yes we can't barack obama's pledge to shut down guantanamo bay still rings hollow with more than one hundred sixty people held in the tories prison without trial or charge eleven years after it opened. western media reports seriously radium stockpiles may be at risk of falling into the wrong hands but some analysts believe the hype is just an excuse for an armed intervention. and a cool catch for russia's scientists drilling deep into the antarctic you've got hold of subglacial ice which could reveal twenty million year old secrets.

thank you for being with our top story tonight at ten pm moscow time 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. still open after eleven years with barack obama extending the military's authority to keep running to despite his own pledge to shut it down years ago what's more calls to stop indefinite detention of largely die down in the u.s. as well where even torture is giving gaining acceptability. 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 i'm going to close guantanamo and i will follow through on that colonel morris davis was

a chief prosecutor at guantanamo under george w. bush 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 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 day. or trade the information that led to the capture . and killing of bin laden was obtained through enhanced interrogation techniques or torture and in fact that's is 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 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 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 for dying there will be no strong public movement program there may even be a movie or two out of the top of the logical capability of the drone and once the controversy dies down it will become the new normal and americans will move on.

in washington i'm going to stop. just a bit earlier i spoke with cohen as he was held in guantanamo on what turned out to be groundless accusations he was released after the u.s. military failed to force him to confess to crimes he never committed some others when so lucky if you are not a terrorist they want life to try to make you were terrorists i should example i must say if i should agree that i am be a member of. that i did fight with taliban together against american soldiers between the war. and i should i should sign papers that i am be a member of al qaeda what were the charges first. there was no and no reason for just the. pakistani people they sold me for bounty or through some dollar to the americans. said this man he's a terrorist and very soon few months later they found out that i'm innocent and they want me. that i'm going to sign papers they forced me to sign papers that i

should agree that i'm be a member of either because because they didn't have anything against me in their hands and you're saying force you have they force you say what were they doing to shoot to do that. they used torture techniques like waterboarding and electroshocks they sought after this i'm going to sign and agree that i'm being a member of al qaeda and every time i refused to sign they tried another kind of torture they saw i walked one time can you tell us the worst thing one of a better word that you saw going on there. example i saw. i had used to be just nine or if you're sort of child. i think it was the worst i saw. there was not treating better than us i didn't saw that they getting tortured but. to see children in the same camp it was bad enough for me

and. also i saw people the got killed on the torture the bigger portion of the. kills. i mean i have seen many things during this five years many this is just a couple of those how do you feel after what you've been through in guantanamo through no fault of your own how does it make you feel as a human being. of course nobody can be happy after after all this happened but. i myself am trying to support human rights organizations to fight against torture around the world not just guantanamo. around the world exists more than more than twenty one secret prisons spare people getting tortured and guantanamo is just one of course. i hope you stay with us on r.t.

throughout friday will bring you more reaction more analysis more firsthand accounts of the grim eleven year anniversary as it is now all of them away. beyond borders and beyond the courts eleven years on guantanamo remains open for business marty look at the interrogation nerve center of america's war on terror. no matter what sort of special offer in the grocery stores eating well is still a luxury for increasing numbers of british families low wages and slashed welfare mean food banks or even theft to keep the children fed as the 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 choose day some other 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. you hear it all the time one to be how they should be in a five a day and pressured me but you know sometimes you just can't do it and you have to buy them out seventy seven p. basic courses part because that's who you can afford for the single mother managing a tiny budget is turning into a puzzle that so harder and harder to solve we are seeing a lot more families telling us that they have to make these 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 leave 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 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 it's 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 when 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 week to week to week for the small amount you think you are making this money and you say and i'm not i'll do a list like this is getting paid out this quarter 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. serious no queues of hiding tons of uranium enough to make five nuclear bomb this is a few minutes that we report on what some experts fear could be

a pretext for intervention as the alleged polls fall under the western microscope plus the afghan leaders voiced washington's get to bring clarity on the u.s. troop withdrawal from the war ravaged country june twenty fourteen that said troop withdrawal we've got more analysis about that might come up as a live press conference as well you might have some news from that. wealthy british style. market why not. why not what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on our.

activists in syria say islamic militants have seized a strategic helicopter base in the north in what's perceived as a blow to government forces it comes as u.s. middle east experts say syria's internal conflict is putting the country's you

raney and stockpiles at risk that's according to a report indeed in the british financial times newspaper that says damascus has up to fifty tons of an enriching uranium enough to create five nuclear bombs maybe syria was thought to be close to completing a reactor in the east of the country at one stage with help from north korea where the facility was reportedly destroyed by israeli jets five years ago there are concerns now that iran syria's closest ally in the region might be trying to seize the stockpile for its own nuclear program all this comes amid fears 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 worsen the political analyst over in a shabby says west of media only gives a partial picture of what's actually going on. there's a lot of noise about it there was a bombing in two thousand and seven the israeli jets bombed the site in syria claiming that it is a nuclear site there was no indication yes the i.a.e.a. visited the site the i.a.e.a.

said that there were traces of your a norm of depleted uranium but they did not confirm that there was any quantity or at least you know this huge quantity that is being publicized i mean they're saying fifty tons of uranium this is this is i don't know where they come up with the number. obviously i did some research and it appears that they came up with the number because they they feel they are coming up with the story that this site that was there that was bombed in two thousand and seven would actually read. quire fifty tons that doesn't mean that the syrians actually have fifty tons and that doesn't mean that the site is actually for a nuclear program the syrian central government was able to control more than past six months there is an advance of the syrian army and the syrian official police and they are controlling most of the country there are only some areas in the countryside that were rebel fighters in some areas in the countryside where the syrian army withdrew from these areas because they thought that these areas were

not important strategically but over all the syrian central government under the leadership of president assad controls most of the syrian territory obviously it's difficult because there are many fighters infiltrating from outside syria there are many. a lot of money being infiltrated being pumped into syria to these rebel groups by neighboring country especially by by turkey by qatar by other european and by the united states there is a sponsorship of these terror groups. the united nations peace envoy says there can be no military solution to the conflict in syria and has reached the need for more diplomacy like debris he made that statement after meeting top diplomats from russia and the u.s. in geneva if issues were looking for ways to end almost two years now bloodshed. and follow the talks. the violence in syria has lasted for too long and a solution is needed first but according to international envoy on syria lakhdar brahimi met with russia's deputy foreign minister and the u.s. deputy secretary of state the solution could only be a diplomatic one and b.

so on the agreements reached in geneva they called both sides of the conflict to put their weapons down immediately and simultaneously begin a political process including forming a transitional government one of the biggest stumbling blocks remains the refusal of the opposition to compromise in fact they have been saying that they will not take part in any negotiations while president assad remains in power while he himself has been saying he is open for dialogue but is not planning to go anywhere so there is an evident need for the international community to look for new ways to persuade both sides of the scaffold to stop the fighting and start this political process and when it comes to. he said he's not giving up and we should expect him to make another visit to damascus. the u.s. and afghanistan have moved in the last chapter now the eleven year afghan war as washington's defense secretary sees it anyway after an hour of discussions leon panetta and president hamid karzai announce they've made some good progress but failed to provide any concrete answers to the debated pullout of u.s.

troops from afghanistan the country's future remains uncertain with the lack of clarity over how many american soldiers remain after the proposed withdrawal in twenty fourteen some crucial decisions are expected after today's talks between the afghan leader hamid karzai and the u.s. president barack obama that meetings wrapping up right now. well i've said talk more about because his trip to washington a war comes my come out of it will talk to brian becker from the antiwar coalition a coalition even to you brian good to see you and there was a some expectation of some concrete decisions being made during karzai as u.s. visit so far though today nothing solid to come out although as i said this news conference is imminent maybe this hour what do you think is going to come out of it if anything. well i think that we are stepping back and looking at the big picture see that the united states this coming october will have been in afghanistan for twelve years that's longer than any u.s. war in american history they have more troops in afghanistan now than they did in two thousand and one during that entire time the goal of completely this

suppressing the taliban or pacifying the country has turned to be turned out to be a complete fantasy so now you have karzai here in washington meeting with obama worried that as the u.s. recognizing that it cannot win and must eventually leave or leave with most of its troops karzai who has functioned as a proxy or as a puppet or a client is very vulnerable to being overrun by the other armed forces not just the taliban but others inside of afghanistan so the american government is sort of caught in a paradox it didn't want to give up afghanistan it wanted to use it as a strategic base but can't win a military victory they have to begin to draw down whether they will leave completely i don't think so talks with the u.s. secretary of state because his talks with the panetta said the war in afghanistan is now in its final chapter. a good news for him because it follows on what you

said could it be heaven because its final chapters as well and bearing in mind everything you've just said. well indeed i mean karzai is extremely vulnerable but he is seen within the afghan population as nothing but an extension of the power of the occupiers and the afghan people like all occupied people resent the occupiers and they resent those who are their collaborators so karzai from time to time sounds like a nationalist he stands up any howls a little bit against american atrocities and again trying to play for domestic consumption but at the end of the day karzai is seen as just that as a collaborator with the occupation a very rich collaborator so he may have a way an exit plan of his own scripted out but i think he knows that without foreign occupation his government's days are very very precarious are you surprised by the wording the final chapter going by the book because you would think it would go well i think that the final chapter is really

a recognition that the united states cannot win in afghanistan the united states military strategy with the surge and now in the go forward period to two thousand and fourteen with the drawdown i think is nothing but a slow motion defeat in other words a real defeat they have to leave the country they can't win but they want to do it sort of slowly gradually so that they don't have the image of vietnam in one thousand nine hundred eighty five where americans are scrambling to get on the last helicopter as the national liberation front liberated the southern part of the country so it's in order to maintain us prestige in the reputation of the obama administration that this slow motion defeat is being conducted in the way it is look at the pictures. coming from the area meets exams for you see positive lots of smiles two sides. kind of looking like they wouldn't want to be looking in the same direction but from what you say and i guess the not i don't want to what if anything because i was going to take back to afghanistan with them tonight. well he

has to be able to take back to his entourage those who have been cooperators with the occupation forces some sense of stability and security in other words that they won't be left to hang out and dry after two thousand and fourteen of course he wants to maintain a u.s. military presence there precisely for that purpose in other words for his own defense and for this a curator of those who are around him the u.s. government would like to have military bases at the strategic part of the country but whether they can do so we don't know certainly they wanted to do that in iraq but they were forrest ultimately to leave in two thousand and twelve. will coalition thanks you thoughts thanks. secret plan it's pretty a story past could be uncovered soon after russian research is managed to retrieve in should our history month because because the lake it was needed to get hold of

though they had to drill down over three kilometers to get to lake vostok which has been sealed up for some twenty million years. told mcculloch to buy more say it's not just any old frozen lake either. not all ice is the same we can see some 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 sample 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 tastes it 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 that they trying to find out from this water that they've just discovered yeah i mean you know as a as i said earlier it may may think ice is ice is ice not the case and it's a huge plate here tactic at 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 air 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. talk about the secrets from the deep media workers are under attack in greece on friday morning homemade bombs exploded in the homes of five journalists from major media outlets in athens authorities a link in the attacks to the current economic crisis in the country the way the mainstream media reporting it. because to this a contributor of the left is newspaper believes screen journalists in a pickle. claim because prince of libya but the way that that this was a message for them because they were minor damage is in front of the house it was a message to media to change the way that they show the news about the economy crisis and nobody was expecting that we will have nearly five years of this economic crisis and maybe we'll have more five years or ten years everybody is

nervous also the government side also people we have to be careful about the way that we are but presenting videos as you can understand it's not really easy way to be a journalist. this video is from the one way you have the government from the other way you have the and i think and the third way is the people in this is so of course as a media worker i don't like this. tax and also i'm afraid because you never know what will happen next day in front of your home. pakistani security forces are on high alert in the country's largest city karrar cheap in a string of bombings targeting shia muslims across the country is left at least two hundred fifty people dead so the extremists have admitted carrying out the deadliest attack on a crowded billiard hall in the southwest killing eighty one there and injuring more than one hundred twenty shia muslims are a minority in pakistan and are the target of violent attacks which have seen recent

surge. president alliance confirm that french troops are taking part in operations against is the missing northern mali to hold rebel advances it comes after the un's call for a swift deployment of international troops to the country of massive clashes nike central town the security council's already approved plan to deploy three thousand african soldiers in spring islam is captured northern mali they have since claimed for their advances to. after friday prayers thousands of sunni muslims have rallied in iraqi cities against the shiite leadership sectarian and rest as a ruptured in recent weeks with sunnis enraged by what they see as the second class treatment the focus of appears to be towards the prime minister who was elected after the u.s. toppled saddam hussein nouri al maliki's critics say he's a new dictator in the making. the tourist hacker group anonymous has petitioned the white house to recognize the temporary crippling of web sites as a legal form of protest known as d.d. o. s.

attacks bombarding sites until they seize up for a short while could become comparable to street rallies if the so-called activists get their way international human rights lawyer stanley cohen told us that such actions are a form of free speech which 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 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 or he's afraid of the light of day i think it's more likely that down the road some of the courts may they may

look at some of these actions in 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 coming up to moscow time things being with the serious business tom of course yesterday you're talking. again the trillion dollar coin to solve all of america's woes will put together anyway tonight russia the shining armor a knight in shining armor for a grease. will on the greek economy as you know they're under pressure to drum up some cash. see by the size of that companies and at the moment gas problem is apparently the phone to buy that natural gas company and if they did do that there's a sum of one point five billion dollars has been spent in about that in the real house amount exactly.