yes so we can brag obama's plans to shut down guantanamo bay still rings hollow more than one hundred sixty people held at the notorious prison without charge or trial eleven years after it opened. western media reports on syria's uranium stockpiles may be at risk of falling into the wrong hands but some analysts believe the hype to just an excuse for a number intervention. and a cool catch for russian scientists drilling deep into the tactical move got hold of the sub glacial ice which could reveal some twenty million year old secrets of opting out of.

its four pm here in moscow you live with us on our team is a pleasure to have you with us it's one of the most notorious detention facilities in the world which has seen abuse deaths and hundreds of people held without charge or trial america's went on i'm a baby is still open after eleven yes with barack obama extending the military's authority to keep the camp running despite his own pleasure shut it down years ago what's more stop indefinite detention have largely died down in the us where even torture is gaining acceptability as again it should you can experience. 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 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 so the majority of americans now find torture acceptable sixty percent of

young people agree whereas four years ago portugal's 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 be in effect. 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 execute. often in absolute secrecy in foreign lands with a remote control but will obama's drones generate as much of a book 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 in the in a logical 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. over the past eleven years a number of detainees who survived abuse within the walls of kuantan among have been released without charge compensation all even a simple sorry someone who has revealed the details of the deals to r.t. say the remaining prisoners are being totally neglected. i don't know why i was released and others are not ok i mean like specially 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 really i don't remember but for today there are people who have been cleared and they're not out of guantanamo and i think want but but feel uncomfortable and you feel that's guilt lingering in yourself that while my heart and they're still in the memory of winter and 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. a deep wound 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 when this became infamous and existing is really is important because every individual that is locked up in one town counts the family count the messages that concern we sends 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. activists who has been campaigning for the closure of guantanamo say the center's

a home to unaccountable violations of international law. a person is innocent until proven guilty they should have a right to a fair trial and quickly don't it is just a ball that people are put there indefinitely without any chance of a trial and the trials that are carried out in guantanamo are not recognized by anybody except for the military people there and canada trouble is that most people think guantanamo is closed all they believe the rhetoric that they're all the worst of the worst when in fact they're not of the hundred and sixty six that are still there eighty six have been cleared for release as way far back as two thousand and seven and yet they are still there are now twenty two children in guantanamo the un treaties regarding the protocol of children during the armed conflict where any child under the age of eighteen should be treated as a victim of war and not as a war criminal but majority of the children in guantanamo were treated as adults

and tortured. so with our g.'s rolled friday as will bring you more reaction analysis and firsthand accounts on the gram eleven year anniversary of guantanamo bay. your borders 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. activists in syria say islamic militants have seized a strategic helicopter base in the north and what's perceived as a blow to government forces it comes as u.s. and middle east experts say syria's internal conflict is putting the country's uranium stockpiles at risk that's according to a report in the british financial times newspaper that says damascus has up to fifty tons of un and ritu rainy i'm enough to create five nuclear bombs syria will

still 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 that iran syria's closest ally in the region might be trying to seize the stockpiles and its own nuclear program also fears a syria's chemical weapons could fall into the hands of islamic extremists meanwhile britain says it's not excluding giving military assistance to the rebels should the conflict or ascend bads and middle east commentator call sharers things a new radium issue is just another way herring oh well now there's kind of a sequence a chain or an armistice 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 learning for that they are stressed out as western powers are in my eyes and get i think they're buying up all these different reasons for them to step in and take control of starting tree

a country should doubt i think i do want to start is that said no they're afraid that iran might get this year in humanitarian you know and in fact be conducting it now 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 stand for 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 one of the really shocking the fate of syria could be decided outside this please continue. no matter what's on special offer in the grocery store eating well is still a luxury increasing numbers of british families low wages and slash welfare mean food banks or even flav to keep their children fat. has

a story of those beneath the bread line. 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 tuesday some of our 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. you hear it all the time one 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 the seventy seven p. basic causes 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 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 banks open every week in the u.k. now and in unexpected areas like tending to in chelsea warehouses 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 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 comment on monday. now on a monday evening waiting to check the balance talk about it or not exist 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 on this one about you think you are going to get this money and you say and i'm not i'll do a list like this is what we paid out this quote we played out like that leaves me that much for shopping and. it takes 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. seen london. britain's prime minister's also been slapped with a second warning i gaze walking out on the e.u. with both statements adding fuel to the debate within britain's a coalition government and one of the countries should distance itself from the union report is just a couple of minutes away. plus the afghan leaders voyage to washington is yet to bring clarity on the u.s. troops withdrawal from the war ravaged country twenty fourteen one notices of that dilemma coming up. the killing week over though if you're going to. some of. the treatments give us

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you. you're watching r t a u k exit from the e.u. would result in economic disaster for britain that's according to the channel germany's european affairs committee the statement comes in the aftermath of the outright warning against britain's possible withdrawal voiced by a senior us official on wednesday which calls a further schizm in the u.k. coalition government details now from archies laura smith evil with knowing 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 but this is a 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 all out of the coalition government although that's not 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 give us precisely because it has a close relationship with the european union and that but of course his party does stands against anything that distances pressin from the e.u. now i see. 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 ask them they have concerns and i can understand because they were saying we'll agree have similar values. therefore we represent them and. 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 gerrard baton he's a member of the european parliament gerald 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 interfering in british politics i think there's a difference between you can on some 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 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 applied thing i decide i president obama should. 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 our 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 problem ourselves to view so the us is worried about nothing but i think the american should mind their own business. you know what we don't tell them how to about their national sovereignty i shouldn't tell us which is the most precious thing we've got is the right to determine our own democratic affairs or about thank you very much at starbucks and talking to me about ministration expressing his opinion on the u.k. the actions of the e.u. . the u.s. and afghanistan have moved into the last chapter of the levin year afghan war as

washington's defense secretary sees it after in all discussions leon panetta and president coming because i announce they've made some good progress but failed to provide any concrete answers to the debate pullout of u.s. troops from afghanistan again assigns a future hangs in the balance because it's still unclear how many american soldiers will stay there after the withdrawal in twenty fourteen and crucial decisions expected after today's talks between the afghan leader and us president obama but hillary mann leverett who's worked extensively with american diplomats in the middle east in asia believes there's something something completely different behind these negotiations. 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 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 because the tolman is so clearly on the often 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. in neighboring pakistan security forces are on high alert in the country's largest city karate a string of bombings targeting muslims across the country has left at least one hundred fifteen people did sunni extremists have admitted carrying out the deadliest attacks on a crowded billiard hall in the south the west killing eighty one and injuring more than one hundred twenty shia muslims are a minority in pakistan and are the target of a violent attacks which have been which has seen a recent surge in other world news also this hour. the un has called for

a swift deployment of international troops in mali following massive clashes between militants and government forces in a key central town french president francois hollande earlier voiced his country's readiness to intervene to hold rebel advances the security council has already approved a plan to deploy three thousand african soldiers in spring islam is kept in order in mali and to have since claimed further advances. the assassination of three female activists in paris appears to be the result of an internal feud that's a suggestion from turkish prime minister tayyiba to one citing evidence that only people known to the victims had access to the building in which the murders took place one of the three women found dead from gunshot wounds was the co-founder of the good is done work as you are fighting to gain independence from ankara forty thousand people have so far been killed in the twenty five year conflict between turkey and the kurdish minority. russia's four former defense

minister has refused to answer investigator's questions over a multi-million dollar embezzlement case involving the ministry and that's a series of golf is a four to be invoking part of the russian constitution which allows an individual not to testify against them. selves all their relatives so do call for referred investigators she is a ridge and testimonies who say they may consider a refusal to testify as an obstruction of justice last month of also declined questioning because his lawyer was ill and could not be present the minister was sacked in november as a scandal unfolded it's alleged that several companies affiliated with the defense ministry were involved in embezzling around one hundred thirty million dollars. secrets from our planet the prehistoric pars could now be uncovered after russian

researchers managed to retrieve the ancient eyes from antarctica's biggest subglacial league it wasn't easy to get hold of either they had to drill down over three kilometers to get to lake vostok which has been sealed for some twenty million years now artists on barton told me how it is a not just an old frozen lake. not all ice is the same we consistent pictures here from last year in february when the first breakthrough was made down below this huge thick ice sheet to what's called a sub lake there and some samples were taken here we go this is the the water taken out then. it was found then they hoped that they could some pull that water and see the composition of what was inside that frozen lake deep underneath the glasses sadly that was contaminated they couldn't work out where precisely that water had come from now they've gone back down it again and they're looking three thousand

four hundred six meters they drilled down as you can imagine a lot of work in very difficult conditions and now they have this amazing piece of as they described it white ice with rich with bubbles it sounds almost tasty doesn't it doesn't taste it now we understand that it's been a russian team of scientists who've been there it's actually it's not an international team so what sort of things are they trying to find out from this water that they've just discovered yeah i mean as a as i said earlier it may may think ice is ice is ice not the case it is a huge plate. absolutely so but what they think the scientists think from this team and from other teams trying to do similar things with differ in different legs is that perhaps this huge ice sheet for twenty million years has locked this underground. subglacial lake it's essentially sealed it off from the outside world and that means that if they can extract the air in those little bubbles they can

try and form a better picture of what life was like on earth if there was much of it around to that place twenty million years ago they may even be able to find traces of bacteria maybe even more complex life forms that would show as amazing insights into the process of evolution all that time ago. tom barton they made all the russians are back home in snowy siberia have a chilling problem of their own packs of wolves that are infiltrating villages on our team dot com how are the calls going out for hunters to help. and as blood is spilled in yet another american school shooting a study reveals the u.s. has a low was a life expectancy of wealthy nations the countries are less gun controls being a major factor. the notorious hacker group anonymous has petitioned the white house to recognize the temporary

crippling of websites as a legal form of protests known as d.d. o. s. attacks on body sides until they seize up for a short while could become comparable to street rallies if the so-called had to visit get their way international human rights lawyer stanley cohen says that such actions is a form of free speech it should not be repressed. 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. next. because of recent events guns have a game 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 other see.