when to determine if. in the new mood can you. believe there is a genuine 1st 70 minutes of time i get super tuesday and do it again i call it just undesigned of now ban the cia torture techniques in the wake of 911 justifies his actions during a pretrial testimony at one time a bay detention center. a u.k. based watchdog publishes a report looking at how drone strikes could be normalized as a new tool for assassinations of the u.s. forces targets new raney and top military chiefs. also to calm a bottle of morals as an electric car giant test it divides residents and job money it's bust european fact you could create thousands of jobs but also and in 5 metal fall out. of ignorance and there will be new jobs and new transferred it's hard to

imagine anything bad turn this example you are but i'm in favor of job creation internally as a company but wasn't there any other place for the structure of. bringing you the very latest stories from all around the globe this is our national very welcome program. lots of stories for you this hour starting with this one the psychologist dubbed the architect of the cia's in hans interrogation program post 911 has been unapologetic about his role in any torch shot 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 sort of personal consequences i would live with i believe there was a genuine threat of an imminent attack or thought 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 on create an interrogation program for al qaeda suspects he even admitted personally use and waterboarding a torture technique that simulates and suffer a prisoner's later he and another psychologist set up a company that provided support for the interrogations the cia's program included now illegal coercive measures. in the immediate aftermath of $911.00 we tortured some for lawyers for the 5 detainees are now seeking for any statements made under interrogation to be

disqualified from the trial on grounds of torture antiwar activist sara flounders pleas 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. 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 youths who were held for years at guantanamo there were people who had nothing to do who 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 fuss detainee mitchell waterboard it was a palestinian man known as abu zubaydah he's never been charged with a crime but remains indefinitely in guantanamo he was a fascinating cia prison had to undergo in haunts interrogation and even most while being tortured during his time as a boy has attempted to illustrate his experience as a 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 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 guard. 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 known 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 most of torture of pain and waterboarding how slamming of of hacking into tight boxes of stress positions and all. 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 then accounting demanded not only of those who designed the torture but of those who set up these torture camps. and all the headline story for you a u.k. based watchdog has published a report on a 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 his r.t.c.

sally. 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. day. and those. who resist. this. so how did we get to the point where assassination by drone is normal u.k. based watchdog drone wars investigated the phenomenon the jump from targeting members of non-state groups class hysteresis to the assassination of top military personnel of a state that u.s. is not at war we have made 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 provided 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. found a 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 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 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 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 r.t.

london. we got reaction from former u.k. army officer charles super-rich he believes the u.s. actually has no legal basis for many of its trained kennings. 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 a 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 as 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. and let's stay in europe for a little bit longer because norway's coalition government has collapsed after to great 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 for talking man think that there was the issue of the woman who was an eyesore 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 jointure are going to and are actively working to tear down all of the values norway is built on that was done last. drip treated woman is in the region citizen who went to syria and 20 teen she been with her 2 children in the kurdish controlled hole refugee camp in syria but last week decided to allow her to return with her children she was arrested upon arrival on suspicion of being and i saw something which she denies. now it's not the recent case of its kind in europe but can november for example germany allowed a woman suspected of being an eyesore member to come back with 3 children meanwhile nearby finland agreed to examine some cases individually we put the issue up for debate with former u.k. immigration pfizer keith best and john. 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 us parents for the camera one of the prison a suffices so these kids from $1012.00 or under 10 are extremely anxious 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 left western europe they should be judged where they committed crimes 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. no it's down let them be judged where they are it's no good complaining that no we judicial system is

a bit lenient on that sentencing although 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 the way we live in democracies so that the problem is that populism is regarded as at the seas these people are being accused of being freshest septra by the left and so there is a big problem of recognition for the people really want. automotive electrical energy giant tesla has divided the residents of a small town near the job and capital over plans to create its fast europe head gigafactory dozens of the demonstrators have been denouncing possible environmental damage with plans to cut down $300.00 hectares of forest for that factory but they were met by counter-protest as to who appeared to be and he's after a cave the promise of thousands of jobs. over to many people are absolutely not aware of those decisions great roll out our water management agency and has already

admitted that there is no guarantee the locals will be supplied with enough water after the launch of the factory they have to think about it not true either it's good or not i'm worried about the environment being advanced there will be new jobs and new transparent it's hard to imagine anything better than this nickel it's a good opportunity for a region that electric cars weren't so very thin and they manufacture causes environmental damage as examinee are but i'm in favor of job creation internationally as a company but wasn't there any other place for this factory. even though i do believe in the young graduates haven't been able to find. that fish that i was hearing growing haida so a lot of them have to move to other cities and i hope this project will provide

a boost for the whole region because of the 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 interviewer ince natural processes we should be carefully considered we should do everything to me to get damage based on the deforestation area the implications will be very grave we're talking about total deforestation and the extinction of all the animal and plant species which once inhabited this route. still to come here on out international facebook comes on to scrutiny for its role

in a child and puerto rico i'll tell you why in 90 seconds. join

me every thursday. and i'll be speaking to the world of sports i'm sure. i'll see you then. well welcome back facebook has found itself at the center of a trial involving students from puerto rico university in another privacy breach crandell it's been revealed that the social media giant gave the country's justice department access to a trove of private information a case has now been made against those who participated in protests in 2017 the student strikes lasted for weeks or more gates budget cuts triggered by government

started policies the protests were streamed live on facebook and soon after the piece made numerous arrests including people who were not actually protesting at the time we spoke to one of the students lawyers she broke down for us how your forty's use the information provided by the social media platform. they use facebook as. the be the oh it's so and also very major pictures and dance bills and that's how they identified students with the the you know it is scary it's gary for everyone i think people should. the knowledge many of the scenes that we put on social media that we think are. really not private and the government the governments in general. and facebook

doesn't make it any harder for government to get the nation among the data given to fuel storage by dean numbers of those interacting with pages about the protest online facebook also granted access to private messages on bank account information marianna manali again said this has become a new method for blacklisting and surveilling people in puerto rico. the off the shelves a request to search more and more space from facebook and the search you are and. in our in our evacuation to grow and. and the book. huge amount. we saw. and are must now think for people who are not. in the those who have not got any of that any illegal act

and these. early on has led to him and he always. blacklist the people of certain mailing people and also. it also has a shield in effect because people know they are being served. we also have some privacy activist and tech expert bill mewe who thinks that facebook should be doing more to protect private information. facebook have put themselves in a position where sometimes they argue that they are a publisher and sometimes that they argue that they're just a platform there are different responsibilities that come with either of these particular roles but one of the roles that comes in if they want to have a sort of journalistic or an editorial position is a level of protecting sources which comes with journalists or whatever what we have

to be cautious of is people using the platform to have conversations in confidence . identity and the information about their conversations then shared with parties that they don't wish to have this shared with it's questionable whether this should be done and on what lawful basis you need a level of judicial supervision of the legal level of oversight whatever your intruding on somebody is previously while we've reached out to facebook about the data given to party because authorities and of course we'll keep you posted on any response. and finally wrapping up our bulletin for this hour when 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 file for tracks from the sunken vessel it wants to use submersible robots to 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 any few scientists be allowed to see the artifacts firsthand it's elitist and it's wrong. the wreckage of the ship still contains the remains of those passengers that went down with the titanic after it struck an iceberg back in 1912 many relatives of the victims are concerned over plans to remove a deteriorating section of the roof we spoke with just meeting them from the british titanic society you told us that many will be upset if the u.s. fund 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 viewpoint if we examined the equipment that's available at the moment in the technology they have. told the geneviève mother ship is out of

commission so is at the moment really for us it kind of just feels like a big topic. we're all kind of supporting this decision sometimes you know if we've got a view that they shouldn't be bought and she left in peace but we're going along to museums and going to these attractions and learning more then in essence with subconsciously playing a role in that process of retrieving artifacts so 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 in the next few days i'm kind of looking forward to getting it on how it wants feeling about their. health things are shaping up i'll be back top of the hour with all the violet updates for now though enjoy boom bust.

seems like 2016 all over again bernie sanders is popular in doing well in the polls and the democratic establishment along with the donor class are nervous they're centrist politics is praying now throw in identity politics the problem for bernie this time around apparently is that he's not inclusive enough is a democratic primary being rigged again. as he should be. one of the people so he can be in luck because. what i mean i won't be and i. will see.

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since most him. you know one of the best charts greatest charts i've really been studying for years i don't know exactly how we're going to get into this but i just want to mention right here at the top it's the money velocity chart. the money velocity chart and we're going to be getting into that. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering all angles of business and the impact on you. 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 plus following

it's looking for billions in loans to keep afloat as $737.00 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. when i spoke at this forum 2 years ago i told you that we had launched the great american comeback. today i'm proud to blair that the united states is in the midst of an economic boom the likes of which the world has never seen before. we've regained our stride. rediscovered our spirit in reawakened the power of.