on legally operate within the u.s. only around the world the u.s. says that they're speaking for democracy around the world for human rights around the world well really the u.s. 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 u.s. is not even in a declared war this is coming at a time of new struggles here in the u.s. at a time when there has been a mass movement the occupy wall street movement and 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 grouping pledging more wars expanded u.s.

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 calculus meltdown of the economy rising unemployment and homelessness and new struggles. and opinions on the controversial defense bill are available online at home figured out and all the new law turns on its head to obama's dollar to change policies of his predecessor george w. bush. in third also secrets of a successful business career in russia shot by a restaurant supporter based opportunities to joining the last days of the soviet union find out more now a new series called find is about those who native baby and business in russia.

is easy to. be official. to on the phone one called talks from the. launch all she. video. old girls. and streets now in the palm of your. machine on the dot com. iran has successfully test fired 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 over its nuclear ambitions to iran says it's ready to counter any air time by countries like israel or the united states and has reacted angrily to a new u.s. sanctions targeting its central bank and financial sector that iran has been threatening to close this trade of hormuz the most important of all actually linking the persian gulf to the ocean. you is modeling an embargo on the rainy and oil with a decision that's expected before the end of the month and say it mohammad marandi from the university of tehran says a war with iran wouldn't go. it is really the americans that are being provocative they are trying to make ordinary iranians suffer at the same time we 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 insulations will be at risk war as 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. and a showdown in the gulf breeze we're asking what you think the united states wants to get from a conflict with iran just log on to and let us know your opinion and so far about half of the believe america is often dominance in the middle east exactly a quarter of our respondents say the u.s. is interested in a war to cripple china's role material imports but she and her son say washington is only interested in sharing israel's security and just appear he is saying a conflict with iran would be a boost for american arms exports and your opinion really matters to go to the home and what he will say. the arab league says the syrian government has was drawn 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 protesters and has demanded they stop immediately at least one hundred fifty

people have been killed since league observers arrived last tuesday and their mission is to broker a peace plan for the country whether you are estimates over five thousand have been held by state forces and rest and smart the mascot for greta and its high down and government groups start talks with opposition leaders and release political prisoners patrick spedding son of the website info will stop however the bank press is also being manipulated with western countries and our allies backing insurgent groups to get fishing change. 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 and paris of what they would like to see happen in syria which is the. 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 and they're being backed in a material. by the u.s. and by some of these countries who actually are in the league could talk 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 nations 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 marking ten years of the euro. they can 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 mood is far from troubling the millions of europeans who are under twenty twelve with a currency that's failed to live up to expectations and has

a bleak prospect at. this really secrets may soon become rather more public gets tacky plans to launch a brand new satellite capable of zooming in and taking pictures television wants no one to see. a quick look at some world news for you in brief the you are advised to villages and to flee for their lives from into tribal violence the tonneau the center was the center of clashes between two rival ethnic groups on saturday with tens of thousands fleeing around six thousand fighters from one group of pursuing them in a rout sparked by cattle rustling last year around a thousand people have died in clashes over the past few months due to the fruit so remote pleas and troops are being sent but there are fears for the safety of people before they have arrived with foreign aid workers also believed to be in danger. south korea's president is offering the north's new leader kim yong new talks if he

agrees to suspend nuclear facilities they need to said in a speech that the korean peninsula is at a turning point with a but want against future provocation by the north north korea walked out of nuclear talks in two thousand and eight after objecting to south korea's request to inspect its atomic facilities the comments coming just stuff that came young eagles name dreaming polish leader for the defense of his father december. eleventh children and the driver had died in a collision between a school bus and truck in northern india the coach was carrying a group of seven children for five to eight years of age eighteen of them. now in hospital local media say the accident happened it's thick fog. lighters in southern chile are battling three huge wildfires which have loved one person dead and destroyed over twenty three thousand hectares of forest and israeli tourists has been charged with causing one of the fires by setting toilet light in the bushes at the tories don't pay their national park but film it denies that

these asian more than one hundred homes have been destroyed forcing people to flee the flames areas been suffering from drought and heat wave in front of the fire is . the third and final round of elections for the lower house of parliament in egypt on tuesday for more than a sort of course his are vying for a seat even though the country remains under the military rule is in this parties are expected to win a big when parliament with the muslim brotherhood's freedom and justice party leading from the previous two rounds with sixty percent of elections are the first since the uprising that ousted president hosni mubarak for three decades of power. new year's celebrations for many people in the euro's. tough current economic climate with many predicting further for sure misery twenty twelve will see a severe test for the euro as it fights for survival the single currency has now

been in circulation for a decade but it leaves millions of europeans anything but optimistic. the birth of an ambitious project a common currency celebrated with no less the big bang. theory the beginning of the strong europe there you know. the barriers to the war the better if you're. here ten years down the road the euro is not in the best of shape. 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. 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. he has been thrown out of the window in the pursuit of this goal and we 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 be 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 beyond that is unpredictable euro watchers may have divergent views of the single currency is future but it seems whichever way the euro goes it won't be painless. r.t. brussels. the modern world of satisfied imaging is now able to give us a glimpse into most parts of the globe until now israel has been protected from close up images but a new turkish satellite will soon put an end to the country's zooming by as attacks prepare to launch their high tech satellite has been launched on is worried about its security policy have a poor. 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 through. to enable. through. 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 and scrutiny are crazy along with it which means even with google earth one can zoom into israel but only so far control look at specific parts of israel. blurrier them 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 keep a soul directly or invaded through some of these injury in a 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 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 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 tell of if it's a powerful player in the region or his trying to really not to be granted this pressure. serve. to have. the north of the playground. be from companies everyone should abide to the same

laws should 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 foster losing former friend is policy r t. israel. one of the first promises made by president obama when he first came to power back and doesn't date was to close the controversial gone time of the detention center but four years later. he talks to the centers for chief prosecutor of military commissions 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 his own terms the balls to do that colonel davis could you clarify about later. 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 and guantanamo still open the military commissions have resumed and in my view the president just didn't have the balls to follow through with doing the right thing do you think it's because when he became president he learned things that he hadn't known before i don't know if he learned things that 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 i'm where 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. 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 line critic of the practices 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 that our commitment to full fair and open trials had 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 policy 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 less certainly i think there are 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. 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 for 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 it's a sad chapter in america's history at 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 for the president to send them out to conduct often said 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 after i was. put in the bomb a sign in the front yard i've been noted 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 even worse that 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 sir. good. news.

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