these rockets could have never been fired from government controlled territory. and mighty question america's claims that sewer is the government was behind a chemical weapons attack near the capital damascus last. officials from moscow visit gone tunneled a prison seeking to negotiate the release of a russian nationals there's been held there for years without charge just like the majority of detainees. under guess they can continue with sweeping surveillance president obama is a dissipative plans to reform the n.s.a. the experiences are dismissed as a limited p.r. stunt.

hello and welcome to all seen international twenty four hour news live from moscow my name is unity main story now the u.s. conclusion that a chemical attack near damascus in august was carried on by the government has been challenged by a team of highly respected act but it's washington immediately blamed president assad but a new report from the massachusetts institute of technology found the rocket couldn't have been fired from government controlled areas. 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 met 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 so it appears something in america's official conclusions don't add up on season tix had us not to get looked into they and i say thank you for. this latest report is trying to answer one question whether the missiles carrying sarin gas in august twenty thirteen were really fired from the parts of damascus controlled by the syrian government now we reproduced exactly the same map which the u.s. intelligence used when they voiced their concerns that the attack was carried out by the syrian government and this is the part of damascus controlled by the syrian government at that time in august twenty third scene this is the part controlled by the opposition those blinking yellow spots they mark the places where the attack

happened in particular this western most point of those attacks where the biggest number of casualties happened and this red line here it shows where the missiles could could have gone if they were fired from the from the governmental territories in damascus the maximum range of those missiles is two kilometers now this eastern most point of the of the attack is about four kilometers from the eastern most point of the governmental control and the territories controlled by the government and if we talk about the heart of the of the territory controlled by the government that's something which was specified by u.s. state john kerry that's where the rockets were fired from this is about nine kilometers from the this point here this report basically does not lay blame on any side and does not say whether there were those where the rebels who perform these attacks are using chemicals but what it does though it seriously puts under doubt that the quality of intelligence and as to why the u.s.

authorities used what seems to be incomplete or even flawed intelligence data to voice their concerns and if we remember what u.s. state secretary john kerry said back then the claims were quite solid high confidence this is common sense this is evidence these are facts also this report speculates at one point that it could have this wrong data could have been used in a similar fashion as the attack on iraq when wrong information was used as a pretext to launch a military operation official washington hasn't yet responded to this latest report by the mighty researches. and as the violence rages on in syria become trees turning into a major drunk with both rebels and army soldiers reportedly taking unfetter means to keep up the entry and stay going during battles our report on that is just ahead

. after a decade long effort to secure a visit an official delegation from moscow isn't gone tom ok america's most notorious dissensions son to the hoping to meet a russian national who's been held there for over a decade but has never been charged with a crime all season a sissy trick in a house more. 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 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 when you move government it looks pretty significant churches they gave their lives at the loop you reduce it because. you. basically. don't get legal break you know. you probably. don't properly.

the access to where we have been given to to repeat cuckoo or a little bit different but we've got to look beautiful most likely 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. 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 human rights advocates are claiming the number of hunger strikers has doubled in the past month and now stands at thirty three however the military authorities are refusing to release any new figures authorities say they release of information on hunger strikers quote detract from the more important issues langley welfare detainees and the safety of troops and clive stafford smith as a lawyer for several gun ton of the detainees there and his witness some of the most brutal tactics used by the military. if a prisoner are 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 the content of the day 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 are very much an action unfortunately against the very abusive force feeding techniques i mean casting aside the question of whether it's at the culture course being a tour in the world medical association says it's not you know unfortunately the techniques they using ground tunnel gratuitously painful 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 foster much too quickly into the prisoner making prison said if you're sick they just carry on doing it it really is horrendous what's happening. coming up later this hour leaving los vs the both of

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a day of. news programs and documentaries in spanish what matters to you breaking news a little turn to tip angles stories. for you here. altie spanish to find out more visit i to our. tivo it's comb. you're watching i'll see international live from moscow welcome back. washington will not dismantle his global spine network announcement of a major of a whole the national security agency outlined by president obama have failed to provide any deeds how on when the collection of data will be stopped or indeed whether it will be stopped a toll and critics say the plan for deep reform is nothing more than a facelift as i see some socks now explains 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 addressed 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 fi's a 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 gigantic coover 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

the reigning into it washington d.c. same sex party. the president told a national whistleblower center believes the government is trying to steer public attention away with a welsh angel to pay. 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 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

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with a key syrian peace conference moving closer the opposition has still not decided whether it will take part and meeting on friday brought nerve results despite international pressure being put on rebel groups star ten and the opposition coalition has postponed is the solution until some today see where the government has expressed its readiness to make concessions ahead of the long awaited geneva two conference begun trace foreign minister has proposed a ceasefire in the city of aleppo the area of some of the most intense battles as well as a prison exchange meanwhile there are reports that fighters on both sides are turning to drugs as both a source of funding and staying power in battle this story acts for the really go unfettered means has turned syria into a major drug as archie's maria the notion our local. was theory about to enter into its fourth devastating year of war the lack of law and structure has

allowed one dog industry to flourish the country has become the number one producer of a drug known. caps are gone since the 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 is a target 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 awaken 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 rare aid gives them and it's lucrative

it's between fifteen and twenty doors appeal and the right hundreds of millions of them taking or 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 street guns and mastic and factories are appearing these days all across syria and production has increased and sales and building 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 and iran where its final destination in the gulf. frieze 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 authorities say little is nothing but just ten percent of the real turnover of the drug. and let's now take a closer look at the findings of the investigation carried out by reuters and to see where those drugs trade and the report says the country has become a major drugs exporter and consumer in the last if you get his cap to go on a stimulant bond in most countries is produced here in huge amounts and it's so profitable the countries are placed lebanon as the main producer which saw a ninety percent fall in production over the last two days two years i should say lebanese officials seized over twelve million pills last year and the trends are affecting other states as well turkish authorities says seven million barrels made

in syria which were under two saudi arabia experts warn the trade is fueled bloodshed and violence. 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 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 a tremendous amount of deaths injuries dislocation and now of course drug distribution and addiction as well. russia's national counter-terrorism means he says seven militias have been code in the southern republic of dagestan security forces have been negotiating with the militants in a house where they were holed up in but the armed gunmen opened fire it's believed some of the militants were responsible for a grenade attack on a restaurant on friday followed by twin blasts that injured at least sixteen people one of the minutemen skoda was the leader of a local gun while another was the friend of the houses on the houma who carries out a terrorist sold on a bus involve a grad last october the woman was also said to be preparing for a sort of santa time and was wanted by russia's forces. not to be a maybe europe sponsors growing economy but it's also the youngest and poorest member and their road to prosperity has proven to have too many bands for followers

of professionals and then leaving postcard met one who says government negligence is to blame here. so the 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 and that 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 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 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 there is a government program to return people to mad for you 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 where not simply survive. scott ulti latvia. and our some other news from around the globe this hour

a taliban suicide bomber has killed twenty one people at a restaurant popular with experts and officials in the afghan capital a russian citizen three u.n. workers and a representative of the international monetary fund were among the dead guards killed two gunmen who tried to storm the venue. actually as have clashed with police in spain's capital madrid to have gathered in solidarity with people protesting a road project in the country's north which they say will displays the poor and drain public funds of the darity of rallies across spain have already forced the suspension of the project. type protestors have located the police headquarters and buy a car just a day after a bomb injured twenty eight demonstrators at least eight people have died as unrest aimed at forcing the government to step down size began in november but the prime minister insists the only solution to the crisis or be

a snap election obviously. in india a stampede at the funeral of a revered spiritual leader in mumbai has killed at least eighteen people authorities said the turnout was greater than expected under the met as they failed to control the flow of mourners incidents like these are relatively common and last october more than one hundred people were killed in a stampede at a hindu temple. and a lightning strike has severed the tape of the thought of the iconic statue of cries the redeemer overlooking rio de janeiro the thirty eight metre tall monument has proven to be as much a market for lightning bolts as it shows for tourists over the years and the ones a multi-million dollar renovation and twenty ten and authorities have promised to repair the latest damage so. and up next everybody said the highlights of the olympic torch is a record breaking journey across russia but if you're watching us from the u.k.

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world the other aaa credit americas not aaa anymore a mostly euro zone is britain junk big oil is aaa credit it think about that with open transparent security creation and the ability to wipe out wall street with actual securities you're going to take algerian man to get truckloads of to point out this is fantastic. there is so little self reflection on the part of both them eric can public and them merican decision makers i wonder why is that we are in the continental saws country of three hundred fifteen million people very self-absorbed we are. saluted from the world by two large oceans. we tend to think of foreign policy is something we do to other people. rather than that that's something we participate in.

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 a limpia 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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