you just have to go to the middle classes and lower middle classes of the united states to see how it's going to hurt them back and tell lera thanks so much for being on the kaiser report it's a pleasure being on thank you for having me all right that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert i would think my guest gonzalo lira if you want to send me an e-mail please do so at kaiser reporting r t t v dot ru until next time this is max kaiser saying bio.

tonight in the program portuguese authorities refute speculation that the country's going to ask for a multi billion euro bailout but experts say it will do little to shore up the faltering single currency we report. the wiki leaks founder julian assange should peers in the u.k. court as he fights extradition to sweden over sexual assault allegations which he claims are politically motivated plus. a breakthrough in the rest.

of russia's case with the icebreaker is now close to achieving that and finally. this is r.t. it's midnight here in moscow now my name's kevin owen and our top story the portuguese finance minister says lisbon will not ask for a bailout through his old would see economic problems media reports claim the country is being pressured to apply for one hundred billion dollars rescue package the financial advisor marco petro polio earlier on is a bailar wouldn't solve the fundamental flaws in the concept of the eurozone. this is not in any kind a way a final solution for the european debt crisis it is just buying time for these

countries so that hopefully they will be able to get control of their fiscal situation and the markets will start to to believe in them again that they are able to service their debt moving forward in reality what's happening is burden in this country with these countries a lot more debt to service and the jury is still out on whether they can actually turn their fiscal position around over the next few years you can't save all the banks and save all the countries because at some point someone's got to file or which is the other option which we've been pursuing so far is that we just carry on printing money and everybody carry on printing money and we end up with hyperinflation and most currencies then become worthless so at some stage someone's got to fail but what we're doing is patching up patching up patching up hoping that the issue's going to go away pushing the can further down the road now the europeans have to start thinking about a complete reform of the european structure. over its economic woes others are

being more practical talking about max kaiser and stacy her but later they hear how one european government is inside the wrath of fiendish powers with its new tax net cards a report coming your way next year on a. ruling which is curse income tax ruling so because of the financial crisis and the collapse of the banking systems and g.d.p.'s around the world romania's government has started taxing witches and fortune tellers from the first of january this year and because of this the witches are basically cursing the government now queen which brought terror because they are experienced about the new law and she says that she plans to cast a spell using a particularly effective concoction of cat excrement and a dead dog yet well goldman sachs collateralized debt obligation most of it is cat extreme it and then dogs this is what they're finding the federal reserve bank's balance sheet in washington the reason why they're afraid to do an audit at the

request of ron paul is because they know that they've got basically dead beetles eye of newt small chicken bones some dead cat excrement that's about all they've got at the federal reserve because the u.s. is technically. grow up and solve so these witches are fighting fire with fire yeah they're fighting extreme it with dog poop. more sickos and friends bit later tonight now ahead as well last in the u.k. is of no record of thousands of asylum seekers we report on why this happened and what it means for the country's security. first the wiki leaks founder briefly appeared in a london court as he continues his battle against extradition to massage is wanted in sweden to face sex crime allegations which he claims have been fabricated in order to eventually prosecuted when espionage charges in the u.s. . following the developments. it was essentially what they call

a case management herring today which is when they set the date for the main herring and just check that all the evidence is in course and being prepared in a timely fashion we do now know when the full extradition extradition hearing is going to be that's going to take place on the seventh and eighth of february so we've got to wait another sort of three weeks for for the full herring to happen and julian assange has appeared in court on tuesday for this case management hearing after it was over he made a short statement to the media outside that's what he had to say we are happy about today's outcome. i have a record to make available to members of the press. skeleton argument which we've had to produce in very short time over christmas what happened before christmas was that you know innocence was released on bail that happened around about the middle of december after after

a fight release to be released on bail in the end the bail sum was set at over three hundred thousand dollars and he's been staying at a friend's house in the east of england ever since then waiting for this extradition to happen and that of course follows the issuing by sweden of a european a rest warrants on sexual assault allegations made by two film a wiki leaks support says i'm joined to talk more about the details of this case by gerald batten who's a member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party he's also a valium and opponent of the european arrest warrant which is of course the legality under way students ourselves his extradition to sweden is being requested joe budden thanks very much for talking to us so we now know that the main hearing is going to be on the seventh and eighth of february what what do you expect to happen that will you see if the lawyers on mr sanchez saw or try to challenge the evidence against him which i might do and say well it's not sufficient to justify extradition on judicial surrenders and now it's all the judges. well i'm not

allowed to consider the evidence i'm not allowed to take into account the only grounds that you can oppose extradition very narrow you have to be old enough to committed the crime it has to be not a distant past you know twenty five years or something and it mustn't be because you're being processed persecuted on the grounds of your political or sexual orientation very narrow grounds like that which he won't qualify for and of course i have sat through a case where it seemed fairly obvious to the core and indeed to the judges hearing the appeal that the evidence had been manufactured by the police but of course another important element in this particular case is this pressure that we understand is coming from the u.s. to eventually extradite our stars there to face espionage charges what do you think that will bring all yes i'm sure there's lots of political maneuvering so the powers that be a very difficult position the americans want to get their hands on a sound authorities now think the game's up people can see what the european arrest warrants are about. so my guess is our car know what they're going to do but i'm

fairly confident that they're going to come up with come some kind of cynical fix that will allow him either to go back to australia or possibly to go back to sweden if some kind of deal is done about what charges will be laid against him but what they'll want to do i'm sure is put to bed this whole. media publicity about the european arrest because this is just this there are other legal instruments coming through which remove our freedoms in other areas of life all done in the name of integrating europe's legal systems. the european parliament talking to our t's laura in london. the work of u.k.'s border agency has been slammed in a report by british m.p.'s the documents suggest at least sixty thousand asylum seekers will be left to live illegally in the united kingdom because the agencies lost all trace of them i spoke to robin simcox he's a research fellow at the center for social cohesion he told me the situation results from the yukos open door policy and its obligations as an e.u.

member britain is essentially lost control of who is coming into the country and once you can secure your borders you can't secure your country this is a outrageous situation that's allowed to develop why there's a huge problem with that with the britons inability to deport generally. being part of the european union we often can't deport people but their country of origin because it may contravene the european convention on human rights on top of this there's a systemic problem where the huge backlog of cases and we have something like a half a million backlog of cases simply can't be processed and can't be dealt with quickly enough so you have a lot of people and that immigration last year into the u.k. was around two hundred thousand people more coming to the u.k. than leaving it twenty out down on top of the asylum seekers and the backlog and of course going to have a massive problem we just need to be much stricter laydown much stricter criteria on who should be allowed into the u.k. and i don't think we've got it in control in anywhere near amount enough as it is

that. this is the r.t. news channel coming up in the program we look at how a country bent on fighting terrorism appears to be sheltering. this is accused of protecting a former cia agent who is wanted in latin america for deadly terror attacks details of human. to ice breakers of bridge to fifth and final ship has been stranded for almost a fortnight off russia's far east coast with more than three hundred crew still aboard it comes after they successfully towed a reef ship to safer waters earlier. the details of this ongoing rescue operation. it's a slight change in strategy that we seen in the final stages of this rescue operation we saw in the early hours of yesterday morning they'd managed to free up the small refrigerator and they started doing that all of yesterday and today tools. but what happened earlier today was that they mounted a helicopter pick hydrologists from the album micro icebreaker and they managed to

see the area idolise the ice and they managed to find distasteful to leave this refrigerated vessel and that's freed up these two ice breakers to now back the same way they've come down which means they can avoid having to break free further ice coming back we had standard press conference the federal fishing agency this final part now going freeing up this large ship is going to be the most difficult. reconnaissance helicopter sent by the emergencies ministry was observed to the canals which before would regularly freeze over and i'm clear in your breakers compton's have decided to turn around and come back for the supply ship leaving the refrigerator vessel for now to try and get the supply ship out the operation has now entered its final and most difficult stage now the estimate as to when the final operation is going to be finished still very dependent on these weather

conditions that we seeing you know about the whole operation that it's really been very tricky for the break as they come up against very late temperatures incredibly . bit as they've now been able to continue along the path they'd already broken not ice so it's now entering the final stages in its. first round from the frozen waters of russia's far east to the freezing line the reste in siberia where we take you in a few minutes. going around one of the coldest region for the planet is not only return after i'm sure of thomas in new york couture and coming up. bush show you how it's done. more news now first though former cia agent alleged to be one of the most notorious terrorists in recent history is going on trial in the u.s. so is presented as wanted in cuba or in venezuela for masterminding a number of deadly terror simply being the one nine hundred seventy six bombing of a passenger plane which killed over seventy but none of these episodes are among

the charges he faces in the u.s. visit explains more. miami florida white sandy beaches miniskirts and bikini. this vacation spot is also home to a convicted international terrorist luis posada could be less coined the bin ladden of the americas the anti castro cuban was the cia's dirty secret in south and central america trained as an explosives expert at the new tory a school of the americas posada's acts of terrorism spanned five decades it impacted half a dozen countries. over seventy people were killed when cuban airliner for fifty five was bombed in one thousand nine hundred seventy six a terrorist act posada plans from venice walla and according to cia documents the agency was aware of it before it happened this was

a mastermind of the. flight and still he's here posada was convicted him stand here and been a swell of masterminding the bombing however not only did the u.s. government refused to extradite but started to venezuela to serve his term the cia continue to employ him as a key element in the country wars which plane winds of seventy thousand civilians in nicaragua. with a leading figure in the iran contra affair in the one nine hundred eighty s. had the cia stop assad in his tracks just off in my shoes my brother was killed in libya distil most brother fabio would still be alive put your stuff in the place of the etc victim of the family victim of terrorism and it's absurd distil know an italian businessman was murdered in one nine hundred ninety seven bombing orchestrated by posada it was one of a string of hotel and nightclub bombings in cuba and it wasn't the only acts of

terrorism poseidon was involved in there was the two thousand assassination attempt on. cuban leader fidel castro in a series of attacks across latin america after jailing posidon upon entering the u.s. illegally law enforcement agencies warned the justice department a poseidon's terrorist past but he was set free anyway now prosodic is on trial in el paso texas the charges against him not international terrorism but immigration fraud and perjury we unleashed him on the world peter kornbluh of the national security archives obtained dozens of documents pertaining to preside his involvement with the cia he says the case is about whether the united states truly can hold real terrorists our though in this case a terrorist who was once our terrorist accountable livio acknowledges the importance of poseidon on trial but insists it's going to be too little too late the legacy of luis posada is that he is a cia created frankenstein and he went out and committed murder and mayhem the cia

once described posada as a reliable asset to the u.s. government a man of good character pro-u.s. who would make an excellent official in a post castro government half a century after posada could be less again doing the cia's dirty work in latin america his bloody legacy lives on for the countless victims and as the u.s. government continues to fight the so-called war on terrorism extraditing kidnapping and assassinating suspects in other countries it continues to harbor one of the hemisphere's most notorious terrorists john toughest r. t. washington d.c. there you know but a news event coming up later on today international investigators are to deliver their final report on last april plane crash which killed the polish president lech kaczynski and ninety five others documents expected reveal new facts and point to those responsible for the trying to date you can follow the full coverage of the

results of an investigation on this channel on wednesday. the tragedy that shocked the world. tends to be excuse president. stevie. sitting in the kaczynski plane crash. it's midnight sixteen moscow time world news in brief from r.t. evacuation routes are on the way than is comfortable brisbane as it's bracing itself for its worst flooding in over a century with a brisbane river overflowing its banks and flood waters rising officials are warning that the country's third largest city could be inundated in the next few days affecting some fifteen thousand people it follows a violent wave of flash floods the deluge the town in queensland killing at least ten two thirds of the israeli and states now been declared a disaster zone. to ivory coast there for opposition supporters have been killed

when forces loyal to incumbent president on bags were opened fire on a crowd the united nations convoy which try to rush to the area and calm tension was blocked by a militant youth group despite international condemnation and threats of military intervention backhoes refused to see power to his rival following recent elections he's also accusing the u.n. of bias he maintains control of virtually all the security forces and has been accused of killing hundreds of opposition members since the vote. the russian province of you could hear is located in the east of siberia and it has the an enviable reputation as one of the most hostile environments known to man but the locals there and their other excitable choice of transport asian don't seem to mind at all thomas tells us next how they've adapted to life in one of the coldest places on. dream temperatures call for exploring modes of transportation routes if you are already one of the coldest region around the climate we decided to pick

our form of transportation and map through times. like. these ducks can live in an extremely harsh environment they can stand easily winter temperatures going from minus fifty to minus sixty degrees with strong winds and very hot summer temperatures from plus thirty to plus forty degrees celsius they're well adapted to the local climate. perhaps because of their versatility travelling long ago became part of the a cuttin tradition. it's a bike if you like the dogs are all are you could get like this the equation like is one of the oldest aboriginal greets that exist on this planet these dogs have been used for i don't know how many thousand years a sledge and hunting animals there in demick took and the polar area. travelling by dog sled is necessary for those living their lives here but there are many others who come from all over the world for this experience thank you it's just you and

the dogs in the forest with the white snow and the snow capped mountains and if dogs aren't your style well you could choose going by reindeer or there's even a special type of course you could hear in a horse specific to this area that can handle the temperatures but no matter what animal you choose you're going to have to pick a sleigh all the way they're going to go with a new order because i know my ancestors were deep breeders and hunters too my grandfather was a sniper in germany during world war two he was a hero of the soviet union he returned to dia breeding off to coming home from the war in total there have been about ten generations of deer breeders in our family and this is a market here not goods and it ends the debate of fresh or frozen because here fresh is frozen. just lets you know that even the food around here has something to do with ice. through is a specially prepared fish dish where the frozen meat is shaved it directly from the

fish onto the plate here even the milk is sold in frozen blocks and if you're looking for a quick afternoon snack at the most if you feel that the yes but what this is called meet the culture of the committee in green we slaughter them in autumn and freeze the meat we eat it frozen because frozen meat preserves more vitamins than when you boil it for convenience we mince the meat in a meat grinder then it's easier to pick up the hamburger and put it in your mouth if the temperatures in this part of the world are sometimes as low as minus sixty two have shaved every aspect of people's existence from their parents how they get around to the very food they eat life here is on ice. in yakutia shan thomas party. choose they mark nine years since the opening of the u.s. detention center in guantanamo bay cuba will turn the spotlight on washington's

controversial practice is the next artie's lorimer talks to courtney bush human rights lawyer who reviews cases at camp delta and international secret prisons. thanks very much for talking to us now you've recently come back from guantanamo bay tell me a bit about what you saw there what the conditions were like unfortunately we no

longer meet the prisoners in the camps so we don't see the conditions in the camps any longer what we do is meet them in a separate holding camp whereby were brought in the detainees are brought in separately and we meet in trailers so what we know is what we hear from them and what the conditions are like unfortunately there is a lot of building more going on in guantanamo right now which leads us to believe that it's nowhere near closing as obama promised back in two thousand and nine when he took office a most of the details that we've heard about the treatment that terror suspects have been subjected to in guantanamo bay has been truly shocking i'm told that waterboarding and other forms of taught have you met people who was subjected to these forms of interrogation absolutely these these methods of interrogation the enhanced interrogation techniques as they're so referred did not happen to the minority they happen to the majority so what happens is you get instructors who earn tera gaiters and guards who are trained in these techniques that are actually used in military training to help army men and women resist interrogation being

used on these men in guantanamo bay what does reprise make of these methods of interrogation from a legal perspective while the. illegal under the geneva conventions the geneva conventions afford the prisoners of war the right to be treated humanely and without degradation these treatments obviously do not stand up to this standard of treatment it is illegal but unfortunately in two thousand and two after the prison first opened george bush declared that these men were not prisoners of war they were enemy combatants and therefore did not fall under the geneva conventions we still hold that this is a legal and if it's not illegal it's completely immoral anyways there are one hundred seventy three prisoners left in guantanamo bay what are the stories give me some examples of what some of the most opposed to a lot of them are ridiculous charges as for instance running away from the incoming

northern alliance well that's because the northern alliance is bombing the cities they're in so obviously they're running away from the bombings in the conflict that of course is now being held against them as a charge and holding that up to say that they're terrorists you have people who have lost their passports or are on forged passports for asylum reasons and this is being held as proof as they're terrorists so it's a lot of different charges you have associations which in in laws not supposed to convict you is not a sign of guilt but it is in their cases what's the purpose of your work there and do you feel that you are able to sort of progress towards your goal to make a difference our goal is obviously to find a safe home for every man and get them released from guantanamo unfortunately we keep hitting walls for instance we've always held that people who won their hadiths cases about it is people who have been declared by the courts that they've been held illegally that they would not be forcibly repatriated to countries that will

persecutor torture them that they have a better chance of being resettled in a third country that will offer them a good new home unfortunately on thursday farhi who is a winner was just force. repatriated to algeria so that's just another instance of a roadblock that we continuously run up against closing guantanamo within a year it was one of president obama's campaign promises to years of now paused and it's still open why was this promise broken and can you see any signs of him making good on it is part of the problem is that european countries are sick and tired of giving these men homes in the united states has done nothing to offer them the home considering that the united states is the ones who made the problem so obama's kind of run into this problem where the congress and the american people by large do not want to get mowed detainees brought into the united states without that he's got nothing to do as for the future of guantanamo it's looking less and less likely

that it will be closed any time in the future on thursday he signed the national defense authorization act which is for the fiscal year of two thousand and eleven which made it harder for detainees to be brought to the united states for criminal cases and that's just another roadblock in his closing the camp we talk a lot about closing guantanamo but at the same time it is at least a detention facility that we know about isn't there a fear that if it was closed detention secret detention would just go underground and that is a worry but that is a worry whether or not one tunnel remains open and united states has used underground prisons for years and we know of these to transfer men to and from before they go to guantanamo they're held in secret prisons or only just finding out about some of these prisons and facts that were used years and years ago and the united states of course is changing its m.o. in secret detention it's doing proxy detention instead of secret detention so you're.