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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 where and you know there is a bad state of civil liberties under the obama administration world renowned author and scholar noam chomsky believes the obama administration has changed gears and excel aerated illegal practice into overdrive this space between bush's policies and obama's. push bush's policy was to kidnap people. whatever you thought about them. take them to one ton of bug realm or some other torture to number the stretch of information out of the obama supporters just to kill. killing them all over the world. another is the targeting drone killing of
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anwar walk ie an american born cleric u.s. drone strikes during obama's first two years in office exceeded the total carried out during bush's tenure president obama described the walking as the leader of external operations for all kinds in the arabian peninsula human rights groups which voiced international opposition against bush counterterrorism policies quickly condemned the 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
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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 moods 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 compromise or not artsy new york . or l.a. or former chief prosecutor of the want our military commissions tells our team that president obama not only follow him bush footsteps he went even further. he took office the first thing he did was sign an order. closing guantanamo within one year of his order which was signed in january of two thousand and nine and we're sitting
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here today and want on a most ill open the military commissions have resumed and in my view the president just didn't have the balls to follow through with the doing the right thing candidate obama you know 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 his advanced them further than president bush ever did. and you can watch the full interview with carl morris davis in around twenty minutes time here on our t.v. . the defense bill signed by the u.s. president also imposes sanctions on iran it adds penalties against the country's central bank in an effort to hamper tehran's nuclear program in response to islamic states threaten to close the strait of hormuz the world's most important oil export
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route adding to the situation 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 and doing its best and every day. a day i didn't get your sanction against iran and i think iran is going. away with nuclear program and it will not stop but it's exploitation of all it will be directed in my opinion even maybe iran will not grow as the three but it may disturb our navigation and in this case with the presence of the military but the ship from both sides we do have more conflict and this. can increase and to be bigger and bigger and made. it war and.
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and still to come in the program new year's scuffle 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 custody find out why also. the restaurant in russia. was something truly unique back then. there were no restaurants. in russia they were told. and this was basically the third restaurant in the soviet union. i mean the man who brought a taste of something new to russia's palate and find out why the caesar salad is now in almost every menu in the country you know special pathfinders. green prospects are a had for europe's single currency in the new year as the region's leaders warn of tough sacrifices and this most severe test in decades marks ten years since
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europeans first held the euro notes and coins in their hands but with the recession looming the sense of optimism that greeted the united currency at its inception seems to have evaporated as our reports. the birth of an ambitious project a common currency celebrated with no less than a big bang. theory the beginning of the strong europe there you know we should be the best of the all the better to the world. yet ten years down the road the euro is not in the best of shape. a spiralling sovereign debt crisis credit downgrades rising interest rates tens of millions unemployed the budget cuts
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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 e.u. 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 economic rationality has been thrown out of the window in the pursuit of this goal and we're now 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
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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 with documented events in 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
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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 the man to the body's monitoring mission in syria violence is still flaring up in the country despite the observers presence there since last week the organization as a peace plan calls for an end to fighting and the removal of security forces from cities universal peace federation and bathory doctor made. to our preconditions that hamper the observers from remaining impartial. i believe they are partly by as
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the as they are being affected totally by a sudden out of state powers that see a region in such as cut. major egyptian officials and international cars or europeans even at the level of the unity and community and the united states for sure though this international pressure to towards the observers will give them via is the only biased doctors where they should look covered 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 see and the process itself by monitoring independently that is basically enough and 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 is of bashar al assad and to the loyalists of his government and these
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days of satellite navigation and google earth we are all used to looking closely at almost all corners of a global though israel keeps prying eyes out but now it's at once warm ally in the region turkey is still launch a satellite that could blur the lines of israel's former protection and me which hardly a focus of the world's gaze i just fall asleep here has more. 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. thank you. both to enable american troops through very high resolution imagery. until now only the americans had the technology capable of taking images greater than two meters per pixel resolution and american law stopped
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us companies from distributing the pictures the americans very sensitive you have security bureau the scrutiny of plays along with it which means even with google earth one can zoom into israel but only so far if you try to look at specific parts of israel. 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 people sold directly or indirectly some of these injury to his office road and that's the fear here especially because tensions between tel of evidence and career are at an all time low and aid for to the attempt on gaza two years ago that left nine two exterior and anchors expulsion of the israeli ambassador has tel aviv nervously weighing its options the irony is that it was not
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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 trying to say that the real not to be granted the special. served. one side. to put. but this is not a country that once its neighbors knowing its business especially with an arab world in flux and israel form of. israel. here's only some of what's there. the price of remembering new york city hall.
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museum to mark the atrocities of the terror attacks due to a disagreement over hundreds of millions of dollars. and speeding into the right hands find out how russia. got a bag of drugs by mistake that much more. on our. heat to.
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the official. video. and. question. well the beginning of two thousand and twelve hasn't been very fast a for the occupy wall street protesters with almost seventy spending the night in custody in new york they were arrested just before midnight after hundreds tore down barricades surrounding to park it was a failed attempt to return to the place where it all started months ago meanwhile the protests are as were undeterred and a marched on for lower manhattan since it first began the occupy wall street movement has spread across the u.s. and to other countries economic analyst max frogmore says the number of those dissatisfied lonely dro in two thousand and twelve because the authorities can
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propose adequate measures to tackle the economic problems. the occupy wall street movement has mostly given voice to a sense of frustration and anger about unfairness as an end 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 and it's quite high the high level of college debt that people are coming out with young people in student loan debt and 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 a 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
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we're seeing this frustration and anger of people began to tell us 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 to back grew and got more and more attention and more and more here and there was a little bit of a heavy handed over response by a thorough. these 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. now take a look at some other stories from around the world south korea's president says the korean peninsula is a turning point and he is ready to resume nuclear 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 would bolster its military and fan the son of the late
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leader kim jong il to the death kim yong known 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. the sands government and the u.n. have a ploy more troops to bring escalating tribal violence under control in the state of play on saturday armed tribe members swept through the town of bor home to their rivals torching buildings and seizing livestock before scores from their homes almost a thousand people have been killed in recent months into tribal violence. and controversial move the nigerian government has announced a plan to scrap fuel subsidies pushing prices oil rich nations government has said it will use that money to develop the industry's poor infrastructure labor unions have been damn 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
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police in south the rain used rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse protesters following the funeral of a teenage boy killed in a demonstration ya positions as a fifteen year old died after being hit in the chest by a gas canister a fired at close range there have been frequent standoffs during the years between police and activists demanding reforms from the country's serving monarchy. protests continue in turkey following last week's botched government airstrike that killed thirty five kurdish civilians police pushed back demonstrators in east to stamboul with water cannon and tear gas turkey has wave of violent protests over the last few days demanding the government be held to. 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 two thousand and eleven the taliban commanders believe it's
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because the u.s. has lost its taste for combat our military contributor assess 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 clicked 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 the political and military affairs pakistan and afghanistan and if there is any excuse for the u.s. military presence there again mr it has nothing to do with the terrorist threat it is the threat that is the only justifiable reason for the u.s. military forces to deal directly affected
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a solution. why does it take to become an entrepreneur and russia in our series on pathfinder earth business r.t. talked to some ex-pats who've discovered the country's potential. or anyone who has been to russia might have been surprised to find a caesar salad cropping up on virtually every restaurant menu lettuce garlic sauce and parmesan are hardly traditional russian fare the answer to this riddle is when there are a danish restaurateur who came here in the dying days of the soviet union. running a business in russia. is challenging for different reasons. in the west the risk in the reward. equation applies to russia all there's a great opportunity in the market your return on investment here is higher than you
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would expect in in the west but it is justified by the relatively high risk that one has to face in the market it was nine hundred ninety one i 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 well was interesting and challenging of the same time was that things were changing but really what was changing and how things were going to change for 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 of two restaurants and this was basically the third restaurant in the soviet union and a country of three hundred eighty million people that we chose to open a swiss restaurant. with fondue one steak to atar and
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seasonal solvent and things like that it's funny the story about the caesar salad the situation of russia is quite unique because the season salad is on literally every menu in the whole country why that is so in my opinion is when we lay the key dish it was a caesar salad it was prepared in front of the guests by the waitresses a lot of people have to learn how to make that as the years went on and new restaurants opened up 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
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first couple of years it was very much this 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 opened up a restaurant it was for the 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 that is factual and that started with a training program because the restaurant business has a relatively weak turnover of staff we would teaching bringing knowledge to a huge number of people all of that work for us for a while and many of them left all the restaurant and so forth so we were the professional kind of growth model for professional knowledge in the restaurant business how do you pizza later to become ill patio was hugely successful likewise
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the planet sushi as general manager of rock scene tour throughout these many years . and their breasts on three years ago i started opening all of my own restaurants now the same restaurants but as a franchisee have today twelve restaurants it's a business that requires a lot of perfection in every kind of execution that's a 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 been become so tight that you need to be really really good to be successful. six pts. i want to have from our special pathfinders here is every day oh and here
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on our team as we meet some of that business trailblazers in the russian capital so stay with us for that. all very shortly our team talks to the former chief prosecutor at a military commission for the notorious kuantan bay before that i'll bring you the headlines.
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the close up jesus has been to you stop birthplace to the most ambitious football club in the world. no argy goes to the far east where the timber industry attracts the legendary siberian tigers where the native community loses its weight in the modern world. and where the country's mineral wealth starts its way across the ocean. welcome to the club bars creature russia blows up. wealthy british style sun. time to rise on. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy
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with much stronger. global financial headlines. welcome back to washington to you live from moscow these are the top stories president obama puts his signature on the economy bill that could see terrorist suspects held indefinitely without trial but says he will not strictly follow some of the aspects it entails the critics say past examples show obama has not always been true to his war. recession alarm bells and gloomy predictions of the start of the new year for the euro as the region's from the first warned of tough sacrifices in the most severe test in decades twenty twelve mark stan years after the common currency made its way into people's wallets. and israel secrets could soon be put on the turkish land anger as new satellite is set to patrol the skies in two years
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at the moment israel can be penetrated by the likes of google earth. but one of the first promises made by president obama when he first came to power back in two thousand and eight was to close the controversial guantanamo bay detention center yet four years later it's still there next hour he talks to the former chief prosecutor of the military commissions colonel morris davis speaks of his huge disappointment in the u.s. president. we're sitting down with morris davis a man of a very interesting career he was the chief prosecutor for the military tribunals of one tunnel bay in two thousand and seven he resigned over his objection to the use of evidence obtained by torture and to what he saw as growing political interference in those military tribunals now he says although president obama promised to shut down guantanamo he doesn't have the using colonel davis' own to.

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