what you think. up. a probe finds the u.s. military is linked to sites in yemen where jailed terror suspects have reportedly been tortured but the pentagon tonight claims made by the associated press.

the british prime minister suffers another humiliation in parliament ahead of next week's crucial vote on a plan. the deal is dead. and for good to see just. president trump storms out of his latest meeting with democratic leaders describing the talks as a total waste of time after they refused to fund. the better an american civil rights activist is left stunned after an award recognizing coworkers revoked angela davis suspects it's because of her open support for palestinians. with your world news this hour a first for you the pentagon is denying allegations that u.s. personnel witnessed or were complicit in in torture. secret yemeni prisons which

are overseen by its ally the united arab emirates the investigation by the a.p. news agency uncovered some gruesome details it's kind of morbid now explains ports highlighting torture and scandalous practices the associated press and human rights groups say that prisons in yemen operated by the united arab emirates a longtime u.s. ally have been run in total degradation and that u.s. military personnel may have been involved with or even witnessed the torture but the united states department of defense has fired back with its own report saying nope we found nothing. the department of defense has not developed any independent credible information indicating that u.s. allies opon ms have abused detainees in yemen now the key word is independent they basically just ignored reports that painted horrific pictures of the facilities. at one main detention complex at riana airports in the southern city of mccullough form inmates described being crammed into shipping containers smeared with feces

and blindfolded for weeks on end they said they were beaten trust up on the grill and sexually assaulted now on top of the human rights group we've also got an acknowledgement of the problem from the united nations investigations by the group of experts confirm widespread arbitrated tension throughout the country and ill treatment and torture in some facilities in most cases detainees were not informed of the reasons for their arrest were not charged and were denied access to lawyers or a judge there is some kind of medical experimentation going on in these engines and says which is connected with psychological domination torture people to see how far they can go both the u.s. and britain and other international community members have openly admitted that they are providing intelligence and load just logistics to the saudi led coalition's basically military advice i believe they're turning a blind eye and

a to it because they are they are they may well be the ones who are advising the carrying out will the doing of things in this particular way now the united arab emirates says that these prisons are operated by yemenis they've got nothing to do with it and the department of defense is echoing their statement that it's all a big facade they found nothing however if you look at congressional reports they indicate that u.s. personnel have been involved interrogations. u.s. forces do not conduct detention operations in yemen rather u.s. forces conduct intelligence interrogations of detainees held in part in a custody but the department of defense is sticking to its story saying we know nothing and i guess the world just has to decide who it wants to believe but r.t. new york well the policy director at the just foreign policy campaign organization believe the pentagon has always been insincere about u.s. activities in yemen. pentagon has been lying for years about what the

u.s. is doing in yemen claim that it wasn't supporting the saudi war with direct military assistance with through fueling. claim that it was doing something to reduce the saudi bombing of civilians which clearly it wasn't so there's a long track record of lies and i fear that at this point the only thing that congress can do they would substantially change situation is cut off military support for the saudi u.a.e. war which is deeply untangled in the abuses that we see. with the clock ticking towards brics it d.-day the british prime minister is again struggling to get a foothold for her deal which is set to be voted on by m.p.'s next week on wednesday that she faced a deluge of criticism in parliament once again. prime minister has been wrecked to

see wasting time holding the country to ransom with the threat of no deal in a desperate attempt to blackmail m.p.'s to vote for good hopelessly unpopular deal he opposes any deal that the government is negotiating with the european union the prime minister says it's the only deal of value to bold if that is the case why wasn't it put to a vote on december the eleventh. why is that it july five weeks on this deal is dead is the deadest. president anymore dignities can this prime minister in june before she realizes that she is the biggest part of this problem and for the she just. well twenty nineteen is upon us the year when bracks it is finally supposed to kick in and become a reality after over two years of torture us negotiations and we're just less than three months away from the march deadline and the way things stand now it seems

clear that which shape this brags that is going to be taken continues to be anyone's guess whether uncertainty and chaos continuing to reign in westminster now the first prime minister's questions at the house of commons theresa may was yet again grilled on the topic by those who oppose her deal yet the british prime minister continues to insist that the deal she has put on the table is the best deal possible just last month theresa may had already had to postpone the vote on bracks if that was meant to take place at the house of commons in order to avoid the humiliation of a defeat because she realised that the deal would not go through now this new vote is meant to take place next week on tuesday january fifteenth and this wednesday was the first day of five days of heated debate at the house of commons ahead of the vote where accusations have been flying high including. erected at the speaker

of the house who is that meant to be impartial or we've all noticed in recent months a stick here in new york up making derogatory comments about the great city this is a serious point about patiala see how do you drive a car with a stick about that sticker on the subject of bricks it happens to be. affix to or in the windscreen of my wife's car yes and i'm sure the owner moved gentleman wouldn't suggest for one moment. i heard your wife is somehow the property or chattel. house. well according to a new poll by the u.k. the changing europe think tank as many as seventy percent of them ps think that theresa may did a bad job on negotiating bragg's it which is another not very good sign ahead of this vote for the british prime minister and we also have to keep in mind that just

on wednesday m.p.'s have voted in an amendment which would force the government to present a plan b. within three days if to rescind may's deal is reject said and many here in westminster believe that she does not have a plan b. . an associate target of one of parliament does vote down to reason plan next tuesday she'll have just three days to present a second draft but with a growing number of m.p.'s expressing their opposition to the prime minister's moves it may be that the u.k. crashes out of the e.u. emptyhanded amid the uncertainty there have also been calls for an extension to article fifty that would give the u.k. more time to negotiate a divorce to reason made ruled out calling a second referendum but that too could be a possibility independent british m.e.p. stephen wolf believes that the course that many of pushing for now. the whole purpose of this guerrilla warfare in poland by the remaining years is to push the government in a position where they could never give us breaks it and the consequences of that is

that they want to make sure that brics it never happens and that's why they're now in a position where they feel extremely confident that they go to a third referendum on our membership of the european union when they do that that will only show a level of discontent. it's a level of this heartedness and a level of dispute between people in our country which will last not just a couple of years but a whole generation they will only show unhappiness in our country and they should hang their heads in shame for doing so. american civil rights activist angela davis has been left stunned after a human rights award she was set to receive was revoked in a statement a veteran campaigner said the organization behind the on a changed its mind due to her open support for palestinians he goes down of as the story. the mainstream american standpoints angela davis is a controversial figure

a form a commie a women's rights champion and anti capitalist there's just no single label that defines. and last september a civil rights institute in her hometown of birmingham alabama decided to honor her with a prestigious award sparing no words of praise one of the most globally recognize champions of human rights giving voice to those who are powerless to speak but every time her record of tireless campaigning for human rights propels a further into the public eye it provokes a furious outcry this time was no exception and before she could be presented with

the award the institute caved in upon closer examination miss davis is statements in public record we concluded that she and fortunately does not meet all of the criteria on which you word is based the birmingham civil rights institute doesn't have any less. criteria published for all to see but angela davis believes the rights body was triggered by her stance on palestine although the b.c. i write refused my request to reveal the substantive reasons for this action i later learned that my long term supporter of justice will palestine was a tissue some angela davis fans protested in the streets of birmingham some voice supports online the phrase were awarded heritage even knowing how you angela davis this is shameful i stand with my deceased and friend angela davis this guy marc lamont hill used to be a c.n.n.

contributor used to be because one time he spoke out in support of the rights of the palestinians and against israeli practices of caution dissent we have an opportunity to not just offer solidarity in words but to commit to political action grassroots action local action and international action that will give us what justice requires. in barrier is a free palestine from the river to the sea but apparently he chose the wrong words to do so the river and sea metaphor is commonly used by hamas one of palestine's major political parties and a terrorist organization in the us playbook marc lamont hill was fired by the network shortly after the incident and in fact some legislators would like to see

israel's most hardline critics supporters of sanctions hit with the full weight of the law trumps x. punching bag and senator marco rubio recently introduced the first bill of twenty nineteen which would encourage state authorities to take action against companies supporting the anti israel boy courts in fact laws bearing israel boycotting businesses from state contracts already exist in twenty six states and although they're often faced with opposition like marco rubio's initiative it's absurd that the first build your in the shutdown is legislation which punishes americans who exercise their constitutional right to engage in political activity angel or davis's scandal shows how many people would be happy to gag anyone daring to publicly undermine israel's image. president trump has stormed out of his latest meeting with democratic leaders describing the talks as a total waste of time he's facing fierce opposition to getting his border war

approved as a u.s. government shutdown heads towards the three week mark. all as delicious all of the other things essential and the drones are drawn wonderful to have and it works well but only if you have a lot of you're out the war doesn't matter a drone is stopping at thousand people from running through. the u.s. government shutdown started to affect the nation with nearly a million federal workers going on paid the democrats accused trouble holding the nation to ransom by continuing its course and with claims and counterclaims about the numbers and impact of immigration you can probably forgive the american people for being a little confused right now so we are some people in new york if they could pick a politician behind these statements from recent years. you have american interests hiring i'm absolutely and in many cases they're great workers i'm not sure that a lot of americans are going to take those jobs and that's where the economy that's the big problem because you have a lot of great people coming in doing a lot of work. actually donald trump going to throw. a bush trump

actually. would have to be a democrat i would imagine. i would say schumer palosi again that one was actually trump. really people who enter the united states without our permission are illegal aliens an illegal alien should not be treated the same as people who entered the u.s. legally i mean. it's actually chuck schumer and i was almost correct there was. trouble. when i was a senator to spend money to build a. barrier to try to prevent. illegal immigrants from coming in. and actually hillary clinton ok john mccain that insular clinton oh my god is this a trick if you know it was hillary clinton. it was a. book receipt that's the whole thing people are apparently saying what they need

to say to get elected democratic leaders chuck schumer and nancy pelosi had some harsh words for the president but on twitter not everyone shares that concern. this is all t. that's a tug of war over transparency at the world's biggest defense department it's all next story after the break. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime stamped each

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welcome back the organization charged with overseeing u.s. defense department spending says there's a major lack of transparency in the military but that stands against president trump who apparently wants even less openness especially when it comes to afghanistan. kind of stuff as we're fighting wars and they're doing reports and releasing it to the public now the public needs the enemy the enemy returns reports a study every line or they should be private reports and be locked out and if a member of congress wants to see it you're going to read it accounting for us spending on afghanistan lies with the special inspector general for afghanistan reconstructions it's known as it was created by the us congress and see go audit reconstruction work and conducts criminal probes it also publishes quarterly

reports to ensure transparency let's talk about all this now with antiwar activist david swanson he joins us from the u.s. welcome to the program how do you read this that is this just a big bloated bit of government is being inefficiency or is the defense to parchman trying to gloss over a few whopping but budget numbers. well it's not a defense department as it doesn't do anything defensive but there was a bit of honesty in their intro meeting that he thinks of the public as the enemy this is not unique to afghanistan the president trump has stopped reporting on missile strikes in iraq and syria he's trying to stop these reports on the conduct of u.s. operations in afghanistan but he hasn't done so if you go to see guard dot mil s.-i ga our dot m i l you can read all these reports going back for over a decade which is the period of time it took donald trump to discover they were

there and they are all about waste fraud and abuse in the so-called reconstruction a during the destruction of afghanistan and i suspect more people are looking at those reports now with trump saying they should be removed they never looked at them before you know most people in the united states don't even know that war is happening most people in the united states can't name nine countries the united states has been bombing in the past year so why do you think donald trump wants to make them less public. he loves secrecy and it's a very good question because he also claims in the same breath that he wants to end that war if you're going to end the war why worry about ending the reports on the misdeeds during that war he wants secrecy he wants secrecy. across the government and this so-called shutdown which like every other so-called shutdown has not shut down a single war or slowed the construction of

a single base or doctor a single ship has in fact stopped reporting on all kinds of things across the united states the including no oversight of wall street oversight of environmental protection and so on all of which donald trump would love to see ended and what about when it comes to afghanistan that is that embarrassment this is a war that's been going on for nigh on two decades has cost billions of taxpayer dollars why does he want that to be so kept under the hood. well it's bad news and it's bad news for the enemy as he conceived it which he seems to admit is the public specifically the u.s. public the most recent report that i think he's most upset about is the report that the taliban in afghanistan controls more territory than it had before it can't imagine that the taliban is on aware of what territory it controls but the

u.s. public is on aware of what territory it controls and trump doesn't want that known embarrassment has always been the primary real justification of behind claims of national security secrecy ok we'll leave it there thanks for staying up to talk to us and i was like where you are antiwar activist david swanson thanks a lot thank you. next the russian foreign ministry has a foreign ministry apologize to some of the japanese ambassador over comments from tokyo about the status of the disputed southern islands has got more on the latest flare up between the two countries. there's been no peace agreement since world war two when nat c. germany and their allies japan were defeated a group of tiny islands that are just one thousand kilometers north of tokyo became territory administered by russia under international law japan though still

considers the islands their all land so what really annoyed the russian diplomats was some of what the japanese prime minister just said she told japanese t.v. that tokyo has no intention to resettle the russians living on the island which is a rather quirky statement given that we heard nothing close to a decision for a handover and the olens are still russian territory it was also about tokyo's idea to drop all discussions on issues surrounding possible compensations so first of all we know that one of sergei lavrov step bts told the japanese ambassador in moscow that any discussions on the fate of the south coral islands must be based on japan's acceptance of the outcomes of the second world war here's more of what russian officials have to say such statements the essence of the agreements between

the leaders of russia and japan on speeding up the negotiating process based on one thousand nine hundred fifty six joint declaration and misinform the public of the two countries about the content of the negotiations such statements can only be interpreted as an attempt to deliberately magnify the problems of a peace treaty and impose on the other side his own scenario for a sense women's the south korean are really a thorny issue but nowadays it may seeing that russia and japan have never been closer to sorting out the issue of lot of our putin and shinzo i call each other friends they need several times a year but these kind of diplomatic scuffles really aren't helping the process. a former cia chief is suggesting that nato would have no reason to exist if it were not for russia david petraeus was speaking at a conference in india on wednesday. the latter putin is the greatest gift to nato

since the end of the cold war and it has provided a new reason for living if you will for nato. those remarks appear to be at odds with nato official view the secretary general for repeatedly stressed the need for better relations with russia. the. goal is not a new cold war we strive for a better relationship with russia not in the old cold war nato does not want a new cold war. however just a couple of months ago the same nato chief nor the tritone juncture wargames the military drills took place in scandinavia not far from russia's borders in the region they were the biggest since the end of the cold war this is an important day because trenching sure is needless biggest exercise since the end all the cold war .

this is fictitious but the lessons we learn will be real. expressing his determination to continue as i read it the aggressive expansion and aggressive posture of nato which began before president putin came on the scene we should remember that it began in the mid ninety's with the war in yugoslavia bombing of yugoslavia the expansion into every east european country into the baltics. nato has expanded from its original twelve members now to twenty nine

and in nato x. is really a u.s. dominated command and military alliance which is trying to enforce u.s. corporate domination on a global scale using military threats sanctions sabotage hundreds of u.s. bases around the world and it's not meant anything russia has done has not expanded beyond its borders as nato has for anything that china has done by nato as an aggressive military alliance it's expanded in a really aggressive way and has a global military force. a drafty news for now both for me and just about half an hour next on iraq might not be your cup of tea meta little fellow next who's a real life saver.

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