in the headlines this hour speaks to a law professor fighting for the release of a guantanamo bay inmate who was subjected to shocking at the hands of the cia. why the charges ready. i. i gather for strike across france says mass protests against pension reform plans entering. the french capital with police using tear gas against demonstrators and. kept pushing to

try and do the story because i feel like it's extreme public interest. tax on me. a former news week reporter launches a blistering attack on a magazine for fusing to run a story he wrote about the alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma last year. good evening live from moscow and out international's world news center this tuesday night 17th of december. with a half hour update and 1st the abuse of prisoners in secret cia run prisons has been thrown into sharp relief we can report following the release of a report called how america torches it contains a series of chilling sketches produced by somebody called abu zubaida an inmate at guantanamo bay to pick. an enhanced interrogation set of techniques he says he was

subjected to between 2002 and 5 is story well he was captured from a jihadi safe house in pakistan in 2002 and sent to so-called cia black sites in thailand where the torture took place he was then transferred to guantanamo bay where he still being held without charge and was the 1st person to be subjected to the brutal interrogation program which was approved by the administration of george w. bush and is since been acknowledged by the cia is a quick overview of zubaydah his story.

as soon as they locked me up inside the box i tried my best to sit up but in vain for the box was too short i tried to take it curled position but to no avail for it was too tight a 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. and. 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. i was about his lawyer has been the driving force behind the torture report told us why his client should be kept in detention any longer. tired we're always or it's very slow and i think our. 'd understand why he has to be charged. or released. to move 'd. because they admit he was never or never gave birth it did not seem to the united states has that transparency issue with what they did. the fact is there were no use for 'd them for 17 straight is there and they wrote

it in one of the other a good accountability is that it is very good i would love many people held accountable but it turns out it will be a murder and while the right always 'd 'd look forward 'd 'd not backwards of course the problem we 'd have right now is look if they don't work right words the people who are stuck there are going to remain stuck i believe there are many who feel terrible. about what's a gazillion 'd starting to see if that is exists. then mass mobilization against planned pension changes hit the country far and wide choose day officials say 600000 people are involved across the country other estimates playing the numbers almost 2000000 and what started out as mostly peaceful demonstrations in the capital meantime he descended into ballance from where in the thick of it shall the dubin ski reports. say god screening guided us here in paris

after one of being some small clashes between the police come to the protesters as you can see it's all round us was this note she was only going oh i started saying i can use to plastic or not you know which kind of apparently meant. just to get through that gas as it is so nasty that gas. the police have been warned is dangerous still in use here in france as you can see everybody's trying to come back up to plus the international room to get away from the tear gas following the skirmishes between the police and the protest is a protest that's been going on now strike for what's in his 3rd week

a strike that was sparked by the protests reforms that the government has announced and one that is showing the general malaise him front it's not just about pensions this is about so much more the health system says it's creaking shoes are unhappy even at times the police have been out processing. the reforms over macaroons government so 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 that will opt out public hospitals and we want to say to them. the working conditions are bad they have no future it's very difficult for us to live properly on our current salaries there's been no change it's just a trauma to the throne so i thought here in solidarity with everyone who's been affected by that reform which is the vast majority of people who. everybody should

be protesting against and for even if they want to work more or less you know it's an acceptable action that they did to you and i don't know just how it would been told that our pensions will be ridiculously small and this your home would make the situation even worse you can see the police start forming a line just on the street that we were in just a few moments ago the street where all the tear gas was being fired to push us out of it you can see they formed a huge line there the police with white helmets on and in fact they look like they've cordoned off most of the streets around where we know that. sounds like some grenades going off of than tear gas there. but what was very calm protest just within a few minutes is descended into. just a difficult place to be what we notice is in the last half an hour now some of

those what they call the the castle is the stocks the break is the police said the ultra. left but they're also sometimes known as the black blocks they have actually been systematically hitting points up the street so we saw a post office being attacked many of the bus shelters being attacked as well as just general restaurants in fact at one point when they were breaking some of the gloss on the advertising boards by some of those guys came up and try to harass my cameraman because they thought he was filming them he wasn't but they were incredibly aggressive and that's because they are very sensitive about being filmed when they're carrying out any of their destruction work we saw that continuing for about half an hour and it's only now as we got to plastic that the police have responded with tear gas and then cordoned this area to try and keep all of the protesters in the government says it won't do a u.

turn only the changes to the pension system people say that they remain on strike but for the moment this strike has turned nasty once again in paris charlotte even ski r.t. paris. not forget the scenes you're seeing there from the very heart of one of europe's biggest cities love for a series of a rethink injuries against protesters it's come to light the french authorities were warned of the dangers of using tear gas grenades against them straight as far back as january last year. makes these military grade devices wrote to the french interior ministry apparently about the safety risks of its grenades being used by riot police. the blast a fact of the devices produced by an explosive substance are 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 reviewing the production process. in

a letter leaked to the french investigative news website media part the manufacturer warns the defects in the grenades were identified but not resolved crucially france is the only european country where riot police use this weapon by the way now despite the warnings they are still being used as we've seen now and on occasion been known to explode by simply just being handled as a bit scary that their gas grenade cause serious injuries among yellow vests protesters 5 of 5 of whom lost hands over it an elderly woman even died after she was hit by one of these things at the demo in marcell last year dozens more protesters say they've been left winded by the weapons to. oh. i. think that what. you're in me is the national assembly and people were trying to force their way in the police arrived and threw grenades one hit the guy's leg and tried to push it away with his hands as

a reflex reaction. to this. and i don't want anyone but me mother says she had been a target and we went in as a tryst and did for justice. i will try to fight against the use of g.l. i f. for grenades which are totally from my point if you weapons of war and against rubber bullet guns. friends. tell us he thinks the government is using these grenades as a deterrent. but you also all mustn't forget the use of the trash small rubber bullets during deserved instructions 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 very cynical to do it on purpose they want to dissuade people from the most rating and problem showing their anger and during this yellow vests protest they preventively for instance arrested people be because they were carrying swimming glasses in order to protect their their eyes from tear gas it is a way of through bitching most ration wide preventing it from being massive. reporting next slide american magazine newsweek's in the spotlight after a former reporter claims he quit when editors threw out his story on a chemical attack investigation in syria that now public row between newsweek and terakhir dads intensified we heard from is from a journalist direct in fact about his version of events 1st off. 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 surely just to be able to attack me in an email so off pushing essentially was told a couple alarms about why they wouldn't run the story. 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 terex a writer a freelance journalist to join news we can september this year just 2 months later he quit after pitching that story about a global chemical weapons watchdogs handling of its report into the alleged chemical attack in syria's duma the outlet rejected though and had no fears a legal battle over his publishing of an exchange of crucially corporate emails after whistleblowers claimed facts had been misrepresented by the opi c.w. on the alleged chemical attack. in pitch the idea was that it is to write about the

watch dogs lead to e-mails a reminder of the conclusions of all that is what led to the united states france and the u.k. conducting air strikes against syrian military targets and it terry could go believes his case shows the failings of the mainstream media. let's look at the evidence that we have available to us at the moment there are scientists from a nonpolitical body of the united nations. that say that their report their findings from a chemical weapon 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 is that 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 there are very few western well mainstream western journalists reporting on this so i would say this complete failure of the media. you know our job as journalists are to hold

governments to account and if governments are going to war on false premises then. we have good evidence to suggest that now and no one is reporting it then we're not doing our job as journalists while a footnote to give the other side as for the magazine itself newsweek given this statement saying there say a dad pitched a conspiracy theory that they simply couldn't run because it goes against objective reporting with. now caught between a rock and a hard place america's family friendly hallmarked t.v. channels apologized for pulling a commercial featuring a same sex couple this promise to create a more inclusive content in future the company division which operates the network says it's been a tough call or. 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 celebrate traditions and be inspired to capture meaningful moments in their lives we are truly sorry for the hurt and disappointment this has

caused the apology comes after the channel pulled for a wedding planning website that featured a gay couple getting married and that sparked complaints. do you think so although could've made planning your perfect wedding easier we did you. leave out in new york couples to destry and invitations get started for free and sell it back on the advert spurred a petition indeed brother kins a christian conservative group 1000000 moms called on hallmarked to not show any pro l g b t content on the channel claiming it went against the values of its target audience however the removal van caused a backlash on social media too and channel executives reversed it all and changed their minds i spoke to media commentator gina loudon and human rights activist peter tatchell about the row. 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 time of year it once in children families together on the t.v. popcorn watch is there a reason to describe 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 what is a holiday season where we 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 statement 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 and effective 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 viewer saying you know hey we're we're moms we're watching your network and we don't want this on there my guess is that the majority of that was probably organic. the u.s. has rejected the proposal by russia and china to ease international sanctions on north korea exchange for a commitment from pyongyang to take steps towards denuclearized nation the suggestion was put forward in a draft u.n. security council resolution on monday in addition to allowing the d.p. r. k. to export certain products it also goes on to suggest that into korean road and rail projects will be exempted from the u.n.

sanctions further it calls for a band to be lifted only employment of north koreans abroad or but so does not know if even when the draft resolution will be put to a vote to be adopted it would need the support of at least knowing the u.n. security council members in the absence of any vetoes because all that said washington says sanctions relief would be premature at this stage pyongyang has room to its missile testing this month ahead of a year end deadline it's given the u.s. to make concessions in the stalled nuclear talks and america insisted it's unwilling 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 the shared objectives that the president trump in chairman camp had discussed on 2 occasions political analyst chris bambery told us both north korea and the u.s. have to meet each other halfway here in order to try to break this current impasse

in talks i think the relations of rooty can and don't turn on the north korean side we've had these missile tests were also having attacks on trumped 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 hopes that 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 break this situation but at the moment what we're getting is hardly a message that really you know all compromise is an offer from the united states. for a 4 year absence at a change of ownership the german car manufacturer oh poor has returned to the russian market of its models of no been made available in the country one of which has been manufactured in the city the russian city of kaluga. opel is returning to

russia and this is a fantastic comeback we are happy to offer russian clients a competitive and high quality product which is based on the best developments of german engineering or following a sharp fall in oil prices and the imposition of economic sanctions on russia in 2014 the ruble nosedived you may recall a month later then opel which was at the time all but general motors decided to leave the country's market because of poor sales since in the company's changed hands become part of the french group group e.s.a. which noticed in march its intention to return the russian president spokes persons welcome to news and stress the country's economy offers lucrative business opportunities companies are reviewing their early decision stake into account the new realities in the given country in any case there's a big market in russia and that will remain the case despite any forward towards it from year to year in the u.s. for again sure professor richard were german banking and development economist taster thanks for time john did

a bit of research as i was the in that last report there general motors on his back as 2015 or opel where was owning it then said the outlook in russia was not great but obviously things have turned a corner since 2015 they wouldn't be coming if they didn't think they're going to sell cars so things have changed quite rapidly in russia regalia. absolutely i think it's true that of course 2015 it was at the height of the crisis the whole world was right about russia in russia there were also concerns about the. biased sanctions there were imposed and so on and so of course that decision was made at that time by opel and of course opel was owned by a u.s. company and of course america was behind the sanctions that europe had to adopt against russia so that's in a way not surprising in the ownership of openness change it's now a european company a french company and of course it's one that has good relations with russia and you know a lot of cooperation and therefore it's sensible that they look at the facts and

not at the politics. although even the politics i think suggest we should become more active in russia and the economics is quite attractive the ruble is probably still undervalued so it's quite smart that the production facilities are being established in russia because i think the production there can be sold not only on the large an attractive russian market but also can be exported to other countries in eastern europe or central asia or asia even so it is quite at that location how likely is it this is the thin end of the wedge that we're going to start to see more big companies like this so you turn upside down slightly bigger say more big companies like this come back to the russian market we see a bit of a sea change. yes i think there was an overreaction too many people thought that russia is going to be in

a huge crisis but that was always stated also what one shouldn't forget is that the sanctions that were imposed on russia actually had in some ways a positive effect on the domestic economy because before the sanctions russia relied to a significant extent on just exporting raw materials when actually russia is an economy that has highly highly educated workforce a lot of technology and that sort of economy should try to expand its domestic industry more and export high value added goods and so there's you know opel investment actually i think is very much in line with this movement which has since 2015 accelerated in russia itself russia has switched from importing certain things to producing them domestically and as a result the economy is moving up the value added ladder and which is very good for russia and russian growth prospects and of course will attract more and better

brought the russians prefer driving to foreign european cars that used to be a rush of a great tire wasn't there between the french french company renel and larder it brought in a whole pile of new models recently russians like driving the french cars of the european cars. well i think so i mean the fact is european cars are very attractive friend a popular worldwide. euro paths in a specialized in particular and so it's not surprising of course or. now comes with the french connection but is it german brand and of course the germans are famous for automobiles and therefore that is of course the sales point i think is another smart move by. p.s.a. the french mobile company they saw the potential in purchasing from general motors the opel and vauxhall brands and i think they had some good ideas

because they've got good experience ends in some international markets including russia what to do with it it's not big probably placing it correctly because i think it can be sold as a german brand quite well all right professor richard werner german banking and development economist thank you for your time will say this one goes missing opals on the streets here in the rich are again saying i think all right have a good night sir thank you very much that's why things are looking for us tonight 28 minutes past 10 at night here in moscow so much more r.t. dot com so much more of social media about with more just over half an hour watching the whole team here after a very short break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see you there.

next geysers an adult. they say made up of delegates. to these it is our central plank support diet. then they stopped. and salutations as julian assange tragically sits rotting away in a london jail cell that hasn't stopped his organization wiki leaks from continuing to publish the secrets that the warmongering powerful do not want published and they were out of the game last weekend with the release of a new batch of documents once again revealing that when it comes to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and chemical weapons attacks

in syria all may not be what we've been sold according to wiki leaks the new documents clearly show internal disagreement within the o.p.c. w. about how facts were misrepresented in the redacted version of a report on an alleged chemical attack and duma syria on april 2018 amongst these is a memorandum written in protest by one of the scientists sent on a fact finding mission to investigate the attack along with this new memo wiki leaks is also releasing for the 1st time ever the original plimer narry report as well as the redacted version that we the public got to see when it was eventually released by the o.p.c. w. so now you can compare the 2 reports and come to your own conclusions about the motivations behind those reactions as antiwar dot coms dave camp.