this is r t tonight syria's conflict spreads further beyond its borders people are fleeing the violence to neighboring states with fresh deadly clashes in lebanon. gagging the truth lawyers say they're battling the from bringing up alleged torture inside military tribunals within a tori's prison still open despite president obama's promises also. here in washington and the u.s. is not our father or a teacher to punish us we have the same rights as they do. foreign minister talks exclusively to r.t. spanish channel saying his country will go as far as their hate to defend its asylum for julian assange which. could even live from moscow ten pm this is r.t.

and it's very good to have your company my name's kevin now and first there have been fresh clashes between pro and anti assad supporters in lebanon at least eight people are dead and dozens injured it's not a sign that the conflict in syria is long stopped ending at the borders especially with the mass exodus of syrians into neighboring states is a middle east correspondent paula sleep. 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 lebanon is the city of tripoli 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 urged 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 they're all growing concerns in that the kurdish workers' party known as the p.k. k. is behind this blast although no one has come forward and came to sponsibility the p.k. kate 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 male currently being housed in a number of temporary refugee shelters along the jordanian a syrian 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 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 it cannot be any kind on. we were told x. and records to be an international response that is agreed to by all sides and the consensus is reached course there are to amman jordan. just a little earlier political analyst and lawyer dr franklin lamb was in beirut told me lebanon is experiencing a similar division to syria people are saying not since the civil war how have things been so likely to ignite or the people are feeling so insecure the march fourteenth pro saudi americans are putting forward a strong argument that it's hezbollah and its militias who are doing it and then there's all of those on television gone so look we cannot control this town we just

built because there is no central government strong get out hezbollah is saying it's natural arliss understandable 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 lebanon itself is so fragile that quite a state in terms of that having a real a central government that can enforce the laws and having a compromise army that really exult exacerbates things and really gives rise to more possibilities for. ignition. later there the syrian friendship association of belgium tells me this is no coincidence the series violence is spilling out into neighboring states. i believe is that the violence what we are seeing you know this has nothing to do with reform it has to do with

destroying the people who also have a lot of testimonies from people in syria that a lot of the rebels members of the syrian free army are foreigners so the violence we're seeing no it's not a syrian products. that it's near to the jordanian border it's not a coincidence that the trouble started at a border town because this underlines once again big influence from abroad a lot of outside forces and governments are interested to destroy syria they know that to pick out iran first they have to take out syria and i'm quite convinced if they would succeed to destroy syria the next door of it will be hezbollah in lebanon on the one days these two allies are taken out so. they will concentrate one hundred percent on the.

and if you'd like to hear more there's more of a christiane sin of the syrian friendship association is interview in full in twenty five minutes time tonight on r.t. . lawyers defending guantanamo detainees say that they're being silenced inside military tribunals banned from any mention of alleged torture at the prison attorneys say the restrictions we can't therefore properly defend their clients they said to challenge the rulings to the soon as pretrial hearings over five men charged over nine eleven start they were due to begin this week but have now been canceled as attorneys in the media have been evacuated back to the u.s. out of tropical storm isaac that's heading for cuba detainees though remain. during president obama's first campaign he pledged to shut down the tories present but never has. as the saying goes everyone remembers their first walk talk mode 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 me 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 the 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 the 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 out's lead investigative reporter jason leopold what

the inspector general said was is that tame means 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 then an 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 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 am artsy. to morris davis who formerly served as the chief prosecutor of guantanamo bay says the u.s. is trying to keep embarrassing facts of the wraps and explains why he quit his post . but think 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 then 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. this is r.t. still to come this giving greece rooms have been baffled exhausting for some space while it tries to put in place crucial reforms which will dictate whether it gets more survival money in spades so suffering from a biting recession its thousands of forces which have been sacrificed but people struggling to make ends meet go to a portal not fewer. ecuador is preparing 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 r.t. spanish 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 and trust that nations government we also believe that london will accept ecuador's sovereign decision if that doesn't happen we'll find a way out for haps 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 george 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 who want to make them understand that we're protecting freedom of speech as well as a right to life and personal integrity. as you just spent the last two months hiding out today because london embassy avoiding extradition to sweden on sex crime allegations now britain insists it won't let him leave the country and threatened at one stage indeed to raid the embassy decease it which ecuador's president called

diplomatic suicide rafael career also says that the science can stay at the embassy indefinitely but he is ready to discuss his fate if the u.k. drops the threat of wiki leaks said it is convinced the sweden case is a cover to hand them to america for leaking confidential military cables but a swedish official says they will send them to a country wait face death. however so when the show and says don't offer much hope to the wiki leaks a primo the country's got a record of violating his rights as a subject mother explains in a new interview she's given to us online christina santa also slammed western media for not doing enough research on all the accusations against i'm going to read more about that you can see r.t. dot com any time you want to click there also but a high tech clever device this one wired the road where you can as you can see float over it as are the manufacturers are saying to us further develop the working off a bike that promises to reach places which neve other vehicles grounded is clever the story on our tape plus be sure to check out our best videos on you tube channel to.

download the official r.t. application so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. now t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch r.t. any time any. greece is asking for more breathing space to implement financial reforms and spending cuts which will spark

years of widespread protests the prime minister has to convince the euro zone top brass later this week that he's done enough to receive the next payload installment it's worth thirty one and a half billion euros with which greece will default and potentially exit the currency union the p.m.'s are expected to ask for two more years to get reforms in place economist yanis varoufakis says getting that delay that will do more harm than good. i very much fear that the chance that pretty good and i see it fear because these two x. three years i'm not two years during which i have up with new people to the greek subtle economy back on track if just more time in which the actual economy will continue accelerate even accelerating or level of vision have to decide to think what do they want to do with beliefs that they want to see in the eurozone or not and secondly how do the find the word enough when they see that they want that big government that they're considered to be enough for the small farms these are the fundamental questions they're very much fear that germany has not put up its mind

around them yet this is a great depression in economic terms that resemble in that that's the poles or the united states. but also in psychological terms most people know that on the verge of manic and then at any age one moment depressed the next but that is going to be them down significantly one way or the other it's just that you know the laws of nature you cannot violate the question is how it's going to be done will it be done in an alkie manno with his fallen out of the euro going to the drachma and then the effect of the rate that not all of that's in the us what is going to be part of the sustainable plan for rationally dealing with the crisis not just greece but also me that we in spain and you know as armies completely clueless on this matter. the ongoing problems of the euro zone to a new member of the w t o been a long wait but russia's finally joining the world trade organization is culture without his business team hello there kevin yeah that's what we're going to be talking about and really the winners and the losers who's going to benefit and

who's going to perhaps lose out and really for more analysis more details on the matter we're going to be talking to a w t o experts in less than ten minutes time now and really rainier of what the w.t. accessor really means. flooding tragedies once again struck russia's southern cross nadar region this time for of died after a river burst its banks after heavy rain power supplies were cut the water and sewage system in three villages around the city to abseil were also damaged officials say the early warning system did work effectively in that people were successfully evacuated from their homes in time well it is helping residents now with food and blankets this comes of course just a month after severe flooding claimed the lives of more than one hundred sixty people elsewhere in the region. more world news in brief now this wednesday night south africa's platinum belt tensions flare up 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 anglo american platinum which is the world's top producer says it received a demand for wage rises from workers in the region and other sites of reported fresh walkouts now in the past couple of years south africa's ensured several violence protests over low wages and poor living conditions. britain's royal bank of scotland has been accused by u.s. investigators of possible violations of sanctions against iran is part of a crackdown that's already left the u.k. standard chartered facing a heavy fine for hiding illegal transactions with america's coming down hard on british banks right now it's already fined r.b.s. for money laundering two years ago and it's been questioning seven major financial firms over fixing a 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 it's believed hundreds of people belonging to a farming group raided the village of pastoral community in a revenge attack tension and rivalry between the two over land and water resources

may go on for decades a string of similar clashes eleven years ago killed at least hundred thirty people . wildfires raging in europe with spade bosnia and greece all evacuating people to safety spain suffering in fact is worst summer blazes in a decade. infernos which may have been started deliberately in some cases scorched thousands of hectares of land pillagers in a path aston's also suspected in greece where some twenty fires wiped out forests and olive groves while being powered by the strong winds and in bosnia to sawing temperatures and harsh terrain is making it hard to control the flames. spain's descent into recessions felt far and wide among many people there of course as we've been reporting extensively many been forced to abandon their livelihoods when that involves as well much loved animals often a part of family life that decision can be heartbreaking as alexia and jeff q reports now. 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 absolutely no longer of course as we have to care for has increased dramatically with the crisis people can't afford to keep them thoughts where they dispense with them we find a mentor about condition always did it through excrement enjoying clean water to survive keeping one horse costs around three hundred euros

a month something many private families and horse riding schools cannot now afford brice stallions are often being sold at almost half their value for seven thousand euros instead of twelve c. boy it is already the last. yes we're losing money is good if we can at least cover our expenses we were 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 belgium france and russia about eighty percent is 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. business time as a resurgent couple minutes ago katie feels are we talking about russia jordan the w t o the world trade organization revel i guess where of with nearly nineteen years but despite the culmination of it all everyone's happy i know would you believe all that hard work to get it all the negotiations and now people are complaining because they're saying not everyone is going to benefit and some people are saying not even the consumer when it comes to shop prices or indeed trade thoughts we did speak to w.t. experts jaroslav lizza valek and he spoke about the big benefits that are in store

. we're now living in the twenty first century do we really need to be they don't need to know. absolutely i think is an dispensable part of operating and the global economy operating and then the vironment abettors competitive that provides the impulses for change really sounds like you view it as a look at motive for 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.r. membership the country was receiving approximately around three three and the have a billion dollars worth of investment after w t o accession this figure

went to the three fall but this is really up to each country to decide how much it can try to reap from w t o accession because obviously w.t.r. accession benefits the pound also the accompanying policies of countries and their companies argentina this week while the w two complain against the european union can be w. till 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 existence against russian exports abroad. and staying with the topic then america will lift the cold war trade restrictions on russia within days says the head of the w c o the one nine hundred seventy s. m m m balls trading with russia even though the reasons behind the disappeared two decades ago. the u.s. business will miss out if washington acts. that's going to wall street than to see how the stocks are getting on with still looking to cohens at the moment as you can see the dow jones around a third of the cent down for the nasdaq is just six basis points just now the world's news from japan trade was on the downside that is taking its toll but really the main sentiment today the driving force is that investors are awaiting those federal reserve minutes of their on the front of that one also wanted to mention that some option is and today is existing home sales they were better than

expected european markets are they close but we'll see how they go to them today i would it still remains yes the center of it all because this week we've got the eurozone leaders meeting in the us to discuss how to approach the sovereign debt crisis was the best way forward it is just now because investors they do want all says as well is that we've also got the father greece's are saying for an extension to get their house in order so that it's set to be on the agenda as you can see the footsie that nearly one in the hope is that in negative territory as they close up in the house the euro though it's a complete change of fortunes just now will be a would say it's now actually involved saying one twenty five fourteen says broken not one twenty five the rest hold that says backhaul just seven week highs us with a rueful it's been a trading today but it did lose out because the ball skip of current says i'll move on to dixie walk is that here most can see what they look like today on it will be

if you read the complete transformation. to choose the way we were looking at strong gains today we saw invest. passing in on those games and playing at angles basically also yes that had some of the said down the my six overhaul of the set in negative territory and hopefully next hour kevin i'll have more details on those minutes from the federal was all right but you get the sting and of those on the way here much before large governments in fact we are really interested in destruction in syria it's here on r.t. live from moscow.

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