asked again prosecute. he's he's basically maintained indefinite detention has revived military commissions. and as we've seen as well he has expanded targeted killings so they've increased under the obama administration many fold and he's even authorize the killing of a u.s. citizen so you know i think yeah we're in a you know there is a bad state of civil liberties under the obama administration renowned author and scholar noam chomsky believes the obama administration has changed gears and accelerate it illegal practice into overdrive. between bush's policies and obama's. push bush's policy was to kidnap people. whatever you thought of them. put them one time or some other two or three. for some information obama supporters just kill. killing them all over the

world. another is the targeting drone killing of and were a lock ie an american born cleric us drone strikes during obama's first two years in office exceeded the total carried out during bush's tenure president obama described a walky as the leader of external operations for al qaeda in the arabian peninsula human rights groups which voiced international opposition against bush counterterrorism policies quickly condemned walky killing journalist jeremy scahill says obama's policies have drifted far from his political roots a president mccain doing the exact same thing that a president obama is doing would have been denounced by a lot of liberals and so we're at one of those dangerous moments in u.s. history and we saw it a bit with clinton in the ninety's where a democrat who campaigned on a pledge to change you know the country in the world has actually pushed

a right wing agenda further forward than a republican rip up republican could have if they remained in power or they took power or expanded power as obama gears up for his reelection campaign civil liberty groups that believed his words the first time around are now left to judge the commander in chief on his actions america's democracy is represented by a president who studied and taught the rule of law and is now armed with a duty to carry it out but critics say as long as obama raised by his own rules the constitution and his promise of change both remain a compromise up or not artsy new york well or later a foreign chief prosecutor of the going tyler military commissions tells r.t. that president obama not only followed in bush's footsteps he went even further. the office of the first thing he did was sign an order. closing guantanamo within one year but his order which was signed in january of two thousand and nine and

we're sitting here today and most still open the military commissions have resumed and in my view the president just didn't have the balls to follow through with doing the right thing candidate obama said all the right things about justice and american values and closing guantanamo and doing away with military commissions and upholding the rule of law and then once he gets in office you know he didn't just embrace the bush policies he kissed him on the lips and ran with them and has advanced them further than president bush ever did. and watch the full interview with colonel morris davis in just over an hour here on our team. now the defense bill signed by the u.s. president also imposes sanctions on iran it adds pals he's against the country's central bank in an effort to hamper iran's nuclear program in response ron threaten to close the strait of hormuz the world's most important oil export growth adding

to the situation is iran's naval drills in the persian gulf during which they tested missiles director of the beirut based center for middle east studies dr he believes washington's actions are adding fuel to an already highly flammable situation. united states is thriving and doing its best and i didn't and every day . i didn't get your sanctions against iran and i think iran is going to. go on with it's a problem and it will not stop but it's exploitation of all you get on would be threatening in my opinion even maybe iran would not draw is that three different but it may discard navigation and in this case with the presence of and maybe but the problem. it's.

going. to be big and begin and made. it war and. then sold it on in the program here in our t.v. new years. while there was laughter and festivities on new year's eve in most of the parts of the world dozens of new yorkers were forced to celebrate in cost to find out why also. opening up the restaurant in the brochure. was something truly unique back then. there were no restaurants. in russia there was a total restaurant and this was basically the third restaurant in the soviet union to. me the man who brought a taste of something new to russia palate and find out why the caesar salad is now on almost every menu in the country you know especially the series pathfinders. green prospects are had for you are single currency in the new year as the region's

leaders warn of tough sacrifices in this most severe test in decades twenty twelve marks stand years since europeans first held your notes and coins in their hands but with the recession looming the sense of optimism the greed of the united at its inception seems to have evaporated as artie's tests are still you know reports. the birth of an ambitious project a common currency celebrated with no less than a big bang. theory is the beginning of a strong europe there you're. better for the war the better you're. here ten years down the road the euro is not in the best of shape. spiralling sovereign debt crisis credit downgrades rising interest rates tens of millions unemployed budget cuts and violent protests. the euro's growing

undergoing the worst crisis it has ever been and obviously the founders of the of the euro did not hope that this would happen for what began as a step towards a united europe has become a race against time with leaders scrambling to keep it together. euro skeptics have long argued that the euro was flawed from the start pursuing a political dream above all else well they say lumping together polar opposite economies like that of greece and germany into a monetary union could never work or economic rationale as he has been thrown out of the window in the pursuit of this goal and when they are reaping the consequences of a couple that with internal squabbles and deadlocks there has to be from somewhere that some economic entity that is credible is going to back every euro zone

and there are only two or three entities that can do that what is european central bank. the other is basically the german government and neither of them right now are willing to do it but this exhibit shows the journey of the european union and the creation of the single currency the documented events of history that explain why it would have been appealing to decision makers at the time so much so the crux of the fundamentals may have been overlooked or ignored which brings us to this point ten years after the creation of the euro its appeal has waned and despite last ditch efforts to save it its future is still uncertain in the spirit of the new year we asked for some predictions but one can be sure of is that this crisis is going to be a long and bumpy road however if you would ask me do you think that the euro would still exist in ten years time my answer would be yes they can't bring themselves to admit that it was a mistake and so i'm afraid we risk the very thing they purport to fear which is a disorderly breakup of the euro caused by having tried to keep it together for too

long downgrades almost certainly i think you'll see a french downgrade i still think this is solvable if the political will is shown in certain member states to allow for what is called solidarity in europe and if not if not we are in for a huge huge recession in europe sitting my prediction that at least greece will leave the euro in the next year and what happens beyond that is unpredictable euro watchers may have divergent views of the single currencies future but it seems whichever way the euro goes it won't be painless does or sylvia r.t. brussels. the arab league parliament has urged and to the body's monitoring mission in syria violence is still flaring up in the country despite observers presence there since last week the organization's peace plan calls for a man to fighting and the removal of security forces from cities in a versatile piece federation a master doctor made her asylum stats and there are preconditions that hamper their

wrists from remaining impartial. i believe they are partly by as the as they are being affected totally by a sudden out of state powers that see a regional such as qatar or major egyptian officials and international cowards or europeans even at the level of the european community and the united states for sure though this international pressure to towards the observers will give them via is the only by starters where they shall not cover as independently as and of no if they were to release any public statements this will effect tarnish even the whole process and this will affect the transparency of the whole measures that say and the process itself by monitoring independently that is basically enough let there be one distance between the loyalists and the opposition is as such i mean as observers they have they have to be at one distance between the opposition as to

that issue of bashar al assad and to the loyalists of his government. in these days of satellite navigation and google earth we're all used to looking closely at all corners of the globe except for one place israel but now it's one former ally in the region territories to launch a satellite the can blur the lines of israel's former protection and leave a charge when the focus of the world's eyes artie's parsley are now reports. israel's leaders are worried and they've good reason to be in just a matter of months they'll be nothing stopping satellite companies from getting up close and personal. security. not to enable enemy countries to very high resolution imagery. until now only the americans had the technology capable of taking images created in tunisia's per pixel resolution and american law stopped us

companies from distribution the pictures the americans. if you have security be ready for the scrutiny that plays along with it which means even with google earth one consume into israel but only so far to feature a look at specific parts of israel many of them will come out blurry than any other place in the world that i've checked but that's about to change turkey is putting the finishing touches to a military satellite it plans to launch within the next two years the gawked took satellite will be capable of taking the very pictures tel aviv doesn't want distributed and there are no american star legal qualms in turkey about upsetting its photosensitive neighbor to keep a soul directly or indirectly some of these injury to him and his office road and that's the fear here especially because tensions between tel aviv a day and co are at an all time low and aid for to the attempt on gaza two years ago that left nine to exterior and cause expulsion of the israeli ambassador has tel aviv nervously weighing its options the irony is that it was not so long ago

that the gawked took satellite would have spelled good news for israel the two countries cooperated extensively often sharing military intelligence but whereas turkey was once israel's a closest ally in the muslim world today it is ankara that is asserting itself without a television as a powerful player in the region or his trying to say that he isn't really not to be granted the special. services. to have. a military in the playground. before companies abide by the same law to have the same standards one satellite is barely enough to put israel's picture shy world in a spin but this is not a country that wants its neighbors knowing its business especially with an arab world in flux and israel fast losing former friends policy r.t. and a veil on israel. well we are playing more stories news and else is available on our

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down the official obligation to go on the phone called talk from the. launch lawyers on the go. video on demand all cheesemonger old girls. and streets now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. the beginning of two thousand and twelve has been very fast for the occupy wall street protesters will almost seventy spending the night in custody in new york they were arrested just before midnight after hundreds tore down the barricades surrounding departed park it was a failed attempt to return to the place where it all started months ago meanwhile the protesters were undeterred and marched on to lower manhattan since it first began the occupy wall street movement has spread across the u.s. and to other countries economic analyst max probable says the number of those dissatisfied grow in two thousand and twelve because the authorities can't propose

adequate measures tackle the economic problems. the occupy wall street movement has mostly given voice to a sense of frustration and anger about unfairness as an justices both real and perceived that a lot of people have about the economy i think it's an ambiguous that the u.s. economy doesn't work it doesn't work very well overall the g.d.p. growth is poor our present eight point six percent unemployment is probably under reporting that it's quite high the high level of college debt that people are coming out with young people in student loan debt on their own abilities to get a jobs or b. jobs that pay them enough to live and pay back their debt makes very clear that the united states has serious economic problems we haven't really seen anything like a suggestion about a different plan or a different way of organizing the economy come out of the or occupy wall street movement yet now it's also very young movement so that may evolve somewhere down the line but this looks to me like the early stages of something with a lot more to calm most of the story yet to be written so to speak and i think what

we're seeing is frustrate and anger people beginning to coalesce around that frustration and anger but i for one haven't seen real proposals on economic policy yet you may see a bit more of that this year as it's election time and policy issues i think authorities had hoped the movement would kind of fizzle out or go away and when it didn't want it back grew and got more and more attention and more and more it here and there was a little bit of a heavy handed over response by authorities that involved using force part of the reason it's a problem is because what it tends to do is bring out more protesters and raise public sympathy for the protesters the ham handed and overly marshall response to protest has actually helped to build the occupy wall street movement. and now to some more headlines from around the world this hour south korea's president says the korean peninsula is a turning point and he is ready to resume nuclear talks with the north but he warned against any provocations by pyongyang the comments come after north korea valid in a new year's message that it will bolster its military and defend the son of the

late leader kim jong il to the death came yet own has now been declared the supreme commander of the armed forces and his ruling party leader following his father's death in the middle of december. dance government and the u.n. have deployed more troops to bring escalating tribal violence under control in the state of john lay on saturday armed tribe members went through the town of war home to their rivals torching buildings and seizing livestock they forced scores from their homes almost a thousand people have been killed in recent months and is a tribal violence in the region. the controversial move the nigerian government has announced a plan to scrap fuel subsidies pushing up oil prices the oil rich nations government has said it will use the money to develop the industries poor infrastructure labor unions have been dammed the move calling for mass protests many fear this will add to the tensions caused by the recent wave of sectarian violence in the country.

riot police in south bahrain used rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse protesters following the funeral of a teenage boy killed in a demonstration the opposition says a fifteen year old died after being hit in the chest by a gas canister fired at close range they have been frequent standoffs in during the year between police and activists demanding reforms from the country's sunni moderate. protests continue in turkey following last week's botched government airstrike that killed thirty five kurdish civilians police push back demonstrators in east. stamboul with water cannons and tear gas turkey has seen no wave of violent protest over the last few days demanding the government be held accountable for the attack in which the air force thought it was targeting militants along the iraqi border turkish officials have promised a full investigation into the incident. with fatalities among american soldiers in

afghanistan dropping in twenty eleven the taliban commanders believe it's because the u.s. has lost its taste for combat military contributors says the only reason for washington to keep up its involvement in afghanistan is to fight the thriving drug production there know when the new year has just slipped in let's take a look at what to expect for the united states and there are nato allies in afghanistan and pakistan the white house has to realize that the only way to improve their relationships would be to minimize its political and military affairs pakistan and afghanistan and if there is any excuse for the u.s. military presence in afghanistan it has nothing to do with the terrorist threat it is the threat and that is the only justifiable reason for the u.s.

military forces to deal directly affected efficiently why does it take to become an entrepreneur in russia now a series on pathfinders business how to talk to some ex-pats who have discovered the country's potential. anyone who has been to russia might have been surprised to find a caesar salad cropping up on virtually every restaurant menu led to garlic sauce and parmesan are hardly traditional russian fare the answer to this riddle is one week winter a danish restaurant or who came here in the dying days of the savita union running a business and russia. is challenging for different reasons. in the west the risk in the reward. equation applies to russia.

there's a great opportunity in the market and your return on investment here is higher than you would expect in in the west it is justified by the relatively high risk that one has to face in the market it was nine hundred ninety one came in september and the collapse of the soviet union was six months later i was new in the country i didn't speak the language what was interesting and challenging of the same time was that things were changing really what most changing and how things were going changed or is totally unpredictable so opening up a restaurant in russia. was something truly unique back then there were no restaurants. in russia there was a total restaurants and this was basically the third restaurant role in the soviet union and the country of three hundred eighty million people who chose to open up

a swiss restaurant called charlie with. one steak and season and things like that it's funny the story about the caesar salad the situation the rush is quite unique because the season salad is on literally every menu in the whole country why is that is so in my opinion is. the key dish it was the caesar salad it was prepared in front of the guests by the waitresses had a lot of people have to run how to make the thought well as the years went on and new restaurant opened one of the things that everybody knew was to make a caesar salad so it was a recipe that was kind of passed out among the few professionals in the restaurant business in those days the influence of the pioneers yes you felt it but really it was later on. one realized the profound impact. that one

had in those days at the time it wasn't that it was just surviving it was just trying to do things right and get the business going in the beginning and in the first couple of years it was very much the pioneer work opening up a new concept by the late ninety's it was very much starting to become a more competitive market you had to be good you had to offer something special because in the beginning you open up a restaurant it was full next day you didn't have to try very hard so i set out really to make a strategic shift away from just opening up restaurants to really implementing customer service and guest satisfaction and that started with training programs because the restaurant business has it when we see it from the peak turnover of staff we would teaching bringing knowledge to a huge number of people. that worked for us for a while and many of them left all the restaurants and so forth so we were the

professional conduct and drove model for professional knowledge in the restaurant business how do you pizza later to be called patio was hugely successful likewise the planet sushi general manager of the same tour throughout these many years. in the breast three years ago i started opening my own restaurant now the same restaurants but as a franchise the have today twelve restaurant. business that requires a lot of perfection in every kind of execution that personal touch. it's the small things that count but that's not special for russia it's everywhere but surely it's a requirement for russia because here again the competitive environment has become so tight that you need to be really really good to be successful. with us

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welcome back to. the top story president obama puts his signature on. indefinitely without trial the spine saying he was unsure. but critics say pass example has not always been true. recession alarm bells and gloomy predictions sound at the start of the new year for the euro as a region. in this most severe decades. years after the common currency made its way into people's wallets. and that israel could soon be. the. only country

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