let me end the russian casually watching r t. president barack obama has signed a con of earth of the fans bill that basically allows the indefinite detention of terror suspects the us president said he had serious reservations on some provisions regarding the treatment of detainees but as marina board now reports during his time in office obama's shown he is not always good to his word. long before he became u.s. president or a nobel peace prize winner barack obama was a constitutional law professor we have never been more energized by. a civil liberties champion turned charismatic candidate who vowed to reverse the abuses and policies of his predecessor george w. bush four years later many civil rights advocates who once cheered yes we can are finding themselves saying no you can't not only has the obama administration

blocked torture accountability and refused to investigate and 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 you are in a 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 accelerated illegal practice into overdrive. between bush's policies and obama's. push bush's policy was to kidnap people. whatever you thought about them. put them to guantanamo. or some other person to number one struck him information almost cause it was just kill.

killing them all over the world. another is the targeting drone killing of and were a lock and 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 al qaeda in the arabian peninsula human rights groups which voiced international opposition against bush counterterrorism policies quickly condemned walkie killing journalist germy 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 the 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 ways by his own rules the constitution and his promise of change both remain compromise up or not artsy new york. l.a. her former chief prosecutor of the growing time of military commissions tells our team that president obama not only followed in bush's footsteps he went even further. 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 here today and want on a most ill open the military commissions have resumed and my view the president just didn't have the balls to follow through with 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 watch the full interview with colonel morris davis in just over an hour here on our team. the defense bill signed by the us president also imposes sanctions on iran and adds penalties against the country's central bank in an effort to hamper tehran's nuclear program in response to these lawmakers states threaten to close the strait

of hormuz the world's most important oil exports route adding to the situation is iran's unable drills in the persian gulf during which they tested missiles director of the they were based center for middle east studies dr he shall bear 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. away with. a problem and it will not stop but it. will be direct in my opinion even maybe iran will not grow as the three but it may disturb our navigation. and gaze with the presence of and pensive military but the ship from both sides we do have more conflict and just more

gain. and to be bigger and bigger and made. it war and. the still down here in our team new year scuffle while there was laughter and festivities on new year's eve and most of the parts of the world dozens of new yorkers were forced to celebrate in custody find out why also. 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. meet a man who brought a taste of something new to russia palate and find out why the caesar salad is now in almost every many of the country in our special new series path finer. grained prospects are had afore you were single currency in the new year as the

region's leaders warn of tough second feis in this most severe test in decades twenty twelve marks ten years since 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 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 the strong europe there you're. back to the war back to the war. yet ten years down the road the euro is not in the best of shape. a spiraling sovereign debt crisis credit downgrades rising interest rates tens of

millions unemployed budget cuts and violent protests. the euro's going 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 the leaders scrambling to keep it together. or skeptics along argue 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 it couple that with internal squabbles and deadlocks there has to be a sign 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 cilia r.t. brussels while the arab league parliament has urged an antibodies to monitor mission and syria violence is still playing up in the country despite observers presence there since last week the organization's peace plan calls for an ant fighting on the removal of security forces from cities universal peace federation and after dr may her solemn says there are preconditions that hamper our service

from remaining impartial. i believe they are partly by as the as they are being affected totally by. the powers that see a region in such as qatar or major egyptian officials and international cowards who are europeans even at the level of the european community and the united states for sure though this international pressure to do more is the observers will give them via is the only biased starters where they shall not cover as independently as in 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 let's say 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 days of satellite have a geisha and google earth we're all used to looking closely at almost all corners of the globe although israel keeps prying eyes out but now it's one former ally in the region tara key is to launch a satellite that could blur the lines of israel's former protection and leave it sharply in a focus on the world again that is policy or reports. israel's leaders are worried and they've good reason to be in just a matter of months still be nothing stopping satellite companies from getting up close and personal. with. security through. to enable enemy to 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 us companies from distributing the pictures the americans very sensitive security demands and scrutiny that plays along with it which means even with google earth one can zoom into israel but only so far to control 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 took it could be sold 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 two exterior and was 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 turkey is trying to say that it isn't really not to be granted the special. services. that if used to have a saying these are military and is not the playground of. the phone companies everyone should abide by the same laws and 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 of a line israel. we're finding more stories news and analysis online at r.t.

dot com here's only some of what's lined up there the price of remembering new york city holds plans for a nine eleven 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 russian road police officer got a bag of drugs by mistake that a much more calm and watch all of our best on our you tube channel. is.

now in the beginning of two thousand and twelve has been a very festive 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 the barricades surrounding to call the 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 through lower manhattan since it first began the occupy wall street movement has spread across the u.s. and the country's economic analyst next wolf says the number of those dissatisfied when we grow in two thousand and twelve because the authorities can propose adequate measures to tackle economic problems. the occupy wall street movement has mostly given voice to a sense of frustration and anger about on the stand this is in the justices both real and perceived that a lot of people have about the economy i think it's on the 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 per. 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 inabilities 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 i i think what we're seeing is frost duration and anger people beginning to coalesce around that frustration and anger but i for one haven't seen real proposals on economic policy yet we 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 adherents 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 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 talks with the north but he warned against any provocations by pyongyang the comments come from the comments come after north korea vowed in a new year's message that it will bolster its military and to fan the son of the weight leader kim yong nailed to the death. 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. them government and the un have deployed more troops to bring escalating tribal violence under control in the state of john gray

on saturday armed tribe members wept through the town of people 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 intertribal violence in the region. in a controversial move the nigerian government has announced a plan to scrap fuel subsidies pushing up oil prices that oil reach nation government has said it will use the money to develop the industries poor infrastructure labor unions have gone down 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 stand ups during the

year between police and activists demanding forms from the country's sunni moderate . protests continue in turkey following last week's botched government airstrike that killed thirty five kurdish civilians police pushed back to mr rader's east to stamboul with water cannon and tear gas turkey has seen a wave of violent protests over the last few days demanding that 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 the tallies among american soldiers in afghanistan dropping in twenty two over the taliban commanders believe it's because the u.s. has lost its taste for combat our military contributor says the only reason for washington to keep up its involvement in afghanistan is to fight the thriving drug production there. now 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 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 that is the only justifiable reason for the u.s. military forces to deal directly affected and efficiently. what does it take to become an entrepreneur in russia in our series on pathfinders business r.t. talks to some ex-pats have discovered the country's potential. well

anyone who's 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 well the answer to this riddle is henrik windsor a danish respiratory who came here in the dying days of the soviet union running a business and 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 and your return on investment here is higher than you would expect in in the west but it is again justified by the relatively high risk that one has to face in the market here 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 but what was interesting and

challenging at the same time was that things were changing but really what was 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 of two restaurants and this was basically the third restaurant told mum in the soviet union a country of three hundred eighty million people and we chose to open up a swiss restaurant. with fondue and steak tar and seasonal solvent and things like that it's funny in the story about the caesar salad the situation in 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 that when we play the key dish it was a caesar salad it was prepared in front of the guest by the waitress is

a lot of people have to learn how to make this you thought well 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 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 i distraction and that started with training programs because the restaurant business has a relatively weak turnover of staff we would teaching bringing knowledge to a huge number of people all of the workforce 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 leave them to become ill patio was hugely successful likewise the plan of sushi as general manager of throughout these many years. four hundred restaurants three years ago i started opening up my own restaurant now the same restaurants but as a franchise the have today twelve restaurants it's

a business that requires a lot of affection and every kind of execution that personal touch oh 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. and of what we bring you more from our special pathfinder series every day here on our team has made some of the business trailblazers in the russian capital so stay tuned for that it can surely though people about on his gas discuss what's in store for us in two thousand and twelve but before that i mean back what a reminder of today's top stories.

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where the ancient native community loses its way in the modern world. and where the country's mineral wealth starts its way across the ocean. well come to the come our screech of russia blows up on our t.v. wealthy british style. that's not on the time. markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. download the official antti application to go on the phone on pod touch from the i choose ops to. watch on t.v. life on the go. video on demand on t.v.'s minefield

costs and already says feeds now with up. welcome back you're watching our team here's a look at the top stories president obama puts his signature on the economy bill that could see terror suspects held indefinitely without trial but says he will not strictly follow some of the aspects that entails critics say pass is now polls show obama has not always been true to his word. recession alarm bells and gloomy predictions sounded the start of a new year for the euro as the region's leaders warn of tough sacrifices in this most severe test in decades twenty twelve marks ten years after a common currency made its way.