many are uncertain of the stability of the russian card scene twenty twelve more details in twenty minutes in the business but that. it is one pm of the russian capital you're watching r t with me rena josh 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 no one getting a trial barack obama had promised he would close it by now but instead the president has signed a new law authorizing the indefinite detention of terror suspects christine for reports the promise is made i've said repeatedly that i'm going to close guantanamo and i will follow through on that promise is broken it is good 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 got a couple couple people got killed in front of me some of them got just keep on his head the 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 it was freezing call it was during winter. and i had no clothes on so i was hanging there for many days ground 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. it's

a stories like this that draw fierce condemnation even from within north america when one of the most powerful little democracies especially even 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 the watery and been logged in before he was killed was 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 n.b.a. 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 end of this report was a chief prosecutor and went to a during george w. bush administration and later in the program he gives r.t. an inside of what he experienced here's a taste. i believe this 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. watch the full interview with a former get more prosecutor in just over an hour here on our team. and our website

r.t. dot com we've been asking you our viewers when the grand. they will finally be close let's take a look at the side that we've got this hour so far over half of our viewers believe the u.s. has no interest in shutting it down almost a quarter think it will happen when washington builds a new prison elsewhere and just under this believe it will be shocked when the u.s. runs out of money to run it all in just seven percent think all the terrorists will have to be to flee to birds so you can also take part in the site vote by logging on to our website r t v dot com let us know what you think. syria's president has promised reforms as a way out of the country's current crisis but others are pushing more drastic measures neighbor terror says it must do all we can to prevent a civil war in syria has expressed support for humanitarian intervention but as it

often there are reports the turkish government may not be getting an accurate picture of what's really happening next door. the blood used to schooling the syrian crisis maintaining three months she is a group and to find this waste on spreading beyond the country's borders especially with his close neighbor to keep one see close friends to. damascus. syria first priority should be to listen to its people and. not to do so those who sort of massacring its people we should listen to them. 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 which means the role of original 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. 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 graphs 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 are officially 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 asad to blame now so there's clearly not what you would call a democratic leader but within the hour conduit she should not do worse 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 review what do it do a few do monarchies show he is writing see they are not the ones that should point a finger at him whether there is an international conspiracy 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 to rob you abusing whatever there is living among the syrian people for their own purposes that is absolutely. well still i have very this hour here on r t is say the international criminal court grants levy a more time to answer questions about the state of colonel gadhafi is most prominent son want to buy the hague but being held by former rebels also police like you it is because the people are typically look people come to the six issue that all the 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 filing the pressure on

iran over its nuclear program and new uranium enrichment facility by seeking global support for it and iran 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 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. to. china's economy. for the u.s. to impose come. to. 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 and 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 a unilateral one country. everybody listen to the u.s. but of course china doesn't want to be a better source of power between the power was different countries in the world dangerous for one country to be so powerful that everybody will have to pay. 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 leading authorities more time to provide information about saif al islam gadhafi and they missed the sad deadline of january the tant the most prominent son of the country's late leader colonel gadhafi is being held in the western town of 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 except that saif gadhafi can be tried in libya if the country's rulers can provide a fair trial something saif is unlikely to get in any case as. president of the arab association. the government does not have control of our safe a coffee he's in the hand of the. ins in town 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 trust they can satisfy the 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 is actually 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 tongue in 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 you can find out more about post revolution the be and lots of other stories on our website including. it being generous to give us what comes out of the earth. so could you really have ill feelings against washington my be at odds with who which obvious but many americans are grateful to it as well as leader thanks to some charitable policies. and your security and good cause we look at the new species of terrifying dogs bred specifically to sniff out explosives in the most extreme conditions the details on our t. dot com. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and

a rainy and university professor has been killed in tehran by a magnetic bomb attached to his car the stuff ahmadi rashaun reportedly supervised a department at natanz you raney him in richmond plant is a fourth scientist to be killed in iran since twenty ten his murderer coming almost exactly two years since the death of another physicist linked to the country's nuclear program to iran has blamed the murders on israel and the u.s. . at least four militants have been killed by a u.s. drone strike in pakistan the first attack of its kind in almost two months the missiles targeted a suspected insurgent compound on the border with afghanistan in a van der washington hold a 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 airbase he used for launching attacks. iran's president

has handed the ration of danio or ted in nicaragua as part of these latin american tour but what about it 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 tomic weapons program and our tag of back to iran's right to develop nuclear energy as did a good job this one though. visited me as well on monday he called america's allegations baseless but in a job well had to cuba next. he asked republican presidential candidate mitt romney has taken a victory in new hampshire primaries stablish himself as the most likely to iran or any white house the former massachusetts governor won thirty six percent of the vote with texas congressman ron paul in second place with twenty five percent story romney also going to the first place in the last weeks of offices in iowa polls take place across the u.s. over the next few months to pick the candidate take on barack obama. occupy wall

street protesters have returned to the coffee party and york after the barricades around there were removed demonstrators campaigning for social justice first set up a camp in september but police raided it two months later and blocked off the area tuesday night's rally attracted hundreds of people with reports of several arrests the occupy movement it originated and in new york and then spread across the u.s. has been marred by allegations all police brutality you were approved it is illegal but police and britain continue to stop and search people whatever and wherever the 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 no stopped a young black men and police still call him to scape 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 there 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 stereotyping the stereotype that if he may track change

what are the colors going on with it 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 smoking room 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 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 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 crime 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 it and if i still start to argue the case someone has a notepad and 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 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 either when it r.t. london of braith up to date here in r.t. and this is next with. hello there welcome to the business program the volatility and depreciation of the

ruble at the end of last year has left many uncertain of the stability of options currency in twenty twelve but you get the ocean from case a stumble believes the government will do enough to keep the ruble at around thirty one. 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 to distinguish and transfer which may be diminishing the behavior of national currencies in the first half of the year. versus dollar and you are slightly this may be affected by forthcoming elections in the second half of the year it's very likely that the bill will be depreciating as it did actually content of the house until i ever bought more comfortable would say that greece will be more predictable comfortable because it will be more stay off the street with current account and will reach about forty plus by the end of the year twenty one seems a plausible assumption for me actually. like many economists rush's will cain to

c.n.n. to two thousand and eleven examiner you have to be awful to be cavs overlies 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 uncertainty in the business still high visibility i have visibility and frankly only for the first half of the year when i can say that yes consumer will be there for a shrill below but the second howard was a complete liberal nerd and it's it's also crucial what were the next government will do and what will going to policy agenda in the second number here. ok let's see how all is performing at the moment is trading full out right now investors all told between news of an improved economic outlook on tensions in a wrong european stocks opened with mob losses but both the footsie and the dogs are slipping further into the red with food and pharmaceutical sectors leading the

downside lever is losing over two percent off to a broker done great news the russian markets have opened in the red but the mice exam the l.t.s. all gaining back some of the early losses but they do remain five a in the red with the my sex dropping around a quarter of a percent on the l.c.s. of a haul three percent down. on the biggest movies on the my sex week all is weighing on energy majors is losing just sums of one percent a magnet is bouncing back from. the retailer has reported a forty two percent increase in earnings for the year two thousand and eleven however the results will none of them the company expected after vos is among the main game is over ports the alliance of i know under some plans to increase a share in the russian carmakers a fifty percent in the first quarter. because there's have hit the ground running in the new year rising opposes sentiment seen global market is. also believes the

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 russian accurate 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 and that's what this is and i'll be back in about fifty five minutes to.

now it's not about spilling blood. it's the war of the barricades from one side and fears blockade from the other. invisible border it has cut people from the land for twelve years.

the conflict that divided serbia into two hostile parts is still not over. a. period.

well. science technology innovation all the latest developments around russia we've got this huge earth covered. welcome back you're watching are going to you live from moscow these are the top stories for peta promises to close the infamous us prison are still on hold till it's ten years on seven hundred suspects have passed through one time a day since many allegedly being abused and tortured there last month obama signed a new law that hold people indefinitely without trial or charge. syria's president promises to completely revamp the constitution as a way out of the bloody dead log but its neighbor turkey calls for humanitarian intervention instead a great.