the psychologist and designer of now band cia torture techniques in the wake of $911.00 just finds his actions and says he would do it again and again great trial testimony on the president. also fears of changing landscapes for drone warfare in the wake of the u.s. forces targeting an angry me and top military official as a u.s. base u.k. base wants publishes a report looking at how strikes can be normalized as a new tool for assassination. and a battle of morals as a letter to giant hard giant divides residents in germany its 1st european factory could create thousands of jobs but also an environment. there will be new

jobs and new transfers it's hard to imagine anything bad it's like somebody on but i'm in favor of job creation international as a company but was there any other place for this factory. watching r t international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. the psychologist dubbed the architect of the cia's and hence interrogation program post $911.00 has been unapologetic about his role in any torture admission came during a military tribunal that's preparing a trial against the self-proclaimed mastermind of the attacks on new york and washington and for others. what's of a personal consequences i would live with i believe there was a genuine threat of an imminent attack on my moral obligation to protect american lives outweigh the temporary discomforts of terrorists our guests today and do it

again james mitchell was contracted by the cia in the wake of $911.00 to consult and create an interrogation program for al qaeda suspects even admitted personally using waterboarding torture techniques that simulates drowning on several prisoners later he and another psychologist set up a company that provided support for the interrogations lawyers for the 5 detainees are no seeking for any statements made under interrogation to be disqualified from the trial on the grounds of torture the cia's interrogation program included coercive measures now deemed to be illegal the detainees were kept under painful conditions shackled and deprived of sleep torture it was banned as an interrogation technique in 2009 and i were activist sara flounders believes the guantanamo bay trial is deeply flawed. well none of this could possibly be a fair trial i mean how can you have a fair trial with people who've been held in total secrecy whose testimony is based on torture. the media isn't allowed in the except for conditions so strict that

they can't even have a picture of the port room all the testimony is restricted. that none of this none of this layers and layers of secrecy is about providing any kind of justice or accountability or even of information it is going through a theater in order to once again exert their power their power over people's lives and we should just note that there were juveniles who were youth who were held for years at guantanamo there were people who had nothing to do were simply sold for bounty who were kuantan m o 780 prisoners and then the thousands who were held in secret rendition or around the world no accounting for them so this was a huge program and its ramifications were still feeling today the 1st athenian

mitchell waterboard was a palestinian man known as the beta he's never been charged with a crime but remains indefinitely in guantanamo he was the 1st known cia prisoner to undergo and hence interrogation and even lost an eye will being tortured during his time there is to be about has attempted to illustrate his experiences and warning you may find some of the following images of something. 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. there is absolutely

no justification that can ever be given or accepted for the horrendous and systematic torture that was used and it was used and authorized from the highest levels from the presidency f.b.i. the cia the top levels of the military the studies were known the conditions were no. and this isn't just one or 2 people michel and jennings this was an entire unit set up in order to use torture and to study how to apply the most excruciating forms of torture of pain no waterboarding of slamming of of packing into tight boxes of stress positions and on and on so how could you justify any of this none of this torture provided any real information of course not that that that would even be an excuse it was done to hundreds of prisoners there were

also hundreds of secret prisons secret rendition and a geisha in centers all of this really has to be exposed and that an accounting demanded not only of those who designed the torture but of those who set up these torture camps. a u.k. based watchdog has published a report on the so-called new era suggesting drones have become a tool for conducting assassinations with more on how the weapons have changed from targeting terrorists to top military personnel as artie's alley. drones for many years now they form the controversial parts of the west's military arsenal across the world they used to gather intelligence spy on enemies and most and torricelli kill people for the apparent amusement of some. of the guys here. i see the risk.

so how did we get to the point where assassination by drone is normal u.k. based watchdog drone wars investigated the phenomenon from target a number of non-state groups class to stare ists to the assassination of top military personnel overstayed that u.s. is not at war we have made huge in terms of strategy and legality unfortunately however it's also an avid to model the approach of governments to any scrutiny in such cases has been to give away as little information as possible like in the killing of terrorist suspects in syria between 201520185 the u.k. government the focus was often placed on the individual either though a guillotine of a particular strike or the crimes and authority of an individual the government appeared to fall a policy if quizes sec rissi given away some information but really provided any substantial comment and lead into what was described as dissatisfied engagement in parliamentary scrutiny finally the lack of ethical debate was glaringly obvious the

media in turn according to drone was failed to scrutinise the killings playing into the government's spin if anything the media coverage contained carefully controlled government messaging mohammed and was he was killed in a drone strike it was or was as a result of persistent surveillance a british woman who became a prominent recruiter for so-called islamic state has reportedly been killed in a drone strike say it also killed her 12 year old son which she had previously used as a human shield so the blueprint is clear use drones to kill people in. war zones that expand they used to kill who you want and then don't even try to justify it instead bandy about claims that the victim was about to launch a terror attack with no evidence and paint them out to be an extremist precisely what the white house did in the most recent case we had specific emanation information on an imminent threat and those threats trim included attacks on the us

embassies what is your definition of the internet. this was going to happen i can reveal that i believe it would have been 4 embassies the president didn't say when there was a tangible he didn't cite a specific piece of evidence what he says he probably he believes are you saying that i invent one i didn't see one with regard to 4 embassies the use of drones on terror suspects became the norm now the assassination of general cause them so they money is being sold to the public using the same tropes which invites the question what else will be deemed as part of the course next east london we spoke with former u.k. army officer charles shoebridge who believes the u.s. has no legal basis for killing for many of its drone killings. well a situation has been coming for some time i think with the show we said the definition of a terrorist has been widened for the expediency. of those that actually are seeking

to target individuals but we've really reached a situation i think where when you've got such a senior official and it's difficult to imagine that an official most senior and somebody was a certain respects are very low on that you've now got a situation where if if that was to be any precedent he's killing that really any official any government minister of a state which the u.s. doesn't like can be targeted of course there's no legal basis for that which is why of course she's seen the fact track in terms of the claim initially said by term that he posed some kind of imminent threat and of course a soon as you've opened up that box of allowing talk tonight it's very difficult to put that genie back in the bottle to use another metaphor for example it's very difficult now for the u.s. to claim if one of its officials government ministers are targeted in a similar way perhaps not by a drone but by a more traditional terrorist attack that somehow that was illegal and itself constitutes an act of terrorism when of course the u.s.

has now set a precedent for this kind of action. you know as coalition government has collapsed after it agreed to bring home a woman charged with supporting terrorist groups in syria the move infuriated the right wing progress party which pulled its support for the coalition in response. slocombe in manhattan anything that dare was the shoe of the woman who was an ice will terrorist suspect where does 3 other party caved in bringing home both mother and child we have always been willing to bring home innocent children who will not compromise with people who have jointure are going to and are actively working to tear down all of the values norway is built on that was done last straw. the woman who had been living with her 2 children in the kurdish controlled refugee camp in syria in 2013 she was arrested on her way back to war norway on suspicion of belonging to the islamic state terror group something she denies last week also

decided to allow her to to return with her 2 children to receive medical treatment saying it would not let a norwegian child die in syria. now it's not the 1st recent case of its kind in europe back in november germany allowed a woman suspected of being and i saw member to come back with her 3 children often agree to examine cases individually but the issue up for debate with former u.k. immigration advisor keith best and journalist who grew. well 1st of all you've got to remember this is around a child who's ill and we should not weaponize children the child has had no control over what its mother did or who whom she married or anything of that nature don't forget the images of these 4 year olds 4 years old kid 2 had to kill in front of us parents for the camera one of the prisoners suffices so these kids from $1012.00 or under 10 are extremely dangerous the mothers are awfully dangerous people

who go off and commit offenses abroad whether that spy joining a an organization that is inherently against the government of the day or anything of that nature then their proper place is to be prosecuted back in their country of origin these people left western europe they should be judged where they committed crimes even if they deserve the death penalty following the local laws like in iraq that is totally unrealistic a reality you going to have a proper trial how are you going to have a fair trial in a war torn country where sectarianism is right it's just nonsense if it does if it does but in most cases it's not the case legally if they are norwegian citizens norway cannot prevent them from actually coming back to norway the only way they can do that is by removing the norwegian citizenship and as

a signatory to the state that is what it should do invention it would it would mean well no i'm sorry they can't do that because they're signatory to the statelessness convention if the criminal is only one nationality of he or she should be judged in the country of the nationality but most of the most of these criminals that were in syria for isis they have a double nationality so most of the countries france belgium and others that the lands could easily. suppress the european national exam let them be judged where they are it's no good complaining that the norwegian judicial system is a bit lenient on its sentencing or not that's got nothing to do with some where the somebody has committed a criminal offense or not let's all to do with domestic policy in norway we live in democracies so that the problem is that populism is regarded as at the seas of these people are being accused of being freshest etc by the left and so there is a big problem of recognition for the people really want.

electronic energy giant tesla has seen resistance to plans of creating its 1st european factory in a small town near the german capital hundreds of people turned out to protest against possible environmental damage however some were more enthusiastic due to the promise of thousands of jobs. yes. because they vote but i'm not sure whether it's good or not but i'm worried about one thing for whom having a chance of it there will be new jobs and new transpired it's hard to imagine anything better and that's got this and it's a good opportunity for our region bill it should cause one solve everything and the manufacture causes environmental damage that's examinee of us but i'm in favor of job creation in tesla as a company but wasn't there any other place for this factory.

on. you know a new graduates her main aim was to find work that fits their skills here in green high though so a lot of them how to move to other cities i hope this project will provide a boost for the whole region. because of the us and of course are concerned about it on the one hand we're glad that investors are interested in brandenburg on the other hand we're talking about serious interference natural processes we should be carefully considered who should do everything to mitigate the damage ringback.

still to come britain and they private u.s. company have been going head to head over a. and to salvage relics from the titanic story and more after the break. is you'll media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe from. isolation the whole community. are you going the right way or are you being

led. by. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or remain in the shallows. you know one of the best charts greatest charts i've really been studying for years now i don't know exactly how we're going to get into this but i just want to mention it right here at the top against the money velocity chart. the money velocity chart and we're going to be getting into that. welcome back a deadly virus has broken out and is running rampant in china where it's already

killed 9 people rushing has confirmed more than $400.00 cases and it's already spreading with pressure being ramped up to contain it the chinese authorities say they have informed other countries of the outbreak particularly in neighboring russia. now the russian health ministry has warned of a serious risk that the corona virus could spread across its 4000 kilometer border with china a quarter as more people are dying of a new virus reported cases have tripled since the weekend and it's spreading like wildfire across asia if we still know so little about this mysterious illness.

this new coronavirus has been identified as a mutation of sars or respiratory disease that killed over 750 people around the world from 2002 to 2003 antibiotics have absolutely no effect on either of the viruses and that's been enough to put the russian authorities on high alert not least because the chair is a border with china. the embry of a new corona virus which was 1st recorded in china carries a body logical threats to the population of russia the 1500000 chinese tourists that visit russia every year have now become a potential public health risk russian authorities have begun screening them at all international airports prepared to diagnose the virus if it appears on top of that

moscow has advised people against traveling to china the official number of suspected cases in china was just under 300 by tuesday however some experts are saying the current number of infections is much higher using the number of cases detected outside china it is possible to infer the number of clinically compare who cases within city that may have a phone we estimate that's a total of 1723 cases own set of symptoms russia is not alone in being worried about the outbreak reaching its territory a number of other countries have begun screening for the disease at airports as well china stepping up containment efforts after she stressed the seriousness of the outbreak on national television the disease also got the attention of the world health organization they've called for an emergency meeting to decide whether or not to declare the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern that's

a title reserved only for the most serious of epidemics and with the lunar new year approaching millions of chinese around the world are expected to return home to their families one can only hope beijing will have the situation under control. the polish prime minister has accused russia of rewriting history responding to a recent speech from vladimir putin in which the russian leader spoke about the red army's liberation of the nazi death camps and hitler's collusion with certain european leaders the polish premier had a very different version of events. as the world commemorates 75 years since the liberation of auschwitz russia is trying to rewrite history far from being a liberator the soviet union was a facilitator of nazi germany and a perpetrator of crimes of its own before and after the liberation of auschwitz the soviet union did not liberate warsaw as the russian authorities are now claiming

the dispute between russia and poland comes almost exactly 75 years after some key turning point of world war 2 in january of 1945 soviet and polish forces fighting together liberated warsaw and 10 days later the red army freed the largest non-si concentration camp auschwitz in southern poland that date is now commemorated as international holocaust remembrance day we spoke with a red army veteran who fought to liberate auschwitz i'm cracow yvonne martinu skin who is now 96 years old expresses tightness at the way of poland's leaders are now retelling the events of the war. when i was in poland euronews journalists came to me and said that children in school believed that the americans liberated auschwitz children that's ok now the head of the government makes this childish error it's surprising the prime minister exhibits such a literacy how can it be i personally participated in the liberation of krakow i

personally participate in liberation of auschwitz my blood lies somewhere and so i leave i was injured there and now i come here and hear things like that how can that be i'm a living participant of poland's liberation everyone knows that 600000 of our soldiers died during poland's liberation everywhere there are our graves i don't think this is a one off this is part of a focus propaganda exercise. some other developing stories from a lot around the globe for you now 1st where the announcement of a new government has triggered protests. there used water cannon to disperse crowds which gathered outside the parliament building against an ongoing economic crisis in the country demonstrators say they reject the new cabinet calling for sweeping reforms. to the swiss luxury resort of davos or global cup capitalism and climate issues are the forefront of

rallies there as the financial elite gather for the world economic forum as a range of issues on the table at the event with 1500 leaders covering global regional and industrial topics protesters on tuesday we're trying to find some darling masks of double trouble. and corruption and economic inequality continue to drive protests in iraq as police in baghdad deployed live ammunition in one of the latest rallies one person dead unrest began back in our. with over 400 people killed to date and thousands more injured during demonstrations. plans to salvage relics from the wreckage of the titanic have hit a snag for one private u.s. firm it wanted to use robots to surgically remove and retrieve artifacts to tell the stories of the 1500 people that perished as however goes against the newly ratified agreement between london and washington and to protect the 2nd vessel of

course you recognize and respect the tragedy of what happened but the hard truth is that we need to share what we can see with the rest of the world why should only a few scientists be allowed to see the artifacts for us and it's elitist and it's wrong the wreckage still contains the remains of those passengers that went down with the titanic after it struck an iceberg in 1912 many relatives of the victims are concerned over plans to remove a deteriorating section of the roof we spoke with just wean him from the british titanic society who told us that many people will be upset if the u.s. firm gets its way. this stage the announcement they are misty have made it is quite say you know come at such an exhibition event even take place from a technological point if weak sound and the equipment that's available at the moment in the technology they have some us will t.l.'s dipsticks mom told the jennifer a mother ship is out of commission so is at the moment really for us it kind of

just feels like a big topic at least we will kind of supporting this decision sometimes you know if we've got a view that they shouldn't people it's a mystery left in peace but we're going along to museums and going to these attractions and lending more than in essence with consciously playing a role in that process in which weaving artifacts it's a really difficult one to gauge this will upset a lot of people and lots of people that are interested in titanic in general so be interesting to see the next days i'm kind of looking forward to getting a stay on how it wants feeling about it. that's our global news wrap up for now but i'll be back at the top of the hour thanks for tuning it.

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