this is our team tonight giving their time to the north the world's most famous will sell blood premieres his talk show here with us with controversial newsmakers who get missed out by the mainstream got more night coming up. also a syrian rebel faction admits coffee and peace plan is the last chance to end the bloodshed but russia warns some forces remain intent on stirring the conflict. and america's torture techniques are equal the war crimes the league's state department memo with grave concerns over the bush administration's brutal terror against.

cologne a very good evening from moscow it's eleven pm here this is our t.v. my name's kevin now in our top story this choose day to day sees the premiere on r.t. of one of the most highly anticipated news talk shows of recent years world renowned whistleblower julian assange goes head to head with a series of controversial high profile figures despite having been stuck in house arrest in the u.k. for a staggering five hundred days now. first more on the first edition of a show that promises to give the floor to those mostly shunned by the mainstream media. it's an interview with someone who's only very rarely heard from in the west snuff tied with six years ago the millions he's a freedom fighter but for millions of others he's a terrorist it's the highly controversial leader of hezbollah not enough for ourselves and not through the tool chain for a range of issues to do with his areas of influence including the israeli

palestinian conflict and hence below its role in the international struggle over syria now it's really revealed for the first time that has contacted the opposition in syria to urge them to negotiate with the regime they refused that hezbollah will keep pushing. what we call from serious negotiations dialogue reform actually reform is going to carry on because the alternative to that and the cause of the twenty first century is over inside syria because it's sensitive to the situations in syria also the trips to personally into civil war and this is exactly what america and israel want for syria that's a little so you pointed to the involvement of al qaida in syria they actually take his house already you're right yes and they'll be followed by more how qaida members from elsewhere in the arab world they he says are try to stabilize syria and turkey to a battleground elsewhere in the region has really reiterated heads below its view

the palestine belongs to the palestinians that if it's my house and we have if your house and i go ok i'm going for it doesn't become my interest here on the u.s. just because i'm stronger than you realize you have been able to ok well you can see that doesn't give me that doesn't legalize my question for your house now i went to talk to ask head of the broadcast to the program at the secretly casing where he filmed the show we told all about the show how he choose the guests of course he spent a lot of time himself on the other side of the interview with death he talked about his disenchantment with mainstream media and why he chose in our team to broadcast this and also why he feels that he's in a unique position to make an interview show let's hear what you have to say. the majority of what they have said to me could not. threaten the work i was doing with me. we were going to continue with of course i'm dealing

with someone. trying. to figure out what racial so they can speak through the green i think because that. it's not too late to hold it will be broadcast here on r.t. every two hours through tuesday did catch it. and i were about to show you the julia sound show indeed again in twenty four minutes time here on this channel as well if you haven't called it already. elements within syria's opposition of mitt the kofi annan peace plan is the last chance any side has to end the violence but after talks in moscow with the syrian national called nation committee russia wanted some foreign states are still urging the rebels not to commit to ceasefire earlier russia's foreign minister condemned the us and some gulf nations for agreeing to give money to the opposition despite ongoing peace efforts there renewed mass rallies in syria amid the truce meantime but there are fears too that

some legitimate peaceful calls for freedom and democracy are big smeared by the armed militia are these exam a boy because latest report from damascus for you does contain some graphic footage which may well find upsetting. this is the neediest piece of the syrian revolution and shaping narrative kalashnikov's appealing to the international community to stop the killing of children those are. just a few weeks later the same man this time posing as soldiers going around knocking of the florists people. later we see them again i'll read you dad shown on you tube as civilians were savagely killed by troops yet still western policymakers insist on calling these people freedom fighters rather than charities united states of america. so.

do i and the definition for. united states of america. and who are. of united states. this is the case and if you talk about. we have. organised religion of course this is also the syrian opposition. goals and ways of achieving them are strikingly different these kurdish women are against the entrenched discrimination of their ethnic group others in the crowd call for free elections and stopping arbitrary detentions still the main slogan there rallying under is for the peaceful change. we think that bashar al assad has stepped down but we are totally convinced it can be achieved through nonviolent means the only

way for this democratic revolution to proceed is peacefully all sides have to stop the violence small rallies like the peace almost the wicklow kerns in damascus this time given syrian state t.v. came to fill my. travels rapt attention to syrian opposition has many faces and there's a growing concern here that by supporting the radicals the last may be hurting because of more moderate forces the gunfire has essentially drowned out more legitimate calls for democratic change while the organizers of this rally received a permit from there it didn't last long an hour into the protest a group of us thought supporters appeared from nowhere sending demonstrators running on this occasion nobody was hurt or detained. the marker sees about the rule of the majority and the majority of the people support bashar al assad these people may be carrying slogans but they're not there for him from. of course that's

a quarter is there is indeed little difference between peaceful protesters and the rattles and it looks like the west is meeting the thinnest think they betting on the arm to position international powers make activists like these guilty of association with big gun charging militia when people start seeing violence shooting buildings it gets much much worse and a lot of other folks will start to come in as i see all the birds is just not promote democracy but quite the opposite it probably. won't even promote in the long run. syria has long prided itself on tolerated when it comes to politics the gloves come off very quickly not only a syrian security agreeing to disagree but more importantly they have to learn how to do it in a nonviolent way it's in a broker artsy then ask syria. despite the reduction of violence in syria officials from western and arab countries were meeting today to reinforce sanctions against

president assad from previous measures have started to work wiping out half of syria's foreign currency reserves for political analyst what it will cut to in the mask is says its average citizens though food pyramid grump. when i see sanctions for a civil aviation i see sanctions for transfer. care and see when you see sunshine is on trade and these would really help very hard the syrian citizens i do think they really concerned the government and if they do they only concern the government in the sense that they would create a sense of congress among certain segments of the population and this whole litany of sanctions has proved over the years to be nothing but a tool to really heads and hurt the weakest members of society the situation those really tense right now and i think this is not the time for political posturing this is a time for everyone to sit down behind

a negotiating table and think about the shape and the future of syria that we want . and there are more mideast troubles in focus in a few minutes as well or an r.t. tonight if you stay with us is well banging the war drums again over a rat and even though the rest of the world seems content with how those nuclear talks was now progressing. next the story as well coming up as well reporting on the global anti piracy pirate could be walking the plank too as the m.e.p. reporting back from the e.u. dismisses it as a threat to civil liberties saying it should not be bought of by this think that they can get more money from me. no regrets all the time terms from norwegian mass killer anders breivik who says he would do it all again his testimony comes on day two of his trial but his evidence has been published this time instead of being broadcast the rest of the hearing riveted mit's last summer's bomb and gun attacks in oslo which killed seventy seven people but he pleads not

guilty saying it was in self-defense to protect norway from islam tuesday's hearing was delayed after a judge was dismissed for commenting on facebook shortly after the tragedy it brevik deserve a death sentence a penalty banned in norway but judges views may be disallowed but brevig still publicly hailing his massacre is the most spectacular and sophisticated attack on europe since world war two for many brevig scary exactly what he wanted a platform for his extreme ideas that is the way you want a justice system works in it in the european union in norway he he will clearly i was opportunities to express his own views but i'm just hopes that the overwhelming majority of people will reject him for what they are signs of if you want i'm a man who who is deluded and under a system is under focus is something that we've seen across the european union. in germany and in france in the united kingdom as well as in norway he's just he was

politically successful but i think he's a he's one of. many maybe too strong but he is certainly not unique in amy's whatsoever and least groups are actually working together to promote these kind of low wall in many senses follow the same pattern as the some of the muslim fundamentalists. well if anders breivik is ruled as saying the maximum jail sentence he'd received is just twenty one years but that could be extended if he's considered to pose a threat still to society if not then it's three months in prison for every person killed a lot on a piece of property which prison may haue is brevik and where the mass killer could spend his uninterrupted days behind bars or more for the mind. of. a controversial plan global and piracy agreement actor and he soon be dead in the water the euro m.p. responsible for monitoring its progress three e.u. says it should be rejected the pact swallowed anger among europeans with thousands

protesting against giving big firms the power to people using the internet for illegally swapping files twenty two countries in the bloc signed up to the agreement with a vote on it for education due this summer in brussels may not get that far now let's talk about that luke samuels a physical commentator for the news magazines like wind the blue kite thanks for being with us it's not the first blow to this treaty is it what i've just talked about the initial m.e.p. responsible for the reporter not to resign describing the negotiations as a masquerade so what's wrong with this agreement. well i think it's worth having to think about what's wrong with the impetus behind a lot of lawmaking both in europe and in the united states around intellectual property and really questioning why it's at the forefront of a lot of people's minds i think the key issue here is that society is really failing to innovate and in a society which struggles to come up with genuine new technological innovations we

do inevitably become more concerned with protecting intellectual property we see that over the last sort of fifteen years investment in research and development both in europe and the united states has remained completely stagnant whereas intellectual property is a sort of industry has grown and grown so i think the real problem here is that we're more concerned with conserving the tweaks that we're making to old technologies rather than coming up with new ones and in a society that does that it's not really surprising governments both. governments in the united states and the european union in europe would be very concerned about maintaining the integrity of those minor tweaks what we really should be talking about is innovation looks must focus in on specifically to two people to look at this very closely cut it out of. david martin are both not at all happy after they looked at the details of it so with that said how could twenty two e.u. countries signed up why is nothing putting them off. well unquestionably it's

agreement but the real problem with access specifically is how it shows that you're opinion it's effectively allowed to do politics without any reference to national populaces so the fact is that this is a piece of you law it's a trade agreement that will. an obligation on european countries to make law in certain ways but it still is in europe it's european or making effectively by proxy and what it shows is that the european union have affectively created institutions and procedures which have prevented these kind of agreements coming under any kind of democratic scrutiny whatsoever that's the real problem with it it's true that countries have signed up to it but no point have national populaces have any say whatsoever in the provisions of this agreement so that's a really troubling aspect of it is the fact that it's fundamentally antidemocratic how important is was the only piece of his recommendation on this treaty does that

mean now that they have got it is dead in the water or not is still progress well it is truly disturbing that the words of one man can effectively shape the future of copyright law in europe and that's a real problem i mean i think his recommendations are going to be extremely influential i think it's effectively starting a death blow to actor and that's a real problem in my view because it shouldn't be the words of one man deciding the future of copyright law in europe it should be the populations of european countries. last quick one of europe's pair of parties agreed to team up for the elections for the european parliament in twenty fourteen the stories kind of brought it all out doesn't it one of their chances of winning seats to give the topic of the more broad topic of internet freedom some transparency. well i don't think transparency is the real issue here there is a debate to be had about the role of intellectual property in today's digital age and we should be having that discussion act it isn't

a system because it really sets up the kind of polarized discussion between on the one hand big evil businesses that seek to rob third world of medicines in in favor of protecting their revenues and on the other hand a kind of hippie freedom loving internet activists really what we need is more nuanced discussion about the role of intellectual property and creative freedom those two things need to interact in a digital age and the european union continue discussing these agreements completely behind closed doors but broader cultural discussion about exactly how we deal with those two issues it's going to remain silent interesting and controversial story we're following with your help luke samuel political commentator for the news magazine spiked online dot com thanks ever so much thank you. israel says military action against iran is still on the table despite the resumption of nuclear talks between tehran and world major powers than the israeli defense minister denies promising america that no strike would be launched while

those negotiations are under way i spoke to radians politics professor said one hundred around he told me he thinks israel's hard talk is a good sway in the west rather than his country. and the israeli regime is trying to put pressure on western countries to take a harder stance against iran so there's really as may be concern that western countries may be shifting their position in this is partially due to the fact that oil prices are high have gone up dramatically and western economies are hurting and also because the middle east is in a very sad shape or at least there uproar and instability in iran is the only stable country in the region i think in the eyes of public opinion israel only parroted self because at the end of the day if israelis or the americans think that by threats the iranians will shift their position they're mistaken the more the

threats the harder the iranian position will be. also making headlines tonight radical islamist cleric abu fatah has been arrested in them but i'm told that britain will try and deport him to his native jordan kotite is advocating attacking americans in killing jews since he landed in the u.k. fifteen years ago despite mass public um parliamentary support to kick him out sprint has been hamstrung by the european courts which say that that would infringe the hate preaches rights. i received in this cairo court what she defended charged over the death of seventy five people at the port side football. player you're innocent is there confined to that cage they were chanting justice or death the riots on february brokered between longstanding supporters of the local and the cairo team many face murder trials while nine police officers have also been charged with assisting a group in attacking the car of. watching history here

a chapter in u.s. space exploration coming to an end with the shuttle discovery landing for the final time the retired spacecraft arrived in virginia aboard a modified jumbo jet on its way to the smithsonian museum in washington and then the thirty years of service nasa is most travel shuttle spent a total of three hundred sixty five days in space and circled the earth nearly six thousand times that's a sight what we're seeing much more of the space shuttle there make it a bit of history. several torture techniques used by the united states against terrorist suspects have been labeled war crimes it's in a leaked secret state department officials member which also reveals a warning to the bush administration about the use as artie's we're putting our explains next some believe president a bugger is now turning a blind eye to america's past. america's so-called war on terror produced images and accounts that ignited

a world of questions about torture and the u.s. treatment of suspects american people need to know were using techniques within the last. two years after george w. bush left the white house does talk about waterboarding the former commander in chief admitted his stamp of approval for the use of interrogation techniques like waterboarding dubbed inhumane and illegal under u.s. law and the geneva conventions well as waterboarding in your opinion has a lawyer said it was legal so it did not fall within the it. and let's go first to judgment of people with. the bush administration also chose to disregard that judgment of a top adviser who warned that the cia's interrogation of terror suspects people waited to felony war crimes according to a secret memo obtained by wired magazine in two thousand and six state department counselor philip zelikow warned the white house that controversial interrogation

techniques such as warder boarding stress positions and cramped confinement are prohibited under u.s. law and under american law there is no precedent for excusing treatment that is intrinsically cruel even if the state asserts compelling need to use it i think there needs to be an accounting in the united states of what was going on over the last ten years and name of america there is a crisis after the second. united states actually executed japanese soldiers who. used torture. against american prisons they took action against the japanese the u.s. has been on record as opposing what. other countries so there is a clear legal case to say that you know action must be taken we're still evaluating two weeks before taking office u.s. president barack obama steer clear. a year of saving america's historic commitments to international justice obviously we're going to go past records. and i don't

believe that anybody has a lot on the other and i also have a belief that we need to look forward as well as as post-war looking back last june obama's u.s. justice department dropped ninety nine out of one hundred in one cases against cia interrogators over the use of torture i'm afraid ministration wants to keep those options open and you don't want to label beast techniques just as crimes or torture because that would prohibit them from using them by weaving their definition however slightly grey believe themselves to be optional replied mr yates once again and that is what is frightening here scholars attorneys and human rights experts around the world have called for the prosecution of senior bush administration officials who designed in order torture tactics however critics say the unspoken agreement within countries proclaiming to pioneer democracy is to never turn on your own but will be that in the west we you know we make great. about our great

democracies but there is a kind of stick shop which we into the elite hockey but they will not press charges and they will not take legal action against the crimes of the previous administrations through the use of torture rendition and secret prisons america's moral position around the world has are undoubtedly shifted and while the u.s. will likely continue barking the beacons of freedom and democracy critics say the more important question to ask is who's even listening anymore for an i.r.c. the are currently twenty five minutes past eleven yr muscular show with late night business knows the business desk the u.s. trading in full swing of course we've got first this year though should finish above thirteen thousand for the first time in a week. driving the growth drivers expect both through. strong financial results and europe ended up on the back of the u.s. franc for his sixty eight hundred. sols slumped off the argentina seized y.p.

unit but emerging stocks are still suffering off the foreign direct investment to china will raising contagion fears moscow indeed down for a second they still make a year will sell half a billion dollars of five year bonds according to reports and the euro's going low on the greenback the international monetary fund's of knitted for the first time the single currency could collapse. putin's pledge to balance the national budget or to making big spending promises in his election campaign the president elect out of the country should have a self sufficient pension on which currently runs at a huge deficit more oil and gas revenues will plug. russian energy firms who now fear of bigger tax burden. we've been talking about this groundbreaking partnership deal with america's exxon mobil signed yesterday at the heart gets technical expertise and. chris weaver from troika dialog there's their right to pull

resources. the arctic has it's significant potential too for for a major source of oil and gas in the future russia needs to open up this area in order to acquire secure new sources of oil and gas as existing for a production base go into that line over the next decade similarly for exxon mobil this is the only place on the planet where a company like exxon mobil can also get access to significant new reserves we know to the cost of developing to the article is going to be very significant the exploration phase alone will be several billion dollars and the total cost of eventually bring in oil and gas to the surface is likely to be three maybe even four hundred billion dollars and you're up to date most stories on our website all to dot com slash with us yes thanks for going to more from you later now in a couple of minutes as we've been mentioning and if you haven't seen it already today the deadly edition of wiki leaks founder julian assange has a new show for you rather they did their top stories in just what but three minutes

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