to get their hands on some clean up bottles of wine or present there are even resorting to buying bags of ice and sporting drinks and soda and things like that in one of them something to drink as there is a shortage right now at the moment. we don't know right now how long it take for the skill to be cleaned up by its resident doubled the lead on the next few days on the road to estrogen yet and i can look this artsy. in the white house and senate have taken steps towards acts for guiding international trade negotiations. moussaoui in the means committee chairman dpm and senate finance committee chairman max baucus the drinking member orrin hatch to introduce the bipartisan congressional a tree priority act yesterday. congress members released a statement saying the panel established his twenty first century congressional negotiations had jack and enrolled for the administration to follow

when the gate entry hawks the bill if passed into law would apply to the twelve nation transfers that the partnership which includes the us and eleven other highlight of the nation along the pacific brands critics of the trade deal had expressed concerns with transparency surrounding the negotiations and proposed corporate policies. the bill includes a fast track provision which would limit congressional input on the tee pee pee going for a straight up or down vote with no room for a minute and laminate floor debate. it is god's country deal and the process of fast acting more and joined by two warring twilight director of citizen's global trade watch leggings for joining the nation. so here's the detail that was induced yesterday. it's pretty expansive it's hundred and seven. he didn't. i thought since you is the first thirty five p's you can see it's a long section is titled dashing into the stream negotiating negotiation of jack that then it clearly outlines of what their

objectives are thick and strengthening the system of international trade to foster economic growth and to ensure that trade agreement support of small businesses equal access to international markets. all great and activity. that's just as big a subject as the night direct dance. so in the bill was passed in its entirety how can we be assured that these objectives will be filled. well first of all a bunch of the objectives i think that's a great extensions of medicine handset would increase prices special for new cast are rules that promote job of showing from the last july i realized to be attacked in international tribunals with the requirement that we pay compensation out of the treasury. there are rules that other than the increase in safety. sometimes as objective facts are great now there is none of them finding the way faster and processes sign up. whether or not any of the objectives of maps. when congress were to vote for this. the executive

branch the president can sign and trade them for congress felt right. implementing legislation rewriting wide smile. the u s law. he and send to congress with no clue the caps to the one piece of legislation the president the congress writes. indeed guarantee yes or no vote in ninety days. no amendments looks like a legislator who drowned in a pack of extra stuff on the slide so east related to trade every red and white spots and domestic on tuesday and radiant congress which is why it took on her show everything way to circumvent they cannot sell up the process on the twentieth is the that the acs data that are becoming law given that both the house and senate are the bills and reduce and thereby per second. so it's interesting it's bipartisan in name but actually they couldn't find a single house democratic sponsor at sedona house doesn't have a democratic sponsored just a republican camp the chairman

the majority in the house now. right now ready there are thirty republicans who befriended the women said they would look at you fast track field is constitutional delegates the way congress is exclusive constitutional party of the train and also binds was when thinking of him apart as nirvana penny that democrats hundred and sixty of them before the break when in said no more facts. since then we've had a bunch of the senior members saying we're not that that's field fast track when you're ready to try to right now with the way i think ted said describing this is their reading time it's a second election year. we don't have the votes the high was the sense that the references to the house a state of revenue bills so it does manage to get their house and senate have the president expressed interest in it isn't something you would sign off on what the president wants it to a huge power grab for him in the sense that he suddenly getting rid of congress not going all the slobber i mean it's that easy when you dance

for it with interesting the more i think is there so we are the days when democrats and republicans agree on anything. the fact that house democrats republicans i say and reared in a key constitutional authority. it's both a reflection of how the american generally as democrats independents republicans and i'm really upset about this trade remains of its members are thinking about the political liability and giving away their authority. this is that this is nothing in fast tracking was first passed in nineteen seventy four had the most recent provision expire in two thousand seven and it was quite controversial back in the seventies but critics say that's because trade deals have expanded in scope inside since the seventies so how is the ttp different from previous renegotiation that were quite controversial of the football codes rather than honey to trade agreement since the seventies but only sixteen at her and kiss to the country podcast. this aspect has not been in the fact that for high end of the last nineteen years. it's a democrat presidents republican presidents have not been easy to get clinton wants to slap down ninety eight house floor when

hundred and seventy when democrats and seventy one republican said no. only george w bush's had italy for five years later in the last nineteen years. what is it with cpp and why now that this inclination generally not the fact that stated all doubt. utep is the most expansive said in both of agreement. besides dodgy him to congress' territory. it really meant to revive trade tariffs quotas. commerce is less nervous about getting a waste of its power in the school was like in the seventies when pastor actress hatched an hour now netted standards. he writes mr kerin anti immigration law in a key policy financial services land use professional licenses food safety. the entire federal statute book. get to the river and through. it really has a son like this is more equality and the director of citizen's global trade watch. and now stood against an already four year old boy afghan boy who

was at settling killed today by u s force its afghan officials say that the chosen this at the palais because and i mean they can support his ability to nato's servicemen and one civilian employee were also killed in the aircraft accidents in the country. this comes as the last afghanistan ties are strained over negotiations for a long term security agreement the deal would determine the us presence in the country falling in with top most foreign trips planned for the end of the year. the civilian death toll is news to emphasize one of afghan president karzai mean to me it's for all unilateral u s and nato military option up operations in afghanistan to end. among other demands karzai also once the us to persuade the taliban leadership to take part in peace negotiations which this government. karzai is refusing to sign a security deal before a presidential election in april. skepticism is growing that negotiators will get hemmed in by its former commander for the uk

the special air service tells rts what he expects from the negotiations. he said. we try to cheat and use to set the conditions whereby the american government continued to gnaw on the way the pool. all the greetings and will be leading the topper the conditions the second is today minimally likely to see that he's a compromise between the old ones. wants which will see a dentist on the rule. in the next period of time perhaps the next ten years. so will it be a great strategic victory. if we want to call her a great strategic outcome. initially one of the deal signed before the end of the year. no crying or rage indian reservation in south dakota law still has an annual per capita income of four

thousand dollars eight times the rate of diabetes than the national average two hundred of heart disease and the two times the rate of infant mortality. i also have possibly the highest unemployment rate in the country. eighteen percent which in that it is the estimated rate of alcoholism on the reservation and this is despite the fact that alcohol is illegal there reading the separatists are cody smelled breaks it down eighty percent unemployment rate to an average life expectancy of fifty years you're close to a pine ridge reservation in south dakota some of the most care when statistics in the united states. but behind these numbers are silent and in the affected estimating families and threatening to blow a way of life. alcohol the vast majority of the reservations one hundred twenty five year history alcohol is good at it despite this day. heinrich is alcoholism. it is estimated to be as high as eighty percent. alcohol is infiltrating the tribe from a border town just two miles

away. only about twelve people in fear and likely nebraska. in two thousand to twelve. the four stores located right next to mine which sold over one hundred sixty dollars a piece of the year. and that the years generating enormous profits for both store owners and the state of nebraska. we're still a work room. three to five million dollars in there for you what to use. likely store owners would talk to us on camera but it's clear that this eye popping revenue in an economically distressed area is wide tribe members voted this past august to finally allow alcohol on the reservation. but the decision to legalize in the past by a four percent margin and continues to generate deeply divided opinions among the people of pine ridge beloved keep returning. the financial and human own daily lives and all

i know haha. anyhoo on our reservation and we have enough problems when it's not illegal the dvd. being more self sufficient younger selves. played. by utilizing local. let's go see it as one more step and carolyn although the referendum was passed by a majority vote five months ago. pine ridge is tribal governments. a council consisting of nineteen representatives has final say on it if and how the new law is implemented robbins happy o a representative from the village of pine ridge and an advocate of alcohol legalization believes this potential revenue is the only way to turn the tide when it comes to preventive health. i don't ever see the federal government coming up with tom and resources to help us build treatment centers to help us build a detox to help us build on my shelf to another council member bernie shot with zero who opposes the referendum worries that more alcohol on the reservation will lead to more crime wording a mom

first. so if it does give the lions this can of the viewers not to mention the difficulties police officers already have been responding to alcohol related crime. we're down to about thirty officers. and the lady probably in the slums a month and this reduces the size of rhode island. so he figured bass line up has like forty thousand people in both kept yelling shot with arrows concerns are well justified considering that two hundred twenty million dollars was slashed. just last year from the indian health service and nearly five percent cut. due to the sequestered the decrease in money is actually illegal and stands in violation of a longstanding treaties between the us government and native american communities the government cutbacks and broken promises aren't the only hurdles facing the lakota nation. the inner corruption within the council itself is of concern when it comes to the allocation of funds. if this were to pass we would like the alcohol revenues to be said in a separate account. not coming

to the tides and as the tide has something called the general fund and the general fund is pretty much just money that stands where there's you can really get are attacking you know i mean they call it the black hole. only time will tell its legalization is the right course of action for community devastated by alcoholism. but more importantly is whether the tribal council will spend these potential fines in a way that can build a sustainable future for generations to come. in pine ridge south dakota. we sell our tea. according to a pentagon report sent to the house intelligence committee at once noted for weeks about the national security agency helped areas and according to chairman mike rogers are likely to have a lethal consequences for our troops and the field cover the intel committee cut elaborate much further because the document detailing the harms from the classified information suddenly. what is also classified adverts noted

legal adviser ben why is it all the parties' larry king that history will vindicate snow in his actions. included in five years and ten and twenty. no one is going to take seriously the argument that these disclosures harm national security. people are going to recognize that that he was the necessary instruments in order to start this global debate. i had a law that would punish him with life in prison for that isn't a fair one. until then the pentagon is hoping that americans will trust that the wings are dangerous while keeping their proof classify it might take another reader to get that report a wider audience. that does it for now for more on the stories we cover and go to youtube dot com a slash rt america and check out our website a r t dot com sites usa. you can also follow me on twitter at kerry and dc. you use them

one wall will or will. this line. dying to tell. japanese prime minister seems our base of reaching out to vulnerable people in the nation that spends hours the cap. he says his country will get more than a teeny and honest account of effigies in this how. a time of the team depends on spine instead to visit tempted by the on stilts with pest an ounce on the mountain on the state of the ship takes this as japan will get more than eighteen million dollars in humanitarian aid. that money will help refugees in this house