russian officials are venture behind the barbed wire at america's notorious kuantan a bay prison where more than a dozen detainees are reportedly being force fed amid an ongoing hunger strike. the canvas of war is turning syria into an emerging drunk's a haven that we report on how the country has become a major production cycle one potent stimulant in the space of just a few days yes. and a mess of the data collection of americans and foreign us around the globe will be kept in place indefinitely as president obama is criticized for a lack of action following his speech on the n.s.a.'s practices.

i fly from moscow this is our teams just going past one pm here in the russian capital with me to almighty. a delegation from moscow is trying to secure the release of a russian citizen he's been held without charge at guantanamo bay for more than a decade the russian officials are also looking into the ongoing hunger strike and the force feeding of detainees at the u.s. military facility in artie's and as the see it should get our reports. for the first time in twelve years a russian delegation spearheaded by the foreign ministry special representative for human rights got access to visit the guantanamo detention camp the goal meeting with the sole russian prisoner in gaza of held there without charge for a decade and taking steps to push for the detainees returned to his homeland we spoke to the top diplomat of the visiting delegation to get the details if you will government it looks pretty significant churches they gave.

you. basic rights because. get legal very cute you know. you broke through you know the written on proper litigation. to. we have been given to her to refute kuku are a little bit different but we've got to look. more politically all the details putting extra pressure on the u.s. to shut down the scandalous camp was also on the agenda of the foreign ministry the prison has been staining america's human rights and legal record both at home and abroad for years leaving the detainees staring really into the abyss of indefinite detention and just last week the world saw the twelfth anniversary of the first detainees of the world of the war on terror being brought to the scandalous prison camp which obama made a promise to close on day one at the white house last year the world's attention

was returned to one tunnel as the majority of the prisoner population was on a hunger strike for over six months making world headlines and really forcing the obama administration to refocus his attention at least on words for now to the detention camp although plenty of bureaucratic and political reasons continue to be used as an excuse instead of just shutting the place down when we visited guantanamo three months ago we found out that at least fifteen detainees were continuously being force fed before it's passed on the news we lubricate it and we give the. a choice they want to have. which is. they will numb the area or if they want of will to lubricate the tube. most of our patients have been using all of the world you seem to like it in fact some of our patients are so used to this they will describe which nostril they want

about other aspects of prisoner life however there was a lot of secrecy we were taken on a largely staged and prepared to or around the prison facilities without being able to see much of the real conditions that the prisoners live in and speaking to any of them was of course out of the question let alone seeing them one or two of them actually for more than a minute a lot of secrecy and a routine tour around the premises also turned out to be the experience of the russian delegation as well and as they said you're going to r.t. new york lawyers for the gun tunnel more detailed news claim of the number of hunger strikers at the prison has gone up in the past month and now stands at thirty three but the u.s. military which runs the facility has refused to release any updates the official excuse is that the figures are no longer relevant to quote more important issues like the well being of the prisoners and the security of american personnel we spoke to clive stafford smith who advocates for several of the detainees he claims

that the u.s. military is using some painful tactics to try and break up the hunger strike. if a prisoner are from camp six riches the least count goes on hunger strike they automatically get transferred not just count five but account five record which really has the most abuse took place in over one town and prisoners are held in all steel cell and denied the most basic human rights just as a punishment for going on strike that force feeding techniques very much action unfortunately against the very abusive force feeding techniques i mean casting aside the question of whether it's that the culture correspondent toure and the world medical association says it's not you know unfortunately the techniques they're using grown tonneau aren't group shuras are sleeping so for example and i've witnessed some of those that they used to leave but tubes up the prisoners noses at the foot so much they're still probably in most tubes out every single

time tries to forcing them back up each time they're still forcing far too much food too quickly into the prison american prison so if you're sick or just carry on doing it it really is horrendous. after nearly three years of bloody conflict syria is becoming a center of drug production with most economic activity practically nonexistent coupled with the proliferation of armed groups the business is ripening quickly let's take a look according to recent a reuters report syria has become a major drug exporter and consumer in the last few yes and outlawed stimulant known as kept a gun is and now produce there in huge amounts it's very profitable the country is to replace lebanon as the main producer which saw a ninety percent fall in production in the last two years lebanese officials also seized over twelve million pills of the drug last year and the trends of acting other countries with tricky season seven million pills which are under route to

saudi arabia are to use the money if a national has more details. this theory about entering its fourth devastating year of war the lack of law and structure has allowed one son in the streets to slowish the country has become the number one producer of a drug known as captain gone since synthetic stimulant was first manufactured in the one nine hundred sixty s. and it was at that time used as a medicine to treat hyperactivity and depression but it's too addictive and this is why it was banned in most countries though here in the middle east it's still very popular it's cheap and it's easy to get but today syria not only produces more than any other country in the region but it's also categories main consumers believe that fighters are taking this pills to maintain vigorous energy levels you're in lengthy battles because it helps you keep awake for hours and hours but

there are also reports of ordinary citizens those who've been living in depression and in this war for almost three years now are also toting to the drugs all of these k.p.c. poor gives them and it's lucrative it's between fifteen and twenty dollars if peel and the raw hundreds of millions of them taking all trafficked there is solid evidence that the revenue raised is buying weapons from both sides of the syrian conflict the un office on drugs and crime. has been reporting that syria which is located at the crossroads here in the region has for a long time been a transit point for the drug going from europe to turkey and lebanon but since the war began kept the guns trades gone to mastic and factories are of hearing these days all across syria and production has increased and sales and boom here

elaborate on the authorities seized around two hundred million dollars. worth of tablets last year mostly hidden in the tracks going through the syrian lebanese border from syria to the lebanese force from where they issued to its final destination including the gulf countries some of the most ardent supporters of the syrian opposition and saudi arabia where around a billion dollars worth of drugs was seized just last year with authorities saying this is nothing but just ten percent of the real turnover of the drug in the kingdom. and the editor of the pan african newswire you will believe the drug trade will only fuel the protracted syrian conflict even more. i think it should be investigated we've seen the relationship between illicit drugs very addictive substances and imperialist war as the rebels lose more and more

ground as the syrian government of the syrian military gains more territory the degree to which they stabilize the country even further the resources that are coming into syria from the western countries and from the countries that are allied with the west in the middle east this is going to of course make the rebels even more desperate and their supporters even more desperate to raise funds in order to finance them so i think this is a reflection of the failure over the last three years of this u.s. and nato financed or rather war by that's been leveled against the people of syria it's caused tremendous amount of deaths injuries dislocation and now of course drug distribution and addiction as well. in the meantime there's still no unity in the ranks of the syrian opposition as the geneva two peace conference fost approaches the divided ranks of the syrian national coalition have been convened

a meeting in turkey but this by present us as opposed of a ceasefire in the second largest city of aleppo and a present exchange coupled with extensive pressure from the west has been no decision on whether the opposition will attend the peace talks the coalition's main blog had previously threatened to boycott geneva two and many of the members have already pulled out. a new study by the massachusetts institute of technology has challenge the white house's claims against the syrian government the also the report said the chemical attack in a good ta suburb of damascus last august couldn't have been launched from government controlled areas or does unless he had a chef ski right here in the studio with me to shut us some light on this a report. what do you know what's coming out of this report well this report is the result of several months of very closely studying the attack of the chemical attack on august the twenty first twenty thirteen and the investigators searches use the

map which the washington presented as the proof that as well they claim to be the proof of the government using gas against the rebels we made an exact copy of this map and will have a look at what the story is all about right now the. the investigators the the intelligence used this map showing the parts where which were dominated by the governor forces at the time and the parts which were dominated by the opposition forces at the time these blinking dots over there are the areas where this sarin gas was used so the basis of this new report of this new research is that the rockets which were fired on those positions on those blinking spots on the map could not have been fired from the governmental part of damascus from the part of damascus controlled by the government simply because these missiles were out of range they could have reached only at a distance of two kilometers while for instance this this area called zamalka which

is one of the worst affected by the gas attack is it least four kilometers away from the eastern more support of the territories controlled by the government and if we talk about the heart of the area controlled by the government which the u.s. state secretary john kerry said the rockets were fired from it's at least eight to nine kilometers from the areas affected by this sarin gas there were some areas in western part of the goods area of damascus which also were allegedly involved in a gas attack but there were no environmental proof of that found even by the u.n. investigators so it's still really doubtful whether the gas was the missiles were actually fired at this location we spoke to one of the authors of this report and this is what he had to say. so we went through two to three months worth of study to determine the types of rockets. the weight the size of the propellant

and we determine that the range is on the order of two kilometers i like to make a note that the u.n. also had come up with a range of approximately two kilometers so this is very confusing to us in our studies and we're trying to understand exactly what the white house map means because right now as it stands these rockets could have never been fired from government controlled territory they would be fired more from a rebel type of territory or a border of a contested territory it's worth mentioning that this latest report is not attributing the blame for the gas attack to anyone to any side involved but what a difference it does is it sticks another boot into the accuracy of u.s. intelligence and even speculates that president obama could have used what is seemingly what is increasingly looking like an inaccurate intelligence information

to instigate another attack or another military attack this time on syria in a similar fashion which george w. bush the president of united states george w. bush did with iraq so it's will be interesting to see how washington reacts to this latest report and of course as that geneva two summit coming up so will they bring it up we'll have to wait and see nic nic there with me shedding some light on the latest report coming they out of massachusetts institute of technology on the syrian gas attack in syria. by thousands of skilled professionals have been fleeing the euro zone's it knew as a man but that media with nothing was driving the activists and whether the government's capable of all the ending the mass population decrease that's just i hate.

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thirteen seventeen here this option in moscow thank you for tuning in invasive data collection by the n.s.a. the exposure of which sent shock waves around the globe will continue indefinitely the move was outlined germ barack obama's speech on the operation something intelligent agency which introduce a number of reforms yet as many say failed to tackle major privacy issues she's assumes sex reports after nearly seven months of n.s.a. disclosures president obama finally came forward with reforms to the spy agency acknowledging that the current capabilities of the usa do leave open the possibility of abuse given the unique power of the state it is not enough for leaders to say trust us we want to be use the data we collect for history has too many examples when that trust has been breached. our such

a system of government is built on the premise that our liberty cannot depend on the good intentions of those in power the president address the n.s.a.'s most controversial program section two fifteen bulk telephone metadata collection basically the president no longer wants the government to be in control of these massive metadata databases but that doesn't mean the president wants to get rid of bulk collection in fact the bulk collection of virtually every american is metadata will continue indefinitely and the new restrictions announced by the president requiring the n.s.a. to obtain pfizer court approval before searching all that metadata doesn't satisfy privacy advocates who argue the pfizer court has acted and will continue to act as a rubber stamp nothing in obama's speech put any rain rain dan this collected all approach and yesterday that there was a big revelation of god called this fire program that just fire program was collecting all tax calls literally hundreds of thousands of text calls every day

are going into the n.s.a.'s vacuum it's giant gigantic hoover regarding spying on foreign leaders the president said he's put an end to surveillance on friends and allies but did not say the n.s.a. will stop spying on diplomats nothing about the n.s.a. breaking encryption standards and ports that the n.s.a. has been breaking into the data links on google and yahoo servers while some specific reforms were introduced how exactly they will be implemented moving forward remains to be seen especially since the same government agencies that have overseen the massive growth of the surveillance state are now the ones tasked with reigning into it washington d.c. same sex party. michael kahn president and general counsel for the national whistleblower with end to says major issues which overlooked in the president's speech. american people are looking for is what are you going to do when you have a whistleblower like mr snowden who has critical information that the american

people have a right to know he did not address that issue it's being swept under the rug instead i think in a fair view of what's going on it is merely window dressing covering up the abuses that have been identified who's to say there are a lot more abuses that have occurred that haven't been identified because there's no channel for the n.s.a. whistleblower to make their allegations public or known in any way so at best it's window dressing it's punts a lot to congress to try to fix the problem and it addresses in no way how the american people have a right to understand the abuses of our government. the u.n. humanitarian affairs mission reports israel attacks on the west bank palestinians increased full fold in less than a decade two thousand one hundred some palestinians were carried out by israel in the past eighteen read more about the threats local stuff those experienced daily

on our website. also most stories for you online an italian senior member of the international olympic committee calls america's decision to send openly gay athletes to the winter games in sochi for political extortion get the full story on r.t. dot com. write the scene. first trip. and i think the trip. on our reporters were very. instrumental. in the. russia's national counter-terror committee says four militants have been killed and russia's southern republic of dagestan the operation is said to be on the way

security forces had been negotiating with the militants in a house they had been holed up in however the armed gang that open fire which led to a shootout it's believed that some of the militants away responsible for a grenade launcher attack on a restaurant on friday followed by twin blasts that injured at least sixteen people one of the militants and killed was a leader of a local gang one another was a widow of one of the bandits who was said to be preparing all suicide attacks. let's take a look at what's happening elsewhere around the globe this hour a russian citizen was among twenty one people killed in a suicide attack in the afghan capital three u.n. workers and a representative from the international monetary fund were also among the did one bomber blew himself up at a restaurant popular with afghan officials and diplomat interior ministry says gods

were killed two other gunmen who tried to storm the venue the taliban's claimed responsibility for the attack. activists close with police in the spanish capital madrid and protesters had gathered in solidarity with demonstrators in the north and city of bell goes the unrest of the erupted over clint's revamp a street which locals claim is a waste of limited resources solidarity riots have been reported across the country forcing the mayor of that town to postpone the project. nature has a bit in another chunk of the iconic statue of christ the ready meal overlooking rio de janeiro and its ride of thumb has been chipped by a powerful lightning strike authorities are sure the damage will soon be repaired the thirty eight metre tall monument is a frequent thunderbolt target and underwent a multi-million dollar renovation in two thousand and ten.

the euro zone's newest and poorest member latvia may be the europe's fastest growing economy but its population has been falling leaps and bounds and those leaving the country are blaming government negligence pos god caught up with one of them. serv a gay is one of thousands of workers who will leave latvia this year but his destination is perhaps surprising he'll be leaving this e.u. state to work in azerbaijan. life is always hard but in this country it's harder as the government is much more concerned by politics than economics and the life of the common man survey isn't the only one the world bank says a lot because population is shrinking by almost sixty thousand people per year i feel i'm not alone the government are squeezing everybody wanting more and more from us for less money between two thousand and nine and two thousand and twelve

not be as population fell by around ten percent in a country of only two million people this decline is sharply felt especially since those leaving a mostly of working age the major work force males from twenty to forty go and find jobs abroad and then move their families over this leave just older people this demographic shift poses significant economic challenges which the government says it's keen to try and tackle there is a government program to return people to latvia but it doesn't work they pay for people to return but there's still no work for them the only way out is to create new jobs and a suitable atmosphere for investment but it isn't happening and over the next twenty years the population will decrease another third so as leaders desperately try to arrest the worrying trend the message from at least one of those with bags packed for a better life elsewhere is simple. the government has to stop its aggressive social

policies and lower taxes so that people can live and not simply survive. scott ulti latvia the kaiser report is up next i'll see seen. because you don't states is the big dog the only hyper power and the cultural driving force of globalization it takes a lot of flack i mean globalization means the whole world gets hollywood and hot dogs and not the other way around so let's take a break from the negativity and talk about something truly amazing about america and as a guy who lives in moscow i could say that the constitution of the united states is something truly amazing in russia there is constant talk about needing a new national idea a new ideology or political theory or big changes to the russian constitution and so on and it's hard for people in america understand this but twice in the

twentieth century the system that russians gave their lives for collapsed and the current constitution was written quickly after a period of violence and said collapse not after glorious victory now you see why people here aren't exactly memorizing amendments and founding fathers quotes here in america there are debates between liberals and conservatives but almost everyone believes the constitution and it is america's greatest strength there is a national idea that is a sacred document with a list of rules as almost universally agreed upon everyone with half a brain on the street but sadly not in congress knows when something is against the constitution or should i see against america near universal belief in the constitution is actually something truly exceptional about america but that's just my opinion.

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