tonight serious conflict spreads further beyond its borders people are fleeing the violence in neighboring states with fresh deadly clashes in lebanon as we report also gagging the truth teller lawyers say they're banned from bringing up alleged torture inside military tribunals but the notorious prison is still open despite president obama's promise is. that it was in washington and the u.s. is not her father or teacher to punish us we have the same rights as they do ecuador's foreign minister talks exclusively to our sister spanish channel saying his country will go as far as the hague to defend its asylum for julian assange. live from moscow at eight pm here watching r.t.

and you're most welcome to my name's kevin now in our top story this hour the conflict in syria's long stopped ending up at its borders the drawn out fighting seen a mass exodus of syrians into neighboring states also clashes of pro and anti assad supporters in lebanon have left eight killed and dozens injured here's our middle east correspondent paula. the crisis in syria continues to spill over into neighboring countries for the second straight night on tuesday several people were killed in the northern city of company during clashes between alawite and sunni muslims this comes amid growing evidence that massive amounts of weapons are being smuggled through live anonyma portably also through turkey to the syrian opposition now moscow has condemned this in the strongest terms and nations not to supply weapons to the syrian rebels at the same time the turkish government is investigating possible syrian links to a car bomb explosion on monday that. killed nine people many of them children in

the south east of the country there are growing concerns in ankara that the kurdish workers' party known as the k.k.k. is behind this blast although no one has come forward and came to sponsibility the p.k. k. is regarded as a terrorist organization by and by the united states and by the european union and ever since the violence in syria has spiraled there are growing concerns that they are extending their influence and increasing their activities here in jordan to the situation remains fluid there are at least one hundred and fifty thousand syrian refugees who have crossed over into jordan they are currently being housed in a number of temporary refugee shelters along the jordanian border but jordan is a country with few natural resources it has its own problems of scarcity of water in its own fragile economy and it is struggling to deal with this influx of refugees the camps are overcrowded we've also heard reports of the outbreak of tuberculosis and other health risks the international community is struggling to

deal with the situation the american president barack obama has warned that if syria moves or uses its chemical arsenal the united states will reconsider its decision not to launch any kind of military action in syria at the same time moscow has said that they cannot see any kind of unilateral action that there needs to be an international response that is agreed to by all sides and that consensus is reached police here are to amman jordan. lawyers to tell them or do you turn a big silence to decide military tribunals banned from any mention of alleged torture in the prison attorneys say the restrictions mean they can't properly defend their clients they said to challenge the rulings with pretrial hearings for five charged over nine eleven said the start of they were delayed by a day because of a train crash in the united states disrupting the internet connection to. during.

when abramoff first company pledged to shut down the notorious prison but that's never happened to his report explains more as the saying goes everyone remembers their first walk talk most will be closed no later than 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 it here 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 the advocates that

defended six count of his torture in the course of treatment the government's justification for that is that disclosing that information in the big 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 girls 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 or send a letter you know provide than 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 reviewing 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 most 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 taney is 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 u.s. military commission is set to hear the first set of arguments in preparation for the trial of five suspects the u.s. 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 v. i spoke to colonel morris davis who's fully served as the chief prosecutor of guantanamo bay you told me the u.s. is trying to keep embarrassing facts under wraps and explains why you quit his post . but they're using the pretext that disclosing it will be harmful to national security i think the truth is that it will be an embarrassment to the country and this is more about what we did in the past than the potential harm going forward in

the future 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 eminent but then to 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. that was colonel morris davis there for me served as the chief prosecutor at guantanamo bay speaking to me earlier when i would go back to our top story the violence from syria the spilling over into neighboring countries for more let's talk to political analyst and international law dr franklin lamb he's in beirut joining us live on the line now dr thanks for taking the time to be without the deadly violence in lebanon where you are as a result of syria's ongoing fighting we've been reporting on earlier on this hour

what is why the consequences for beirut if this gets any worse. dr franklin lamb just you know you can hear us there are consequences right now today it's very real and it's felt yes. i can hear you there's a monumental delay on the line i was like around from a crowded for example the concierge of my building who is syrian sometimes hides in my apartment they've been round up of syrian nationals here in beirut in south beirut even and it's a great deal of fear people are saying not since the civil war how have things been likely to ignite or the people are feeling so insecure as you know the two they were hoods in tripoli the most certain for the the. alleyways and the about delta bonnie section right down the middle ironically is

the name of the big st paul syria street and that really tells the tale up there but we have in beirut and other parts of the country a similar division and with a killing that your reporter indicated today there are eighty eight killed in the last forty eight hours since the cease fire supposedly in place house of one hour ago in tripoli but things are very much on the edge and it's not only the spillover of fact it's the fact that lebanon itself is so fragile and not quite a state in terms of that having a real a central government that can enforce the laws and having a compromise army which makes each of these. issues that you've been discussing subject to. the neighborhood the try the family of so there is a figure so that really exactly exacerbates things and really gives rise to more

possibilities for. ignition talks if you can hear me where the finger is pointing at as to who is behind this al-qaeda linked terrorists are being blamed for the violence in syria which is being blamed for the surge of unrest where you are in lebanon. well depending on which sex you talk to the march fourteenth pro saudi americans are putting forward a strong argument that it's hezbollah and its amahl militias who are doing it and then. goes on television four nights ago and sir look we cannot control this town we just spilt because there is no central government strong enough hizbollah is saying it's natural our listeners stand about although it's wrong that families take things into their own hands and i think the fear here is that families and

tribes and confessions i going to ignite it but there's blame on both sides and it's it's crystal clear and you can almost cut it with a knife depending on what block you're and what store you're and why restaurants. you'll get a view based on sectarian interest because it's becoming stronger and stronger even among the younger and younger people vis. a curse country is so fraction of that and that's why it makes it so dangerous but to answer your question plenty of blame being cast by every newspaper every television and radio station every fifteen minutes dr final quivery quick question thirty seconds if you can more evidences of merge that syrian rebels are receiving increased deliveries of weapons from libya in the gulf saroo lebanon aren't there therefore deep dangers ahead for lebanon if it's being used to channel arms.

absolutely i mean since going back to the remember the live to our two boat but sure there is are people saying crossing the border from libya from the undergrad country is there's no question that this has become you know the most mythic figure in recent history and it's syria from the east west north and south so powerful our first world want to be. just how the us are making their way there and certainly levered down because again it doesn't have a tight borders it doesn't have a strong central government it's easy to bring in from both sides and move in and out and that's what we're seeing right now thanks ever so much for being on the line sort of the small technical problems we have their political analyst international lawyer dr franklin lamb live from beirut. this is r.t. thanks playing with yourself still to come this giving greece room to maneuver in

battle that the e.u. for some space while it tries to put in place crucial reforms which dictate whether it gets more survival money reporting on that also in spain itself suffering from a biting recession that status of forces which are being sacrificed by people struggling to make ends meet. ecuador is prepared to go as far as the international court of justice in the hague to defend its sovereign decision to grant asylum to julian assange speaking exclusively to word spanish sister channel the country's foreign minister said this standing up to london and washington to protect freedom of speech and the right to personal integrity. we believe that great britain will realize how important it is to give the chance for a person to be saved so that he won't be living for years in an embassy no interest of nations government we also believe that london will accept ecuador's sovereign decision if there doesn't happen to find a way out here perhaps the only thing will be left with is going to the

international court of justice in the hague so that we can grant freedom to a son in washington and the u.s. is not our father or teacher to punish us we have the same rights as they do julian assange is an example a symbol of freedom of speech but there are some countries which try to influence things and limit his freedom and even oppress him so that he stops doing what he's doing we want to make them understand that we're protecting freedom of speech as well as a right to life and personal integrity. and just spent the last two months hiding out in ecuador's london embassy avoiding extradition to sweden on sex crime allegations now britain insists it won't let him leave the country and threaten at one stage to raid the embassy to seize it which ecuador's president will give us with malik suicide. also says savage can stay at the embassy definitely but he is ready to discuss his fate if the u.k. drops the threat we can exert it is convinced the sweden case is a cover that how they were to america for making confidential military cables however a swedish special says they won't send him to

a country where he'd faced death however sweden's assurances don't offer much hope to the wiki leaks a premier of the country's got a report of violating his rights as a scientist mother explains in a new interview on line with us christina savage also slams western media for not doing enough research and all the accusations against him you want to read up more on that you can on our website we invite you there whenever you want to take a look also there too why hit the road when you can float over it this is clever u.s. firms developed a working hobbled by the promises to reach places which leave other vehicles grounded the bad parts a dot com if you want to fight. greece is asking for more breathing space to implement financial reforms and spending cuts which have sparked years of widespread protests now the prime minister has to convince the euro zone top brass just later this week that he's done enough to receive the next a bailout installment it's worth thirty one of the have been euros without which

greece will default and potentially exit the currency union or the p.m.'s are expected to ask for more to warriors in fact to get reforms in place economist yanis varoufakis says getting the delay will do more harm than good though. i very much fear that the chance that will be good and i see it here because these two x. that years i'm not two years during which i have it up with should we be looking at the greeks awful economy back on track that it is just more time in which the actual economy will continue accelerate in an accelerating fashion or level of vision of that side of things but what do they want to do with the least of the one in the eurozone or not and secondly how do the define the word enough when they say that they want that big government that they're considered to be enough for the small funds these are the fundamental questions there and i'm very much fear that germany that's not put up its mind around them yet this is the great depression in economic terms that resemble it that that's what the united states. but also in

psychological right most people over on the verge of my mic and then at age one moment depressed the next that there is going to be a tipping down significantly one way or the other it's just that you know the laws of nature you can modify it the question is how it's going to be done will it be done in and out if you manage to get it's falling out of that you're going to the drachma and then the effect of the rate not all that's in your hands what is going to be part of the sustainable. or rationally dealing with the crisis not just greece but also me that we in spain and eunice army is completely clueless on this matter. now it's been a long way but russia's finally join the world trade organization the w t o let's catch up with artie's business to talk about haiti what does it mean now and i lay there kevin well that's what everyone's asking and everyone seems to have a different opinion on the matter because some people are saying that it won't necessarily mean that trade will improve other people are saying we're going to expect dramatic benefits on one of those we space. x.

that states are going to have all the details on that in about five minutes time in the business but let's have. a catch up with you then a flooding tragedy is once again struck russia's southern region this time for of died of a river burst its banks following heavy rains the power supplies have been cut or the water and sewage system three villages around the city to ups were also damaged officials say the early warning system worked effectively this time and that people were successfully evacuated from their homes in time volunteers helping residents with food and blankets last month severe flooding claimed the lives of more than a hundred sixty people elsewhere in the region. the rest the world this wednesday night south africa's platinum could see tensions flare further as trade unions demand higher wages last week thirty four striking miners were shot dead by police in protest of high unemployment and extremely low pay and american platinum which is the world's top producer says it's received a demand for wage rises from workers in the region and cites of reported fresh

water in the past couple of years south africa's in jude several violent strikes and protests over low wages and poor living conditions. britain's bank of scotland's been accused by u.s. investigators of possible violations of sanctions against iran it's part of a cracked that's already left the u.k. standard chartered facing a heavy fine for hiding illegal transactions with. americans coming down hard on british banks it's already fine r.b.s. for money laundering two years ago and has been questioning seven major financial firms over fixing you key interest rate. at least forty eight people mostly women and children have been hacked or burnt to death in ethnic clashes between two rival groups in kenya the tensions and rivalry between the two communities over land and water resources have been on going after decades a string of similar clashes eleven years ago killed at least one hundred thirty people in europe while fires raging still with spain greece evacuating people to

safety spain suffering its worst summer places in a decade as infernos which may have been started deliberately scorched thousands of hectares of land and threatened villages in the past arsons also suspected in greece to where some twenty five of white forest and olive groves while being powered by strong winds and in bosnia the picture there soaring temperatures and harsh terrain making it hard to control the flames. but what we're talking about spain spades descent into recession is felt far wide among people there many being forced to abandon their livelihoods and when that involves much loved animals that decision could be heartbreaking as art is a lecturer jeff ski. for several months thousands of spain ers have been protesting loudly and angrily as the government's austerity measures spark rage among those who feel those cuts most painfully the recently published financial forecast for twenty thirteenth suggests 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 is 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 a little longer of course as we have to care for has increased dramatically with the crisis people can't afford to keep them touched. they dispense with them we find a mentor of a condition always did their own excrement and drink rain water to survive keeping one horse costs around three hundred euros a month something many private families and horse riding schools cannot now afford price stallions are often being sold almost half their value for seven thousand euros instead of twelve c.

boy this would be the last us we're losing money is good if we can at least cover our expenses and we're afraid 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 bill jhoom france and russia about eighty percent use for human consumption and twenty percent is processed into any more food this show to 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. that story that for business round up it's twenty four minutes past eight at night this wednesday evening katie is there again hi katie knows what you're saying couple of minutes ago after waiting nearly nineteen years to join the world trade organization some russians still aren't happy i know can you believe that you can't please everyone for so and you know some people are excited they all really kind of optimistic about what this will bring others are saying it's not such a great thing because it won't bring down stock prices or help trade but obviously but yes liz of all that thinks that there are big benefits to listen to this. we're now living in the twenty first century do we really need to be that i'll beat you. absolutely i think 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 promoted change but other countries such as vietnam say that they are 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 o membership the country was receiving approximately around three three and they have a billion dollars worth of investment after w t o accession this figure of two to three full 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 band also the accompanying policies of countries

and their companies argentina this week filed a w to complain against the european union can be a w chill sensually be an effective mechanism of resulting trade disputes yes so far actually one of the more efficient parts of the operation of the w t o is precisely in the sphere of settling disputes and this is something that russia could certainly use after w t o 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 the. systems against russian exports abroad. while i kind of let's go abroad ourselves and head over into wall street and see how the morning session is panning out as you can see we've got the clients for the dow jones on the nasdaq just the week japanese trade

taser is taking its toll as well as investors awaiting those all important federal reserve minutes as well but there was good news sells of existing home sales rose let's go to the european markets because they're going to be closing up shop very soon and they will be finishing all the downside as you can see the footsie really want to have the send down are they too are awaiting the outcome of the meetings with all the european leaders of this way let's get on to some exchange rates and see how the year is responding to all of this really if you look at that now it's pretty flat and now it's off to hitting its seven with highs earlier on in the way the ruble house finished moving and shaking and it was lower against a basket of cars as you can see just following the big gains that we experienced yesterday the markets here in moscow that is a bit of a dire day as then i was off to some highs that we experienced all day investors not nice again we've got the r.t.s. and nine tenths of a percent down the mises i'm hopeful that in negative territory kevin that's all

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