every nation represented here directly and urgently makes it clear that russia and china will pay a price u.s. secretary of state takes those shot at moscow and beijing claiming that the two are supporting as the u.s. spearhead a pro-rebel gathering. we were told that there's just a gleam from the month ago as you can hear nothing from here clashes though continue a firsthand account from the heart of the syrian uprising in our team goes to homes the scene of the fiercest fighting in the war torn country. the pentagon why guantanamo bay out for a multimillion dollar overhaul its critics say the promise closure of the scandal ridden facility ever more on likely. and russian lawmakers review

a draft bill to name noncommercial groups funded from abroad as foreign agents and of opposition parties say could be used to crackdown on activists. it's five pm in moscow this is r t coming to you live on money so now a with our top story america's chief diplomat is threatening russia and china with consequences for what she sees as siding with the regime in syria hillary clinton was speaking at the paris conference of the syrian rebels key supporters more on this now from our tease peter oliver. we've heard a vitriolic address from u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton directing a threat towards russia and china saying that they would have to pay a price for what she sees as their support of the assad government you know this

wasn't the only thing that hillary could not to say she said that russian holy cow . we're being used to kill civilians on the ground in syria now if we look closer at this there is some really inconsistency between where we were a week ago following the conference in geneva of international partners looking to find a peaceful solution to syria and what we're hearing this weekend now last weekend in geneva the u.s. seemed to be onside with the kofi annan by police plan would see it would keep plan which would see both sides both the opposition and the government forces lay down their weapons and trying to come to the table to find a solution now then what we've heard from russia with regards to these statements we've heard from hillary clinton today is the foreign ministry slamming in the secretary of state saying that under no circumstances one hundred russia ever supported or continue to support the assad government during the ongoing crisis in

syria now with regard to those helicopters as well we've also heard from the foreign ministry saying that they're just simply wasn't the case that yes there were a there is i beg your pardon a shipment of dismantled helicopters currently on its way from russia to syria however once they arrived in syria that would take at least a month for them to be put together to be assembled so they clearly would be used right now for the purposes which mrs clinton is suggested so yes it seems they very inconsistent approach a very different approach from the u.s. secretary of state delivering as they say a vitriolic statements more of a rant at times than a considered political argument that she delivered in paris. the reaction now from inside syria political analyst what the team is waiting to talk to us in the capital damascus thanks for being with us hillary clinton calling on america's allies to take measures against russia and china saying they will pay the state she sees as close to the government of course what do you think these measures could be

how could they pay. well i mean first of all the very statement that mrs clinton has made seems to be more of an election year rhetoric done something that should be said in an international conference i think the threat is really just as your report mentioned it's ranting and he hundred nations are still with us are gathered according to reports in paris most of them are not anymore to be sanctioned russia or china i think mrs clinton was talking mainly to the american electorate because there are of course friends also during the next couple of months which are very critical will be no two party conventions in washington about what the obama. administration has done with this crisis so this is more of a speech i think to the american electorate that's because the international

community i don't think anyone in paris is in anymore. to sanction both russia or china and i think agree number of countries and organizations there have been dragging their feet into the conference saying well she is of course speaking out in international conference very harsh stance do you really think the states that like she sees it russia and china are blocking a solution for syria. the no i think question on china i've been since the beginning of the crisis taking a more pragmatic attitude than the west and i think it is because they realize that they are the emerging powers of the century the west is really fighting for the past russia and china have not sided again as it were to set it completely with this or that side of the conflict only they have been saying that is the this type of conflict can only be a sort of timeless world international. book to kind of encourage one internal

party against the other events the opposition not to talk to the syrian government just what the americans and europeans have been doing for the last year or so it's counterproductive. no word that russia or china in the last six months come up with statements that were kind of unequivocal of all the support of the existing government or political system in syria they kept talking about they are now the other side of the international game if you will have been talking about people leaving i mean this is kind of interesting a french president that was just recently elected by his people makes a statement about the need of a president of another country to step down immediately what happened to the democratic process that the west has been calling for i want to i want to sound you about because you need to have comments that we saw last week because it looked like on the way to did we're sorry to interrupt you i just want to i want to move

on to the geneva conference because you're talking about the way the international community should conduct themselves it will look like we were seeing progress with sort of all sides agreeing that both sides of the conflict the rebels and the regime need to be blamed why i just a weak leader out wait week later and his friends of syria meeting are we seeing a completely different reaction from the west they just agreed that both sides should have to answer. well if you remember also it wasn't only a week later i mean immediately after the geneva convention you know convention on syria. foreign ministers of france and the united states came out with statements that presented some sort of a different interpretation all the more. convoluted agreed on an interview. i think everyone can do with this whining quite honestly is buying time from the american elections this is this is what we've been seeing for the last couple of months right thank you thank you for that syria best political analysts whether

speaking to us live from damascus you're welcome. and there is agenda in syria it's still thick for replacing the acid regime with the opposition something that will inevitably lead to blood set that's according to james corbett editor of the independent news and information website the corbett report. i don't think that the what's on the table right now would be an acceptable solution in terms of resolving the conflict because of course if the entire him is to simply replace the government with the armed opposition that that's fighting against that right now then since that opposition consists of sunni's i think what we would inevitably see play out is a strong reaction and and a potential massacre of shiites and alawite not to mention the syrian christian population so i think there has to be a solution that can involve some sort of a power balance that that does not mean that there will be

a reaction against the other groups and this is obviously something that's extremely difficult to achieve i mean so much hangs in the balance that it's really quite remarkable that for example clinton would be making these types of remarks right now especially when without the aid of russia and china that type of negotiated balance settlement is absolutely impossible so it's a particularly be willed a ring that these comments would be made right now. well the city of homs has reportedly suffered more deaths than any other syrian flashpoint area or it is reaffirm notion of this its battle scarred neighborhoods witnessing the ferocity on the streets. this part of honey may be back on the syrian army control but their patrols never stop soldiers are searching house to house they're looking for terrorists or snipers but that's not what they usually find. some people in their homes became their graves two and this room look human bones

or at least one person. who seems to have been burnt to death. in the next house we find three more charred skulls. activists claim up to eight hundred thousand people have been killed since the uprising began sixteen months ago the u.n. estimates around ten thousand we have no way of telling if these remains or others like them were even counted at. baba amr used to be home to one hundred thousand people now we're driving through area people have left military almost the only human beings left in this area this is you can see behind me this is a cemetery almost untouched actually while the rest of the city looks completely like the cemetery buildings schools mosques all in ruins and no sign of life while many signs of this is one of the tallest buildings in the area and we can see from

this balcony two completely different pictures two completely different realities look there beautiful pictures peaceful city while over there well we can see war homes the opposition hotbed has always been at the heart of the uprising against president assad there's a badge of bomb right that if you could have been the epicenter of the clashes between the rebels and the army since it's been shelled heavily now so you can see it's quiet here but just steps away just meters away another district sometimes and this is where the things are happening right now it's standing behind these razed strange rice quite safe but from time to time missiles reach this area to this is why would hurry up but as brian other homes the district as you can see also most completely destroyed everything shops building schools even mosques we were told that this district was cleaned from turkey months ago but as you can hear not far

from here questions still continue so we were actually told not to go any further i just simply dangerous. soldiers come to our location they tell us the rebels woke up so we leave. just a fifteen minute drive takes us to get another image of homes the people here aren't taking their bags at least the raw people here see the. there is no fight here we are living like one family. talking to this man at a coffee on the street full of people it's easy to forget this truck to night just a few blocks away. r t homs syria. no member take on the syrian conflict this time from wiki leaks were reports shortly the whistleblowing group promises the cows more light on the dealing with three damascus and western companies after starting

a massive release of secret you know stranger. america's notorious kuantan m o detention facility in cuba is now set for a major renovation the pentagon's reportedly finalizing upgrades including undersea cables and state of the our military equipment that's despite pledges by obama to close the prison which many see as a place to keep under fire balls that can't be prosecuted mocked up the details now from our chief going extra cash. forty million dollars will be spent to lay out this underwater fiber optic cable from south florida to cuba where the guantanamo bay prison camp is located the base commander said it only makes sense if we're going to be here for any period of time an infrastructure project like that may well suggest that the u.s. military is preparing for detentions and other operations at the guantanamo base for the long term when president obama was first running for office he pledged to

shut down guantanamo in very strong terms in two thousand and nine he even signed an executive order to close it but not only did not shut it down but the u.s. is obviously renovating guantanamo in this case by improving communications and the argument is you don't make such an investment to pick up and leave guantanamo has made a black hole in america's human rights record indefinite detention torture around eight hundred people went through the camp within the last decade of america's war on terror the majority of them had nothing to do with nine eleven that's according to a former chief prosecutor guantanamo now the prison houses one hundred sixty nine detainees the government says eighty nine aren't those threats but president obama and congress have blocked their release as for the rest some of them have a shot at a military hearing but forty six don't have that chance because the government says they can't be tried for one reason or another the u.s. supreme court keeps refusing to take up one tunnel detainee's petitions what has been striking to me was that the u.s.

prides itself on the rule of law and human rights but at the same time has denied legal process to these detainees practice torture and not just the one tunnel but in secret prisons around the world human rights organizations have issued reports on all kinds of violations but to the u.s. it's been like water off a duck's back. well us lawyer eric one paul both secured the release of got a ton of mail inmate he believes the facility is looming overhaul exemplifies the disconnect between political promises and actual policy we have people that are being detained without due process without hearings which is antithetical to anything that america stands for on one hand you know we're closing the base but on the other hand we're crafting the state of the art you know penal institutions in the united states you're saying one thing and doing the complete opposite so i think it's a lack of integrity on our government i think we need to evaluate you know why

we're spending millions upon millions of dollars on something that should not even be there in the first place. british lawyer professor philip sad who was involved in a number of high profile cases that came out of america's war on terror in about fifteen minutes he tells us some of the torture techniques approved by the bush administration. they adopted in the autumn of two thousand and two in the u.s. department of defense a series of eighteen techniques of interrogation arranged in three groups and the first group was. shouting and screaming. the second group. so to speak and included sleep deprivation the use of dogs to induce fear the. and then count to three the worst of all included waterboarding and the use of water to induce misperceptions of suffocation and i was interested to find out how a country which has turned its back against torture could have moved to adopt these

techniques of interrogation. russian lawmakers are mulling over a plan to brand all foreign funded noncommercial organizations engaged in political activities as foreign agents the idea is to make such groups finances more transparent but critics say it could be used to attack the opposition movement more now from artie's arena go lucia who joins us live from the state to marina tell us more on why the activists are so opposed to making their finances transparent well first and foremost they are actually opposed to the word agent in the formula of this draft law they're saying that it's going to make them look like spies of foreign countries in russia operating almost illegally they're also saying that this draft law is put in effect is going to cut their basically cut their financing because it will make it impossible for them to operate without undergoing through

extensive checks and balances and the government will only have more control over them and it will they say it already has too much control they're already barely able to breathe they're also saying that the new draft boys unconstitutional. basically are saying that it has still house has to go through a lot of tweaks in order to make sense and to be acceptable to a democratic person or a democratic country however they are forgetting the facts it does seem like they're forgetting the fact that this forty two is masterminds this law has been taken almost word for word from the american farah the foreign agencies. which has been in existence in the united states from of the 1930's basically the those who are defending this law are saying that it is absolutely necessary in order to protect russia's interests and in order to prevent the meddling of foreign states through these c.e.o.'s in russia's internal affairs. reporting live from

the state duma. here's some stories we think are worth checking out on our web site today so. but no fire british police blocked a major highway and surged boss a passenger as a gun point after an electronic cigarette sparked a terror alarm. and a very real fire in the north of moscow helicopters called in to extinguish a blaze in an air force academy hangar there got photos and video footage for you at our t.v. dot com. the whistleblowing group wiki leaks hoping to shed more light on the syrian conflict after it started releasing the so-called syria files millions of leaked e-mails

supposedly exposing pocker of see in the west dealings with damascus more on this from our correspondent in london for. this is the biggest release since we had table gate which gave us the u.s. diplomatic cables and a really unique insight into the workings of the u.s. government now the syria files is even bigger than that it's supposed to be eight times bigger than the u.s. diplomatic cable leaked in terms of documents and a hundred times bigger in terms of data now in the same way that we saw the u.s. diplomatic cables released its thought a similar things going to be happening with the syria files wiki leaks have partnered up with different media organizations around the world and they go three the data and released this in small stages now so far from what's been released already we've had a very interesting insight into the workings because these are the e-mails that were being exchanged between senior political figures in syria ministry figures corporations around the world the first e-mail to really we show you that an

italian company had been providing communicate to the syrian police and the syrian army know that contract is signed back in two thousand and eight when relations with the syrian regime were much stronger with the west it shows that the technical assistance with still being provided as late as february of this year say you know clearly that company more than happy to continue providing that assistance even as the violence he claimed a huge number of lies in the country and so you know i think probably there's going to be a lot of very nervous companies around the world is going to be a lot of nervous members of the syrian government certainly as we call it once again has this major coup in providing us with you know a very unique glimpse of what is going on now julian assange to release a comment three one of his spokesman sara harris and she said on his behalf that what these files waiting to do is not to embarrass or critique one side or another

it was aimed to give us really an understanding of what was going on and he said that it was a need. understanding the culture that we'd be able to find some sort of resolution a poignant words from the man himself who isn't cool at the moment like he's a very facile in the ecuadorian embassy here in. the battle against that it's to sweden and again indeed the thoughts of the us if he were to be sent to sweden. don't forget the really senator julian assange has been hosting his groundbreaking talk show here on r.t. and you can watch all twelve episodes at our dot com. i mean julian assange. it is true of wiki leaks where they expose the world secrets these documents in the united states government being attacked by the united states strongly condemn this question. illegally. five hundred days now i being detained without charge.

doesn't stop this. today we're on a quest for relief. that can change the world tomorrow. a look now at some other top stories from around the world this hour portugal's constitutional court has struck down the government's latest austerity packages on last fall it said cuts to pensioner and public worker bonuses and vacations go ahead as they promoted inequality it's a harsh blow to the government's austerity program and it's likely to mean deeper cuts elsewhere portugal was given a seventy eight billion euro bailout from the e.u. last year to save it from bankruptcy. armed gunmen have forced to oil terminals in eastern libya to halt production ahead of the first post gadaffi part of the mentoring election on saturday there had been threats to sabotage the poll movement amending the like to see three more equally allocated as

things stand western libya representatives will dominate part of it at the expense of the oil which east on thursday the main depot for election materials in the east was hit by a suspected arson attack. there have been protests in northern pakistan over the reopening of a nato supply routes through the country earlier this week the roadway was shot last november following a u.s. airstrike that killed twenty four pakistani troops and only reopened one america benchley apologized a few days ago the first convoy crossed into afghanistan earlier today with plans for all containers passing through to be scanned. good point. well the meeting now joins us with the latest business how did those u.s. jobs figures come in this friday they came in worse than expected actually for the month of june the non-farm payrolls showed an increase of jobs of eighty thousand while the median anticipated figure was one hundred thousand jobs to be added and

therefore and yet another sign of a weakening u.s. economy is indicating. an increased chance of a recession in the united states so we're seeing the votes the other day it's declined by half and one percent respectively from the last hour the u.s. markets will open in five minutes time of course over here in russia pretty much the same picture actually even worse with the dropping almost two percent this river was moving my six mainly these are losses are driven by the financial sector with the. declining three point six and two percent but the only company actually right now which is trading one of the few is. it's up point seven percent now the russian share holders of t.n. kavi see may soon significantly increase their stake in the oil firm which is a fifty fifty joint venture with b.p. the russian billionaires renault of a group or

a are they say that they will officially offer to buy half of b.p.'s stake of twenty five percent and thus gaining control over the company's shareholders have been a long dispute over investment projects in russia namely after the north street gas pipeline. over on the currencies markets the euro continues its fall against the dollar we're now seeing levels worse than before that productive e.u. summit two weeks ago with the euro dropping now sixty points the russian ruble is in line with that trend it's losing value against the dollar and slightly against. slovenia says an e.u. bailout can't be ruled out of which one has one of the weakest banking markets in central and eastern europe the country's finance minister added the bailout will only be needed if their lenders problems get bigger. and one hundred seventy two

economists have written an open letter to anglo merkel saying that the chance of those opening germany up to huge unknown debts in other e.u. states where agreeing a banking union this is merkel dismissed economists fears she says that the union is first of all about that's a banking supervision that is urgent. as well as for you this hour all right thanks to meet you will see you back same place same time next hour next in india who are concerned the world's most infamous prison that are the headlines and this short break.

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