i. think he was asked. for. the headlines in r.t. sketches drawn by guantanamo inmates shows the torture he was allegedly subjected to in the cia secret prisons we speak to ms roy. is that where it goes to target the state of 'd your group your torture of. new york. and the u.s. are set to vote on impeaching president donald trump on wednesday some warning that the whole process could backfire on the democrats will cost him votes in 2020 and a former newsweek reporter launches a blistering attack on the magazine for refusing to run

a story he wrote about global watchdogs misreporting of facts relating to an alleged chemical attack in syria. it's like trying to do the story because i feel like it's over extreme you know public interest the attacks on me. hello there good morning is just gone 9 o'clock here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now a series of chilling sketches produced by guantanamo inmates have been published in a report called how america torches the pictures show the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques that abu zubaida was subjected to between 20022005 in a secret cia prison in thailand his lawyer who was the driving force behind the torture report believes it will help to shed light on the abuse of prisoners. nothing.

so that is simply there goes the terrible. 'd torture. and i think. or 'd. why they charged or released a bridge the beta was captured to the jihadi safe house in pakistan in 2002 it was then sent to a so-called cia black sites in thailand and his drawings relate to alleged torture that after he was transferred to guantanamo bay where he still being held without charge he 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 what happened.

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 guards. my calling hewn any of. us has transparency issues when it comes to. detainees are treated. has he suffered any lasting physical psychological. torture. well you know he must you know anybody would but it's i've

visited him $67.00 times a year or several days and. and it's really quite hard to see 'd it in. the years and the minutes of adjustments because of what techniques were used on him the waterboarding may have produced some problems. the fact is they were used on him for 17 straight you did it is. road you didn't want to. believe he's not going to face any charges he has not faced any charges then the clear issue is here why is he being kept for so long in kuantan him obey. well i think is yes or is there's no question that for 17 years he's never been charged i've represented for 10 years we've asked repeatedly for him to 'd be charged with crimes and that is very frustrating but they do it in c. and the cia excuse. me state senate committee on intelligence has found he was

never a member of that they have nothing to do with all 'd of them no but why did 'd he ever do any terrorist acts what's the purpose all that when it's been shown to to essentially fail to yield accurate information from many suspects. well i think it failed to. produce accurate information from almost anybody but certainly the field to attract any. to any accurate information was a bit harder because they didn't know it or probability is that. i would love to meet people held. but it turns out there are a lot of the right 'd to look forward not backwards or the problem we have right now is look if they don't work backwards the digital who are stuck there are going to remain stuck. no i don't think. 'd or goals are really there

are many who feel they're all right about what they get in the 'd car. that. the u.s. house will vote on impeachment don't trump home wednesday the president himself accuses the democratic leadership of pressuring party members to buy into certain way and also i won't tell you the whole process could actually backfire by from the highest and the senate have pulled no punches trying to convince the public we have impeachment the constitution precisely to protect ourselves from a president becoming a tyrant and a despot sadly the democrats impeachment inquiry has been flawed and partisan from day one it's clear that this president acted in a way that not only violates the public trust each up or dies to our national security clear and present danger right now in this room is the pattern of attack

an abuse of rules and of an decisions to get at this president what is president trump afraid of the truth the facts the american people understand what's happening here is a hoax the whole impeachment thing is a hoax. well the pressure is especially high on those representatives that come from pro states and could disappoint the right thing to is on these kind of more plain stand the impeachment case. a vote on impeachment is set to take place the house of representatives has drawn up the charges and democrats are calling for donald trump to be removed how democrats are focused on fighting for the people we must hold this president accounts abou the constitution a nation dependent democrats seen watching these proceedings as a huge victory they say donald trump has betrayed the whole country but the whole country doesn't agree the country is split and americans don't seem to care for partisan squabbles and many have become more critical of the democrats in recent

months even within the house of representatives 18 democrats are bucking the party line and say they will vote against him he shouldn't they argue that months before the 2020 alexion this doesn't look good for the democrats we are broke there are no like i would tell you getting here knowing how. if i did and i don't either that or you're making. all these factors combined to make some democrats very nervous and donald trump seems to be emphasizing the fears on the other side of the aisle any democrat that votes for the sham will be voting to sacrifice the house majority their dignity and their career. another fear hanging over the democrats is that they won't be able to actually remove donald trump from office after all republicans have a pretty solid majority in the senate so what's the plan well call up even more

witnesses during the impeachment trial in the senate how on such a weighty matter. could we avoid hearing this could we go forward without hearing it i haven't seen a single good argument about why these witnesses shouldn't testify with these documents be produced unless the president has something to hide. and his supporters want that information hidden but who knows if these tactics will actually payoff remember the brett kavanaugh confirmation hearings the democrats called witness after witness after witness and the republicans seem to have been the big winners then these sexual assault allegations and heated rhetoric didn't win the democrats any points as the 2020 alexion edged nearer democrats stand to possibly lose pretty big from this whole impeachment fiasco after all the trouble is actually driven from office the red state in the rust belt base of trump supporters won't be pleased animosity between the 2 sides could reach

a critical juncture and if they fail they could face ridicule for dragging the country through a pointless procedure wasting money and wasting time so what exactly are the democrats trying to accomplish by impeaching donald trump to quote an old american saying after wonder are the democrats perhaps cutting off their nose in order to spite their face caleb up and r.t. new york. to 2020 u.s. presidential candidate for the terry party told us though it is clear what the democrats are really up to with their impeachment drive. anybody with common sense can see it you know there is no basis for impeachment and we know that there is a senate majority the only thing that the democrats are proving is that they were sore losers during the election and we see time and time again a lot of people are gearing away from the democratic party not just by the way they're acting in that they're wasting the tax paying dollars. putting on fiascoes

still cannot get over that donald trump is the president the united states i mean i was against him in the elections in 2016 and i'm running against him again in 2020 but you have to put all of that aside and there are facts and there is you know the fake news and that's what we're seeing today. american magazine newsweek is in the sports law you saw 3 former reporter claim that he quits when it is through his story on the chemical attack investigation in syria the nonpublic row between news recount erica dad has intensified we heard from the journalist who gave us his version of events. the facts get ignored and it's the kind of people presenting the information that gets hacked so i kept pushing with this and then after i kept pushing i was referred to a bell in count article for all information there is other evidence that we're you know more than qualified to understand for ourselves and to go through and that's

why i did in the evidence pointed in a specific way so as i was a bit disturbed. you know i wasn't really given any valid reasons other than the link i had a few to decide to call and like i said then all source to be trusted in my opinion . and then finally what kind of happened as 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 so my kind of what i detailed in my piece 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. or tara there is a writer from freelance journalist who joined newsweek in september this year just 2 months later though he quit after pitching a story about the global chemical watchdog the o.p.c. debris misrepresenting facts relating to the alleged chemical attack in ceres doomer the outlet rejected it go ahead add a fee is

a legal battle over his publishing of an exchange of corporate emails as for the magazine itself newsweek has given this statement saying her dad pitched a conspiracy theory that they couldn't run because it goes against objective reporting weekly has published 3 trophies of elite o.p.c. w. documents and e-mails between the watchdogs whistleblower and his chiefs in them it was the blair expresses his concern over the final report on the attack which contradicts the investigation teams finding in the report the level of coreen was allegedly overstated plus it is still unclear if the cylinders were dropped or were placed manually one of the league's whistleblower emails was later verified by the reuters news agency. the fact finding mission report does not reflect the views of all the team members that deployed to doom or only one fact finding mission team member a paramedic of the so-called fact finding mission core team was in duma we are not

insisting on being right in our assertions but we are demanding to be heard we have been stonewalled throughout by obfuscation exclusion and even thuggish bullying behavior the alleged chemical attack in duma in april last year reportedly killed dozens of civilians in response the united states and its nato allies france and u.k. conducted air strikes against syrian military targets the p.c. was later sent to the scene to investigate the suspected chemical attack hysteric head out again explaining why i journaled a should not be exploited to justify war. let's look at the evidence that we have available to us at the moment there are signs. insists 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 it doesn't really need explaining why this is a newsworthy story is so you know 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 reporting on this so i would say this complete failure of the media you know our job as john the starts a whole governments to account and if governments are going to war on false premises then you know we have good evidence to suggest that now another one is reporting it then went on turning our job as journalists still to come from the u.k. or angry after school changes the words in traditional christmas carols in the name of inclusive it saying we look at the new versions just after the break. seemed wrong. but i. just don't hold any real world belief yet to see

how this day the conflict that's occurring and it gains from an equal betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so if you want to be president. or some want to be preached. at a white person it's like the 3 of them or people. interested in the why. they should.

welcome back now british primary school has found itself in the firing line after parents were angered by changes to the wording of traditional christmas carols the white hole primary school in the south east of england has redacted several kairos replacing for example little lord with baby boy jesus critics though you say that the changes they were mitt the whole point of the celebration and some parents reacted negatively. if he was just a baby boy named jesus there wouldn't be a celebration in the 1st place he's our lord and savior and king of all kings that's the whole point it's also a tradition it's taking away the traditions of the country i believe my children have been discriminated against and the have been denied the freedom to fully express their faith christian belief and tradition of being 2nd feist and silenced

in the name of inclusion and political correctness the words lord jesus are about the central message of christmas which is that god is with those in jesus to put it very simply but it's what christmas is about. the school in question there says it does promote british values including tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs it has defended the move saying that some students did not attend last year's service because of their religious beliefs and the school wants to include all their pupils during the festive period earlier kevin owen discussed the issue with him from christian concern and social commentator no answer. christianity and the whole reason why we celebrate christian christmas is because jesus was born as a human being and yet it was god as well and came down and it's an incredible thing to think that god became a human being but that's what actually happened and that's what we're celebrating here and they want to remove that reference as well as jesus being king and jesus

being savior if we don't have those things what are we celebrating i think it's a massive distortion let's be quite clear jesus wasn't god he was odd agreed from a theological perspective not agree he was a mighty messenger a prophet there is very little theological evidence the public space and the educational space is one which is secular it does not mean it is bereft of theology or education of belief or conscience but is inclusive of it so if we want to have standing advisory councils of religious education that include all strains of all walks of life of humanism as well and atheism of people who want to come in there with so of more free n.g.'s they are included nowadays and the question is whether children should be free to opt out from an itty bitty whereas mary jesus a baby jesus in a 1000000 or the question is not decided on in a stable which isn't true i think that sets the parents for the fix or composition i think they could come and watch if they wanted to they're really so upset about people saying jesus or that they have to not even be in the same presence there's something to talk about there why are they so upset about people saying jesus is

lord i can't even go walks and observe it you know and so i think i want to discuss that with them but ultimately i want to respect their rights if they want to opt out of it they cannot sound of it another person should be made for that and the head teacher has seen that she has had 60 people who last year opted out from religious services worshipful activities and under the education act collective worship is wholly or broadly of a christian tradition but it doesn't have to be a particular question is not what they did i was out that's not a commercial you want to opt out no none of that the question you know you just don't see the cost of the question is whether you should tell us the word and if it's not what people should opt out everyone agrees that they're not out. why was my only reason i don't i want to so this is not a question of my city where this is a change the wording of traditional carols to remove the key belief of christianity as something that's not christian after all that's the question islam is the completion of god's revelation we are not here to supersede christians we're here to live alongside people and one another and in

a modern secular society in the educational space we need to have a plural system where everybody is welcome this is the same old tired arguments that some so. how do you know migrants are right near where you have a situation that was a christian believe it or not your social justice is not welcome you're saying belief and faith is the word so much as a blaze is your disgust i don't know what this is all that what it is doing then i will say that's of christianity you're the one that's being intolerant here because you're saying they shouldn't saying the word was law that's the it's all an attitude here. agreeing with some of the parents the u.k. political communications specialist damon wilson in his op ed on our website he does argue the joy is being sapped data of christmas in europe thanks among other things to efforts to be more inclusive you can get the full take at r.t. dot com also their time magazine's person of the year is the subject of a new documentary it goes right back to the teenage environmental activists connected to them birds earliest protest apparently alone outside the swedish

harlem and except for the presence of a film crew you go to a website to see if her rise to fame was perhaps planned from the start and the following u.k. labor party's election failure severely in philosopher. gives us his post-mortem he among those who thinks that jeremy corbin is the victim of the media smear campaign and he argues too that the labor party needs to get even more radical if it actually wants to recover get the full analysis there at r.t. dot com. and what may prove to be a major setback for transatlantic relations the us senate has approved a sanctions bill targeting companies and for. in the north train to pipeline project the measure aimed at disrupting russia's ethar is to increase the supply of gas to europe is expected to be signed into law by president donald trump later this week kevin i mean discuss this with our correspondent in the track. 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 starts diversifying the way its fuel gets to western european countries through new pipelines like north 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 completed. would make europe even more dependent on russian energy would generate billions of dollars for putin billions of dollars that would fund the russian

military aggression so we have learned that the us 2020 defense authorization act includes a bill that would penalize the companies that are involved in the construction of nord stream 2 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 the 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 you don't really care about europe when 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 what 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 either which way this pipeline ends up in germany suppose germany had to say about it well just a little earlier the german top diplomat reiterate to berlin's stance that these sanctions are unacceptable strain 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. many committee chief on economy and energy told us that berlin is ready to respond to any sanctions imposed by washington. if you're going to give but if you're broke 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 us gas sales will fall on the us 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 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 the 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 to both sides need this and we plan to continue whether the us likes it or not. and that's how things are looking at so far this morning here in r.t. we're back again there with more at the top of. all of us will hopes it has been able to learn from you a baby but so is a behavior that appears even in deaf and blind babies even if you never heard or

seen laughter you will laugh if you're tickled 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 laughs even if you don't know why they're laughing. this is a sticker from a water bottle found in the stomach of a fish the brand is part of the coca-cola company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea was that let's tell consumers they're the bad ones they are the litter bugs. trying this way industry should be blamed for all this waste the company has long promised to reuse the plastic. and soon. new plastic kristie take away and only stay on your essential projects funded. on the new vest that is the end of it for the team but for now the

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