coming up on our t.v. guantanamo bay has been holding war on terror detainees for twelve years the facility has known for waterboarding for speeding's and indefinite detention but will it ever close and what will happen to those still in limbo the facility will try to answer some of those questions ahead. and on capitol hill a new bill is entered use to fast track trade deals that would include the p.-p. trade deal that critics fear will help big business is over consumers the latest on that coming up. and in south dakota and even the reservation faces a host of problems from incredibly high unemployment to alcoholism locals worry what may happen at the ban on alcohol is lifted we'll take

a deeper look at this reservation later in the show. it's friday january tenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm perry i'm boring you're watching archie america. tomorrow marks the twelfth anniversary of detainees from the war on terror and during guantanamo bay the american military detention facility well he did in cuba despite president obama's campaign on a promise to close the camp back in two thousand eight hundred fifty five detainees were made i get no seventy seven of which have been cleared for release artie's anastasia takes a look at the past dozen years at one time the mowbray. hidden on a tropical island a symbol of promises made being far from promises kept it will leave an appalling

black mark in the history books unless the people who advocate for its continued existence when and if they win then i. suppose that civilized values that america has will be gone forever twelve years ago the us brought to guantanamo its first detainees of the war on terror the us and powerful sections in the ruling class of the us want a place that openly defied international law it's a decision that's been made and that they want to display a place that we can treat people however we want to whenever we want to the tube is poured into the bag scandal surrounding torture and force feeding mass hunger strikes of desperation and dozens of suicide attempts that hasn't been something that has been an issue since i have been here in a facility that has long stopped making sense if it ever did the spite the rhetoric really isn't about national security or prisoners being so dangerous that they can't possibly be released and therefore that can't be true out of seven hundred

seven thousand nine hundred eighteen ease held at guantanamo in these past twelve years only seven have been convicted and sentenced we have seen eleven prisoners released between august and december last year compared to just five men in the whole of the previous three years so it's movement but it would be unwise to think that you know we're nearly there there are hundred fifty five men still in guantanamo and seventy six of those men were cleared for release the u.s. struggling with what to do with them and then even bleaker future still ahead for the other seventy nine prisoners facing the abyss of indefinite detention continues are here because they were somewhere so somebody whether they're innocent or guilty is not our job right after a majority of detainees. went on hunger strike last year obama's administration was forced to make big steps again marred by double standards and overlooking the law international treaty obligations mean that we shouldn't be sending people back to

countries where they face the risk of a treatment of torture this followed in some cases but completely ignored in others two men were recently sent to algeria amid grave concerns of possible persecution on the ground the guy who was our client jamila because he. and his whole adult life basically in europe and in canada there was really no reason why college educated guy was fluent in german and english and french and i should be sent home . and probably trapped there unable to emigrate because of the stigma the future of some of those released over the years even more questioned and increasingly grim as media claims surfaced that the cia might have reportedly been engaged in recruiting some of the prisoners as double agents in exchange for freedom our job here is to do the safe legal humane and transparent care and custody of the detainees while in the legend tug of war between the president's will to shut the prison and congress resisting this is officially used as an excuse to avoid simply closing the place

down despite personal promises to do so i think the only reason he can get away with it or training it really is your credit. you know as if this was somehow harder to do now than it was five years ago the american president you know most politicians human rights organizations legal experts and common sense have long called for an end to the struggle of guantanamo prisoners but america's self-made mess of the last twelve years is already so hard to clean up that reasons to keep it around are likely to breed more anniversaries to cause i'm going to r.t. you. the pentagon has now completed the first one ton of periodic review board and just added one more detain me my mulan you had the add to the list of people to be . to be released and a possible lease the board said they found that continued law of war detention is no longer necessary to protect against continuing significant threat to the united

states and then you have the it is therefore eligible for transfer although he has been approved for release it is unclear when and where you have the it will be released to talk more about the guantanamo periodic review board and the military justice at the detention facility i'm joined now by attorney thomas wilner tom thanks for joining us thank you so can you tell us more about obama's periodic review board what is their purpose and what have they accomplished in regards to closing get no well they've accomplished very little in the periodic review boards were supposed to be established years ago president obama promised that they'd go into effect about four years ago and they haven't they've just started what they're supposed to do is review people and see whether they pose a threat to u.s. security and this was the first one they've just completed and they said that this fellow doesn't know how these trial which was under obama's review board it was conducted via teleconference and the board was in a secret location in washington d.c. while the detainees in his attorney were in cuba guantanamo bay and the press was

not invited further lead to the pentagon saying they were unprepared to let reporters watch and watch the pentagon envoy for guantanamo closure is paul lewis said he was surprised to discover the detention center staff had no plans to accommodate the media for the hearings why the lack of transparency with this process writers disgusting it's disgusting and let me say you call this a trial wasn't even a cryo it's a review of somebody who they're not going to try he's never charged he's held without charge for all these years and they say they have the right to review to see whether he poses a threat to the us nobody is really allowed to look at it is disgusting i mean there are seven or ten people at guantanamo who should be charged the others should be released and obama now has the authority to do what. and you should get off as bought into it well even president bush's trial the detainees are trial they met face to face and they were out of the press to watch now other than controversial

treatment i get most of just waterboarding detaining teenagers force feeding and suicides as we've now heard about do you think the administration has anything else to hide here what the administration is hiding and i think in a way the torture and the the other things are a red herring they take attention away from things the worst tortured guantanamo is that one hundred fifty five men are held there without any sort of charge and or any ability to prove their innocence and get out of there i mean it's been recognized as of two thousand and four it's recognized that most of the people there all the people there none of them pose a threat it was only people brought in after that who are high value detainees some of whom should be charged the other should be released the only reason they're not is because of political fear somebody's got to get the courage to close the place these people are not a threat is they said about this person or less likely when can we close guantanamo but let me tell you this is the twelfth anniversary of guantanamo tomorrow there should be no thirteenth anniversary obama has the power to close this place now

congress pass legislation he asked for he needs to get off his bought in do it and close it and send these people home we have a person from england there who's been cleared for release for six years my goodness what's the what's the risk of sending in an english resident back then and well there's no excuse what would it take to close a. bomb and getting the courage to push the people out of there or to the many countries willing to take them and not being afraid of republican criticism from a few people for sending people home he's got to have the courage to do what's right. well it's unclear where mojaddidy will be released to he said he would rather be released into a western country but he's willing to go back to his native land if your man if you get there possible faster whichever one would happen faster is we where he wants to go why would he want to be released into a western country and how is that even possible where would you wrote above. i mean you know

a lot of people would like to be released into western countries but the problem really isn't so much there is a problem in yemen because we say that rum in yemen is in secure and all that but you know there are ways to establish facilities in yemen to keep people and have them watch because that's a danger and we could close this place tomorrow it's not that hard i mean people may call b.s. are excuses that are targets not that hard i mean my gosh we're not releasing an englishman being on the line what is the negotiations process like for getting countries to agree to take these detainees tell you. about two years ago i had a concrete that offered me said will take people from guantanamo when i called into the government and i've got a country that will take people in he said we've got plenty of countries what we can't do is the white house to stymie authority to send them there so the problem isn't finding the concrete it's in the white house the white house needs to have the guts to send these people on obama makes all the statements about how terrible guantanamo is he's got to do something about it great thank you so much i mean to

me thomas wilner thank you. and the u.s. house and senate has taken steps towards expediting and international trade negotiations house ways and means committee chairman dave camp and senate finance committee chairman max baucus and ranking member or and hatch introduced the bipartisan congressional trade priority act yesterday congress members released a statement saying the bill establishes twenty first century congressional negotiation objectives and rules for the administration to follow winning games and trade talks the bill is passed into law would apply to the twelve nation trans-pacific partnership which includes the u.s. the end of the eleven other highlighted nations along the pacific red critics of the trade deal have expressed concerns with transparency surrounding the negotiations and proposed corporate policies the bill includes a fast track per vision which would limit congressional and put on the t p p calling. or a straight up or down vote with no room for amendment eleven of florida bait to

discuss the trade deal and the process of fast tracking more i'm joined by warre wallach director of public citizen's global trade watch well i think for joining my pleasure so here is the bill that was introduced yesterday it's pretty expansive it's one hundred seven pages and section two is the first thirty five pages you can see it's a long section it's titled bushing objective negotiate in negotiation objectives and clearly outlines what their objectives are such as strengthening the system of international trade to foster economic growth and to ensure that trade agreements afforded small businesses equal access to international markets all great objectives but that's just they're just objectives they're not directives so if this bill was passed in its entirety how can we be assured that these objectives will be fulfilled well first of all a bunch of the objectives are things that aren't so great extensions of medicine

patents that would increase prices special for an investor rules that promote job offshoring from the us now live logs to be attacked in international tribunals with the requirement that we pay compensation out of the treasury there are rules there that would limit imported food safety so a bunch of those objectives aren't so great but it doesn't kind of matter because none of them are binding the way fast track the process is set up whether or not any of the objectives are met when congress were to vote for this the executive branch the president could sign a trade agreement before congress wrote write implementing legislation rewriting wide swaths of u.s. law and send it to congress with no committee markups this is the one piece of legislation the president not congress writes and get a guaranteed yes or no vote in ninety days no amendments so it's like a legislative lose run and they packed. all kinds of extra stuff on the slide so

these trade agreements are about trade but are rewriting wide swaths of domestic law just get re him through congress which is why it's so controversial as a very interesting way to circumvent the congressional process but what does this bill those senators yesterday does this have of becoming law given that both the house and senate already have bills introduced and they're bipartisan so what's interesting is bipartisan in name but actually they couldn't find a single house democrat to sponsor it so the bill in the house doesn't have a democratic sponsor it's just a republican camp the chairman. of the majority in the holes right there already there are thirty republicans who before the bill went in said they wouldn't do fastrack they don't think it's constitutional it delegates away congress's exclusive constitutional authority over trade and also a bunch of guys wouldn't think of giving more power to president obama if anything then you've got democrats one hundred sixty of them before the bull even one in said no more of that since then you've had a bunch of the senior members saying we're not for that that's the old fast track

we need a new way to do trade so right now the way i think to describe it is they're running out of time it's the second year in an election year and they don't have the votes in the house the sense not to go first is the bill has to start it's a revenue bill so it has to start in the house so if it does manage to get their house and senate has the president expressed interest in is this something he would sign off on or the president wants it's a huge power grab for him in the sense that he's suddenly getting rid of congress meddling in all this law or writing i mean he's the one who's asked for it what's interesting the more i think is there's so rarely days when democrats and republicans agree on anything the fact that house democrats or republicans are saying we're going to keep our constitutional authority it's both a reflection of how the american public generally is democrats independents or republicans have gotten really upset about these trade agreements so those members are thinking about the political liability of giving away their authority this is this is nothing new fast tracking was first passed and. nine hundred seventy four

the most recent provision expired in two thousand and seven and it wasn't quite as controversial back in the seventy's but critics say that's because trade deals have expanded in scope and size since the seventy's so how is the t.p. different from previous trade negotiations that weren't quite as controversial as this one well first of all they've been hunted to trade agreements since the seventy's but only sixteen ever in the history of the country that fast tracked the fast track has not been a fact but for five of the last nineteen years or so democratic presidents republican presidents have not been able to get it clinton and lost it in a slap down on the house floor when one hundred seventy one democrats and seventy one republicans said no only george w. bush has had it in only for five years literally in the last nineteen years what is different with p.p.p. and why now the disinclination generally not to do fast track this sort of bulked up is t p p is the most expansive serve invasive agreement as far as dodging into congress is territory so if trade agreements are really about trade tariffs quotas congresses was nervous about giving away some of its authority and that's what was

like in the seventy's when fastrack first hatched and now we're told no medicine and. the rights patents per curiam and immigration law energy policy financial services land use professional licenses food safety it's like the entire federal statute book gets rewritten through trade agreements thank you so much this is lori wallach she is the director of public citizen's global trade watch. and now to afghanistan or a four year old afghan boy was accidently killed today by u.s. forces afghan officials say that the troops mistook the boy for an enemy because of poor visibility to nato servicemen and one civilian employee were also killed in an aircraft accident in the country this comes as u.s. afghanistan ties are strained over negotiations for a long term security agreement the deal would determine the u.s. presence in the country following a withdraw of most foreign troops planned for the end of the year the civilian

death was used to emphasize the line of afghan president hamid karzai as main demands for all you know lateral u.s. and nato military operations and afghanistan to end among other demands cars i also wants the u.s. to persuade the taliban leadership to take part in peace negotiations with of government karzai is worth using to sign a security deal before a presidential election in april skepticism is growing that negotiators will get him to buy former commander for the u.k.'s a special air service tells r t what he expects from the negotiations i beat a shit what we try to achieve is to set the conditions whereby an afghan government can. play we. believe. if those conditions are certain he should be here then what we are likely to see is

a compromise between kabul once autonomy. which will see afghanistan. over the next period of time perhaps the next ten years but then can it be any great strategic victory if we want to call it that or any great strategic outcome. americans initially wanted a deal signed before the new year. in west virginia a chemical spill into the elk river caused caused governor earl ray tomblin to issue a state of emergency and nine counties and a water ban for one hundred thousand people over five thousand gallons of a coal preparation chemical has escaped from a tank of freedom industries and the state's capital the link was discovered last night but it's possible has been going on for longer our correspondent megan lopez has more. state and federal authorities are working around the clock in charleston west virginia after a spill leaks chemicals into the elk river just one mile upstream from

a local water treatment facility so the spill comes from a forty eight thousand gallon chemical storage tank from freedom industries right now west virginia governor earl ray tomblin has declared a state of emergency for nine counties surrounding charleston west virginia schools and businesses have been closed and the three hundred thousand or so residents that have been affected by this spill are told not to drink the water not even to wash their hands with it only to use it to flush the toilet and case of a fire emergency meanwhile president barack obama has declared a federal emergency in west virginia fema and the department of homeland security are both getting involved in the relief efforts right now as investigators try to figure out how contaminated the water is how serious the problem is and how they can go ahead and fix it now the president of freedom end of story is the company that actually leaked those chemicals put out a statement just a little bit ago today and i want to read part of it it says quote we have been

working with local federal and safety and environmental entities including the coast guard army corps of engineers and homeland security and are following all necessary steps to fix the issue our team has been working around the clock since the discovery to contain the leak to prevent further contamination now the same i went on to say that the company doesn't know how the leak happened in the first place it also doesn't know exactly how much of the chemical was released now this chemical is a foam agent used in the coal process coal of course is a major industry in west virginia and this chemical is actually use right before the coal goes to market in order to clean it something else that authorities don't know at the moment is a possible hazard that this chemical has on the fume and body so far no one has been rip. ordered as experiencing negative side effects as a result of this however a number of people have gone to local hospitals to be checked for possible symptoms

but again no one yet has been reported as being sick now something else to keep in mind here is that some of the symptoms that are involved in this or that authorities are warning residents of is burning throat hands and arms and skin and a lot of other symptoms that are just really scary to begin with local grocery store owners have described the mad dash by local residents there as pandemonium in order to get their hands on some clean bottles of water residents there are even resorting to buying bags of ice and sporting drinks and soda and things like that in order to have something to drink as there is a shortage right now at the moment we don't know right now how long it's going to take for the school to be cleaned up but residents are hopeful it'll be done in the next few days on the road to west virginia meghan lopez r.t. . now to the pine ridge indian reservation in south dakota. who has an annual per capital income of four thousand dollars eight times the rate of diabetes

than the national average two times the rate of heart disease and three times the rate of infant mortality and also have possibly the highest unemployment rate in the country eighty percent which matches the estimated rate of alcoholism on the reserve and this is despite the fact that alcohol is a legal they're breaking with that producer cody snell breaks it down. from an eighty percent unemployment rate to an average life expectancy of fifty years old the oglala sioux of pine ridge reservation in south dakota face some of the most harrowing statistics in the united states but behind these numbers are societal an enemy that's decimating families and threatening the oglala way of life alcohol for the vast majority of the reservations one hundred twenty five year history alcohol has been banned despite this ban pine ridges alcoholism rate is estimated to be as high as eighty percent of the alcohol is infiltrating the tribe from a border town just two miles away only about twelve people live here in whiteclay

nebraska but in two thousand and twelve the four stores located right next to pine ridge sold over one hundred sixty thousand cases of beer and that beer is generating an enormous profits for both store owners and the state of nebraska. anywhere from three to five million dollars being made every year but two loops in the country none of white clay store owners would talk to us on camera but it's clear that this i popping revenue in an economically distressed area is why tribe members voted this past august to finally allow alcohol on the reservation but the decision to legalize only passed by a four percent margin and continues to generate deeply divided opinions among the people of pine ridge a lot of people drink they're going to find it somewhere even though they don't legalize it and don't make alcohol when you live along the reservation because we have enough problems when that's not an evo it leaves the government instead of

being more self-sufficient monks or selves. by legalizing. me this gives us one more step to grow not although the referendum was passed by a majority vote five months ago pine ridge is tribal government a council consisting of one thousand representatives has final say on if and how the new law is implemented robin tapio a representative from the village of pine ridge and an advocate of alcohol legalization believes this potential revenue is the only way to turn the tide when it comes to preventative health i don't ever see the federal government coming up with the resources to help us build treatment centers to help us build a detox to help us build on the shelter another council member bernie shot with arrow who opposes the referendum worries that more alcohol on the reservation will lead to more crime wording on law enforcement so if it does get legal either it's going to be it's going to be worse not to mention the difficulties police officers

already have in responding to alcohol related crime. thirty officers and probably someone sometime this reservations the size of rhode island so you figure that's not enough when there's like forty thousand people who are both tapio and shot with arrows concerns are well justified considering that two hundred twenty million dollars was slashed just last year from the indian health service a nearly five percent cut due to the sequester the decrease in money is actually illegal and stands in violation of longstanding treaties between the u.s. government and native american communities but government cutbacks and broken promises aren't the only hurdles facing the lakota nation the inner corruption within the council itself is of concern when it comes to the allocation of funds if this were to pass we would like the alcohol revenues to be set in a separate account not come into the chives general because the tribe has something

called the general fund and the general fund is pretty much money that's spent where there is you can't really tag it or track it. no i mean they call it the black hole only time will tell if legalization is the right course of action for a community devastated by alcoholism but more importantly is whether the tribal council will spend these potential funds in a way that can build a sustainable future for generations to come in pine ridge south dakota cody snow r.t. that does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com forward slash r.t. america and check out our web site r t v dot com for usa you can also follow me on twitter at perry n.b.c. stay tuned the best is next. i think. that's.

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