a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at r.t. moscow i'm wrong reception ten years ago america's infamous prison in 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 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 our reports. from this is me i've said repeatedly that i intend to close guantanamo and i will follow through on that promise is broken it is 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 happy until he died and 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 well it's 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. going to sign or not there was a time when i said no he just made like this and. it's stories like this that.

fears 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 zawahiri and bin laden before he was killed was gone tama and colonel morris davis former prosecutor at 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 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 listed on 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. during the administration of george w. bush later he gives us an inside of what he experienced as a preview. 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

you're called 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 oh 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 you can watch the full interview with the full my guess my prosecutor in just over twenty minutes time here on the what i want our web site also dot com we have

been asking you this morning this often as well when. guantanamo bay will finally be closed let's see how you're voting here at r.t. dot com so far over half of you believe the u.s. has no interest in shutting it down almost a quarter think it'll happen when washington builds a new prison elsewhere i just under a fifth believe get my will be shot when they do want to runs out of money to operate it and they just five five percent that is think that all terrorists will have to be defeated first to join the debate at r.t. dot com. syria's president has promised reforms as a way out of the country's current crisis but others are pushing some more drastic measures neighbor 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 morea financial reports the turkish government may not be getting an accurate picture of what's really happening next door. to the bloodiest day describing the syrian crisis mounting

a three months she is approved we honestly start spreading beyond the country's borders especially with its close neighbor and turkey wants to close friends too but now with harsh critique of damascus on. syria's first priority should be to listen to its people and meet their demands not to denounce others instead of massacring its people you should listen to them. so to clear the gloom 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 return his 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 their own vision of players like turkey increases dramatically but from 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. sufficiently especially on the part of our government. works with a middle eastern studies center based 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. not always that's clear nobody has objectively information what is going on in syria the center specialists haven't been to syria

probably between is the picture they paint for officials in ankara isn't likely to be accurate in the technology at 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 that the sources of these videos are often questionable so it's easier to be was land to get a false picture of what's really happening but that 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 method of migration from its troubled neighbor turkey says it will have to protect its own people and marc fisher and crime says it wants peace and stability in the region its troops are already discounted as from the border with syria written optional r.t.

turkey. the us president has criticized president assad for blaming a foreign interference interference for the bloodshed in the country and the state department says the arab league and other nations are not responsible for the estimated four hundred dead in syria since arab league observers arrived there in december some believe it's not just assad to blame now so there's clearly not what you would call a democratic leader but within the hour conj actually should be not the worst in the country. i don't believe he's doing i mean we do see an oblique represented by the rain the united arab emirate showed you review those do it do a few do not show he is writing c. they are not the ones that should point a finger and 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 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. you with r t live from moscow it's good to have you with us today still ahead for you this hour is saif so if the international criminal court grants of libya 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 will argue that it's because the people are typically looking for comforting so she could only backgrounds 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 a new in richmond facility by seeking the global support for sanctions on iran's oil exports u.s. treasury secretary timothy geithner once china the largest consumer of iranian oil on side and it's pushing it to buy less from tehran but reports coming out of china suggest that is highly unlikely investment manager francis learn believes the u.s. should stop pressuring other countries to do their own agenda. of course many things that you're scared of because one is of course. to. china's economy as a market economy it would be very difficult for the us to impose really. two. chinese schools because the u.s. and china each other speak a trading partner so there are a lot of things that you can all of a can do to and china to buy less from iran but on

a geo political sense it is very hard to even imagine that china will come flying with us is the question because the us is trying to impose a unilateral one country a geo political system that everybody listen to the u.s. but of course china doesn't want then there should be a balance of power between their power different countries in the world it is dangerous for for one country to be so powerful to everybody who will have to pay a subservient role to the u.s. so having most likely china will 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 they missed the deadline of january tenth the most prominent son of the country's

late leader colonel gadhafi is being held in the western town of his in turn is charged as i mentioned moments ago by the crate with crimes against humanity the i.c.c. wants information about his health status and agreed it to now wait until january twenty third except that saif gadhafi can be tried in libya if the country's rulers can provide a fair trial that's something saif is unlikely to get in any case. president of the arab lawyers association. the government does not have control over safe. 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 they're concerned they think that they can try they can satisfy the requirement of the 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 it's actually 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 that was actually something that man from the air they were going to kill him so suddenly they become all their concern is 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. and you can find out more about post revolution libya and a lot of other stories on our website including. being generous to give us about something out in the air and don't charge so could you really have ill feeling washington in my view at all it's with to go chavez but many americans are grateful to venezuela's leader thanks to some charitable policies. and your security in a good cause we look at the new species of terror fighting dogs bred specifically

to sniff out explosives in the most extreme conditions get those details on our website r t v dot com. all right time for the world of it now some other headlines from around the world this hour an iranian university professor has been killed and serono by a magnetic bomb attached to his car mostafa. report will be supervised that apartment you raney an enrichment plant he is the fourth scientist to be killed in iran since two thousand and ten his murder coming almost exactly two years since the death of another physicist linked to the country's nuclear program iran has blamed the murders on israel and the united states. at least for militants have been killed by a u.s. drone strike in pakistan is the first attack of its kind in almost two months the missiles targeted a suspected insurgent compound on the border with afghanistan in november washington a whole to 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 being used for launching those attacks. iran's president has attended the inauguration of a daniel ortega in nicaragua that's part of his latin american to a. dinner just 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 or take a back to iran's right to develop nuclear energy as to when he didn't try to visit it venezuela on monday he called america's allegations baseless. we'll head to cuba next. us republican presidential candidate mitt romney has taken victory in the new hampshire primary establishing himself as the most likely to run for the white house the former massachusetts governor won thirty six percent of the

vote with a texan congressman ron paul in the second place with twenty five percent romney also finished first place in last week's caucuses in iowa polls that take place across the u.s. over the next few months to pick the candidate to take on obama. occupy wall street protesters have returned to zuccotti park in new york after the barricades around it were removed demonstrators campaigning for social justice first set up the camp back in september but police raided it just two months later and blocked off the area tuesday night's rally attracted hundreds of people with reports of several arrests the occupy movement that originated in new york and then spread all across the u.s. has been marred by allegations of police brutality. well europe ruled it 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 but police

are institutionally racist parties are ben it 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 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. or stop because the type of car. 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 is mostly the stereotyping the stereotype that if he may track change or the color like the color scheme going on with that just for you know well let's just stop the judge and see what 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 are found. they were busting their cars because of 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 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 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 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 start to argue the case someone has a notepad and give me a form in 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 of course it was a nice thing by 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 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 r.t. is coming your life in the heart of what's going to stay with us katie joins us now with the latest business. thank you very welcome to the program the volatility and appreciation of the ruble at the end of last year have left many of the stability of the russian cars in twenty twelve years gagnon not ocean up from i ask a system us is a little while show considerable predictability in the run up to the presidential elections in march even with all presidential election expected exchange rate of national currency to be really volatile at the trend that's the major feature or for most of the cultures are we more or less for the traded in the world now but with the presidential election in my shirt being here i don't even doubt that it would seem that you will even increase and unfortunately i expect that the general

effect of presidential election of the national congress will be likely to push a show that appreciation versus the american culture over us but fortunately taking into account that current presidential elections are not likely to affect negatively trickery the. like many economists russia's was keen to see an end to two thousand and eleven and over an exam yet to view ever offer to be kept open days 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 and 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 hot was a complete liberal nerd and it's also crucial water for the next government will do the unavoidable going to policy agenda we need to say can help with

a year. but let's take a look at how all is performing at the moment it's trading full at right now investors all told between news of an improved economic outlook on tensions and overall on. the european stocks they opened with mild losses but both the foot's yeah the dogs are trying to balance back this hour trading flogs is the pharmaceutical sectors that are dragging the european market down nearly but is losing every two percent off to a perth done. and does for the russian market is they both fit into the rest but the mises and the all test all call or in back home losses but much like the european markets which are insider trading. so let's take a look at those biggest moves only my sets we're told is weighing on energy majors although i guess it's retreating from losses that mike needs is an instinct one of them i would say with three percent in the black the reason has reported

a forty two percent increase in its for the year two thousand and eleven however the results while lower than the company expects is also vast is among the main game is on the bulls the lines of reynolds honest on the plaza increase is set in the russian comic up to fifty percent in the fast pool. as a new twist is that banks bid to acquire the troubled east european and vaults backed composite newspaper says a russian lands and now wants a bit in your life from vaults by. as part of the but just the money is needed for votes banks developments as alternative it suggest is excluding of all its banks toxic assets from the bad bank agreed to buy one hundred percent of the land in the but is soon decided to reconsider the times of about just about spanx financial results came out it wasn't expected but it is due to be finalized by mid february.

i was slowing down and well shares ration falls when most new levels as the collapse of the soviet union rises grew around six percent in december from around nine percent back in two thousand and ten up to fight a good harvest although many factors as believe price bright as. so for now be back in about fifty five minutes to join me then if you.

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video on demand on t.v.'s minefield comes an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. questions on the dot com. now half past the hour here in the russian capital this is time for your headlines i repeated promises to close the in for most of us prison are still unfulfilled ten years on seven hundred suspects have passed through guantanamo bay since many allegedly being abused and tortured 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.