tell it to me as appreciation at the end of last year has many uncertain of the stability of the boston guys in twenty twelve bodies announcing twenty minutes in the first time that. it is ninety am in the russian capital you're watching r.t.l. marina joshie well ten years ago america's infamous prison going tom of a locked up the first twenty detainees accused of terrorism seven hundred suspects have passed through since many allegedly being abused and tortured there almost none getting a trial were obama had promised he would close it by now but instead the president has signed a new law authorizing the indefinite detention of terrorist suspects christine has more. promise is made i've said repeatedly that i intend to close guantanamo and i will follow through on that promise is broken it is the ministration policy

to try to close guantanamo we have certainly run into opposition the problem is he doesn't have a plan to do that or at least what to do with terror suspects they are suspects like murat kurnaz captured in pakistan in two thousand and one while working for an ngo that helps young people get off drugs he was sent to guantanamo and tortured for five years. after i had seen a couple things got a couple couple of people got killed in front of me some of them they got just keep on his head one till he died and so the other one he was hanging on saying until he was forced to confess he was a member of al qaeda and he told them time and time again he was not it was freezing call it was during winter time and i had no clothes on so i was hanging there for many days when the interrogator came he pulled me back down. and. i want to sign on every time i said no he do. it's made like this and. it's

a stories like this that draw fears condemnation even from within north america when one of the most powerful liberal democracies is behaving with a posse in promoting you know illegal practices and abusing human rights that undermines the cause of human rights everywhere on the planet it is this hypocrisy that others say leads us enemies to more action not less i think the number one recruiting tool for zawahiri and bin laden before he was killed was guantanamo and colonel morris davis former prosecutor and guantanamo bay resigned after being ordered to use information obtained during torture he said he was hopeful things would change under president obama he didn't just embrace the bush policies he kissed him on the lips and ran with them many believe the prospect of closing guantanamo bay will now be much more difficult thanks to the passage of the national defense authorization act by congress it was signed into law by president obama on december thirty first now within our bill provisions that allow the

military to indefinitely detain anyone it considers to be a terrorism suspect without charge or trial and with this increased leniency no doubt increased space to hold those prisoners will be needed but the end clearly you know there's a major roadblock in this passage really was the death knell for attempts to close guantanamo and i think we're stuck with president obama will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law even applying it to american citizens no person and military uniform ever volunteer the rooms are less than to the military for the purpose of taking action against american citizens it's to protect american citizens protecting american citizens the reason given for guantanamo bay in the first place but ten years later it is having the opposite effect still the once temporary solution now looking more

and more like a permanent fixture in washington christine for south r.t. . colonel morris davis who we've just seen in this report was a chief prosecutor going taleb a during george w. bush's administration and later. he gives our team inside of what he experience here is a taste. i believe to time and did for most of my tenure there 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 if you separate the bush administration's characterization of your call maybe donald rumsfeld secretary of defense saying you know these men are the worst of the worst they get you through the hydraulic lines on the airplane on the way to go on time go just to kill americans i think a lot of people bought that narrative that all of these guys were the worst of the worst there were a total of about seven hundred seventy five men that have been a kuantan emote some point in time more than six hundred have been released or transferred back to their country of origin or some other country most of those by the bush administration so you know these guys are all the worst of the worst the hardened terrorists that were out to kill americans seem strange that we would send more than six hundred of them out of guantanamo. while you watch the full interview with a former gitmo prosecutor in just over an hour here on r t. syria's president has

promised reforms as a way out. country's current crisis but others are pushing some more drastic measures neighbor turkey says it must do all it can to prevent a civil war in syria and has expressed support for a humanitarian intervention but as r.t. has more youth and often are reports the turkish government may not be getting an accurate picture of what's really happening next door. to the bloody status quo in the syrian crisis maintaining the three months she is a growing and finally this may start spreading beyond the country's borders especially with its close neighboring turkey wants to close friends too but now a harsh critic of damascus. syria is first priority should be to listen to its people and. not to denounce others instead of massacring its people we should listen to them. so glitter glue is a harsh critic himself but he's criticizing the turkish government and korea is on

the side with the free syrian army and the syrian national council and military and diplomatic forces aimed and overthrowing the regime of bashar al assad it supports a buffer zone and a humanitarian corridor which some fear could bring turkish troops to syrian soil what does that mean according to international law it means aggression against a country it means war but any intervention would be different from the one in libya since russia and china have made it clear new or no fly zone resolutions which means the role of visual players like turkey increases dramatically but for new claims and korea's behavior is irresponsible and risky it has larger implications beyond the bilateral context of turkey syria as such the situation in syria must be handled with great care by all powers and unfortunately

i don't see that cash. separation. especially on the part of our government or hand works with a middle eastern studies center based in ampera it's sponsored by the turkish foreign ministry to help shape policy and its opinion on syria it's clear syria is killing their own people. not always that's clear nobody has objectively information what is going on in syria the center specialists haven't been to syria for over a year it means the picture they paint for officials in ankara isn't likely to be an accurate one the technology changing you know when you look at the photographs or the videos coming from these governorates you can easily see that there is something going on but the sources of these videos are often questionable so it's easy to be misled and get a false picture of what's really happening but there does. stopped researchers from coming to firm conclusions the military operation this is the last option which

turkey does not want to see but this is an option that may have declared it doesn't welcome a military solution to the syrian crisis but turkey hasn't ruled it out either plain and if again if there is massive migration from its troubled neighbor turkey says it will have to protect its own people and fishery and currencies it wants peace and stability in the region its troops are already discounted as from the border with syria. r.t. turkey. the us has criticized president assad for blaming foreign interference for the bloodshed in his country the state department says the arab league and other nations aren't responsible but with an estimated four hundred people dead in syria since arab league observers arrived there in december some believe it's not just asa to blame now so there's clearly not what you would call a democratic leader but within the hour she should not do was to name the country that i'm a dad of to me is doing i mean you do see an oblique represent the back arraign the

united arab emirate showed you rabe you. do it do a few do monarchies show he is writing see they are not the ones that should point a finger and whether there is an international students who were elements that point out to me to do their. part i think i think it cheats more complex than just that there is also genuine popular belief only but it is absolutely sure that there are elements from outside who are taking who abuse abusing whatever there is living among the people for their own purposes that is absolutely. so i have for you this hour here on r.t. is size say the international criminal court grants levy a more time to answer questions about the state of colonel gadhafi is most prominent son wanted by the hague being held by former rebels also. police will

argue it's because the people are typically look people to protect so she could only back rooms that stalls look very much like racial profiling. europe ruled it illegal but police in britain continue to stop and search people without cause beyond the color of their skin. america is piling the pressure on iran over its nuclear program and new uranium enrichment facility by seeking global support for its anti to run sanctions u.s. treasury secretary timothy geithner wants china the largest consumer of iranian oil onside and is pushing it to buy less from tehran let's now talk to those of you who is a professor of political science at city university of hong kong mr chang thanks very much indeed for being with us here in the program as we know china is the largest consumer of rain in oil do you believe that guider will be able to persuade beijing to limit its oil purchases from iran. i don't think this is the major issue or even sign american violations at the moment and certainly i. think i would make the

request and the chinese authorities will probably promise to consider it but ultimately i do not believe that the chinese authorities would like to be seen to be cooperating with the united states to exert pressure on iran iran after all remains a very important and it's the supplier. especially because you're on relations with the united states are not and you are on has a specific strategic interest to maintain crawls relations with china well if the terrans arrive relations with the u.s. are quite tense at the moment and also we know that iran a number of occasions of threatened to close the major oil route in the persian gulf which is the strait of hormuz in light of this is beijing making contingency plans or should it be beijing has

a long term contingency plans in terms of building is always a star rate capacity in terms of diversifying our resources and so on but all these will take a lot of time certainly china will be willing to help to the fields depend situation at distrait of home or us and in the middle east in general in this not in the interests of china to see and escalation of tension in the region simply because this will mean that you cannot make situation for the end taiwo. well as we know china earlier as rejected the u.s. sanctions as a tool to rein into iran's nuclear program plus as we know its relations with the u.s. are strained as well at the moment now do you think china will be trying to actually improve its relations with the united states or perhaps even wanting to please the u.s. in a certain way. during this visit which apparently is

a routine consultation on fiscal matters the chinese authorities understand that business and people action here there will be all kinds of retrograde criticisms of china from the obama administration as well as from the republican party to some extent time now is willing to respond to these critics so criticisms on the fine and so with regard to the financial sector. china certainly will indicate that there's willing to cooperate in the long term but in the truck term i think the room walkman is limited because certainly the trade seemed to china it's not very bright exports or the unique sports is falling and therefore time now is rather unwilling to allow is currency to appreciate to any significant extent at the moment china probably who would argue that in terms of wage level it

has certainly been increasing at a rock rate impressive. well there are there have been suggestions that the strained relations between the u.s. and iran might we actually to an attack against tehran so in your opinion is that likely and how will that go down with china. i think time as basic position is not to be seen to be rocking the international community's general efforts to exert some pressure on iran but it will certainly work through the united nations and seward that ascends impulse on iran will not seriously damn make you ron's interests and certainly china would also argue all. along the general footwork was certain that suffering piece of the respect in general iran can count

on time to prepare is basic vital interest in phase of international pressure i don't tamper fast or political science at city university of hong kong thanks very much indeed for your thoughts here on r.t. . thank you. tell the stories now the international criminal court has given the libyan authorities more time to provide information about saif al islam gadhafi they miss the said deadline of january the tenth now the most prominent son of the country's late leader colonel gadhafi is being held in the western town of is in town he's charged by the hague with crimes against humanity the i.c.c. wants information about his health status in agreed to now wait until the twenty third of january they accept that gadhafi can be tried and leave if the country's room worse can provide a fair trial and that's something saif is unlikely to get in any case says the president of the arab oil response and solution. the government does not have

control of their safe feet he's in the hands of the. ins in turn i think the libyans are not really interested in handing him over to the international court i think because as far as they're concerned they think that they can try they can satisfy the requirement of their people to try him and libya one on the basis that they are getting the people getting their own rights from him rather than the foreigners and secondly the government would want to show its people that deception the independent of the western powers and countries that they have taken action against libya don't forget it's the western powers that destroyed libya it's the western powers and nato that was actually something that man from the air they were going to kill him so suddenly they become all the concern though of his human rights is a little bit of a tiny cheek talk i don't think it is serious but i don't think the courts in libya will be able to deliver justice to him. well i get find out more about post

revolution and lots of other stories on our website including the shady side of earth experts say their russian probe sent to explore mars failed while flying over the western hemisphere so just a coincidence find out that dot com and it being generous to give us what comes out of the. church so could you really have ill feelings against washington might be at odds with the rich obvious but many ordinary americans are grateful to venezuela's leader thanks to some charitable policies details are at our tea dot com. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world u.s. republican presidential candidate mitt romney has taken victory in the new hampshire primaries yourself as a most likely to run for the white house for a massachusetts governor won thirty six percent of the vote with texas congressman

ron paul in the second place with twenty five percent romney also finished first place in last week's caucuses in iowa wholistic place across the u.s. over the next few months to pick the candidate to take on barack obama. in northern nigeria members of the islamist sect baka opened fire in a bar killing eight people including several police officers the attack came in the northern province of shortly after a mob torched an islamic school in the south it's just an escalation of religious tensions between the muslim dominated north and the christian south well the wrong was behind a series of christmas church bombings that killed dozens. it's obvious that in brazil two days of tropical downpours have killed at least twelve people eleven are still missing it around till rain caused landslides and flash flooding decimating rural communities in the state of rio more than thirty thousand people were forced to flee their homes the government has launched an emergency plan to deal with the

disaster. you are a parole that illegal but police in britain continue to stop and search people whenever and wherever they like with little grounds for suspicion and the area of society which finds itself most often targeted believes there's only one reason for it the police are institutionally racist bennett investigates. this is supposed to prevent terrorism police in britain have free rein to stop and search anyone they deem suspicious but what constitutes suspicious he's hugely controversial now stopped a young black men and police still can't escape accusations of racism even from inside parliament. the police will argue it's because the people are typically looking for comfort fixation backgrounds that starts to look very much like racial profiling and it's certainly true that these people are often massively disproportionately stopped all the boys at this youth club in north london have been stopped and searched some on several occasions all for being in the wrong

place at the wrong time and they say for having the wrong skin color. to stop because when the type of crime. was when they stopped us to explain is. this type of car is big news in recent attacks attacks to say that there was this big issue stopping the car. and the reality was the kid. who was in the car i think it was mostly the will of stereotyping the stereotype that if he made traction which is what a lot of politicking going on with me just for you know well let's just open jobs and it was the way it was stabbings a frequent in this part of london carte blanche for police to stop and search whoever they want they can be in public sometimes physical poorly explained and often humiliating some brass in those in the middle of the streets or from the early embarrassing was just they were busting their cars because. i don't know

when the law came into force in two thousand and one police didn't even need a reason to stop and search europe finally ruled this illegal early last year forcing concessions from the government since then stop and searches have decreased by ninety percent but the problem still exists in theory there are strict limitations to stop and search the power is going to be used in a specific area fourteen days before he was twenty eight but in practice all that means nothing if the powers can simply be renewed on expiry which is why the whole of london has been a stop and search zone for the last ten years police now don't even need to recall the suspect. name any injury they suffer all the outcome of a surge the government says it will reduce paperwork but it leaves it wide open for a peek targeting and physical abuse kyle runs the youth center he too has been stopped repeatedly suspects are entitled to

a receipt but few know this and kyle says police are often reluctant to make any record but most often search it's. kind of like trying refused to give to sleep. and they say i've heard excuses we don't have no we have to go to the station to get it and if i still start to argue the case someone has a notepad and give me a form in the end of it but if you do target young people police used to have similar powers in the one nine hundred eighty s. but they were scrapped after racial targeting provoked massive riots some saw the august riots as history repeating itself one of the things of course that was a nice thing about the place to. stop and. an instance of a place certainly institutionally against young people and probably institutionally racist as well. eighty five percent of writers cited anger of police as their

reason for violence in a recent study by the guardian newspaper a fact the government can no longer ignore its prompted home secretary theresa may to launch a review of how stop and search powers they used are when it r.t. london and brings us up to date here on r.t. business is next. welcome to the business program ruble volatility and depreciation at the end of last year has left many of the stability of the russian currency in twenty twelve not ocean from a.f. case ystem up so the ruble will show considerable predictability in the run up to the presidential elections in mall. but even with all presidential election expect change rate of national currency to be really volatile at the trend that's the major feature or for most of the conference is more or less for the traded in the

wild card but with the presidential election in my shirt here i don't see one dollar that that will teach you will even increase and unfortunately i expect that the general effect of presidential election of the national congress will be likely to push creation of that appreciation versus the american culture although you are fortunately taking into account that current events presidential elections are not a likely have to take negative territory. like many economists rushes will seem to see an end to two thousand and eleven. yes you have off from the to be tapped so believes the new year bodes well for russia she still has reservations over the second half of the. it feels that it will be not such a bad year for sure but the uncertainty of the still high visibility i have visibility frankly only for the first time for the years when i can say that

yes consumer will be there for a shrill below but the second heart was a complete liberal nerd and it's it's also crucial water for the next government will do the unavoidable going to post said. in the second home for the year. ok moving on to the markets see help oil is performing on house full of from the highest sentiment in almost a week as investors bet that your money and a recession i fear talks to agree on an iranian all involve a stool on the edge of markets wrote earlier wednesday with financial and technology leading on from the gains made us believe that was supported by a weaker dollar lock on hopes of more policy easing from china and it is now less than one hour ahead of the opening bell in moscow the russian markets finish tuesday's trading session on a positive note the l.c.s. added almost three percent while the my sites around supersets. russian

x.'s have hit the ground running in the new year rising the posted sentiment seen on global markets you've got cause you must solve also i believe liquidity will slowly begin to return to the russian markets in the coming days. i believe that liquidity will be returning to the market through the following days and twisted just investors focusing on the oil sector which seems to be the most attractive sector of russian aqua this however given the overall market consensus is this the market is going to be on the da side in the first half of the year and maybe on the off side in the second half of the year all purchases should be really accurate so we should bear in mind that the european problems are still on and would insult them actually so probably the oil sector also may have been model sector which is really cheap because it was really have a sold off in the last year and maybe the energy sector which can be in play in the second half of two thousand and twelve and that's all the business and now i'll be

back in about fifty five minutes with. is.

welcome back here with r t here's a look at the top stories repeated promises to close the infamous us prison are still on for phil ten years on seven hundred suspects have costs we're going to base in so many allegedly being abused and tortured there last month obama signed a new law to hold people indefinitely without trial or charge. syria's president promises to completely revamp the constitution as a way out of a bloody deadlock but its neighbor turkey calls for humanitarian intervention instead but critics suggest foreign involvement would bring more harm.