kids who once cheered yes we can are finding themselves saying no you can't not only has their bomb administration blocked torture accountability and refuse 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 accelerate it illegal practice into overdrive this split between bush's policies and obama's. push bush's policy was to kidnap people. whatever

horrible them. put them to guantanamo or some other person. for them information obama supporters just kill. killing them all over the world. another is the targeting drone killing of and were a lock ie an american born cleric 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 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 . well george w. bush was criticized for america's anti terror policies but president obama has now taken them one step further that's according to the former chief of military

prosecutor of content of what he can see next hour on the program. officer 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 to most all 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. iran has successfully testified several long range missiles on the last day of

major naval exercises in the international waters of the persian gulf becomes made mounting a western pressure on the country over its nuclear ambitions tehran says it's ready to counter any attack by countries like israel or the united states and has reacted angrily to new u.s. sanctions targeting its central bank and financial sector iran has been threatening to close the strait of hormuz the most important oil export linking for the installation meanwhile the e.u. is mugging an embargo on the purchase of iranian oil with a decision on that expected before the end of the month aside mohammad marandi from the university of tehran says a war with iran with the gulf the whole region. it is really the americans that are being provocative they are trying to make ordinary iranians suffer at the same time you see senior american officials and politicians constantly calling for the assassination of iranian scientists of iranian military commanders of politicians

and the constant threat of attacking and bombing the country so really the problem lies with the united states the maneuvers in the persian gulf are basically to show the united states that iran is strong and can protect themselves and it is basically the only way in which to force the united states to recognize that certain lines just simply shouldn't be crossed if the americans and its allies try to make the iranian economy suffocate the iranians will have no option but to respond in a sea of severe manner this is a region where an extraordinarily large amount of oil and gas. goes through and if there is insecurity in the region it's not just the strait of hormuz if there is a conflict in the persian gulf tankers who will be at risk that oil installations

will be at risk war as hells and this instability will go beyond the person involved it will i think all exports and gas exports will be at risk in central asia and throughout the middle east and there will be a lot of. backlash from the public throughout the region where the showdown in the gulf brews where asking what you think the united states wants to get from a conflict with iran just log on to r.t. dot com and let us know your opinion so far almost half of you believe america is out of dominance in the middle east a quarter of the spawn say the u.s. is interested in a way to china's room until imports nineteen percent say washington is only interested in ensuring israel's security just a few of you think conflicts with your. will be a boost for american arms exports we were put in doesn't matter so go to r.t. dot com you're saying. so to come the start barking at ten years of the euro.

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. this fall from jubilant for millions of europeans who went to twenty twelve a country that failed to live up to expectations and has believed prospects ahead. and restaurateur who spotted a beast of opportunity during the last days of the soviet union he shares his secrets in our new series find. some other world news in brief for you now first to syria where the arab league chief says the regime has withdrawn heavy weapons including tanks from cities and freed about three thousand five hundred prisoners but the head observer warned that gunfire and snipers still pose a danger call for an end to the shooting of protesters two civilians have reportedly been killed in the latest wave of shootings the violence continues despite the presence of our monitors who are on

a month long mission to end crashes between the military and anti-government protesters more than five thousand people have been killed since march. the un has advised villagers in south sudan to flee from advancing fighters of rival tribes the town of people was the center of into ethnic clashes on saturday many were forced from their homes as a local hospital and several other buildings were set on fire the government says it's deploying police officers and troops to the town in order to bring the conflict under control around thousand people have died in clashes over the past week sparked by cattle raids. police in the bahrain have clashed with hundreds of demonstrators after the funeral of a fifteen year old protester killed a day earlier the opposition claims a teenager was hit by a tear gas canister close range however authorities later raised questions about the circumstances of the day and said it would investigate least twenty five people

were. rescuing twenty seven including police officers killed as protesters attacked security forces. south korea's president is offering the north's new leader kim jong un new talks if he agrees to suspend luker activity it is said of the union speech that the korean peninsula is at a turning point but warned against future provocation by the north north korea walked out of nuclear talks in two thousand and eight after objecting to south korea's requests to inspect its a top facilities comments come just after kim jong un was named ruling party leader or in the death of his father in december. now new year's celebrations for many people in the euro zone were reined in due to the tough current economic climate many predicting further financial misery twenty twelve will see a severe test for the euro as it fights for survival a single currency has now been in circulation for a decade but it leaves millions of europeans anything but optimistic as artists are

syllables. the birth of an ambitious project a common currency celebrated with no less than a big bang. the new worries that begin. over strong europe their young. barrister their warm back 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 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 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 rationalism has been thrown out of the window in the pursuit of this goal and when they are reaping the consequences of a couple that with internal squabbles and deadlocks there has to be from somewhere that some economic entity that is credible is going to back every euro zone and there are only two or three entities that can do that what is european central bank. the other is basically the german government and neither of them right now are willing to do it but this exhibit shows the journey of the european union and the creation of the single currency the documented events of history that explain

why it would have been appealing to decision makers at the time so much so the crux of the fundamentals may have been overlooked or ignored which brings us to this point ten years after the creation of the euro its appeal has waned and despite last ditch efforts to save it its future is still uncertain in the spirit of the new year we asked for some predictions but one can be sure of is that this crisis is going to be a long and bumpy road however if you would ask me do you think that the euro would still exist in ten years time my answer would be yes they can't bring themselves to admit that it was a mistake and so i'm afraid we risk the very thing they purport to fear which is a disorderly breakup of the euro caused by having tried to keep it together for too long downgrades almost certainly i think you'll see a french downgrade i still think this is solvable if the political will is shown in certain member states to allow for what is called solidarity in europe. and if not

if not we are in for a huge huge recession in europe it's simply 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 currency's future but it seems whichever way the euro goes it won't be painless does are cilia r.t. brussels. for more news and analysis always available online of course our politics dot com has some of what's lined up future this out of the sky from her about anything lights on the bolshoi theatre also known as the father of the love cracked up to celebrating his eighty fifth birthday today we. also find out more about the first newspaper ever printed in russia pictures created on the world of integrate this date three centuries ago read more about the common get you can watch all the best videos on you tube.

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a glimpse into most parts of the globe from our own computers until now israel has been protected from closeup images but a new turkish satellite will soon put an end to the country's zoom in bed as the turks prepared to launch their high tech satellite israel fears being watched and is worried about its security what is clear 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. who. thank you. both to enable me 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 distribution 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 feature a look at specific parts of israel many of them will come out blurry than any other place in the world that i've checked but that's about to change turkey is putting the finishing touches to a military satellite it plans to launch within the next two years the gawked took satellite will be capable of taking the very pictures tel aviv doesn't want distributed and there are no american style legal qualms in turkey about upsetting its photosensitive neighbor to keep a soul directly or indirectly some of these injury to him of his office right 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 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 he isn't really not to be granted the special. service. that if used to have a saying in. 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 a picture shy world in a spin but this is not a country that once its neighbors knowing its business especially with an arab world in flux and israel fast losing former friends policy r.t. and a veil on israel. america has suspended aid to pakistan as the political route between the two countries deepens is that a bad shutdown it's

a border to nato five weeks ago hampering the alliances war effort in afghanistan but artie's military contributor says the u.s. and its allies should rethink their strategy if they want to defeat the taliban 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 relationship 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 really and efficiently.

we're moving on now just what does it take to become a successful entrepreneur in russia in a new pathfinder series we hear from the foreigners who explore the vast potential in the world's biggest country. and today we hear from an entrepreneur and a restaurateur whose appetite for adventure helped him carve a new career in russia during the dying days of the soviet union henrik spotted an opportunity to build a restaurant empire across the country and reveals now his special recipe for success. 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 in the west it is justified by the relatively high risk that one has to face in the market it was nine hundred ninety one came in september and the collapse of the soviet union was six months later i was new in the country i didn't speak the language but what was interesting and challenging at the same time was that things were changing really what was changing and how things were going change was totally unpredictable so opening up a restaurant in russia. was something truly unique back then there were no restaurants. in russia there was a total restaurants and this was basically the third restaurant in the soviet union and a country of three hundred eighty million people. a swiss restaurant. with fondue one steak. season and things like that it's funny the story about the sea is

the style of 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 when we play 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 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 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 opened 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. training programs because the restaurant business has a relatively weak turnover of staff we would teaching bringing knowledge to a huge number of people 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 drove the model for professional knowledge in the restaurant

business how do you pete's later to be called patio was hugely successful likewise the planet as general manager of. these many years. underground three years ago i started opening 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 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 there will be meeting more business trailblazers in the russian capital in our

special pathfinder series over the next two weeks here not well next our all sports team will bring you the best of twenty seven including diving into the deep end and miss the chance to see more of these pictures from that they can up the cliff diving world championships take the plunge with our sports politics and the. pictures there. shortly we have a special report on one of the worst environmental disasters in u.s. history first day i'll be back with today's headlines stay with us.

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russia. time for a look at the headlines now. there's uproar in the u.s. says the president authorizes a goal to detain suspects without charge trial on the rights of defense of rights advocates despite the president in batches as a blight upon his legacy. there on testifies at long range missiles during the naval drills in the persian gulf and says it's prepared to hit back if it's attacked comes as opposed to. nations plan to spend the sanctions targeting it's for the financial sector while tehran threatens to shut off all supply routes. and turkey sends up when you are in the sky or something like that which could give

the world close up images security conscious israel today first time and she is being protected from just until now. and that's the story of oklahoma's abandoned communities still fighting for justice most thirty years after an environmental disaster ruined their lives. were right at the eight hundred foot elevation level right here and a lot of. mine discharges are coming. right at the foot. 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 discharging out of the chaff. the sides of the mine because the minerals minute are submerged beneath the war.