was. russian officials a bunch of behind the barbed wire at america's notorious gun tunnel bay prison where more than a dozen detainees are reportedly being force fed i made an ungodly hunger strike. a new study group said john told the glasses and he ever found claims to say last year's chemical uptown that washington blamed on the regime could never have been launched over from government controlled areas. of the massive data collection on americans and foreigners around the globe will be kept in place indefinitely as president obama is criticized for lack of action following his speech on the n.s.a.'s practice it is.

international news and call it live from moscow you're watching also international with me you know. under a very welcome to the program a delegation from moscow is trying to secure the release of a russian citizen who's been held without charge and gone tunnel bay for more than a decade the russian officials are also looking into the ongoing hunger strike and the force feeding of detainees it at the u.s. military facility there is a situation in 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 is looking for

a new significant churches they gave their lives at the revolutionary because remember when you use. basic rates because. they are so good little break you know. you prove you know there is no proper litigation. the access to where we have been given an opportunity to cool a little bit to be facilities but we've got to look beautiful most likely all the details putting extra pressure on the us to shut down the scandalous campus 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 detainee's work continuously being force fed before it's passed on the news we lubricate it and we give the. choice they want to have. which is the agent who will numb the area or if they want of will to lubricate the tube. most of our patients have been using all of the will 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 ton of the detainees claim 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 figure is are no longer relevant to quote more important issues like the well being of the prisoners and the security of american personnel and we spoke with clive stafford smith who advocates for several of the detainees he claims the u.s. military is easing some painful tactics to try and break up the hunger strike. if

a prisoner from camp six which is the least bad camp goes on hunger strike they automatically get transferred not just count five but you can't fight back which really has been the most abusive place in all on town of bay prisoners are held in all steel cells and denied the most basic human rights just as a punishment for going on strike that force feeding techniques are very much an action unfortunately again it's the very abusive force feeding techniques i mean casting aside the question of whether it's that the culture coarsely to tourne the world medical association says it's not you know unfortunately the techniques they using. gratuitous take hold so for example and i've witnessed some of this that they used to leave but use up the prisoners noses to hurt so much they're still pulling those tubes out every single time twice a day forcing them back up each time still forcing far too much food too quickly

into the prisoner making presents that if you're sick they just carry on doing it it really is horrendous but it's not. a new study by the massachusetts institute of technology has challenged the white house's claims against the syrian government the authors of the reports say the chemical attack in the suburb of damascus last august couldn't have been launched from government controlled areas and our season next year chatzky is around here with me in the studio and eric say so what do we know at this point well this report is the result of several months of studying the attack on the thirty first august the twenty first and basically tries to answer the question of whether the rockets were actually fired from the part of damascus controlled by the government now let's look at the map of the exact copy of the map which washington used when delivering the news that the government could have attacked the rebel territories with the sarin gas this is the part of damascus

controlled by the government forces well this is the part of damascus controlled by the opposition forces at the time of august twenty first twenty thirteen so the essence of this of this research is that rockets which were fired on these positions which are marked by these blinking spots over there for instance is a marker area which was badly hit by the sarin gas which reportedly had the biggest number of casualties. the essence is that the rockets which were fired on these positions could not have been fired from the government controlled areas simply because they were out of range in order to hit those spots of those areas the rockets should have been fired from the range which is circled in this red line which is about two kilometers that is the maximum range that those rockets could have hit while the eastern most point of the government controlled areas is about six kilometers from the western most point which was hit by these sarin gas even if we look at the heart of the government controlled area that's where according to

the u.s. state secretary john kerry the rockets were fired from this is about eight to nine kilometers to the west and more spore into the market area which was hit. by the sarin attack also there were two places in the western part of the guta area in damascus which also were reportedly suffering from the gas attack but the un investigators did not find any environmental proof that the sarin gas was used there although there were some victims from these areas now we spoke earlier 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 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 this latest report by the mit research is does not attribute blame to any side of the conflict for for launching this gas attack what it does though it sticks another boot into the accuracy of the u.s. intelligence and even speculates that president obama could have use this increasingly increasingly inaccurate. information to launch a military attack against syria and what we support says that it could have been done in a similar fashion as george w. bush did against iraq official washington is still yet to respond to this latest

report. thank you very much indeed for bringing us up to date. they may be unresolved questions over syria's chemical attacks but there's a little doubt that the country is becoming a center of drug production with most economic activity particularly nonexistent coupled with the proliferation of armed groups the business is ripening quickly let's not take a look here according to a recent reuters report syria has become a major drug exporter and consumer in the last few years and outlawed stimulant known as camp to go on is not produced in huge amounts so it's profitable and countries replace lebanon as the main producers are 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 fracturing over states other states like turkish authorities seized seven million pills made

in syria which war and grew to its sound uribe a. city's. with syria about to entering its fourth devastating year of war the lack of law and structure has allowed one dark industry to flourish the country has become the number one producer of a drug known as caps and gone since synthetic stimulants were 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 so here in the middle east it's still very popular it's cheap and it isn't forgotten but today syria not only produces more than any other country in the region but it's also kept a close main consumers believe that fighters are taking the pills to maintain vigorous energy levels your elevenses battles because it helps you keep the weight in for hours and hours but there are also reports that ordinary citizens those

who've been livin in depression and in this war and chaos for almost three years now are also coding to the drugs for these capers to four year aid gives them and it's lucrative it's between fifteen and twenty doors appeal and the right hundreds of millions of them taking all trafficked and there is 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 captagon trades guns and mastic and factories are appearing these days all across syria and production has increased and sales and booming here

elaborate on the authorities seized around two hundred million dollars worth of tab . lost here mostly hayden and the tracks going through things say remember he's born to crawl the way that any one of wedded to his final destination played in the gulf countries some of the most ardent supporters of the syrian opposition and saudi arabia where around a billion dollars worth of the drug was seized just last year with authority saying this is nothing but just ten percent of the real turnover of the drug and became him and to sell the pan african knees while they yell me as a k. way believes the drugs trade will only fuel the protracted simmering conflict even wrong. 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 and 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 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 wark by that's been leveled against the people of syria it's caused a tremendous amount of deaths injuries dislocation and now of course drug distribution and addiction as well. and the meantime there's still no unity in the ranks of the syrian opposition as the geneva two peace conference fast approaches be divided ranks of the sea where a national coalition has been convening in turkey but despite president affronts proposal of a ceasefire in the second largest city of aleppo under present exchange coupled

with extensive pressure from the west there's been no decision on whether the opposition will attend the peace talks the coalition's main blog had previously threatened to boycott geneva and many of the members have already pulled down. sounds of skilled professionals have been fleeing the euro zone's news last year we'll look at what's driving the exodus and whether the government's capable of ending the month population decrease that's just ahead after the break.

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know what you all seem to nationalise good to have you with us let's move on now the invasive data collection by the n.s.a. the exposure which sent shock waves around the globe will continue indefinitely the move was outlined during barack obama's speech on the operations of the intelligence agency which introduced a number of reforms yet as many say fail to tackle major privacy issues i'll see some socks in our report 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 text calls literally hundreds of thousands of text calls every day are going into the n.s.a.'s vacuum it's gigantic danny cooper 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 reining it in in washington d.c. same sex are to. and michael cohen president and general counsel for the national whistleblower center says major issues were overlooked in the president's speech the real thing that the 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 are 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 occurred that haven't been identified because there's no channel for the n.s.a. whistleblowers to make their allegations public or known in any way so. at best it's window dressing it's punch a lock 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. humanitarian affairs mission that reports israeli taksin west and find the palestinians increased in less than a decade. and thousand one hundred tonque some palestinians were carried down by israel in the pa state she is worried more about how the threats local settlers experience daily on our website. and also mine for you on a time when senior member of the international olympic committee calls america's

decision to send openly gay athletes to the winter games in sochi but it's cool extension to get the full story on our website dot com. russia's national counter-terror kmita it says seven militants have been killed in russia's southern republic of dagestan the operation and that began in the morning is reported to be security forces have been negotiating with the militants in the house they had been holed up in however they armed gangs and opened fire which led to a shootout it's believed some. the militants were responsible for a grenade launcher a tug on a restaurant on friday followed by twin blasts that injured at least sixteen people one of the militants killed it was a leader of a local gang while another was a we do one of the bandits who was said to be preparing for a suicide. and asked well ali global 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 dead one bomber blew himself up at a restaurant popular with are going to fish oils and diplomats the interior ministry says guards killed to other gunmen who tried to storm the venue the taliban has claimed responsibility for the time their. list clashed with police in the spanish capital madrid protesters have gathered in solidarity with demonstrators in the northern city of burgos the arrests there arrested over plans to revive a street show cause claim is a waste of limited resources solidarity riots have been reported across the country forcing the mayor of biogas to postpone the project. the eurozone is newest and poorest member last year maybe europe's fastest growing economy but its population has been falling leaps and bounds and those leaving the country are blaming government. for negligence of course called caught up with one of them.

serve 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 state to work in azerbaijan is that. life is always hard but in this country it's harder as the government is much more concerned by politics not economics and the life of the common man so gay isn't the only one the world bank says that because population is shrinking by almost sixty thousand people per year. i feel i'm not alone the governments are squeezing everybody wanting more and more from us for less money between two thousand and nine and two thousand and twelve not because 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 in 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 maybe just there is a government program to return people to that via but it doesn't work yes 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 box pot for a better life elsewhere is simple. the government has to stop its aggressive social policies and lower taxes so that people can live where not simply survive. altie not via. r.c. international remembers the highlights of belong with a relay in history but if you're watching us and the u.k. .

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and. on june sixteenth one thousand forty one we had a graduation party at school and the war broke out. the shops were always full of goods. in september leningrad was blocked. one day mom went to sort out all the shelves were empty. in november they bombed the warehouses it was the main storage place for all the food in the city people eating the earth because it had small traces of sugar in it i tried to eat it as well but i couldn't. cook.

incredibly heavy bombing. it was a direct hit on that very shelter and everyone was buried under me and. all of them went dead. as a new physician i swear to abide by the hippocratic oath. to the best of my ability and judgment. i will prescribe for the good of my patients. i will not give deadly doses to anybody.

or advise others to do so. i will never do harm to. doctors of the doc's on onto. it was supposed to be just another news or of course although admittedly for a special occasion it was one hundred twenty three days before the start of the winter olympic games in sochi and i was in greece for the lighting of the olympic flame the ruins of elim pierre one of the most famous monuments of ancient greece the site of the very first olympic games where stones like this would have been part of the temple. the temple of. temple.

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