you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i had luck i got so many i mean. i believe that i'm seeing the same thing really messed up. in the old story so personally i believe the. worst you were going through the white house or the. radio guy for a minute from the click. like what we're about to give you never seen anything like this i'm thrilled. to meet him on ocho everyone i'm happy martin and this is breaking the set as an

unfortunate update to last month's factory collapse in bangladesh the death toll is now well over eleven hundred people in the aftermath of the tragedy in labor organizations and garment workers all over the world have been pressuring the retailers these clothes are made in these factories to sign onto an international safety pact it's an agreement of require all foreign retailers in the country to pay for safety inspections and upgrades to factories that would prevent the same type of future capacities now while a dozen european companies have joined in to pledge safer working conditions shockingly nearly every american clothing chain with the same investment these factories have declined these corporations including wal-mart target gap and j.c. penney wal-mart the world's largest retailer and biggest purchaser of clothes from bangladesh factories said it wouldn't sign the agreement because quote it introduces requirements including governance and dispute resolution mechanisms on the supply chain matters that are properly left the retailers suppliers and

government and are unnecessary to achieve fire in safety goals. interesting who's behind all that fancy rhetoric. all i really heard was that wal-mart won't do anything that might jeopardize their pretty and part packed pocket books even if it means just a few more mere pennies because you see it's quite obvious that these companies are looking out for themselves to avoid potential future lawsuits so here's a thought if you commit to better safety standards and fair working conditions you wouldn't have to face lawsuits and more importantly you wouldn't have to deal with over one thousand workers whose deaths are now on your hands and again i guess all of that logic makes a little too much sense for us retailers who would rather save pennies than lives so join me because it's about that time to break the set. that's. ever seen anything like that.

there's one thing that's guaranteed for every living thing on earth and that's death but there are many uncertainties until that point like the when and how this medicine and technology advance human life has become prolonged but at what cost many of us who are lucky enough to reach old age may face crippling afflictions and degenerative diseases that greatly reduce the quality of life so is it wrong to choose death on our own terms i'm talking about assisted suicide or assisted death it's an issue that's been heavily debated in this country for years and this week the issue is taking center stage yet again lawmakers in vermont just voted to pass a bill that would make doctor assisted death legal effectively making it the third state in us along with oregon and washington to legalize the practice well earlier i spoke with a board member of the death with dignity national center georgia amy about the

newest legislation and its implications check it out. i can't help but bring up jack kevorkian of course who is the face of this is the death in the u.s. he was tried for second degree murder what to prison i mean george did his case help shift the movement forward or back. it initially is unusual process the shift. of the movement forward because he brought it out in the open his final stages were negative and it was not all that he pushed the envelope so far but i will not say that it is a new so action is actually moved to move the process because people started talking about people started saying you know we should have rights at the end of life to determine our final days. now we have

guidelines and protections and safe guards built into the law so that could work in type of action could not happen. and george give our audience a breakdown of the typical profile of a person who is seeking a says to death. be. brute typical profile is is an individual in it can be it's about fifty one percent males forty eight percent to. females forty nine percent females it's not any one sex but. highly educated and on tend to be fine usually independent. and they are also close family totnes their majority caucasian. and they are wanting to determine. their final days. and you said you know obviously they're they're

facing a terminal illness i want to throw out a couple hypotheticals for you and see what you thought what about in the extreme case of someone who already see counsel to die in the right state of mind but perhaps developed a degenerative brain disease such as alzheimer's that perhaps it's time for making that decision later on what would be the right course of action in a situation like this. in that particular case the person who becomes disqualified . is non able to receive the medication and if they have received the medication it will probably be not used to or taken away so that prevent any accidents at any time and in our founding fathers believed in the right to self-determination and if that means that we have all to make control over our lives what if a person simply is chronically depressed and is in perfect health i mean should a line be drawn to turn people away from the system death. yes we believe.

a person who. is mentally incompetent debilitating depressive depression of some type and should not have access to the lot because they need our help and we refer them to. mental therapy or whatever the case may be so that they can get the type of help they need. no one should be making this decision out of depression now again let me just say that anyone who was terminally ill and has a prognosis of six months or fewer to live is sad they are to die that doesn't mean they're so depressed that again a few years with their ability to make some decisions it's the person who is really mentally incompetent to the extent that their depression interferes with their ability to meet some decisions that becomes disqualified and let's talk about the

latest news which is her mind i mean poised to be the third to stay in the us of all alice is to dad yet remains on leave or elsewhere i mean what if someone in d.c. went to vermont to aid their loved ones with this procedure what they be protected from prosecution. well first of all in order to exercise your rights under the law you have to be a citizen of the respective state you have to be a citizen. you know from our oregon or washington before you can access it now if a relative wishes to come from out of state to be at the bedside of their loved one yes they are protected it is not classified as assisted suicide are under the state statutes or under the common laws of the respective states they are there is a specific provision in each of the statutes that sets being at the bedside or being with a person when they exercise that's right is not

a crime and vermont's governor who supports the bills says that anyone age eighteen or older which you mentioned earlier at the alter age with an incurable disease given a maximum of six months to life. to live rather can obtain prescribe a lethal drugs but once again if we do have a right to self-determination should there be an age limit if the suffering is the same. we have to make decisions with regard to how this was going to be a limited limited to the extent of protecting vulnerable people protecting individuals from coercion marius concerns that were not only expressed by the opponents but concerned by us that we said we have to have limitations on the limitations were made very clear it's an adult it's not someone who is under the age of eighteen who can exercise that we feel that that decision is best made by

somebody who was mature enough to make it secondly there are people who. and go through this process and want to do it hastily they came after the fifteen day waiting period to war all requests the written request the two doctors all the various protections so that the vulnerable will not. readily have access to any of us. that is a protection and yeah i agree that you know in a true society where a libertarian society where you would do what you wish to do that would be the way to do it but it is not because we live in a reality where there are people who do need to be good protected and that's what the laws are related so i understand that this is such a controversial issue considering how we euthanize our pets when we see them suffering it is a monumental step further monta but i understand the bill did take ten years to

pass one of the men opposing forces deterring the death from the dignity movement nationwide. or nationwide is basically the religious concerns certain of the face. we have religious objections and they are able to raise sufficient funds to sort of fight the passage of these laws surprisingly europe is behind the curve which i was shocked about minus switzerland of course the only country foreigners can go to for assisted death why is this so taboo even in places that are considered more progressive than the us. well the netherlands switzerland never lose their allow it but it's also again the religious aspect the religious forces are very very powerful in you know this in the abortion issue these.

situations re lot of religious concerns and we have tried to address those but sometimes unsuccessfully persuading these groups thank you george amy board member death of dignity national center appreciate your time. we're taking a quick break but still ahead we'll take a look at pakistan post elections and we'll look back at one of the most atrocious pieces to come out of the war in iraq. mission. pretty take three. four charges three. arrangement three. three. three. three broadcast quality video for your media projects a free video done to our teeth dot com. potentially deadly blizzard taking aim for

the northeast it's expected to hit stunning in a few hours from new york to maine we have team coverage of the storm. but what we're watching is the very heavy snow moving into boston properly or today it was very sticky you can see it start to become much more patrie down to the bottom line there is still a lot of snow out here a good place for snowball fight. d.c. it is been a pretty incredible day there and record snowfall throughout what's been like bilbies like three drugs this is something we're just seeing here exceptional.

such. a good you just received anything like the tax. cut. pakistan's elections took place last week resulting in the water sharif of the pakistan muslim league returning to leave the country as prime minister for a third time after being exiled so now that the elections are over the world's watching to see it sharif leadership will work to cut us his puppet strings in the deadly drone wars in the country here to give us some more insight on the ground in

pakistan of the vote protests and u.s. pakistani relations moving forward as our teams on the. things that largely calmed down since the elections with the majority of the people here really excited about the vote turnout was at a record sixty percent and we did see people really enthusiastic about it in the streets but there was violence although in a country of one hundred eighty to one hundred ninety million roughly twenty nine people were killed on voting day now in this city qur'an cheap more voting problems than elsewhere in pakistan different parties have rejected the results and have been protesting although it's not a large scale sort of thing and has more to do with internal political feuds than anything else we haven't seen many incidents of violence after the election certainly nothing like the bloody intimidation campaign by the pakistani taliban leading up to the votes which had claimed more than one hundred thirty lives now in karachi unfortunately the city is no stranger to violence this may be caucused on economic capital but it is incredibly dangerous here you have rival gangs that control parts of the city and battle each out in bloody turf wars you have the

taliban which has been growing as a powerful force taking over some neighborhoods turning them into no go areas for the police they have in fact been holding mobile sure real law courts and we actually saw phone numbers advertising this and flyers from the taliban threatening residents this is something that we saw in one of our trips to a neighborhood yesterday now you also have crime here due to a concrete economic situation so it was a volatile mix that's been claiming rock lives across karate we spent the day yesterday with emergency workers at a more cooler struggling to find room for all the bodies coming in so really a sad wild west kind of atmosphere here. but by and large it was a peaceful vote that's hard to say how ties between the united states and pakistan will change under now was sharif has said that it has good relations with washington but also criticizes the strong campaign of the talk on pakistan's sovereignty and also says the pakistan should reconsider partaking in america's war on terror is also in favor of negotiations with the taliban so it's a mixed message and many people here think it doesn't bode necessarily well for

ties with the united states asked for a sentiment on the ground most people are excited about the results in terms of foreign policy i would say that most people are not against the american people but we did hear a lot of anti american policy sentiment again with the drone wars and the war on terror so it really depends depends on what chooses to do but it looks like the country is moving. two thousand and thirteen doesn't only mark ten years since the start of the one of the most baseless and botched wars in u.s. history and also marks ten years since the beginning of one of the most heinous acts that's come to characterize the u.s. occupation of iraq and talk about the abu ghraib prison or perhaps i should say torture chamber it served as a center of torture and abuse under saddam's regime and two thousand and three u.s.

occupying forces took it over to the headquarters of sorts to gather intelligence but it wasn't until two thousand and four that we learned of the methods being used to gather the so-called intelligence you may remember seeing this photo prisoners like this one were hooded and told to stand on platforms for hours to wires they were told that if they moved it would be electrocuted or this one or prisoners were stripped naked and bound in stress positions sexual abuse and compass some of the most of the humanizing tactics i've ever heard of everything from smearing feces and menstrual blood on people's faces to forcing them to commit homo sexual acts with other detainees u.s. military personnel also sick dogs on prisoners for intimidation purposes and took part in other tactics such as dragging their genitals across a freezing wet concrete floor and burning them with cigarettes. but sadly as horrific as these images are and as shocking as these tactics may be accorded the

personnel involved in the abuse they didn't constitute torture instead they refer to the tactics as a kind of softening up kind of orientation phase for detainees sergeant vala davis who was later charged with dereliction of duty because of the scandal said quote torture didn't happen in those photographs torture happened during interrogations guys going in terror into interrogation were killed and they died we don't have photographs of that yes one can only imagine the horrors waiting for the detainees behind closed doors and perhaps the most chilling part of all of this is that after all was said and done after hundreds of iraqi lives were destroyed there was zero intelligence to show for it exactly as what was outlined in a documentary called ghosts of. thirty years that i worked with were all extremely frustrated by the lack of intelligence they were getting during interrogations and

most of them in truth attributed to the fact that they had prisoners who didn't have intelligence to give them the interrogators who were in my unit spent all your there and they were telling me that they got nothing you have no intelligence just an enormous amount of human rights violations even though these photos shook the world and serve as a turning point in public support for the iraq war the other ghraib scandal has left a deep deep scar on the legacy of this country one that deepens by the day as the real officials responsible for these atrocities continue to walk free and no i'm not talking about the handful of low level military personnel charges the result rather i'm referring to the war criminals who implemented torture on a systematic level and built the framework of these standard operating procedures the white house is famous they claim that albert ghraib was simply the work of a few bad apples low level soldiers independently conspired to dehumanize. and torture detainees but in fact it was a widespread policy under direct orders from the bush administration look obviously

all of them are culpable and guilty of war crimes but there is one person who sits at the top of this torture pyramid former secretary of defense donald rumsfeld is the rumsfeld not only supervise the planning for extreme interrogation but he also arranged for justice department memos to approve these additional techniques in fact he was so encouraging he even made jokes about how certain methods weren't harsh enough he even personally senate general to abu ghraib in order to get mo wise the facility making clear that physical pressures and degradation were more than appropriate so as we think about the legacy of the iraq war and let's not forget about one of its darkest moments the grave in the criminals responsible continue to rot the core of our so-called democracy along with every principle and ideal that america claims to hold so dear.

scandal was a shocking revelation of the horrifying torture tactics that the u.s. government capable of inflicting against prisoners of war following the initial outrage eleven u.s. military personnel were tried in charge what happened at the torture victims what happened to hundreds of iraqis who pass through the prison enduring everything from sexual humiliation to physical abuse while three of the great prisoners all of whom were tortured are now hoping to come to the u.s. to testify about the brutalities that they endured and are plaintiffs in a lawsuit against a defense contractor they claim is in part responsible for the torture that took place so where does the case stand and what hope is there for real justice to talk about all that and more i'm joined now by our bed new legal director for the i'm sorry the air. discrimination thank you so much for ground thank you for having us

so you know some people look at this scandal shockingly even today and say it's not a big deal at all i want to play a quick clip of the fox five discussing just that are. you on the grave to member the outrage over all the gays wanted donald rumsfeld's head this goes to the top over naked pyramids remember that the media covered it like crazy people nobody died and a naked pyramid first of all someone did die so that's absurd but what is your response to when you hear things like i mean i'm shocked by what she had to say and i'm shocked by views that way i mean what happened at abu ghraib is certainly a deep scar on this country's history and something that we must take seriously and it's certainly not. you know not not as what she's saying it's really an issue and something that we should really pay attention to absolutely who are these three men that are pursuing this lawsuit that what they experience to make them want to do it while it's for money in total they have brought forward a loss when they experience the torture that you described in your opening the experience everything from having dogs to the experience having bit of bodily harm

emotional harm so these these individuals were the victims these individuals were the victims in the pictures the ones that we've seen in the images that have been plastered across the world that's who these individuals represent unfortunately three of them have been barred entry forms from the united states and we don't know the reason why despite the fact that litigation has moved forward on their case and we are in a courtroom and they are in a court room and seeking recourse for what has happened to them they're still not allowed here they have not been permitted entry and what happened i mean i mean you said that you don't really know the justification for which but i mean your organization has petitioned the department homeland security to urge these prisoners through or the i'm sorry these three men to testify on u.s. soil can you explain any sort of hold up of what exactly happened there what we're we're not clear exactly what hold and that's what we're trying to get from the part of him when security has been what's the reasons these individuals were not allowed in and are not permitted and. foreign aliens are allowed a recourse they're allowed to bring suits in court in under alien tort claims act

but setting the precedent where you don't allow these individuals in is a dangerous precedent for this country just said so or petition to the part of homeland security to allow these individuals in so they can have their day in court and present their story the center for constitutional rights and other organizations another handful of attorneys have put a lot of effort into these cases nearly a decade's worth of work and we want to see that commence we want to see the story we want to give these individuals their day in court and we need to the part of homeland security to tell us as to why they haven't been permitted and why they hold up so there's a lot of. ambiguity surrounding this case and what is the precedent that was set back a while ago that said that foreigners can charge either u.s. government or corporations on u.s. soil we're we're looking at a precedent that our founding fathers have established in the late seventeen hundreds early eighteen hundred so this is nothing new to this country i mean there was a point in time where this country stood against torture and against these type of acts in the founding fathers foresaw you know they wanted to run this type of activity and it's a shame that we're going back on these foundations the magna carta alone i mean

eight hundred year law that somehow this aerated then a mere decade you know what sort of president would it set for them not to come in i mean and also talk about the corporation that they are setting because i think a lot of people think about the group they don't think of the defense contractors involvement you're absolutely right the president has said it's really just prevent anybody from coming in so do you just could really deny entry or as we've been seeing happening in a parallel issue of the denial of entry in permitting arab muslims to fly into the u.s. for whatever reason they end up on a no no fly list but you would start seeing a president where these individuals that bring these suits forward have just a simple denial they would no longer be able to appear for their depositions and appear for court hearings and it's important to keep in mind that it's not only government officials that are responsible what happened not to worry about it also doesn't till and does involve some corporations such as this one. they have their hands dirty and need to pay for what they've done it's amazing what you see you

know the people at the top he's kind of mocking them at fox news though they're blaming rumsfeld i mean he really is the person at the top of the fair but of course they can throw people into the bus but it doesn't change what really happened so is it a question of just raising awareness pressure in homeland security i mean really what are the chances of then relinquishing their hold on this case and what can people do to help this happen and really get these people's restoration well i'm hoping that it's not just raising awareness we want to see results we want to see this move forward who want to see this into these individuals given the opportunity to come to the u.s. and have their being court in what we could what we could hope to do and what we can continue keep doing is putting pressure on homeland security continue writing our letters making our phone calls and the advocacy portion of it so that it's going to take some work but we're optimistic that this could be resolved in these individuals could be given the opportunity to tell their side of the story let's hope that that happens certainly would be a very crucial thing to move forward you legal director for the american arab anti-discrimination committee. now feel like we see so far check us out on hulu at

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