ballistic rockets launched in the mediterranean and detected by russia were part of an israeli missile defense test that briefly hiked sanction in the region waiting for a possible u.s. strike on syria. with american troops preparing to leave afghanistan for good next year washington's challenge to plough sort same as one of its pilots prison facilities there and said it's so dark it marks people looks like some might come. on board comes faster so better is all the crisis in the eurozone voters give a hard time to germany's general election hopefuls but they believe bogus to meet all of the main priorities should be.

useful in russia under around the while this is with me judicial power thanks for joining us. israel has carried out an unannounced missile test and the military rainy and sparking and alert in light of a military build up in the region will strike on syria the confirmation came after the launch of two rockets was detected by russian radars and she's a girl just going off thirty's. the missiles were launched at around five am g.m.t. in the mediterranean apparently in the central part of the sea and then headed towards. and this was detected by russia's early warning system and then reported by the defense ministry at first no one else could officially confirm that this happened including israel and the u.s. but then would heard from the israeli defense ministry which announced that this

was a test of the new eighty missile defense system they say was conducted with the assistance of washington although this still hasn't been confirmed by the united states israel says that a military plane fired a rocket which was then intercepted or shot down by an interceptor missile now this late raises lots of questions over the timing of such tests and how appropriate they are at the moment in that area in the mediterranean very close to syria with the whole country and the region around it currently being flooded with tension and concern over a possible military intervention into the situation there by the west although most nato members said that they are not planning to take part in any military action against president assad's regime france and the u.s. seem to be ready to do so in fact earlier president obama said that washington may start a military operation without the approval of the u.n. a vote he did say he wanted to consult with congress with less than twenty four

hours ago we've heard from u.s. secretary of state john kerry who said that in this situation the a pool of these congress isn't really essential now this brings us back to the timing of these launches maybe military analysts now say that what happened today may have not only been aimed at testing some new military hardware but also checking how much time it takes for possibly syrian authorities to react to the situation and even possibly to see how much time it takes for russia's early warning system to react as well or in other words how much time it takes for these missiles to be detected but clearly this only increased the tensions and uncertainty in the region as the international military buildup also continues. meanwhile there's a massive u.s. and allied naval deployment in the eastern mediterranean off serious coastline as well as in the persian gulf and the red sea russia's also sending warships to the troubled region but denies the squaring up to america let's not take

a look at the u.s. fleet that five yards destroyers loaded with missiles along with an amphibious assault ship are already in the mediterranean poised for a potential strike in addition and have craft carrier group move to the red sea from the indian ocean to support an attack on sea where i've ordered these super carrier the u.s.s. nimitz is one of the largest warships in the world at more than three hundred meters long it's powered by nuclear reactors and has ninety planes and helicopters on board it's accompanied by a cruiser and three destroy is. the us military buildup in the region is taking place ahead of a congressional debate next week on whether to support barack obama's decision to strike syria balance as the chorus of those against washington's military involvement is growing at home and now apparently it's even been joined by some servicemen as judging by the images uploaded on social media people wearing

military uniform seen brandishing posters saying they did not join up to find for al-qaeda in syria while the pictures can be verified already the pentagon is reportedly looking into the identities of those involved meanwhile veteran gordon duff explain to us why many within the u.s. military are not eager to support this syrian rebels. fifty to seventy percent of americans are clearly opposed to up. against syria and members of the military particularly the last five thousand killed fighting the same groups in iraq that we are advocating that we support in syria so members of the military from either side in their clear divisions in the military both the left and the right none of them have any reason to want to support syrian rebels president obama has got himself painted into a corner there is no way out meanwhile in the syrian capital of

a prospect of us let's try x. is not want scaring people the modest house he's worried if an ocean reports now from damascus. we were last time in damascus a year ago now we returned and we decided to meet some of the people we've previously interviewed for our report but sadly many of them have either fled the chaos or were killed one of those who died was hamad rafia yon very successful very famous actor who was also another and activist he chose wards to defend his country and he was killed for that out of our. look like the movie was her we met muhammad in july two thousand and twelve during the filming of one of the most popular syrian t.v. dramas the way he played one of the leading roles syrian series used to be financially backed by the gulf states but after the conflict erupted here those countries vocal critics of the assad regime was jus investments from an industry

that's made syria famous across the arab world they want to fight everything good in syria they don't want us to be. shows our drama to the work to shows our history or the way we live the way we love each other the way we taking care of each other's that's why they stop they stop they are fighting us actually. exactly ten months after muhammad's death we meet his brother knew. daniel. that evening a guy who was supposed to be a friend of my homage asked him for a live somewhere muhammad was helpless by a lot because he was poor then one people appeared out of nowhere and grabbed him and the next day we got an anonymous tip that he'd been killed and his body had been cut into pieces but we didn't believe that it was only a civilian we thought why would anybody kill and several days later his body was

five shots i wanted. and was killed with three bullets one to his leg one to the stomach and one to his neck on wood. it's. not it's. not such a welcome what their level during the kidnapping they want to take him alive to torture in order to force him to confess that he was working for the government and then szell that algis either of course the p.l.o. out of money for that sort of thing like but he resisted to the death which. is why the chickens bhatia and they too can they also took his car it's common that such cars are leaving used in terror attacks three weeks ago we got news they'd been a car bombing and i was muhammad's car. no real brother died ten months ago exactly ten months ago why do you think he was killed he talked openly about what he

thought. paul did the live here in searing damascus change in the last ten months and that may not last i shot him after mohamed stance many people who supported the opposition changed their minds they knew that he was very kind and help people all people regardless of their beliefs so when he died they asked themselves what are the people who belong to the opposition doing if they kill innocent civilians some of them are nothing more than criminals. what do you think about possible airstrike that america is now planning. i smile when they tell me about the american attack we syrians are only afraid of god we're not afraid of us nor showed us another this time empty grave in the cemetery the boy's father who is also well known actor living in damascus has already reserved for himself. a recent ocean r.t. from damascus syria. and let's now go live to brussels and talk to.

who is a member of the european parliament a very welcome to our great to see here europe looks quite divided on the syrian issue with france wanting to go ahead and strike syria and the u.k. parliament a ruling it out how deep are the divisions and what are the chances of europe making a unified decision on the matter. first of all i don't think they are divided on syria in the sense that we have very close to or brother and sister of syria from the first the first reason just after two thousand and eleven those who are in the streets are fighting and we're fighting for a revolution and more democracy in syria the fact is that after months this.

syria river addition became a proxy war with interference coming from. from so we arrived from iran or from hezbollah it's a draw from one side and another side and it is difficult now to find those who are real. fighting for democracy and those who have a specific interest in the region and the release of rage and conflict and the distribution of the real issue is more and more acute every day this is the reason why europe is divided we'll strives. solve the problem and protect the population or the opposite side with its interests from some countries that and. ten and diffuse

in regional and even maybe twelve more international conflicts very difficult to master you know very well that they are at least two million refugees in lebanon turkey. and jordan it's impossible today for. every one to two to two to sustain. this every few years he could create political problems as he sees the reason of the division of the of europe who are the ones there are nick and let's not talk about the humanitarian consequences of this syrian conflict the civil war has already forced more than two million people out of the country are there fears in a year ago there might be a repeat of the influx of refugees the europe after the after the events in tunisia and libya for instance is that possible that we can see it this time around as well

. well the risk of this regime is to the. direct. in our ideally room red europe doesn't open more the borders in the sense that we refuse in the syrian refugees i was discussing. yesterday afternoon with one of the director of it which is who is one of the director of the humanitarian branch of. the european union and it was telling me that even for the next winter we don't have a forty person of the necessary birgitte to support the refugees. who are present now in this country wards if there is

a military intervention and in the tiny. effect on the people trying to flee everywhere what of all the palestinian syrian refugees the borders of lebanon or clothes both of us of jordan up close the border of palestine of course are because the borders of israel are so what these people in to meet the first war is a humanitarian war we must absolutely help these people either to find a new home or to come back to their country but at least to support that and i'm afraid that instead of helping the population of syria one part of this population an idea i must say is supporting bashar al assad the christian minority is afraid of for sure extremist

a regime. member of european parliament of a. any light from brussels ernie thank you very much indeed for sharing your views with us and you will. have a debate. next week. so. we thank you very much looking forward to it thank you. and would like to hear what she's saying about the your threats of a military strike on syria and on our website call where asking what the end game will look like if the u.s. goes ahead with intervention plans that let's now have a look at how you've been voting so far and right now all of the hope of you saying a devastation a region wide conflict will break out a fifth of both of those who vote at c.t.v. or as a blueprint for what could happen next fifteen percent believe washington wouldn't hit out at sea or air on its own and eighty percent of you agree any strike would

be a short and precise to go to r.t. dot com and cast your vote. mass unemployment tax evasion by the richest of the rich and the eurozone heading down at dad and pundits and germany believe those are just a small part of the financial issues being scattered around during the country's election campaign and hopes the one and only t.v. debate would reaganite critical donald have left he was disappointed he said on of

hostilities in the post as the flesh is being pressed but this german election campaign is hardly setting pulses racing maybe that's a whole idea make it as boring as possible so i know everybody kind of goes to sleep and doesn't worry about the real issues what we have being treated to is chancellor angela merkel talking about potato soup main challenger. reading fairy tales and the green party suggesting compulsory vegetarian days where does it stop i mean are they going to start a couple to refrigerators at home and check to see what you've got there as well or they're going to shut down the burger kings and the gods on tuesdays and so you have to serve edgy burgers aside from the greens apparent to fascism have been some peculiar manifesto promises the social democrats want legislation to prevent stress in the workplace and the free democrats hoping to win over commuters by making it illegal for trains to be late all destruction tactics according to those hoping to

win their first seats in the bundestag they don't want to touch the real problems with the euro crisis. diminishing pension funds survey come up with things like the green party wanting a veggie day one reason being cited is the lack of a major issue for the parties to really attack each other on when you talk about their support for the government's decision to implement the firm to initiate further payments for greece they all said yes yes yes there is no real opposition in parliament. so providing the comic relief in an otherwise dreary campaign. the party very easy to remember. with policies such as banning tourists from berlin and building a wall around the whole of germany these jokers are quietly confident we want to get into power and then we will decide what we are going to do with it what do you

think the chances are. our chances are pretty good we expect to take one hundred percent of the vote and even more in all seriousness though with greece looking likely to need a third bailout package will be no laughing matter for those that come to power after september the twenty second they're going to have to deal with some real issues as they take their seats in the bundestag peter all of a r.t. . and more news ahead including a look at the fate of dozens of inmates in the infamous u.s. prison in by iran and afghanistan and much more after the break.

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her again this is all she let's move on now the u.s. military's twelve year fight in afghanistan is drawing to a close but there is some unfinished business on the ground washington still doesn't know what to do with its trail in bond ground built in early stages of the war on terror it may be dubbed this second gone tunnel mode but its reputation for torture abuse and lethal interrogation methods made even gets much osses it reports now on what the future holds for background now. some call the prison a second guantanamo although in reality it was established just before the detention center in cuba and at one point housed twice as many inmates at the height of the u.s. war in afghanistan but these are just details the two really could be called sister jails just like guantanamo bay graham is used to detain people apprehended in the u.s. war and terror and has been around for more than a decade the detention centers have both had their fair share of scandals

surrounding the conditions in which the prisoners are held and the way they are treated humiliation of inmates by u.s. personnel physical and emotional abuse allegations of torture you can really sign off the checklist as you go for both prisons and of course the biggest common trait inmates in so-called administrative detention that's people who were arrested but never received a court trial they've been behind bars for years and will stay there for no one knows how long sure american officials insist some of detainees at bagram a hard core al qaeda operatives and will immediately get back to the old business of terrorism the minute they're set free and just look at guantanamo there are prisoners of program who have already been cleared for release and yet remain in jail sixty seven of them for more than a dozen different countries and no one knows what to do with them again sounds very familiar doesn't it however things that bug rome are slightly more complicated than i told him oh by the fact the facility has actually been handed over to the afghan

government which was deeply unhappy about having a foreign operated jail on its soil to begin with as soon as coupled to a cool control of the ground in march it either transferred or released prisoners what to do with the almost seventy foreign nationals that remain in what to do with the u.s. because some allege the americans are still very president fearing that i'm going to fish a little releasing mates that the u.s. sees as a threat to its security and i'm going to fishel strongly dislike having these foreign detainees in their custody so far no solution has been provided by any side involved in this day and in fact one top american military general has confessed that there is absolutely no plan on how to deal with the detainees at bagram so the stalemate looks set to drag on. and my bag spanned three years being dragged through america's the attention program from grant and dan time of day he said live in background was so terrifying actually looking for a move to get. amongst the things that i witnessed was prisoners being

beaten in two cases actually physically to death one of the techniques they used to use was to hold us into common or souls our hands were tied above our heads to the top of the cage for punishment or for discipline a hood would be closer placed over our heads and we would be left there sometimes for hours on end and in this way i saw at least one person getting beaten so badly that it was that he was beaten to death and weren't even allowed to get up to walk we weren't even allowed to pray in congregation if we didn't comply with the orders would simply be taken to the front of the so well to the isolation cells and they would be physically tortured and i was during one interrogation i remember very clearly being interrogated by the cia with my hands tied behind my back to my legs and in the next room there was a sound of a woman screaming that they led me to believe was my wife being tortured and at the same time they were waving pictures of my children in front of me asking me what do

you think has happened to them where do you think they are right now suggesting that they were also in custody and this is the sort of place by graham was it was a terrible place and it was a place where i believe quite categorically that murder took place at the hands of u.s. soldiers for my part it was worse than quanto in fact by the time i'd finished being a prisoner and by grown for most eleven months i was actually looking forward to going to guantanamo. on line for you right now russian tycoons in the cross has old belorussian justice would be c.e.o. one of two world's largest potash producers detained in minsk over corruption charges both over his time that tension to the company's principal. and also julian assange falls no punches in washington as he enters a needle investigation i will what he claims is a local crime down by the do was so on the weekend leaks website says he marks that one thousand days in confinement had to r.t. dot com for more. that's not check some other international news stories in brief

this hour egyptian army helicopters have launched an airstrike into the militant strongholds in the sinai peninsula a key area used for rocket launches according to state t.v. at least troops in missiles were killed while ammunition warehouses and vehicles were destroyed a group operation is reportedly now under way egypt's been trying to tackle rising terrorist activity in the region since the arab spring revolution that toppled president mubarak and twenty eleven. japan will invest almost five hundred million dollars into town thing a toxic leak of the country's tsunami crippled fukushima nuclear power plant a government plan sees the creation of a wall of frozen iran the reactors to provide underground water from contact with contaminated water the lead has caused a sharp rise in radiation levels around the site. and bahrain has a now suitable how is the prominence has portions of the upon our court of human

rights the movies presented by the government as a leap towards protecting human rights in the region it's already been labeled a p.r. stunt by acts of its the country's rulers have been repeatedly accused of a crime down on the opposition and now critics fear the court could become a political tool in the hands of the k. . of next aussies can. as a report focuses on how guessing. big brother is glad. many gay bars are starting to refuse to sell russian vodka as a means of protesting the homosexual propaganda laws in russia as i've said before boycotts are

a great way to put pressure on people but are they putting pressure on the right people not only is it racist to assume that hurting the vodka flow will deal a massive blow to the russian economy but it is also racist to think that any vodka with a russian sounding name is itself russian and many videos angry gay bartenders were pouring stolichnaya vodka which should be put out by the way onto the ground in a fury but if those bartenders would take a closer look at the labels they would see that exported stoli is produced in bold in latvia by the s.p.i. group not in russia also according to the n.p.t. group beverage alcohol report the most popular vodka in america with a russian sounding name is smirnoff which is british owned and produced and bottled in various countries around the globe including the usa itself we do support the american worker people have to panic over the hip and trendy scandal of the month but everyone seems to be ignoring the fact that homosexuality itself is legal in russia and this punishable in many other countries including

a death sentence in some of them and yet russia gets all the attention if people really wanted to effectively boycott any country with any laws even hinting against homosexuality they would have to hit them where it hurts and stop getting natural resources imported from countries like russia saudi arabia venezuela and iran and so on and so on that is a vastly more difficult proposition than pouring american made vodka onto the sidewalk but i. just my opinion.