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Four years without any access to open trial. well, amnesty international has researched this. they say they've seen some of these centers close, some of the political and religious dissidents in turn there released. they say the changes are merely cosmetic in some cases with be that some of the inmates are being kept in what are being described as drug addict centers or mental institutions and in some cases people are being interned in black unofficial prisons. amnesty is saying that's got to stop. back to you, kate. >> ivan, thank you so much. in the uk, a musical heartthrob gets a major wi...

0 >> good morning, merry christmas. now you're listening. welcome to "new day," it's tuesday, december 17th, we're not quite there yet. it is 6:00 in the east. big news, potentially major defeat for the country's once secret surveillance programs. a federal judge ruled the mass collection of americans' phone records is unconstitutional. the judge insists the government can't sight a signal instance where the domestic spying operation actually stopped a terrorist. jim sciutto is live from washington this morning. good morning, jim. >> good morning, chris. the ruling makes for interesting readin...

thanks for your company today. i want to bring you news we just got in from white house officials saying today at 3:00 p.m., the president and vice president are going to be meeting with the majority leader, reid, minority leader mcconnell, and the speaker boehner and leader pelosi. that's going to happen at 37 p.m. what comes of it, we're not sure. with only a few days to go before that debt ceiling is reached or the -- we trip over into the risk of a default, obviously, a very important meeting. a white house official says that the president is going to reiterate principles to the ...

0 saturday. his son says he is doing well. good for him. thanks so much for watching. i'm poppy harlow. "around the world" starts right "around the world" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com we are 60 hours away from something that hasn't happened before, when the "uss reaches its borrowing limit and could default on its bills. now world leaders have a message for washington, raise the debt ceiling now. also this. >> interest rates on home loans could spike or even worse, we cos see another credit squeeze making it much harder to borrow. >> racing for default with thursda...