and there who have money moved can you. see it most of. the psychologist and designer of the now banned cia torture techniques in the wake of $911.00 justify such actions and says he would do it again during a new trial testimony at guantanamo bay. also this hour a new clue based watchdog publishes a report looking at how drone strikes could be normalized as a new tool for assassinations after u.s. forces targeted and he really in top military chiefs. and a battle of morals as a wife a car giant tesla the vice president in germany its 1st european factory could create thousands of jobs but also an environmental fallout we know that some of it there will be new jobs and new transparent it's hard to imagine anything bad is it somebody i was because i'm in favor of job creation and treasurers a company in the or any other place for the structure of.

it watching our to international bring you a 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 that 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 i thought my moral obligation to protect american lives outweigh the temporary discomforts of terrorists i get soaked 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 he even admitted personally using waterboarding

a torture technique that simulates drowning on several prisoners later he and other psychologists set up a company that provided support for the interrogations lawyers for the 5 detainees are now seeking any statements made under interrogation to be disqualified from the trial on grounds of torture the cia's interrogation program included coercive measures not deemed to be illegal the detainees were kept under painful conditions shackled and deprived of sleep torture it was banned as an interrogative interrogation technique in 2009 anti-war activists are 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 except for conditions so strict that they can't even have a picture of the court room all the testimony is restricted. to 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 $780.00 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 attain the initial water boarded was a palestinian man known as a beta he's never been charged with a crime but remains indefinitely in guantanamo he is the 1st known cia president to

undergo and hence interrogation and even lost an eye while being tortured during his time there is a beta has attempted to illustrate his experiences and warning 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 it curled position but to no avail for it was too tight the very strong pain made the screen unconsciously.

they kept pouring water and concentrating on my nose 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 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 the f.b.i. the cia the top levels of the military the studies were known the conditions were known. 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 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 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. u.k. based watchdog has published a report on the so-called new era suggesting drones have become a tool for conducting assassinations is one how the weapons have changed from targeting terrorists to top military personnel. 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. in others they. should resist. so how did we get to the point where assassination by drone is normal u.k. based watchdog drone was investigated the phenomenon from target in members of

non-state groups classed hysteresis to the assassination of top military personnel of the state that u.s. is not at war with may appear 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 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 secret city given away some information by trail or providing any substantial common 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 so 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 it. and 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 and 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 event 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. the london former u.k. army officer tile shoebridge believes the u.s. has no legal basis 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 this an official more senior than somebody who 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 or 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. no 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 the support of the coalition in response for

talking man had me think that there was the shoe of the woman who wasn't i saw a terrorist suspect were the 3 other parties dan bringing home both mother and child that we have always been willing to bring home innocent children who will not compromise with people who have joined to are going to easy sions and are actively working to tear down all of the values norway is built on that was don't last. the repatriated woman is a norwegian citizen who went to syria in 2013 she had been with her 2 children in the kurdish controlled 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 many something which she denies that'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 off

and then agree to examine cases individually but they show up for debate with former u.k. immigration advisor keith best and journalist lucrative day. 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 a crime even if they surf 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 p.m.i. . let them be judged where they are it's no good complaining that the norwegian judicial system is a bit lenient on its sentencing on all those got nothing to do with some with the somebody has 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 of these people are being accused of being freshest etc by the left there is a big problem of recognition for the people really want. electric energy giant tesla has divided the residents of a small town near the german capital or 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 but they were met by counter

protesters who appeared to be enthusiastic over the promise of thousands of jobs. business not true whether it's good or not i'm worried about the environment having advance in our beds there will be new jobs and new transpired it's hard to imagine anything bad that stuff this in the course of it's a good opportunity for our region but electric cars won't solve everything and the manufacture causes environmental damage that's examinee of us but i'm in favor of job creation internationally as a company but wasn't there any other place for this factory. on. you know until you graduates haven't been able to find work that fits their skills here including hired them so a lot of them hearts are moved to other cities i hope this project will provide a boost for the whole region.

of the us and of course are concerned about it on the one hand 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 mitigate damage. telecom britain and they private u.s. company have been going head to head over a plan to solid relics from the titanic among our stories after the break.

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corporate money universal basic. and small catch up with what's front running this sunday exclusively on. welcome back a deadly virus has broken out in china where it's killed 9 people already beijing has confirmed more than 400 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 the russian health ministry has warned of a serious risk that the corona virus could spread across its 4000 qamar border with china quarter has more. people are dying of a new virus reported cases have tripled since the weekend and it's spreading like

wildfire across asia it we still know so little about this mysterious illness. this new coronavirus has been identified as a mutation of sars a 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 chairs of 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 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 and which the russian leader spoke about the red army is the liberation of the nazi death camps and hitler's collusion with

certain european leaders the poles were mirror how they 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 and january in 1945 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 and 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 krakow yvonne march in

washington who is now $96.00 expressed his sadness at the way poland's leaders are now retelling the events. 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 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 here 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 possible focused propaganda exercise. now some world news

in brief lebanon 1st where the announcement of a new government has triggered protests. demonstrators say they will continue to reject the new cabinet while calling for sweeping reforms as water cannon to disperse the crowds which had gathered outside the parliament building. to the swiss luxury resort of davos where global capitalism and climate issues are the forefront of rallies there as the financial elites 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 were carrying signs with some of them even donning masks. and corruption and economic inequality continue to drive protests in iraq as police in baghdad deployed live ammunition and 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 american 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 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 1st hand 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 many people will be upset if the u.s. firm gets its way. they stage the announcement are misty have made it is quite

a you know come at such an exhibition event even take place from a technological viewpoint if weak sound and the equipment that's available at the moment in the technology they have is a must win or teal is dipsticks mom told the jennifer a mother ship is out of commission so she's at the moment 8 ready for us it's kind of just feels like a big topic sistani and we're all kind of supporting this decision sometimes you know if we've got a view that they shouldn't people whatever she left in peace but which we're going along to museums and going to these attractions and learning more than in essence we're subconsciously playing a role in that process which weaving artifact so 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 2 days i'm kind of looking forward to getting a stay on how it wants feeling about it. that's a wrap up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook and up to the minute reports.

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we go. undergrad on day 2 of us president donald trump's impeachment trial in the u.s. senate even as the man himself rubbed shoulders with the billionaires of davos coming up on the show we often trump lawyer alan dershowitz what is the actual point of the impeachment trial and we go to some of the 2000 richest to own more than 5000000000 people on earth put together a gathering to talk about poverty and this was a bus from the b.b.c. to the monarchy what's fueling meltdowns in the british establishment we are privy councillor and former u.k. home office minister norman baker both more coming up in today's going underground but 1st let's go straight to donald trump's impeachment trial in the u.s. senate joining me now via skype from miami is one of his lawyers professor alan dershowitz who will be defending the president in the senate thanks so much for joining us again i'm going underground i know you're really busy what with the trial arguably even more important the defending president joe is what's going to be happening in jerusalem tomorrow putin macro rivlin pence pelosi prince of wales

all gathering in jerusalem headed next week 75th anniversary of the russian to break in of auschwitz what does it mean to you that remember it. well i lost many members of my family. in fact and in other parts of europe i'm very proud of the fact that my grandfather who was very poor helped to rescue 28 members of our family from the czech republic by creating jobs for them in new york and getting them visas just on the eve of the holocaust so it has great great meaning 3 and if i weren't involved in the matter i'm involved in i might very well go on to jerusalem for this commemoration well on to this trial then of course some democrats are saying why isn't trump being tried for increasing xenophobia and the semitic attacks are up in the united states for the debilitation is.