i intend to close guantanamo and i will follow through on. a pledge that remains unfulfilled america's notorious detention camp has been open for eleven years with little outcry in the u.s. . seriously rainy and stockpiles a risk the west is concerned where they could end up in the conflict while critics say it's just another excuse for military intervention. and more u.k. parents are forced to go hungry to feed their children while charity is the only hope for those on the breadline.

it is one pm in the russian capital you're watching r t i'm marina joshie welcome to the program the jury is here as 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 others polls show the majority of americans have moved on and are 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 and a george w. bush who 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 the 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 does she in. 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 day 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 is simply not true actual information was obtained. it's torture practices which allows politicians pundits and filmmakers the freedom to perpetuate all kinds of myths although a slew of washington insiders including the senate intelligence committee point out 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 it 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 told never known you know for a decade now. an accepted part of life unfortunately judging by how the guantanamo controversy evolved here is what may transpire with regards to drones the urgency of the issue will subside in the us because there will be no american troops dying there will be no strong public movement to oppose the program there may even be a movie or two out in the in a logical capability of the drones and once the controversy dies down it will become the new normal and america will move on in washington i'm going to check the . party has spoken to former guantanamo prisoners recalling their ordeal and they say more attention has to be drawn to the prison still operating despite the

condemnation. i don't know why i was released and others are not ok i mean like especially when you know that people. are not involved in anything and want to know more people who have been cleared ok at the time i don't know what i was really so i don't know if i was cleared or not i really don't remember but for today there are people who have been cleared and they're not out of guantanamo and i think one can but but feel uncomfortable and you feel that's guilt lingering in yourself that's why am i out there still and the memory of one thousand of course the very clear because of what happened in. the mistreatment doesn't go away easily i think it's. it could've i think in those create. and the plume that will last a long years so the memories are very clear and when we talk about them kind of these things do come back the people might have been forgotten and i'm still exists . you know it's very difficult to get the media interested into the story the way.

it honestly existing you are usually but it's important because every individual that is locked up in one town can use their family account the messages they can from a sense to the world is a very disturbing and very serious message that has to be has to be has to be like you know opposed and spoken against. one time a detainee speaking to r.t. there. beyond the borders and beyond the courts eleven years on guantanamo remains open for business marty looks at the interrogation nerve center of america's war on terror. you as a middle east experts are saying serious conflict is putting the country's uranium stockpiles at risk a report in the british financial times says syria has up to fifty tons of enriched uranium and after grade 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 reportedly destroyed by israeli jets five years ago there are now concerns in the west that iran serious closest ally we don't show any trying to seize the stock for its own nuclear program there are also fears 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 for to lift an arms embargo middle east commentator and longer haul shero believes in a range of issues just another red herring. but now there's kind of a sequence a chain of alarmists in our use that are being produced concerning chemical weapons nuclear or any m so if the syrian regime there's a process of planning for that they are stressed out as western powers very miserly get and 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 i do want to start is that said no they're afraid that iran might get this uranium enriched uranium and in fact they conducting it now have showed us and have it so i think it's another in this long list of possible reasons for the west to or western states to intervene and it seems that the two done for that possibility so you see that there are multiple failures engaged in that process which is kind of the really shocking the fate of syria could be decided outside this blatantly. 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 skipping meals to feed their children are just barely boyko 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 away but when i found out i will if you have far far more growth and i think you are one hundred five lb 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 one to be how they should be in the five but they can freshen me but you know sometimes you just can't do it and you have to buy them seventy seven p. basic classes part because that's who 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 in appropriately that leaves people having to go to food banks food banks such as this one run by the trussell trust but 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 banks open every week in the u.k. now and then 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 on the year before so if the sad dynamic persists food banks like these are going to 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 considered

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 pick banks have been forced to choose between a thing and feeding our children and that's something we see very regularly just like gemma's 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 come to a month. on a monday evening waiting to check the balance think about it right or not exist there is. it can't have control. over your life because when you're going to make three weeks a week from this one about you think i'm going to say and i'm not i'll do a list this is getting paid out this could be paid 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 polly boyko r t london and coming up later in the program voicing discontent in the digital age happy group anonymous wants washington to accept cyber attacks as a legitimate form of protest. their french go would split in the u.k. after u.s. diplomats said britain shouldn't leave the e.u. while prime minister david cameron timed waves they were of random on staying in the union all that and more after a short break. the

news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to operations throughout the day.

welcome back you are watching our new life. as all that is well and present a good job as rallied outside a presidential palace on the day when he should have been sworn in for a new six year term job this is an operation has been postponed indefinitely in a conversational supreme court ruling as you recovers from cancer surgery in cuba geopolitical analyst eric dressed or believes the government could face a threat from abroad in the absence of its charismatic leader. so 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 us 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. have a robot out of us have posted a petition on the white house website seeking to make distributed denial of service attacks a legal form of protests the organization claims that slowing or shutting down

a website is not hacking and should be considered the equivalent reliance street pick 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 switchboards 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 through 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 or 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 u.s. where a new survey shows america the lowest life expectancy of wealthy nations due to the huge number of firearms alone there more of this on our website or to dot com also online. siberia calls a state of emergency as packs of hungry wolves prowl settlin in the hunt for livestock this and many other stories on our website. russia's former defense minister and it's always here to ca has been questioned by investigators over a multi-million dollar embezzlement case involving the ministry he refused to speak to journalists after the two and a half hours of grilling no charges have been brought against him so far last month

. called a witness in the case but refused to answer questions because laura was ill and could not present the minister was sacked from his post in the bambara as the scandal unfolded it's alleged that several companies affiliated with the defense ministry were involved in beslan around one hundred thirty million dollars. the coalition government faces and new rift over a u.s. diplomat warning britain against leaving the e.u. the prime minister tried to glance over the situation as he wants to or to go she'd london's relations with brussels meanwhile he's devotee claims americans warning is spot on as the u.k. is valuable to the u.s. because of its position and europe are just laura smith has the details it will with knowing that the u.s. prefers the u.k. has a close relationship with the e.u. because when it wants something done it's britain that cold but this kind of direct

challenge to the government over your involving itself in internal bush's affairs is something a little bit new the u.s. is warned of the dangers of holding a referendum on europe for the u.k. it has called for without a coalition government although that's no sense at. 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 use us precisely because it had a close relationship with the european union and of course his party does stand 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 it already so i went out to us that they have concerns and i can understand because they were saying we'll look very similar values. we represent them in the

european union. 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 teacher then say you know i think we should make. a lot of people on the streets they're seeing it as a question of sovereignty now with me i said gerrard backed and 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 interfere in british politics you know i think there's a difference between you can send 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 influence and jeopardizes our special relationship and all the rest of it if we continue along this road of

actually asking one morning when what's happened to our national sovereignty is gone and we'd like it back and the polite thing of plotting on the side. of president obama should be part. and become a big plans for a referendum or expecting this announcement within the next few weeks. you'll be pleased about that what difference does this really made 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 the you know animists 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 the terms or allow us to because we are one of the biggest paymasters to the you so the u.s. is worried about nothing i think the americans 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 obama ministration expressing his opinion on the u.k. and i'm sure the e.u. . else take a look at some other stories from around the world. for this morning you have been declared in 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 in a blast in a market in a shiite dominated area and twenty explosion at a billiard hall a sunni muslim extremist group has claimed responsibility for that attack while at least twenty one people died in the northwestern city of the gore were blast struck crowds gathering for a speech by religious leader pakistan a scene similar attacks in recent months amid a rise in islam insurgency and sectarian violence. one last call for a swift deployment of an international force in mali after militants claim significant advances in the country's central rim region france will also be

considering a request for help from mali's president today security council earlier approved a plan to deploy three thousand african troops there 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 continent. people have been wounded at a california high school after a student turned a weapon on his classmate dramatic to persuade the teenager to pull 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 in the panels the activists who were shot in the had in paris on thursday the motive for

the murders were which took the life of the p.k. k. party co-founder is not yet clear ankara has recently started disarmament talks with the jailed k.q.e.d. after twenty five year conflict between the. and the government murders sparked mass rallies in turkey were some say the women were killed by a kurd faction opposed to the talks others believe the assassinations were tearing down by the government to do real negotiations. afghan leader hamid karzai is in washington to thrash out america's role in afghanistan during talks with president obama mr karzai has already met the fan secretary leon panetta and secretary of state hillary clinton the focus of the one to one meeting is expected to be the number of american troops that will remain in afghanistan after the majority pullout in twenty fourteen and their possible role washington hasn't finalized its decision yet but doesn't rule out a complete withdrawal the scenario is not welcomed by the afghan government whose position is increasingly fragile and that

a strengthening taliban insurgency hillary mann leverett who has worked extensively with u.s. diplomats in the middle east and asia believes president karzai is in 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 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 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. wired he will be back with the latest headlines in around thirty minutes and meantime we have with breaking a sweat. because

of recent events guns have a 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 deaths from guns 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. stream quality. favorites. if you're away from.

your mobile device you can watch on t.v. any time anyway. if you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food. you know how. i got so. many pounds i know i'm sitting in the same really messed up. in the real story so it's personally apologize and. worse you're going to fly down sort of a radio guy in fort lauderdale minestrone cause they don't want you to watch closely because you've never seen anything like this i'm cold.