racism. the business russian stock markets closed as the route would lead through the program. global news twenty four seven this is r.t. live from moscow i'm wrong. at least eleven people including a belgian journalist are reportedly being killed by security forces across syria on wednesday this special has spoken to supporters in damascus for the second time in twenty four hours reiterating his dismissal of calls to step down journalist a list you feel a witness that riley and i will we can cross live to have the latest so our side claims he still has the support of the majority of his people is that indeed the mood where you are in the syrian capital. well i've just not long ago returned from

the demonstration in one of the main squares here in the capital and some reports have put the figures that hundreds of thousands of people who attended in the us or at least many tens of thousands of people there and of course by satellites that address the crowd amongst the people there was a huge jump forward of the people towards the president and in his speech he mentioned that he very much wanted to be amongst the people. and when i was there speaking to people people were very keen to express. support for the president during this time of crisis and there were many young people. and that also indicates a strong level of support amongst the younger generations who comprise a lot of the. protesters all the parts of that have been reported by the media and there was a large mix of different ethnic and religious back. of course the syrian government

has been accused by media organizations and others being unfair regime because it is led by. a religious minority inside syria demonstrations today there were many different religious and ethnic groups of people represented including so means kristie. many different people so that there was really an impressive actually show of unity amongst the syrian people from all different walks of life and all different backgrounds and i have heard reports that there were similar demonstrations in other parts of the country like aleppo also and indeed yesterday after the speech of president bashar al assad at the university here is a must because that was also a number pro-government demonstrations in this city so something so some of the

pictures being portrayed in the media as being some part of the muskets being rocked by and the regime protests over the past couple of days the opposition has certainly been the case but when you bring up the issue of anti regime protests the syrian president has vowed to crush what he's calling foreign funded terrorism for the people i think as well as their lobbying themselves with that concept. well yes i mean one of the five things that people seem very keen to express here is that outrage in particular. and. news channels of which is of course funded by compiled like they are they are accused of fabricating. news reports of what is happening inside the country and they also express a lot of anger towards the u.s. president barack obama french president sarkozy who's supporting the stabilization of that country and in contrast they see countries such as russia be much more

neutral during this conflict condemning all sides. for any violence so that nations like russia and china. are viewed much more favorably by a lot of the people that i have come across so. that there has also at the demonstration there has also been a. large show of palestine from the public from palestine and his. showing that very much the people who support our priorities are with the palestinian national cause which of course is. against the israeli regime who is accused of supporting destabilization in syria by the regime and the people who support the regime or to join the soul is a feeling that live from damascus thank you meantime independent news out of james colbert thinks the syrian regime is making a stand against

a western backed insurgency and the conflict could see a libya style of military intervention. it's important to understand that when he speaks of this conspiracy that he's going to strike down and these foreign terrorists who are invading his country that this is in fact not something that's open to debate it was actually revealed in documents that were leaked from the u.s. state department last april that prove beyond a shadow of doubt that the u.s. state department has pumped in at least six million dollars secretly and covertly into syrian opposition groups since two thousand and sixty arab league mission there is pretty much pre-ordained no matter what the mission itself comes out with if there is even one dissenting voice the one dissenting voice will be given all of the media attention so it's a question of which way the the powers that be have decided this is going to go in unfortunately it looks like it's going to stack up in the in favor of military intervention once again. some of syria's neighbors have had their own take on this ongoing crisis turkey has warned of a looming civil war troops are standing by for orders to intervene from istanbul

ati's where fashion. through the bloody state is combing the syrian crisis maintained for months she is a growing and tirelessly start spreading beyond the country's borders especially with its close neighbor turkey wants to close friends too but now a harsh critic of damascus on. the serious first priority should be to listen to its people and meet their demands not to denounce others and sort of massacring its people we should listen to them. so glitter glue is a harsh critic himself but 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 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 visual players like turkey increases dramatically but for new claims and korea's behavior is irresponsible and risky it has larger implications beyond the bilateral context of turkey syria as such the situation in syria must be handled with great care by all powers and unfortunately i don't see that cash. separation. especially on the part of our government. 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. 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 photographs 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. researchers from coming to firm conclusions military operations this is the last option which turkey does not want to see but this is an option it 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 game if there is massive migration from its troubled neighbor turkey says it will have to protect its own people and fishery and korea insists it wants

peace and stability in the region its troops are already just kilometers from the border with syria. r.t. turkey. it's a good to have you with us here on r.t. and i still to come for you this hour scouting for suspects. i think is mostly the stereotyping the stereotype that you see me traction with a lot of polish going on with me just for you know well it's just a lot to do with people why police in britain are under fire for stopping under surging youths who they deem suspicious. today marks ten years since the first prisoners were sent to america's most notorious prison in cuba mowbray after a decade the detention center remains on the wrong side of the law with its harsh interrogation processes and use of torture barack obama promised to close it but instead the proper president has now signed a new law authorizing the indefinite detention of terror suspects christine for us

our quotes 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 terrorist suspects they are suspects like moroc or not captured in pakistan in two thousand and one while working for an ngo that helped young people get off drugs he was sent to guantanamo and tortured for five years. after a couple things got the couple couple people got killed in front of me some of them got just keep on his happy until he died. and so the other one who was hanging on saying until he forced to confess he was a member of al qaeda and he told them time and time again he was not it's freezing call that was doing with. no clothes on so i was hanging there for many days

when the interrogator came he pulled me back down and. going to see. and almost every time i said no he just made it like this and. it's a stories like this that draw fears condemnation even from within north america when one of the most powerful that we're democracies in spading with a posse in promoting you know illegal practices and abusing human rights that undermines the cause of human rights everywhere on the planet and it is this hypocrisy that others say leads us enemies to more action not less i think the number one recruiting tool for zawahiri and bin laden before he was killed was gone tom and colonel morris davis former prosecutor add one ton of obey 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 six 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 service 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. . and the connell morris davis who we've just seen in this report was a chief prosecutor at guantanamo bay during the administration of george w. bush his full name if you are coming up in about an hour's time but for now a preview of what he experienced while working. i believe at the time and did for most of my tenure there 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 but it seems that were a champion of the rule of law when we're trying to apply it to others not so much

when. we're looking at in the mirror at ourselves the convention against torture for instance we're signatory to that if you use all recently the republican presidential debates where candidates said they would resume waterboarding so you know we love to criticize other countries. but we're not so good at holding up the mirror torso. well we're always interesting getting your opinion here in our to today we are asking you when do you believe the guantanamo bay will finally close voice your opinion at r.t. dot com participate now if you can on our latest worldwide poll bring up the numbers now from our web site this hour about sixty one percent of those who responded believe the u.s. has no interest in shutting down less than a quarter of you feel that will happen when washington builds a new prison somewhere else the opinion that we get will shot when the u.s. can no longer afford it that comes in third and just about a three percent of you think all terrorists will have to be defeated first to go to

r.t. dot com cast your vote if you can while you're there check out our other online news coverage including an anonymous group famous for fueling protests around the world is calling for the entire u.s. nation to rise up against a controversial national defense act and protect the american constitution. also online for your money well spent russia's defense ministry spends one million dollars to create its own computer games to promote patriotism among youngsters. and about her time at a time is daniel with the business but for now british police have been accused of crossing the line when it comes to upholding law and order by stopping and

searching people they deem in any way suspicious those who are most often considered to be up to no good by authorities believe there's one reason behind it skin color are his either bennett reports. 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 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 could always backgrounds that starts to look very much like racial profiling is 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 when the type of car. was when they stopped us to explain there is. this topic was big news in recent attacks texts to say that there was this big issue stopping the car. and in reality was the kid. who was in the car i think is mostly the way of stereotyping the stereotype but if he made traction just . like the polish can be done with it 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 suppressive goes in the middle of the streets off on the highly embarrassing i was just lucky they were busting their cars because of the bus. but 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 this. suspects 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 p. targeting and physical abuse kyle runs the youth center 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 refuse to give you that you see.

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 can 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 all this riots as history repeating itself but one of the things that caused it was a nice thing about the place to. stop and. an instance of a place certainly institutionally against the people and the probably institutionally racist as well. eighty five percent of writers cited anger of police is 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 or a view of how stop and search powers they used have invented r.t.

london. now a twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow a u.s. drone attack has killed at least four islamic militants in pakistan the missiles which struck late last night hit an insurgent compound in north waziristan on the afghan border this comes just two months after an american airstrike killed two dozen pakistani troops adding to the already tense relationship between washington and islamabad the white house said the november attack was an error pakistan rejected the findings saying the strike was deliberate. meanwhile pakistan's prime minister has fired his defense secretary as tensions between the government and the military grow chris would say a senior reporter at the bureau of investigative journalism at city university in london says it's not about the reliance on american aid means it will continue to tolerate the drug attacks and i think relations remain fraught between pakistan military and government i think the drone strike issue here is a separate war. been significantly spoken as one of the veteran washington in

recent days about a new do you get an interim drone strikes and i think that's what reflects i mean obviously the united states has a very deep into a relationship with pakistan in particular with pakistan's military and we're talking about billions of dollars a year being spent on pakistan's military by the us going back almost a decade there so yes that money is important to pakistan and i think that's an important aspect of leverage for the u.s. drone strikes continues to cry but it hasn't killed a single civilian in pakistan since two thousand and ten euros research on the shows quite the opposite of a minimum of fifty three civilians were killed in pakistan where you were storing this was sheer number may be as high as one hundred twenty six it is fair to say it was you that civilians do get killed war the question here is is the united states

at war in the tribal areas of pakistan and what kind of authority does it have to actually carry out these drone strikes and daniels here and i would with the business but for now at the arts the world update for you some other international headlines in brief first our attention to that of the iranian capital tehran it's where one of the country's nuclear scientists has been killed by a car bomb mostafa. reportedly supervised a department at the rather uranium enrichment plant he thought he is to have pointed the finger of blame at israel. it is the fourth scientists to be killed in iran since two thousand and ten almost two years ago another physicist linked to the country's nuclear program died in a similar explosion. nigeria's government has warned that the country's national fuel strike could lead to anarchy as demonstrations enter the third day nine people have been killed since monday in what has become the longest nationwide strike in nigeria's history it comes after the government ended

a popular fuel subsidy leading to an increase in gas transportation costs throughout the nation union savella to keep up the indefinite strike until the subsidy is restored. and in the united states occupy wall street protesters have moved back into new york's zuccotti park after barricades were lifted this comes after civil liberties groups sent letters to the city saying the barriers broke zoning laws blockades were put in place after demonstrators were evicted from the area two months ago the occupy movement has been marred by accusations of police brutality since it began in late september. and i promised a time for the business with that. welcome to the business program russia's big state as it has been postponed according to comments from the country's deputy prime minister. says they won't get a fair price for firms like trans left and right hydro in the current world

economic turmoil privatization will be put off for three years according to government sources quoted by newspaper europe's love lists of all it from deutsche bank thinks markets will understand the move. but there was certainly hopes in the market there would be significant impetus to privatisation this year but my sense was that certainly there was no strong expectation that a word pro see with aggressive privatizations ahead of the presidential elections and if anything if there were to be a significant pipeline of privatizations coming up you could also have a negative effect of some sort. market in terms of the saturation of the supply negatively affecting the price dynamic but currently we clearly see that the market conditions are challenging that the global scene is question and this is something that makes. this strategic asset somewhat more problematic. there's been

a new flare up in the gas dispute between russia and ukraine says it will only buy a twenty seven billion cubic meters of gas this year despite the fact fifty two billion was agreed in their contract but the deputy head of russia's energy giant gazprom warns ukraine must pay for the full amount originally agreed. crane made its decision without any consultation with russia if they want to make any changes to the contract they should agree them six months in advance if you crean breaks the conditions of the contract with russia it will act according to the existing agreement. or price which is losing yesterday's gains but it's been up and down today with iran tension boosting the price but the news germany's economy contracted in the fourth quarter has brought fears crude demand will fall markets stateside have opened down as investors cash the rally that source stocks hit their highest since july contagion from the e.u. crisis these are nerving traders coca-cola is down two percent off to

a brokered downgrade. and europe's edged into the red losing this morning's roys food and energy sectors are tugging downwards pharmaceuticals are also suffering unilever is losing over two percent also after a brokered downgrade investors are also nervous ahead of the results of a big job and bond auction and the russian markets now they closed lower the all tiers lost over one percent while the most six finished almost point eight percent in the red. now the biggest movers on the my six today we call it was weighing on energy majors goes from last point eight percent the company supplies to europe jumped nine percent in two thousand and eleven retailer magnets rose almost four percent it has reported a forty two percent increase in earnings for last year over the results were lower than the company expected and after various finished among the main gainers on reports the. alliance plans to increase its sheer in the russian comic up to fifty percent in the first quarter of this year. there's all the business news all be

back in about fifty five minutes for more financial news here on r.t. . question is that so much money can which of course he's right on economy are not

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. it's no help last the hour here in the russian capital time for you headlines now they want to take the syrian president claims he's a still in control and will soon crush what he's branded as a foreign a funded insurgency but international pressure on assad to step down is mounting turkey leads calls for intervention and gives up its forces. ten years on not america's infamous prison guantanamo bay is still open with many inmates alleging abuse and torture that now debate rages on over whether barack obama is.