for democracy around the world for human rights around the world well really the us wars are a form of absolute terror there is no other way of explaining secret rendition torture kidnapping targeted assassinations drone attacks on countries which the us is not even in a declared war this is coming at a time of new struggles here in the us a time when there has been a mass movement the occupy wall street movement in more than a hundred cities across the country and every one of those occupy movements were shut down illegally by the police both president obama has violated the very pledge and he made to shut down guantanamo to expand and open the rights here and yet you have an even more reactionary hoofing pledging more wars expanded us agenda of broad and against the rights of working people right here at home and all this is

in a time of great economic crisis and hardship for millions of people right here a huge cowper list meltdown of the economy rising unemployment and homelessness and new struggles. iran has successfully testified several long range missiles on the last day of major naval exercises in the international waters of the persian gulf it comes amid mounting western pressure on the country of its nuclear ambitions to iran says it's ready to counter any it's not like countries like israel or the united states has reacted angrily to new u.s. sanctions targeting its central bank and the financial sector iran has been threatening to close the strait of hormuz the most important oil export route linking the persian gulf to the ija notion here is mostly an embargo on the purchase it will rain or zero with a decision on that expected before the end of the month and say mohamed el marandi from the university of tehran says a war with iran would engulf 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 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 is hell and this instability will go beyond the persian gulf it will i think of oil 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. showdown in the gulf freeze where asking what she is saying the united states wants to get from a conflict with iran just log on to let us know your opinion so if you believe america is off to dominance in the middle east over a quarter of all respondents say the u.s. is interested in a war to cripple china as a raw material imports sixteen percent say washington is only interested in ensuring security in just a few of you saying a conflict with iran would be

a boost for american arms exports so your opinion really masses so go to and have you say. the arab league source says the syrian government has was drawn to heavy weapons from cities across the country and freed about three thousand five hundred prisoners but the organization says that security forces are still shooting at protests is and has demanded that they stop immediately at least a hundred fifty people have been killed since i believe that said is it drives us to stay the mission is to broker a peace plan for the country what the one estimate says a point doesn't have been killed by state forces and the rest since knowledge last month damascus agreed to end it tied down anti-government groups start talks with opposition leaders owned release political prisoners patrick hansen of the website stop texting and then rest is also being manipulated with western countries and iran is backing insurgent groups kept pushing. a lot of these so-called human

rights reports definitely skewed in favor of whatever the current western policies coming out of the us or london or paris of what they would like to see happen in syria which is what. people in the u.s. state department in the case foreign office and the u.n. want to frame this argument is that it is having a crackdown on dissidents these are not dissidents these are in some cases armed insurgents in the. being backed in a material way by the u.s. and by some of these countries who actually are in the league could target also has an interest in regime change in this country libya has sent al-qaeda fighters under the command of their tripoli governor to go and fight in syria this contravenes all united name and laws ok and if the us is actively involved in supporting this then

they are culpable in international court. so to come this hour here and i'll see marking ten years of the year. 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 the problem for jubilant the millions of europeans who are under twenty twelve with a currency that fails to live up to expectations and as bleak expects. an israeli secrets may soon become rather more public against turkey plans to launch a brand new satellite capable of zooming in and taking pictures tell the big ones you know want to see. that's a quick look at some world news the un has advised avengers and south sudan to flee for their lives from into trouble a ton of people was the center of clashes between two rival ethnic groups on saturday with tens of thousands fleeing around six thousand fighters from one group

pursuing them. by rustling last year around the sun thousand people have died in clashes over the past few months due to the feed more police and troops are being sent but there are fears for the safety of people before their arrival of foreign aid workers are also believed to be in danger. south korea's president is offering the north's new leader kim jung a new talks here grace to suspend nuclear activities their leader said in a new year's 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 atomic facilities the comments come just stuff that can go google is named a ruling party leader called in the death of his father in december. eleventh children and the driver have died in a collision between a school bus and truck. the coach was carrying a group of children from five to eight years of age eighteen of them. now in

hospital local media say the accident happened in say for. the third and final round of elections for the lower house of parliament a softening dropped on tuesday pundits from all the silver parties that try. to buy seats in the country remains under military of all islamist parties are expected to win a big majority in parliament but the muslim brotherhood's freedom and justice party leading from the rivers to runs with over sixty percent of the electorate was our first since the uprising that ousted president president hosni mubarak from the three decades of power. u.s. authorities have arrested a man suspected in a way of also targets which has alarmed los angeles residents since last friday the suspect has allegedly said over fifty vehicles on fire was blaze it's spreading to rogers apartment buildings in and around hollywood the fires have caused two million dollars in damage but no one has been. new year's celebrations for many

people in the euro zone war ranging due to the tough current economic climate with many predicting further financial misery twenty two out will see a severe test for the euro as it fights for survival so the single currency has now been a circulation for a decade but it leaves millions of europeans anything but optimistic as aussies tests our sea level pool. the birth of an ambitious project a common currency celebrated with no less than a big bang. theory the beginning of a strong europe there you know. the barriers to the war back in the world. 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 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. rationality 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 the 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 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 in my prediction that at least greece will leave the euro in the next year and what happens be only it 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. more news on don this is always available online at home for you on his what's lined out there they sound. and discover more the leading light of the bolshoi since i have also known as the father of the no cry is celebrating his

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video. and. now in the palm of your. dot com. the modern world of satellite imaging is now able to give us a glimpse into most parts of the globe until now it has been protected from close up images but a new tank of science lives will soon put an end to the country's zooming by as the techs prepared to launch their high tech satellite his throat is being watched and is worried about his security his policy at the port. 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. security. to enable. 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 security bureau the scrutiny that plays along with it which means even with google earth one can zoom into israel but only so far 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 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 invaded through some of these injury in or was off israel

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 cause 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 or his trying to say that he isn't really not to be granted the special. used to have a saying in the cemetery and is north of 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 a veil on israel. one of the first promises made by president obama when he came into power back in two thousand and days was to close the culture of guantanamo bay detention center but for his. chief prosecutor of military commissioners who speaks of his huge disappointment.

we're sitting down with morris davis a man of a very interesting career he was the chief prosecutor for the military tribunals or guantanamo 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 terms the balls to do that colonel davis could you clarify about. he was elected i was thrilled you know that 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 here today. most. of the military

commissions have resigned. my view the president just didn't have the balls to follow through with doing the right thing to. i think it's because when he became president he learned things that he hadn't known before i don't know if it was he learned things he didn't know before or he faced a bigger obstacle than he anticipated you know saying you know the slogan close guantanamo sounds fairly simple actually following through and doing it is a much more difficult process you know they're saying the reason we're not shutting down guantanamo is because we don't know what to do with the remaining detainees other countries don't want to have them well you know we haven't helped ourselves in that front of the weaker is for instance the chinese muslims that were cleared years ago is not being a threat to the u.s. we beg two dozen countries to help us out they're not a threat take the weavers. and a few did a few countries did a couple of years ago

a judge here in washington d.c. ordered the weavers released and brought to the u.s. and suddenly our government said oh no they're too dangerous we can't have them in the u.s. so while we begged other countries to help us out and take some of the detainees we've never been willing to take one or so so we're a little hypocritical on that front colonel davis you were the chief prosecutor at guantanamo i want to know how did you go from being an advocate of the process to being a hard lying critic of the practice i took the job as chief prosecutor in september of two thousand and five and i believed at the time and did for most of my tenure that we were committed to having full fair and open trials my policy had been we were not going to use any evidence obtained by waterboarding or any of the other enhanced interrogation techniques that most people call torture and i had support above me for doing that then in the summer of two thousand and seven some new people came in and said wait a minute president bush said we don't torture so president bush says we don't

torture who are you to say that we do and we've got all this information that was collected that you're not using you need to get in there and use it and that was when i felt the. commitment to full fair and open trials. diminished and i submitted my resignation what would you say to those who claim the difference between president obama and president bush as far as their anti-terrorism policies is bush would detain the suspects torture them prosecute them president obama just kills them doesn't have to go into all that detention trouble certainly i think there's some facts to support that perception. like i said 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 by killing an american with a drone strike in yemen the. plane correct which is just. astounding that an american president can make a unilateral decision but an american citizen for an american president to make the unilateral decision that a civilian agency the cia. would go to another country and launch an military operation fire a missile and kill american and bystanders it would just anwar all the walky that was killed or four people killed that day. i'm not aware of any legal justification for that i think it's called murder to kill another human being deliberately without legal justification are drones becoming the new arm of the u.s. justice you know there's nothing wrong with per se with drones i mean just another weapon system is basically an airplane with a pilot sitting in a in a lounge chair rather than the cockpit it's how they're used to that concerns me.

if they're being used to avoid. complying with the law and giving people due process and their day in court. and that's a sad chapter in america's history if that's what we're doing. you know we've always our strength for two hundred years was the wall not turning our back on it's you know it's great when we're the country that has the drones it may not be quite as great when other countries have that same capability that are used against us and. crossing another border launching an options of attack often conducted by the cia which is a civilian agency that you know they're not they're not the military they don't have combatant immunity and put it for the president to send them out to conduct of military operations. is just unprecedented on a different now if president obama during his next presidential campaign again promises to shut down guantanamo and says well this time yes we will and yes we can

would you believe and i believe president obama the first time he told me he was going to close guantanamo i had recently retired from the military when he was running for president and for the first time in my adult life i got to participate in a campaign you know the military stays out of politics so i have to. put in a bonus on the front yard i donated to the campaign i went door to door campaigning for him somebody came in my yard bomb a sign on fire and i put up another one so i believed in this hope and change that he promised you know what you're saying reminds me someone wisely said it's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love drunk or running for office or all three at the same time for even worse but. you know i've seen his lips move before and say the right words i'll believe it when i see it thanks for the interview.

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a new twist as arab league observers say the regime has pulled its mrs donohoe flashpoint opposition strongholds as the man. in the peace plan and the open eyes they showed was that some snipers is still shooting at protesters killing at least one hundred fifty people since tuesday. and there's the headlines up next the story of a catastrophic environmental design the stuff and i'll special report top creek. were right at the eight hundred foot elevation level right here and a lot of. mine discharges are coming. right at a hundred foot. i. mean you can tell that when the the red water mixes with the clear water that's the difference. although this looks cleared still got a lot.