images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations room . at the close guantanamo but i will follow through on. a pledge that remains unfulfilled america's notorious detention camp has been open for eleven years with little outcry and the us. series uranium stockpiles of risk the west is concerned were the could and i made the conflict while critics say it's just another excuse for military intervention. and war u.k. parents are forced to go hungry to feed their children while charities the only hope for those on the breadline.

this is are going to live for moscow with me maureen and josh their story is us attention facility at guantanamo bay in cuba marks its eleventh anniversary despite president obama's four year old promise to shut the camp while human rights groups are calling for freedom for those cleared for release and for a fair trial for the others polls show the majority of americans have moved on and as our she's gone as she can now reports public opinion in the u.s. relies more on fiction than fact. president obama's call to look forward not backward has resulted in attempts to sweep the past under the rug including some of his own promises earlier i intend to close guantanamo and i will follow through on that colonel morris davis was a chief prosecutor at guantanamo under george w. bush and he later became a vocal critic of the practices there and strongly supported president obama's pledge to shut down the prison he says the perception of guantanamo in the u.s. has come a long way since two thousand and eight when he was

a burning and highly controversial issue with a nation demanding action he gets a free pass on i mean the public largely could care less the mainstream media now here in the us. you know is more interested in car dash and then they are and what happens at guantanamo. so who's going to challenge it if we're looking for the biggest threat to america right now she's right there her name is kim carr daschle and. america has moved on and so has its perception of torture polls by the american red cross show the majority of americans now find torture acceptable sixty percent of young people agree whereas four years ago torture was largely condemned in the us. hollywood has arguably contributed to that evolution of public opinion in the movie zero dark thirty they or trade the information that led to the capture

. and killing of osama bin laden was obtained through enhanced interrogation techniques or torture and in fact that's simply not true the actual information was obtained through a report based interrogation techniques the government classified everything related to its torture practices which allows politicians pundits and filmmakers the freedom to press treats all kinds of myths although a slew of washington insiders including the senate intelligence committee pointed how torture has proved to be ineffective but in america it's often fiction not facts that make history this is more important than reality this is the movies where americans learn their history and today the history in the making is the drone strikes this amounts to the administration executing people without due process often in absolute secrecy in foreign lands with a remote control but will obama's drones generate as much of a backlash as one tunnel did for george w.

bush that we've now got have a generation that only knows the post nine eleven era. where things like guantanamo and the warrantless wiretapping that's all they've ever known you know for decades now and i think it's just become an accepted part of life unfortunately judging by how the guantanamo controversy evolved here is what may transpire with regard to drone the urgency of the issue will subside in the u.s. because there will be no american troops dying there will be no strong public movement program there may even be a movie or two how to get the logical capabilities of drones and once the controversy dies down it will become the new normal and americans will move on. in washington i'm going to check on. two former guantanamo detainees half can damn the oscar nominated film zero dark thirty for justifying torture because of an attempt to rehabilitate those guilty of human rights abuse activist ayesha manyara

who's been campaigning for the closure of the guantanamo camp says the u.s. is violating international law with the world community turning a blind eye. on him a bay off to eleven years has got immense symbolic power and all the things it represents to human rights campaigners paper who believe in truth justice and the rule of law it represents injustice before the americans it gives them a raise and it gives them a system within which an extra legal system within which they can continue the. illegal detention arbitrary detention torture german attacks all the other bits of the postle that we've seen over the past eleven years from the american administration so the united states which has signed torture conventions has signed the geneva conventions but is trying to work outside of them by calling torture in hans interrogation and by calling their prisoners of war enemy combatants is trying to create a completely new structure which in some part it has succeeded in doing over the

past eleven years simply because almost the rest of the world the so-called international community is quite happy to play along but that doesn't mean that the united states or anybody else is above the law it's not just washington's problem is a problem of the international community it's the problem of the countries that facilitated the journeys and the travel of these men to guantanamo bay in the first place when everybody was in afghanistan or pakistan or fighting the americans at all the united states doesn't seem to have a very credible position but unfortunately it's not just united states that has failed on this issue it's the whole international community through their collusion in continuing to keep going ton them obey open strong words there from london based activist money are one of those campaigning to close guantanamo. you're on the border and beyond the courts eleven years on guantanamo remains open for business party looks at the interrogation nerve center of america's war on terror.

u.s. and middle east experts are saying serious conflict is putting the country's iranian stockpiles at risk a report in the british financial times says syria has up to fifty tons of enriched uranium and enough to create five nuclear bombs syria was thought to be close to completing a reactor in the east of the country with help from north korea when the facility was one horribly the story by israeli jets five years ago there are now concerns in the west that iran here is closer to being on the show i'd be trying to seize the stolen body for its own nuclear program or also here syria's chemical weapons could fall into the wrong hands meanwhile the u.k. says it could start arming the rebels and it's to ask to with an arms embargo you know middle east commentator and wada carl shero believes that bringing mission is just another red herring to go with the duel now there's kind of a sequence a chain of alarmists in our us that are being produced concerning chemical weapons

nuclear or any i'm so of the syrian regime there's a process of planning for the day after as western powers are in my going to get i think they're buying up all these different reasons for them to step in and take control of starting tree a country it shouldn't happen and they want to start is that said no they're afraid that iran might get this year in humanitarian you know and in fact they conducting it now have showed us that they have it so i think it's another in this long list of course of the reasons for the west two or western states to intervene and it seems that there's a lot of preparation for pretext for stepping in truth i thought for taking control of the situation including the u.k. . when the u.k. government decided to. get it you see you see that there are multiple failures and gazed out grosses which is kind of oh really shocking the fate of syria could be

decided on its side this plate could see more and more people in the u.k. are forced to rely on charity food banks to get their daily meal thousands of households are left with choice between keeping warm or putting food on their tables with parents keeping meals to feed their children artist billy boy who has the details. for this struggling mother it's a hand to mouth existence with the pressure of two hungry mouths to feed gemma receives has small shop assistant wage and to state benefits every choose day some of the way but when i found that i will if you have far far more growth and i think you are one hundred five pound not much when you're living on the breadline one in five mothers in britain just like gemma regularly skip meals just to feed their children you want to make nutritional rules for your kids you hear it all the time when to be how they should be in a five a day and fresh may but you know sometimes you just can't do it and you have to buy them seventy seven p.

basic courses part because that's all you can afford for the single mother managing a tiny budget is turning into a puzzle that's harder and harder to solve we are seeing a lot more families telling us that they have to make this difficult choice between things like eating and heating putting food on the table or paying the bills part of this is driven by problems in benefit administration sanctions being applied often and appropriately that leave people having to go to food banks food banks such as this one run by the trussell trust that charity first started working with abandoned children involved area but they switched over to the u.k. when they discovered what they call hidden hunger in britain three fruit banks open every week in the u.k. now and in unexpected areas like kensington and chelsea where houses like these distribute store cupboard staples and tinned food to families that are in need of emergency provisions in fact over two hundred thousand people had to turn to food

banks last year in order to get bread that's double the amount of the year before so if the sad dynamic persists food banks like these are going have to get a whole lot bigger in order to feed britain's struggling families charities say that some parents are so desperate to feed their. children that they consider stealing has become such a reality that police have been known to take hungry shoplifters to food banks instead of arresting them a lot of people that come to the banks have stories which are really heartbreaking and we've had people coming to food banks who've been forced to choose between eating and feeding their children and that's something we see very regularly just like jammers over half of britain's impoverished children have parents that are in work and the issue of putting food on the table eats up their lives on comment on monday. on a monday evening waiting to take the violence to others and it's one of exhibit there is. it kind of controls you

a little bit kind of takes over your lives because when you're going weeks and weeks and weeks and small about you think you are going get this money and you say and i'm not i'll do a list like this is got paid out this quarter played out like that leaves me that much for shopping and it takes over your your thinking for most of the week and with the cost of basic necessities including food rising all the time gemma lives on a diet of daily struggle and worry about the future ali boyko r t london. coming up later in the program voicing discontent in the digital age hacker group anonymous wants washington to accept cyber attacks as a legitimate form of protest. and a fresh coalition split in the u.k. after u.s. diplomats said britain should leave that you while prime minister david cameron comp lights are a friend of mine staying in the union all that and more after a short break.

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our t.v. . welcome back you're watching our thousands of supporters of an as well and president of china has rallied outside the presidential palace chavis rallied outside the presidential palace for a new six year term traviss inauguration has been postponed indefinitely a controversial supreme court ruling as he recovers from cancer surgery in cuba political analyst erin drives her believes the chavez government could face a threat from abroad in the absence of its charismatic leader. the opposition despite all of their posturing and despite the fact that the private corporate media inside of venezuela and around the world is very much squarely behind them

and u.s. imperialism they lack a very real base of support on the ground they have some support but as we saw in the results of the recent elections that opposition is still very much in the minority now in terms of an international destabilization using this opposition this is very much a very real possibility of course we've seen much of the destabilization campaign emanating out of the u.s. embassy out of the institutions that's why we saw u.s. a id and other international organizations that are controlled by the state department booted out of that country or at the very least minimized so this is a standard tactic that is very much part of the playbook of twenty first century imperialism of the united states but again the danger here is that without chavez and without the power of his personality that they'll be able to attack those institutions inside the country the question will be how strong are the ball of aryan institutions and how willing is that base of support to come out into the streets in support of the revolution and against what could only be called

counter-revolutionaries of the opposition representing wall street and washington. who had a group anonymous have posted a petition on the white house website seeking to make distributed denial of service attacks a legal form of protest the organization claims that slowing or shutting down a website is not hacking and should be considered a quibble and of a real life street picket at a national human rights lawyer stanley cohen says such action should fall under first amendment protection. when barack obama gets on the television and begs his followers and when politicians implore their followers to get on the switchboard to shut him down to send a message to support a position it's considered free speech the da says essentially nothing different than what obama is doing what politicians are doing and what corporations are doing to lobbying firms we have traditional laws which are designed when people cross the line it's that we with all first amendment activities and it should be no different

here i think it's less likely at this show that president obama will recognize that because he has a history of trying to repress free speech he's he's a he's afraid of the light of day i think it's more likely that down the road some of the courts may the man may look at some of these actions and find that there's first amendment protection and free speech implicated that's not to say that an effort to change the president's mind shouldn't be undertaken again we're not talking about hacking we're not talking about theft we're not talking about injuring property in any sense of the word. the gun control debate is locked and loaded in the us were news shows america have always life expectancy of wealthy nations due to the huge number of firearms only born this way. also online siberia calls a state of emergency as packs of hungry wolves prowl settlements in the hunt for livestock this and many other stories on our website r t v dot com.

u.k.'s coalition government faces and new rift over a u.s. diplomat warning britain ganz to leaving the e.u. the prime minister dried to glance over the situation as he wants to renegotiate london's relations with brussels meanwhile his deputy claims americans warning is spot on as the u.k. is valuable to the u.s. because of its position in europe are these laura smith has the details always known that the u.s. prefers that the u.k. has a close relationship with the e.u. because when it wants something done it's britain that it calls this kind of direct challenge to the government over europe to the involving itself in internal bush's affairs is something a little bit new the u.s. has warned of the dangers of holding a referendum on europe for the u.k. and it has called for full out of the coalition government although that's no so difficult thing to do these days david cameron the prime minister has played it out saying it's just an opinion but nick clegg his deputy has said that it is a big issue that the u.k.

is valuable to the huge us precisely because it has a close relationship with the european union but of course his party does stands against anything that distances person from the now i felt that the main issue for people here given that there's an increasing lack of support for britain's membership of the european union would probably be just that the us sticking its already so i went out to us that they have concerns and i can understand because they were saying they feel that we have similar values so therefore we represent. and you know. clearly. we take notice but equally i don't. fully understand. the implications for britain i don't think it is because i mean we are a different kind of teaching them so you know i think we should make. a lot of people in the streets they're seeing it as a question of sovereignty now with me i said gerald batten he's

a member of the european parliament we've always known haven't we the u.s. prefers that the u.k. has a close relationship with the union so what difference does it make now that they've said it out loud i think the difference here is that they're actually. british politics i think there's a difference between you can understand a country having a view about other countries' foreign policy and stating that but i think this is a bit different this is a direct attempt to interfere in british domestic policies and they're trying to frighten the british people by saying you know we'd lose in for an. hour special relationship and all the rest of it if we continue along this road of actually asking well hang on a minute what's happened to our national sovereignty it's gone and we'd like it back and the polite thing and applied thing i would say guy president obama should be pretty sure fair and david cameron is big plans for a referendum we're expecting this announcement within the next few weeks you'll be pleased about that what difference does this really make i think you'd have to be very naive to think if david cameron is sincere about this he's talked about

a referendum but this whole thing about renegotiation is a nonsense you cannot renegotiate the terms of membership terms of membership decided by treaty they have to be done by unanimous agreement of all twenty seven member states and twenty eight soon when croatia joins you cannot renegotiate on a piecemeal basis and nobody in the european you other countries going to renegotiate our terms or allow us to because we're one of the biggest paymasters to the so the u.s. is worried about nothing i think the american should mind their own business. you know what we don't tell them how to about their national sovereignty they shouldn't tell us which is the most precious thing we've got is the right to determine our own democratic affairs thank you very much etc but in talking to me about ministration expressing his opinion on the u.k. sanction for the e.u. . now take a look at some other stories from around the world three days of mourning. pakistan after a wave of bombings have left at least one hundred fifteen people dead and scores wounded ninety two were killed in the city of quetta in pakistan and a blast at

a market in a shiite dominated area and twin explosions at a billiard hall a sunni muslim extremist group has claimed responsibility for the attack while at least twenty one people died in the northwestern city of mingora or a blast struck crowds gathering for a speech by religious leader pakistan assume similar attacks in recent months amid a rise in islamist insurgency and terry violence. the un has called for a swift deployment of an international force in mali after militants claim significant advances in the country's central region france will also be considering a request for help from mali's president today the security council earlier approved the plan to deploy three thousand african troops there are but they were not expected to arrive until september there are fears that the region could become a stronghold for al qaeda linked militants some european leaders are concerned that the region may also be used as a springboard for attacks on the current. two people have been to wonder at

a california high school after a student turned a weapon on his classmate teacher managed to persuade the teenager to put down his gun avoiding possible further violence people who know the students say he was a loner and often teased by classmates because of his height the shooting comes less than a month after a gunman killed twenty elementary school children in connecticut fueling a nationwide debate on u.s. gun law. french police are looking for the killers of three female kurdish independence activists who were shot in the head in paris on thursday the motive for the murders which took the life of the game for you is not yet clear your anger has recently started disarmament talks with a jailed leader after twenty five year conflict between the organization and the government the murder sparked mass rallies interviewer some say the women were killed by a kurd faction opposed to the talks others believe the assassinations were carried

out by the government to derail negotiations. afghan leader hamid karzai is washington to thresh out america's role in afghanistan during talks with president obama mr karzai has already made the fans secretary leon panetta and secretary of state hillary clinton the focus of the one to one meeting is expected to beyond the number of american troops that will remain in afghanistan after the majority fall out twenty four thousand and their possible role washington hasn't finalize a decision yet but doesn't rule out a complete withdrawal that's an area is not welcomed by the afghan government whose position is increasingly fragile amid a strengthening taliban insurgency hillary mann leverett who has worked to extensively with u.s. diplomats in the middle east and asia believes president karzai isn't a no win situation. i think these talks are for the president and his national security principals to let afghanistan's president karzai down as softly as they can to let him know that unfortunately they're not going to make good on their

promise to completely train. the afghan military and police before u.s. troops leave i think this this visit is about trying to let cars i know as nicely as they can that they're not going to make good on their promise to continue to defend afghanistan and train up afghanistan's military and i think part of it is that president obama you know after he agreed to surge the troops into afghanistan i think pretty quickly realized if he didn't realize even before the surge that there is no military solution for the united states in afghanistan and so i think in part the initial surge of troops by the president in two thousand and nine was to give the united states some political cover to eventually do this troop withdrawal to show that we were withdrawing from a position of strength now i don't think it's turned out the way the president probably wanted it to because the taliban is so clearly on the office but the idea that the president did his best he tried to send more troops it didn't work he gave

it as we say in the united states the old college try and it just didn't work i think for an american population that is both battered financially and very tired of endless wars and occupations this is something that will basically go forward without a hitch in terms of american public opinion. r t will be back with the latest headlines in around thirty minutes time after this short break we explore and i want to world of the white scene the mystery of the black river estate. because of recent events guns have a again become

a big issue all over the usa both sides are throwing their talking point ammunition back and forth and we hear a lot of conflicting stories well in australia they got tough on guns and crime went down but then again others say in the u.k. they got rid of all their gods and all hell broke loose i've heard stories that you are way more likely to be killed by a deer in your headlights than get taken out by a maniac with a tech nine but then again i've heard that soon deaths from guns will exceed even deaths from car accidents japan is safe because it has no guns but switzerland is even safer because automatic weapons are all over the place the information is all very contradictory but ultimately it doesn't matter what facts and reports you throw at the other side the gun question is a philosophical one some people would rather at least feel like they have their fate in their own hands even if there is a chance they will shoot their own dog in the middle of the night and other people are so concerned with safety and are so full of fear for their fellow man that they'd rather disarm everyone and leave all the weapons in the hands of the criminals or have them legal or not anyways and in the hands of the government who

was seems pretty happy to use force at home and abroad i don't know i'd rather risk the unpredictable actions of some idiots out there in society but at least have the ability defend myself and have some control over my life and a means to resist oppression but that's just my opinion. wealthy british style. that's not on to. the. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports on our.