so. between the. socialist revolution. the polls open in less than twenty four. children. with us citizenship. it's seven o'clock saturday night here in the russian capital. we start out with a diplomatic spat between russia and the united states. of america links to

torture illegal. citizens and. the move as a response to washington blocking russians. a bit earlier in the program i spoke about it. russia has but ultimately who's on the list and why did russia feel the need to publish it the first place right well it well it is really an exchange of a list of people that both countries suspect of violating human rights now fast the u.s. came up with the so-called magnitsky list of that was supposed list late on friday and that it was russia's turn ready and it responded with a similar measure here but if we take a closer look at russia's list and it consist of two parts here are the fast one is devoted to those people responsible for human rights violations at one time

a detention facility and then there is a second part and there it is devoted to those people responsible for numerous human rights violations of those russian citizens abroad well you talk about these two lists let's address a slightly smaller one is now being known as the guantanamo bay lift it's got four officials on it here we are here's one of them here david addington no formally of the george w. bush administration he was supposed to oversee various methods of torture going on in guantanamo bay join you also the george w. bush administration he actually wrote some memos on methods of torture including sleep deprivation and of course the information waterboarding and using the word in for most let's go to geoffrey miller here this man oversaw one ton of obeying cuba but also the infamous abu ghraib prison in iraq of course that had ample amount of scandals coming from that prison geoffrey robertson as well here's a man who was supposed to monitor human rights abuses. but all that was really triggered by the u.s.

move and my colleague and this they see it in the new york now tells us what was really behind this whole situation and what glaad to these contra measures the obama administration has released a list of russians to be blacklisted under the so-called magnitsky act despite moscow's calls not to put such a list together in the first place let alone publish it the list. eighteen names including sixteen judges and investigators in the united states accused of human rights abuses going to there were actually to the magnitsky case these individuals will be forbidden from getting a u.s. visa as well as have their assets frozen so good magnitsky was a russian lawyer who was arrested for tax evasion in two thousand and eight he died a year later while still in pretrial detention at the age of thirty seven since then the u.s. has eagerly been exploiting the circumstances of my death which president putin said was a tragedy moscow warned washington that its handling of the case was a domestic issue for russia and russia alone and that the americans must not

interfere responding to the so-called magnitsky list russia's prime minister dmitry in the fears of so the u.s. has the right to bar anyone from entering its territory by simply denying them a visa so the purpose of this additional ban is unclear except for its symbolism russia's concerns that the release of the document comes at a bad time apart from putting out a strain on u.s. russian relations it comes ahead of the visit of the u.s. national security advisor to moscow on monday well what moscow is really mostly for straight about is that all these russians on the list had never been under any investigation and it was never prove that they had links with human rights abuses but non the last washington still without proving any of their guilt labels human rights violators. under pressure from the members of the united states there's been a serious blow to relations and mutual trust between russia and the united states you know we had to respond and react to the proportionality to interfere with our

internal affairs you know one of the points i find very curious is the fact that all these lists there are no high ranking officials but from what i understand that could all change you're absolutely right here in these lists are the shirt for a longer extended list both countries presides now. there are reports that the u.s. secret list that has not been published yet even includes the name of the chechen leader rums on could there of and russia in response says that it has its own extended version of the list so as you can see well a lot of a symmetrical moves here a lot of a tit for tat as some might say but apart from just the the law being that these so-called black lists between moscow and washington and washington and moscow the two biggest boys on the block have also been trying to create laws that ultimately compound each other exactly well fast the u.s. introduced a new skill law and than it was followed by russia introducing

a law that among other things banned u.s. citizens from adopting russian children and that adoption ban came after a string of child abuse this cases by u.s. foster parents however anon the last russia was still highly criticized for the adoption ban and the. russia does not give a chance for a better live to so many children but what's so interesting here is that rory do you know which are the countries that never ratified the most important document pro-tax children rice across the globe the u.n. convention on the rights of the child over what i understand why do you know the almost the entire united nations signed off and ratified this document but there were two left of to write two countries somalia and the united states and the united states and in a question about thank you. now there are

a voices within russia claiming that my commute ski list has sunk in the challenge for moscow and washington to reset ties pushed call for the head of the foreign affairs committee in the russian lower house of parliament he believes that president obama is trapped by the anti russian mood among american little because. the irony of all of this is that to my mind president obama has become hostage to this list has become hostage to the n.t. and russian elements in the us congress because basically obama needs a corporation was russia and he's a corporation and he's a corporation and they ran on so many other regional and global issues in his corporation if he wants to make progress in the cuts. nuclear armaments and so on birds by having signed this law is like shooting oneself in the leg so i don't really see the rational for this from the point of view of obama administration which claims to be an administration that is paying attention to multilateralism to

international partnerships well i can see by having enlarged the list the obama administration is definitely narrowing very much the possibilities for such a partnership was russia. and the time for you to get involved now on our website we're asking you where do you think the wral between moscow and washington will lead to r.t. dot com you can take part in the online vote right now the numbers can continue to change every hour or virgo it's still the most most of our voters a fifty five percent saying this will just lead to more tit for tat measures between washington and of course moscow very distant second place in the pink it will be the death knell for the russia u.s. reset in relations seventeen percent for this hour saying it's not going to affect the two big countries on major political issues down to the minority still the ten percent for this hour as well saying it will escalate severely affecting relations so the war of lists these are blacklists being locked between washington and moscow

how will it all end up well we're still taking a vote at r.t. dot com. thank you for joining us here on ars he today israel's under fire from human rights organizations over the alleged mistreatment of palestinian children in israeli custody and the issue was brought to light by the detention of a fourteen year old palestinian who also happens to be a u.s. citizen and claims to have been physically abused during a rest and interrogation. advocacy officer at a prisoner support and human rights association representing the detained palestinian child you share the details with me a bit earlier on arts. but how many is being held in all thought of military prison

which is just outside of ramallah we have had limited access to mohammad since his arrest his father has not seen him except in the few minutes during his court proceedings but we do know from what he has told us in the court that he has been. potentially abused in the prison he has told us that he has been slapped in the prison his braces are broken off and we are very concerned that he is being mistreated while under interrogation and in the prison we have heard several cases from other children as well forced confession. very harsh interrogation where they are denied access to their families and lawyers and they are coerced into confessing under harsh conditions for example we've had children who have told us that they've been threatened with sexual abuse with not being allowed to go back to school and so forth in the case of mohammad specifically. his father was at the police station and he heard his father's voice and interrogators told him just

confess now and we will let you go home with their father and so this poor child who has no idea what's going on ended up confessing to something just because he was told he would be able to go home after this his terra geisha was actually extended for a further two days because he is a dual citizen and he has much more attention for this case but the fact of the matter is that seven hundred palestinian children are arrested every year and they face the same conditions that mohamed faces as well i know there are more than just a allegations of children being abused in custody the issue of palestinian prisoners has long been a major sticking point in volatile relations with israel to use or to go to school has this report. the issue of palestinian prisoners is a burning one in the relations between israel and palestine there's almost five thousand palestinian prisoners some of them have been in israeli jails for decades a lot of them have been there in the so-called preliminary detention which means

that they're arrested with no charges pressed against them they're not told exactly what they're being arrested for and they're held in confinement with absolutely no legal substance to their confinement but the. time period from which they're being extended almost indefinitely and there is hundreds if not thousands of them and of course the palestinians are trying to get a word to the prisoners helping trying to battle it with by their own means and that is a lot of them have actually gone on hunger strikes and in fact all of the forty five roughly forty five hundred palestinian prisoners forty two hundred of them have been on a hunger strike just recently but another probably died while in jail from from cancer and his relatives as well as lawyers are saying that he was not treated properly by the israeli jail officials and unfortunately again this is not an isolated case they're saying that a lot of palestinian prisoners who are in israeli jails are not being given the proper treatment by the authorities and this is an issue that has been on the

surface for a very long time and even the israeli side of the israeli knesset members are saying that this is perhaps the easiest issue to solve you know to kind of settle the dispute between israel and palestine or at least take a first step but unfortunately these early physicians do not seem to be taking that very important first step. these are going to reporting right that will have plenty more ahead for you at this hour here on r.t. including a retrial of egypt's ex president while the current one faces mounting pressure we look at mohamed morsi is failing to address the spike in sectarian violence much more after the short break.

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the international landlord in the very heart of moscow. and good of you to join us here on r.t. armory sushi in moscow in less than twenty four hours venezuelans start voting for a new leader at the snap presidential election was triggered by the death of chavez last month and will determine the course of one of the most oil rich nations in the world a short bitter presidential campaign has been marked by allegations of conspiracies and assassination plot so let's take a look though at the two candidates and their chances with tester australia now reporting from caracas. important elections for the venezuelan people certainly snap elections after the death of this about a month ago it has been

a short campaign for everyone who has been in fold and there are two top contenders in these elections on the one hand you have a nicolas maduro he's the acting interim president of the country he was the vice president during the thomases time and on the other hand you have a few this have run i guess a good chavez and options in october two thousand and twelve and he's a rivalry with talking about bringing change to the country now there's been a lot of name calling during this campaign period you have a model accusing us of being at the prince of the bourgeoisie not representing the poor calling him capricious some of the other hand she's accusing me of being a liar or using this as a body to run a political campaign now however they did talk to both of them tough on the issue of tackling crime in the country this is a top concern of the citizens here they want to see the crime level addressed and brought down a small as a government bureaucracy and inefficiencies in the work staunchest supporters very loyal to everything that this is stood for the so-called socialist revolution

things want to continue this and some of them out of this loyalty to vote for nicolas maduro on the other hand you have those people who have been blaming the government for a lot of the problems of the country not least a lot of which is why bureaucracy and what they say is a bit of stagnation in terms of the way business is going in the country and they say they will vote for the best so many are watching these elections closely not least of which is the united states and has had strained relations with the country during the time of lugo chavez but for everyone else who is observing and want to know what happens next the question they want to answer really is what stuff is that is really going to take in the hands of somebody other than who goes as. well from philadelphia when i was joined live by george. sr professor at drexel university's history and politics department good to see you today thank you for coming and i'll teach you think a. good fit for venezuelans. well certainly manures is well prepared and we want to

continue this revolution and push it forward the task is really going to be can who unify this service the block and draw everyone together which i was really a master a master at doing this we could take the left of center and draw them together and really maintain this union that is necessary but the question is going to be whether or not nicole of those people doing that over a godless a few or who ends up filling the shoes of chavez or in policy change perhaps under a new leader i truly believe that the question of foreign policy the question of relations present the united states is one that is determined largely by the obama administration of this was an administration that continues to find the venice with an opposition continues to express its suspicions about democratic elections which everyone knows are perfectly democratic according to the carter center to the reality is if you obama administration wants to change the relationship but with venezuela than it needs to start at home well as many know chavez was

a highly protective of the country's oil reserves one of the biggest reserves in the world and mainly sharing a lot of it with the just neighbors or did you think that policy will remain. well the reality is that wasn't so much the giveaway that someone like a previous would like to describe it but it was in exchange for example a non-market exchange with for example cuba for medical technicians to work in the barrio clinics and so that sort of moves into new it's an essential part of this where the foreign policy with regard to creating alliances that can really generate which i would call it multiple the world alliance with russia alliance china but most importantly alliance with in latin america the bulb or an alternative to america's infrastructure green instead exclude explicitly united states we make a mention about it being a multi-polar world i mean the candidates themselves have polar views despite the problems in venezuela all being the same do you think capitalism deserves a chance to make a difference in venezuela. capitalism have a long chance of venezuela and failed miserably. what about the circumstances you

think of the short election campaign mean that the two candidates were but perhaps picked on a bit of a russian and maybe they won't last long. i mean well in this in the case of lasting long i think the question is cop really is whether or not he will be in the kind of six years from now that's a good question because many say this is sort of a death a death sentence to run this election and those who come to lose what little on the other hand will be elected probably i think on the be elected for six years because in the matter of six years you can be a question of developing really a collective leadership or process to push it forward all right a georgia system professor from my truck so university thank you very much indeed for joining us on r.t. today a pleasure. and i know we will pretty be bringing you a more expert opinion on venezuela's future over the next twenty four hours try not to miss our live coverage of the election here on our. campaign game that is way that chooses president chavez choice runs against

a free market poster boy. that is where the juice after coming down. venezuela votes. the retrial of egypt's deposed president hosni mubarak has opened with a surprising move on the part of the judge he has withdrawn from the case referring it to another court where the announcement was met with angry shouts and jeers and mubarak was earlier sentenced to life for conspiring to kill protesters during the unrest that toppled him in a retrial was ordered after he appealed the verdict the proceedings are taking place against the backdrop of a growing discontent with the current president's policies i'm having morsi and his ruling islamist party are facing mounting pressure over a lack of democratic reforms on the worsening economic situation in addition the current government is also blamed for a spike in sectarian violence as bell troops. days after a brutal assault on egypt's main coptic cathedral activists and opposition leaders

meet to discuss a response many of them like tony sabri a christian protester who was trapped inside the church say they're still in shock the thought of the. attack trust from everywhere even from the street next to the gas stations by the teachers the police told inside that's not what this is going to be one of the civilians bombarded us with. rocks rubber bullets and live ammunition and the police protected the whole market if they were bishops painting the. sort of the more the nation was shocked on sunday and bloody scenes of egypt's security forces firing tear gas and birdshot bullets directly at mourners gathered on st marks the beach or here behind me one of the main churches to coptic christians president mohamed morsi has promised to investigate and his alleged comments saying an attack on this could be true was an attack on himself has done little to satisfy the coptic christian community we division is deepening between

the two religions many fear the worst has yet to come in the aftermath of the attack coptic pope to watch as the second criticize the president. to protect the cathedral members of the clergy present at the scene also demanded answers. because federal has never been attacked before. who were the people outside the cathedral and why did the police not even attempt to intervene why didn't they arrest one single person. has been mariah if egypt director of human rights watch agrees government neglect is contributing to rising sectarian turmoil part of the problem is the way the authorities respond to incidents where there's violence between muslim and christian communities there's a long history of purity for sectarian violence and a fairly it's really acknowledge that there is a serious problem the reason sunday is such a worrying precedent is that we saw the police we saw images of the police finding with people who are throwing stones or sometimes shooting at

a funeral grounds leading member of the ruling freedom and justice party dr amr darrag admits the police behaved unprofessionally but claims this state is not to blame the christian cause community has been suffering from the from the behavior of the previous three to find all the time people trying to ignite the situation trying to cause chaos trying to spread violence as part of the of the air force to . bring down the revolution so it is very likely that these forces are behind this and we would like to know who is behind this and bring him to justice despite these assurances with only two prosecutions for sectarian violence since the revolution many believe the new muslim brotherhood government is continuing mubarak's culture of impunity in the meantime thousands continue to demand justice for the cathedral victims and christians like tony say they will continue to protest in till the government acts this is true for our tea. and into the world

update now starting with the hundreds of people that have turned out to protest against the eviction of a six sixty seven year old woman who later died in a homeless shelter mourners have been laid flowers and candles in her memory a rapidly rising rents in the capital of forced a number of longtime residents from their homes to places on the outskirts of the city where costs are cheaper. the first case of bird flu has been confirmed in the chinese capital beijing the h seven n nine virus has already killed eleven nationwide with more than thirty being infected the latest outbreak has already caused some countries to ban poultry imports from china but critics are warning against mass panic as seen in the case of the swine flu of two thousand and nine when pharmaceutical companies benefited off the government's millions on vaccines many of which were later thrown away and in just

a sec it's the kaiser report next on c. with oil pipes bursting in arkansas people across the usa start to realize that they are moving towards what the atlantic calls the infrastructure cliff in short america's infrastructure start to get a bit old and according to infrastructure port org the u.s. needs about three point six trillion dollars of infrastructure spending by twenty twenty to turn things around the site sponsored by the american society of civil engineers gave all aspects of american infrastructure like bridges and drinking water and schools cetera some pretty bad grades except for solid waste removal for some reason in their opinion everything in the usa is going to crap except for america's ability to throw solid crap away i'm not trying to sit here and scare you

there is nothing to fear this is a big challenge but it is a very possible one to accomplish according to cost of war dot org the last ten years of war of cost about three point one trillion dollars just cutting wars in half by fifty percent could put a huge dent in the infrastructure spending and what about all those billions in bailout that were spent you see the money is there it just gets wasted if the money stops getting thrown away and start getting spent a well planned infrastructure then the infrastructure will start paying for itself rocket infrastructure creates wealth so don't fear the infrastructure cliff just stop wasting money or a lot of politicians to waste money and everything will turn out to be just fine but that's just my opinion.

the international at the very heart of moscow. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should think you know how fabulous bad luck i've got so many i mean the towns that i've seen really messed up. and we're all for it so personally apologize it's. worse for the little. white house or for the. radio guy in fort lauderdale minestrone. quote for about fifteen years you've never

seen anything like this i'm told. what's good folks welcome to breaking the said man will rob lowe filling in for abby martin you know these days it seems that everything in this country boils down to budget cuts thanks to the a steady measures that we call sequestration one of the victims of these cuts is the department of energy's nuclear nonproliferation program you know the folks trying to limit the spread of nuclear weapons well according to foreign policy magazine under the white house's twenty four thousand federal budget the program would be cut by twenty percent seems like an odd move considering the u.s. has been working tirelessly to try to keep other countries from acquiring nuclear weapons namely north korea and iran but that's not all your bomb administration is on board with new spending to the sum of five hundred million dollars to upgrade the already existing nuclear web.