this is r t live from moscow ten years ago america's infamous prison guantanamo bay they locked up the first twenty detainees accused of terrorism seven hundred suspects have passed through since manning allegedly being abused and tortured they are almost not getting a trial barack obama had promised he would close it by now but instead the president has side a new law to rising the indefinite detention of terror 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 student couple things got a couple couple of people got killed in front of me some of them got just keep on his head through until 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 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 pulled me back down and he asked me i want to sign on every time when i said no he just made like this and they pulled it up it's juries like this that draw fears condemnation even from within north america when one of the most powerful that we're democracies is behaving with apocryphally and promoting you know illegal prime. this is 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 is a major roadblock in this passage really was the death knell for attempts to close guantanamo and i think we're stuck with it 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 we've just seen in this report was a chief prosecutor at guantanamo bay during george w. bush's administration later he gives r.t.

an inside of what he experienced and 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 thought 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 a moat 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 a former prosecutor in just our twenty minutes time here on r.t.e. and our web site r c dot com with an asking you our viewers when guantanamo bay will fall. finally be close let's take a look at the site now so as we can see so far half of you believe the u.s.

has no interest in shutting it down and a little over a third saying it will happen when washington builds a new prison elsewhere on the rest of the votes are evenly split just south of the sample you get now will be shot when now the u.s. runs out of money to run it and the same ground saying all the terrorist will have to be the feet of first so you can join the debate by logging on to our website r t v dot com and letting us know what you think on this issue. and to other stories now syria's president has promised reforms as a way out of the country's current crisis but others are pushing some war dress take measures neighbor turkey says it must do all it can to prevent a civil war in syria and has expressed support for humanitarian intervention but is r.t. is more if an option in our reports the turkish government may not be getting an accurate picture of what's really happening next door. with the bloody status quo in the syrian crisis maintained for months she is a growing and violence may start spreading beyond the country's borders especially

with its close neighbor to key 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 do so those sort of message people 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 at 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 war no fly zone resolutions it

means the role of regional players like turkey increases dramatically but for new claims and korea's behavior is irresponsible and risky it has larger implications beyond the 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. separation. especially the part of our government or hand works with a middle eastern studies center based in and kyra 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 or 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 is unlikely to be an

accurate one the technology changing you know when you look at the progress 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 are officially and crying says it wants peace and stability in the region its troops are already discounted as probably 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 be not do was to me on the contrary now i'm a dad and 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 actually he is writing see they are not the ones that should point a finger at him whether there is an international from students who were elements that point out to me did their. part i think i think it cheats more complex than just that there is also genuine popular revolt 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 three this hour here in r.t.e. is saif safe the international criminal court grants that leave you more time to answer questions about the state of colonel gadhafi is most prominent son wanted by the hague but being held by former rebels also. police would argue it's because the people are typically look people come to check so she could only back rooms that stalls look very much like racial profiling you were paroled that illegal by police in britain you need to stop and search people without cause beyond the color of their skin. america spiling the pressure on iran over its nuclear program in new iranian enrichment facility by seeking global support for its and iran sanctions u.s. treasury secretary timothy geithner once china the largest consumer of iranian oil onside and is pushing it to buy less from iran investment manager francis lui believes the u.s.

should stop pressuring other countries to do their well. of course. many things the. cause of cause. for the u.s. to impose. on the. chinese school is because the u.s. and china. are trading partners so a lot of things that you can all over can do to entice china to buy less from iran but. how do you measure that china will come. to you question because the u.s. is trying to impose. one country. everybody listen to the u.s. but of course china doesn't want there should be

a better source of power between how we're different countries in the world is this dangerous for one country to be so powerful that everybody will have to. be able to do you. most likely not. comply with the u.s. request to buy less oil from iran the international criminal court has given the libyan authorities more time to provide information about saif al islam gadhafi a vis the set deadline of january the tans the most prominent son of the country's late leader colonel gadhafi is being held in a western town of some time 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 the twenty third they accept the science cut off he can be tried and if the country's rulers can provide a fair trial that something is unlikely to get in any case as. president of the

arab lawyers association. the government does not have control of our safe feet he's in the hands of the. ins in town 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 trust they can sets five year requirement of their people to try him one on the basis that they are getting the people are getting their own rights from him rather than the foreigners and secondly the government would want to show its people that the section the independent of the western powers 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 punting that man from the air they were going to kill him so suddenly they become all that concerned about 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. you are going to find out more about post revolution media and lots of other stories on our website including. him being generous to give us welcome saturday earth. so could you really have ill feelings against. washington might be at odds with but many americans are grateful to venezuela's leader thanks to some charitable policies. and your security in a good cause we'll look at the new species of terrifying dogs bred specifically to sniff out explosives in the most extreme conditions together details in our view dot com and don't forget to visit our you tube channel for some of the best videos . eat. your food.

down the official location your phone on called touch from the top story. one. video. and street now in the palm of your. ocean on the dot com. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and a reign of versity professor has been killed in tehran by a bomb attached to his car the south. reportedly supervised a department at natanz uranium enrichment plant is the fourth scientist to be killed in iran since two thousand and ten is murder coming almost exactly two years

since the death of another physicist linked to the country's nuclear program. at least four militants have been killed by u.s. drone strike in pakistan the first of its kind in almost two months the missiles targeted a suspected insurgent on the border with afghanistan november washington told the drone operations in the region after accidentally killing twenty four pakistani soldiers but pakistan insisted the strike was deliberate and ordered american forces to vacate the air base used for launching attacks. iran's president has attended the inauguration of danny and he was part of his let the american tour in a jobs trip is seen as an attempt to drum up support in the region after the u.s. imposed heavy sanctions on iran over its alleged atomic weapons program and go back to iran's right to develop nuclear energy as did it which obvious one in a job visited venezuela monday called america's allegations baseless how many jobs

to cuba next. u.s. republican presidential candidate mitt romney has taken victory and that hampshire primary establishing himself as the most likely to run for the white house former massachusetts governor won thirty six percent of the vote with texas congressman ron paul in the second place was twenty five percent romney also finished first weighs in last week's caucuses in iowa post a place across the u.s. over the next few months to pick the candidate to take on barack obama. europe rolled it legal but police in britain continued to stop and search people when i ran where i really like was little grounds for suspicion and the area of society which finds itself most often targeted believes there is only one reason for it the police are institutionally racist are designer 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 is hugely controversial

most 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 social economic 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. or stop because they were not topical. so was when they stopped us to explain. 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 stereotyping the stereotype that if he may track change

what a lot of politicking going on with me just for you know well it just opens large 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 brass in those in the middle of the streets or from the highly embarrassing for some of them they were past 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 powers can only be used in a specific area fourteen days before he was twenty eight but in practice all that

means nothing the 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'll 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 crime refused to give to sleep i only say i've heard excuses we don't have no power we have to go to the station to get it and if i still start to argue the case someone i don't know proud of me give me a form of the end of it so i do think they 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 that caused it was a nice thing by the place to. stop and watch an instance at the place certainly institutionally 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 are static what's happening in the world of business. well come along to the program the volatility and appreciation of the variable at

the end of last year has left many of the stability of the russian carcassi in twenty twelve years gagnon. of cases the most as a ruble will show considerable unpredictability in the run up to the presidential elections a mom. even without a presidential election expects the exchange rate of national currency to be really volatile. that's the major feature off for most of the governments is more or less for the traded in the world now but with the presidential election in my show this year i don't want the war to which you will even increase and unfortunately i expect that the general effect of presidential election of the national currency will be likely depreciation appreciation versus the american culture over you or fortunately taking into account that current events presidential elections are likely to take negatively triggering. like many economies russia's

was came to see an end to two thousand and eleven xander yeti ever from greed to be capital 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 bloody year but for a surety 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 how it was completed a brilliant nerd and it's it's also crucial water for the next government will do the unavoidable going to post said it would mean a second home for the year to. see what's happening in the oil markets always try to pull out right now investors all told between news of an improved economic outlook the tensions that are on the european stocks have opened with mild losses food and pharmaceutical sectors all moving the downside levi is losing almost two

percent off to a broken down graze on the asian markets mostly rose modestly a wednesday with commodity linked gaining as buyers such a value in china tied stocks amid continued anticipation of the policy. right here in russia opens in the red the my sex is dropping around a sixth of a percent while they all just as you can fog up losing around eight percent just about an hour the biggest moves on the my six week old is when energy may just gas from is losing a woman hope is that bad news is also in the negative territory the retailer has reported a forty two percent increase in earnings for the year two thousand and eleven all seven continent is among the main news is for the second consecutive day following reports that its parent company plans to buy about twenty five percent of which as i don't record low price. russian actions have hit the ground running in the new year writing the positive sentiment seen on global market is used. as

liquidity will slowly begin to return to russian markets in the coming days. believe that liquidity will be returning to the market during the following days and twisted just investors focusing on the oil sector which seems to be the most attractive sector russian aqua is however given the overall market consensus is that the market is going to be on the 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. so found to join me in about fifty five minutes.

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a spot on the title cut. that the end of the. market why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the cause a report on. all the mag and watching our t.v. these are the top stories repeated promises to close the infamous u.s. prisoners still on fulfilled teen years on seven hundred suspects have passed through one tunnel day since manny allegedly being abused and tortured there last month obama signed a new law to hold people indefinitely without trial or charge the first syria's president promises to completely revamp the constitution as a way out of the bloody deadlock but its neighbor turkey calls for humanitarian intervention instead but critics suggest.