u.s. prisons namely victims involved and yet russian car especially. given the fact that the mother of the russian pilot. or three vs lisette men took to the russian i.m.f. where she describes health problems of her son and the fact that he does not have access to the medical aid and was this question discussed during the talks. and as for intimacy system question it was discussed both in the kremlin and here today we paid special attention to the need to build up strategic stability or. anywhere this invisible their agenda of and to muse sile and other aspects which together with this kind of weapon threaten the strategic stability as for russian citizens not only

bulletins you russian we're regularly at our meetings with john and this one has been the force meeting from the start of the year we draw attention to the problems faced by a boat and. we promised to take measures. in terms of medical aid in terms of ford's mental that aspects of detention in the u.s. prisons which would put a little bit more over we once again drew attention of our american colleagues so much in the world that. the. appeal procedure time frame will be over and as you know both. appealed. their appeals will be declined to believe us when a council of europe mechanisms and where with them some hope that in this case will

receive the full assistance. but you bushra just confidence is the word from the minister somebody. oh i'm sorry but both ministers i tried. let me just say that. as summarized as yes we did discuss it. the minister. and i responded media being addressed by the u.s. secretary of state john kerry along with russia's foreign minister which is seeing john kerry with these closing comments there in the media after a very lengthy meeting in moscow and talking to the media that in the crimea now also watching as being a tease alexy yet a chef ski and he's joining us live now in moscow john kerry and president putin and so they've been talking about a number of issues but of course high on the agenda is syria did the two sides come

to any common ground over the syrian crisis.

it's tuesday may seventh four zero four pm in washington d.c. i'm maggie lopez and you are watching our t.v. now before we get to today's top stories let me explain about the ribbon that i am wearing today along with my other or t. colleagues this week marks the anniversary of nazi germany surrendering to the soviet union officially marking the end of world war two and europe so that is why we wear it to commemorate the enormous sacrifices humanity made to overcome oppression to remind ourselves of the millions of people who stare genocide in the face and to celebrate the fact that nations around the world came together to triumph over tyranny now let's get to the news. we begin this afternoon with the latest information coming out of syria president bashar all are said now says that the israeli air strikes on syria over the weekend amount to a declaration of war and warns that all options are on the table for retaliation

this opens up the possibility for violence raging in syria to actually spread across borders and transition into a regional conflict yesterday the white house commented on the israeli air strikes on syria saying that weapon transfers to hezbollah are of concern they went on to say that israel has a right to respond in quote their own sovereign interest meanwhile senate foreign relations committee chairman robert menendez has introduced legislation that would arm a syrian opposition groups but the bill goes further than that it would also provide military training as well as non-lethal aid to rebel groups that have been vetted and senator menendez is not alone in his demands for action senator john mccain and numerous republicans are also calling for an american response this proposed legislation to back the rebels actually comes at an interesting time during this conflict now that's because a leading member of the united nations. commission of inquiry on syria just told swiss t.v.

on monday that there is evidence suggesting that rebel forces and not president assad's army might have been the ones using chemical weapons the un itself has actually distance itself from this remarks saying that they have not yet reached conclusive evidence on the use of chemical weapons in syria so obviously a lot of information is unfolding in the country right now to help me break it all down our to correspondent honest also what you're going to hide their honest aasia talk about the timing of this proposed bill with the israeli airstrike this past weekend and the u.n. inquiry ongoing in syria. well megan this proposed bill certainly comes at a time when the finger pointing is at a peak and the war drums seem to be beating the super loud over syria especially when it comes to the united states of course this proposed bill not only does it provide offered to provide direct support of arms to the syrian opposition but it also would create a two hundred fifty million dollar fund to help the transition process on the

ground as well as would provide washington d.c. with power to impose sanctions on individuals said to be providing weapons to the syrian government certainly this is a bill that's still in its first stages and still will be considered by the committee next week it also has to of course half pass through senate and the house of representatives later to be signed by president barack obama to ever become law so certainly this is just the beginning but it comes at a critical time when the finger pointing is an extreme one the blames of who exactly has been using chemical weapons or to high and certainly the syrian the solution to the syrian crisis seems to be nowhere in sight on associate part of this bill that i had mentioned earlier actually talked about the fact that it is going to identify which rebels will actually receive this aid by actually of vetting that is there any indication of how this bill will that these and these rebels and how it's going to implement the lethal aid. megan that's a curious question that obviously needs to be answered because it does seem to be

a bit of a gray area we do know that the bill would vet through the opposition groups trying to kind of keep up with their make sure their human rights standards are in order that they're not involved in terrorist groups that the but here to nonproliferation rules but certainly that is something that's very vague very general and with the really confusion in terms of what exactly is going on on the ground and who exactly is behind what this seems to be a pretty great area that if this bill were passed would be very hard for u.s. officials or anybody else to tackle now in this bill is called the syria stabilization act of twenty thirteen and senator menendez actually calls for the vetting to take place within sixty days so talk about this let's talk about the fact that we have seen this more play out for over two years and still we haven't even been able to determine who is using these chemical weapons and things like that so what can we learn in sixty days that we haven't learned in the past two years. well you know probably not much and the reason i think one of the reasons

that this sixty day deadline is of me being imposed is because there is certainly a certain rush to get things going when it comes to the syrian crisis because as we know the united states was planning to play kind of a major card claiming that the syrian government has been using chemical weapons that began to be questioned even more considering an independent international investigative team. of the united nations has said that it's actually the opposition groups that have been using the chemical weapons so that was a major card that the u.s. was counting on playing and in terms of being able to rally around international cooperation when it comes to a possible intervention in syria so this is certainly seems to be just a race against time and very shortly there are a number of groups that could get involved before the u.s. actually goes and sends a weapons to the rebels there are a number of safety nets like the u.n. and the arab league why does the u.s.

have to lead the charge in this case well i would say because it's something that the united states generally likes to do when it comes to involvement in affairs of other nations but you know in this particular case i think we will have to wait and see exactly what happens in the days to come because this bill seems to be you know the person proposing this bill is he's known to have been rallying for the kind of the war drums even before the chemical weapon conversation started and today we saw a dialogue between u.s. secretary of state john kerry and russian foreign minister sergei lavrov saying that they do actually want to make sure that negotiations still prevail and that the parties in the conflict return to the idea of a transitional government on the ground that would hopefully lead to a solution of the crisis will have to wait and see exactly what shape and form this will take in the days to come r.t. correspondent ana stasia sharknado reporting from new york. well the new criticism of the cia as well as the obama administration is coming out this week now that's

because both are dragging their feet on the impending release of a six thousand page review of the u.s. torture program their review was ordered back during the days when george w. bush was still president and was finally completed last year six million documents were reviewed and many of them indicated a single very disturbing truth that torture tactics did not produce the intelligence that led american forces to osama bin ladin the report also reveals the fact that the bush administration was intimately involved in the counterterrorism operations although the findings suggest that the cia lied on numerous occasions about its covert activities and this information isn't even scratching the surface but once again lawmakers and the public are playing the waiting game and to supporting the day when the full length report will come to light so what's taking so long to answer that i'm joined by an investigative reporter with the wheel dot net marcy wheeler marcy's latest article was featured in salon and it's called why is the obama admin it why is obama withholding secret

torture report from americans hi there so this is a six thousand page report that is long sought after what do we know about its contents so far. i think that the three important points are one contrary to claims torture did not lead to osama bin laden to torture really didn't provide us much useful intelligence generally and three the last one the cia was misrepresenting what was going on to congress choose the department of justice and even to the white house so you know a lot of the claims a lot of the claims that say d.o.j. approval were based on were in fact false and i think that's a really important point not just for the torture program but for cia oversight generally now marci in my beginning i talked about the fact that it is taking forever to release this report what is taking it so long well it was approved in

december and originally of the cia was supposed to kind of come back to the senate intelligence committee on february fifteenth to. complain or give any complaint concerns it had about declassifying it at precisely that time period john brennan was being confirmed to be director of cia and he didn't read it before the confirmation hearings he just read the introductory volume. he afterwards has been saying well i need to read it now i need to read it there are indications that cia is going back to wants to go back to this an intelligence report committee and say you did it wrong you shouldn't have followed the cables the cia's own documents about what happened with torture you should have instead interviewed the torturers and asked them what they thought. and and also the white house is conducting a review apparently so basically i think it's it's stalling in the review

particularly given the cia in which they're you know they're using it as an opportunity to dispute the findings and as you had mentioned the cia a stalling it and also people said that the obama administration is working to slow it down or a list they're certainly not helping speed the process up more quickly you contend in your salon case that the white house is trying to protect itself rather than the cia how so well people often forget that the torture program actually was based on presidential authorization it goes back to september two thousand and one when george bush signed what's called a finding and a memorandum of notification authorizing the torture program so for at least four months after we started torturing there was no approval from d.o.j. it was just the president's ok and that's when a lot of the evil stuff went on and i think that the obama administration has actually gone out of their way to protect the evidence that the white house was actually behind the torture program and clearly this report is either going to show

that the white house didn't know what they had ordered up with the torture program or it's going to show that the white house actually directly authorized. torture which was illegal and you know i think at the very least i mean he may be protecting obama excuse me he may be protecting bush but he also may be protecting this to two ssion of the presidency and its ability to continue to authorize these covert program are they is adequate oversight should we really be all that surprised that the president isn't quick to have this proport released i mean after all this is making him talking about the previous administration's potential illegal activities shortly after his election right i mean you know obama came in and said i'm going to end torture but what he's not going to end is the authority of the president to order these covert operations torture is act would be authorization for torture is actually the same authorization that obama used and probably is still using for targeted killings for the drone program so he doesn't

want to lose that authority to engage in these covert operations with with inadequate oversight now and back in two thousand and nine president obama talked about looking forward as opposed to looking backward let's play that obviously we're going to be looking at past practices. and i don't believe that anybody has but the law on the other hand i also have a belief that we need to look forward as most as opposed to look looking backwards but marcy my question to you is is it possible to look forward without examining what happened in the past well do you know i think that's what obama really wants to do but eventually the international community is going to look backward if we don't here and we're going to lose credibility in refusing to hold torturers accountable here is there any rely on idea of what future consequences this release

could have you know the obama administration. pretended or investigated some of the torturers they investigated two of the deaths due to torture they investigated the cover up of torture with the torture tape destruction and they chose not to charge anyone but again i mean one of the only cases where a cia person has been charged in assault case going back to afghanistan in two thousand and three that d.j. wouldn't permit that person a guy by the name of david passaro to have all of the documents that show torture was approved from the president on down there are little i mean not sort of what they're hiding there are still a lot of questions we're going to have to wait for this docking to come out but who knows when that will be marcy wheeler investigative reporter at mt we'll dot net thanks while the british royal force has reached new heights this week the u.k. inducted its first ever drone strikes on british soil that's to say from

a drone control center and landing ten before all drone operations were remotely controlled from an american base in nevada the british force used in q nine reaper drone to support its troops in afghanistan's helmand province our senior international correspondent sara for us has more. well the world's military drones used to be directed from a small u.s. base in the volatile but no more after the carried out its first joint strike in afghanistan launched from u.k. soil at an area base in lincolnshire now not many official details have been released about the drone strike and nor are many likely to be given the level of secrecy surrounding the ministry of defense have confirmed that one of their reproduction is controlled by pilots from thirteen squadron an area affording to in lincolnshire fired a weapon supporting u.k. treats only ground in afghanistan now this is cause huge concern amongst and she joined campaign is at

a recent protest here in the cave the organizers had said that they see this is a sign that they'll be further civilian casualties as a result of drone use and will say the politicians would make it easier for them to be able to carry out military intervention now certainly many have seen this is a sign that this control of advanced technology has now spread far beyond the us indeed person alone has invested more than three billion dollars us about the billion pounds enjoying developments and there are plans to further expand is trying arsenal now the control to see surrounding the drains is highlighted again at the beginning of this year when the un launched an investigation looking at the extent civilian casualties but also the legality surrounding drone use now research team from london university are assisting them in that investigation and their findings are going to be presented to the un general assembly in the also in based

on what they find they could then recommend that further action be taken as we're seeing this increased drain usage with the u.k. having launched its first strike is proving ever more important to many campaign is that the legality and the questions they have a joining us an hour just properly in a clear and apron arena. that was r t international correspondent sara firth. now pretrial hearings for private first class bradley manning the accused wiki leaks are responsible for the biggest document drop in american history continue this week and in a new president and move defense attorney david coombs requested a closed hearing a dry run of sorts the points that is to trying to decide how to approach classified information during the trial supporters of this decision say it will make for fewer delays when the official trial actually begins but opponents claim that this is a dress rehearsal for a secret trial actually shrouded in a lot of secrecy one of those opponents is just right act she works with the

government accountability project and she joins me now for more heather just on thank you for joining me now this has been described as an precedented private hearing what makes it so groundbreaking well normally in the military you can have closed hearings in a court martial but normally there is limited there have been the extraordinary number of clues proceedings here i am not personally against the fact that they want to have a closed hearing tomorrow to try to hammer this out what i am having trouble with here is that for example the judge asked the prosecution how much of the trial do you envision closing and the prosecution oh very little but then when she drew down on that it turns out the prosecution said that they wanted the clues thirty percent and that is really unprecedented so we're dealing with an unprecedented level with secrecy even for a court martial and one of the reasons that they do want to close thirty percent of

the trial is because the government has one hundred forty one witnesses who can testify about half of those people will be testifying about classified information meaning that they would have to close thirty percent of the trial in public and also we do know that one of the people that will actually be testifying is somebody that was possibly involved in the osama bin ladin raid the information that came out of there and they actually talked about disk. easing him to actually make that so that it would be even more secret but obviously you have to have some disagreements with private first class manning's a lawyer david coombs and his decision to actually ask for this dry run of sorts why do you think he made this decision and only guessing but i think he made this decision because he wanted this see how this is very an orthodox procedure would work in reality in terms of having a witness that he may not be able to cross-examine the way you normally would a witness who has already been granted the ability to be examined in an undisclosed

location in disguise and i i think it was the right move for him to ask for that there's been so much that has been secret already in this trial leading up i mean there have been no transcripts of court rulings of what happened in the courtroom of motions that are submitted and finally facing a lawsuit finally the government released efore documents but again that's out of four hundred documents so it's already a case that's been riddled with secrecy and a lot of people say like you are such as yourself say that this is just another example of the fact that they are planning of conducting a secret trial at the same time though as i mentioned earlier opponent proponents for this say that it will actually help speed up the trial when the official trial begins because it will make for fewer interruptions what is their response to you

know i've heard that they have heard that argument that the way to have fewer interruptions is to hammer the stuff out ahead of time which would be what normally happens in a civilian trial you would agree a head of time on information that is sensitive being used with substitutions with redactions with summaries sometimes with code words you would figure all of that out ahead of. time well in advance of trial and right now we are a few weeks away from june third when trial begins and this is again the military asking for my understanding is an unprecedented level of secrecy even for a court martial now when private first class bradley manning first addressed the court his testimony was classified but a recording was actually leaked to the freedom of press foundation what was the justification for that that testimony in particular being classified in the first place and were there any negative consequences of having it leaked well i think. i

don't know why it was classified in the first place because i know documentarian aleck's o'brien has been making transcripts of what happened she is a regular citizen in even the military has referred people in the press oh go ask brian if you need a transcript in terms of the consequences i think the judge was quite displeased with that and said that it was not a right but a privilege that the press be allowed to know what's going on and even for this hearing today and the one tomorrow press credentials were not initially permitted the public affairs office was not going to issue any press credential and i guess they relented on that decision just one way back from the government accountability project thank you for a way again. all right ladies get ready for the newest fashion assessor to hit the markets this one is brought to you by the ever fashion forward national rifle

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drop your kids off and leave and run errands i want to protect my child in any way that's possible i want them to have that right to protect the thing that we are featured while i'm launching this website and channel the n.r.a. and associated groups are targeting women as the next major demographic for gun sales however that might be easier said than done sixty five percent of women in the u.s. after all support tough gun legislation the only question now is how do you get that gun out of the bra given the fact that the style is for women to wear tight shirts. back to the drawing board i guess and that's going to do it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america check out our website that's r t dot com slash usa and don't forget to follow me on twitter at meghan underscore lopez but before you come back here for the five pm show because i know you are going to be sure to stay tuned because up next there's our new show prime interest with the host perry and boring.

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good afternoon and welcome the prime interest i'm perry and boring here in washington d.c. and here's the stories that we're tracking today. the marketplace fairness act passed the senate yesterday and is headed for pushback in the republican controlled house the bill would require amazon evade and other online retailers to collect taxes on all sales and send the proceeds to your state we'll have our own debate on this bill in just a bit also litigation a little bank of america has settled yet another lawsuit this one is with financial insurance giant m.b.i.a. which owes merrill lynch three billion dollars for insurance claims on bad mortgages that countrywide wrote but bank of america now owns both country why they went to that.