one of the morning here in moscow coming up this hour in the news artie speaks to a law professor fighting for the release of a guantanamo bay inmate who subjected the shocking toward the hands of the cia. why those charged with it or. if you. i. i. coming up to thousands gathered for strike action across france as mass protests against pension reform plans enter a 3rd week vance's group the french capital too with police using tear gas against

demonstrators our correspondent been there will tell you more about the tear gas he's as well coming up plus. so i kept pushing to try and do the story because i feel like of extreme you know public interest the attacks on me. for the newsweek reporter launches a blistering attack on a magazine for refusing to run a story he wrote about the alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma last year. alone a very good morning when live from moscow and out international's world the center this early wednesday the 18th of december welcome to the program and say kevin i would have to stick around as a take you through the day's news from us suddenly this the abuse of prisoners in secret cia prisons has been thrown into sharp relief again following this time the . police have a report called how america torches it contains

a series of chilling sketches produced by. he's an inmate on a mobile bay depicting the intense enhanced interrogation techniques he said he was subjected to between 2002 and 5 but of his backstory he was captured from a jihadi safe house in pakistan in 2002 and sent to a so-called 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 and was the 1st person to be subjected to the brutal interrogation program which was approved by the administration of george w. bush has since been acknowledged by the cia is a quick overview of the 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 the very strong pain made the screen unconsciously. they kept pouring water and concentrating on my nose in 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. i was about his lawyer who was driving force behind the torture boat told us why i think his client should be kept in detention a moment longer. time were always or was very slow and i think our. understand why he has to be charged. or released. to move. he was never or never. did not see him through the united states for transparency issue with what.

the fact is there were no use for him for 17 straight days and wrote it in a lot of. accountability is very 'd good i would love many people held. but it turns out. the american model right now 'd is the work forward not backwards or the problem we 'd have right now is look if they don't work backwards the people who are stuck there are going to remain stuck i believe did you know they're all right well let's say it is the 'd. truth is it is. a little socialist morning mass mobilization against planned pension changes in state fronts far and wide tuesday officials say 600000 people involved across the country other estimates claim that maybe the numbers closer to 2000000. when i

want started out as mostly peaceful demonstrations in the capital quickly descended into violence shallow dubinsky reported from the think of it. see just raining down on us here in paris after one of being some small clashes between the police i'm just the protesters as you can see it's all round this as this march was ongoing almost started in st i can use to plus still or not if you will which is going to move up here a moment. just to get through that gas as it is so nasty that gas the police have been warned is dangerous silly news here in france rise you can see everybody's trying to come

back up to plus the international to get away from the tear gas filling the skirmishes between the police and the protest is a protest that's been going on no strike for once in his good week a strike that was sparked by the protests reforms that the government has announced and one that is showing the general malaise him fronts 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 i gained. no reforms over my corns 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 stuff we're here today to say that will lobby public hospitals and the want to save them. the working conditions are bad and 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. i'm here in solidarity with everyone who's been affected by that reform which is the vast majority of people. everybody should be protesting against them for they want us to work more or less and it's unacceptable that. we've been told that our pensions will be ridiculously small this year whom 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 pushes out of it you can see they've formed a huge line 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 robin 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 the stocks the break is the police said the ultra. left but they're also sometimes known as the black blocs they have actually been systematically hitting points up their 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 some of those guys came up and tried 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 continue. for

about half an hour and it's only now as we got to plastic the police have responded with bacteria 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 on 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 let's bear in mind this is a work in the middle of a major european city more about what's being used 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 demonstrators as far back as journey last year elsa texas the company that makes the military grade devices apparently wrote to the french interior ministry about the safety risks of its grenades being used by police the blast the fact of the devices produced by an expose of substance a likely to maim or mortally injured 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. more almost seems it leaks less of the french investigative news website media part the manufacturer warned that the defects in the grenades were identified but not resolved france is the only european country where police use this weapon or despite the warnings they are still used and on occasion they've been known to simply explode when someone even handling them that's pretty scary in itself the gasconade has caused serious injuries among the various yellow vest protesters as reported along the way 5. said they had such serious injuries have lost their hands and there's a story about an elderly woman who apparently died after she was hit by one of these things at the demo we must say last year and dozens more protesters say they've been there for wounded to buy these weapons.

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. of the. people and i don't want anyone but me mother says she had been targeted and we want to kiss and justice. i will try to fight against the use of july for grenades which are totally from my point of view weapons of war and against rubber bullet guns french morville told us he thinks the government is using these grenades as a deterrent. but you also long mustn't forget the use of the trash for

rubber bullets during deserve 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 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 arresting people because they were carrying swimming classes in order to protect their their eyes from cherokee dass it is a way of true bitching to most ration wide preventing it from being massive. talk about magazine news week next to the spotlight after a former reporter claimed he quit when editors threw out his story in a chemical attack investigation in syria that are very public row between the

outlet and terakhir dad as intensified we heard from the journalist for his version of events. i was i kept pushing to try and do the story because i feel like it's of extreme you know public interest and the attacks on me and it is were 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 email so after i kept pushing pushing essentially was told a couple alarms about why they wouldn't run the story and 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 right of free lance journalist to join newsweek in september this year but didn't last long just 2 months after that he quit after pitching a story on a report by the global chemical watchdog and league of the alleged chemical attack in syria is due were the outlet rejected it then her dad now fears

a legal battle because he published an exchange of corporate emails it followed whistleblowers claims facts that have been misrepresented by the openness of w. regarding do the pitch the idea of who said it is to write about watchdogs leaked e-mails but either which way are reminded that the conclusions of that initial reports led to the united states france and the u.k. conducting air strikes against syrian military targets briefly again 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 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 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 at the moment there are very few. well. mainstream western journalists are 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 stress that now i'm no one is reporting it went on turning our job as journalists or to bring balance here of course as for the magazine itself newsweek has given this statement saying her dad pitched a conspiracy theory that they simply couldn't run because they go on to say it was against its objective reporting. now c.n.n. x. well caught between a rock and hard place it seems america's family friendly hallmark t.v. in the news it's apologize for pulling a commercial featuring a same sex couple and his promise to create more inclusive content the company division which operates the network says it's been a tough call all round though. 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 or wanted this back a bit to explain some of the apology comes after the channel pulled an ad for a wedding planning website featured a gay couple getting married sparking complaints initially. buel thinks all the could've made planning your perfect wedding easier we did and we helped him 1000000 couples plan registry invitations get started for free it's only dot com the other then spurred a petition by the christian conservative group 1000000 moms that called on homework 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 cause a backlash on social media too and channel executives in

a u. turn put it back on again the change their minds they are spoke to media commentator gina loudon and human rights activist peter tatchell about the. this is just a handful that sought to include women who love each other and that is a fact of life and 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 from is together on the t.v.

popcorn watch is there a reason to describe it in themselves is 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 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 statements almost apologize 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 viewer 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. it was may prove to transatlantic relations the u.s. senate has approved a son shouldn't bill targeting companies involved in the north stream to pipeline

project the merger into disrupting russia's efforts to increase the supply of gas to europe is expected to be signed into law by president trump later this week or discussed earlier with a corresponding trenka. this has been another milestone in america's mission to protect europe from russia's natural gas and we have and you may want to ask lee ilya what are you talking about because countries do need russian natural gas just to keep warm well let me explain how washington see it here's the deal from the american standpoint if the russian natural gas is delivered to western europe through all pipelines through countries like poland ukraine it's all fine by the way once russia starts playing its new pipelines elsewhere this immediately causes a meltdown in government offices in kiev and warsaw but back to the 2nd option the

way it is seen in d.c. if russia's energy giant gas problems starts diversifying the way its fuel gets to western european countries through new pipelines like nord stream more north stream to that's a disaster that gets europe hoped on putin's gas needle so let's just listen to how a u.s. congressman who was behind the sanctions put it last week this pipeline if complete it. would make europe even more dependent on russian energy would generate billions of dollars for putin billions of dollars that would fund russian military aggression so we have learned that the us 2020 national defense authorization act includes a bill that would penalize the companies that are involved in the construction of nord stream to that is a brand new pipeline project that is by the way it's almost complete and it is

intended for direct natural gas deliveries from somewhere outside st petersburg to northern germany and we're talking about these companies these are by far not only russia and there are plenty of german businesses that are who are involved because it is indeed in the interest of european consumers to get a new more reliable more direct route for these supplies now when it comes to the officials in moscow they have been blaming the americans for unfair competition in moscow's message has been very simple what you guys want to do is you don't really care about europe what do you want to do is sell your liquefied natural gas across which makes it more expensive in many cases but i just want to make sure that you listen to one american official because it can't just look at how they put it if the gas is russian that is bad putin's gas if it is something that's extracted in

america that's molecules of freedom with the u.s. in another year of record setting not to gas production i'm pleased that the department of energy is doing what account to promote an efficient regulatory system that allows for molecules of u.s. freedom to be exported to the world ok so you mention that when it goes without saying really of course a lot of european countries a huge pipeline project this a lot of jobs are going to be on the line a lot of people been involved in this either which way this pipeline ends up in germany supposed. need to say about it well just a little earlier the german top diplomat reiterated berlin's stance that these sanctions are unacceptable the german foreign minister called an attempt to influence sovereign decisions in europe but i just want to bring up something very important like i said before north strained to is almost fully complete and i can tell you that this u.s. sanctions bill is believed to open up this 30 day window for the european companies

to abandon their work on the pipeline now i can tell you that the german newspaper built revealed internal documents from germany's energy ministry where it says that berlin believes that this pipeline could be completed within this area and then this could actually lead to a situation when the sanctions prove to be completely pointless but of course we understand that nothing is pointless when it can be aimed at the audience back home the audience that will vote at some point. germany's committee chief on economy and energy spoken about it as well he's close he told us berlijn is ready to respond to any sanctions imposed by washington. if the u.s. keeps trying to obstruct the north stream project i suggest responding with punitive tariffs on german imports of american gas things cannot continue like this

if we impose punitive tariffs on u.s. gas sales will fall on the u.s. will have to reflect on its actions the u.s. is unhappy that we are not buying their gas they want to boost their own trade and that's why they are imposing sanctions on companies involved in building the pipeline that firstly american liquefied natural gas is obtained through fracking which makes it an acceptable for germany and secondly it is much more expensive than rushing gas by the natural gas we get from russia is high in demand and due to falling production in europe demand has only increased so we plan to import more of it this is why north stream 2 is so important that the americans have tried to interrupt our oil and gas trade with russia from the outset and yet we have managed to corporate for many years without interruption both sides need this and we plan to continue whether the us likes it or not we've. never stored a brief your legs the u.s. has rejected a proposal by russia and china to ease international sanctions on north korea in exchange for a commitment from pyongyang to take steps towards did nuclearization 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 exporting certain products it suggested that into a korean road and rail project to be exempted from u.n. sanctions further it also called for a band to be lifted on the employment of north koreans abroad now it's not known if or when the draft resolution we put to a vote to be adopted technically it would need the support of at least 9 u.n. security council members in the absence of any vetoes that said but washington anyway says sanctions relief would be premature at this stage course pyongyang has been ramping up its missile testing this month ahead of a year end deadline is given the u.s. to make concessions in their stalled nuclear talks all that said as we head to christmas america's insisted it's currently 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 president trump and chairman camp have discussed on 2 occasions political analyst chris bambery told us both north korea and the us than have to meet each other half way in order to try to break this current impasse in talks. i think the relations of really secular 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 this situation really one has to one of these countries have asked to make some concessions to try to get the talks back on track some humanitarian guest gesture by the united states might help bridge this situation but at the moment what we're getting is this hard line message that really no compromises an offer from the united states. it's not

a morning here in moscow news wise that's why things look in so far this morning for most rose others here in the coming hours check it out to dot com a social media for so much more i get a few days off so for me kevin and go by you over to rest of the team the rest of our programs after this break thanks for watching out international. all of us will hoops it has been absolutely new babies say it's a behavior that appears even in deaf and blind babies even if you've never heard of seen laughter you will laugh if your tickles by your parents. and then we learn how to use this in a more complex way i'm one of the things that we learn is to have to join in with laughter contagiously to laugh when somebody else loves even he don't know why they're laughing. 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

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