around the clock around the world this is r t live in moscow good to have you with us this hour at least twenty seven people have reportedly been killed by security forces across syria on wednesday it's been confirmed that a french television journalist died in a rocket explosion the first time a former reporter has been killed in syria since the uprising began in march this is bashar al assad has spoken to supporters in damascus for the second time in twenty four hours reiterating his dismissal of calls to step down journalist fillin has the latest now from the syrian capital. some reports the figures that hundreds of thousands of people who attended in the us or at least many tens of thousands of people and of course. addressed the crowd amongst the people there was a huge jump forward of the people towards the president in his speech he mentioned that he very much wanted to be amongst the people and there were many young people

that there was a large mix of different ethnic religious backgrounds 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. today so many different religious and ethnic groups of people represented including so means kristie is. many different people so that there was really an impressive actually show of unity amongst the syrian people from all different walks of life one of the five things that people seem very keen to express here is that. they are accused of fabricating news look course 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 say accused of supporting the stabilisation of their country and in contrast they see the countries such as russia have been much more neutral during this conflict condemning all sides for any violence professor of international relations more calm and thinks there's clearly a foreign desire to intervene in syria which means the regime supporters are choosing the lesser of two evils boy sticking with the senate. but the problem for president assad is that the main centers of resistance to him all based around the borders and that also however is a sign of the limitations on the support for an armed insurrection against him that it really depends upon getting money weapons and even perhaps personnel across the border from lebanon turkey and to some extent from truth so we have a kind of standoff president assad has a lot of support the armed opposition has support we don't really know what

ordinary people feel but i think one of the things the president sides tried to do is to say do you want to see debian style civil war chaos or would you or to see this or that happened in iraq a few years ago and that's quite a powerful argument for people not necessary to be diehard supporters and certainly not to want to see themselves die in a brutal civil conflict that could spiral out of control. some of syria's neighbors have their own view on the crisis turkey's warned of a looming civil war in its troops are standing by for orders to intervene if an action has more now from istanbul. to the bloody status quo in the syrian crisis maintained for months she is a growing violence may start spreading beyond the country's borders especially with its close neighbor turkey wants to close friends too but now harsh critique of damascus on tonight you can be serious 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 call it a 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 and overthrowing the regime of bashar al assad it supports a buffer zone and a humanitarian corridor which some fear could bring turkish troops to syrian soil what does that mean according to international law it means aggression against a country it means war but any intervention would be different from the one in libya since russia and china have made it clear new war no fly zone resolutions it means the role of regional players like turkey increases dramatically but for new claims and korea's behavior is irresponsible and risky it has larger

implications beyond the 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. sufficiently especially the part of our government or hand works with a middle eastern studies center based in and kyra it's sponsored by the turkish foreign ministry to help shape policy and its opinion on syria it's clear syria is killing their own people. 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 here it means the picture they paint for officials in ankara is unlikely to be an accurate one 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 but the sources of these videos are often questionable

so it's easy to be misled or 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 play in any game if there is massive migration from its troubled neighbor turkey says it will have to protect its own people and. and currencies it wants peace and stability in the region its troops are already discounted as from the border with syria. r.t. turkey. we have live in moscow with twenty four hours a day still to come this scouting for suspects. i think is the most to do with stereotyping the stereotype that you see me traction with the polish going on with me just for you know well it's just

a lot to do with why police in britain are under fire for stopping and searching you they deem suspicious. but all eyes are on the u.s. and israel after a car bomb kills one of the brightest minds in iran's nuclear industry. a story still to come first today marks ten years since the first prisoners were sent to america's most notorious prison in cuba guantanamo bay and after a decade the detention center remains modern allegations of interrogation and torture barack obama promised to close it but instead the president is now also a new law authorizing the indefinite detention of terror suspects christine 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 murat kurnaz captured in pakistan in two thousand and one while working for an ngo that helps young people get off draw. books he was sent to guantanamo and tortured for five years. after i had seen a couple things couple a couple of people got killed in front of me some of them got just keep on his head through until he died. he was hanging on saying that he was forced to confess he was a member of al qaeda and he told them time and time again he was not. freezing call it was during winter. and i had no clothes on so i was hanging there for many days . came he pulled me back. and. going to sign almost every time i said no he just made it like this and. it's stories like this that draw fears condemnation even from within north america when one of the most

powerful the democracies in spading with 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 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 policy 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 and its passage really was the death knell for attempts to close guantanamo and now 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 to start 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 that report was

a chief prosecutor at guantanamo bay during president george w. bush's administration and his full interviews coming up in the next hour but here's a preview of what he experienced while working there. i believe at the time and did for most of my tenure there were committed to having for 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 there were a champion of the rule of law who were trying to apply 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. you saw recently at the republican presidential debates for candidates they would resume waterboarding so you know we love to criticize other countries. who are not so good at holding up the mirror torso.

and that interview in full for a little later here on what we're always interested know what you think about various issues and today we're asking when do you believe guantanamo bay will finally close will to voice your opinion go to our website dot com and participate in our latest global policy look at the results on screen fifty eight percent of those who responded believe the u.s. has no interest in shutting it down this in a quarter of convince that will be shot when the u.s. can no longer afford to run it. only happened when washington builds a new prison elsewhere and just two percent think all terrorists will have to be defeated first will go to cast your vote and one of their check out our news coverage including. an anonymous group famous for fueling protests across the world is calling for the entire u.s. nation to rise up against a controversial national defense act and protect the american constitution. and also money well spent russia's defense ministry pays

a million dollars to create its own computer games to promote peace among youngsters those stories and plenty of others dot com. one of iran's top nuclear scientists has been killed in a car bombing in the capital tehran but stuff. reportedly supervised a department at the iranian enrichment plant he thought is a pointed the finger at israel. the u.s. here bomber ministration is denying any role in the death of money russian is the fourth atomic 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 tensions between iran and the west are growing rapidly as the us is already slapped around with more financial and oil sanctions and the e.u. plans to follow suit but russia urged europe not to aggravate the situation by

following in america's footsteps talk to mass on them from the universal peace federation told me earlier that he thinks a regional conflict is now a real possibility. after consecutive actually asked us nations against nuclear scientists inside iran and this is a to my own understanding maybe the fourth as us a nation inside the head on over and around i mean inside iran this will lead to an example of how the west actually and the us specifically through the mossad or through the cia will always engineer or handle such as us nations inside iran well i'm predicting there is a certain plan or an agenda by the worst and israel will not engineer it will not the exit queue that it could be the brits and the us but this will benefit there's a need for sure and the threats actually behind this shall lead to a regional or an international war in the region which is there was going on in case tension grows fine by time in accidents actually consecutively they grow like

a snowball as if in the in the gulf region so this will eventually upload all you know escalate the situation inside the gulf specifically and there was going to the iranians they have offered dialogue but the west so far has neglected that and they are not ready to sit down with iran and discuss certain diplomatic measures. now to some news making headlines around the world and first to nigeria in world update the government has warned that the nation's fuel strike could lead to anarchy as demonstrations ended their third day nine people have been killed since monday in what has become the longest nationwide strike in nigeria. history comes after the government ended a popular fuel subsidy leading to an increase in gas and transportation costs throughout the nation. to keep up the indefinite strike until the subsidy is restored. in the u.s. 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 the blockades were put in place after demonstrators were evicted from the area two months ago by a movement has been marred by accusations of police brutality since it began last september. telling prime minister mario monti says his country no longer poses a threat of contagion to the rest of the eurozone following painful but vital reforms he's met with the german chancellor angela merkel who praised italy's efforts of imposing austerity measures to a depth disaster not to want to protest breaking out in italy if it's reforms or not acknowledge a successful he's agreed on a new tax on financial transactions pushed by merkel but only if it's applied to be in european union this comes as the e.u. struggles to contain its debt crisis with many states believed to be back in recession. 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 islam about 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 just words a senior reporter at the bureau of investigative journalism at city university in london says islam about its reliance on american aid means it will continue to tolerate drone attacks. i think relations remain fraught between pakistan military and government i think the drone strike issue here is a separate one. been significant leaks both in islamabad and about and washington and recent days about a new deal good moment on drone strikes and i think that's what reflects i mean obviously the united states has a very ornamental 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 u.s.

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 syria continues to claim that it hasn't killed a single civilian in pakistan since back in may two thousand and ten the bureau's research on the shows quite the opposite and we documented a minimum of fifty three civilians were killed in pakistan where you were still in the first few. years homer's hundred twenty six it is fair to say also that civilians do get killed in war the question here is. war in the tribal areas of pakistan and what kind of authority does it have to actually carry out these drone strikes 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 is one reason behind it and that is skin color ati's i will bet

i 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 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 they were not tough because this. was when they stopped us to explain . this topic because 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 made traction just what a lot of politicking going on with that just for you know well it just opens up 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 person. they were passed just 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 of 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 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 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 to sleep. and they say i've heard excuses we don't have no power we

have to go to the station to get and if i still started there to argue the case someone i don't know i don't think in your form in the end of it so but if you target young people police used to have similar powers in the 1980's but they were scrapped after racial targeting provoked massive riots some saw the group as riots it's history repeating itself but one of the things of course that was a nice thing by the place to. stop and. understand the place. and the. people and the probably institutionally racist as well. eighty five percent of writers cited anger at 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 are when it r.t. london. twenty three twenty four minutes past the. bring you the headlines right

after the nation's business news now with daniel. welcome to business russia's big selloff of state has been postponed according to comments from the country's deputy prime minister. says they won't get a fair price for firms like transitive drew in the current world economic turmoil the privatization will be put off for up to three years according to government sources quoted by newspaper lists of all it from think small. but there were 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 and 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 boil only twenty seven billion cubic meters of gas this year despite the fact fifty two billion has been agreed in the contract but the head of russia's any joint gazprom warns ukraine must pay the full amount agreed. ukraine made this 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 russia will act according to the existing agreement. this trickle the

stock markets and all the e.u. closed in the red food and energy sectors were talking down with pharmaceuticals also suffered community but lost over three percent of the of greed the wrong all tension has occurred energy firms shows off three percent in london. russia's borders closed lower for the second day in a row following problems in other markets the r.t.s. lost over one percent of them are six finished almost point eight percent in the bread now the biggest movers almost six today weak or was weighing on energy majors from last point eight percent that's all news ukraine wants to take this gas the greek in the contract with discover retailer magnet jumped it reported a forty two percent increase in earnings for twenty eleven and half the verse finished among the main game is on reports the lawyer plans to increase its share in the russian call make it to fifty percent in the first quarter of this year. that's the business news the headlines are next on r.t.

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live from moscow this is all to top stories now this upbeat syrian president claims he's still in control them will soon crush what he's branded a foreign funded insurgency international pressure on bashar al assad to step down is mounting as more civilian deaths are reported across the country. ten years on and america's infamous prison in guantanamo bay is still open with many inmates alleging abuse and torture now debate rages over whether barack obama's new detention or to hold people indefinitely without trial or charge and ensure the center remain.