alone algerian terrorists wouldn't be getting any weapons from it now this is like an exterminator accidently or maybe on purpose actually feeding the roaches in your basements that there are ten times more of them and then saying that he has to keep working because he's the only one who can get rid of the roaches people like hillary clinton who support funding brutal jihad as rebel groups to overthrow governments to somehow bring about stability and democracy are either dismally stupid or consciously running a very brutal con game but that's just my opinion. thanks for sticking with us here on r t half past the hour now you want to mobi detention center continues to court controversy as pretrial hearings start for some of its most notorious inmates including the alleged nine eleven mastermind but america's so-called black sites remain largely unknown the existence of secret facilities for

enhanced interrogation techniques have been reported in eastern europe and the middle east he's going to go reports even if the facts weren't forthcoming or were forthcoming just as might not be. guantanamo may hold all the headlines but all the interested it means people are moving their focus elsewhere so-called black sites secret prisons were established by the cia during its well publicized war on terror unlike the cause however these secret facilities were never publicly discussed by the authorities the us claimed they could hold prisoners outside the us because then they wouldn't be subject to the geneva conventions to international law and humanitarian law reports suggest such prisons were in existence from two thousand and two basically not long after the events of nine eleven the us government denied the existence of these prisons until two thousand and six now the only country in europe which has acknowledged the presence of a secret cia facility on its territory is lithuania and if you were to look at it

you will you will see something almost a deliberate site except for the imposing fences surrounding it likewise a suspected secret prison in poland is believed to be located here apparently in one of the most beautiful spots in the country according to various reports mostly from journalists or human rights organizations so-called high value detainees were flown in by the cia for interrogation at these polish facilities. i managed to get the records from the airport in germany where it's clear that they have learned the aircraft used by the cia very important evidence because until then everyone denied these landings and reported different destinations of these flights to europe controlled however just like their american counterparts the authorities in warsaw have been extremely frugal with the details and investigation into the secret prisons has been dragging on for almost five years now but what earth during its

course remains unknown therefore the extent of the investigations progress just like any information about the torture of prisoners regarding who what where when and how all of it remains a mystery and the investigation is rumored to conclude next month by the looks of it whatever its outcome it may also be a state secrets and swept under the carpet. plenty of fallout in france this week following comments from the country's labor minister who said his nation was totally bankrupt michel and later corrected himself claimed he was making a joke but executive director of the viewed by users patrick young is a lot. the problem is the french government is the biggest economic actor in france it spans the equivalent of fifty six point five percent of all of the economic activity the only other countries that spend more apart from sweden and the european union are places like north korea and we all know those are not the world's most prosperous nations there is absolutely no question the french need

incredible radical economic reform it was not present on the the sarkozy administration and frankly the feckless and incompetence of mr hall on the president has resulted in the situation we have now i must of poor things of cash these two three billion euros that's the equivalent of about two percent of the entire economy left the country just during october and november last year let's face it the last time the french government balance their books was in the middle of the nineteen seventies france is in an appalling crisis and barely half the country are paying income tax you've got a situation where in fact public opinion is not starting to realise that france is bankrupt britain which once boasted some of the best legislation in the world to curb homelessness now is more than fifty thousand people sleeping on the streets and with the government sharing in public center spending cuts in the age of austerity the number of homeless is expected to rise artie's polly boyko went to

meet some of those living on the rough. it's freezing cold wet and hungry there's nowhere for you to go to trial and no money in your pocket this street is all you've got and there's no one that will help you welcome to bamiyan the case capital homelessness. remember right. there she said drop grandma don't have one. foot out i mean you shouldn't be home or there's a lot of people you called the short time wanted me real rock car park where people live. all over the place this is why god truck they're here. yes we do know here michael is by no means alone in fact the number of homeless people in britain has skyrocketed by twenty five percent since twenty ten reaching fifty

thousand people in twenty twelve the biggest spike in the city of birmingham you don't think again people can see you could be walking past you can be sleeping next to warsaw drug. store and the coldness is stupid specialist told me we had to go back for four days on the phone to its twenty one year old matt fled his family home where he came to blows with his stepfather he had to sleep rough before being granted emergency shelter in a bombing in hostel it's run by a charity that helps anyone down and out to find employment and get back on their feet or looking for work. on the don't know like job already from the moment trying to get it stein you'll second stay at the hostel in three years after growing up in the now to foster care he struggled to keep a roof over his head you've got to do what every types to find someone to say find money. help and support the scariest thing like you know you still go for ice all

over again there just isn't enough low cost housing available and with unemployment rising hostels just like this one desperately need to expand the figures from the local authority of people presenting as homeless having creased on average by about four hundred percent. for the growing homeless community squatting in one of the city's twelve thousand empty homes used to be an option anymore just before the winter set in westminster upgraded sporting from a civil matter to a criminal offense predictions that it would translate to more rough sleepers on the streets came true there are a lot of deprived areas in. people that don't have working. with it being such a one time in industrialized center working class families but those jobs just don't

exist anymore so i suppose that the poverty is just sort of breeding for the poverty and the reason the reason big mix of paper in the population and expanding the housing stock isn't it reached that point where it's just spilling over and can't cope anymore and with more government budget cuts kicking enough to rate prole many more persons are predicted to slip through the net as the housing crisis escalates polly boyko r t birmingham. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe hundreds protested pakistan a minute kashmir paula india to announce its territorial claims they also demanded an end to violence in the troubled region this less than a month after five soldiers from both sides were killed in a shootout both pakistan and india seek for control over the disputed territory. in nepal more than one hundred thousand people taking part in massive celebrations that multi general convention of the ruling party it's the first major maoist

assembly since the decade long insurgency brought them to power in two thousand and eight party leaders launched the event while vowing never to resort to guerilla tactics again they also promised to step down from government and let people choose the next leader in a democratic election. hundreds of animal rights activists demonstrated against both fights in the capital of mexico some of the protesters lay on the ground covered in fake blood imitating slaughtered animals other activists chanted slogans demanding the sport to be banned despite concerns over animal cruelty bullfighter remains highly popular in mexico. in bahrain authorities are continuing their crackdown on the popular uprising there medical workers in the country claim they're being detained and even tortured for breaking the ban on aiding injured protesters or he's like sarah show ski looks at those at risk for trying to help nanda dive was among a group of doctors who were trying to help the injured during

a protest in bahrain she claims that off to violently crushing the dissent. toward their attention to her and her colleagues who were providing first aid they deny. health care to the patients and protesters. the doctors did not obey the orders for such. decided to punish those doctors i was taking place for ten days that i didn't know where it was. all that time i was blindfolded and handcuffed i was in a solitary confinement for back to twenty one days. and they would just open the door of the cell and beat me up and he did there was a member of the royal family who directly was responsible of my torture she she was beating me and she electrocuted me almost two dozen doctors were arrested back then this for the fuel the anger of the protesters and turned the hospitals grounds into

the scene of the rally the sound money hospital is bahrain's leading medical institution and that's where most of the arrests have been made after those events it now looks like a fortress guarded heavily by the right police and not everybody can get in human rights activists say if you had suffered for speaking out against the regime and decided to come here for treatment you could make matters even worse for yourself anyone who was injured from the protests they cannot go to the hospital because they will be arrested beaten and taken to the jail last year many protester and in jail where torture insults and money are we have a story and testimony of people and protester being tortured and the jail but in my country protester were tortured and so. britain not who was charged with treason and sentenced to fifteen years in prison before being acquitted because of what she

believed to be international pressure on bahrain's government the fate of many other doctors remains unclear the person who allegedly tortured not and others princes have been. has been officially charged by police she denies all allegations against her meanwhile the guy. woman stands resumed that the action it took against the hospital was the right thing to do. these doctors managed to control the emergency unit in the first floor of the hospital and started to perform political acts when a hospital is turned into a base for political ethic work this is a real disaster we had an unbiased committee investigating the hospital eight condemn the acts of these doctors for using the case against one of the members of the world family may seem as an indication that bahrain's government has bowed to the negative global reaction with the doctor scandal being far from the only torture accusation c.c.t.v. cameras have been installed at all prisons in a move to become more transparent according to the authorities but with protests in

the gulf states still continuing and accusations of human rights violations intensifying the opposition is still wondering what happens in the places where the cameras cannot see. reporting from the kingdom of bahrain. coming up after the break hollywood director brian de palma gives r.t. his take on real life spies invasions and the u.s. military stay with us. the first baby steps are joy. folds and bones are not a big deal. but they can cause terrible trauma. for children can be broken by bare touch. and only the

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all of our stone who wrote the script to one of your best known films scarface said in an interview with r t that americans are living in a low william state it might not be oppressive on the surface but there's no place to hide so eventually some part of you is going to end up in the database somewhere according to historian peter cause nick the us government intercepts over one point seven billion messages a day are you aware of it. now or was paranoid because like myself a very strong. views about what our american foreign policy is and so needless to say i've probably been followed around since the sixty's because i made very political antiwar pictures of me in the sixty's. so i sort of accepted basically. and my last picture political picture were back to. my country because i was criticizing our foreign policy and the fact of

what the hell are we doing in iraq. these terrible things happen when you put these young boys in these worlds where they don't understand what they're fighting for why they are. so i can understand why all over things were being followed all the time we probably are your drama we docked it which still is when the when iraq provoked political debates in america with claims it portrays the us soldiers and i guess if light. sensitive to such critique even your film's title makes it clear that the truth about the war in iraq has been edited and he didn't fund them or it can public unfortunately america you can never say anything negative about the troops even though they're over in a country they shouldn't be doing things where a lot of innocent civilians are getting killed. they're all valued warriors.

well i think our foreign policy is incorrect i don't think we should have been in iraq it was i think we were lied to by our government and what happens when you put young boys in situations where they don't know why they're there there and it's even worse than being because not only are you wouldn't terrible environment where everybody basically wants to kill you. and you walk around and suddenly the earth explodes and your best friend just lost his leg. you. to test the people you're supposed to be fighting for. and you do crazy things and that's what redacted is about and that's what because it is a war was about. these wars make no sense and crazy things happen here if studied the phenomenon or rather the pathology of violence for a while for decades why is america so keen to get involved in conflicts whatever

they hop on from afghanistan to libya shooting first and thinking later many things in there we're repeated over and over again that you know sort of. create this and this atmosphere one is america is the greatest day shouldn't in the world i don't know how many times i've heard that do they say that in russia do you say russia is the greatest nation in the world or not so i often i yeah and why are we all over the world why are we in countries you know we have you know a military presence all over the world why because we're the policemen of the world who who who decided this you know. so consequently we get ourselves in a lot of trouble but you know there's also an economic thing according to president

obama an economic recovery has begun but america cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and the growing many can barely make it where we sell planes. guns rockets missiles dole these countries all over the world so you know that well that's one of our biggest industries it's our biggest export defense america spends as much money on military security intelligence as the rest of the world combined you know you're dealing with a big you know economic reality you know the idea that we would cut any money to the defense budget is like unbelievable let's get a few more planes let's buy a few more ships for what you know we're going broke doing this and there's like you know it's like what eisenhower warned you know the military industrial complex watch out it just grows and grows and grows and nobody can seem to stop it barack

obama has been recently sworn in for his second term but you don't seem to be very happy with his achievements oh no i think obama's trying to change some of this but here you're dealing you know our country a very split we have kind of liberals and he the cosa we have this kind of very conservative center of the country and that's why it's a difficult to get anything done in the congress. i mean why do we have guns but about guns all over the place you know we're slaughtering children and people think oh well maybe we need more policemen in the school rooms i mean you know it's crazy but guns is big business and they like to sell guns and we're probably the only country in the world that has guns all over the place following the mass shooting at the elementary school in connecticut in december the los angeles police department has decided to deploy six hundred police patrols at the elementary and

middle schools do you think increasing police patrols could help hold violence some say that the real purpose of the police buildup at schools is to make kids used to the constant presence off by least. and the growing atmosphere of fear there was an incident in china were you when somebody went to school and attacked all the children fortunately he only had a knife so is mentally better to stab a few people and kill no one when you have automatic weapons that can fire and one hundred rounds i don't know in ten seconds you it's crazy and it's like these are the kind of things that make no sense in america and are obviously after this last terrible tragedy they're trying to make some changes in the gun rules oh so i can buy an automatic weapon with a magazine that holds two hundred bullets to go hunting it's absurd

but these are the kind of things that does drive you crazy i mean it makes no sense whatsoever zero dark thirty is the controversial years drama focusing on the decade long manhunt for a summon bin laden has been slammed for excessive violence and depiction off torture to find such criticism fair enough absolutely no big surprise we tortured a few people to find out where the terrorists were wow. i can't believe that america torturing people what's going on in guantanamo bay those poor guys have been there forever is the war ever over. maybe we should waterboard the bit little bit but only been there for ten years where does this glorification of mode and so to come from well i think the use of torture in. the big book is very realistic. in a way i don't know why everybody so surprised or upset but the fact that you would

say that americans actually torture people is like possible but it's ridiculous of course they torture people. i like most of the action packed crime dramas targeting men your latest passion as if it were exclusively about women and for women now in the past some ladies have actually accused you of being a missile engine it is the sex not the story your final answer to them well i had made a thriller in quite a while and the producer really made religion a french movie it was approached in toronto and it was shown there by american producers point who wanted to make an english version which is. there was so much interested in making an english version he decided to make and sell so he was a buyer my films always sent the film to my agent and i looked at it and i had made

it through in a long time and i had sort of taken a couple of years off because i've you know daughters and school and i kind of like the idea plus i like you know making a film in paris or out of piracy louis ultimately shot at berlin. i like working in europe i like living in paris and i like the characters that you know these two. aggressive women fighting for power than this every time i think agency i like women i have worked with women my whole life i went to a school as a graduate school it's a. lauridsen which i was the only male amongst hundreds of women so i'm very used to being in large groups of women i'm used to working with women i get along with them i don't know where i got this pathologist reputation because i love to shoot women i love the dress them up i love to make them look beautiful oh of the follow them around with cameras because they are appealing to my i i mean this

movie was full of women they had we had the two competing executives we had the assistant that's in love with her boss and then we have this beautiful russian ballerina so what more could i ask for thank you very much.

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