medica hussein bakshi from the middle east technical university thank you so much for your time this evening thank you you're most welcome. new revelations have emerged on cia director gina hassels past and volman in the torture of terror suspects the files were released by the national security archive and date back to two thousand and two when housefull ran a secret cia detention center in thailand they described torture ascensions run by a psychologist working as contractors for the cia techniques range from physical abuse and psychological harassment to isolation and boxes. vetoes included but it confinement of machinery in the large ball forced nudity adjusting his shackles and slamming him against the. interrogators covered the subject's head with a good. many shaky and. repeated. interrogators

we're going to get the truth out of the subject eventually. these are the details on the interrogation of an al qaeda terrorist captured in two thousand and two he spent four years in cia black sites including the one in thailand under gina housefull as watch he was subsequently transferred to guantanamo bay where he is till now his case was highlighted back in two thousand and fourteen by the senate intelligence committee they released a report saying interrogators had obtained no useful information from him however when questioned by the senate before taking office housefull insisted that intelligence gained from suspects had proved vital. the president has asserted that torture works do you agree with that statement. sen i am i don't believe that torture works i believe as many people directors who have sat in this chair before me that valuable information was obtained from senior al qaeda

operatives that allowed us to defend this country and prevent another attack former cia officer ray mcgovern says war crimes were perpetrated at the black site in thailand gina has girl was not was playing fast and loose with the truth that her hearing and she was allowed to do that she was allowed to classify the derogatory information on herself before the hearing she supervised the torture to see the graphics and detail don't run the in terry walling mark that's nothing short of banging someone's head into a wall in the water treatment that's waterboarding condemned by all manner of nations because it was practiced by the japanese general war two war crime and so to see this kind of thing revealed in gory detail lou only solace i get from this is the fact that our system of law sometimes works and that is that the national security archive that did

a freedom of information request for this got these details we'll bring you more news after the short break. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to a guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business oh so you've been. here now this new attempt at a global unit of account

a global currency big point that will be are controlled by people not any subtle government so it has the chance to do what's called fail to do to escape the keys of the central bankers and the ph d. field an economist. here watching our two international welcome back to the program a suicide bomber has detonated explosives at the office of the electoral commission in the afghan capital people had gathered there to protest the disqualification of multiple candidates running and parliamentary elections well journalists will tom phasey reports from kabul. some of the supporters of those candidates who were

disqualified from to run for the parliamentarian elections they were they were gathering in a nearby the independent election commission headquarters a suicide bomber according to police tried to approach the gathering but detonated his explosive ahead of approaching the gathering and they killed himself and one other from from this who were nearby also killed two others wounded but this you know the protests against are you see or elect independent electoral commission all the presidential palace actually has been taking place since a week almost yesterday we had another protest and a gathering that some m.p.'s who are accused of being and. having every sponsible man protested. the same way and they were accusing the government

of. the process and they were angry and actually this process has been continuing today we had another one in a different place so we are expecting that it will it will actually take. take place more of these kind of events because it's the first african election history meanwhile the city of gosney which is about one hundred fifty kilometers southwest of the capital is facing some of the fiercest clashes between taliban and afghan forces official reports say hundreds have been killed on both sides so tom fazio again has more details on the newest taliban threat facing the afghan government. confirmed the death of seventy security forces in battlefield two with the taliban in gaza that has been taking place since four days but also i have. heard

from some local sources in gaza need that the taliban actually or now withdrawing from those locations that have been committing. attacks against. various government is solutions since for days the situation is actually really harsh and the hospital is full of dead bodies and and wounded and i have seen fresh footage from gaza that is telling lots of stories inside the city people are really scared the highways have been blocked since for days that communication has been down and people cannot communicate with their relatives or we even cannot talk to the more our local officials or residents in gaza it has been a very harsh time for gaza it has been like a waltz to city but the government is now saying that they are trying to expel the taliban and they are trying to secure the city but we will see what will happen

next recent studies say that taliban forces control or have influence in more than forty percent of afghan territory middle east expert alley risk says america's campaign there has not only failed but has actually boosted extremism. so called war on terror which was launched after the september eleventh attacks and it shows us that this war has turned out to be an utter failure taliban now is in a stronger position than it ever was ever since it was ousted from power but i don't think the u.s. can do anything if it continues with its own focus just on military attacks you know militarily speaking it hasn't succeeded so i don't think there is much that the u.s. can do in that regard that i think it's proof that the u.s. has been pursuing a wrong strategy in defeating terrorism on the contrary i think that the u.s. involvement up until now when the focus on military force in the region has led to the growth of terrorism and sort of leading to the current title meant all to the

curbing of terrorism i think that is clear from what we see in afghanistan. a hacking contest and the u.s. has revealed that it doesn't take a top notch russian computer expert to get into america's election infrastructure it turns out an eleven year old can do it in their prank or reports. to learn more about the twenty hacking contest that's what the link says and yes it's from a real website and the contests are real too it's for kids and it's not being held in russia what this is america anyway meet the winner eleven year old you need. to be me we can cause in the our own name that we want to make a living we won the election and it just took her ten minutes to hack a replica of an election office website in one of the battleground states. these

are members of congress they work hard to approve budget grants to sort out election cyber security the one for twenty was three hundred eighty million bucks these are child hackers i mean contestants they tap their keyboards to prove that within minutes america's election systems are a piece of garbage thirty five out of the thirty nine youngsters taking part this year were able to do just that so how come there haven't been any warnings for a grown up specialists well actually there have always been the milling machine is eighteen different states and it's extremely easy to get an advantage because this is mostly so let me show you how quick it is that a little under two minutes. you don't need any totals to do that. and now i have. full advantage it looks like you don't have to turn pro to be

a meddling master and outsmart security efforts worth hundreds of millions of dollars don't bother guessing hole be the ones to take advantage come november we've already been told many times there's no doubt russian hackers ahead of the midterm they know it was arrogant and security of. the russians are targeting members of congress the us. turn elections are just around the corner and russia's attack continues to haunt the united states russian election interference in the twenty eight hundred midterms the russians have not reduced their hacking it's even the first thing the prodigy's at the conference will tell you right there which could also be a great excuse when someone asks the suits why the system's vulnerable to say the least by the way when the goodwill hackers look to back up their previous conference they wrote if russia can attack our election so can others iran north

korea isis or even criminal or extrude groups because let's face it if hacking an american election is child's play perhaps it's time the guys in charge did their homework on where the real threats are. royalist in australia feel free to rejoice as you can order your very own free portrait of the queen all you have to do is contact your local m.p. and sign up for the nation hood programs goodie bag.

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p.j.'s national camera. roughly once they showed some movie for them. uncool videos also known with the broccoli string abs. going down on string i don't rightly don't t.v. . what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. more somehow want to press. it to go right to the press this is what before three of them all can't be good good i'm interested always in the waters about how. this should. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the us has over one trillion dollars in debt more than

ten white collar crime stamping each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to be all for rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per cent at the first second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building to be one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need remember it was one business show you can afford to miss the one in only. the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. cause you know how most of us just a little sympathy want to be gotten lost and i won the last post on this but i think many of them look for refuge in the so-called sentry sides of the draft used

to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities how to best person as bank of mom. mostly to point out that it best not get them in a lot less than the one that. they had to watch as the options to stay in the country with donald trump in the white house all. those supposed to be what is the who could be about to do the job of the old sets it struggles of many couples won't . kill the chance of putting food and bills and spawn both of you up at the pump to the fault of the. america was never great was founded on the rape and murder. nothing changed so we said. response to these situations that we do in the ways.

people get there with the day she is just people kill each other blood to kill the children. there was just no way that people are going to just sit back and allow children to be shot down law enforcement. this country doesn't work for us it doesn't function for us. this is can't be happening in america we call from the streets we've got to deal with why this is the reason i have to run like this is a reason. to welcome to the end cone sophie shevardnadze he won oscars stalled in globe space

films are cult classics part of american consciousness now all over a stone's latest project was to film an extensive series of interviews with russia's vladimir putin. i caught up with the director himself to talk about the experience i over sounds great to have you with us today i hope you're having a great trip in moscow yes just got here so your book companion sure extensive interviews with spain published by you called the good and interviews for day to day shows climax to my strange life as an american filmmaker climax your career is the best thing you've ever done. you know i have to take the point of view that it could be the last film too you never know time is seems more precious when you get a little bit older and as a filmmaker it's a very young profession you know and very few and america especially it kind of goes fast you don't get off in another chance so i felt like this was a kind of

a climax not that it's a feature film but that it's the most safe at this time in history the most forbidding character to american media to american and western europe to i think forbidding kind of. cross into that into another world i'm glad i got here i mean i did mr castro and i did mr chavez i did mr arafat's and also as a young who was a character when he was out of office back when he was out of office he's now in power forever it seems but these characters all led me to this moment with mr putin . and i frankly i enjoyed the meeting him i met him originally on the at the one of my trips to russia because i was interviewing snowden a lot we were doing research with ed and

a lot of the movie and soden was represents what ed this point of view was so getting that information took time and we came back and we're trying to be accurate the last scene of the movie was shot in moscow so after a by one i met mr putin which is in the back room of a theater in the moscow play an old like hundred sixty s. play he was attending to promote folkloric culture. we met the back and i asked him about mr snowden and he gave me the russian version his version of what happened which was fascinating different than what we had been told in the public. newspapers and so forth but anyway long telling the story quickly is getting back to the end of the movie of snowden we shot in moscow to a weekend with with ed and then we turned around a few days later we went to the kremlin and we shot mr putin over three days and.

at that time we didn't know if this would go on who was simply you know take it as it comes like you're doing and play it by ear it was spontaneous i gave him a list of quick questions i was areas that i was going to cover but it wasn't limited he didn't say it was totally spontaneous i didn't have any limitation you know all the way to us and as you can see every day i look different he was always the same he looked very together i was sometimes. but here was blowin in the wind. i guess i changed appearances several times but. in other words i'm the opposite of american anchor i don't look like megan kelly i don't look like you even. sam that's a compliment. i know what kind of great effort it takes to get that kind of accent but. that's not easy i mean a lot of russian journalists and top journalists don't get that kind of access right and i know how much effort it took you to make this happen and make it come

together and then the minute this comes out it was so talked about in russia and obviously the whole american press right away lash out are you saying yourself flattering to certain that you're about entry or just want to do you care it is again under under your skin because that's a lot of work you do it with putting it was a lot of work but i didn't consider my i never said i was a journalist and i didn't pretend to be what i well that this is a look i'm a movie film director you know me from the films and you may know me from some of the past interviews i did with the public figures but i'm not pretending to be anything else i know you said in response that you know you don't have an opinion about anything that you're doing that you're nurture role well the opinions of james because then i'm talking about the putin movie but at the same time i watched a series you said a lot of flaring things about you know do you feel like you manage to stay objective and neutral. i don't i don't buy it and i think if you see the movies i do it's not the high try to stick to what i feel is the truth and i don't take

i didn't say one false word to mr p. at all i did say what i meant when i said it when i said to him and one of the i think one of the first the things i said was it strikes me that you're this you're a son of russia because when you came into the country at a time when it was just in the dumps it was one nine hundred ninety nine two thousand the place was a mass. the real economic story and what you did was you turned things around no one can take that away from you and i think that's one of the reasons he's still popular is that because he brought a sense of place destiny a sense that we we are russian we have much to be proud of we have a history and he really is certain the concept of a sovereign country which was crucial because russia was not a sovereign country from approximately ninety one two to two thousand it was losing that sovereignty completely the united states was and other people were walking all

over the place and basically monitoring whatever they want and they were all over the the nuclear certainly the nuclear industry but look the point is that putin gave russia something that is really important in this world and we can get back to that because that's the bottom line is we need an anchor in the world we need a resistance to exist to the call of the dominion of the united states i know that you know on talk about politics but this is a very happy type of question you have sighted people. who have done movies cost chavez putin time this are strongman you know obviously have attraction to strongman do you feel like this is diffused here of politics leaders like that are very strong uncompromising. very controversial in many ways or should politics be about dialogue and political correctness well it is about the long term and these men all were open to dialogue and you can argue who did who said what to who but the point was that castro tried to negotiate with the united states for

a long time and he was rebuffed not only was your buff he was insulted in the they tried to assassinate him many times so you know where what is dialogue dialogue is important and mr chavez certainly had a point of view he was if you remember he shook obama's hand he really who is hoping that there was going to be a new approach from the united states didn't happen so it is about dialogue it's about compromise politics and above all if i can. give you an overall opinion of mr putin he said he's the ultimate negotiator you wear you out he really believes in talking out everything there's no there are certain points of interest for every country has its national interests and he constantly hearts on this russia has its national interests and he's open to the gut to negotiating anything but those national interests and when you cross the line. he will let you know as you know i pushed him whatever people say i pushed him and certainly i could feel his

irritation when i was pushing him hard on the democracy question on this the question of his succession in what's going to happen next year there were times i riled him more than once but i am concerned and the reason i undertook the series was i was very concerned about going back to my relationship to russia what happened to the american russian relationship that had existed in two thousand if you like your film can change american perception and put in because it hurts or some value it has to some degree i'll tell you more than several million people saw it which is and this is on a premium cable channel showtime is not on a national channel like in russia so you have a limited prescription audience that it was seen and seen again but it was also shown in europe in a lot of places and we had a very good debate in france i was public television channel three in france and. you've heard vedra in the x. foreign minister of mr beattie all defended the movie very well i thought against

and several other people against the opposition it was the debate was very french but in other words in europe in germany france these things matter italy very important now whether things change as a result it's hard to tell because the recently as you know the united states congress which stuns me voted almost unanimously for sanctions to be expanded against russia. this happened recently so it seems to be almost a reaction to trump. as putin says domestic politics you feel like trump is trying to sort of way emulate leaders like putin to help syria's i'm not sure i can tell you what is in donald trump's head on all the anyone can and if they tell you that i don't think he's stupid i think he's a very sharp guy and i'm sure he wrecks respects the. he may misunderstand mr putin too so i don't know but he certainly hasn't lived up to the idea that he gave many

people during the campaign that he was against any foreigner interventions that he thought the united states it squandered its resources its assets in wars abroad so we there was his thinking that it would change but it hasn't changed not because of his willpower it that because he hasn't been able to get anywhere in his administration it behaves been stuck in gridlock from the beginning opposition has been severe also because of russia now because no let's can i ask you really that has been the excuse the has been attacked profoundly for russia there's no evidence as yet and i've seen indicates that russia is in any collusion with mr with donald trump i mean he's not this meant suring candidate and i thought there was a surprisingly stupid story but it got a lot of traction in america which worries me and shows you how frankly stupid the american. voter can be if you believe that i don't believe most of them do but i

could i don't know that the polling is off on it it doesn't make sense if you're saying no one that is elected gets to change the system does it even you know what for in america yeah well that's what mr putin says at the end of the interview if you remember he says he's been through four presidents and i asked him what's changed and he said basically nothing. so he's indicating that there's a bureaucracy he called it a bureaucracy in america they call it a deep state a bureaucracy that has been resistant to change certainly the policies towards russia have for the most part united states been highly negative since one nine hundred seventy s. since the revolution when mr wilson president wilson said american troops to siberia to join the british expeditionary force.

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