backtracking on promises human rights groups condemn america's new defense suspects to be detained indefinitely and keep. a prison camp. the syrian rebels foreign international journalists including the arabic news crew covering the conflict in the country. most britons want to get out of the european union and keep cash and legal decisions at home the prime minister says he'll be fully euro skeptic during his next election campaign.

around the world online on satellite this is r.t. within twenty four hours a day live from moscow the us defense act for twenty thirteen is being greeted by harsh criticism from human rights groups after president obama signed the bill into law despite earlier veto threats measure allows the indefinite detention of suspects and backtracks on the closure of guantanamo prison camp the lower extends the restrictions on transferring detainees out of guantanamo for another year despite obama's promise to close it when he first came to power activists say he's failed the first test of his second term allowing the military to indefinitely detain american citizens over terrorism allegations without charge or trial civil liberties groups are pushing forward with a lawsuit against the measure which they insist is unconstitutional activist violent told r.t. that her new law feels like a major threat. i think it's an accident he's my government.

supporting wiki leaks you know in a science and also bradley manning as you know we are you know many people and our government and a terrorist group. by language is extremely scary and certainly could be used against our people like me and my international team and veteran congressman dennis kucinich is also disappointed with the new national defense act claiming it's part of a tendency to on the month democracy there are great human rights concerns here. that people could be held indefinitely violates a constitutional privilege that people have. we have a constitutional challenge here where not only the national. defense authorization act but the patriot act and other legislation have gradually

moved america away from a robust. freedom to a more limited freedom that is based on proscriptions by the government. this is more than problematic because what has always made made america america is the fact that we follow our constitution and we protect our constitution and we protect people against unreasonable search and seizure we protect people against being seized without right to. know the charges against them or a right to an attorney or a right to a trial we have in the past condemned government being involved in spying now we have a much broader. spy network this is something that is profoundly anti-democratic i have repeatedly taken exception to it as a member of congress. n l a t arabic news crew and several international

journalists have come under rebel sniper fire in syria while covering the conflict there the r.t. news team are accompanied the military on a counter insurgency sweep and one of our colleagues kummel sucka was injured while running for cover his account and. we arrived at the damascus suburb early in the morning to report on the syrian army operation we were moving from street to street and when we reached the dock my colleagues and i got caught in crossfire we tried to escape running one after another fearing that armed rebels would notice us a syrian army soldier accompanied us the entire time he constantly kept his eye on the situation and helped us to escape the gunfire the rebels were firing on us my colleagues and i were wearing bulletproof bass with the word press on them the firing was very intense and it was difficult to find shelter i ran and fell down i hurt my arms but the syrian army doctors gave me first date on the scene so i could continue to do my job there were many other correspondents there with me including

iranians and syrians one of the syrian cameramen was also slightly wounded like me meanwhile a car bomb blast has ripped through a crowded petrol station in the syrian capital damascus conflicting reports say the number of killed was up to eleven people and children among the dead dozens more civilians were wounded u.s. war correspondent russ baker says such attacks a typical of the western backed rebel fighters trying to bring down president assad. i've covered a few dangerous situations myself over the years and the reality is there is no way to be saved in war time these are the basic things that we're doing there is we're providing the kind of a gritty tax here for the average person so they can kind of it sort of experience it from the far there's going to be a lot of in the way of covert operations that are sponsored by outside parties that have a stake in haste innings some sort of a you know resolution of

a situation there's no question and we this is pretty obvious on the surface that the western countries to including my own have stepped up their involvement in wanting to get assad out as fast as possible and these are the sorts of things that we've seen historically going all the way back to the coup in guatemala in the one nine hundred fifty s. in iran and so forth these sorts of provocations are very very common i think we're going to see them increase until something or other is wrong that pretty clearly i think the western countries don't want any kind of halfway measures they want now out entirely and i think he is not going to do that until the last possible moment . britain without brussels that's a future a majority in the u.k. now want the public has dissolution with even membership in prime minister david cameron has promised to enter the next election with a clear euro skeptic position well recently i discussed it with all to his party boy could. use popularity at

a very very low mongst the british public at the moment we just had a poll that asked respondents to grade institutions like in school and the european union got an average grade of a d. plus from the british public that's not very very high now or a more serious note this recent poll it's really marked a tipping point because for the first time in decades the number of people that say that they would vote for britain leaving the european union is the majority of the british public so it's some. really turning britain turning into a nation of real euro skeptics at the moment and it's not just the result of one poll we've seen things like for example british support for political parties anti european ones like the u.k. independence party it's at an all time high so there's lots of bad news for pro europeans at the moment so what is the main grudge that many people are holding against. well the british public has always been very divided over

membership anyway but the past year has been particularly difficult we've seen the chronic financial crisis in the eurozone with a real loss of confidence that grows at the same time at home they have quit playing austerity measures so there's a growing resentment towards the vast sums of money that leaves the british treasury and come straight from the u.k. budget goes straight to brussels every year when very terrible project and it's not just the money there's also the aspect of the control of north that comes from brussels that many people want to see returned back to westminster so this. goes all the way to the top of the u.k. doesn't it right at the top of political levels. well indeed david cameron the prime minister has just said that the conservative party is going to be going into the next general election in twenty fifteen as a euro skeptic party is an anti european political party that really shows that you

know the government's banking on the fact that the british public is are you going to get more fed up with british membership in and that they're really confident that that's going to happen what about brussels and how is it responding to the way that britain is giving the cold shoulder transaction what it can't be too pleasant listening to all this negativity about yourself because there are reports flying around now that certain senior members of the european parliament want to offer britain a junior membership status associate membership and it would in fact be a bit of a demotion whereby britain since its grumbling so much over its membership in the european union it would have much less influence over issues within the european union itself so it's got all the hallmarks of a relationship going quite sour and now it's either going to be a question of who dumps who thought store salvagable but with public opinion turning towards britain getting out it's going to be harder and harder to stay in.

and the middle east holds its biggest rally since hamas came to power in gaza hundreds of thousands of supporters malkuth the course to rival hamas gave them the go ahead. and president putin has made it to the top of the list of the world's most powerful people but still only took second place with explaining why in a live report a little later in the program. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you know. i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. news secret laboratory to mccurry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a dollar amount anything. to teach me the creation and why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. live here in the news continues now thousands of supporters of president mahmoud abbas's fattah party are celebrating its anniversary rival party her mass which

governs gaza has given its permission to hold the event for the first time since it ousted fattah five years ago live now to political analyst at last on the neary he joins me now live from ramallah it's the biggest rally all of the fattah party since came to power why are we seeing this happening. well first of all let me correct you it's not the first rally since hamas came to power but in fact it's the largest rally in palestinian history in modern history and if you look at the figures the morning estimate spoke of half a million palestinians who took to the streets of gaza this morning but later in the day the figure or the estimate went up to one point two million out of a population of one point seven million palestinians who are living out they could just figure out exactly how big the masses where who came today to celebrate and to mark the forty eighth anniversary of that automation back on the first of january

nineteenth sixty five and also there was a some kind of a referendum of the first degree supporting president abbas supporting his political line and his two state solution agenda which took him to the united nations and brought him back with a one hundred thirty eight countries recognize in the state of palestine as a nonmember as an all state as a number state of the united nations this is exactly what president about promises people to bring when he was elected back in one in two thousand and five and he's going along the same path which was supported a big time by the palestinians in gaza despite the very very awkward situation in the gaza strip which has been taken over by hamas as you rightly. mentioned earlier for the last five or six years so how significant is this are we seeing perhaps an indication that the two rival groups as they have been in the past are now perhaps seeing some sort of unity that hamas and fatah could indeed come together now.

but today i think today is forms a historical intersection in palestinian history simply because what was yesterday is not going to be tomorrow tomorrow will look. really different totally different now hamas will have to look and to further hand the audience that i would have to look into the hamas in the eye and both sides have to agree on only one thing we don't need more of the consolation talks we don't need more the consolation agreements because there were so many agreement signed between the two parties but not one of them has been honored or implemented the both both parties hamas and fatah today have to decide to set a target date for the elections presidential. election to get that to bring the palestinian people to the to the ballot boxes and it is only up to the palestinian people to decide who they are coming president will be and who the coming government will be the current situation of the gaza strip on the west bank cannot

go on forever cannot go on even for tomorrow the day after tomorrow or today is history being written in a different way by palestinians and i think it is a duty today of the palestinian leadership and of hamas leadership to listen to the to the voice of the people to listen to the needs of the palestinians to unify themselves in one country in one state and also pull the carpet for millennia starting we are sorry to have to rely minister netanyahu claims he cannot just quickly ask you we historically see major divisions between the two isn't there perhaps a danger that one could threaten the other after all israel netanyahu has expressed concern that hamas could take over palestine as a whole that could be even its intention is that not to justify concern. well first of all the concerns of netanyahu are baseless and groundless he's the only israeli leader who has been giving support to hamas and not only to hamas but out to every extremist group on the palestinian side simply because he's dumping

the palestinian moderates and dumping the leadership of theirs in a bus and dumping the political negotiations with the with the palestinians and he's carrying on his own agenda of increasing the number of jewish settlements in the west bank even though they are illegally they are illegal under international law he carries on his policies that disrupt every chance of making it a two state solution between the palestinians and the israelis not secondly i think that today as i said earlier this is some kind of a listen to some kind of an understanding between these two super powers on the palestinian ground of between the handsome out that they cannot continue fighting between themselves forever that they have to listen to the voice of the of the masses to the voice of the people and people who thought that gaza has only one color which is the green color of hamas have found out today that the prevailing color in gaza is yellow and the palestinian flag meaning that athena nationalism and that the others as opposed to islamic extremism and let me just

quickly ask you briefly i asked you about. netanyahu is concerned how much could take have a palestine but is there an argument against fattah getting more involved with hamas perhaps which is currently being of course accused of stoking the violence towards israel and of course has a much more aggressive policy towards israel than fattah just briefly. no the policy towards israel depends on what israel does if israel shows the israeli government shows serious and genuine interest in peace negotiations with the palestinians and embraces the palestinian partner for then of course there won't be any reason for for or for violence anywhere but we have always to remember that sometimes when the political process is dumped and there is an impasse in the political process the level of frustration will go up and that level of frustration sometimes gets to a level to the point where nevertheless communal property leader hamas nor the

personal fortune or anybody else can control it and we've seen it back in two thousand and one thing got safe and depleting can david and the two sides are on the verge of signing an agreement but then the everything collapsed and as high the expectations were so was the frustration back in two thousand that we see the second intifada we don't want to see a third intifada we don't want to see another political or diplomatic impasse and it is now up to is it to decide which path the middle east would have to take what it leaves the other than the palestinians would have to take in the coming in the near future before the elections and of course after the elections until the elections in israel on the twenty second of january it is up to the government but after the election it is up to the israeli public to decide whether they want to work with the palestinian leadership under the bus whether they want to promote the negotiations and lead to a final end of conflict two state solution based on the lines of fourth of july of two nine hundred sixty seven or whether they want more and more violence i think

violence begets violence but peace also can bring peace to both sides and i think that our seniors and israelis are partners in one faith and one destiny we have faith have peace together or we continue fighting each other for ever ever and that is something that i think i don't think palestinians wanted to happen and i don't even think that the israeli public wanted to have it both happen both sides want to reach a just and durable peace that would allow the two states to listen i'd buy side along the one hundred sixty seven borders a lot said unary thank you very much indeed political analyst joining me live there from ramallah thanks very much indeed for your thoughts on that. just over seven months ago the french placed their trust in the socialist leader for all and giving him a mandate for change but his promises ranging from economic prosperity to allowing gay marriage a proven harder to achieve than perhaps he thought in his article actually i was just you find out people are already losing trust in the new leader. the debate on

whether gay marriage should be allowed has split french society for years with protests about the issue often ending in violence with francoise all man coming to power the gay community breathed a sigh of relief but it may have been too soon activists say the new law which is going through parliament in january is not exactly what they've been dreaming of but we are. very happy that. introduced by the government to. marriage to same sex couples and option. to procreation but we're still very concerned because. people are against same sex marriage same sex equality are getting very strong including in the parliament. in the mayors were obliged to officially register gay couples marital status and that's where many revolted including francois labelle the mayor of central paris.

many. allowing same sex marriages in france and moreover permitting them to adopt children will destroy the foundations of our family institution if we allow this now the next step will be allowing paedophilia and incest. you so it seems in this scenario no side is completely happy which puts the french president and his electoral promise under serious pressure from bringing the french troops back from afghanistan to creating more jobs in france and preventing the country from going into austerity during his campaign to become a normal president francois hollande had made many promises some of which now experts say may backfire against the french leader and if the gay marriage law wasn't divisive enough splurge to impose a seventy five percent tax on the wealthy may become another sticking point several million years have already decided to take their businesses out of france that's

called a lot of problems and it does divide the country because a lot of people realize that the rich aren't going to solve france's financial problems everybody's going to have to pay france's national. including socialist voters which of course frost all along when he was being elected gave the impression that. this wouldn't happen the latest polls suggest. has dropped by twenty percent winning the election may prove to be the far easier challenge than what awaits the french president now with the economic producers for twenty thirteen in france looking far from optimistic he could face an uphill jordan and. r.t. reporting from paris. in europe in spanish locksmiths you say they now hold the key to austerity so for they refuse to cooperate i mean they'll go with the authorities would be possessing homes and demanding a change of locks find out more about that on our website plus also online at the

moment. a movie about some of bin laden's vomit demise is sprint be us with the senate now morgan investigation to determine if the cia gave inappropriate access to the film's creators those stories and plenty more for you now to talk. about a prince being named the most powerful person on earth the us foreign policy magazine has the russian president at the head of its annual list of the world's most influential people let's get more now from art he's going to she joins me live now from washington d.c. so president putin he's beaten everybody else but strangely he didn't actually make it into first place which has been left blank so what's going on here gun bill can you imagine the brainstorming behind that decision it was the international political think tank you racial group that came up with a list of the world's most powerful individuals with the russian president at the top of that list then they decided no they couldn't leave him there so they put mr nobody at the top of their list so why they would put in

a second to mr alarmist this nobody you know according to this think tank and to the foreign policy magazine that published the list authors explain that they left the top position empty because the modern world has no clear leader they said they also said that they based their choice of names on that list on the individual's ability to single handedly quote bring about change that significantly affect the lives and fortunes of large numbers of people all right so nobody ahead of putin in this produce actually snapping at his heels who's just behind him. well bill the russian president is followed by u.s. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke you for the influence the organization has on the u.s. economy and by extension on the global economy german chancellor angela merkel all for policies that are quote the glue that binds a europe and us president barack obama he ranks the fifth are on the list then you have the head of the european central bank the chinese communist party leader and

others a very powerful individuals obviously not easy to decide who is the most powerful but that's the fun of making lists like that right one lesson that. probably other list makers can learn from this one is that when you're struggling with the first spot there is always the enigmatic mr nobody you can put on top and cites them deep philosophical reasoning behind that decision but some would see it as defying the purpose of a list like that it's like coming up with a list of the world's sexiest women and putting a miss nobody on top of that list you know citing something like there is no such thing as the sexiest woman on earth that's right there isn't and following that logic all lists have to feature and nobody at the top but then what's the point of making such a list. oh it is going to thanks very much indeed for that good to hear from you live from washington d.c. . the notoriously eccentric russian businessman polanski has been released

by cambodian authorities after agreeing not to leave the country he was arrested along with two other russians after allegedly threatening local sailors on a boat but his company denies the claims i don't ski rose to fame off to a video of a brawl on russian t.v. went viral on the internet two thousand and eleven a heated debate for the billionaire example limited finished with punchy put on ski to the floor another bizarre episode caught on camera saw him eat a piece of a time during an online talk show promise to live on the net well if the price of his company's real estate didn't grow by. well that brings up to date for the mojave but with the news team with more for you in about thirty five minutes from now in the meantime in just a few minutes after the break it would be. breaking the sense.

ron paul has rejected the national rifle association safety plan and by safety plan the n.r.a. proposes basically turning every school in america into a prison camp so on this one ron paul i'm with you in the wake of the tragic events at sandy hook elementary and every vice president wayne la pierre called on congress to immediately appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school so yeah what is the solution to isolated incidents of extreme violence make every child live their entire school life at gun point before putting armed guards in schools maybe we should take a look at the fact that more than twenty five percent of american kids are on medication altering their mental state legally mom is working two jobs so she isn't around dad is a wall and the t.v.

does glorify violence revenge and torture when someone is getting harassed every day at school. from the hell that they're in they are going to take drastic measures to get out. armed officers and schools but there were no shootings down but that's just my opinion. one hundred thirty three bucks

a month for food i should try it because. as i was. i personally apologize and. make it. up guys i'm not a martyr. what else. i was for your request asking me u.s. government to disclose more information about.