r.t. speaks to a law professor fighting for the release of a guantanamo bay in may 2 subjected to shocking torture of the hands of the cia. or. war charged with all. the world war. i thousands gather to strike action across france as mass protests against pension reform plans and to a 3rd week violence has gripped the french capital with police using tear gas against demonstrators and. stars like pushing to try and do the story because i

feel like years of extreme you know public interest the attacks on me a former newsweek reporter launches a blistering attack on the magazine for refusing to run a story he wrote about the alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma last year. alone you're watching r.t. international i'm whereas on a lot could welcome to the program. now the abuse of prisoners in secret cia run prisons has been thrown into sharp relief following the release of a report called how america tortures it contains a series of chilling sketches produced by abus a beta an inmate at guantanamo bay depicting the enhanced interrogation techniques he was subjected to between 20022005. he was captured from

a jihadi safe house in pakistan back 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 and 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 a 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 and my mouth until i really felt i was drowning and my chest was just about to explode from the lack of oxygen . the. 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.

while i visit beta's lawyer who was the driving force behind the torture a poll told us why his client shouldn't be kept in detention any longer. time we're always ordered her to swallow and i think our board. understand why he has to be charged. or released or your good mood because they admit he was never or never gave birth did not seem to have the united states her transparency issue with what they did. the fact is there were no use for 'd them for 7 kingstree days and they wrote it in one of the. accountability is that it is very good i would love many

people held the hope of war but it turns out to be a murder and while the right always 'd look forward 'd not backwards of course who probably 'd already know is deluded if they don't would write words the people who are stuck there are going to remain stuck i believe there are many who feel terrible. about what they. 'd started as a truth it is exists. mass mobilization against planned pension changes has hit france far and want this to stay official say 600000 people are involved across the country and other estimates claim that the number is almost 2000000 and what started out as my sleep peacefully demonstrations in the capital quickly descendants of violence showed to bensky reports from the thick of it. screaming joining us here in paris after was being some small clashes between the police come to the protesters as you can see it's all round us as this march was

only going oh i started saying i could use to plaster the natural which could have apparently meant. just to get through that gas as it is so nasty that gas the police have been mooned is dangerous silly news here in france guys 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 front it's not just about pensions this is about so much more the health system says it's creaking teachers are unhappy even at times the police have been not processing i gained no reforms over macaroons government so it's i'm here today because we have the 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 we want to say to them. the working conditions of health . it's very difficult for us to live properly on our current salaries there's been no change it's just a trauma. 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 they want to work more or less you know it's an accepted was actually. been told that our pensions will be ridiculously small and this you 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 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. sounds like some grenades going off of them 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 castors the thugs 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 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. destruction work we saw that continuing for about half an hour and it's only now as we got to plastic that the police responded with that here gas and then cordoned this area to try and keep all of the protesters in the government says it won't do you 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 well 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 against demonstrators as far back as january last year also takes the company that makes the military grade devices wrote to the french interior ministry about the safety risks of it's going to it's been used by riot police the blast effect of the devices produced by an expose of substance a likely to maim or mortally injuring individual well those within turn sound effects can cause irreversible hearing damage the resumption of production is impossible without completely reviewing the production process well in a letter leaked to the french investigative news website media part the manufacturer warns that defects in the grenade were identified but not resolved france is the only european country where police use the weapon and despite the

warnings they're still used and on occasion they've been known to explode when simply just being handled the gas grenades of course serious injuries among yellow vests protesters 5 of whom have lost hands and the elderly woman died after she was hit by one of those things in a demo march say last year and dozens more process to say they've been left winded by the weapons as well. oh. i. was thinking oh that was. 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 this. both in the field i don't want to kiss anyone but my mother says she had been

targeted and we want to know as a triss and did her 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. a french journalist a merry one vill told us he things the government is using the grenade as a terror and. but you also all mustn't forget the use of the trash small rubber bullets during deserves him astray chanson which have led to several people losing a knife more than 20. remember we must see that there is no political will to stop this madness in my opinion it is a very 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 arrested people because they were carrying swimming lessons in order to protect their their eyes from cherokee dass. it is a way of through bitching most ration wide preventing it from being massive. the u.s. senate is threatening sanctions on companies time to the north string to gas pipeline under a new bill we've got the full story later after this short break. getting ready for the global showdown central bank that being the i.m.f. in this case versus because the venue argentina that's why we're here.

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welcome back now the magazine newsweek is in the spotlight after a former reporter to claimed he quit when edges as throughout his story on a chemical attack investigation in syria the now public route between the outlets and tarik how dot has intensified we spoke to him about what happened. 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 target me in an e-mail so after i took pushing kept pushing essentially was told a couple lawyers about why they wouldn't run the o.p.c. w. story and it was a long list of things that are 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. terek how dad who just saw there is

a writer and freelance journalist who joined news week in september this year just do months later he quit after getting a story on a report by the global chemical watchdog handling of the alleged chemical attack in syria's duma the outlet rejected it and tarik now fears a legal battle for publishing an exchange of corporate emails and followed whistleblowers claiming facts have been misrepresented by the a p c w regarding duma pitched the idea to his editors to write about the watchdogs leaked e-mails or mind that the conclusion of the report led to the united states france and the u.k. conducting air strikes against syrian military targets tariq 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 western well mainstream western journalists that 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 suggest that now and no one is reporting it then we're not doing our job as journalists well as for the magazine itself newsweek has given this statement saying terex pitched a conspiracy theory they couldn't run because it goes against objective reporting. in what may prove to be a major setback for transatlantic relations the u.s.

senate has approved a sanctions bill targeting companies involved in the north stream 2 pipeline project the measure aimed at 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 my colleague kevin i discussed this earlier with our correspondent. this has been another milestone in america's mission to protect europe from russia's natural gas and haven't you may want to ask lee ilya what are you talking about because even 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 doubtful 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 from starts diversifying the way its fuel gets to western european countries through new pipelines like nord stream and war north stream 2 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 completed. 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 you want to do is sell your liquefied natural gas to cross 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 natural 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 mentioned 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 get involved in this either which way this pipeline ends up in germany supposed. i have 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 well germany's committee chief on the economy and energy told us the burden is ready to respond to any functions 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 his actions the u.s. is unhappy that we are not buying that 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 the americans have tried to interrupt our oil and gas trade with russia from the outset and yet we have managed to cooperate for many years without interruption both sides need this and we plan to continue whether the us likes it or not. and now we'll be back here and around 30 minutes time with more news from around the world.

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year's protests but what does that number truly represent well break it down plus. it will be british it's not stupid but we must get rich. the british pound is falling thank you piers i'm a hard turn sports practice i'll be going into detail about how prime minister boris johnson wants to guarantee practice happening this time. and oil based groups these are up prices are down so what is the forecast look like for 2020 and for that giant saudi aramco i.p.o. moving forward we'll break it down so much to get through today so let's get started. and we begin here with reports that the hong kong protests have resulted in over $5000000000.00 pulled out of hong kong by investors since april the report from the bank of england shows the protests across hong kong have highlighted political risk as a key vulnerability in hong kong and the political tensions in that city continue to pose risks quote given hong kong's position as a major financial center and quote certainly not

a huge amount of investment by any means in fact when you look at hong kong's monetary system that 5. $1000000000.00 is equivalent to 1.25 percent of the gross domestic product meanwhile dollar deposits in hong kong total almost $900000000000.00 increase between september and october according to the hong kong monetary authority so christine let's break this down here because obviously in reality the numbers of investment kind of flowing out of hong kong is not really that high again 5 percent is teeny tiny considering how massive investment is in hong kong and what this does kind of signal to some issues in terms of political unrest as it does because hong kong has actually entered a technical recession and because of this g.d.p. actually shrunk by of almost 3 percent and the government country contribute 2 percent of that to the unrest and turmoil and this is going to be a major thing going into 2020 and whether or not these unrest can die down whether hong kong can or cannot recover and become the financial capital financial safe haven that it once was and as you point out this is a $5000000000.00 isn't really

a lie and a lot of that is due to ali baba because of the alibaba i.p.o. just last month that actually gave a lot of credibility and a lot of confidence has resurged in hong kong and the u.s. and other western powers continue to show support for hong kong does that kind of ease some of the tensions for investors who are keeping money in hong kong i think it does but then because of the uncertainty that we see right now there are actually a lot more inflows going into singapore into australia right now i think still going to be on the back burner on tell in 2020 when you get a much clearer picture of whether or not there's going to be a resolution all right let's talk about those other asian markets well. while markets in asia and the us gained amid high optimism analysts reiterate that we still don't have a trade deal signed yet and there are still a number of things that can go wrong further details including structural changes to intellectual property rights remain unclear and as a trumpet ministration is splitting hairs between the right and wrong translators nothing is going to hide the fact that the benchmark import targets are completely

unfeasible there's also a general euphoria across all markets because uncertainty has come down there is another escalation but investors should not be complacent playing into the santa rally asian markets got a slight boost after a surprise improvement in november's industrial production and retail numbers but this could simply be a seasonal rebound as a result beijing sees no reason to launch major fiscal stimulus yet and is saving its toolbox for a rainy day as china wrapped up its annual economic work conference stressed maintaining the country's steady growth against the backdrop of global financial crisis accelerating profound changes and an increasing sources of turbulence worldwide doubling the size of the economy in 2020 is still at the top priority for the communist party next year. for the boris johnson era as britain's prime minister is starting with

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