in the russian capital you're watching r t with marina joshua yeldham to the program ten years ago america's infamous prison guantanamo bay 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 iraq obama had promised he would close it by now but instead the president assigned a new law to rising the indefinite detention of terror suspects christine has more . the 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

moroc or not 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 couple couple of people got killed in front of me some of them got just keep on his happy until he died and so the other one who 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 close freezing call it was during winter. and i had no clothes on so i was hanging there for many days when the interrogator came he called me back. and. going to sign on every time when i said no he just made like this and. it's stories like this that draw fears condemnation even from within north america when one of the most powerful that we're democracies is behaving with 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 gone tom 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 policy he kissed him on the lips and ran with them many believe the prospect of closing want. donna mowbray 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 sound r t. colonel morris davis who way of just seen in this report was

a chief prosecutor at guantanamo bay during george w. bush's administration and a little later and a program he gives r.t. and inside of what he experience but here's a taste. 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 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. and watch the full interview with the former prosecutor in just over twenty minutes here on our team. syria's president has promised reforms as a way out of a. country's current crisis but others are pushing some more drastic measures of

our turkey says it must do all they can to prevent a civil war in syria and has expressed support for a humanitarian intervention but as artie's marie ivanovna now reports the turkish government may not be getting an accurate picture of what's really happening next door. to the bloodiest day to scoring the syrian crisis monday with three months she is a growing violence may start spreading beyond the country's borders especially with its close neighbor and turkey wants to close friends too but now a harsh critic of damascus. to be serious first priority should be to listen to its people and their demands not to denounce others instead of massacring its people you should listen to them. so glitter glue is a harsh critic himself but he says he's criticizing the turkish government ankara is on the side with the free syrian army and the syrian national council and military and diplomatic forces and overthrowing the regime of bashar 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 no more 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 cache. sufficiently especially on the part of our government. works with a middle eastern studies center based in ankara 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 here 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 with 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. stop 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 and his country now the state department says the arab league and other nations aren't responsible but was an estimated four hundred people dead in syria since arab league observers arrived there in the samberg some believe it's not just asad to blame now so there's clearly not what you would call a democratic leader but within the hour she should not do worse to me on the contrary that i'm a dad to me he's 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 at them whether there is an international conspiracy with them and said point on to me to do their. part i think i think it cheats more conflict 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. you're watching r t live from moscow still ahead for you this hour is saif say the international criminal court grants leaving him more time to answer questions about the state of colonel gadhafi is most prominent son wanted by the hague by the held by former rebels also. police will argue it's because the people that typically look people competent so should get all the back rooms that look very much like racial profiling europe ruled it illegal by the 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 a new iranian enrichment facility by seeking global support for its and i to iran sanctions u.s. treasury secretary timothy geithner wants china the largest consumer of any oil on side and is pushing it to buy less from tehran but political science professor joseph chang says beijing is unlikely to agree to that. i do not believe that the chinese authorities would like to be seen to be cooperating with the united states go exert pressure on iran iran after all remains a very important and it's the supplier. especially because you are on relations with the united states are not and you are on has it's a civic strategic interest to maintain crawl's relations with china i think time is

the basic position is not to be seen to be brought to the international community's general at the stool exert some pressure on iran but he will certainly work through the united nations to ensure that the sanctions he holds on iran will not see risk free to make your runs interests and certainly china would also feel. along the general football position that suffering piece of the respect in general iran can count on time to prepare is basically by total interest in phase of international pressure. one policeman has been killed and eight injured in a blast in russia's southern republic of dagestan police officers were working on the fusing an explosive device when it exploded two bombs weighing over fifty kilograms each were found in a field and one of the devices was successfully diffused and in

a separate incident one militant was killed in a special operation by the security forces the operation is still under way. the international criminal court has given the levy in authorities more time to provide information about saif al islam gadhafi they missed the said deadline of january tenth the most prominent son of the country's late leader colonel gadhafi is being held in the western town of is in town is charged by the hague with crimes against humanity the i.c.c. wants information about his health and status and agreed to now wait until january twenty third they accept that gadhafi can be tried in libya if the country's rulers can provide a fair trial that's something size is unlikely to get in any case. president of the arab boyer's association. the government does not control or save a coffee he's in the hands of the. ins and i think the libyans are not really interested in handing him over to the international court i think because as far as

that concerned they think that they can try they can satisfy. people to try him and of you know one on the basis that they are getting the people getting their own rights from him rather than the foreign minister and secondly the government would want to show its people that is actually 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 need to have that was actually something that man from the air they were going to kill him so suddenly they become all the concern is human rights is a little bit of time you talk i don't think it is serious but i don't think the courts in india will be able to deliver justice to him. if i can find out more about post revolution maybe and lots of other stories on our website including. it being generous to give us welcome back to the a earth at no charge so could you

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download the official t. obligation your only phone on paltalk from the. law is on the go. video on demand. old girls. an omission st now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. i'll take a look at some other stories from around the world u.s. republican presidential candidate mitt romney has taken a victory in the new hampshire primary establishing himself as the most likely to run for the white house for massachusetts governor won thirty six percent of the vote was texas congressman ron paul in the second place with twenty five percent dromio. also finished first place in last week's caucuses in iowa holds take 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 islamic sect opened fire in a bar killing eight people including several police officers the attack came in the doors of a province of yoga shortly after and mob torched and islamic school in the south it's just an escalation of religious tensions between the muslim dominated north and the christian south welcome herat was behind a series of christmas church bombings that killed dozens. in southeastern brazil two days of tropical downpours have killed at least twelve people eleven are still missing differential 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. if he were approved it's illegal but police in britain continue to stop and search people whenever and wherever they live with little grounds for suspicion in the area of society which finds itself most often targeted believes there is

only one reason for it the people the police rather are institutional you races artie's ivor bennett investigates. this is supposed to prevent terrorism police in britain have free rein to stop and search anyone they deem suspicious the what constitutes suspicious he's hugely controversial no stopped a young black men and police still can't escape accusations of racism even from inside parliament. police will argue that it's because the people are typically looking for comfort sick so she's going to make 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. first up because the type of crime. was when they stopped us to explain.

this type of crime 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 is mostly the stereotyping the stereotype that if he made traction which put a lot of politicking going on with that just for you know well it just something drives and it was the way it was stabbings of 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 bias in those in the middle of the streets or from the highly embarrassing. they were past their cars in the bus. 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 when this illegal early last year

forcing concessions from the government since then stop and searches have decreased by ninety percent but problems still exist 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 powers can simply be renewed on expiring 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 record the suspect. name any injury they suffer all the outcome of a search 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 you back to

sleep. and they say i've heard excuses we don't have no we have to go to the station to get and if i still started there to argue the case someone has a notepad and please give me a form in the end of it so i do think i 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 but one of the things of course it was a nice thing about the place to. stop and. an instance of a place a certain institution against young people and the 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 it's prompted home secretary theresa may to launch a review of how stop and search powers they used are when it r.t.

london. brings us up to date here in r.t. and this is next with katie. thank you marian and welcome to the business program the volatility and appreciation of the ruble that the end of last year has left many. of the stability of russia's currency in twenty five twelve but you get that ocean from case ystem ablaze the government will do enough to keep the ruble at around thirty one. i expected to be approximately thirty one per dollar by the end of the house and twelve. it's the same for today so i still think it's possible i think to distinguish and france which may be diminishing the behavior of national currency in the first half of the year media push agent versus dollar and you were up slightly this may be affected by forthcoming elections in the second half of the

year it's very likely that it will be depreciating as it did actually going down the folds into level but more comfortable would say that greece will be more predictable or comfortable because it will be more stress associated with current account and will reach. about forty plus by the end of the year for two one seems a plausible assumption for me actually. like many economists russia's will still came to see an end to do thousand and eleven. an exam that you have to you have a from b. to b. capital billie's the new year bodes well for russia she still has reservations over the second half of the year. it feels that it will be not such a bad year for sure but the uncertainty in the business still high visibility i have visibility frankly only for the first half of the year when i can say that yes consumer will be there will be low but the second howard was a complete liberal nerd and it's it's also crucial water for the next government will do what it will going to policy agenda in the second number here. ok let's see

how or is performing at the moment all house full from the highest settlement in almost a week as investors battle may enter a recession ahead of a german bomb sile added to balance a fear is a tool to grant a gradient only. over in asia the markets rose on wednesday with financial and technology leading on from the gains made in the us these modest gains were supported by it with a dark hopes of more policy using from china. the russian markets are now open for business and they have opened in the right mindset says dropping around a third of the size while the l.t.s. is using almost twice as much as the. russian actors have hit the ground running in the new year rising the positive sentiment seen on global markets you. also believe liquidity will slowly begin to return to russia markets in the coming days. i

believe that liquidity will be returning to the market during the following days and was just investors focusing on the oil sector which seems to be the most attractive sector russian accurate is however given the overall market consensus is that 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 true 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 well as a business and i'll be back in about fifty five minutes stay with us and i'll say the headlines.

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welcome back you're watching our take on me to live from moscow these are the top stories. repeated promises to close the infamous us prison are still in fulfilled ten years on seven hundred suspects have. passthrough guantanamo bay since 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 the bloody deadlock but its neighbor turkey calls.