the. headline story speaks to a law professor fighting for the release of a. subject to shocking torture. or. war. i think. there 1st strike action across france protests against pension reform continue into

a 3rd. u.s. family entertainment t.v. channel is caught in the crossfire after it apologizes busy for dropping in a. commercial. this is just a handful that sort. of christmas is coming together i'm going to talk to my children about sexual orientation i'd like to have that conversation with them one on one i don't really want to come in the form of a christmas commercial. around the clock across the world this is our team international from the team myself you know me with a low and welcome to the program. the abuse of prisoners in secret cia run prisons has been thrown into sharp relief following the. the release of

a report called how america tortures it contains a series of chilling sketches produced by so binah an inmate at guantanamo bay depicting the enhanced interrogation techniques he was subjected to between 2002 and 5 so bedo was captured from a safe house in pakistan in 2002 and sent to a so named cia black sites in thailand where the torture took place he was then transferred to guantanamo bay where he's still being held without charge so bad it was the 1st person to be subjected to the brutal interrogation program which was approved by the administration of george w. bush and has since been acknowledged by the cia here's a quick overview of his story.

as soon as they locked me up inside the box i tried my best just to put it in thanks for the box was too short i tried to take it curled position but to no avail it was too tight the very strong pain made the screen unconsciously. they kept pouring water and concentrating on my nose and my mouth until i really felt i was drowning and my chest was just about to explode from the lack of oxygen .

long hours went by while i was standing in that position my hands were tight to the upper bars. it felt like an eternity to the point that i found myself falling asleep despite the water being thrown at me by the guard. is a by and as lawyer who was the driving force behind the torture report told us why his client should not be kept in detention any longer. time were. very slow i don't know if they are or. 'd why they charged. or released or the mood 'd. was never or never. did not seem to say you know it's her

transparency issue with. the fact is they were you were 'd. being street is. rooted in a lot of. accountability is good i would love many people hold it but it turns out that we have her model right now we 'd were forward 'd not backwards or the problem we 'd have right now is look if they don't work right words the people who are still there are going to remain stuck i believe there are many who are all right but what they. 'd must mobilization is again taking shape across france this choose their let's go in life there right now to the french couple to show you the scenes just 5 minutes after 5 pm darkness to sending their more and more people to come out onto the

streets from seeing increased amounts of yellow vests similar types of beds well you see a lot of fires being made or a cage being put up as well as thousands expected there as we go into the evening in parson indeed right across the country they're taking part to the 9 state governments pension reform plans i spoke a little bit earlier to shawna dube and ski rice. well a very strong in paris a full what is now a strike. it's in its 3rd week across the country another cool by unions for a nation wide set of strikes the suggestion is up to a 1000000 people could take part in this strike today we are waiting though for those official thing is to come 3 people jammed packed in all around the pasty as you could probably see there in the distance the police have cordoned off part of

the area which means it might be difficult for the protesters to move further on on the already designated route to take them all the way down to plastic. for the moment people look like they are grouping here to work out what's next people are furious they fused about the changes the government has made to the pensions as these changes that have already been posed by the government are expected to be passed in the national assembly here in france it is really 2020 these changes perhaps the most controversial of them is the idea that french people would have to work for 2 years extra to receive a full retirement that would be a retirement age of 60 who the government says he asked to do this he has to join all of these pension systems with all the different special bonuses and rates into something this universal favor people say no it means we're going to have to work

for longer and possibly end up with less money at the end now this strike has paralyzed paris for the last few weeks it's also had a massive impact on services across the rest of the country and it is a strike that was cooled by the railway workers by the met through work is here in the city but it's also been joined by firefighters the police times who are taking part in this also health workers and teaches in students it feels like there is huge anger across the country but it's not just about the pensions that was just destroy. the broke the camel's back there is a why do malays in france that we have been witnessing over the last year malays which is seen people unhappy with all different forms of professions and that's why this strike is being perhaps so well supported we've been having a chat to some of the health workers who hate to say for them to explain the

problems within their own profession because of these sort of course i'm here today because we have problems with financing for hospitals we have lots of expenses and the right constraints when it comes to procuring materials and recruiting staff we're here today to say but with public hospitals and we want to say to them. the working conditions are bad. it's very difficult for us to live properly on our current salaries there's been no change it's just a trauma. nobody cares about stuff and off with all these days medicine is no longer a profession anyone wants to get into she doesn't pay. so concerning is the threat to their professions that all monday $600.00 hospital workers sent a letter to the government announcing that they would resign unless there was a massive injection of money into the health service they said it wasn't just about the money it was also that they needed more staff and there was concern over shortage of hospital beds one health worker has told us that the situation is so

bad it could now pose a risk to the lives of patients in particular we health care professionals want to be able to continue to do our job so the way we were targeted and the way we want to without any discrimination about interests which has become systemic we don't have the equipment but it's not that we are understaffed now that it's not either i work in hospital one of our patients died almost a year ago simply because we don't have enough stuff to take care of everyone that was a year ago but nothing has changed since then. the government would say it has already offered no money to the health service but that was rejected by him to his groups when it comes to the pension reforms which was the match that sparked this latest round of strikes now into the s.c. do week the government also says it won't capitulated won't make a huge change that's despite the fact minister involved in organizing these

pensions and putting those proposals to get himself resigned to yesterday the government says he moved this strike is say they won't leave it looks like they will be troops to force christmas seems to us. let's stay in the country because after a series of horrific injuries against protesters it has come to light that french authorities were warned of the dangers of using tear gas grenades against demonstrators as far back as january last year also text outs the company that makes the military grade devices route to the french interior ministry about the safety risks of its grenades being used by riot police the blast the fact of the devices produced by an expose of substance a likely to maim or mortally injure an individual well those within 10 sound effects can cause irreversible hearing damage the resumption of production is impossible without completely review in the production process. well in

a letter leaked to the french investigative news website media part the manufacturer warns that defects in the grenades were identified but not resolved by the way is the only european country were right police use that weapon the spite the warnings they're still used. to simply explode when being handled the gas grenade cause serious injuries among yellow vests protesters 5 of whom last also an elderly woman died after she was hit by one of a demo in marsay last year dozens more protesters say they have been left winded by the weapons. i. removed the national assembly and people were trying to force their way in the police arrived and threw grenades one hit the guy's leg he tried to push it away

with his hands as a reflex reaction. to the. i don't want anyone but me mother says she had been targeted and we want the truth and justice. i will try to fight against the use of for grenades which are totally from my point of view weapons of war and against rubber bullet guns or french journalists emerick feel told us he thinks the government is using the grenade as a deterrent. but you also little mustn't forget the use of the trash small rubber bullets during these the demonstrations of which have led to several people

losing a knife more than 20. for you remember we must see that there is no political will to stop this madness in my opinion it is there is a cynical way they do it on purpose they want to dissuade people from their most rating and from showing their anger and during this yellow vests protest they prevented lee for instance arresting people because they were carrying swimming lessons in order to protect their their eyes from tear gas. which is a way of through bitching to most ration wide preventing it from being massive. newsweek magazine is in the spotlight after a former reporter claimed he quit when editors threw out his story elect chemical attack investigation in syria the public right between newsweek and to record has intensified we heard from the journalist for his version of events. that i was i

kept pushing to try and do the story because i feel like it's of extreme you know public interest the attacks on me and it is a kind of nit picking on on certain things i was doing in my articles but it was purely on just to be able to attack me in an e-mail so after i kept pushing kept pushing the century was told a couple alarms about why they wouldn't run the o.p.c. w. story and then it was a long list of things that i've done personally wrong. and i was very unhappy about this because you know i've never experienced like this something like this in my in my journalism career. well tareq is a writer a freelance journalist who joined newsweek in september this year just 2 months after that he quit after pitching a story about the global chemical watchdogs humbling of its report into the alleged chemical attack in syria's dinner the outlet rejected it fears a legal battle over his publishing of an exchange of corporate emails in his pitch

to the editors to room to refer to recent leaked emails from o.p.c. w. employees in which the whistleblowers fox had been misrepresented in the watchdogs report of the alleged chemical attack now the united states from the u.k. requests to conduct must the strikes against syrian military targets over it wreckage and believes his case shows the failings of the mainstream media. let's look at the evidence that we have available to us of the moment there are scientists from a nonpolitical body of the united nations. that say that the report their findings from a chemical weapons site were not representative in the in the final report that was released to the world. to me this is you know doesn't really need explaining why this is a newsworthy story so you know these these organizations. have taken

a long time for us to get here in terms of a historical point of view when we shouldn't be weaponized in them. to kind of create the public opinion needed to go to war of the moment they're all very. well mainstream western journalists are reporting on this so i would say this complete failure of the media. you know our job as journalists or to hold governments to account and if the government's going to war on false premises then you know we have good evidence to suggest that now another one is reporting it then we're not turning our job as journalists as for the magazine itself newsweek has given this statement. saying to pitch the conspiracy theory they couldn't run because it goes against object of reporting. international washington is playing hardball on its sanctions against north korea the un dialogue fades neither side seems willing to compromise that story and more in 90 seconds on.

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to join us in the depths. or a maybe in the shallows. caught between a rock and a hard place america's family friendly hole marked t.v. channel has apologized for pulling a commercial featuring a same sex couple of his promise to create more inclusive content the company division which operates the network ses it's been a tough call all round. the crown media team has been agonizing over this decision as we've seen the hurt is has unintentionally caused our mission is rooted in

helping all people connect summer break traditions and be inspired to capture meaningful moments in their lives we are truly sorry for the hurt and disappointment this has caused well the apology comes after the child polled an ad for a wedding planning website that featured a gay couple getting married about spark complete do you think solo could have made planning your perfect wedding easier we did. leave out in the room couples plan registry and invitations get started for free and sell it dot com the advert spurred a petition by the christian conservative group 1000000 moms that called on homework to not show any pro l.g.b. take it on the child claiming it went against the values of its target audience however the removal calls the backlash on social media to child exacts changed their minds kevin owen spoke to media commentator gina loudon and human rights activist peter tatchell about the rise. this was just

a handful that sought to include women who love each other and that is a fact of life and you know christmas is all about love and coming together you know i can understand what the fuss is about you know if i saw a card or a verse or anything with a man or woman kissing i think beautiful wonderful i love it they were viewers they were watching it they were thinking hey you know if i'm going to talk to my children about sexual orientation i'd like to have that conversation with them one on one i don't really want to come in the form of a christmas commercial and that to some people is understandable and it doesn't mean that they were necessarily bigoted or that this was in any way anti-gay it might just be that they wanted to be the ones to have that conversation with their 5 year old is there any reason why a channel which describes itself as family friendly and it shows 1st 2 shows this year 'd it once and children families together on the t.v. popcorn watch is there a reason is it describing themselves as that they should take a bit more care not to offend people that may be offended most young kids get it.

when they see 2 people in love young kids don't think you know man woman boy girl that they think of love and these were about love not about 6 about love and i would have thought in a modern mature democracy we were better to celebrate love in its many forms is this the time of year where we want to be making political statements during you know it is a holiday season where we were sitting around the fire with our families you know having having a good time and maybe not thinking so much about l g b t or even abortion or other things that might be more of a political statements almost apologise for pulling the did they need to apologize i think they did yes because it's quite offensive to say that you know an image of 2 women in love is somehow not fit and proper for

a broadcast channel in this day and age. by putting the ad that was a deep insult an assertive rejection of the many same sex couples who do love each other and love each other just as much as any husband or wife you get pushback that is from a political action group be it conservative or liberal what you're really getting is a falsely inflated political pushback from people that aren't necessarily your viewers when you hear the pushback initially from the viewers saying you know hey we're we're moms we're watching your network and we don't want this on their my guess is that the majority of that was probably organic. the u.s. has rejected our proposal by russia and china to ease international sanctions on north korea in exchange for a commitment from pyongyang to take steps towards denuclearize action the suggestion was put forward in a gruff u.n.

security council resolution monday now in addition to allowing the d.p. r. k. experts are calling it suggest that interest korean projects be exempt from. it also calls for a to be lifted on the employment of north koreans it's not known if or when the draft resolution will be put to a vote to be adopted it would need the support of at least 9 u.n. security council member states in the absence of any vetoes but washington say sanctions relief would be premature at this stage pyongyang has ramped up its missile testing as well this month ahead of a year and a deadline it's given the u.s. to make concessions in their stalled nuclear talks not despite. its own willing to compromise. the united states and the security council have a goal not a deadline we want to use this time we briefing to make crystal clear to the d.p. r. k. that its continued ballistic missile testing is deeply counterproductive to this

shared objectives that the president and chairman camp had discussed on 2 occasions political analyst chris bambery told me both north korea and the u.s. have to meet each other half way in order to break the current impasse in talks. i think relations of rooty can or don't turn on the north korean side we've had these missile tests were also having attacks on truong by the north koreans on the american side we have an insistence that all sanctions must remain in place until complete demilitarized militarization and that sets up a situation of stalemate it takes 2 to tango and i think in the situation room one house of one of these countries has to make some concessions to try to get the talks back on track some humanitarian guest gesture by the united states might help bring this situation but the moment what we're getting is is hardly a message that really no compromises an offer from the united states. fiscally

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i am max kaiser this is the kaiser report we're getting ready for the global showdown central bank that being the i.m.f. in this case versus bitcoin the venue argentina that's why we're here we're here now we're witnessing historic epic proportion of it yes of course when we booked to come here the currency crisis was not in such a full swing now it is we have a new president elect here and he has turned down the last $11000000000.00 payment from the i.m.f. but i just want to say on our observations i'm here with the national color here i look i feel like i look like lionel messi gomez. 6 golden balls.

i have been a little bit surprised about how. how would you say posh. hours and hours of walking across the city and all sort of directions that it feels probably even more prosperous and living in paris being in paris it is kind of odd to see this situation and i think part of it is that they're so used to currency crises here that it's almost like they're so prepared for it that when it comes it's like oh great everything's discounted for us well the argentinians are resourceful people you can't take away their dignity and that's what they have and it's based on a fantastic culture fantastic people the here and one desirous of meeting so many fantastic people and the cultural depth is extraordinary unlike the u.s. where the there really is no culture other than hollywood there you have hundreds and hundreds of years thousands years of culture you've got the influence of folks coming from all over the world principally italian and it's just fantastic and you

know what we're seeing here is a resilience to the overlords from the central banks like the i.m.f. . and for the 1st time in history a country like argentina has a weapon to fight the carpet baggers at the i.m.f. the charlatans like christine legarde and that would be bitcoin i noticed on a local bitcoin use in big coin in argentina is skyrocketing this is were ground 0 is in the big coin versus central bank it's happening right here what is there is right here in argentina yes the population of argentina has soared since 880 prior to that there were about 2000000 people here and now there's 40 something 1000000 but i just want to go over the date on the economy and just so you understand according to the i guess it's the world bank data $518000000000.00 as their g.d.p. in 2018 and that's down from about $630.00.