started a revolution that would bring down a hosni mubarak in the streets. protesting. the. president. and the man who first. torture of detainees. leaks and explains why. the. threat to civilians. or whether the use of drone strikes.

to the brink of war with. joins in with fresh international. is now a just after six pm on friday here in moscow this is with me glad to have you with us today. let's go straight to live pictures for you of thousands of egyptians are in cairo's iconic square on the second anniversary of the start of the gyptian revolution but they are not celebrating here the live pictures from syria where people are holding rallies against the new government it was brought to power by the uprising that toppled the longstanding rule of hosni mubarak but two years on egyptians are seeing much change as journalist true reports. we have seen

violent scenes already across the country to my right here just by some key government buildings or becoming a building i catches continues between security forces and then said things that interested him a lot and i had reports of street bathrooms happening in egypt because if you had examined here between security forces and demonstrators two years ago people came to the streets of a back up with the injustice of the muslim backed regime here we are simply i am people are back on the street saying they'd see no change since b.c.b. uprising if you guys not having a main subject i mean for people that have been going to me at least population i'm not living under the poverty line that in addition to teaching is the price of contentment here struck by mr i think it's interesting to me that it's not representative egypt right behind me at the mine seems to not sort of retreat people say they will not leave until president obama no see makes the changes they want. in the meantime france is spreading its presence beyond mollies borders and

forces to neighboring yeah apparently afraid the violence may spread on talk radio by a crucial to a french running energy company more on that just a bit later here on the program. but for now a cia veteran a man who oversaw the capture of al qaeda is third in command is facing nearly three years in jail during sentencing later today for leaking classified intelligence john kiriakou was the first to blow the whistle on washington's torture program later revealing the name of an alleged torture at guantanamo bay he was convicted on a law which hasn't actually been used in twenty seven years earlier this week kiriakou explain why he was driven to speak out i've never gain anything from what i've said publicly that i've lost everything and i believe i was prosecuted not for what i did but for who i am a cia officer. who said torture was wrong and ineffective and went against the

grain i'm not naive i know that national security and intelligence and counterterrorism agree is a very tough arena i knew that there was a risk to what i was doing. but i also know that debasing another person and serializing human rights abuses under a legal paper is not the american way and it's not something that as americans we should be engaged in we are not a lowest common denominator country measuring what is right by what others do and the american way stands for something and it is not torture i never tortured anybody but i'm heading to prison while the tortures of the lawyers are papered over it and the people who deceived it and the man who destroyed the proof of the tapes will never face justice. the thirty eight month sentence that's being talked about is part of john kiriakou his plea deal but the judge could still refuse to settle for that meaning he could potentially face far greater jail time that's why the accusations themselves cia officer ram

a governor believes them to be purely political. he's being punished out of range hypocrisy. look at the chronology here in two thousand and seven john kiriakou came out very loudly against torture as being not worthy of the united states and not efficient not a way to get information less than a year later two lawyers confirmed that one's name was obama through the others name was holder obama having become president they said waterboarding is torture torture is illegal what happened well the instructions were to get people to confess confess to what confessed to the existence of weapons of mass destruction in iraq confess to the existence of operational ties between al qaeda and saddam hussein it was all a crock they had to make this stuff up and you can't get real flyable information

from torture but you know what torture works beautifully if you want unreliable information and so they kind not only tires not only weapons of mass destruction but ties between iraq and and al qaeda and sixty nine percent of the people united states believe that saddam hussein has something to do with nine eleven it was a masterful propaganda performance on the part of the united states on the part of the u.k. to confirm suicide attempts. and another counterterrorism effort by the u.s. is under the microscope the u.n. has launched an inquiry into the legality of using drones well why the investigation comes amid rising concern that the flurry of what's dubbed and terrorist strikes have done little to protect civilians more of our rights activists suggest in pakistan alone over a quarter of those killed by cia drone attacks are innocent bystanders aunties and

associates as this report. what we have going on is a group of top notch international law specialist spearheaded by the un special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism launching this investigation into the drone attacks carried out by the united states in recent years they're going to be looking into the drone strikes taking place over somalia yemen of get a stand pakistan and the actions of israel when it comes to the occupied territories the group plans to look into from twenty to thirty specific strikes one of the areas they're going to concentrate on are the so-called double tap strikes where rescuers for example people running to save victims of a drone strike were attacked by a follow up or are people going to funerals this is been something that's been a big concern lately with dozens of people dying in those incidents so this is what they're going to look into this is something that's going to last a while they will look into the numbers of casualties the identities of casualties and really the legal liabilities that might follow and this is something that we're

not really expecting any kind of legal serious accusations to come out of but one of the things they're looking into is whether or not work crime is a term that can be used a very strong term so this is something that we're going to have to find out when this report finally revealed in the months to come well is what prompted this investigation is of course growing concerns that the increased attacks killing civilians and children on the ground this is something that's been a big concern for years this is something that's causing huge anti-american sentiment in places like yemen specifically where recently in the latest drone strike two children were killed and we saw a group of countries russia china and pakistan addressed the u.n. human rights council and saying look we need to investigate this further so this investigation is now being launched and it's also you know the numbers really speaking for themselves one hundred seventy eight children died just in yemen in recent years eight hundred ninety one civilian since the year two thousand and four just in pakistan so this is something that needs to be addressed and the goal of

this particular investigation is exactly that. live from moscow this is not talk about a rowdy russian flight or it wasn't just the plane that was flying fists as well when a businessman started a scrap in the skies even threatening to kill the pilots and force an emergency landing for those details coming up for you just around the clock. but for now north korea is warning of war saying it will attack south korea if its neighbor takes part in fresh u.n. sanctions and the ultimatum upset third day of fiery rhetoric with pyongyang previously vowing more nuclear and ballistic tests james corporate editor of a japan based news website i think the region is on the brink pyongyang is an absolute wildcard in this whole situation and it really is just an irrational actor in the whole scene there it's been years now of carrots and sticks and neither of

them seem to have any effect there seems to be periods of relative quiet and then periods of janick and threats and violent threats of violence and so far that it's failed to materialize into into very much on the korean peninsula but of course it's always possible that some sort of some incident could come out of this i don't think anyone even the north koreans really want to see that but i think it is a way of keeping focus on the region and keeping people coming back to the table with north korea but i don't think north korea is ultimately going to be the the actor that will have to be involved for a solution to this i think this is going to have to involve china did some point because they are the ones that are keeping north korea on an economically tional lifeline read you. now the world's movers and shakers seek a solution to the global financial abyss that the davos economic four million dollars are spent on making their stay in the glitzy ski resort comfortable all about it coming your way a bit later this hour. colonial

scuse me has declared its sovereignty a vote in the region's parliament setting up a showdown with spain over a possible breakaway the gesture was largely symbolic though with madrid maintaining a referendum wouldn't be legally binding and r.k. a spokesperson for the european partnership for independence says catalonia leaving could actually benefit both sides. the south declare a should what he has done is just a form of not is something that democrats are running now and that is that catalonia is a suffering nation we just declared our source for money. we all know that's the case but formally that don't we are the political and the legal soren subject that's no way to progress when you have alleged to be something that you are not and it was kind of three young cats and only our nation's by their own we are not the spanish so it's a would be impressed and it would be united when we are

a separate set up in a good terms. while not everyone however is entirely that optimistic carlos deck lost a sociologist up on the university says a cut alone years government is pursuing dangerous policies which may undermine the region's chances to survive on its side. carnivals come really cheap and for the moment it's really just a bunch of posturing it's mostly signing declarations and saying you know. when. the party that's currently in the government with the help of the republican left. decides that you know they're going to privatized the water and privatized natural resources in catalonia when they're going to get rid of all of their public health care and privatized that what they're basically doing is auctioning off the territory auctioning off all of the public and state institutions that they supposedly want all of the institutions that you build with sovereignty they're

auctioning them off to private investors so you know the question is can they be can they be independent on their own materially they could if they weren't you know auctioning things off and and granting more sovereignty then the people of catalonia. well for some time cap lands have been doing all they can to let the government know exactly how they feel over one million of them flooded the boss alona last year to stake a claim for independence. for the images from vets event you can see some right here but here we've got more of the day stories lined up for you coming your way off to a very short break. actually we can with the information from the. choose the consensus you. choose to give thanks that you think great to. choose the

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the plight of the global economy fueled by europe's long running debt was being pulled over at this year's financial form of the very flash. but just how much money is being spent to organize. lunches. for us. here in davos there's also a rich powerful people swarming around in design a system pretty much telling the average citizen of the world that they need to be reigning in their spending while they themselves sit expensive champagne and dine and screw rummy kind of his which to me seems rather which in c.t. both companies here that are laying people off in the thousands pepsi for example they are here and they just laid off more than eight thousand people and if you

fair mind it costs about two hundred to three hundred thousand dollars for a ticket to the davos economic four we've also got citi group as well and they too have laid off more than eleven thousand just gives you an idea of what companies are spending their money on and all they spend you know on the right things we've also got e.c.b. president mario draghi essentially putting his fellow leaders on the spot because he says that the economic situation in europe is better than last year well that's pretty argonne it when you consider the fact that we've got protests ongoing increased bain's unemployment historical highs of sixty percent that really sent shivers down the spines here in davos yesterday prices just posted a dismal growth that is don't sound too good authority to other and ownerless talk about money and how much davos is going to cost we're talking one hundred eighty five million dollars that's going to be spent here the davos forum which described by the along boris johnson as

a consideration of egos involved in o'jays of our today show and i know sometimes he can be quite outlasts but in this is such an eye what i think i agree with boris . well tough economic times of forcing some people in britain to think outside the box when it comes to making ends meet but one option which is being increasingly popular is from slavery coming up in just a little while here and we look at how predatory money lenders are dragging the u.k.'s poorest and most vulnerable into a weapon. alcohol and airplanes it's often a dangerous mix proofer one high rolling russian businessman he said the headlines after a booze fuelled brawl at thirty thousand feet r.t. if you've got this kind of tells the tale of mile high madness. it started out as an flights to one of the popular holiday destinations for many russians egypt so you can imagine the passengers are sitting there in their seats visualizing how

they're going to be sunbathing just in a couple of hours but then suddenly there is then is interrupted by one very troubled passenger. this man there we go appears to have had a little bit too much visualisation if you know what i mean started smoking in the laboratory then he attacked one of the passengers so the flight attendant tried stopping him he started attacking the flight attendant and he announced that he's a former member of the swat team he's also said that he was a member of the deputy of the state duma a businessman all these things in one he was actually warned that his actions could be taken as a hijacking of the plane he said he didn't care if you threaten that he was going to kill all the passengers on the plane he said that he could do it with just his two fingers and then he said that he was going to try to land the plane himself on a water so the plane did land and. the staff staff passed him over to a local police in egypt but he was traveling with his wife and a three year old daughter who he held up and when he was detained the police well

basically released him just in a matter of minutes without actually pressing any charges but the good thing the police in russia are now waiting for him to. come back since they do have this video they do have reports from all the witnesses so the story's not over yet but this does bring us to the question of how much alcohol should be given to passengers because this is far from the only case of flights erupting on board of flights and in some cases the passengers duty you have to take it in their own hands to calm the passengers down like the one incident when the passengers were also with the passenger was also quite aggressive they had to duck the guy to his seat he spent the entire transatlantic flight from iceland to the states like that but it's not always bad sometimes good things happen like this bill on board a flight i don't know if alcohol was involved in this case but i guess if it was it wouldn't be that bad if every time it happened like that. but if it's going over

fourteen right now the founder of the band fall sharing service mega upload is anything but desperate as he shows his new business plans we asked him if his prosecution by the u.s. is going to meddle in his future is a preview of the interview which is coming up next hour or what you did your own leisure at r.t. dot com. i'm a businessman i'm driven by the success of achieving something in the business world ok that's not a crime there's nothing wrong with that the government is quite exposed here because the enormous completely prosecutorial abuse and overreach and ignoring due process ignoring our rights spying on us illegal search warrants illegal restraining orders illegal spying going the whole war picture when you look at it showed that this was an urgent mission done in

a rush to take them down i want them to go and it was a political decision to do that. watching r.t. islamists in northern mali have reportedly blown up a strategic bridge blocking easy access from the area to neighboring nigeria now this is after france boosted its presence in northern africa by deploying special forces to nigeria they are thought to be protecting your raney of mind to ultimately being run by that of a state owned company have a look at the map right here now the french say that science in nigeria could become a target for african islamist militants who have threatened revenge on pirates for the mali intervention against insurgents now both nigeria and mali a former french colonies and have natural resources that the french energy sector is heavily dependent upon a middle east but a culture told r.t. that france is right to fear the regional repercussions of its actions. groups

and under need to start a group says there are lots of correlations and i think it's part of the not sure the dynamics of the politics and out reason and i don't necessarily see. the impact of the french intervention towards pushing them towards a political settlement because they might be able to control a certain point of the forces over there but they're definitely have unleashed other forces that want to have repercussions and gross west africa and north africa there was a certain sort of precision and order dance prepared let's say for the last ten years which was able to contain the stain attentions and amount of thanks than to which things can go out of control but unfortunately the workstand intervention in libya i think was very shortsighted and it was a push in a stick and wanted to have a week in and out and didn't even consider what was going to happen i still was so

i see a chain of events from that under attack on the american consulate in benghazi to the hostage taking in nigeria and the further destabilization. well tough times are pushing people in the u.k. to make some very tough decisions and more and more families are taking out the so-called payday loans with huge interest rates just to put money in the pockets of you sir for folks who was pushing people to turn to these companies. payday loans tools have become a common sight in britain's towns and cities with the threat of a triple dip recession hanging over them more and more cash strapped families looking for a quick way to make ends meet with a loan from one go dot com you can borrow up to one thousand pounds for up to thirty one days. period people can actually just turn off. access online ask for two with longer especially up to four hundred pounds can be in the

bank within fifteen minutes to find out pay later culture has landed britain's with a whopping one point four trillion pounds in loans and credit cards the northeast in particular has seen a big increase rethink in the number of payday loans that are popping up on the high street here in this part you can see there's not just one of these payday loan stores but see. this area is one of the poorest in the u.k. and when you take a closer look at these stores promises of instant cash they come with sky high interest rates. there's no such thing as easy money but the people with financial options and these authors can appear to be like. the working providing advice what takes just moments to approve can lead to years of debt misery what happens is if i haven't got the money at the end of the month to be a repeat then of course the rest will continue on and then we're going. to try and

pay off the period. saw the nose try one the first gone too quick quid gone to peer you clear and it's just a never and it's vital and people getting stuck in its tracks. this practice of rolling over a loan has become increasingly common and with some companies not carrying out proper credit checks people he simply don't have the means to pay back the money and end up with their debt quickly spiraling we went from being one of the representatives of leading payday loan providers why the industry seems to be lending say irresponsibly it doesn't make any sense to lend to somebody who can't afford to pay you back so the members i represent spend an awful lot of investment in the best technology to make the best assessment of somebodies affordability at the front end of the process we don't want to mentor somebody who can't pay back

and we don't want to get people into financial difficulty but these are areas of the united kingdom and some of the poorest communities so that seems quite targeted why are they choosing these areas where you'd expect that people wouldn't be able to pay back that money what you're finding is these lenders are setting up in secondary high streets where the rates are lower they're also setting up where there's a demand the situation has changed from when we used to be able to be flooded with all sorts of offers a credit to the fact that we unless we've got. an exemplary credit history we can't going to access to credit the government says it's conducting an extensive review of the payday lending sector with the site on tighter regulation but in the meantime and dave has some clear advice for anyone thinking about taking out a payday loan nor. avoiding the white. r.t. reporting from sun to the. point i just

a few minutes here are to. bring yourself to the. right wing t.v. host glenn beck is going to build his own utopia beck plans to put together a massive social experiment building his own city which will be totally independent from the evil grasp of government and the outside world where residents will have to learn how to survive on their own make their own things and grow their own food the future city called independence usa will be based on libertarian principles with hints of flavor there will be no handouts and no help for the self-sufficiency minded residents but beck may need some help himself because building the city

could cost about two billion dollars the thing is that commentators about politics like glenn beck and horse truly have a very easy job it is easy to point out what is wrong with society but it is another thing entirely to try to change it and i want to salute clint beck for actually doing something and putting his money where his ideological mouth is now why would i want to live in the i and rand paradise of independence usa under the rule of lord beck no no i wouldn't taking marching orders from a tiny portly man known for crying on camera doesn't suit me but if you're a hardcore libertarian here is your chance to make all of your dreams come true but that's just my opinion. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i had lunch i got so

many i mean. i found i believe that i'm seeing the same thing really messed up. and we're all very so personally apologize and the. worst you're going to see in the white house or for the. radio guy in fort lauderdale is minestrone creek. close to good use never seen anything like that i'm told. anyhow everyone going to break in at the sets all israel's elections were this week and the vote was narrowly split between incumbent bibi netanyahu in the centrist parties yeah you know upbeat and looks like men you know will continue in the driver's seat as israel's prime minister still the political coalitions that have yet to form could very well mean a change in direction for out israel deals with.