are finding themselves saying no you can't not only has the a bomb administration blocked torture accountability and refused to investigate and prosecute. these 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 authorized 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 renowned author and scholar noam chomsky believes the obama administration has changed gears and excel rated illegal practice into overdrive it was 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 some other tortured job or. struck them information obama supporters just kill. and killing them all over the world. and another is the targeting drone killing of anwar walk eat 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 a walky 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 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 moves the first time around are now left to judge the commander in chief on his act 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 . and later on r.t. the former chief prosecutor of the guantanamo bay military commissions tells us here about see that president obama not only followed him bush tossed up my

footsteps he actually went a few steps 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 the most still 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 is advanced them further than president bush ever did. you can watch the full interview with colonel morris davis in about an hour and twenty five minutes from now here on out. 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 hand puts iran's nuclear program in response to the islamic states been threatening to close the strait of the world's most important oil export route adding to the situation is iran's ongoing naval drills in the persian gulf that you have seen missiles being test fired director of the beirut based center for middle eastern studies dr he believes that washington's actions are just adding fuel to an already highly flammable situation. united states is trying and doing its best and every day. they are adding new sanctions against iran and i think iran is gong gong away with its nuclear program and it will not stop but it is exploitation of the oil of iran it will be threatening in my opinion even though maybe iran will not close the strait of but it may disturb our

navigation and in this case with the presence of pensive military butter ships from both sides we risk to have a small conflict and this more confidence can increase and to be bigger and bigger and may lead to a war and the region. you with from moscow it's good if you to join us today still to come for you in the program new year's. festivities on new year's eve in most parts of the world dozens all but new yorkers were forced to celebrate in custody find out why shortly. also. the restaurant. was something new back then but there were no restaurant. in this world. in the soviet union the man who brought

a taste of something new to russia's politics and find out why the caesar salad is now on almost every menu in the country that's in our special new series called find this. grim prospects are ahead for europe's single currency in the new year as the region's leaders want to tough sacrifices in this quote the most severe test in decades two thousand and twelve. coins in their hands but with the recession looming the sense of optimism that greeted the united states and certainly seems to have evaporated as a city and reports. the birth of an ambitious project a common currency celebrated with no less than a big bang. the reason to give the other

strong euro their year you know we shall be the better for the war the better it will. be a 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 budget cuts and violent protests. the euro is 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 a leader 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. he 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 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 lent 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. he has come to live from moscow another arab league parliament has come and to the bodies monitoring mission in syria violence is still flaring up in the country despite the observers presence there since last week and organizations peace plan calls for an end to fighting and the removal of security forces from city streets universal peace federation. i think that 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 cup third in their major egyptian officials and international cars 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 if by is the by is that is where they should look covered as independently as it 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 let there be one distance between the loyalists and the opposition is as such i mean as observers they had they have to be at one distance between the opposition as to that is evil of bashar al assad and to the loyalists of his government it's a good of you to join us today here in r.t. in these days of satellite navigation on google we're all used to looking quite closely at almost all corners of the globe although israel tries to keep prying eyes out but now it's once a former ally in the region turkey is to launch a satellite that could blur the lines of israel's former protection and it sharply and a focus of the world's global gaze his policy 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. because of the river. security. to enable the enemy country 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 us companies from distribution the pictures the americans very sensitive security demands on the scrutiny that 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 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 people sold directly or indirectly some of these injury to or in of 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 attempt on gaza two years ago that left nine two x. did 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 trying to say that the real not to be granted the

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meanwhile the protests. through lower manhattan since it all first began the occupy wall street movement has spread across the u.s. on to other countries around the world economic analyst max trial voles says number of those dissatisfied will only grow in two thousand and twelve because those already is compos 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 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 on it's quite high the high level of college debt that people are coming out with young people in student loan debt and their inability to get a jobs or b. jobs that pay them enough to live and pay back their dad 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 frustrated and anger 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 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. or let's look

at some other headlines for you from around the world this hour in brief the trial of egypt deposed president hosni mubarak which resumed after a three month break has just been adjourned now and torturous time when he was taken into court on a stretcher a bit earlier this when his trial did resume he faces the death penalty if found guilty of ordering the killings of protesters during the uprising that toppled him in february its co-defendants include his two sons the former interior minister and six senior security offices mubarak is being treated in a military hospital for a heart condition. south korea's president says the korean peninsula is at a turning point and he's ready to resume nuclear talks with the north but he warned against any provocation by pyongyang the comments called off the north korea are valid in a new year's message that it would bolster its military and defend the son of the late leader kim jong il to the death kim jong il has now been declared the supremum commander of the armed forces and as ruling party leader this of course following

his father's death in the middle of december. the government of south sudan and the u.n. have deployed more troops to bring escalating trouble violence under control this in the state of jungle a on saturday tribe members swept through the town of people it's home to their rivals they tossed the buildings in season livestock and then they forced schools to flee from their homes the un has issued a warning to villages in the area to flee from fighters from rival trying. a passenger boat has capsized off the coast of kenya leaving at least seven dead and dozens missing the ferry was taking people from lamu island to the mainland when it collided with another vessel twenty five so far have been rescued survivors did say that the boat was severely overloaded. with to tell us he's among american soldiers in afghanistan asked to be dropping in two thousand

and 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 that. 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 it's going to join us here on our to today so what does it take to become an entrepreneur here in russia in our series on pathfinders business r.t. talked to some experts who have discovered the country's huge potential. but anyone who's been to the mighty country of russia might have been surprised to find a caesar salad cropping up in virtually every restaurant menu lettuce garlic sauce and. hardly traditional russian fare the answer to this riddle though is winter 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 and the reward. equation applies to russia all there's a great opportunity in the market your return on investment here is higher than you 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 role in the

soviet union and a country of three hundred eighty million people. a swiss restaurant. with fondue one steak 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 is that is so in my opinion is when we shall 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 the 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 three was a recipe that was kind of passed 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 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 i guess that 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 over the world for

a while and many of them left all the restaurant and so forth so we were the professional conduct and growth model for a professional knowledge in the restaurant business how do you pizza later to become filled patio was hugely successful likewise the planet sushi as general manager of ross seem to have throughout these many years. in the restaurant 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 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.

and i we will be bringing you a special series every day here and that's when we meet some of the business trail places here in the russian capital to stay with us for that shortly the pita lavelle and his guests discuss what's in store for us in two thousand and twelve it's not looking good for that i'll be back with a reminder of today's made stars. admission

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