his revive 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 split between bush's policies and obama's. push bush's policy was to kidnap people. whatever you thought about them. take them to guantanamo or bug or some other torture to. stretch them information out of the 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 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 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 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 fought 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 in a fortnight artsy new york. later the former chief prosecutor of the guantanamo military commissions tells r.t. that president obama not only followed in bush's footsteps he wanted one further. 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 most all open the military commissions have resigned

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 has advanced them further than president bush ever did. are you 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 panels he's against the country's central bank in an effort to hamper terror rons nuclear program in response the islamic states threaten to close the strait of hormuz the world's most important oil export route adding to the situation as iran's neighbor drills and the persian

gulf which have seen missiles being tested the rector of the beirut based center for middle east studies dr he bare 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 it and if they had a problem and it would not stop but if exploitation of all you would be directed in my opinion even maybe iran would not draw as the strait of hormuz but it may disturb our navigation and in this case with the presence of and maybe did. but there from both sides we do have more conflict and more gain. to be beget and beget and made.

it war and. still to come in the program new year scuffle while there was laughter in the cities 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 opening local restaurants 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. to meet the man who brought a taste of something new to russia's palate and find out why the caesar salad is now on almost every penny of the country our special new series pathfinders. green prospects are had for europe's single currency in the new year as the region's nears warn of tough separate fires in this most severe test in decades

twenty twelve march stand years since europeans first held euro notes and coins in their hands but with the recession looming the sense of optimism that greeted the night a currency at its inception seems to have evaporated. now 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 are. 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 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 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 rationalism has been thrown out of the window in the pursuit of this goal and we now 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 big for 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 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 city 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. fair read parliament has urged an end 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's peace plan calls for an end to fighting and a removal of security forces from cities universal peace federation a master doctor made her says there are preconditions that hamper the observers from remaining impartial. i believe they are partly by as the as they are being

affected totally by some out of state powers that see a regional such as qatar and major egyptian officials and international powers 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 it by is the order by starters where they shall not cover as independently as enough no if they were to release any public statements this will affect harnish 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 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 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 almost all corners of a globe all though israel keeps prying eyes out but now it's one former ally in the region turkey is to launch a satellite that could blur the lines of israel's former protection and leave it sharply the focus of the world case is possibly a report. 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. to enable me to very high resolution. 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 because of security barrier the scrutiny that plays along with it which means even with google

earth one consume into israel but only so far a look at specific parts of israel many of them will come out blurry of them in any other place in the world that i've checked but that's about to change turkey is putting the finishing touches to 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 invaded through some of these injury to him and his office right and that's the fear here especially because tensions between tell of ever drank or are at an all time low an aide for to 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 so long ago that the gawked took satellite would have spelled. good news for the two countries cooperated

extensively often sharing military intelligence but where is turkey was once israel's a closest ally in the muslim world today it is ankara that is asserting itself without a tell of if as a powerful player in the region turkey is to say that the real not to be granted the special. services so we. do have a saying in. the playground before the phone companies and one should abide to the same nor should they have the same standards one socializes bayley enough to put israel's a 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 using former friends. of alien israel and we're finding more stories news and analysis online at r.t. dot com so here is only some of what's lined up green day the price of remembering new york city hall the plans for a nine eleven museum to mark the truck atrocities of in terra tags due to

a disagreement over hundreds of millions of dollars. and spitting into the right hands find out how russian rogue police officer got a bag of drugs by mistake that are much more calm so watch all of our best videos on our you tube channel as well. it's. the beginning of twenty hasn't been very fast a for the occupy wall street. tester's with almost seventy spending the night in custody in new york they were

arrested just before midnight after hundreds tore down the barricades surrounding the college park was a failed attempt to return to the place where it all started months ago meanwhile the protesters were on the terror and marched on through lower manhattan since it first began the occupy wall street movement has spread across the u.s. and other countries canonic analyst max fraud both says the number of those dissatisfied will only grow in two thousand and twelve because you can propose at 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 and 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 and student loan debt and their inability 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 like 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 frost 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 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. now take a look at some other stories from around the world south korea's president says the korean peninsula is at 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 validated new year's message that it would bolster its military and to fan the son of the late leader kim jong il to the death kim gentleman has now been declared the supreme commander of the armed forces and those ruling party leader following his father's death in the middle of december. the governments of south sudan and the u.n. have deployed more troops to bring us collating problem under control in a state of jungly on saturday armed tribe members went through the town of bor home to their rivals torching buildings and seizing life stokley for scores from their

homes the un has issued a warning to villagers in the area to flee from rival tribes. the trial of egypt's deposed president hosni mubarak has resumed after a three month break he faces the death penalty found guilty of ordering the killings of protesters during the uprising that toppled him in february his co-defendants includes two sons former interior minister and six senior security officers mubarak is being treated in a military hospital for a heart condition. passenger boat has capsized off the coast of kenya leaving at least seven dead and dozens missing the ferry was taking people from lama island to the mainland when it collided with another vessel twenty five people have been rescued so far survivors said the boat was overloaded. with the taliban as among american soldiers in afghanistan dropping in two thousand and eleven the taliban commanders believe it's because the u.s. has lost its taste for combat artie's military contributor says the only reason for

washington to keep up its involvement in afghanistan is to fight the thriving drug production there. you 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 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

a solution. what does it take to become an entrepreneur in russia in our series on pathfinders business r.t. talks to some experts who've discovered the country's potential. anyone's has been to russia might have been surprised to find a caesar salad cropping up on virtually every restaurant menu lets his garlic sauce and parmesan are hardly traditional russian fare the answer to this riddle is henrik when they're a danish restaurateur or 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. there's a great opportunity in the market your return on investment here is higher than you would expect. in the west 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's changing and how things were going 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 up a swiss restaurant. with. one steak. season and things like that it's funny the story about the caesar salad the

situation the rush is quite unique because the season 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 this you thought well as the years went on and a 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 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 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 run with you 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 to all the restaurants and so forth so we were the professional kind of growth model for professional knowledge in the restaurant business how do you pete's later to be called patio was hugely successful likewise

planet sushi as general manager of the same tour throughout these many years. and three years ago i started opening my own restaurant now the same restaurants but as a franchisee at the day twelve restaurants it's a business that requires a lot of affection 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 been become so tight that you need to be really really good to be successful. and we'll be bringing you more from our special pathfinder series every day here in r t as we meet some of the business trailblazers and the russian capital so stay

tuned for that shortly we're reports on one of the worst environmental disasters in the u.s. history first though i'll be back with headlines. to clean.

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years after an environmental disaster ruined their lives watch the second part of the special report. we're right at the eight hundred foot elevation level right here and a lot of the. wind discharges are coming out. right at the. i. and you can tell that when the the red water mixes with the clear water that's the difference. although this looks weird still got a lot of metals in it because it's just charging out of the chat. the sides of the mine that has the minerals and then are submerged beneath the water and the isolated from oxygen oxygen is the key. you know back when they're first throwing up there was a lot of oxygen available in the mines and.