he. was. resisting my many respects. opportunistic. stop hurting me and i even tried to let. the second person on the video who was wrestled to the ground by security and then escorted out the seventy nine year old cia veteran ray mcgovern he served the agency for twenty seven years but then became a political activists protesting the use of torture the governor is a staunch critic of gina hospital and contacted his lawyer who told us the activist spent the night in jail. cia's enhanced interrogation program was the main focus of g. and a hostile senate grilling and both promise that under her leadership the agency

wouldn't restart the controversial program there was a certain amount of ducking and diving at the hearing do you believe the program in terms that you can share a geisha program was consistent with american values we have decided to hold ourselves to a stricter moral standards are they consistent with american values senator i believe very strongly in american values i want to trust that you have the moral compass that you said you have i have conducted myself honorably and in accordance with u.s. law do you believe that the previous interrogation techniques were immoral what i believe sitting here today is that i support the higher moral standard we have decided to hold ourselves to the question. and i think i've answered the question if not as you can guess torture and morality were the main topics of discussion there was some very clear opposition to haskell but those who were skeptical were concerned about her prior involvement with the cia's enhanced interrogation techniques which many describe as

a torture program first some background on the controversy has will reportedly ran a cia prison in thailand where these techniques were used and she's accused of destroying tapes that documented these interrogations human rights organizations have even called upon the public to reach out to their representatives and oppose her nomination but president trump seems to have no qualms with her questionable history in fact he's even praised her for being quote tough on terror so it's unclear whether or not trump's support will be enough for easy confirmation but what is up to see what happens it jeanne has bill has had practically every senior position in the cia's headquarters she's currently the acting director of the cia i knew her when she was the chief of staff in the counterterrorism center she's been in the senior intelligence service for decades but i think that she's not qualified to. lead the cia because the actions that she took during the dark period of the cia's torture program disqualify her she has been doing literally everything she

can think to do other than telling the truth about the cia's torture program to get this job she now has paul had the opportunity to say the right thing that this was a dark period in u.s. history people made mistakes the program was immoral it was illegal it was unconstitutional she never said any of that. british prime minister has apologized quote unreservedly for the u.k.'s complicity in handing over not coddling libyan opposition leader and his pregnant wife to the government of now slain libyan leader moammar gadhafi the couple who also received compensation of half a million pounds. was the leader of an anti government jury which had ties to al qaeda he fled libya in two thousand and one and claims that the british secret service is how gadhafi capture him in two thousand and four as a result he spent six years in

a libyan jail claiming he and his pregnant wife were subjected to torture that the british government has now officially apologized it has now written to them both to apologize on behalf of her majesty's government i apologize reserved we are profoundly sorry for the ordeal which you both suffered. it. there's been a lot of reporting on the story not that much background detail on the man at the center of it. bell had she is now a prominent libyan politician but while moammar gadhafi was still in power he was a prominent anti gadhafi opposition leader and a leading member of an anti gadhafi militia as well which is called the libyan islamic fighting group the l i f g just a little bit more information about this group the ally f. g. it operated from one thousand nine hundred five until last year it was considered

an al qaeda affiliate and the group stage three attempts to assassinate gadhafi himself so a pretty violent organization so much so that it was regarded as a terrorist group by the u.k. and the u.s. nevertheless despite his checkered past shall we say and his wife have been on a quest for an apology from the british government ever since he was released from prison six years ago and documents discovered after the fall of gadhafi revealed that british m i six agents were involved in bell hard kidnapping so the kidnapping took place in two thousand and four in thailand belle hodges wife fatima was four months pregnant at the time and cia and m i six agents together kidnapped kidnapped them and handed them back over to the gadhafi government where

bell hard claims he was then imprisoned and tortured for six years his wife fatima was released after four months just before she gave birth they've managed to get the british government's top lawyer jeremy right to come out in parliament today to apologize so publicly to them on behalf of the government they were handed a letter written by. the prime minister herself saying that the intelligence hair intelligence services here in the u.k. got it wrong that they apologize unreservedly and even awarding half a million pounds compensation to bell hodges wife fatima but the psychological trauma that she experienced as a result of the ordeal you told us has withdrawn a new soviet inspired fashion collection from some of its stores after the lithuanian for ministry accuse the brand of imperial nostalgia we contacted all of us over the issue but we're still waiting for a response. to

you. israel kicks out the director of human rights watch from the country will look out why after the break. join me every thursday on the alex i'm i'm sure and i'll be speaking together for

the world of politics or business i'm sure both of those i'll see you there. for a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time but there was one more question and by the way was going to be our coach. guys i know you are nervous he's a huge star among us and the huge amount of pressure you have to the center of the beach but how would you. grade the grid you are the rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to get the ball going let's go. alone. and i'm really happy to join the for the two thousand and three of the world cup in russia meet the special one i was also. needs to just take the really

teams latest edition to make it up as we go. but. israel has revoked the work permit for the director of human rights watch in the country authority said the decision was based on a dossier compiled on his activities over the course of a decade or so ok reporters on israel and the palestinian territories for the rights peace held his position since april last year israel has given him fourteen days to leave the country we spoke to should care who told us that the real motive behind the decision was to muzzle criticism of the israeli government's activities the reality is all of the allegations in the dossier relate to human rights activities many of which took place years ago before i joined human rights watch when i was a student in university and the reality remains that even according to the interior

ministry neither i nor human rights watch promote boycotts human rights watch is an organization that covers over ninety countries across the world we've won a nobel peace prize you know for efforts we documented. not only by israel but also by the palestinian authority and by how mass this is the first time of course human rights watch that israel has ordered human rights official out of the country who've been working here for nearly three decades i made a fifty plus year occupation characterized by systematic rights abuse and institutional discrimination so the real aim is clear it's to muzzle dissent. human rights watch says the it's not about the director himself but about shuttling the organizations activities in israel they also said it supports the director and will fight for the decision to be reversed. again says the organization will push on with its work regardless of obstacles barring me from operating here will not stop our reporting will continue to document rights abuses and be vocal about the right

situation on the ground but i think it's a very worrying signal guarding where israel is and is going we intend to challenge this decision before an israeli district court. and we intend to continue to raise pressure not only to reverse this decision but also to rescind the law that calls for any entry of activists to fully anticipate that that decision or your first and then i will be permitted term in the country. well cup fever is halting up with a little over a month to go before the event kicks off a russia earlier today our correspondent to leave but trying to have the chance to quiz the president of luck committee mosco about the tournament his team just secured the russian premier league title for only the third time the president brought the trophy with him. why is it a good idea to come to this country for the world cup for us that will be coming

not to the concert but to the world cup to be part of the huge just. football event in the world to be the world cup it's usually it's provided for but you need to then go to to visit russia to visit to look at the. beautiful country i believe people still worry that russian fans are troublemakers do you think any issue like that will still come up during the world cup no i think not i think i think that we will have absolutely no problems here in russia. and the police we've made to tremendous job to prevent it's to influence the people so i personally believe that everything will be absolutely quiet and calm it is set for us it's a dream every russian food lovers and i believe the most most countries have food bloggers joining us here in alt international this evening latest news headlines

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welcome to the alex salmond show from washington d.c. politics in this capital and to the sylvia will the minute that donald j. trump enter the white house and justice donald trump pursued them in substance at the capture of the glass door on the right so forces in the radical side of american politics are planning on coming to a revolution today i speak to one of america's most the nine human rights activists and to a group of young people looking forward to changing the world. first your tweets for this week show we hear from actually vision he says just watch the interview with chris hedges on the show very interesting and enjoyable jim says watch this episode by comparison of other offerings it was pretty good and i don't know what you comparing us to jim thank you very much for your kind comments ryan says an absolutely fantastic interview with chris hedges on the state of modern america and how the left has been actually suppressed in the us is political system as

a liberal supporter it makes my support of the korban movement even stronger shirley says the short hedges interviews provided a balance and alice's of us politics present and future even dating to obama negatives never covered in europe as usual alex to his own conclusions it gave food for thought pretty not more widely screened in the u.k. well i'm glad you watched the show on r t surely but of course one can see it online too and i'm glad to be enjoying the full and frank interviews finally done at a says great sure overall well produced yes i agree and wonderful to hear alex coming refreshing pleasant to us with happy i think she means guests in a world filled with hard hitting fic news and defamation of character people need more good sources kudos nice even guest the openly and fully thanks for your message and please do keep them coming and you can tweet email or message us with any ideas for the short people who'd like to see us interview now back to alex he's in new york from washington d.c.

in the capital to tell you square new york city they have to meet are a group of young people with some strong views on how this country should progress . well jennifer lisper of your free young women of color going through the college system in the united states and all of the mimic in the public the senate but you came to america in different ways well i was born here but my mother immigrated to america when she was about twenty one years old and my father immigrated to america as well so that's how i'm here today very similar to jennifer i was also born here actually uptown my home and my father i'm reading here at seventy two majority in new jersey and my mother also migrated here when she was about seventeen eighteen and you are slightly different everybody in america probably my grandparents have been living here since the fifty's oh but my

parents lost custody of me and i felt wings when i was. ten eleven and after that i had to live some time with my art in the dominican republic and finally they were able to bring me to america when i was sixteen seventeen in the purchase everything and everyone here is so so one of the big campaigns of the college campuses is of course the campaign for gun control following the recent and very regular tragedies do you feel that this campaign this new campaign this subject campaign has a chance of success with his previous attempts to fill would you think jennifer i think that with this campaign has been more successful than others in the sense that we were at least able to get or not me at least but at least the students of florida they were able to do a town hall in their hometown and were able to bring out their legislators and a representative from the n.r.a. and actually were able to come put the people to come for their leaders and to get

them to give answers i feel that that's not something that was done before and i do think that the students in this movement particularly have been very. young advocates and are getting legislators and the media's attention more than in the past and i feel like one of the successes about this movement is that it is young people and that we are showing that the next generation is going to think action and so we're going to be the ones who are going to be able to vote in two d. years and we're going to be the ones who are able to change. the republicans want to office social media has also been very impactful. the march in the twenty eighth was old through social media and it was really well organized i know it happened in so many of the major cities washington and boston. so i definitely think bad it has been successful and how do you mean what level is the bill for example a leap of imagination i am not so much an advocate for the national rifle association i say to you you don't know we're talking about young women i'm in the

second amendment right of the late to be. what would you say to somebody. i would agree at all i get out of that is it's not appropriate but i would definitely say that that's not the context of our time when the second amendment was written it was back in the time of were. our people were demolition and they needed and they needed every individual so we protected and to be able to like hold their bear their arms and protect themselves and protect their community and our people will read only from the time anymore there's no reason why eighteen nineteen year olds should have access to an a r fifteen which is the weapon used in war it just makes no sense if you're not in america if you haven't put america people of color on the monitor and then you're much much more likely to be a victim of gun violence than if you're not part of the issue that's being debated

i think that's an incredible part of the issue and i think for me i've been blessed because i've had the opportunity to live in rural america and in urban america i'm from york city but i have lived in vermont as well in vermont as in a very rural state and people are crazy about their guns so for five years of my life i lived there and i lived in a relatively safe community where gun violence is not an issue despite the fact that many people have guns however i have also lived in the bronx and i lived and currently in lawrence massachusetts which is one of the cities in massachusetts with the highest. what the highest crime rates and two years ago my uncle was shot while he was working and when i was in the bronx as a five year old my kindergarten school was right in front of my building where i live so i only had to cross the school across the street started to go to school and one night my mom when she was coming home from work she was assaulted with a gun and they robbed her car from her and this is right in front of my kindergarten school and right in front of my building and i don't think that

someone living in bennington vermont has had which is where the town where i live i don't think that they've had the same experience as me and i think that because they haven't had the experience as they can say that gun violence is not an issue because it doesn't exist where they live and that there are just these rare instances of mass shootings because it's so much wider than mass shooting and that's like my perspective on the as you claim a new. york city is a twenty seven year low so we should expect street you feel so you feel if you had experience of the here in shorts in the night so what you think. i grew up in harlem i do remember when i was young. i lived in a very populated kind of area in harlem so i do remember when i was young hearing a lot of outside noise and especially sometimes it be like shot like noises and i as a child i don't know if it was the last thing i would think was it was a gun because i don't want to put that in my head so i always you know kind of tell myself and i think something else or whatever but it was something that was very

disturbing and just to have that memory of it and you know understand that now people are actually going through this i mean this has been going on for a lot of years not that gun violence is such a pressing issue for anybody like the everyday person it's scary to think that i was living in a situation where i either was coming in contact with or without knowing it without knowing that people around me have it or just hearing it i mean i live in a part of the bronx more hills where possession of firearms is barry present you can go to the park and see children seventeen eighteen years old with guns. and growing up my grandparents were always berry protective and they were always like you can go to the park there might be some problem and you may be a fact that you might be shot by mistake. sounds of gunshots every night in situations where like you hear i shot my grandmother when i close the windows and like oh don't look outside you might get shot by mistake that is happening around

the area so it's very hard for me to your people say and like all like the raids are going down but in reality it's barry president you never know who owns a gun and who's going to stop you to ask you a question and you get in the heated conversation and novel side and they like pull a gun out of you talk about your reaction to the don't know what the. president says. very savvy. and quite recently i mean. this may surprise you but i used to get letters from the press that for sure usually delivered overnight of option on them and often most things underlying the press cuttings and close to to remind this is before he opened his twitter account. so he's gone from send him to letters from medicare to scotland mark thompson to be delivered overnight to be able to broadcast the planet what's the reaction to that i think it's scary i think

it's incredibly scary because of the amount of unfiltered information that he sends out to people who are vice president mike pence says about donald trump is that it is refreshing to be able to see what our president is thinking right as he is thinking at but when you're president is misinforming the people and what his thoughts are formed like based on information that is incorrect i think that that is scary he has a lot of people mr wright's a lot of people and he has been disproven multiple times in the things that he tweets out and his followers unfortunately they don't care very much so for me the situation is i would use scary to describe it that this is the man who's in charge of our nuclear weapons but. something. but suddenly he's prepared to stay up till three o'clock in the morning to tell the world what he thinks about both an issue of what is just seen on t.v.

from our model so i feel like at the end of the day even if he does he tweets out ridiculous things he's getting the attention that keeps him going and that keeps him at the top constantly so i do not like he puts on information that's wrong it just feels like he's not thinking properly as the leader of this nation in that scary scary to know that your president is just not. thinking properly about how he's using his words and how he's reaching out to the citizens you're free young women don't recall each. barking on careers and hoping to see changes for the for the better so what would your wish be for your wishes be for the united states of america will be a copy of the list in terms of hopes that you'd like to see as the years on full well for me i think my wish my hope would be that my hard work would not be

tarnished by my race and my gender one of the things that hurt me the most about. the past presidential election is that approved or at least to me and theme that no matter how hard i worked no matter how much i busted my p.p. to get a scholarship to go to brandeis university and to excel at my university and to apply and do more internships than the average and to have a higher g.p.a. than the average student body it might be possible that i would not but i might not be able to accomplish my dreams because i'm a woman and because i'm a woman of color and that shattered me and it still scares me to think that i may not be able to accomplish what i'm working so hard for because of things that are outside of my control and i hope that that changes in america and not only to not only that race and gender doesn't matter for like achieving your dreams but just to i want to be scared for my loved ones just because they're of a certain complex and i don't want to have be having them walking down the street

late at night and i don't want to be worried that they're going to get shot or that a police officer going to stop them and things are going to escalate because they thought that he had a gun or something even if you had an ice tea on his hand and won't you felt threatened and then he was shot eight times and then he's dead so i think that those are i think those are my dreams and my hopes for this country you know you know i always say to myself and a lot of things that i accomplish. i do credit somewhere i come from and i credit to the fact that i do not believe that those are my boundaries so i don't wish in the future the those things such as race and gender and income and things like that are not going to act as managers from what we want to cheat to spoil you with different experience you come to this country you've got businesses this is a process many generations have gone through so you must have great hopes invested a lot. i agree with and i really wish for like gender

race and social class to naguib and raise for anyone as somebody who's studying indications studies and somebody who was an immigrant i really feel that those have become like really set boundaries and not society where people are not upset just because of the color of their skin or because they're a woman and they feel they discriminated and they feel you needed from this country they feel like they don't belong here and that's really sad in my opinion a. young woman like. the future of this republic isn't pretty safe thank you. yeah. when you do the economic will resume folding in.