without an open trial. this is our duty tonight syria's opposition coalition says yes to attend the next week's peace talks in switzerland but can't confirm which delegates will be there he comes amid further doubt about who launched a chemical attack near damascus last year. these markets could have never been fired from government controlled territory experts now questioning america's claims that syria's government was behind a chemical weapons attack near the capital. officials from moscow. prison seeking to negotiate the release of a russian national who's been held there for years without charge just like the majority of other detainee. and yes they can continue with

sweeping surveillance president obama's anticipated plans to reform the n.s.a.'s activities are dismissed as a limited p.r. stunt. kevin i mean this is art international the main story that we're talking about this hour the opposition syrian national council has announced within the last hour that it will attend next week's peace talks in geneva but it's still no clear exactly which members of the group will take part in talks aimed at ending syria's bloody civil war. as the story. amid mounting international pressure syria's opposition has decided to take part in next week's geneva two peace talks the group which faces its own internal divisions announced its decision saturday following a meeting in is stamboul now parts of the syrian opposition were previously

critical of taking part in peace negotiations that could help syrian president bashar al assad they say stay in power the syrian national council a main opposition bloc even threatened to pull out of the coalition if the general assembly voted in favor of attending the geneva two it seems though however that mounting pressure from the u.s. and western countries cause concessions to be made the conference will be held under the auspices of the un and it's co-sponsored by russia and the u.s. it's scheduled to begin on tuesday january twenty second it is aimed at finding a way to install a transitional government that will subsequently pave the way for to ending the nearly three year old civil war which has reportedly claimed the lives of some one hundred thirty thousand people it was conclusion of a chemical attack near damascus in august was carried out by the government's been challenged by a team of highly respected experts in washington immediately blame president bush

a new report for the must choose has instituted technology for 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 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 so it is something america's official conclusions does not.

look closer than into this latest 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

isa 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 a 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 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 researchers. there's the violence rages on in syria the country is turning to major drugs producer too with both rebels and army soldiers reportedly taking on fessenden's to keep up their energy instead go into battle go to reporter mike just ahead. after a decade long effort to secure permission an official delegation from moscow visited one town of mowbray america's most a tourist attention center they were able to meet a russian national held at the prison despite never having been charged with a crime r.t. said the city of churkin 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 if you will government it looks pretty significant churches they gave their lives at the loop you. really are you still you. basically. get legal very cute you know. you prove you know there is no proper litigation. to where we have been given an opportunity to cool a little bit differently but we've got to look. most likely all the details putting extra pressure on the u.s. 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 numb the area or if they want of will to lubricate the tube.

most of our patients have been using our will 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. kids claiming the number of hunger strikers has doubled indeed in the past month that most of the thirty three now of the military authorities are still refusing to release any new figures authorities said the release of information about a hunger strike is quote to truck through the more important issues about the welfare

of detainees and the safety of troops as well to clive stafford smith he's a lawyer for several guantanamo detainees he's witnessed himself some of the most brutal tactics used by the military. this prisoner from camp six which is the least bad camp goes on hunger strike they automatically get transferred not just to count five but account five record which really has been the most abused to place in over a container 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 option unfortunately against the very abusive force feeding techniques i mean casting aside the question of whether it's at the culture for speed to tour the world medical association says it's not you know unfortunately the techniques they're using ground tunnel aren't group sure it's just a kind of search for example and i've witnessed some of those that they used to leave but use up the prisoners knows it's the and it's

a much they're still probably most tubes out every single time twice a day forcing them back out each time 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's not. kelly up leaving latvia the baltic nation watches thousands of its skilled professionals head for the exit to escape the eurozone look what's driving them away just add. to. the a. long as. there's a medium leave us so we leave that maybe. i will see motions to tour. the party

there's a. question as that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from . politicking only on our team. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic. reporting from the world talks seventy ip interviews intriguing story. arabic. visit. washington will not dismantle its global spying network that announcement of a major overhaul of the national security agency outlined by president obama failed provide any details when the collection of data will be stopped or indeed whether

it'll be stopped at all and critics say the plan for deep reforms nothing more than a facelift sex explains next 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 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 in 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 a giant 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 reigning into it washington d.c. sam sachs r t. what about the speech of the n.s.a. was not a criticism in some of the countries spied on germany's justice minister said a written agreement was needed to stop it and he was supported to by a brazilian little mike who believes the u.s. has gold little respect for international partners one the european m.p. believes washington's just pay lip service to make everyone feel better i spoke to the president of the national whistleblower association who told me the government is trying to distract people here with a well planned p.r. move. 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 have occurred that haven't been identified because there's no channel for the n.s.a. whistleblower to make their allegations public or known in any way so at best it's window dressing it's punts a lot to congress to try to fix the problem and it addresses in no way how the american people have a right to understand the abuses of our government. think twice the next time you decide to like someone on facebook specially when that summer may be a full partner who wants nothing to do with you because that one click might get you arrested on it or buy that online class to see dot com still think buy a ticket for those a very minute sob she would sure lympics now if you had thought you don't comes in motions actually going to does big bird's eye view of the city to help you make

your mind up. right to see. first for you and i think you're. on a recorder with her. instantly. fighters on both sides of the syrian civil war a turning to drugs as both a source of funding and to. have a source of staying power indeed in battle as well the recent investigations revealed the soaring export of illegal unfettered means is to turn syria into a major drugs hub as. explains. 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 captain gone its absence synthetic stimulants was first manufactured in the one nine hundred sixty s. and it was at that time used as a medicine to treat hyperactivity and depression but it's too addictive and this is why it was banned in most countries 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 goes 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 livin in depression and in this war and chaos for almost three years now are also holding to the drug for these capers two for air aid gives them and

it's lucrative it's between fifteen and twenty doors appeal and the right hundreds of millions of them been 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 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 tabla. lost here mostly hidden and the tracks go in through the syrian lebanese border from syria into lebanon from where they hit its final destination including

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 indicating. if an option though russia's national counter-terror committee says seven militants have been killed in the southern republican dug a stand in other news today security forces have been negotiating with the militants in a house where they were holed up with the gang that opened fire it's believed some of the militants for responsible for a grenade attack on a restaurant on friday followed by twin blasts that injured at least sixty one of the militants killed was the leader of a local gun while another was a friend of a female suicide bomber who carried out terrorists olds on the bus in volgograd last october the woman was also said to be preparing for a suicide attack and was wanted by russia's forces. other news in brief riot police

fired cannons scuffles with protest as in the city of istanbul there was traitors flooded the street to express discontent of the new draft bill which would allow. rather would restrict access to the government to the internet the government wants to keep records of online activity and banned sites for alleged violations of privacy without the need for a court order if passed internet service providers would be required to join the internet union under central control. taliban suicide bombers killed twenty one people at a restaurant popular the experts and officials in the afghan capital of russian citizen three u.n. workers in a representative of the international monetary fund remain with their guards killed two government tried to storm. visit clashed with spain's capital dread they 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 the diety rallies across spain have already forced

a suspension of the project. type protest is located the place sage q. in bangkok now just a day after a bomb injured twenty eight demonstrators at least eight people have died since unrest aimed at forcing the government to step down first began back in november but the prime minister insisted the solution to the crisis will be a snap election in february. which is here from india peed at the funeral of a revered spiritual leader of mumbai's killed at least eighty authorities to turn out was greater than expected in admitted they failed to control the flow of mourners instance like these are relatively common sadly last october more than one hundred were killed in a stampede at a hindu temple. may be europe's fastest growing economy but it's also the youngest and poorest member of the sharp bends on the road to prosperity of broken too much for the thousands of professionals who are leaving what is paul scott one who says government negligence is to blame. 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 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 wants and 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 that for you but it doesn't work they pay for people to return but there's still no work for them and the only way out is to create new jobs and a suitable atmosphere for investment but it isn't happening more and over the next twenty years the population will decrease another food 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 is poor scott quality latvia. complex or not international why some n.s.a. officials one edward snowden dead breaking the set she watches in london u.k. hi there is george galloway show sputnik ahead for you to.

there is so little self reflection on the part of both them merican public and american decision makers i wonder why is that. country of three hundred fifteen million people. sore. or. saluted from the world by two large oceans. we tend to think of foreign policy is something we do to other people. but something we participate in. what the american public hasn't really understood is that this is not a normal banking scandal and that these banks like h.s.b.c. have the blood of american soldiers on their hands that i.e.d. going off in afghanistan killing and killing an american or borg you know allied

soldier that is being financed through our banks that's a problem. with us president barack obama's public opinion ratings are in the doldrums steaming finishes days in office is one of the country's worst in least effective presidents how do historians and the public determine the success or failure of an american president and why are some presidents rehabilitated years or even decades after they leave office. happy friday people i'm out a martyr. and this is very again so we all know that the intelligence community

would love nothing more than apprehend n.s.a. leaker edward snowden in parade 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 wait 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 he or she would love to put a bullet in 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 responsibility mining all of our personal data hell it's go break the

set. the please please sir they are looking very hard to take that are. particularly one that had sex with her right there. was. a. little. i'm sure that most of us were there lost someone to drug addiction or at least

known someone who hides drug addiction is a complicated issue can destroy not only individual lives but it can break apart entire families and disrupt communities and despite america's declared war going to listen and drugs such as heroin cocaine and marijuana little stands in the way of average people taking the legal mark 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 in fact a 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 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. funny little representatives are universally attractive they get recruited.