was and. these rockets could have never been fired from government controlled territory experts from mit question america's claims that syria's government or behind a chemical weapons attack may become the sole damascus last august. officials from moscow visit go on holiday present seeking to negotiate the release of a russian national has been how about for years without challenge just like the majority of detainees. and yes they can continue the sweeping surveillance of president obama isn't as afraid of plan stuart saying the n.s.a.'s exhibition is dismissed as in the midst of a p.r. stuff.

for russia and iran the while this is all to international with me your national and welcome to the program the u.s. conclusion that a chemical attack near damascus in august was carried out by the government has been challenged by a team of highly respected x. pads 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 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. said if he has something in america's official conclusions don't add up he's indicated have scale looks into they outline his study. 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 of this eastern the 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 you talk about the heart of the of the territory controlled by the government that's something which was specified by u.s. states 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 were the rebels who perform these attacks 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. as the violence rages on in syria the country is turning into a major drunk with both rebels and obvious soldiers reportedly taking unfettered means to keep out there and a tree and stay going to wring bottles are report from the office just ahead.

after a decade long effort to secure permission an official delegation from moscow visited gone tom obey america's most notorious attention son to they were able to meet a russian national held at the prison despite never having been charged with a crime he's in a situation or possible. 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 if you will government it looks pretty significant churches they gave their lives to reduce it because remember when you use. basic rates because. they are so good little break you know. you probably you know there is no proper

litigation. to where we have been given an opportunity to cool it a little bit different but we've got to look. 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 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. area or if they want of will to lubricate the tubes. most of our patients have been using olive oil 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 and 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 said the release of information on hunger strike has quote detracts from the more important issues like the welfare of detainees and the safety of troops and client staff at smith as a lawyer for several guntown of the detainees and he's witnessed some of the most brutal tactics used by the minute. per prisoner from count six which is the least bad camp goes on hunger strike they automatically get transferred not just to 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 grant 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 still proclaim as 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 prisons that if you're sick they just carry on doing it it really is horrendous. hearns coming up later this hour here on aussie international leaving lots of people take nation at will choose as problems of scope

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this is all saying to national coming here live from moscow it's good to have you with us let's move on now to washington while not dismantle his global spy network the announcement of a major of the whole of the national security agency outlined by president obama failed to prove any detail on whether the collection of data will be stopped or indeed whether it will be stopped at all or critics say that plan for deep reform was nothing more than a facelift as i say some sucks 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 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's 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 i 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 any coup for 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 are to. obama's speech on the n.s.a. was met with criticism and some of the countries played on germany's justice minister said a written agreement is needed to stop it he was supported by a brazilian lawmaker who believes the u.s. has little respect for international partners and why any european and believes washington is just paying lip service to make everyone feel better and the president of the national whistleblower center says the government is trying to distract public attention with a well planned p.r. move 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 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 now think twice the next time you decide to like somebody on face especially one that someone is your former partner wants nothing to do with because that one click might get you arrested find the story in full online one. so thinking about buying a ticket for the social winter olympics while had to ask the dot coms in motion section for dumpling bugs the city to help you make up your mind. with the key syrian peace conference moving closer the opposition has still not

decided whether it will take part and meeting on friday brought no result despite international pressure being put on rebel groups to tend the opposition coalition has postponed is this issue until saturday syria's government has expressed its readiness to make concessions ahead of their long awaited geneva two conference the country's foreign minister has proposed a ceasefire in the city of aleppo the area of some of the most intense battles as well as a as well as a prison exchange meanwhile there are reports that fighters on the science are turning to drugs as a source of funding and staying power in battle the soaring export of illegal unfair to means stand syria into a major drug as archie is maria hsia now reports. wisteria about to enter in 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 captain gone since the synthetic stimulant was first manufactured

in the one nine hundred sixty s. and it was at that time used as a medicine to treat to beauty and depression but it's 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's easy to get but today syria not only produces more than any other country in the region but it's also kept to go as main consumers believe that fighters are taking bits of pills to maintain vigorous energy levels your lengthy battles because it helps you keep awake for hours and hours but there are also reports that ordinary citizens those who've been living in depression and in this war and for almost three years now are also holding on to the drugs for these k. placed euphoria 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 grateful to him but 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 on but since the war began captagon trades gone to mastic and factories are appearing these days all across syria and production has increased and sales of bumi 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 into lebanon where the. final destination is in the gulf countries 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 saying this is nothing but just ten percent of the real turnover of the drug in the kingdom. and let's now take a closer look at the findings of a best situation carried out by roy says into serious drugs trade and the report says the country has become a major drugs exporter and consumer in the last few yes' kept to go on a stimulant bond in most countries it's bridges that in huge amounts and it's so profitable the country is replacing lebanon as the main producer which saw a ninety percent fall in production over the last two years lebanese officials seized over twelve million pales last year and the trans affecting other states as well turkish authorities seized seven minute pay was made in syria which were unburied to saudi arabia x.-press warned the trade is fueling bloodshed and violence that. 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 finance to rubble warped by this 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-terror committees he

says seven minutes since have been killed in this southern republic of dagestan security forces had been negotiating with the militants in a house where they were holed up in but they armed gang that 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 militants killed was the leader of a local gang while and now that was the friend a female suicide bomber who carried out a terrorist sold on a bus and volgograd last october there woman was also said to be preparing for a so set a time and was wanted by russia's forces well israel may be europe's fathers' gras economy but it's also the e.u.'s youngest and poorest member on the road to prosperity has proven to have too many shah barriers for thousands of professionals who are leaving now. caught that one who says the government negligence is to blame here. is one of thousands of workers who will leave latvia this year

but his destination is perhaps surprising to be leaving this state to work in azerbaijan is the loss of 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 they isn't the only one the world bank says latvia's population is shrinking by almost sixty thousand people per year. if you are not alone the governments are squeezing everybody wants and more and more from us for less money between two thousand and nine and two thousand and twelve 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 just there is a government program to return people from that fear 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. got out a lot via. some other news from around the globe this hour a ton about suicide bomber has killed twenty one people at one of strong popular with an expired senate officials in the i'm going to 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. also accidents have clashed with police in spain's comfortable madrid they had gathered in solidarity with people protesting a road project in the country's north which they say will displace the poor and drain public funds so doris who runs across spain how ready for the suspension of the project. anti-personnel located at the police headquarters in bangkok just a day after a bomb injured twenty eight demonstrators at least eight people have died since unrest and at forcing the government to stand down first began in november but the prime minister and says the only solution to the crisis will be a snap election in february. and next day is breaking this sad following to you know international viewers and those of you in britain will be going underground with an option at times evening.

the majority of congress are now millionaires for the first time in history according to the center for responsive politics which sounds pretty insulting when the average americans are doing so well financially this seems bad like a bunch of rich guys rule the country which the kind of do but one could argue that congress isn't rich enough first off due to inflation a billion dollars is not as much as it used to be especially the cost of a. i campaigned to get in the congress costs around one million six hundred thousand dollars so you know a million dollars of net worth may sound pretty rich to you or me but the expensive game of u.s. politics these guys can't even afford the costs related to getting the work

electoral campaigns are a big money affair so it is no surprise that people like you or me can't get into the law making business without selling at least a little piece of our souls to someone who has very deep pockets so again the problem isn't that congressmen are wealthy it is that many of them have to get constant financing in order to maintain their positions and as you average folks know once you're in debt they've got you by the throat well that's just my opinion . happy friday people i'm having martin and this is breaking that so we all know that

the intelligence community would love nothing more than apprehend n.s.a. leaker edward snowden in her rage him around in front of the world as an example of what happens to whistleblowers in this country what i didn't know is that some n.s.a. employees want to take it a step further you know to american psycho levels according to buzz feed several pentagon and n.s.a. officials have anonymously expressed their desire to murder snowden a current n.s.a. analyst told the web site that quote in a world where i would not be restricted from killing an american i personally would go and kill him myself a lot of people share the sentiment what a minute we do live in a world where drones kill american citizens what i waited for another non of us pentagon official told buzz feed that here. or she would love to put a bullet and snowden's head and an army official offered a detailed fantasy of how the murder would go down valving injected him with poison you know just so nice to know that jack the ripper and freddy krueger are the ones

in charge of responsiblity mining all of our personal data hell it's go great that . the. the teams they are looking very hard to take that are. happy that had sex with her right there. i'm sure that most of us who've lost someone to drug addiction or at least known

someone who hides drug addiction is a complicated issue and destroying not only individual lives but it can break apart entire families and disrupt communities and despite america's declared war going to listen to drugs such as heroin cocaine and marijuana little stands in the way of average people taking the legal markets many of which are far more addictive than the hardest drugs you'll find on the street now might shock you to learn that the us is number one when it comes to the consumption of prescription pills and back to two thousand and thirteen study by the mayo clinic shows that nearly seventy percent of americans are on at least one prescription drug and more than half take at least two of the most commonly prescribed antidepressants and painkillers this epidemic is the subject of a of a documentary called american addict and it explores the road that led this country from being the land of the free to the land of the addicted. from the representatives are universally attractive the.