things. so bullish stick rockets launched in the mediterranean and detected by russia were part of an israeli missile defense danced that briefly high tension in the region waiting for a possible u.s. strike on syria. with american troops preparing to lead up gonna stand for good next chair washington's challenge to close what's seen as one of its violet's prison facilities that are considered to be considered to be so dark it makes it look like a summer camp. and all kinds of fast soup and veggies all the prices in the europe protests give a hard time to germany's general election hopefuls who they believe focus to this one won't be main priority should be.

international news live from moscow this is us he was me you know thanks for joining us. israel has carried out and announced missile tests in the mediterranean sparking an alert in lines of a military buildup in the region for a potential strike on syria the confirmation came after the launch of two rockets was detected by russian radars and is going off john is now live with more details igor a high that so will do in about the test and this caused the two missiles were launched at around five am g.m.t. in the new saw waters off the mediterranean sea and then headed towards its eastern calls this was detected by russia's early warning system and then reported by the defense ministry at first no one else could officially confirm this including

israel and the united states but then we've heard from the israeli defense. which said that that was a test of a new anti missile defense system which they conducted along with the u.s. washington did confirm that they provided technical assistance tell if said that a military plane fired a rocket which was then intercepted by another missile now. a lot of questions around lots of questions around the timing off the drill or off the test since the full region. around syria and the mediterranean is right there in the neighborhood is now filled with tensions with concerns of a possible military intervention led by the u.s. since most nato members did say that they're not planning to take part in any military action against president assad's regime but france and the u.s. do seem ready to do so and only a president barack obama did say that washington may start a military operation even without the approval of the u.

when he does want to see the approval of the congress but we've just heard from the u.s. president who said that he's absolutely confident in the senator's approval and he stressed once again that this would be a short term military operation aimed at reducing president assad's capabilities and also stressed that he wants to see more help and assistance provided to the rebels now this brings us back to the timing of this drill so since many military analysts now are saying that it may have not been only a test of the new military hardware but they have also been a test to see how the syrian authorities may react to such a situation or even possibly to see how long it takes for russia's. monitoring systems to detect such rocket launches in that area so the tensions are clearly still arising in the region around syria and so is. international military

presence. is going off in moscow you go many thanks indeed for that. meanwhile there's a massive you are stunned allied naval deployment in the eastern mediterranean off syria's coastline as well as in the persian gulf and the red sea russia's also sending warships to the troubled region but denies squaring up to america let's now take a detail luke of the you asked for leave bear fire the u.s. destroyer is loaded with missiles along with an amphibious assault ship already in the military and poised for a potential strike in addition an aircraft carrier group moved to the red sea from the indian ocean to support an attack on syria ordered this 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 is accompanied by a cruiser and three destroyers the u.s.

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 but 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 that's judging by images uploaded on social media people wearing military uniforms brandishing posters saying they did not join up to find for al-qaeda in syria while the pictures come to verify and already the pentagon's reportedly looking into the identities of those involved marine veteran gordon duff explained to us why many within the u.s. military are not eager to support the syrian rebels. if he did seventy percent of americans are clearly opposed to up. against syria and members of the military particularly lost 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 and there are 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. and british labor party m.p. jeremy corbin believes the g twenty could be a pact opportunity to resolve the conflict and void and necessary depths three intervention the first time britain has voted not to be alongside the united states in any one of three conflict that i can remember since the vietnam war and so there has to be an impetus to bring about a political solution and a change the g. twenty is the best opportunity to start this process very rapidly otherwise the us will get involved there will be problem bargmann it will be further killing would be further mayhem and the record of afghanistan and iraq when western involvement

there has not been a peaceful solution but has been one of continuous destabilization and. meanwhile in the syrian capital the prospect of u.s. led strikes is not what's scaring people the most aussies worry if a national reports now from their muskets. 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 mohammed rafia a young and very successful very famous actor who was also another and activist who chose wards to defend his country and he was killed for that part of our. problem was overlooked that we met muhammad in july two thousand and twelve during the filming of one of the most popular syrian t.v. dramas where 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 jew investment 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 word 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 noor. thought evening a guy who was supposed to be a friend of my homage asked him for a live somewhere muhammad would help this boy a lot because he was poor then nine people appeared out of nowhere and grabbed him the next day we got an anonymous tip that he had been killed and his body had been

cut into pieces we didn't believe that he's only a civilian we thought why would anybody kill him several days later his body was five shots. were. he was killed with three bullets one to his leg one to the stomach and one to his neck. now this is. not such a welcome with a letter during the kidnapping they want to take him alive to torture them to force him to confess that he was working for the government and then szell that al-jazeera of course the p.r. lot of money for that sort of thing but he resisted to the death but. rather she comes back when they too can they also took his car it's common that such cars are later used in terror attacks about three weeks ago we got news there's been a car bombing and i was muhammad's car. noria 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 changed in the last ten months and you know it must i shut 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 a 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 the u.s. no 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. grief an

ocean r.t. from damascus syria. and would like to know or to think about the threads of a minute should strike on syria and on our website r.t. dot com where asking you what the end game will look like if the u.s. goes ahead with intervention plans and right now more than half of you saying a devastating a region wide conflict will break out a fifth of bo's who participated in our online vote actually it see libya as a blueprint for what could happen next fifteen percent believe washington wouldn't pay child at syria on its own and just a small number actually agree and is strike would be short and precise so to take part in our online poll by going at r.t. dot com.

mohsin employment tax evasion by the richest of the rich and the eurozone heading down a dead debt and pundits in germany believe those are just a small part of the vital issues being scattered around during the country's general election campaign and hopes the one and only t.v. debate would reaganite critical dialogue have left viewers disappointed these are only lasted eight. the post is there the flesh is being pressed but this german election campaign is full of pulses racing maybe that's the 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 the main challenge in reading fairy tales and the green party suggesting compulsory vegetarian days where does it stop i'm going to start a couple to refrigerators at home and check to see what you've got there as well i mean or going to shut down the burger kings and mcdonald's on tuesdays and so you have to serve aside from the greens apparent food 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 commutes is by making it illegal for trains to be late all distraction 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 sam 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 i'm 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. and 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 bull in the stock peter all of a r.t. belin. under the bank of social reich was more stories for you including shouting to be heard and were reported on a london street to form up with a voice under the knife or controversy his megaphone right from his highness i they also are space and star and much more interested him.

do we speak your language anything about the war not to do. with news programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you breaking news a little turn it into angles stories. you hear. that all teach spanish find out more visit. our seelye from moscow welcome back the u.s. military's twelve year fight in afghanistan is drawing to

a close but there's some and finished business on the ground washington still doesn't know what to do with a jail in buying ground built in the early stages of the war on terror it may be dubbed this second gone time oh but it's for appreciation for torture abuse of lethal interrogation methods may pale even. reports now on war the future holds for background. some call the program 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 bob graham is used to detain people apprehended in the u.s. war in 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 what taught them oh by the fact the facility has actually been handed over to the afghan government which was deeply unhappy about having a foreign operated g a lot of soil to begin with as soon as couple to full control of the ground in march it either transferred or release prisoners but what to do

with the almost seventy foreign nationals that remain and 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 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 still made looks set to drag on. and my bag spent three years being dragged through america's the tension program from ground to gun time of day he says live in background was sir terrifying he actually went 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 cell or 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 in bob graham for most eleven months i was actually looking forward to going to guantanamo. and online for you right now russian tycoon is in the crosshairs of belorussian justice with the c.e.o. of one of the world's largest potash producers detained to minsk over corruption charges go towards his time that tension to the company's principal shareholder. and old line today are solid pulls no punches on washington as he enters a legal investigation of what he claims is an unlawful crime done by the us only we can leaks a website that says he marks at the house and days in confinement had to have gone for long. may have your attention please opinionated and loud before my danny shine brings called for

it since to the surface in one of london's major streets but the more people hear him the more the authorities are willing to silence the truth teller polly boycott explains johnny shines got an unusual addiction the father of three likes to take his megaphone to central london and talk to passers by about things like why way here on the perils of consumerism credit. card. good credit i'm. sorry i was structured my call is stream of consciousness. and we call it bubble boy. if you think the spoken word form of earlier this year westminster council confiscated danny's megaphone and summoned him to court. what are you looking for and not on your right also you don't think if you really think they're going to.

let you know this is go. so. close. thank you for every form of. danny's being prosecuted for breaking a by law banning anyone from making any noise which is so loud or so continuous over peterhead as to give reasonable cause for annoyance to other persons. not so i took away his memory. but since i mean this is more than just about public speaking it's about his semen right freedom of expression to me he should really shut up now does not threaten freedom of speech in a country that is the current that is the problem getting it's good for the passive consumers as you and i to a free our minds from the perpetual consumption of consumerism but i saw you complaining about the decibels a little earlier than most consume plenty as much the point is still coming out of

my mind it's like you're in a demon i mean to make a pretty penny mug and is like raining on my parade many i'm afraid for some fun time is a ray of sunshine i mean you need a plan like you know everybody needs it but you know you know you can't wait for the night you know you got for that you have a crush on him you know like i have a crush on him and just like he's beautiful a lot he's doing his life about what he really cares about danny's doing cool way he set to argue that the westminster council a prosecuting him and he fringes his human rights. group for the first chorus. i actually took four years of extra sure. i didn't. have a private conversation. i think i think it's completely wrong because if they do manage to corning then where's that going to stop i mean we're all just going to be suppressed into not talking not speaking you know i just think that's going to be a bad thing so fake well don't need to danny to keep the flag point from freedoms

and while westminster city councils have told us that their conflict with danny is merely a question of decibels. danny shine is planning to get even louder if i had the resources one day i'd be quite required knowledge to go with it like a really good system and a really nice boy you know we did a review maybe. that's right now it's dark and some other international stories in brief for you this hour egyptian army helicopters have launched an air strike in two minutes and strongholds in the sinai peninsula a key area used for rocket launchers according to state t.v. at least fifteen militants were killed while i mean ition warehouses and vehicles were destroyed a group operation a ground operation i should say 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 in twenty eleven. a

combo me and several shootings end and around baghdad to have claimed the lives of at least four seed people and left several injured one of their souls targets would be house of a sunni militia leader triggering fears shi'ite insurgents might be behind that time the incident is the latest in a huge surge of violence in recent months with the number of attacks the highest since two thousand and eight. bahrain has announced it will how is the permanent headquarters of the pan out court of human rights the move is being praised by the ruling monarch air spied by quote keynes believe in basic human liberties the mood is quite different among the opposition ranks activists claim mob help improve the rights of those in bahrain secretary-general assistant of the country's largest opposition party music as it's nothing more than a p.r. stunt for the government. this is just part of the big girl.

or through tears were doing so for team for glory when the uprising came the authority as their. own justice and if they believe in justice they should have provided to their citizens rather than going out there and trying to convince the people as the court of justice for the lead this is just to cover up what's happening in. the years condemning the judicial oath that the. and that just after the break we'll meet the russian man who gave the home to thirty friends to stay with us you know. 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 pronounced 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 own and produced and bottled in various countries around the globe including the usa itself we did support the american worker people of the 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 is 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 that's just my opinion.