syria says president assad can step down only as a result of dialogue between the government and the opposition party looks at how media spend turned the story around. banned from talking about torture and silence to military tribunals the complaints of attorneys for guantanamo detainees who say the defense of the prisoners is being jeopardized. and after months of protests over a failing economy we report on how spain's the session affects more than just its people as many of the country's horses are condemned to death by their partners. hello and welcome to our team this wednesday i am karen tara and that is two o'clock here in moscow well syria's deputy prime minister says foreign military

intervention would be an infringement on the right of the syrian people to decide their own future the comments came after a meeting with russia's foreign minister in moscow to look for a political solution to the ongoing crisis but as artie's lucy coffin of reports western media came up with a rather different picture of what was actually discussed i want to play to you something that the syrian deputy foreign minister had said during the talks that was grossly missed interpreted and exaggerated in some of the news headlines. recommending resignation as a condition before conducting any dialogue means that you can't attend to the matter of. dialogue can discuss any problem we are ready to talk about anything even this question can be discussed but a resignation before any mechanism is in place for the syrian people to express the . opinion. the democratic approach. plus you can hear right there which he was

talking about is the need to remove any kinds of precondition such as for example the requirement to present bashar al assad stepping down before some sort of a peaceful solution could be negotiated that is not what was reflected in the news coverage of the talks on tuesday between the the syrian delegation and the russian government of course we do have to keep in mind that the press conference that had taken place was in arabic as they were translated to russian and then into english but what this really serves to highlight is the lack of accurate information and balance information coming out about the eighteen month long conflict i also want to bring into the discussion the example of the level as the battle continues to rage in syria's second city several news outlets have reported for example of the what in the free syrian army spokespeople had said that they have taken patrols of nearly two thirds of aleppo of the syrian government of president bashar al assad has claimed disputed those claims and what all of this really serves to highlight

is again the last of the balance information coming out about this conflict there really needs to be a middle ground in this escalating conflict what we're seeing instead is a sort of black and white paper trail the trading of barbs sort of the lack of ability for the different sides to come together to really move this forward in a diplomatic way another thing that's really not helping the potential of a peacefully negotiated solution to the crisis so some of the language that we've seen coming out of the from the the united states as of late on monday because president barack obama had really caused quite an international stir when he said that the movement or use of chemical or biological weapons by the government of president bashar al assad could trigger would cause the u.s. to reconsider its opposition to military intervention but this of course goes to the against what sergey lavrov has been continuously calling for which is no unilateral action by any outside power. this is

a conflict that needs to be really resolved from within unilateral action by any country outside of this pond floods will only make matters worse the russian foreign minister said that it looks like there may be a willingness to discuss a potential solution to the conflict in a diplomatic matter but many factions both with the outside of syria would not wish to see a peaceful resolution succeed so it really remains to be seen whether there could be a way out of this conflict that doesn't further make this ongoing war even worse in the past. meanwhile is investigating the possibility of syrian involvement in monday's car bombing in turkey southeast it rocked an industrial city close to the syrian border claiming the lives of nine people including children turkish officials were quick to blame kurdish militants who deny any links to the attack claims that kurdish separatists are capitalizing on the calle center war torn syria and have accused the songs or shame of stirring up the conflict by arming kurds on

syrian soil associate professor of politics and bill kant university of jeremy salt says turkey has ignored many of the potential implications when deciding how to act in the conflict with your government didn't seem to you was the implications of what it was doing was to. confront the. anyone who believes you realize that once the people who you could be confronting that. they would. become the picture of. the situation in syria would do exacerbate the cage issue. most of the single user can. you get a year ago. if. you can argue. that in syria. if you. don't think there is a possibility that if. syrian government can reward repercussions which would want

to force and we get very much of one of their orders for you to get on the wall all of those already have you said multiple times the sunni governments helping with the attacks soon most of the. muslims so we can't see what is going on and this is a bit more small to those he showed. great acknowledged. predictable i could go anywhere and coming your way later this hour at the. polls on the diplomatic spat over the wiki leaks editor continues with ecuador saying it could take the issue to the u.n. it's an international port all the details are coming up. attorneys for inmates at guantanamo bay say they have been banned from bringing up the subject of torture and court they also claim that a number of other legal restrictions are stopping them from building a proper defense in cases that could result in the death penalty those issues are

said to be discussed at the pretrial hearings for five inmates accused of masterminding and launching the september eleventh attacks they were scheduled to start today but were delayed until thursday due to a train crash in baltimore which disrupted the internet connection to guantanamo president obama pledged to shut down the notorious prison years ago but has never lived up to that promise artie's more in a court records. as the saying goes everyone remembers their first war well before we go away and one year from now and us president barack obama's first executive order delivered on a promise cemented over the years as president i will close guantanamo reject the military commissions act and if you go to the geneva conventions i've said repeatedly that america doesn't torture and i'm going to make sure that we don't torture nearly four years after america's change took office one hundred sixty eight. detainees are still being held at guantanamo awaiting their day in court

before a military commission but even then the obama administration will not allow them to testify about the alleged torture and harsh interrogation techniques some claim to have suffered according to the government there is no scope. to have it it's defended six count of his torture in the course of treatment the government's justification for that is that disclosing that information in court could be damaging to u.s. national security interests at a pretrial hearing at guantanamo bay the defense attorneys will challenge u.s. secrecy rules and a litany of other restrictions that experts say undermine the right of detainees to receive a fair trial and defense counsel may want to communicate and the letter you know provides and current updates on news information to inform them of certain things

that that may apply to their case and every one of those pieces of correspondence is then run through a vetting system where the government is revealing all of that to determine whether or not it's proper material the confidences are being contaminated directly by the u.s. government over the years the u.s. military has gone as far as dosing detainees with high levels of psychotropic drugs according to reports released by the pentagon get more prisoners were forced to take mind altering drugs often against their will before being interrogated a story first broken by truth outs lead investigative reporter jason leopold what the inspector general said was is that detainees were interrogated while they were on drugs that is known to produce or will end up producing unreliable information so. then you have the government going into the d.c.

circuit ok and arguing that all of the detainees statements are true critics accuse obama of following in the footsteps of his predecessor george w. bush by continuing a system that revolves around censoring defendants in the name of national security this is not a legitimate process how do you prosecute someone cheney years after the crime when you have full control of their body and the evidence for that and entire period of time nearly eleven years following the september eleventh attacks the us military commission is set to hear the first set of arguments in preparation for the trial of five suspects the us president meanwhile is campaigning for his second term apparently forgetting about the monumental promise he made when beginning his first marine aboard i r t the. earlier we spoke to colonel morris davis the former chief

prosecutor at the notorious prison he explained what caused him to leave his post. what really put me over on the other side was being compelled to use evidence obtained by torture i think folks could make a an argument whether it's morally justified to engage in torture to collect intelligence to maybe prevent an attack this is eminent but then you take that same information and hand it over to me and say ok now use this as evidence in an american criminal proceeding to obtain a conviction a potential potentially a death sentence was just a step too far and so rather than go forward with tortured evidence i chose to resign. and if you've missed some of our stories you can always find them online with a news whenever you want it all at r.t. town com very example of a failed experiment as the japanese government allows fishing near the distressed fukushima nuclear plant the capturing some warring bands. plus the debate

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line. would be soon which brightened if you move about song from funds to christian. news for instance on t.v. don't come. here with our team that's almost a quarter past the hour here in moscow now despite recent economic reforms some forecasts predict spain is set to slide deeper and to recession the country's difficulties have seen thousands of people rally over a period of many months but they're not the only ones suffering archies atic say at a show ski explains. for several months thousands of spain ers have been protesting loudly and angrily as the government's hold steady to measure spark rage among those who feel those cuts most painfully the recently published financial forecast for twenty thirteen suggest that should madrid stick to its current financial

policy things will be looking even worse for the pensioners and the unemployed. but while these people can stand up for themselves these four legged fellows cannot voice their discontent since spain plunged into an economic crisis horses have also become its victims this looks healthy now but a month ago he was barely alive he's the only survivor from a herd of more than ten seven more dead bodies were recently discovered by workers of this animal shelter in madrid they get absolutely the number of horses we have to care for has increased dramatically with the crisis people can't afford to keep them that's why they dispense with them find a mentor about condition owners did their own excrement and drink green water to survive keeping one horse costs around three hundred euros a month something many private families and horse riding schools cannot now afford prices are often being sold at almost half their value for seven thousand euros

instead of twelve c. boy it is already the last us we're losing money it's good if we can please cover our expenses but nowhere fraid we might have to sell our horses to slaughterhouses if we don't find the means to survive and that is exactly what thousands of horse owners have done since spain plunged into recession this year the horse meat industry registered in increased input of thirty percent less poor sweet is not so popular with spanish consumers so it is usually exported abroad to countries like belgium france and russia about eighty percent is for human consumption and twenty percent is processed into animal food this shelter hasn't seen any state subsidies in for months but private donations ensure it's survival expired groceries from local markets may not be much of a delicious treat for these horses but it's better than becoming food for someone else as austerity measures continue to strangle spain many of these once loved

animals will most likely pay for human economic mistakes. ski r.t. reporting from madrid in spain. coming up just a bit later this hour google stands up for itself in court. for this so we were. you know so i don't think this judge is is either a moron or crazy so there through those fire there somewhere google denies any. bribed bloggers to make them support the web giant in a high profile lawsuit wasn't just a few minutes our business update. or a float shares and sell food produces traders russia joins the world trade organization today and its lower tariffs will get more people here flowing before was one cutting fertilize the subsidies a bad news we speak to expert in business in the world ten minutes time.

ecuadorian president rafael correa l. says he might turn to the un's international court for help with resolving the case of a chilean assignments it follows comments by a swedish justice ministry official that wouldn't be handed to any third country if there was a risky to face the death penalty there that after the u.k. have threatened to enter the ecuadorian embassy in london and arrest him the wiki leaks editor has been staying there to avoid extradition to sweden for questioning over alleges sex crimes which he does to now laws carry from the u.k. a pirate party says sweden's assurances are not firm enough for sarge. coleman stay in the embassy but it's difficult to see how we will get our unknown groups from sweden and seems to be returned to try and you have to. produce french. amount to staging the order. it's common

to third countries don't like when there's a question. so i don't think these insurance given to. so you actually start is only. what needs to happen is that there is actually already sure it's coming it's we know we've corrected the nuclear ensure you don't know how much true. it is or how many credit is due to. time control in its role. four people have died over eleven thousand are left without electricity due to heavy flooding in russia's southern cross region it happened after a river burst its banks due to extreme rainfall the water supply and sewage system in three villages around the city up to upset were also damaged officials say in

the early warning system worked effectively and that people were successfully evacuated from their homes just in time the emergency ministry has sent rescue teams and trucks with drinking water last month more than one hundred forty four people died as flash floods swept through a different part of the region. all right now let's take a look at some international stories making headlines this hour at least seven people have been killed and thirty three wounded as gun battles raged overnight to them lebanon's northern city of tripoli armed forces have been moved to the area in an effort to disperse the clashes the fighting between a sunni muslims and our wits has been fueled by the tension in neighboring syria the two countries shared a tangled web of ethnic and religious connections. that greek prime minister dawn is some modest says he's his country needs more time for reforms that's ahead of his meeting with the head of the eurozone to discuss if greece has done enough

to ensure its next much needed bailout payment some of us is also due to meet with his french and german counterparts later this week tough spending cuts have already proved hard to swallow for. the greeks forcing thousands to rally in protest earlier this year. it's no secret that finland is home to one of the world's largest mobile phone manufacturers and as odd as it may sound unit o'neill at the sports desk will explain just how that's affected his upcoming bulleted why is that you know i will certainly try to carve just picture the scene you take out your mobile phone and you try to use it but that is did you feel like through another way you don't do that of course but saved because you could become a world champion in the more violent throwing finals that happened in finland over the weekend we're going to have more on that plus the rest of a busy day in international sport in sport today to run twenty minutes time.

around between the computer technology giants google and oracle which began last year has taken a fresh twist a court order in both to reveal the names of bloggers who are allegedly paid to comment on line in favor of their company's google had been sued by oracle for a breach of intellectual property law and its use of android software google firmly rejected claims that it had bribed online commentators to make them support the company in the case the court has set a new deadline for evidence to be disclosed journalism professor at georgetown university christopher chambers believes the internet giant has some serious questions to answer there's been a jury verdict in the copyright actions this is after you know the smoke is cleared this judge is doing this it's it's utterly utterly you know on person and i do believe in there were there's smoke there's fire because oracle who had lost you

know who was the point of you know had you know one or two people that do so they had there must have been something there must have been some of cameras there. to the judge that. you know something was going on here or he just looked and saw you know article upon article blog post upon blog post lining up you know in google's favor and said there's got to be something going on here i don't think this judge is either a moron or crazy so there there's there is fire there somewhere. but it seems the devil you know isn't the holy grail many find daniel is at the business stands tell us more yes good afternoon karen today russian joins amid warnings it won't cut short prices or help trade but expose yourself told us the benefits. we're now living in the twenty first century do we really need to be that i'll be chilled. absolutely i think this is an dispensable part of

operating in the global economy operating and then the vironment abettors competitive that provides the impulses for change really sounds like you view it as a little mood for change but other countries such as vietnam see that they're not reaping the expected benefits of the. well actually if you look at the dynamics of foreign direct investment flowing into vietnam what you see is that before w.t.r. membership the country was receiving approximately around three three and they have billion dollars worth of investment after w t o accession this figure two to three fall but this is really up to each country to decide how much it can try to reap from w.t. accession because obviously w.t.r. accession benefits the pound also the accompanying policies of countries

and their companies argentina this week filed a w. to complain against the european union can be w. till sensually be. thanks to mechanism of resolving trade disputes yes for actually one of the more efficient parts of the operation of the w t l is precisely in the sphere of settling disputes and this is something bad russia could certainly use after w t accession especially in an effort to lift restrictions against russian steel exports for example and the exports of chemicals there are almost one hundred restrictions currently now in existence against russian exports abroad. america will lift cold war trade restrictions on russia within days as the head of the w t

o the nineteen seventies jackson vernix amendment bowles favored trading with russia even though the reasons behind the disappeared decades ago personal let me as u.s. business will miss l.t. if washington fails to act fast. of a chinese production growing on uses vol steel mills failed to cut help put this month both global demand and metals prices have been falling for a while now and then this fear ignoring those more signals means of bubbles about to burst. you traders cautious ahead of merkel and hollande meeting this week greece's debt problems as we've been hearing in the news bulletin the euro is also steady off the seven week. losing some of yesterday's big games though heading for its largest drop this month as investors cashed tuesday's three percent earnings on the ts and the billionaires race to be russia's richest man is all as a deal comes. to ship money off of his perch off the chemicals monopoly

super bowl last year for a fraction of its current value with sixteen billion dollars mickelson is now just behind mining magnate bill smirnoff is expected to top his rival list on the stock . you have today come we'll have more for you next oh sorry we look far to thank you danielle and so i have for you this hour our sports update featuring the results from the u.f.a. champions lang qualifiers i'll be back with a recap of the headlines first tell him to stay with us.

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