these rockets could have never been fired from government controlled territory experts from mit now questioned america's claims that syria's government was behind a chemical weapons attack near the capital damascus last august. from moscow it was a guantanamo bay prison seeking to negotiate the release of a russian national he's been held there for years without charge just like the majority of other detainees. yes they can continue with sweeping surveillance president obama's anticipated plans to reform the n.s.a.'s activities dismissed as a limited. this

is r.t. international now here in moscow the u.s. conclusion that a chemical attack near damascus in august was carried out by the government's been challenged by a team of highly respected experts washington immediately blame 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 sort of america's official conclusions does not up. into the mit 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 mit research is our correspondent there from war the only controversy sort of the time to talk to him is to break gordon he's a former commander of the british military's chemical french regiment join us on the line from the u.k. hi there he did see you on the mit than believing the u.s. intelligence services have made a mistake here how could that have happened and do you think it's plausible to. i think that based on a couple of assumptions we are i'm not sure of fully worked out first of all as we

just heard that the volcano rocket had a maximum range of about two kilometers secondly in the desperation the regime did not declare that it had no rockets i think first of all coming back to the max and range to call matters that's based on propulsion units of weights of the head i think i think there are other people who would actually contest that path those rockets could probably go further and more research needs to be done and report it is useful i think come from me still the most compelling thing is the other information we know about this attack you know first of all of our two thousand a lot kilograms of sarin was used now we know from the tokyo terrorist attack in ninety eight ninety six it took her that organization a year or two years thirty million dollars and a nice juice five kilograms i think you know if the regime had lost or had stolen or up to a thousand kilograms

a metric ton of sarin they would probably have said something before the event i think the other thing that needs further investigation i've seen five or six different make patients but these rockets are in the area after the attack we had five or six days for the u.n. inspectors got in and it seems to be that these rockets through several times now it's worth looking at i think in the overall scheme of things terrorists or very compelling evidence that the regime were responsible in some form of this attack that the most important thing now is to get those chemical weapons and chemical precursors off the syrian battlefield as soon as possible so that geneva two coming out of going back to richard lloyd the. i spoke to. one of the authors of that report. he basically agreed pretty much with the logistics that the technical

information that they calculated was pretty much the same as the un calculations about how far those rockets could have gone therefore where they came from we just heard all that but. his. assumption of what his best guess of what could have happened was the diametrically opposite what washington has said it surely car so lot of doubt on it none the less the one person is one side of the argument washington he's saying it's probably the other side of the argument it certainly would let you think that it's too muddy to make a definite cast an assumption that one side did this one side or the other without further information further investigation no you know washington jumped in very quickly here to say it was the assad regime. well karen i think that i think your point is absolutely right you know this is one bit of evidence what i've just said is a number of other bit to the evidence that when you put them together now

a regime as i said had the had the capability to do it i think when you look at the attack itself it was very well planned it happened at the perfect time of day with the white right wind direction. and follow up action so you know why this guy and i have discussed this in some detail with doctors who actually treated the wounded her own site inducer and sadly a lot of their colleagues her subsequent dives and secondary contamination that would gain put it put it all together still looks like the regime and of course now out of that i'm very much with the help of the russian government and the other members of the p five who are now in a position where these chemical weapons are being taken off the syrian battlefield . so i don't know it's still not conclusive to actually change the overall scheme of things got you got your i mean it's always good to have you on the line because you've got a really good handle on all this of course. there's other information as well that

the rocket was found and go to wasn't a kind of rocket that's normally part of the government's arsenal that could have been a double bluff i don't know but she put that down to. well i mean nice small box a know a large volcano rockets as i think they're called are not usually part of the regime arsenal but we have seen it used and actually just some video footage of the syrian army using the so i don't think that's necessary a strong assumption to go on but i would agree that all sides in the conflict here would appear to be using the box a no type rockets that i don't i don't take that and i also don't the fact that the regime didn't declare was it was within the stop half known that these rockets again they they declared that they had some rights and. it seems pretty certain that there might have had some anthrax and other biological agent but that that wasn't declared either so i think looking at it overall you know i'm still pretty

convinced that somebody within the regime was responsible for the most important thing now is to get those chemical weapons out of syria where it's slightly concerning is that the governments are seem to be unable to get those chemical weapons i'm prepared to let tackier we've only seen sixteen tons moved out and now might be the time to perhaps look at the plans a we know that there's only thirty tons of mustard gas which is the only technical weapon that it still bottle and i might suggest that perhaps we should destroy that in syria and the precursor chemicals are just toxic chemicals and we know that the u.n. o.p.c. that we have destroyed the ability to mix and make chemical weapons and so i think we're coming to a time where perhaps we should look at that and let people focus on the most important thing which all sides i think is going for it some sort of peace in syria

hamish thank you for your thoughts there is a bright golden there from the command of the british military is a chemical defense regiment pre-shared. was violence rages on in syria the country's turning into a major drug producer with both rebels and army soldiers reportedly say. veterans to keep up their energy and stay going during battles over a border on that just ahead. but next after a decade long effort to secure permission an official delegation from moscow visited guantanamo bay america's most notorious detention center they were able to meet a russian national held at the prison despite never having been charged with a crime. 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 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 is looking pretty significant churches they gave their lives at the loop you. really are you still use your basic rights because. don't you get legal very cute you know. you broke the you know the written on properly. the exits to where we have been given a letter to refute kuku are a little bit different but we got a look. most likely all the details putting extra pressure on the us 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 work continuously being force fed before it's passed on the news we lubricated and we give the. a choice they want to have. which is the agent it will numb the 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 human rights advocates are claiming the number of hunger strikers has doubled in the past month now stands at thirty three them however the weather truth or it is refusing to release any new figures i thought you said the release of information on hunger strike is quote detracts from the more important issues like the welfare of detainees and the safety of troops globe stuff and smith's a lawyer for several go and tell them are detainee's witnessed some of the most brutal tactics used by the military. if

a prisoner from camp six which is the least count goes on hunger strike they automatically get transferred not just to count five but to count five record which really has been the most abused place in oregon town of prisoners are held in an 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 option unfortunately against the very abusive or speeding techniques i mean casting aside the question of whether it's not the culture correspondent toure in the world medical association says it's not you know unfortunately the techniques they're using ground tunnel groups your assistant can search for example and i've witnessed some of those that they used to leave but the prisoners noses that i don't so much they're still probing those tubes out every single time twice a day forcing them back out each time they're still forcing far too much too

quickly into the prisoner making prison sick if you're sick they just carry on doing it it really is horrendous what it's not. all bad but surely with more news including how president obama's turn around the global surveillance is still at it in the same direction. in his secret laboratory mukherjee was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and world this is why you should care only on the dot com. the world. and technology innovation and all the years developments around russia down to the future are covered.

dramas the. stories others in the. faces changing. the picture. from around the. globe. to me. hello again washington will not dismantle its global spying network the announcement of a major overhaul of the national security agency outlined by president obama failed to provide any detail on when the collection of data will be stopped or indeed whether it'll be stopped at all and critics said the plan for date reform is nothing more than a facelift as some sex 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 n.s.a. 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 used the data we collect for history has too many examples when that trust has been breached. or so the 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 it's 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 a 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. obama's speech on the n.s.a. was met with criticism in some of the countries spied on germany's justice miss is said a written agreement was needed to stop it he was supported too by brazilian lawmaker who believes the u.s. has got little respect for international partners and one european m.p. believes washington is just paying lip service to make everyone feel better meantime the president of the national whistleblower center says the government is trying to distract public attention with a well planned move here. 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 that 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. think twice the next time you decide to maybe like someone on facebook why specially if some of your former partner wants nothing to do with you because that one click might get you arrested find out more about that story also to from us still think about buying a ticket for those subchief winter olympics in madrid now well head towards the door comes with emotion section for dancing bird's eye view of the city to help you think you might. but the key syrian peace

conference moving closer the opposition is still not decided whether it'll take part the meeting on friday brought no result despite international pressure being put on rebel groups to attend the opposition coalition's perspire decision until saturday syria's government expressed its readiness to make concessions ahead as we've long awaited is able to conference because the foreign minister of deeds proposed a cease fire in the city of aleppo the area of some of the most intense battles as well as a prisoner exchange meanwhile there are reports that fighters on both sides are turning to drugs as both a source of funding and for staying power in battle for the soaring export of illegal amphetamines is turn syria into a major drug herb for national reports. with syria 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 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 hyper acidity 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's easier to get 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 five terrorists are taking the pills to maintain vigorous energy levels your elevenses battles because it helps you keep awake in for hours and hours but there are also reports that ordinary citizens those who've been living in depression and in this war and chaos for almost three years now are also holding to the drug for these capers two for 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 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 a 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 building here elaborate on the authorities seized around two hundred million dollars worth of taboo. it's lost here mostly hidden in the tracks go in through the syrian lebanese border from syria into lebanon where they hear its final destination clues 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 as last year with authorities saying

this is nothing but just ten percent of the real turnover of the drug indicating. proof a national will to a close look at the findings of the investigation carried out by reuters into serious drug trade the report says the country's become a major drugs exporter and consumer in the last few years to go to stimulant banned in most countries is produced there in huge numbers in front of so profitable the country's replace lebanon is the main producer which saw a ninety percent fall in production over the last two years lebanese officials seized over twelve million of those pills last year the trends affecting other states to turkish authorities see seven million pills made in syria which are on route to saudi arabia experts warn the trade is fueling 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 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. a bucket around thirty minutes of update on the news here next hour max and stacy take over the cause report right after this break .

because he doubted states is the big dog the only hyper power and the cultural driving force of globalization it takes a lot of flak i mean a 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 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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