Try and do the story because i feel like its extreme Public Interest. Tax on me. A former news week reporter launches a blistering attack on a magazine for fusing to run a story he wrote about the alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma last year. Good evening live from moscow and out internationals World News Center this tuesday night 17th of december. With a half hour update and 1st the abuse of prisoners in secret cia run prisons has been thrown into sharp relief we can report following the release of a report called how america torches it contains a series of chilling sketches produced by somebody called abu zubaida an inmate at Guantanamo Bay to pick. An enhanced interrogation set of techniques he says he was subjected to between 2002 and 5 is story well he was captured from a jihadi safe house in pakistan in 2002 and sent to socalled cia black sites in thailand where the torture took place he was then transferred to Guantanamo Bay where he still being held without char
Fire, killing three, including a child. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport. That is with gavin. We will hear from liverpool managerjurgen klopp, as he prepares for what he calls the sites first cup final before the season sites first cup final before the season begins. That and plenty more coming up. Thanks. And ben rich has the weather. Remember the heat of last week, things have changed significantly, flooding rain in places over the weekend, pretty unsettled over the next few days, and that transition to something more unsettled has brought some really Severe Weather gcioss brought some really Severe Weather across some parts of europe. We will be looking at that plus all the weather news just before half past. Thanks, ben. Also coming up trapped up to his neck in water for several hours the man who got stuck in rocks as the tide came in and had to be freed by firefighters. Hello, everyone this is afternoon live im simon mccoy. Boris johnson is in scotland this afternoon on
Three months afterjournalist leera mckey was killed, no arrests have been made. The russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny has returned to prison from hospital, after the doctor treating him said he may have been poisoned. And trapped up to his neck in water for several hours, the man who got stuck in rocks as the tide came in and had to be freed by firefighters. When i arrived on scene, he was getting hammered by a pretty severe tidal wave. Its five oclock. Our top story borisjohnson says he is very confident a new brexit deal can be reached with the eu, despite the government ramping up its preparations for no deal. The Prime Minister made the comments while visiting the Faslane Naval base in scotland. He added that he believes there is scope for a new deal if there was good will and common sense between the uk and eu. What we want to do is make it absolutely clear that the backstop is no good. It has got to go. They Withdrawal Agreement is dead, it has got to go. But there is scop
A European Mission so there is some speculation here in berlin the germany might take over the reconnaissance flights given given such European Mission will be mandated by the board to stock the u. S. Is really upping the pressure on germany to dissipate in it Naval Mission there in the gulf the the u. S. Ambassador to germany Richard Grinnell coming out very strongly in an editorial saying germany needs to take on more International Responsibility but germanys foreign minister says that diplomacy is is probably is a priority for this country and he doesnt want to jeopardize that how is this diplomatic track working out well its not only germany its germany together with france and the u. K. And these 3 european powers want to keep at any price the nuclear deal with iran the German Government sees that as a huge political mistake that u. S. President trump has you need literally pulled out of put on. That Nuclear Agreement so if the us no asked germany to join a Naval Mission there are
Means no john participation in such a u. S. Mission so calm. Many think might succeed michael as the city uses as a conservative candidate in the next election she is trying to leave all or options open anyway still some confusion there that last week before Boris Johnson took over as Prime Minister in the u. K. The u. K. Proposed a European Naval mission to the gulf to help protect shipping in the strait of hormuz would germany bore me more amenable to a European Mission i personally think so and such a mission under a european flag germany would probably find its role has been similar European Missions in the past some of them quite successful and john vessels where in that flight it was for example that was one mission of off the coast of east africa and to Piracy Mission but if you look at the john navy these days the rest. So many vessels under repair and undergoing an overhauling process so theyre adalat if germany would or even could send ships into such a European Mission so th