my children. to washington. truth about america. but. it works. in the show the country's leadership seems to be unclear on what its national security agency is doing. on the. syrian government chemical production facility. the deal also.

the smiles of the u.s. military. detainees at guantanamo. we have a special report. thanks so much for joining us here. at the top stories of today of the week it is the weekly here on the program putting a human face to america's so-called war on terror in pakistan a family of drone strike victims testified in front of congress this week having lost their grandmother in what was reported as a precision strike on militants. why the u.s. targeted. the briefing. this was the first time actual victims of

u.s. drone strikes were in congress and apart from the congressman who initiated this briefing i saw only four other members of congress it's no secret the u.s. congress generally approves of growth strikes so it's very difficult to expect a sudden change of heart even though hard was what these drone victims were appealing through on october twenty fourth of last year a u.s. drone strike left this pakistani family devastated a nine year old girl and her thirteen year old brother nearly escaped death that day their sixty seven year old grandmother was killed while picking vegetables pardon me i no longer love blue skies i prefer the gray skies the drones do not fly when this kinds agree and for a short period of time the mental time and fear eases between this kind of run the drones return and so does the fear you know this family has never been abroad out of their home in north waziristan and the father of this family said he looked at the life around here. he wished his children to be able to walk the streets not

afraid of being bombed at any moment. my mother was killed my children were injured i'm so glad that people are going to hear our story that's why we came to america i have no idea why our village in my house is talking to. the family came to washington of course hoping to get answers for why they have to live in fear every day i have no idea why my grandmother was killed when the drone hate i was outside with my grandmother everything became dark i was scared so i started to run then i noticed my hand was bleeding so i tried to clean my hand but blood kept coming out but i was very scared so i just kept running. we also learned that the u.s. government did not grant to the lawyer of this family prominent practice any lawyer who has sued the cia in the past on behalf of the victims of drone strikes in pakistan four hundred fifty thousand vocalisation of. losing in

a concentration. being picked on the work kind of. if someone has long or someone driving. s.u.v.s but this is being targeted and at the same time didn't or to be in a position to leave you the purpose of this briefing was to put a human face to drone strikes there is therefore a chance that in congress the tragedy of this family will fall on deaf ears but there is hope that the public now is in washington i'm going to check out and i'm on a b.b. was among the up to nine hundred civilian fatalities are estimated by rights groups since the drone strikes began in pakistan in two thousand and four and i missed the international report published last week so these unlawful killings could amount to war crimes something that activist brian becker agrees. if nothing shocks the conscience of the congress like this nothing ever will we see that this is

a criminal action by the u.s. government those drone pilots who carried out the direct violent deaths of this sixty seven year old grandmother they should be arrested and so should their superiors it's not acceptable for a lawless program like the drone attacks that targeted killings of people all over the world by the united states government unilaterally deciding who lives and who dies it's not acceptable to have a series of endless partial apologies or compensations for the people they call collateral damage the program is inherently criminal it's outside the laws of the international community it's outside the un charter the united states government is the only government in the world that dares to arrogated to itself the right to carry out targeted assassinations of whoever it decides should be killed. still a lot of news to come your way here on the weekly today on this program striking down the peace process a u.s. drone attack kills a top taliban leader who was poised to hold key talks with the pakistani government

that's to come. by the world's first ever coined a.t.m. opened this week in vancouver and as canadians start swapping digital codes for cash we look at why global users are turning directly to the unstable cyber currency. for now on r t a group of angry e.u. officials has been spending the week in washington d.c. seeking the truth about america's global surveillance operations europe has stressed repeatedly that spying is not what friends and allies do and such activities will not be tolerated in germany sent its own delegation to the white house to investigate the revelations the u.s. tapped chancellor merkel's phone amounting questions and criticism have pushed president obama now to launch a review of the country's intelligence operations and it seems europeans were the only ones kept in the dark over the n.s.a.'s practices for example the secretary of state john kerry now claiming that both he and president obama were not aware of

some of the things the n.s.a. was doing saying the agency ran certain operations on autopilot since they have the technology and the ability to do so where you are contrast this with a statement by the n.s.a. chief keith alexander he said his agency is told. by policymakers that was alexander pointed out the u.s. ambassador's were also among those ordering the snooping and ray mcgovern who worked as a cia officer under seven different u.s. administrations says if president obama really didn't know what the n.s.a. was doing it will raise many important questions. i think in many ways it's worse for obama not to have known who's who's running the show it where does the buck stop so equally bad is that he knew or he didn't and now this back filling in this real vendetta between the n.s.a. chiefs who are shown to be very fast and loose with the truth. alexander for one

and then clapper who. was the head of the intelligence apparatus who is it made it to lying to the congress felony that they are to sort of try to defend themselves by telling everyone they told the president every i don't know whom to believe because both sides have been very sparing with the truth. did it so it's for the truth about america's spying germany's reached out to the post and behind the global scandal that of edward snowden a green party m.p.'s met with the fugitive whistleblower here in moscow to discuss his assistance in a potential investigation into the n.s.a.'s operations he says the words of the u.s. can no longer be trusted. basically you will because i think it's important to work together with mr snowden rather than putting him in prison we'd like more clarity on these allegations and we want to make sure something like this doesn't happen again snowden worked for many years for the cia and n.s.a.

so i'm sure he can tell us everything we need to know about the leaked documents because as we've seen the n.s.a. has been very scarce with providing information i also think that the organization including n.s.a. chief keith alexander aren't always being truthful they once claimed they'll never break german laws on their surveillance operations but tapping the chancellor's phone is not legal that's why i have trouble trusting u.s. intelligence officials. and a lawyer who's been helping edward snowden in his attempts to avoid u.s. prosecution explained why his client will have difficulties aiding german officials or despite his willingness to help. you're going to publish books of course edward snowden can't leave russia because he's got refugee status here and if he travels to a different country he loses it so if germany has any questions for mr snowden this could be resolved through treaties exist between germany and russia and edward wouldn't have to travel there to testify the level of danger is still high we hear

comments from the u.s. government almost on a daily basis that edward is still on the wanted list we've done everything possible to ensure his security but as far as surveillance and wiretapping goes i wouldn't comment on that because those who have been following the situation around snowden know what u.s. intelligence is capable of. or you can always log onto our team dot com for the latest updates videos and expert analysis on the whole ongoing n.s.a. scandal. all right it's good to have you with us here on our team today this is the weekly let's turn our attention to syria now where the chemical disarmament of syria reached its first milestone this week as the country successfully dismantled most of its active toxin production facilities the two sides couldn't be reached by inspectors due to heavy fighting in those areas syria now their house two weeks to agree with the world's chemical weapons watchdog on a roadmap to destroying all of its remaining toxic agents this report. from

damascus dangerous and dirty that's how the nobel prize committee described the work of chemical weapons inspectors inside syria not to mention a brutally tight deadline october twenty five damascus provides a detailed plan of its chemical weapons stockpiles done october twenty seven foreign inspectors visited all declared sites missed. syria finishes destroying all equipment used in the production and mixing of poison gas and nerve agents done we eliminate. whatever we can but you know this is a very complicated the process complications filled by so called security concerns and that's the reason why one deadline already has been missed one of the biggest problems the team faces is how to access sites in rebel controlled areas so far the rebels have been unwilling to cooperate foreign inspectors have managed to visit twenty one of twenty three sites and although they haven't verbally blamed the

rebels damascus insists it's doing its share until now. those. sites being visited are under government control and we hope those who are controlling. the group still them to implement what they are expected to implement it's the most difficult mission if undertaken by the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons destroying a country's chemical weapons stockpiles in the midst of a civil war story with syria actually stop producing chemical weapons in one thousand nine hundred eight as a possessed alternatives that can be a strategic substitution and are not in conflict with international law but none of this answers the reason why foreign inspectors are in damascus in the first place a chemical attack on august twenty first in which hundreds of people were killed off two rockets with seven guests were fired at damascus the suburbs those responsible hostility large the next deadline in the destruction of syria's chemical weapons program is the middle of next year by then damascus must have

destroyed or removed its entire stockpile and ambitious timeline in very difficult circumstances policy r.t. damascus. and the failure of some rebel groups to respect the chemical disarmament deal has certainly sparked fears of a potential provocation a middle east analyst short of mainly not a one e believes the opposition could take radical measures to try and bring about a foreign and military intervention. but there is that evidence that rebels have some their hands on some chemical weapons we've certainly seen in iraq and turkey rebels being apprehended with chemical agents components of chemical weapons in their possession. really important point and this is something i heard from a syrian government official earlier this year the syrian government has first some time now viewed chemical weapons as a liability and a burden precisely for these reasons because potentially rebels could get their hands on small amounts of these chemical agents and use them across the border in

israel or turkey to then justify a military attack against the syrian government so they have been quite pleased that the international community is come together to in fact to rid them of these weapons so that excuse no longer exists. thanks for joining us for the weekly here on our teacher day on choose day bit coins first a.t.m. when live clients in the canadian city of vancouver canal swap their digital currency for real cash but what exactly is bitcoin and how can you turn a computer code into physical money well basically it's a currency used for online transactions and to use it clients set up web wallets hiding their names behind a digital code or the payment can still be traced transfers starting just a few clicks of a mouse a buying smigel menin tax agency a left out reducing the fees and next you choose whether to shop online using bitcoins or sell them for any official currency such as perhaps the dollar or even

the euro coins are collected through a process called mining nothing to do with manual labor of course it's just a chain of computers cracking codes and getting call ins in exchange but it's not all plain sailing last month the f.b.i. shut down the online black market silk road seizing nearly thirty million dollars worth of bit of koreans during that operation so i call it kevin allen spoke about this to mitchell demeter the chief bitcoin officer of bitcoin e.-x. . i think it definitely has the potential to be revolutionary it basically gets your cash into a digital form where you can send it around the world instantly with no middleman what do the authorities think about it i mean there's an element of course there's been a worry that it's going to be transparent untraceable dodgy dealings could be done with it what are you doing to combat. we've got any money laundering policy in place where we limit users to three thousand dollars per day every transaction you make is recorded on

a public ledger your name is attached to it but if somebody wants to find out who is making that transaction it can be done the silk road is a perfect example of the shutting down the silk road that was they could be screwy and the black market e.-bay and actually shut down which is actually a very good thing for the currency as a whole as a lot of people associated it associated be occurring just directly with the silk road and so since it's been shut down the currency did dip about ten percent for both twelve hours and since then people realise that it's not just about the black market and it's actually a legitimate currency and it's actually gone up one hundred percent since then now just a few minutes away here on the program that have failed expectations. it's like a mini deal yeah we think the. only good we may get that it's related here with of course what i mean to the desperate immigrants some of whom now feel they

should never have left their home countries that detail those details i should say coming up. on the weekly more than a dozen detainees continue their grueling hunger strike a ton i'm obey in protest over being held indefinitely without charge most of them are being force fed in a manner described by human rights groups as torture but the u.s. military which of course runs the facility continues to defend the practice as an associate reports from inside the prison. every morning at eight am the u.s. national anthem erupts across the base that holds america's most scandalous prison no one likes to be spit on no one wants to have their own torture hunger strikes and suicides have marred this place since two thousand and two and they're human beings after all they're there's no reason to expect that they enjoy being here you know we pretend otherwise prisoners held indefinitely in the name of the never ending war on terror whether they're innocent or guilty is not our job right now we

have the court system determined that in just over a decade a total of seven hundred seventy nine prisoners the majority released without charges today one hundred sixty four remain over half of them cleared for release but still kept locked up. on the other side of the barbed wire. life is a blast. there is water in the it's nice there's nothing really bad about here just like any common american town now is awfully scared to come here but i mean it's absolutely beautiful place when you get around other stuff getting around the other stuff is not hard a lot of what goes on here is kept under a thick veil of denial and secrecy also houses a hospital and library and this is also a place where patients are force fed and even though the hunger strike is largely and officially said to be over we know that at least fifteen people are continually

being force fed here today a tube is passed down through a person's nostril and pushed all the way down to their stomach before it's passed down the nose we lubricate it in we give the patient a choice do they want to have the key which is agent it will numb the area or if they want to lubricate the tube. most of our patients have been using all of the seemed like it in fact some of our patients are so. used to this they will describe which nostril they want this while major world medical bodies are in agreement that force feeding is not ethical and should not be practiced the force feeding them i've got my clients have experienced and want on a more they've certainly described it as torture the restraint chair that they're strapped into they actually call the torture chair an arabic force feeding takes up to forty five minutes and is performed twice a day the patients that had the civilian world have said it feel strange i've never

heard him says no. i have not heard that good move fishes are beyond nonchalant about the highly criticized practice you might feel differently from the way i might feel it uncomfortable has been the most of it i have heard but they don't even believe in what this thing anymore because they know it sounds stupid i volunteer that the procedure be demonstrated on me request declined the prisoners who've not met one another and speak different languages keep saying the same thing that we were tortured used. tied our hands to the chair they shackled our legs to the ground they. struck across and they forced in a tube into our noses never in thirteen years have detainees been allowed to speak directly to a journalist while remaining at get most only leaking statements through lawyers they would love nothing more than to sit down with journalists in just tell them you know about their daily lives but communicating seems to only occur here if someone was it a point where maybe they had been verbalizing a lot of hopelessness we were immediately intervening and trying to

assist that person to make sure that there wasn't any thoughts of maybe wanting to harm themselves or in their lives with charts like these often used to pinpoint patients despair you asked them how do you feel right now and they'll be able to point to it we have not had a patient in this area. thank heavens meanwhile six suicides and dozens of suicide attempts have taken place at the detention facility we haven't seen any autopsies the u.s. government hasn't released any formal reports or findings we're now inside two active camps at guantanamo camp five old single cells where the so-called less compliant detainees are held camp number six is one filled with communal cells when officials deem that detainees have behaved better there will be rewarded by being allowed to live in groups while detainees are kept away from us what we witness are clean empty prison cells with cozy pajamas colgate toothpaste and maximum security

shampoos paraded in front of journalists as proof everything is so much better here than any silly horror stories we all have heard and r.t. . cuba a single u.s. drone strike has destabilized the entire peace process in pakistan and killed the leader of the country's taliban group who apparently was preparing to negotiate security forces on high alert across the country over fears of militant reprisal on local expert told us the pakistani people will end up paying the price for the american attack. the prime minister of pakistan was in washington d.c. only a week back and he had spoken to president obama taken him into confidence regarding the dialogue process and it also made a request for the drone attacks to stop because. the drone attacks must come to an end before they come to the dialogue be able but instead of the drone attacks being stop big continued i need body who is going to suffer or it is going to be

the people of pakistan not the us the united states does not have the right to be judge jury and executor all rolled into one without any i taught it to. our daughter time here on the program starting with the french government has proposed and. now become something of a ticking time bomb with thousands sitting in the streets calling for its immediate scrapping i. needed the french regional. clashes erupted between protesters and security forces over the new measure tear gas and water cannons were used to break up the crowds that four back with rocks and bottles the idea behind the courage environmentally friendly commercial transport. truck. for the french government suspended amid mounting anger this would only drive companies out of business and lead to more job losses. the man suspected of carrying out

a gun attack at los angeles international airport has been charged with murder prosecutors say the death penalty could be sort. of stormed into a crowded terminal on friday killing a security agent. meanwhile the airport is back operating normally now after the chaos following the incident which sold more than a thousand flights delayed or canceled. in northern yemen four days of clashes between rival muslim have killed fifty five that's according to a spokesman of one of the groups. earlier in the week shiite rebels attacked the town of. held by their rivals the country's army said a ceasefire came into effect friday yet the clashes continued assad from domestic problems yemen struggles to contain one of dangerous branches had previously tried to bomb international airlines. now in the wake of the biting recession many italians are complaining about the way they're being forced to live by the

austerity driven government and that's nothing compared to the misery immigrants in the country find themselves in. going off now reports on the fate of those who end up in squalid conditions no better than the ones they left behind. some call it a city within a city others a refugee ghetto it's like we're still in africa refugees from four african countries over twelve hundred people all crammed inside a former university building in rome now known as palace meeting. here. we weren't allowed to film inside the rooms but a doctor treating the refugees agreed to describe the conditions they live in but i think. there are thirty five tabs and thirty five showers and eighty percent of them need to be repaired the beds are all sin in very bad condition actually a lot of people sleep in cardboard thousands of refugees have been flocking to

italy mainly across the mediterranean in search of a better life but the country's only economic problems including the worst recession since the second world war provide very little opportunity at the same time. obliges all refugees to stay in the country where they receive asylum those who manage to avoid registration go further north as illegals but those who don't walk or shelters are running out of space for all the newcomers without a job or even a place to sleep where do you go for the majority it's the train stations the meeting point for possible work or some cash during the day at a makeshift shelter at night which is. sometimes immigrants from different countries fight each other like the albanians and those from bangladesh for example don't want this area. there are a lot of them here are various nationalities at first they came from southern countries now also from eastern once the whole region is full of immigrants. polish

or a dizzying gadget and very strong activity but live along well also you'll be. solve this problem the e.u. has pledged. to give an additional thirty million euros for italy to build more shelters for the refugees but it's on lake release will help create new jobs or ease the fool the immigrants all together. right now you wouldn't want to mess with these guys the flagship of russia's pacific fleet and the country's most advanced nuclear power destroyer now in the waters of the mediterranean you can head a line to learn what's behind the mission. hundreds of tons of a vitamin a rich treat in the making at the invision section of our website takes you on a visual to a plantation where you could literally dive into a sea of ripening crap. now it's already been to

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