the psychologist and designer of cia torture techniques in the wake of $911.00 justifies his actions and says he would do it again during a trial testimony. also fears of a changing landscape for drone warfare as a u.k. based watchdog publishes a report looking at how strikes could be normalized as a new tool. for u.s. forces target in the military. and a battle of moral electric car giant by presence in germany its 1st european factory could create jobs but also an environmental fall out. there will be transferred it's hard to imagine. that somebody on the i'm in favor of job

creation and there is a company or any other place for this factory. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here are teaching thanks for joining us this hour. the psychologist dubbed the architect of the cia's enhanced interrogation program post $911.00 has been unapologetic about his role in any torture of the mission 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 which have a personal consequences i would live with i believe there was a genuine threat of an imminent attack i thought my moral obligation to protect american lives outweigh temporary discomforts of terrorists i get so 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 and several prisoners later he and another psychologist set up a company that provided support for the interrogations lawyers for the 5 detainees are now seeking for any statements made under interrogation to be disqualified from the trial on 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 was banned as an interrogation technique in 2009 anti-war activist sara flounders believes that 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 except for conditions so strict that they can't even have

a picture of the court 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 who are 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 detainees mitchell water boarded was a palestinian man known as

a 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 while being tortured during his time there's a bit of a has attempted to illustrate his experiences morning you may find some of the following images distressing. 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 in 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 and 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 mitchell and jennings this was an entire unit set up in order to use torture and to study how to apply the most excruciating for mx's of torture of pain of waterboarding of slamming of of packing into tight boxes of stress positions and on and on so how could you justify any of this and 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 geisha and centers all of

this really has to be exposed and there are accounting demanded not only of those who designed the torture but of those who set up these torture case. a u.k. based watchdog has published a report on a so-called new era suggesting drones have become a tool for conducting assassinations but 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 awesome across the world they used to gather intelligence spy on enemies the most interest of the kill people for the apparent amusement of some. in the us to get. good should we risk those of this. so how did we get to the point where assassination by drone is normal u.k.

based watchdog drone was investigated the phenomenon the jump from targeting members of non-state groups class to stare is to the assassination of top military personnel of the study that us is not at war we have made a 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 20152085 the u.k. government. the focus was often placed on the individual either the legality of particular strike or the crimes in the tourist year of an individual the government appeared to for a policy if it was a secrecy giving away some information by trail or providing 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 wars 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 here 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're 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 extremists 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 u.s. embassies what is your definition of the imminent.

this was going to happen it can reveal that i believe it would have been for 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 meant 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 costs and 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. the r.t. london. we spoke with former u.k. army officer trial shoebridge who believes the u.s. has no legal basis for many of its drone killings while 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 when you've got such a senior official and it's difficult to imagine this an official mohseni and

somebody was a son in respect of iran 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 you've seen the backtracking 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 that's very difficult to put that genie back in a 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. norway's coalition government has collapsed after it agreed to bring home

a woman charged with supporting terrorist groups in syria the move interior did the right wing progress party which pulled its support for the coalition in response. so in mankato thing that there was do you shoot the woman who was an ice will terrorist suspect where did 3 other parties 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 drop the repatriated woman is a norwegian citizen who went to syria in 2013 she had been with her 2 children in the kurdish control the whole refugee camp in syria last week also decided to allow her to return with her children she was arrested on arrival on suspicion of being and i saw member something which she denies 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 they show up for debate with former u.k. immigration advisor keith best and journalist in the green bay. 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 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 his parents for the camera one of the prison a suffices so these kids from $1012.00 or under 10 are extremely dangerous the mothers are all fully 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 f. 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 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 piano. let them be judged where they are it's no good complaining that norwegian judicial system is a bit lenient on its sentencing or not that's got nothing to do with some whether somebody is committed a criminal offense or not that'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 these people are being accused of being fascists that septra by the left and so there is a big problem of recognition of what the people really want. electric energy giant tesla has divided the residents of a small town near the german capital our plans of creating their its 1st european gigafactory dozens of demonstrators have been denouncing possible environmental

damage with plans to cut down forests for the factory they were met by counterpart asters as well who appear to be enthusiastic over the promise of thousands of jobs . business plans you know true whether it's good or not i'm worried about the environment being advanced in our beds there will be new jobs and new transparent it's hard to imagine anything better than this that's got this and it's a good opportunity for our region because won't solve everything and the manufacture causes environmental damage as exam any of us but i'm in favor of job creation internationally as a company but wasn't there any other place for this factory. you know and. graduates haven't been able to find work that fits their skills here

in green hydro so a lot of them had to move to other cities i hope this project will provide a boost for the whole region. and of course are concerned. and we're glad that investors are interested in brand and work on the other hand we're talking about serious interference natural processes we should be carefully considered we should do everything to me to get damage. still to come britain and a private u.s. company have been going head to head over a plan to salvage relics from the titanic story and more after the us.

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welcome back a deadly virus has broken out in china where it's killed 9 people beijing has confirmed more than 400 cases already and it's 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 the russian health ministry has warned of a serious risk that the corona virus could spread across its 4000 kilometer border with china on credit reports. 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 break of a new corona virus which was 1st recorded in china carries a body logical threats to the population of russia the $1500000.00 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 join it is possible to infer the number of clinically compare who cases within $160.00 that may have a phone we estimate that's

a total of $1723.00 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 and which the russian leader spoke about the

red army's liberation of the nazi death camps and had this collision 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 1905 around 200000 soviet soldiers lost their lives in battle fighting together with polish forces to liberate warsaw and 10 days later the red army freed the largest nazi 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 and crack o. yvonne in march a new skin who is not 96 expresses sadness at the way points leaders are not retelling the about it's about war. when i was in poland your news journalists came to me and said that children in school believed that the americans liberated auschwitz children that's ok now the head of a 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 participated in the liberation of auschwitz my blood lies somewhere inside 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 potence liberation everywhere there are our graves i don't think this is a one off this is part of a focused propaganda exercise. and

love but on the announcement of a new government has triggered protests demonstrators say they will continue to reject the new cabinet calling for sweeping reforms police use water cannon to disperse the crowds which have gathered outside the parliament building. to the swiss luxury resort of davos where global capitalism and climate issues are the forefront of rallies there i thought the financial elite gather for the world economic forum as a range of issues on the table at the event with $1500.00 leaders current global regional and industrial topics professors on tuesday were carrying signs from donning masks of donald trump. and corruption and economic inequality continue to drive protests in iraq as police in baghdad deploy live ammunition in one of the latest rallies leaving one person dead unrest began back in october with

over 400 people killed to date and thousands more injured during demonstrations. and agreement between london and washington meant to protect the wreckage of the titanic has finally come into force after its ratification by the u.s. it comes as a private us firm has been pushing to go ahead with a project to salvage relics from the sunken vessel it wants to use robots to surgically remove and retrieve artifacts to tell the stories of the 1500 people that perished of course we 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 firsthand 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 waiting him from the british titanic society who told us that many people will be upset if the u.s. from gets its way. this stage the announcement they are misty have made it is quite a you know come at such an exhibition event even take place from a technological viewpoint if week sam and the equipment that's available at the moment in the technology they have some us will teal is dipsticks mom told the geneviève mother ship is out of commission so she's at the moment ready for us to kind of just feels like a big topic and we will kind of supporting this decision sometimes you know if we've got a view that they shouldn't people to she left in peace but which were going along to museums and going to these attractions and learning more and in essence with hunchy playing a role in that process of which weaving artifacts it's 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 once feeling about it. that's our global news update for this hour

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this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering all angles of business and the impact on you i've been small and i'm french born washington here's what we have coming up but when i took office 3 years ago america's economy was in a rather dismal state. president donald trump of the world economic forum and how the power of the american economy will dissect his comments in davos blood flowing it's looking for billions in loans to keep afloat as $737.00 max crisis continues we'll tell you what that means for boeing's largest competitor and self korea is considering changing the way it classifies cryptocurrency for tax purposes and it could be a very big deal a lot happening on this very busy day so let's get started. and we begin in davos at the world economic forum where president trump is addressing world leaders and as you would expect he is talking up the u.s. economy.