were. coming up on our t.v.'s there has been a chemical spill in west virginia the elk river officials have declared a state of emergency of three hundred thousand people and nine in the west virginia counties have been told not to drink bathe or wash clothes in this contaminated water of a report from the area head. one time obey has been the holding war on terror detainees for twelve years the facility is known for waterboarding forced feedings and indefinite detention but will it ever close and what will happen to those still in limbo at the facility we'll try to answer some of those questions ahead and in south dakota and indian reservation the faces a host of problems from incredibly high unemployment to alcoholism locals worry what may happen if a ban on alcohol is lifted we take

a deeper look at this reservation that a leader in the show. it's friday january tenth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm perry i'm boring you're watching r t america and west virginia a chemical spill into the elk river caused governor earl ray tomblin to issue a state of emergency and nine counties and a water ban for three hundred thousand people over five thousand gallons of a coal preparation chemical has a skate from a tank at freedom industries in the state's capital the leak was discovered last night but it's possible it's been going on for longer governor tomblin offered these words to west virginians affected by the spill. help is on the way we're taking every measure to provide water too. there is no shortage of bottled water

supplies are living here to the area as we speak. with her doll west virginians at affected areas to contact their local have emergency methods with all those water this interview ships of each of the carriers are the 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 industries 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 deep 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 used 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 hazards that this chemical has on the fume and body so far no one has been ripped. 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 itching 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 will be done in the next few days on the road to west virginia mega lopez r.t. . tomorrow marks the twelfth anniversary of detainees from the war on terror ensuring guantanamo bay the american military detention facility located in cuba despite president obama campaigning on a promise to close the camp back in two thousand eight hundred fifty five detainees remain a get go seventy seven of which have been cleared for release artes and a starship turkana takes a look at the past dozen years at guantanamo bay. 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. the supposed 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 defy international law it's a decision that's been made and that they want a display 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 despite the rhetoric it 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 seventy nine hundred eighty s. 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 man 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. because they were somewhere so if you know somebody whether they're innocent or guilty is not our job right here just to have after a majority of detainees. went on hunger strike last year obama's administration was forced to make big steps again 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 arclight jamila bey as he. spent his whole adult life basically in europe and in canada and 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 presidents will to shut the prison and congress resisting this is officially used as an excuse to avoid simply closing the place down despite a personal promises to do so think the only reason he can get away with that is by

portraying it really as a craddick mess you know as if this was somehow harder to do now than it was five years ago we were going for president you know let's 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 come and spicy chicken on our team. the pentagon has now completed the first guantanamo bay periodic review board and just out of one more detainees to the list of people approved to be released and the press release the board said they. that continued the law of war detention is no longer necessary to protect against a continuing significant threat to the united states and that usually he it is therefore eligible for transfer of the though he has been approved for release is unclear when and where he will be released to talk more about the guantanamo

periodic review board and military justice at the detention facility i spoke with attorney thomas wilner i first asked him if he could tell us more about this board and what they have accomplished and regards to closing gitmo. 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 you have these trial which is under obama's review board it was conducted via teleconference and a board with a secret location in washington d.c. while the detainee and his attorney were in autonomy obey and the press was not invited which further led to the pentagon saying they were unprepared to let reporters watch and watch the pentagon envoy for guantanamo closure as 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 writer's disgusting it's disgusting let me say you call this a cryo wasn't even a cryo it's a review of somebody who they're not going to cry 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's disgusting. stubborn or ten people at guantanamo who should be charged the other should be released and obama now has the authority to do it and you should get off his body and do 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 in and suicides as we've now heard about do you think the administration has anything else to hide

here. well 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 were 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 they're 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 has bought into 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 what's the risk of sending in an english resident back to england 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 that as attorney thomas well there and for another take on that guantanamo always you board and military justice at the detention camp i was joined earlier by lieutenant commander kevin bogusky who has represented get mo detainees he told us more about the procedures during their review boards hearing. well that initial round of hearings which were the combatant status review tribunals those had a lot of problems too while it's true that the detainees may have actually faced the members of the board they weren't represented by lawyers they were as is true in this process represented by non lawyer personal representatives with whom they

have established absolutely no relationship so i wouldn't say that those hearings were fair those hearings were an attempt to to retroactively correct a problem which was that we didn't comply with the geneva conventions when we caught these people we didn't give them the proper article five tribunals they were entitled to to determine what their status should be as as combatants captured on the battlefield and as a member of the navy jag and someone that has represented other detainees why why do you believe there is not a conflict of interest there you know there is no conflict of interest when i was assigned to represent these men which was now five and a half years ago my primary duty became their best interest and i've fought hard for my clients over the course of those past five years i've gone all around the world actually talking about how bad i think kuantan a mole is and all the problems with the military commission system all the problems

with the periodic review board system one of which i'll note it was noted by the american bar association in july of last year that these men are not entitled to be represented by lawyers of their own choosing i have formed close relationships with all my clients but someone arbitrarily decided that navy jag cannot have any role in this process this periodic review board process so these men with whom i've formed close relationships i can't represent them in their periodic review boards instead they'll be represented by non lawyer personal representatives with whom they have no relationship that was lieutenant commander kevin go got key of the u.s. navy. and the us 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 orrin hatch introduced the bipartisan congressional a 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 when engaged and trade talks the bill is passed into law would apply to the twelve nation trans-pacific partnership which includes the u.s. end of the eleven other highlighted nations along the pacific rim 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 input on the t p p calling for a straight up or down vote with no room for amendments and limited florida bait to discuss the trade deal and the process of fast tracking more i'm joined by lori wallach director at 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 objective negotiated negotiation objectives and it 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 sent 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 moves run and they pack 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 radium through congress which is why it's so controversial as a very interesting way to circumvent the congressional process what changes 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 house though right there are already there are thirty republicans who before the bill went in said they wouldn't do fast tracked i don't think it's constitutional it delegates away congress's exclusive constitutional authority over trade and also a bunch of just wouldn't think of giving more power to president obama if anything then you've got democrats one hundred sixty of them before the bill 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 sort of disc. it is they're running out of time it's a 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 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 it's he's the one who's asked for it what's interesting the more i think is there's so rarely days with 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 as 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 in one 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 tepee 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 lost it in a slap down the house floor when one hundred seventy one democrats and seventy one republicans said no only george w. bush has had it only for five years literally in the last nineteen years what is different with p.p.p. and why now the disinclination generally not do fast track the sort of big bulk up is t p p is the most expansive serve invasive agreement as far as dodging into congress is territory of trade agreements are really about trade tariffs quotas congresses less nervous about giving away some of its authority and that's what was like in the seventy's when fastrack first to hatch and now we're going. no not a thing an interlocutor and he writes patents procurement immigration law energy policy financial services 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 for the thirteenth global trade watch now to the plain where is indian reservation and south dakota. who has an annual per capita income of just four thousand dollars eight times the rate of diabetes on the national average two times the rate of heart disease and three times the rate of infant mortality it also has possibly the highest unemployment rate in the country eighty percent which matches the estimated rate of alcoholism on the reservation and this is despite the fact that alcohol is illegal there are those that produce or coding style breaks it down from an eighty percent unemployment rate to an average life expectancy of fifty years old. to a pine ridge reservation in south dakota faced some of the most harrowing statistics in the united states but behind these numbers are silent and of me 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 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 before stores located right next to pine ridge 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. any where from. three to five million dollars being made every year or two loops in the country none of the 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 don't make. me leave along the reservation because we have enough problems when it's not legal if we. give them it being more self-sufficient monks or selves. by legalizing. this that's one more step to grow although the referendum was passed by a majority vote five months ago pine ridge is tribal government a council consisting of nineteen 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 preventive 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 burning shot with an 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 allocate. funds if this were to pass we would like the alcohol revenue to be set in a separate account not come into the tribes general because the tribe has something called the general fund and the general fund is pretty much money that's spent where there's you can't really take a gator track it you know 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 snell party the purpose of the capitol hill intel committee is are to provide oversight and to clandestine programs in the government organizations that run them over some believe many members of these committees aren't doing their job tonight's resident take a look at off now coalition whose mission is to nullify the n.s.a.

. congress doing anything to stop the n.s.a. data collection is laughable i mean they might offer some superficial bills with misleading names to try to save face but let's be real here they're probably not going to do anything remotely meaningful to stop the n.s.a. so we're going to have to think of other ways to buy their data collection if that's what we're so inclined to do and a group called the off now coalition thinks they've found a good way to do just that they've drafted a piece of legislation called the fourth amendment protection act which they are

encouraging lawmakers to adopt in their own state of the bill what is bam of the state and local governments from helping the n.s.a. in any way including because the delivery of natural resources like water you see all those servers that house all that and as they data get very very hot they need to be cooled and one way the n.s.a. is trying to accomplish that is by using treated wastewater from different municipalities near their data storage centers the n.s.a. is in the process of making deals with these municipalities to build pump stations where wastewater from treatment plants can be pumped into their data storage centers as a cooling agent the n.s.a. is using these deals with the municipalities to feel so good about themselves single save money and they're being environmentally conscious it's not like they're cooling their data storage centers with anyon it's just waste water from municipality. these deals will save taxpayer dollars. and be good pretty natural

ecosystem. so now back to off now the fourth amendment protection act if adopted by state the bill would make it illegal for those municipalities to give the n.s.a. back wastewater sure it's kind of a backdoor way to stop the n.s.a. data collection but we are talking about american politics here so you've got to outsmart the rats by playing their own day right. of course the n.s.a. would probably find another way to cool their servers maybe through the tears of newborn puppies or something got a road but off now the plan is a great way to throw up a roadblock to at least slow the n.s.a. data collection down if not stop it altogether and so far they've already gotten the support of some politicians which is great because it means they're making headway in their goal of having the end of these current water cooling planned out to dry tonight let's talk about that by the way you can twitter as the resident.

that does it for now i am perry i'm boring have a great night. to. be a. very hard to. educate. their . kids that are getting their due. to. the sun.