and from entering the country over alleged abuse of human rights the response to america's so-called magnitsky this. is where the picks its future by choosing between the his socialist revolution or a free market champion polls open in less than twenty four hours. and israel is accused of mistreating palestinian children held in jails after a teenager with u.s. citizenship was detained makes allegations of abuse our top stories this hour. i. live from the new center here in moscow this is r.t. with the international news and comment twenty four hours a day we start with the latest diplomatic spat between russia and the u.s. moscow's drawing up a list of american suspected of links to torture illegal arrests and the adoption

of russian citizens and ban them from entering its territory and move as a response to washington blocking russians which officials in moscow dismissed as russophobia but called the research a spoke to a question over about the standoff. fired back but ultimately who's on the list and why did russia feel the need to publish it the first place right now and while it is really an exchange of list of people that both countries suspect of violating human rights now fast the u.s. came up with this so-called magnitsky list of that was supposed list late on friday and that it was russia's turn ready and it responded whereas a similar measure here but if we take a closer look at russia's list and it consists of two parts here the fast one is a devoted to those people responsible for human rights violations at one time a detention facility that. 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 and for most let's go to geoffrey miller here this man oversaw one totem obeying cuba but also the infamous abu ghraib prison in iraq of course that had all amounts 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 glad to these contra measures the obama administration has released a list of russians to be blacklisted under the so-called mug needs to act despite moscow's calls not to put such a list together in the first place let alone publish it the list includes eighteen names including sixteen judges and investigators in the united states accused of human rights abuses going to direct leak 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 making its death which president putin said was a tragedy moscow one 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.

museum of 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 going there's been a serious blow to relations and mutual trust between russia and the united states and we had to respond and react to the proportion of what. our internal affairs but

you know one of the points i find very curious is the fact that all these lists here there are no high ranking officials but from what i understand that could all change if you're absolutely right here in these lists are the shirt for a longer extended list of 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 thereof 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 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 the 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 as cases by us for us her parents however anon the last russia was still highly criticized for the adoption ban the you ass event russia does not give a chance for a better live to so many does evil 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's rice across the globe the un convention on the rights of free child or 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 some of the united states. thank you. there are voices within russia claiming the magnitsky list has sunk the chance for

moscow and washington to reset diplomatic ties and exceed pushkov the head of the foreign affairs committee in the russian lower house of parliament believes president obama is trapped by an russian mood among american lawmakers. the irony of all of this is that to my mind president obama has become hostage to this list has become hostage to the anti russian elements in the us congress because basically obama needs a corporation was russia and is a corporation on korea it is a corporation on iran on so many other regional and global issues now his corporation if he wants to make progress in the cuts of nuclear armaments and so on but 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 your bomb administration which claims to be an administration that is paying attention to multilateralism to international partnerships well i can say that by having enlarged the list the

obama administration is definitely narrowing the very much of the of possibilities for such a partnership was russia. well a website. where the route between moscow and washington will leave we're asking you what you think about this. page. poll let's see how you've been voting so far we can see that most of you believe this will lead to even more tit for tat measures between washington and moscow eighteen percent think the end has now come for any dialogue between the two to continue when it comes to resetting those diplomatic ties a slightly smaller number believe this way to fight the keep political issues between the countries and some of you fear that the measures will escalate and be blown out of proportion that's ten percent of you so far. so good to hear what you have to say.

israel's under fire from human rights organizations over alleged mistreatment of palestinian children in israeli custody 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 the arrest and interrogation. and advocacy officer at a prison a supporting human rights association representing the detained palestinian child showed the details with. but how much has been 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's 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 the 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. 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. there are more than just allegations of children being abused in custody the issue of palestinian prisoners will be the major sticking point in volatile relations with israel as all of these explains. the issue of palestinian prisoners is a burning one in the relations between israel and palestine there is 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 jailed

keeps being extended almost indefinitely and there is hundreds if not thousands of them and of course the palestinians are trying to battle it out with the palestinian prisoners have been trying to battle it with by their own means and that is a lot of them have actually got 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 and. 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 is rest 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 the israeli physicians do not seem to be taking that

very important first step. that he bore head for you this hour or two including a retrial of egypt's next president while the current leader faces melting pressure . morsi is failure to address the rise in sectarian violence. plus we'll tell you how the u.s. will use the law of opposition leaders around the world by mountains of cash those stories and more after the break.

world. science technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. the book about international and world in the very heart of moscow. he continues here on r.t. in less than twenty four hours venezuelan stop voting for a new leader the snap presidential election was triggered by the death of hugo

chavez last month will determine the course of one of the most oil rich nations in the world a short bitter presidential campaign has been marred by allegations of conspiracies and assassination plots let's take a look at the two candidates and their chances with a city in the venezuelan capital. important elections for the venezuelan people certainly snap elections after the death of will go child this or so bought a month ago it has been a short campaign for everyone who has been unfolding their two top main contenders in these elections on the one hand you have a nicolas maduro he's the acting interim president of the country was the vice president during that chavez's time and on the other hand you have and you could come to this as i have run i guess a good tavis and auctions 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 me of. not representing the poor calling him some of the other

hand you have accused of being a lawyer 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 to continue this and some of them out of this loyalty 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. which is why you want to see 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 has had strained relations so with the country during the time of the for everyone else who is observing and want to know what

happens next the question they want to answer really is what step is venezuela going to take in the hands of somebody other than who goes. well you know we spoke to george. this is the professor at drexel university in philadelphia and he believes that venezuela's use of cheap oil to feud its foreign policy is likely to remain unchanged. well the reality is that wasn't so much the giveaway there from like a pre that was like news flash but as but it was an 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 thing needs to continue to an essential part of this when foreign policy with regard to creating a line to secondly generate what job as we call it multi-polar world aligned with russia aligned with china most importantly align with in latin america the album the ball the bar and alternative the americas in free trade agreements that is explicitly the united states question of

a foreign policy the question of relations present the united states is one that is determined largely by the obama administration now this is an administration that continues to fund the venezuelan opposition continues to express its suspicions about democratic elections which are everyone knows a perfect democratic support of the carter center and to the reality is if the obama administration wants to change the relationship with then it's where they need to start at home. we'll be bringing you more expert opinion on that as well as future over the next twenty four hours or so don't miss live coverage of the election here on r.t. . the retrial of egypt's deposed president hosni mubarak has opened with a surprising move on the part of the judge who has withdrawn from the case referring it to another court in ultimate was met with angry shelled singe is about was earlier sentenced to life for conspiring to kill protesters during the unrest that toppled him but a retrial was ordered after he appealed against the verdict the proceedings are taking place against the backdrop of growing discontent with the current

president's policies morsi and his ruling is the most party facing mounting pressure over a lack of democratic reforms and the worsening economic situation in addition the current government is also blamed for a rise in sectarian violence as bold true reports. 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 . attacked us from everywhere even from the street next to the gas stations by the. police called insults. civilians bombarded us with molotov cocktails rocks rubber bullets and live ammunition and the police protected them they were painting the. 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 mark's 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 with divisions deepening between the two religions many fear the worst his. yet to come in the aftermath of the attack coptic pope who watches the second criticize the president for failing to protect the cathedral members of the clergy present at the scene also demanded answers. the cathedral has never been attacked before who were the people outside the cathedral and why did the police not even attempt to intervene and why didn't they arrest one single person. heaven mariah of 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 is 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 funday is such a warring precedent is that we saw the police we saw images of the police finding with people who are throwing stones or sometimes shooting at you draw 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 regime you 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 the mubarak 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 r t cairo. and it is in other news making headlines around the world hundreds of people have turned out in berlin to protest against the eviction of a sick sixty seven year old woman who later died in a homeless shelter mourners laid flowers and candles in her memory rapidly rising rents in the capital of force a number of long term residents from their homes to 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 and nine virus has already killed eleven nationwide with more than thirty having been infected but critics are warning against mass

panic has seen in the case of swine flu back in two thousand and nine when pharmaceutical companies benefited after government splashed out on millions on vaccines many of which were later thrown away. a ten million dollars support package for the syrian opposition fighting against the regime of president assad has been approved by the u.s. support for the rebels is now cost america more than one hundred and fifteen million dollars the result is going to cut explains washington winning invests in opposition movements throughout the world for its own political gain. opposition leaders in many countries have sought and received washington's backing but u.s. support often comes at a price counting on money and arms from washington and its allies serious opposition coalition has elected a us citizen. to be the leader of an interim government we ourselves have to do we must be action the syrian born i.t.

executive from texas mystics tito may have washington's blessing to form a new government in syria but even anti outside voices inside the country say instead of uniting syrians the american leader in syria will sow even more division . in order for mr hill to build a team with which you could have mutual understanding he needs to find these people abroad it means that these people will have no idea what life is like here before the election i didn't even know his name well this whole election of a government down the prime minister was simply chimerical. for the us the benefits of having a government that owes its power to washington can be considerable and that is the case with the current levy and government but oh the current regime mostly into the united states and the united states will be seeking and are cashing the check very effectively for their own interests in terms of the strategic geographically importance of libya united states and west europe how about in terms of unfettered

access to the hybrid resources of libya against that resource nationalism or without his government but have for years the u.s. has supported the opposition in another with rich countries venezuela in the hope that it would replace the lead to good childless u.s. educated in the cup previous would be washington's perfect choice in the budget the state department's budget for two thousand and thirteen there was a paragraph included that specifically said money is for these venezuelan political groups that are aligned with the opposition or that form the opposition of more than three million dollars right wing government under someone like enrique corporeal is a menace well what helped the us regain its influence and dominance in the region it's not uncommon for washington to host prominent opposition figures to declare its theme is u.s. support for human rights but some note throughout the history of washington's dealings with the opposition in different countries there was another common theme

it's my experience after studying. many thousands of u.s. diplomatic cables that. united states makes a. gain influence and contacts and informants. we've seen. it's actually in order to. partly in order to have bets on. the lead also on the second case to. the transition of having said all that it's not all oppressed opposition figures that washington welcomes for example the us is not going out of its way to free opposition figures brain who are sentenced to life in prison for taking part in protest against the government there are a host the u.s. fifth fleet in the persian gulf so washington has been quite selective as far as who's opposition it supports in washington i'm going to check out. to bring it up

to date for the moment i'll be out of the news team inhofe an hour from now in the meantime we visit the city and russia's urals region that was stunned earlier this year when it was hit by a massive that full report coming your way after the break. with oil pipes bursting in arkansas people cross 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 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 in schools several some pretty bad grades except for solid waste removal for some reason in their opinion everything in the us 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 shell. what is a very possible want 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 rock'n infrastructure creates wealth so don't fear the infrastructure cliff just stop wasting money or allowed politicians to waste money and everything will turn out to be just fine but that's just my opinion.

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