it is good to have you with us today this is artsy life from moscow i'm wrong receipt showing 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 has promised the world that he would close it by now but instead he's actually signed a new law authorizing the indefinite detention of terror suspects at his christian friends are 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 student couple things got a couple couple of people got killed in front of me some of them got just keep on his head one till 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 it was 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 going to sign on out every time i said no he just made like this and they're putting it up it's a story. like this that draw fierce condemnation even from within north america when

one of the most powerful little democracies is paving 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 guantanamo and colonel morris davis former prosecutor and one hundred mowbray resigned after being ordered to use information obtained during torture he said he was hopeful things would change under president obama he didn't just embrace the bush policies he kissed him on the lips and ran with them many believe the prospect of closing guantanamo bay will now be much more difficult thanks to the passage of the national defense authorization act by congress it was signed into law by president obama on december thirty first now within our bill provisions that allow the military to indefinitely detain anyone it

considers to be a terrorism suspect without charge or trial and with this increased leniency no doubt increased space to hold those prisoners will be needed but the end clearly you know there's a major roadblock in this passage really was the death knell for attempts to close guantanamo and i think we're stuck with president obama will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law even applying it to american citizens no person and military uniform ever volunteer the rooms are less than to the military for the purpose of taking action against american citizens it's to protect american citizens protecting american citizens the reason given for guantanamo bay in the first place but ten years later it is having the opposite effect still the once temporary solution now looking more and more like a permanent fixture in washington christine for sound r t. colonel

morris davis who we've just seen in that report was a chief prosecutor during be administration of george w. bush i look at it later here on out so he gives us an inside of what he experienced that is a preview. i believed at the 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 excepted 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'd shoot 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 to 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. bay you can watch the full interview with the full might get to my prosecutor in just over an hour's time. often although

a website called we've been on. asking you when will guantanamo bay finally be closed here the numbers so far over a half believe the u.s. has no interest in shutting it down just over a fifth believe get mo will be closed down when the us runs out of money to operate it almost at the same amount think it will happen when washington builds a new prison elsewhere but only five percent think all the 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 for some more drastic measures neighbor turkey says it must do all it can to prevent a civil war in syria and has expressed support for a humanitarian intervention but as r.t. is worried for national reports the turkish government may not be getting an accurate picture of what's really happening next door. to status quo really the syrian crisis mounting a three months she is

a good move we honestly start spreading beyond the country's borders especially with its close neighbor and turkey wants to close friends to you know harsh critique of damascus on. syria's first priority should be a solution to its people and meet their demands not to do so others instead of massacring its people we 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 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 no more no fly zone resolutions

which means the role of visual 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. separation. 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 which is how to shape policy and its opinion on syria it's clear syria is killing 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 year it to me is the picture they paint for officials in ankara isn't likely to be accurate on 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 easy to be misled you 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 if there is method of migration from its troubled neighbor turkey says it will have to protect its own people and mark and currencies it wants peace and stability in the region it's true already discounted as from the border with syria written optional r.t. turkey. the us president has criticized assad for blaming all foreign interference

for the bloodshed in his country but the state department says the arab league and other nations are not 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 assad to blame now so there's clearly not what you would call a democratic leader but within the hour actually should be not the worst in the country. i don't believe he's doing i mean you do see an oblique represent the back to remain united arab emirate showed you review whether it was do or do or 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 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 syrian people for their own purposes that is absolutely. for the second time in twenty four hours president assad is addressing the nation details that come of that in a few moments here on our t.v. but still ahead for you this hour is saif safe the international criminal court grants libya more time to wants are questions about the state of colonel gadhafi is most prominent son i wanted by the hague but rather being held currently by former rebels also. police will argue that it's because the people are typically look evil comes at six so she's going to backgrounds that starts 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. you with r.t. america is piling the pressure on iran over its nuclear program and knew you rein

him in richmond facility by seeking global support for sanctions on tehran oil exports u.s. treasury secretary timothy geithner wants china the largest consumer of iranian oil on side and is pushing it to buy less from tehran but reports coming out of china suggest that is unlikely investment manager francis lui believes the u.s. should stop pressuring other countries to do their will. of course many things today you're scared of because of cause. to. china's economy as a market economy it would be very difficult for the u.s. to impose a link to the. chinese schools because the u.s. and china each other speak a trading partner so there are a lot of things that you can of can do to enticing china to buy less from iran

but on a geo political sense it is very hard to imagine that china will come with us as you question because the u.s. 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 the power of different countries in the world it is dangerous for for one country to be so powerful to everybody 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 the tenth the most prominent son of the

country's a late leader colonel gadhafi is being held in the western town of his in turn he's charged by the hague with crimes against humanity the i.c.c. wants information about his health status and agreed to now wait until january twenty third they accept that saif gadhafi can be tried in libya if the country's rules can provide a fair trial but something is saif is unlikely to get in any case says. the president of the arab lawyers association. the government does not have control of a 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 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 is 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 that concerned on his human rights is a little bit of 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. and you can find out more about post revolution libya and lots of other stories at our website including. that of the error. so could you really have ill feelings against washington might be at odds with hugo chavez but many americans are grateful to venezuela's leader thanks to some charitable policies. and your security is in good poor as we look at the new species of terror fighting dogs bred specifically to sniff out explosives

in the most extreme conditions. at our teutonic. are not as good as some other news in brief for you from around the world this hour and iranian university professor has been killed in tehran by a magnetic bomb attached to his car most of the reportedly supervised at apartment . in richmond plant he's the fourth scientist to be killed in iran since two thousand and ten and his murder comes almost exactly two years since the death of another physicist linked to the country's nuclear program tehran 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 it's 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 halted 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 attacks. iran's leader has attended the presidential inauguration of daniel ortega in nicaragua as part of his latin american to a. religious trip was seen as an attempt to drum up support in the region after the u.s. imposed heavy rains on iran over its alleged atomic weapons program. meantime has backed iran's right to develop nuclear and. as they do go chavez when a comedian a drug visited venezuela on monday calling america's allegations baseless are going to add next heads to cuba. u.s. 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 later this year the former massachusetts governor one thirty six percent of the vote with texas congressman ron paul in second with twenty five percent romney

also finished first in last week's caucuses in iowa polls are take place across the u.s. over the next few months to pick the best candidate to take on barack 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 in september but police raided it two months later and blocked off the area through the night a rally attracted hundreds of people with reports of several arrests the occupy movement that originated in new york and then spread across the u.s. has been marred by allegations of police brutality. while 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 that the police are institutionally racist. 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 crime. was when they stopped us to explain.

this terrible crime has been used in recent attacks attacks to say that there was this big issue stopping the car. and the reality was the kid. who was in a car i think it was mostly the stereotyping or stereotype but if he may track change or the color like the color scheme going on with that just for you know well it just wasn't jobs and it was the way it was stabbings a frequent in this part of london carte blanche for police to stop and search whoever they want they can be in public sometimes physical poorly explained and often humiliating some brass in those in the middle of the streets or from the highly embarrassing was just they were busting their cars because. i don't know when the law came into force in two thousand and one police didn't even need a reason to stop and search europe finally when this illegal early last year forcing concessions from the government since then stop and searches have decreased

by ninety percent 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 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 the 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. a kind of crime refuse to give to sleep. and they say i've heard excuses we don't have no we have to go to the station to

get and if i still start to argue the case someone has a notepad and give me a form of 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 to have in it r.t. london. it is good to have you with us here are to you today join the cross talk.

just a few minutes away for a typical traditional fiery debate show. thank you rory and hello to you welcome to the program the volatility and depreciation of the ruble at the end of last year has left many uncertain of the stability of our currency in twenty twelve baht. i have to tell you stumble blazer 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 diminished in the behavior of national currency in the first part of the year media push agent versus the dollar and you were up slightly this may be affected by a forthcoming election in the circle of appear it's very likely that the bill would

be depreciating as it did actually going down the polls and so every box more comfortable would say that greece will be more predictable comfortable because it will be more serious to shape 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 was came to see an end to two thousand and eleven alexandra you have to you ever are from the 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 bad year for sure but the uncertainty of the still high visibility i have visibility or frankly only for the first time for the year when i can say the u.s. consumer will be fair question will be low but the second hot was a complete liberal nerd and it's it's also crucial water for the next government will do what it will going to post. in the second what we hear. the wages

of some of russia's state may be put on hold the country's deputy prime minister eagle such and has reportedly suggested leaving out several energy giants from the privatisation less that's including electricity rates high drive and all majors transmat and ross net the ability to sell the assets us an adequate price is mentioned among the main reasons such a point sell the ross nast is now quoted at a much lower level to what would have been considered a suitable price for a sale it said charles that's about it is hard to estimate due to its complicated structure as aris hydro such into just waiting for it to consolidate its library that chance yes that this is expected to significantly lift the company's value. so this is what's happening on the board market today but the brands blend and the w.c. are bouncing between losses and gallons of gas is a turn between use of an improved economic outlook and the tensions in iran and

also in european stocks they are trying to profit with food and energy sectors tugging down was a pharmaceutical company is also suffering is losing every two percent after broker downgrades investors are away from the all important john and paul induction to sack us to the russian markets i opened up with dan rather and have a vols to much sense buy them ices melt yes have pulled back from the losses but also found in the rags by the percent each. and all the biggest movies on the my sex we could pose wagram energy majors with our gas pump is retreating from add it all says i might need is enjoying games about a four hundred percent the sour reese has reported of percent increase in earnings for the year of two thousand and eleven however the results were macho love in the company anticipated and to vassar is among the main game is a report see

a lot of run out on the stump has increased the share of the russian come back up to fifty percent in the fast. there's a new twist in banks bid to acquire the troubled east european land vaults bank comes a newspaper says a russian man to now wants a one big year i live in vox bank as part of the just the money is needed for votes bank development as alternative is suggested include excluding melba toxic assets from the deal bank agreed to buy one hundred percent of the land. but is soon decided to reconsider the just as votes by its financial results came out worse than expected the debt is due to be finalized by mid february. i was actually over me today will be back in about an hour's time for the next business but it isn't good bye now.

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three stooges free. old free broadcast morning videos for your media projects a free medio dog r t dot com. this is also a law from moscow with me wrong research time for your headlines repeated promises to close an infamous us prison are still unfair failed ten years on seven hundred suspects passed through guantanamo bay said many allegedly being abused and tortured but just last month obama did sign a new law to hold people indefinitely without trial or charge. syria's president promises to revamp the constitution as a way out of the bloody deadlock with its neighbors.