part of the close guantanamo 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. . syria's you rhenium stockpile that grows in the west is concerned or where they could end up the conflict while critics say it's just another excuse for military intervention. and a more u.k. parents are forced to go hungry to feed big children while charity is the only hope for those on the breadline.

it's g.b.m. here in moscow you love with us on our t. it's a pleasure to have you with us i'm to bomb would say the notorious u.s. detention facility at guantanamo bay in cuba marks its eleventh anniversary despite president obama's four year old promise to shut the camp are human rights groups are calling for freedom for those created for release and for fair trial while others polls show the majority of americans have moved on and as already has granted she can 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 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 through a report based interrogation techniques the government classified everything related to its 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 inoffensive be. active but in america it's often fiction not facts that make history so 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 a decade 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 regards to drones 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 to oppose the program there may even be a movie or two out of the technological capabilities of 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 out. r.t. has spoken to from

a guantanamo prisoners three calling they owe jail 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 have are not involved with 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 really i don't remember but today there are people who have been cleared and they're not out of guantanamo and i think one can but i feel uncomfortable and you feel that's. yourself that's why they're still in the memory of one thousand of course they're very clear because of what happened. the mistreatment doesn't go away easily i think it's. it's kind of i think in those create. and the plume that will last a long years in the memories are very clear and when we talk about them kind of

these things do come back the people might have forgotten that sometimes things just. you know it's very difficult to get the media interested into a story where. just the still existing you are if you're like is important because every individual that is locked up in one town can use. the messages that come 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 supposed unspoken against. former guantanamo detainees or speaking to our team. you're on the border and beyond the courts eleven years on the guantanamo remains open for business marty 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 countries you

radium stockpiles at risk a report in the british financial times us syria has up to fifty tons of individual rain him enough to create five nuclear bombs serious 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 syria's closest ally in the region might be trying to seize the stop possible its own nuclear program there are also fears the syria's chemical weapons could fall into the wrong hands meanwhile the u.k. says it could start arming the rebels that is to offer aid to the lift an arms embargo middle east commentator and blogger call cheryl believes the uranium is free it's just another red herring. now there's kind of a sequence a chain of alarmists in our use that are being produced concerning chemical weapons nuclear or any i'm sort of the syrian regime there's a process of planning for the day i was there i said i was western powers very

miserly get i think they're buying up all these different reasons for them to step in and take control it will start to treat a country it shouldn't happen i do want to start is that said no they're afraid that iran might get this european monetary union and in fact they can talk danish now how should i somehow get so i think it's another in this long list of course of the reasons for the west to our western states to intervene and it seems that there's a lot of preparation for pretext for stepping in truth i said full and taking control of the situation including the u.k. when the u.k. government decided to run 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 just 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 choices between keeping warm or putting food on their

tables with parents skipping meals to feed their children are to the point of boyko has a detail. 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 someone will wake up on a farm there and 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 mission rules for your kids you hear it all the time when to be how they should be in the five a day and fresh me 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 in appropriately that leaves 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 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 of 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 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 monday evening waiting to take the violence to others and it's one of example there is. it kind of controls you a little bit kind of takes over your lives because when you're going week to week to week for the small about you think well i'm going this money and you say and i'm not i'll do

a list this is not 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 ali boyko r t london. coming up later in the program voicing discontent in the digital world how could a group of the most ones watching gentle accept cyber attacks as a legitimate form of protest. and a fresh coalition is split in the u.k. a u.s. diplomat said britain shouldn't leave the e.u. prime minister david cameron contemplates a referendum on staying in the union all that and more after the shock break. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's

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well our again you're watching our team thousands of supporters venezuelan president hugo chavez rallied outside the presidential palace on the day when he should have been sworn in for a new six year term chavez as an operation has been postponed indefinitely in a controversial supreme court ruling as he recovers from cancer surgery in cuba jim political analyst eric draitser believes that they chavez the government could face a threat from abroad in the absence of its charismatic leader of 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 instant. because the question will be how strong are the goal of aryan institutions and how you really is that base of support to come out into the streets in support of the revolution and against what could only be called counterrevolutionaries of the opposition representing wall street in washington. hacker group anonymous have posted a petition on the white house web five seeking to make

a 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 and international human rights lawyer stanley cohen says such action should fall under the 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 the message to support a position it's considered free speech the dosh is 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 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 where they should america has the lowest life expense expectancy of wealthy nations due to the huge number of my arms into the wall in this on our website. and also allow you online siberia calls a state of emergency as facts of how we will settlements in the hunt for livestock this and many other stories on our website at www dot com. russia's former defense minister and that's a nice set of has a refused to answer investigator's questions i have

a multi-million dollar embezzlement case involving the ministry and he cited the russian constitution which doesn't allow a person to testify against themselves. said the goal of the bill for an investigative series earlier written testimonies the investigative committee says it may consider his refusal to testify as an obstruction of justice last month said the club or was recalled as a witness in the case but refused to answer questions because his lawyer was ill and could not be present the minister was sacked from his proto november as a scandal unfolded is alleged several companies affiliated with the defense ministry were involved in battling around one hundred thirty million dollars. the u.k.'s coalition government faces a new rift over a u.s. diplomat warning britain against leaving the e.u. the prime minister trying to glance over the situation as he wants to renegotiate london's relations with brussels meanwhile his deputy claims americans

a warning is spot on as the u.k. is valuable to the u.s. because of its position in europe arches lower smith has the details always known 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 it calls this kind of direct challenge to the government over europe to 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. and it has called for full out of the coalition government although that's not a 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 and of course his party does stand against anything that distances person from the e.u. 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 taking it all in so i went out to us that they have concerns and i can understand because they were saying they feel very similar values today therefore we represent them and you knew. clearly a major problem. we take notice but equally i don't think ministry fully understand . the implications for britain i don't think it is because i mean we are a different country shouldn't say you know i think we should make the decision a lot of people in the streets they're seeing it as a question of sovereignty now with me as gerard batten who's a. member of the european parliament gerald we've always known haven't we that 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 i think the difference here is that they're actually. british politics i think there's a difference between you cannot send a country having

a view about other country's 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 front. of dollars is our special relationship and all the rest of it if we continue along this road of actually asking one morning really what's happened to our national sovereignty it's gone and we'd like it back the polite thing of plotting i decide i president obama should be pretty sure felt and david cameron the big plans for a referendum are expecting this announcement within the next few weeks you'll be pleased about that but 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 are one of the biggest paymasters to the so the u.s. is worried about nothing but i think the americans should mind their own business. 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.'s i'm sure the e.u. . and now let's take a look at some other stories making the news this hour three days of mourning have been declared and on a slow wave of bombings have left at least one hundred fifteen people dead and scores wounded ninety two were killed in the city of quitter and polishes son in a blast at a market in a shared dominated area and twin explosions at a billion sunni muslim extremist group has claimed responsibility for that attack while it is twenty one people died in the northwestern city of mingora where

a lot of struck crowds gathering for speech by religious leaders pakistan has seen similar attacks in recent months amid a rise in islamist insurgency and sectarian violence. the un has called was quick to deployment of an international force in mali after militants claimed significant advances in the country's central region france meanwhile ruled out his own intervention after considering a request for help from mali and president during the council earlier approved a plan to deploy three thousand african troops which they were not expected to arrive until september there are fears that the region could become a stronghold for al qaeda linked militants from european leaders are concerned that the region may also be used as a springboard for attacks on the continent. two people have been wounded at a california high school off to a student turned a weapon on his classmates

a teacher managed to persuade the teenager to put down his gun avoiding possible for the 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 off like a gunman killed twenty elementary school children in connecticut fueling a nationwide debate on u.s. government laws. 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 defense secretary leon panetta and secretary of state hillary clinton the focus of the one to one meeting is expected to be on 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 his decision yet but doesn't rule out a withdrawal or that scenario is not welcomed by the out in a government whose position is increasingly fragile and made a strengthening strengthening taliban insurgency hilary mantel of leverage to use

words extensively with u.s. diplomats in the middle east and asia believes president karzai is in a no win situation. i think he's 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 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 go forward without a hitch in terms of american public opinion. well they're back with more news in about half an hour but now it's a regular financial check up capital account. 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 guns 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. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for friday january fourth two thousand and thirteen in the stock market partying like it's nineteen ninety nine i don't know what explains the

market gains over the last year despite the risks and arguments from some corners of central bank rigging and who's buying when so many americans have been pulling out we'll ask pete prosperities chris martenson and get his outlook for two thousand and thirteen zero and talk about this we're. going to show you. how about a trillion dollar magic coin solution to the debt ceiling plus after the fed minutes came out yesterday gold humbled some are arguing the gold these this in general is shaken some gold traders according to bloomberg expect prices to rebound from the longest weekly losing streak in eight years here to talk about what is going on in the precious metals markets keep whiner he is president of the gold standard institute and c.e.o. of monetary metals and our discussion of the dairy cliff sent some viewers over the you tube comment to a clip.