i know. my mother was killed my children were in. the. e.u. officials. truth about america spying program which millions of europeans. but. it's worse for obama not to have you know who's running the show the country's leadership seems to be rather unclear on what its national security agency is doing a bit later on the program. syrian. chemical production facility. in the. groups continue to defy the deal also.

before it's passed down the. smiles of the u.s. military. we report. it is perfect timing for the weekly. with the week's top headlines from all of us here welcome to 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 they are slow makers why the why their home was targeted in the first place at the briefing for us artie's guy in a chicken. it 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 peeling through on october twenty fourth of last year a u.s. drone strike left this pakistani family devastated the nine year old girl and her thirteen year old brother nearly escaped death that day their sixty seven year old grandmother was killed vegetable garden. 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 but when 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 too would 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 we 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 not 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 population of more. you know concentration.

on the work trying. to show one has long been for someone driving. s.u.v.s but this is being targeted and at the same time 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 will take notice in washington i'm going to check out . and i'm on a b.b. was among the up to nine hundred civilian fatalities estimated by rights groups since the drone strikes began in pakistan in two thousand and four and i'm just the international report published just last week says that these unlawful killings could amount to war crimes something that activist brian becker tends to agree with 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 death of this sixty seven year old grandmother they should be arrested and so should their superiors it's not acceptable for a lawless a 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 a 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 irrigate to itself the right to carry out targeted assassinations of whoever it decides should be killed. our still to come on the program here on r.t. striking down the peace process u.s. drone attack kills a taliban leader who is poised to hold talks with the pakistani government.

though a group of angry e.u. officials has been spending this week in washington seeking the truth about america's global surveillance operations a europe has stressed repeatedly that spying is not what friends and allies do in such activities will not be tolerated and germany sent its own delegation to the white house to investigate the revelations the u.s. tapped chancellor merkel's mobile phone mounting questions on criticism have pushed president obama to now 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 claimed that both he and president obama were not aware of the things the n.s.a. was doing saying the agency runs certain operations on autopilot because they have the technology and the ability to do so now contrast this with a statement by the n.s.a. chief keith alexander who said that his agency is told who to spy on by the

policymakers alexander also pointing out that it's also the u.s. ambassador's among those ordering the snooping around mcgovern who worked as a cia officer under seven different u.s. administrations so if indeed president obama really doesn't know what the n.s.a. is doing it raises many serious questions. i think in many ways it's worse for obama not to have known host who's running the show it where does the buck stop so equally bad is that he knew he didn't know this backfilling and this real vendetta between the n.s.a. chiefs who were shown to be very fast and loose with the truth. alexander for one and then clapper who. was the head of the intelligence apparatus so as it made it to lying to the congress felony that there was sort of trying 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. and in its search for the

truth about america's spying germany has reached out to the one person behind the global scandal of course that would be edward snowden a green party m.p.'s met with the fugitive will spill over at moscow to discuss his assistance in a possible investigation into the n.s.a.'s operations he says the words of the u.s. are now can no longer be trusted. they should believe he will be tried on 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 explain why his client will have difficulties aiding german officials or despite his overall willingness to try and help a bit of perversion 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 is could be resolved through treaties exist between germany and russia and edward wouldn't have to travel there to testify the level of danger 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 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 on to our to dot com for the latest updates videos and expert analysis on the n.s.a. scandal. now on our team of the chemical disarmament of syria reached its first milestone this week as a conflict stricken country successfully dismantled most of its active talks in production facilities to sites though could not be reached by inspectors due to the ongoing heavy fighting in those areas and syria now has two weeks to agree with the world's chemical weapons watchdog on a roadmap to destroying all of its remaining agents. reports 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 or 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 groups kill 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 weapon 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 sarin gas were fired at damascus the suburbs those responsible are still at 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. now the spokesman of the chemical weapons watchdog told us here at sea that they have a tough job on their hands in syria though they have already made significant

progress towards complete disarmament we're doing a lot better than a lot of people would have expected. in right now it's a little bit early to speculate on the arrangements that are going to be made to get on with the destruction of the stockpile as it's been speculated on publicly some of that stockpile may have to be moved out of the country to a safer location where it can be destroyed using you know incineration or hydro visitations some method that's used to destroy chemical weapons agent but we're not there yet we'll have more details on after the fifteenth in the windows when this plan of destruction and provided can come.

he had no choice but to come forward that's coming your way shortly. but he couldn't hold on to. will he be able to win. one hundred twenty three days.

really. for six weeks. in a record setting trip. on march. fifteenth. more than a dozen detainees continue their hunger strike. in protest over being held indefinitely without charge most of them being force fed described by human rights groups. but the u.s. military continues to defend the controversial practice. reports from inside the prison walls. every morning at eight am the u.s. national anthem erupts across the beast 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. furnace and water and 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 and you get around all the 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 camp delta house as a hospital and library and this is also the 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 who will numb the area or if they want to lubricate the tube. most of our patients have been using all of the will. 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 at one time or they've certainly described this 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 insisting on. 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 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 to the prisoners who have not met one another and speak different languages keep saying the same thing that we were tortured used. tied. to the chair 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 and 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 fold single cells where the so-called compliance detainees are held camp number six is one filled with communal cells when officials deem the detainees behave 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. cuba. a single u.s. drone strike is destabilize the entire priest process in pakistan it's killed the leader of the country's taliban group who was apparently preparing to negotiate security forces now on high alert across the country over fears of a militant reprisal and one local expert told us that the pakistani people are the ones who will end up paying the price for the drone strike. 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 of the record taliban pakistan had made it a precondition that the drone attacks must come to an end before they come to the dialogue table but instead of the drone attacks being stop they continued so anybody who is going to suffer it is going to be the people of pakistan and not the us the united states does not have the right to be judge jury and executor all rolled into one without any authority and r.t. world update time will start with the french government's proposed eco tax which has become something of a ticking time bomb alison hitting the streets calling for its immediate scrapping . in the french region of brittany that was where the violence erupted between protesters and security forces over the new measure tear gas and water cannons were used to break up the crowds with rocks and bottles the eco imposes levies on trucks

weighing more than three and a half tons it has been suspended amid mounting anger it would only drive companies out of business. another man suspected of carrying out a gun attack at l.a.x. international airport now charged with murder prosecutors say the death penalty could be sought for poll c.n.n. who stormed the terminal on friday killing a security guard and wounding several others meanwhile the airport is back to normal operations now after the chaos which saw more than a thousand flights delayed or canceled. in northern yemen four days of conflict between rival muslim clans have now killed fifty five that's a cool recording to a spokesman for one of the groups earlier in the week shiite rebels attacked the town of which was held by their rivals the country's army said a cease fire came into effect on friday for the bloodshed continued aside from domestic problems yemen struggles to contain one of al qaeda is most dangerous

branches which has previously tried to bomb international there is now five pensioners have died because of what was called disgraceful neglect in a nursing home south of london staff at the facility which had been rated as good by regulators were found to have been giving overdoses of medication to patients or for that matter just simply ignoring them altogether and. actually met the woman who blew the whistle on the abuse. we're here in west sussex right in front of a care what we know up until two years ago it was operated by a private group called southern cross and wouldn't two thousand and eleven be orchid view care home was shut down after had violated essential guidelines of the care quality commission or c q c a recent coroner's report found that there was institutionalized abuse throughout the whole of the coroner ruled that neglect had led to the deaths of five elderly people but none of these would have come to light if not for the decision of one of their staff to blow the whistle of what was going

on inside it was a very tough decision i didn't come home and do it lightly it is the wrong thing to do and they all ring the place. but and i just thought i couldn't going to work every day. lisa martin was working as a business administration manager would always give you actually led to an inquest and eventual closure of the home she was later made redundant that's something she didn't expect and she's been looking for a job since how do you survive right without. i cranked up say this and my father. gauge and my children. are you happy about the fact that what you did is leading to some sort of change in the entire industry yeah. yeah i think it needs to be tightened up. i think you know and i think there needs to be a you know some something for whistle if you do that you know here is your support network not thank you very much you know you get on with it now the chief of the

social care services are already laid out to set new guidelines toward spec monitor and regulate care homes and a public consultation is expected to take place sometime in the spring two thousand and fourteen but it may be a tough battle as lisa martin pointed out but what she knew back then and blew the whistle long was just the tip of the iceberg and that it may take more whistleblowers to reveal the extent of the problems. yes or sylvia r.t. . now you wouldn't want to mess with. the muscle ship of russia in the country's most advanced nuclear power destroyer and now in the waters of the mediterranean what are they doing their mission on the web site right now. hundreds of. trees in the making the invasions section of our website taken you want to visual to of a plantation where you can dive right into a sea of ripening cranberries. now it's already been to the north

pole in just a few days it'll be sent all the way into orbit yes we really are talking about that of the olympic flame it continues to snake its way towards the venue city of february's winter games passing through the towns and cities of the world's biggest country and the torch is currently touring russia's northern reach to wrap up this news bulletin with some of the pictures of this week's highlights of the record breaking journey and don't forget you can always follow the flame by logging on to our website dot com. but in just a couple of minutes here and see the story of a marriage torn apart by an affection for the martial arts that's next it's.

a spanish language teacher in texas has been fired for posing nude in playboy before she became a teacher parents and found out about this demand that she be fired because her past was inappropriate and that it was a distraction in the classroom well this was something she did in the past which was legal so this i mean if you pose for playboy you are forbidden to work in the normal world also as a former teenage boy i can tell you that any young attractive teacher will cause a distraction with the boys and wolf you can fire people for being distracting that when they have to fire every teacher with a handicap or abnormal appearance on the other hand though teachers are supposed to be people for children to respect and to look up to and when your spiritual teachers wound us so of the good stuff for money to playboy it is a lot harder respect that sort of person and it sure isn't a good example for my daughter this is actually a very complex issue but i can say is that you should really try to fight the

temptation to make quick money with some nude photos it could come back to haunt you but that's just my opinion. on november the fifth more than four hundred cities around the globe are hosting mass rallies fairness justice freedom. follow million mask march on our t.v. and our t. dot com. she turned his lover into an amazon. well bill that has been my dream for so long. but he couldn't hold on to. the research team as a teacher. now she runs her own i was in a factory where they slowed down

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