On whats happening there and. Pushing to try and do the story because i feel like its extreme you know Public Interest. Tax on me for my newsweek reporter launches a blistering attack on a magazine for refusing to run a story he wrote about the alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma last year. Life rocks internationals moscow world news age q this choose to night 17th of december will welcome choose kevin owen here with the update hope you can stay with me to 1st and as mentioned in the headlines there the abuse of prisoners in secret cia run prisons has been thrown into sharp relief following the release of a report called how d america torches it contains a series of chilling sketches produced by a guy called. A there is an inmate at Guantanamo Bay depicting him in the hands sting interrogation set of techniques he was subjected to between 2002 and 5 he was captured from a jihadi safe bit of background here in pakistan in 2002 and sent to a socalled cia black sites in thailand where the torture took place he was then transferred to Guantanamo Bay where he still being held without charge and was the 1st person to be subjected to this brutal Interrogation Program which was approved by the administration of george w. Bush and the since been acknowledged by the cia is 1st off a quick overview of the bathers story. 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 me scream 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. And. 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 guard. Lawyer who is the driving force behind the torture report told us 1st off why his client shouldnt be kept in detention any longer. Card were always or the birds lol i dont know if they are. Understand why you have to be charged. Or released or if they cant charge the movie. Because they admit he was never or never. d did not see the United States birds that transparency issue with what they did to. The fact is they were used for d him for 17 straight is there and they wrote it in one of the you are. A couple ability is that d you would i would love many people held her warm but it turns out. That her model right now d is d to look forward not backwards or the probably d already know is that it would write words the people who are still there are going to remain stuck i believe there are many who feel terrible. About what they. d are it is the truth it is exists. Just mobilization against planned Pension Changes have been taking shape across france this tuesday Officials Say 600000 People Revolt nationwide other estimates claim more than half that number gathered in paris and what started out as mostly Peaceful Demonstrations they quickly descended into violence challenged penske reports in the thick of it. Screaming join us here in paris after one piece in some small clashes between the police come to the protesters as you can see its all round us does this mean shes only going oh i started saying i can use to plastic or not you will. Get up early i mean. Just to get through that gas as it is so nasty that gas the police have been warned is dangerous silly news here in france guys you can see everybodys trying to come back up to plus the international to get away from the tear gas filling the skirmishes between the police and the protest this a protest thats been going on no strike for once in his good week a strike that was sparked by the protests reforms that the government has announced and one that is showing the general malaise him fronts its not just about pensions this is about so much more the Health System says its creaking shoes are unhappy even at times the police have been out processing i. Know reforms over macaroons government so im here today because we have problems with financing for hospitals we have lots of expenses and the raw constraints when it comes to procuring materials and recruiting stuff were here today to say but with Public Hospitals and the want to save them. The working conditions have no future its very difficult for us to live properly on our current salaries theres been no change its just a trauma. Im here in solidarity with everyone whos been affected by that reform which is the vast majority of people. Everybody should be protesting against them for they want us to work more or less and thats unacceptable. Been told that our pensions will be ridiculously small and this would make the situation even worse you can see the police start forming a line just on the street that we were in just a few moments ago the street where all the tear gas was being fired pushes out of it you can see theyve formed a huge line the police with White Helmets on and in fact they look like theyve cordoned off most of the streets around where. Sounds like stun grenades going off of than tear gas there. But what was very calm protest just within a few minutes is descended into. Just a difficult place to be what we notice is in the last half an hour now some of those what they call the the castors the stocks the break is the police said the ultra. Left but theyre also sometimes known as the black box they have actually been systematically hitting points up their street so we saw a post office being attacked many of the bus shelters being attacked as well as just general restaurants in fact at one point when they were breaking some of the gloss on the advertising boards some of those guys came up and tried to harass my cameraman because they thought he was filming them he wasnt but they were incredibly aggressive and thats because they are very sensitive about being filmed when theyre carrying out any. There destruction work we saw that continuing for about half an hour and its only now as weve got to plastic enough so that the police have responded with that here gas and then cordoned this area to try and keep all of the protesters in the government says it wont do a u. Turn on the changes to the Pension System that people say that they remain on strike but for the moment this strike has turned nasty once again in paris charlotte even ski r. T. Paris while our 1st series of arithmetic injuries against protesters has come to light that french authorities were warned of the dangers of using tear gas grenades against demonstrators as far back as journey last year else texas the company that makes the military grade devices wrote to the French Interior ministry about the safety risks of its grenades being used by riot police the blast a fact of the devices produced by an expose of substance a likely to maim or mortally injury an individual well those within 10 sound effects can cause irreversible hearing damage. The resumption of production is impossible without completely review in the production process if theres more in a league letter to the french investigative news Website Media part the manufacturer wants the d. Folks in the grenades were identified but not resolved france is the only european country right now where riot police use the weapon despite all these warnings hes been talking about they are still used to have on occasion been known to simply explode when being handled the go to screen aid caused serious injuries among a number of yellow vests protesters along the way 5 of lost their hands there was a story about an elderly woman who died after she was hit by one of these things at a daimler marcell last year dozens more protesters say theyve been left wounded by the weapons to. If you. Were near the National Assembly and people were trying to force their way in the Police Arrived and threw grenades one hit the guys leg to try to push it the way with his hands is a reflex reaction. That. People tend to get i dont want anyone but me why this has had to be the target if and we went in is it is indeed true justice and. I will try to fight against the use of g a y f or grenades which are totally from my point of view weapons of war and against rubber bullet guns a french journalist emirate morville told us he thinks the government is using these grenades as a terror and. But you also all mustnt forget that use the trash small rubber bullets during visits him astray chanst of which have led to several people losing and i more than 20. Remember we must see that there is no political will to stop this madness and then in my opinion it is very cynical to do it on purpose that you want to dissuade people from the most rating and from showing their anger and during this yellow vests protest they preventively for instance arrested people because they were carrying swimming classes in order to protect their their eyes from tear gas it is a way of through bitching most racially wide preventing it from being massive. American magazine newsweeks in the spotlight after a former reporter claimed he quit when editors threw out his story on a chemical attack investigation in syria the now public row between newsweek and terry dads intensified we heard from the journalist for his version of events. I was i kept pushing to try and do the story because i feel like its of extreme you know Public Interest the attacks on me and it is a kind of nit picking on on certain things i was doing in my articles but it was purely on just to be able to attack me in an email so often i kept pushing kept pushing essentially was told a couple lines about why they wouldnt run the story. It was a long list of things that id done personally wrong and i was very unhappy about this because you know ive never experienced like this Something Like this in my in my journalism career. So to write a freelance journalist a joint news we can save 10 but this year just 2 months later he quits after pitching a story about the Global Chemical weapons handling of its reported to the alleged chemical attack in syrias duma the outlet rejected it dad no fears a legal battle over his publishing of an exchange of corporate emails after whistleblowers claimed facts had been misrepresented in the o. P. C. W. Only alleged chemical attack eric pitched the idea to his editors to write about the watchdogs leaked emails a reminder that the conclusion of the report led to the United States france and the u. K. Conducting air strikes against syria but it gets to again believe his case shows the failings of the Mainstream Media. Lets look at the evidence that we have available to us at the moment there are scientists from a nonpolitical body of the united nations. That say that their report their findings from a chemical weapon sites were not representative in the in the final report that was released to the world to me this is you know doesnt really need explaining why this is a newsworthy story is that these organizations have taken a long time for us to get here in terms of historical point of view when we shouldnt be weaponized in them to kind of create the Public Opinion needed to go to war at the moment there are very few. Well mainstream western journalists reporting on this so i would say this complete failure of the media. You know john the starts the whole governments to account and if governments are going to war on false premises then. We have good evidence to suggest that now im no one is reporting it. As for the magazine newsweek has given this statement you see on screen i was saying it pitched a Conspiracy Theory that they couldnt run because it goes against objective reporting thanks what she ought to international tonight december the 17th as it is weve got more coming up on the back. So weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy. Let it be an arms race. Theory Dramatic Development it only really exists i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical of. You sit down and talk. You know world big. And conspiracy its time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that Mainstream Media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. And shouting past each other its time for Critical Thinking its time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now were watching closely watching the hawks. I get more news of the day the u. S. Has rejected a proposal by russia and china to ease International Sanctions on north korea in exchange for a commitment from pyongyang to take steps towards a nuclear a zation the suggestion was put forward in a draft u. N. Security Council Resolution on monday in addition to allowing the d. P. R. K. Than to export certain products it goes on to suggest that into korea not road and rail projects be exempted from u. N. Sanctions it also calls for a band to be lifted on the employment of North Koreans abroad now its not known if or when the draft resolution we put to a vote to be adopted it would sneed the support of at least 9 u. N. Security Council Member states in the absence of any vetoes but all that said washington says any way sanctions relief would be premature at this stage is ramped up its missile testing this month ahead of a year end deadline its given the u. S. To make concessions in their stalled Nuclear Talks and america has insisted so far anyway its unwilling to compromise. The United States and the Security Council have a goal not a deadline we want to use this time we briefing to make Crystal Clear to the d. P. R. K. That its continued Ballistic Missile testing is deeply counterproductive to this shared objectives that the President Trump in chairman camp had discussed on 2 occasions political analyst Chris Bambery told us both north korea and the u. S. Have to meet each other halfway here in order to try to break this current impasse in talks. I think the relations of rooty can or dont turn on the north korean side weve had these missile tests were also having attacks on truong by the North Koreans on the american side we have an insistence that all sanctions must remain in place until complete demilitarized militarization and that sets up a situation of stalemate it takes 2 to tango and i think in the situation room one house that one of these countries has to make some concessions to try to get the talks back on track some humanitarian guest gesture by the United States might help bridge this situation but at the moment what were getting is is hardly a message that really nor compromise is an offer from the United States. Indeed here is suing the European Union for its decision to stop using Palm Oil Based biofuels the e. U. Wants to get Member States to phase in eco friendly fuels instead but indonesia which is the globes Largest Palm Oil Producer suspects the move is more about trade rivalry than saving the planet as nichiren reports. Palm oil its in everything thousands of everyday products from chocolate to shampoo and cleaning products without even thinking about it we consume on average around 8 kilos of it each year the last few years theres been a wind of change with the new focus on emphasizing a greener more eco conscious position and as a result earlier this year the e. U. Began to turn its back on this cheap and versatile product with plans to phase out the use of pall mall in biofuels by the end of 2030. Indonesia is the Largest Palm Oil Exporter in the world within the World Trade Organization its been something palm oil to some big clients figure is for example you on very good terms of cost so the stakes the hobby its heavily reliant on Palm Oil Production as one of its Key Industries with over 2000000 indonesians directly employed by the industry and many more were gaining from in direct economic benefits and after threatening the e. U. With countless times since indonesia has now taken legal action against the European Union alleging discrimination against Indonesian Palm Oil exports with the lawsuit indonesia hopes the e. U. Will promptly change its read to policy and delegated act as well as scrap the high risk in direct Land Use Change that as it has given to palm oil just last week the block imposed a 5 year tyrus long bio diesel from the Southeast Asian nation to counter alleged subsidies to producers in the country have also lost a complaint from prostate. The subsidized exports of indonesian bio diesel to the e. U. Are causing a threat to material injury to the Union Industry indonesias finest foreign minister accuses the e. U. Of following a protectionist policy and in a sign of further deepening trade tensions in neighboring malaysia the worlds number 2 in Palm