tonight on our t.v. the land down under is a little more crowded these days that's because american marines are filing ends to do good filing into the defacto base in australia that's not just the ozzies we should be worried about the latest move on the euro political chess board will tell you that the u.s. may really be setting its sights on. we're going to let you shoot and potentially kill another human being and then the wall will not only provide you with immunity from criminal prosecution but also immunity from any future civil litigations a license to kill these stand your ground law has caused so called just

a file up in justifiable homicides to skyrocket and to your last that law is now under fire after the shooting death of a young african american so in the south of fads a week to france will debate. and the u.s. government time for a safer now than ever before but what is the price of our freedom and how many people have suffered at the hands of national security interests will open up the book of secrets and shine a light on america's torture past. one day before it's seven pm in washington d.c. i'm liz we're all here watching artsy. well starting off this hour australia is rolling out the red carpet for two hundred u.s. marines that are today they are the first of the twenty five hundred soldiers expected in darwin the troops will be rotating in and out of the region every six

months or so as part of an agreement by president obama and prime minister julia guillard back in november at the latest move by the u.s. military to amp up its presence in the region and a major shift in the global geopolitical chessboard the u.s. of course has no issues with australia president obama even went as far as to call the country one of its closest allies it does however demonstrate an ever increasing american interest in the pacific are many question many are questioning the exact motives behind the move and another matter more critical than china dr pock non-logic sprains why china is concerned about the developments i think the situation know. already the caught the attention of the chinese communist party even appalled we moans us was. some signs of discussion and deep a chinese government be chinese government. started to.

some concerns a perception that the u.s. and china relations is in a sealed game now in this regard it will have some very important implications all of the change of chinese foreign policy. the pressure of the north china now will be i think is one of the possibility for the chinese government for the future apart from continue resourceful because the problems see economic oriented people many. people in the overseas chinese government is going to. take a more assertive more position to trying to influence the internal politics of countries number one number two i think also for the chinese government to see

to increase and to. increase its new three persons in order to provide. the kind of national interest that it has overseas. so as you heard china is terribly concerned over today's developments this comes as china itself looks increase its presence in various parts of the middle east currently the country has its sights set on pakistan china already has support and glad they are that it well back in two thousand and five last year pakistan asked china to build a naval base there and maintain a regular presence out report now china has denied the possibility of an able base there but this statement has not subdued for years from your last in india and the strategic importance of this port cannot be understated it is close to the strait of hormuz which is where the is where one fifth of the world's oil travels through

there's a tense standoff between american and. ronnie and abel forces months ago after president mahmoud out and in a job threatened to shut down the waterway today's developments along with china's interest in the region shows how the chess pieces of these two global powers are slowly gravitating toward one another we'll continue to follow this story as it expands. now on to a hot topic in america today it's being called a license to kill the stand your ground law coming under scrutiny after the death of our lord are a lot of florida teen trayvon martin and amanda holden trigger remains free today that's because police took his word that he shot martin in self-defense and florida is one of the twenty four states that allows people to use deadly force wherever they are wherever they are as long as they claim self-defense artie's million of our nine six a close look at the controversial stand your ground law. if the second amendment to

the u.s. constitution had a soundtrack. the right to bear arms would best be looking at least by gunfire. the land of the free is the most heavily armed nation in the world with two hundred ninety four million firearms floating around america hi i'm chuck norris a black belt patriot if somebody breaks into my home i could use my roundhouse kick but i'd prefer you look down the barrel of my gun. in a reported thirty states a us doctrine known as the castle law allows homeowners to shoot and kill intruders without becoming liable to prosecution since two thousand and five the freedom for gun owners to paint and shoot in the name of self-defense has widened center controversial legislation known as the stand your ground law experts say it allows gun owners to use deadly force to protect themselves in public essentially delivering a license to kill it tells people you know what if you're in

a confrontation on the street with someone or getting into an argument or there's a physical altercation even if you could safely retreat from that just walk away and go home you don't have to we're going to let you shoot and potentially kill another human being and then the law will not only provide you with proper immunity from criminal prosecution but also immunity from any future civil litigations that stand your ground first became law in florida but recently received national attention following the deadly shooting of seventeen year old trayvon martin the unarmed student was carrying candy and iced tea when he was shot dead by a neighborhood watch volunteer police released the gunman george zimmerman without charges was our son but trayvon is your son. a lot of people can relate to our situation. and it breaks their heart just like he said leave us.

continue to fight for justice for since stand your ground took effect the number of so-called justifiable homicides in florida have tripled as morgan's parents mourn the loss of their son u.s. gun laws remain historically loose in many states citizens with criminal records and prior restraining orders are still able to receive gun permits. critics say easy access comes courtesy of the national rifle association or and or a gun rights organization and the tory sleep powerful us lobbying group that reportedly spent more than seventy million dollars on political ads during the two thousand and ten us election paid for by the n.r.a. everything that the n.r.a. pushes at the state and federal level is designed to sell more weapons that's what this is about there's a lot of money thrown around whether it's an array campaign contributions to florida politicians or corporate money that can be spread around

a number of different ways since two thousand and five the stand your ground law has been adopted in twenty five states throughout america so it's like you see a conductor paying in particular session or somebody. one or can't you know it's going to be done by this party and so you know it's the most powerful nation on the planet is the british nation that in some people's minds most immigration. clearly something that you can she said people see each other oh i'm sober since nine eleven u.s. civil liberties and freedom have suffered in the name of national security new gun laws have some alternate plea made it easier for americans to arm themselves reading the land of liberty locked and loaded up or not artsy any other talk more about the implications of being allowed to stand your ground i was joined by stephen crowder a fox news contributor i first asked him about critics claim that stand your ground encourages vigilante style justice they're sick. well

firstly do you guys have some kind of a scoop on on the trayvon story that i'm not aware of yet because last i heard we haven't seen a case and we don't know what's happened and zimmerman hasn't been convicted well it's hard to know right happened when he's not even arrested might have you know he's not going to run again i don't think you're out what happens if they were in fact i think the argument that people want. put on trial are targets seven piled against him and let's not get my lad reading i've got a quarter a lot is done to decide whether or not he's going to but that's not really the argument people are bringing here just like you guys are decided to show the picture of trayvon martin i don't know why the picture is several years old whereas as a woman picture is only his mug shot this man hasn't seen a trial he's been convicted guilty by the american public you've had spike lee and roseanne barr publicly tweeting his address this is not a man who people want to see brought to justice we don't know what's happened listen i don't know anything about mr zimmerman i don't know if he was defending himself we don't know that he shot trayvon in the back alleys running away let's assume for a second that we do have all the facts he did shoot trayvon while he was running we

know that that doesn't really mean that he's a racist we don't really know enough about that and i think to confuse the the stand your ground law with the castle doctrine to you is an out report isn't entirely accurate and you think it's very very important here too is we do talk about the florida i guess acceptable homicides you guys call them which would really be shooting in self-defense what's happened to the florida total violent crime rate since center during that same time. you know what i what i do now is i see also what i what has increased was so-called just a file with a justifiable homicide so incautious where you are allowed to kill somebody i don't know that our law doesn't influence where your love defend yourself i think and that's a perfect point your criminal the thing that scares you the most and statistically the thing that would scare them the most is in an armed citizen who would be a victim all of a sudden is now armed this idea that that victims should be able to defend themselves i think is ridiculous and of course these people aren't necessarily

shooting to. and kills someone i think people need to understand is this dynamic here the same thing with mr zimmerman i don't know i haven't seen the ballistics yet but when i have a weapon and most people have weapons they buy self-defense rounds ok a self defense round is not designed to kill as a matter of fact around you can use the hunt would be a full metal jacket as and computers organs and kill whatever it is that you're hunting a self-defense round is used to enter the body cavity and expand causing more instant central nervous system damage to stop the assailant you aren't shooting to kill you're shooting to stop and listen shooting somebody over isn't. adequate and blanket you're going to tell them now it's likely going to sit in a hat if we're going to we're going to calvin and i would. never let anyone who's taken a single concealed carry and handgun license will likely never aim for that you always aim for body mass so that's another meant that you could aim for the heads or aim for the legs that we get from video games and how they would never again for body mass and whatever you are going at you better be damn well sure that you are

prepared ready and justified to shoot that is what you are taught but the act of shooting somebody is not an immoral act so that's why i think it's important look at total violent crime rates in florida versus these i guess justifiable homicide which is that certainly you are using i can shoot somebody to steal his wallet and kill him and lead a ministry or i can shoot somebody to prevent a rape and murder just like money is a moral you can take a hundred dollars and donate it to a charity where you can take a hundred dollars and go buy some drugs up the street it really depends on your world view would you rather see headlines that read victims shot and tossed in a gutter or woman raped and left an alleyway would you rather read a headline that reads would be victim was armed and managed to defend himself from assailant get away see what an eye for there is in this case of the victim wasn't armed he was a holding a bag of skittles and an arizona iced tea so in this case it wasn't that tragic as a tragic had this is a headline that i don't want to relive that we were just i'm not the law we weren't

. trayvon we were talking about stand your ground law so time back to the trayvon case now we're talking about trayvon listen i don't know i can't speak for mr zimmerman i don't know what happened he may be right he may be completely wrong but that doesn't mean that the stand your ground law or the castle law as you would have in texas to which are very different things is inherently wrong it's akin to what we want to discuss it want to discuss the details of the zimmerman trayvon case but we don't have them yet we don't have i agree with you we don't have details because he wasn't arrested he wasn't at work we don't know well there's a lot of there's a lot of conflicting reports a lot of conflicting about evidence i don't know for sure you don't know for sure there's a lot of i know and at this point because a lot of people say it's due to the fact that he wasn't arrested at. face value the fact that he acted in self-defense and we don't know that possibly he dead possibly he did it we don't know that but one of the most and one of the more controversial things even about this law is that is it's a spinoff of the castle doctrine which is a little bit more broad because in that case of somebody comes into your hall ok

somebody is clearly aware you led to your place so you can you can defend yourself clearly that person shouldn't be there but the sound your ground law allows you to take your god and patrol neighborhoods theoretically and she did somebody you know that was a place. and a public place that is not accurate that and your ground law does not allow someone to buy a gun and control neighborhoods with his gun the fact that zimmerman had a concealed handgun and a carry license if he did it is not the same as he being part of a neighborhood watch as a matter of fact most neighborhood watches do not allow their members to hold guns the stand your ground law does not say you can run around shooting people that is not what it says this stand your ground law says that if you are in a lethal or possibly deadly situation you do not have to flee and put yourself in a position of being even more the victim you are allowed to defend yourself or god also says that it doesn't it doesn't require the car said to. to remove himself

from a dangerous situation and i would think i mean i wouldn't argue that self-defense is a bad thing but i would think that it should be a last resort last resort that shooting somebody should be a last resort and you should try to flee or or do something else not resort to pulling the trigger. well you should say it isn't and that's why the it was created because you can't determine whether it was a last resort or not you can determine if this person was justified in using lethal deadly force and it's not just. as reports said if you claim self-defense you wrote the book that also was not true he needed just no use to you miss your doubt about stand your ground law it is not allowing people to strap themselves with a gun and go around shooting people who do believe to be criminals and that is not allowed and you not get on to look by claiming self-defense it has to be proven that you are defending yourself and that your actions were justified and i think that's a good little steven glad to have you on for the debate i was even crowder fox news contributor. document just revealed released reveals that if our defense

department's top torturing techniques the thirty seven page guideline details ten ways officials can torture detainees suspected of having ties to terrorism those are partly handed out for the first time back in two thousand and two who officials of the bush administration and sheds light on the girth of the bush administration's torture policy and now there's a debate over whether or not using the methods detailed in this guy glock and use on dates detainees are considered war is a crime earlier i spoke to decently a police investigative reporter for truthout dot org about his findings and the documents take a listen. i found out that this document was released by the department of defense it was actually released to mcclatchy newspapers under a freedom of information act request that they filed but the news organization did not do anything with this document or file any story it's my opinion that they

did not recognize the significance of this in the context of how it pertains to the origins of the bush administration's torture program so this was actually posted on the defense department's foyer reading room website place i visit frequently and i downloaded it i looked at it and it was stunning to me i knew exactly what it was when i had opened it up this is a proclamation that was actually referenced in the justice department's inspector general report actually it's watchdog report back in two thousand and ten if you recall when they investigated the legal work that went into the preparation of the torture memo prepared by john yoo and signed by his boss j.p. i.v. this document as briefly reference its called pre laboratory operating instructions dated may seventh two thousand and two and you mentioned that there

are ten techniques there's actually many many techniques in this document this is the document that we use that the united states uses to train service members in a in an area known as survival evasion resistance and escape see or how to avoid resistance to interrogation if captured by an enemy this is what we've heard many over the years in terms of reverse engineering in this document there are seven of the ten techniques that ended up in the torture memo comes directly from this document walling which is slamming a detaining against a wall there is cramped confinement place in. tanian to a small pox. facial water water torture a whole wide range of documents excuse me of techniques that they employed here and

now do you think are these methods considered legal. well that's a very interesting question so you know as i indicated and as you stated this is a may seventh two thousand and two and that's the big not sure if it was created on that date but that's the date that was actually included in the justice department investigative report. so we know now as a result of this document that some of the interrogation methods that the first high value detainees had been subjected to in may of two thousand and two that same month that this document was supposedly created. that there was this happened before the legal memos prepared so that legal memo is what gave the cia the authorization to subject you know this detainees and later on others to these techniques so it's clear that there was likely some verbal authorization taking place. between the cia and its interrogators at this black

site prison but you know what's really significant about this is that this is the first document the first training manual the first real. piece of hard evidence that provides deep insight into the origins of the bush torture program and as they get a originate from a question ministration are they also being use it in the obama administration. well you know there is some debate as to what is actually being used it what's very important to point out is that. the army field manual does contain certain techniques such as. i believe there's isolation maybe hooding in there in which we know has been used as a form of torture so when the obama administration says that you know they have ended torture that they've abandoned outlawed if you will these techniques it's

it's it's really up for debate on how you define torture. i've discussed this with you know with our team many times before we got in solitary confinement solitary confinement is a form of torture and that is actually something that's continuing to take place. at prisons and bob graham in guantanamo and certainly in u.s. prisons as well so. with regard to what the obama administration is doing. it's really difficult to say we were more or less have to take the word from the administration their word that they are not no longer using these techniques that originated in the bush or now do you think what is the significance of this i i know that you wanted to make this information public because the other news outlet failed i do think it's important for this information to be made public . important question first we want to have a true the document where we can document historically what the origins were of the

of the bush torture program but what's really important about this document and i've quoted in my story. which i wrote along with my colleague geoffrey k. we quote a veteran interrogator an intelligence professional colonel steve climate he went through these resistance training programs he also was an instructor this is the guidebook to false confessions. that was very thinly up all lead investigator for truth now. also had an artsy free speech is only as free as the government allows it the us is no stranger to silencing the sentence specially when it comes to on popular opinions coming up i'll tell you why journalists and blowers alike are afraid of. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians decision to break through. who can you trust no one

who is in view with a global mission where we had a state controlled capital. sessions when nobody dares to ask we do our t.v. question more. our state english speaking russian channel it's kind of like. today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us. it's right right i mean it's like it's a riveting. it's a food products essentially. it's much stronger than anything you've.

ever put. the u.s. state department spends millions each year to promote freedom around the world but at the same time u.s. companies sell surveillance and site blocking technology to companies like our raincoat and saudi arabia are to correspondent guy and you can take a look at if there's two kinds of internet freedoms. the u.s. government continue spending millions of dollars to support freedom of the internet around the war but is it freedom for all we can leaks which to many has become the symbol of fear now for him has been under fire from u.s. officials and lawmakers because we can reach published documents which embarrass

the american government in many ways we can expect come to the enemy the u.s. has reportedly shoot a secret indictment against julian assange the head of the website which leaves hundreds of thousands of documents revealing and verisign details about wars in iraq and afghanistan five major u.s. financial institutions and the seven master card pay pal western union and the bank of america have tried to economically strangle leaking leaks by blocking donations through the website until recently peter van buren has served as a foreign service officer in the state department and he says he was fired over the book and the blog that he wrote about the failure of u.s. policies in iraq the state department since two thousand and eight has spent seventy six million dollars overseas on internet freedom giving tools and support to bloggers and girlish and online people around the world particularly in countries that we have difficulties with at the same time the state department has spent all that time and all that money supporting both bloggers it has found

internet freedom to be inconvenient in the form of we can leak so much work just as hard and spent probably more money trying to shut down for a speech that it opposes while supporting free speech that it feels furthers america's own political goals will receive we call that a partnership but it's not just a leaking website is that the u.s. is after but also their sources critics say this administration has embarked on an unprecedented campaign against whistleblowers in this culture with this administration is going after whistleblowers in an unprecedented way we all have an obligation to protect our sources i have to say that i write self i'm really nervous about the safety of some of the people that i talk to. as a journalist accomplish national security i'm talking all the time with people that work in the intelligence but military community who said shockwave to the community while trying to stifle inconvenient beliefs at home the u.s. perceives the hearing and social networking platforms as major tools for spreading

democracy and spends millions of dollars to hold people in the middle east and trying to get around iran and blocking firewalls at the same time ironically enough american companies provide bahrain saudi arabia and kuwait with the technology to effectively block websites a lot of between control better used by so-called repressive governments are provided by american company be good for citizens or corporations for better or worse talk about broccoli as their motivation and government however the american government talks about freedom and democracy as its motivation when in fact in many ways you can meet opposite direction some argue that left on control the export of surveillance inside blocking tools by american companies could undermine beer in our freedom the same way as arms exports undermine peace initiatives as far as us government efforts to security and freedom there seem to be two kinds of freedoms freedom that they encourage and freedom that they punish but is there such a thing as true freedom and when i start there reporting from washington r.t.

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