two ballistic rockets launched in the mediterranean and detected by russia but part of an israeli missile defense test briefly heightened tension in the region waiting for a possible u.s. strike on syria. with american troops preparing to leave afghanistan for good next year washington is under pressure to close what seen as one of its harshest prison facilities they're considered to be even worse than guantanamo bay. and what comes first super veggies for the crisis in the euro zone voters give a hard time to germany's general election hopefuls who they believe focused too little on what the main priorities should be.

life from a studio center here in moscow which just turned nine pm this is. israel has carried out an unannounced missile test in the mediterranean sparking an alert in light of a military buildup in the region for a potential strike on syria the confirmation came off to the launch of two rockets was detected by russian radars. going off brings us the details. the two missiles were launched at around five am g.m.t. in the neutral waters off the mediterranean sea and then headed towards its eastern coast 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 ministry 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 this raises a lot of questions around the timing off the drill since the full region. around syria 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 four rushers. 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. meanwhile president obama seems to have growing support for a strike earlier today leaders of both parties in congress said they were convinced the u.s. should respond to the use of chemical weapons in syria now that's amid

a massive u.s. and allied naval deployment in the eastern mediterranean off syria's coastline russia's also sending warships to the troubled region but denies it squaring up to america let's take a detailed look at the u.s. fleet there five u.s. destroyers loaded with missiles along with an amphibious assault ship are already in the mediterranean poised for a potential strike in addition an aircraft carrier group moved to the red sea from the indian ocean to support an attack if ordered the super carrier the u.s.s. nimitz is one of the largest warships in the world it's more than three hundred meters long it's powered by nuclear reactors and on board it has ninety planes and helicopters it's accompanied by a cruiser and three destroyers well 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 now that's 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 and that's judging by images uploaded on social media of people in military uniform a seen here brandishing posters saying they did not join up to fight for al qaeda in syria or the pictures can't be verified already the pentagon's reportedly looking into the identities of those involved marine veteran gordon duff explain to us why many within the u.s. military are not eager to support the 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 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. meanwhile in the syrian capital the prospect of u.s.

led strikes is not what scaring people the most wanted refreshing are 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 part of our. road was 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 lead in 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 jury 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 work the shows our history or the way we live the way we love each other the way with taking care of each other's that's why the stuff they stop they are fighting us actually. exactly ten months after muhammad's death we meet his brother knew. daniel. saw the couple in the evening a guy who was supposed to be a friend of my homage asked him for a live somewhere muhammad helpless boy a lot because he was poor and then one people appeared out of nowhere and grabbed him out of the next day with an anonymous tip that he'd been killed in his body had been cut into pieces like we didn't believe that he's only a civilian we thought and why would anybody kill him several days later his body

was found in the gift shop and i want to. ask. 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 in order to force him to confess that he was working for the government and then szell that al-jazeera of course the p.l.o. out of money for that sort of thing like that he resisted to the death but you're. right that she comes passion into can he also took his car it's common that such cars are leaving houston terror attacks three weeks ago we got news there's been a car bombing and that was muhammad's car though you. know your brother died ten months ago exactly ten months ago why you think he was killed he talked openly about what he thought i'm sure. how did the live here in searing damascus change in

the last ten months and that may not must shut him were 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 ask themselves what are the people who belong to the opposition doing if they kill innocent civilians and some of them are nothing more than criminals. what do you think about possible airstrike that america is now planning which is i smile when they tell me about the american attack and that we syrians are only afraid of god we're not afraid of us. 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 reason ocean r.t. from damascus syria. let's not discuss the situation in and around syria without his contributor afshin rattansi joining me live from london fashion in

a moment we'll talk about the refugee crisis emerging there reaching the two million mark but first let's just talk about where the countries are standing at the moment. france for example will not go ahead with a strike and less us congress sanctions military action and so does that actually mean that this is got nothing to do with the un security council it all depends on what the us says. that's right president obama that first african-american president in history is presiding over what he presumably realizes is direct conflict with the united nations because he does have ban-ki moon a sanguine figure doesn't seem to care that much about the fact it looks like the same fate as the league of nations but president. yes cutting a suitably napoleonic figure saying we feel very strongly about it but we won't do it if president obama doesn't get his congressional support i don't know unclear at the moment where the president needs that congressional support but he has it

anyway if he gives away on obamacare maybe it seems that he has got that support because today the leaders have said they will support military intervention and of course that big vote is next week but so do you think there will be a definite vote in congress for obama to go ahead the indications are there. when we first heard the russian defense ministry talking about ballistic items being short of ships perhaps in the last twenty four hours. drive home the point to people around the world that obama can strike at any moment. conducting drone strikes in. yemen and afghanistan i don't think you'll wait for that it really is quite convinced you will get that approval definitely and they'll be a few deals on things that president obama didn't particularly want anyway and was only doing to please his base but no i don't think he needs congressional approval

the exact vote was very clear to say he needed no timeline and the fact that. president assad is threatened. u.s. national security in which case there's plenty of precedence for the united states president to act alone the congressional thing is a bit of window dressing two million refugees now a humanitarian crisis unfolding the repercussions does this have on neighboring countries. when one looks at the number of american destroyers the number of missiles. the cost of all of that historians in the future will be saying why when there was a peace deal on the table to be discussed in geneva did obama destroy and torpedo the peace deal and leave the plight of the refugees get worse and one should add of course that while there are a billion people working for n.g.o.s refugee agencies they act as an arm of the american government it might be incumbent on some of those refugee agency

volunteers and more so the people who are paid to work for them to look at where their salaries are coming from from the same people that are creating the refugee crisis but as you say two million when i was last in. and i was talking about the massive amount of care and concern. the government had for the results of the nato invasion of iraq taking in the equivalent proportionately of twenty million refugees it was the united states just briefly york there in london syria seems a long long way away but this refugee crisis could it have some sort of impact on europe. it was very recently that the conservative ratcheting up pressure saying we don't want to. the labor party here often saying we want to the silent because i think seven dollars a day of course. will lead to syrians looking for

a sucker and i'm sure britain and america will welcome all these refugees because you say hundreds of thousands in that region and they will be refugees on the streets of london if obama carries out his plans for war marty contributor afshin rattansi thanks so much for your comments your perspective live from london well that's what afshin thinks would like to know what you think about the threat of a military strike on syria and its consequences on our website we're asking what the end game will look like if the u.s. does go ahead with those intervention plans well these are the results so far and we can see there on screen more than half of you think a devastating region wide conflict will break out a fifth of you believe that libya should be seen as a blueprint for what could happen next and fifteen percent think that washington wouldn't hit out at syria on its own and just a small number eight two percent eight percent there think that any strike would be

very short and precise and punitive r.t. dot com if you could hear what you have to say. is easy. mass unemployment tax evasion by the richest of the rich in the eurozone heading down a dead end and it's in germany believe those are just a small part of the vital issues being skirted around during the country's general election campaign and hopes the one and only t.v. debate would reignite critical dialogue have left viewers disappointed as the details. the post as the flesh is being pressed but this german election

campaign is not the setting 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 and when they're going to start cattle to refrigerators at home and check to see what you got there as well or they're going to shut down the burger kings and mcdonald's on tuesdays and so you have to serve and aside from the greens apparent food fascism has 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 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 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 bull in the stock peter all of a r.t. . more news ahead of you here not including a look at the fate of dozens of inmates in the infamous u.s. prison in background in afghanistan that and more for you after the break.

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the news continues here naughty the u.s. military's twelve year fight in afghanistan is drawing to a close but there's some unfinished business washington still doesn't know what to do with its janin background it's in the early stages of the war on terror may be dubbed the second the guantanamo but its reputation for torch a busa and lethal interrogation methods may even overshadow the cuban detention center well it isn't in english to report on what the future holds fullback graham . 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 on 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 at bagram 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 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 couple to pull control

of the ground in march it either transferred or released 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 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. wasn't big spent three years being dragged through america's detention program from bag ram to guantanamo bay and he says life in baghran was so terrifying he actually longed for a move to guantanamo among 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 cells 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 there 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 background for almost eleven months i was actually looking forward to going to guantanamo. on line for you right now russian tycoons in the crosshairs of belorussian justice the c.e.o. of one of the world's largest potash producers detained in minsk over corruption charges the authorities turned their attention to the company's principal shareholder. pulls no punches on washington as the urges a legal investigation over what he claims is a lawful crackdown by the u.s. on the wiki leaks website says he marked a thousand days in confinement and had to r.t. dot com for more on that. time now for some other international stories in brief now on our world update fifteen militants have reportedly been killed after egyptian helicopters launched an air strike on two militant strongholds in

the sinai peninsula according to military officials three suspects were arrested during a ground operation i mean warehouses and vehicles were also destroyed it's been trying to tackle rising terrorist activity in the region since the arab spring revolution that toppled president barrack in two thousand and eleven. a spate of car bombings and several shootings in and around baghdad have claimed the lives of at least thirty three people and left dozens injured a police station commercial districts and restaurants were among the places targeted no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks the incident is the latest in a huge surge of violence in recent months with the number of attacks now the highest since two thousand and eight. bahrain is announced it will host the permanent headquarters of the pan arab court of human rights the move is being praised by the ruling monarchy is inspired by quote the king's belief in basic human liberties that the mood is quite different among the opposition ranks

activists claim it won't help improve the rights of those in bahrain secretary general assistant of the country's largest opposition party. says it's nothing more than a p.r. stunt for the government. this is just part of the. thirty years where doing so for team for glory when the uprising came are the authorities . on justice and if they believe in justice they should to provide it to their citizens rather than going outside and trying to convince the people of their own is the court of justice for their only this is just to cover up what's happening in and but when everybody is condemning the judicial oath that it is and . well be that with the news team and to thirty minutes from now as the news continues coming up in the meantime our team meets the russian man who gave a home to all fans that's coming your way after the break.

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 and 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 love 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 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 affectively boycott any country with any laws even a hint thing 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 obviously more difficult proposition than pouring american made vodka onto the sidewalk but that's just my opinion.

the bible says many times that god is the father of all forms those abandoned by their mothers and fathers. as their father. i'm sure he called me to serve these children.