exertional news live from moscow this is r.c. with me thanks for joining us first civil rights groups have criticized president obama over a controversial defense bill giving powers and president didn't peacetime to in turn people without trial has given the military powers to indefinitely detain u.s. citizens as well as foreign as on american soil if they are classed as terror suspects obama said he had serious concerns about parts of the law and has pledged it won't be applied in full time arkan's but human rights advocates are describing the bill as a blight on his legacy it comes as the notorious gun tunnel of a prison remains open despite the president's pre-election to shut it down by the beginning of two thousand and ten flounders from the international action center says the new bill violates basic democratic rights the u.s. claims to fight for around the world. there is the threat massed attention without our trial without charges are being held by the u.s.

military who previously could not 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 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 us at 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 pledges he made to shut down guantanamo. to expand and open the rights here and yet

you have an even more reactionary moving pledging more wars expanded us agenda of fraud 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 how to list meltdown of the economy rising unemployment and homelessness and new struggles. and opinions on the controversial defense bill are available online at home figure plays out you know the new it still has on its head obama's done to change policies of his predecessor george w. bush. there's also secrets of a successful business career in russia shared by they restaurant supporters based opportunity securing the last days of the soviet union find out more now a new series called find is about those the native baby and business in russia.

is he. the official altie obligation. from the. video on demand. and. now in the palm of your. 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 a 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 the strait of hormuz the most important. link in the persian gulf to the indian ocean. is mulling an embargo on the purchase of grain in oil with a decision on that 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 the. 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 attack 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 voile installations 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 not going to let us know your opinion and so far the hope of you 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 interest appear he is saying a conflict with iran would be a boost for american arms exports and your opinion really matters to us so go to what he'll 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 killed by state forces and rest and smart and lost lost from asking for greta and why down and the government groups start talks with opposition leaders and release political prisoners patrick spedding son of the website info will stop pay and however the bank rest is also being manipulated with western countries and our allies backing insurgent groups to get regime 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 really. 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 be backed in a material. 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 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 trouble and the millions of europeans who enter twenty

twelve with a currency that's failed to live up to expectations and has a bleak prospect. is really secrets may soon become rather more public gets tired he 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 in south sudan to flee for their lives from into tribal violence the tunnel 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 but soon that 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 more police 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 jung new talks if he agrees to suspend nuclear activities their leader 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 commons come to stuff like a meal it was named ruling party leader one of the towns of his father in december . eleven 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 children five to eight years of age eighteen of them are now in hospital local media say the accident happened in state fall. parklife is a southern cheetah battling a three huge wildfires which have loved one person dead and destroyed over twenty three thousand hectares of forest and israeli tourist has been charged with causing

one of the fires by setting toilet paper light in the bushes at the tories don't pay their shop national park but the denies that is asian more than one hundred homes have been destroyed forcing people to flee the flames area has been suffering from drought and heat wave helping fund the fires. the third and final round of elections for the lower house of parliament kicks off 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 islamist parties are expected to win a big parliament with the muslim brotherhood's freedom and justice party leading from the previous two rounds with over sixty percent of what 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 year as a range of a 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 than a big bang. the beginning of the strong euro. the birth of the war. here 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 all economic rationalism 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 a sign 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 so 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 currencies future but it seems whichever way the euro goes it won't be painless does or silly r.t. brussels the modern world of satellite 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 countries zooming by as the text prepared to launch their high tech satellite feed is being watched on is worried about its security policy have a whole. 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 think. more to enable me to. lose. 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 to control 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 invaded through some of these injury to him and 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 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 because i'm really not to be granted the special. serve. to have

a saying in the military and ignore 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 to power back and date was to close the controversial gone time of a detention center but four years later. he talks to the centers for what chief prosecutor of move the tree commission's 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 latest statement where i'm sure he was elected i was thrilled you know that he took office the first thing

he did was sign an order. closing guantanamo with the one year of his order which was signed in january of two thousand and nine and we're sitting here today. most all open the military commissions have resumed. 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 will. and things that he had known before i don't know if it is 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 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 weekers. 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 us 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 hardline 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 policies is bush would be telling the suspects torture them prosecute them president obama just kills them doesn't have to go into all that detention trouble let's 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. 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 office of military operation fire a missile and kill american and bystanders it would just anwar all the walkie 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 you 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 do. 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 drum so 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 to 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 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 have seen his lips

move before and say the right words i'll believe it when i see it thanks for the interview. nothing less for your town. to me. just say.

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world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operation to rule the day. welcome back this is awesome they have. brought the bomb also rises a little giving the military will power to detain people indefinitely without charge or trial if classed as terror suspects critics crying foul claiming the new bill while a basic democratic right to do what seeks to transcend us failed in the global. warning to the west as iran successfully testifies long range missiles during naval exercises in the persian gulf and islamic republic says it compared to his pocket at times this comes as the u.s. imposes a kind of sunshine state.