the united nations condemns what it calls the torture of detainees at guantanamo bay while a lawyer for one of the captives says u.s. authorities are not doing enough to and the mass hunger strike their. countdown is on for the grand opening of st petersburg's new multimillion dollar cedar mariinsky to take you on an exclusive tour of the venue. displaced by violence in their homelands but unwelcome in the west we look at the lives of impoverished refugees who have had zero asylum claims or jack the by the u.k. leaving them with no word to go.

the thirty coming to you live from the russian capital a marina josh welcome to the program now the united nations has branded the treatment of detainees at guantanamo bay as torture the u.n. human rights office says that indefinite detention and force feeding constitute inhumane treatment and contravene international law this comes as more prisoners join the growing threat of hunger strike at the u.s. facility in cuba the american military admits that the total number of protesters is now over one hundred but the lawyers for the cap this have sat all along that the actual figure is even higher twenty three detainees are now being force fed a procedure that said to be extremely painful earlier my colleague kevin owen spoke with cindy poco who represents one of the inmates and she says washington is failing to take the steps needed to defuse the crisis at guantanamo. the prisoners our client has been on strike since february sixth he has chosen not to eat not to

speak any of the guards in protest because it's attention forcing someone to do what they don't want to do or tying them down or strapping them into it share and sticking to their nose is depriving them of their liberty you have a walk with your own body but you don't love to do that anywhere and most places in the world to to to to kill yourself is not legal. surely to get a jew cheap care the prison doubly that has to come into it somewhere. yes but the problem here is that this really wouldn't help to force this problem could be resolved something as simple as meeting with and talking to the prisoner at discussing with them what it is it's going to mix and the hunger strike and it's a simple as allowing them to return the qur'an or to not have the ground search that they haven't been security for many years do you think the condemnation from

the u.n. now that we're hearing will settle influence the situation at the prison that we've been covering the story at length as you know the doesn't seem to be much give over the last couple of months. while we finally heard from president obama on the issue he had been silent for many many years how since he committed to close the curtain we finally heard him is really new and new condemnation of the president destroyed his new club i'm sure you've been speaking to me telling you about the still the same resolve visually went into this. as the resolve is still there we just had our counsel visit him yesterday we have my co-counsel and richard said will be written next week and he remains committed to you continuing to protest not just. at the base but now also for speeding up of the prisoners and his indefinite detention without any sort of records. well coming up in the program later here in

r t big brother a blind american security system is set for a major overhaul after its failed to prevent the boston terror attack despite more than a decade of costly surveillance. team that is birds world renowned theater which introduced the nutcracker ballet to the world is poised to celebrate the opening of its new state of the art twin venue with a grand dog artist yvonne would say takes you back stage of one of the most ambitious cultural projects in modern russian history. it was a full house here at the marine ski theater to at the premier opening evening performances where veterans of my reinstate war veterans as well as a performance arts and culture and of the history of us in petersburg were invented here for the supreme rehearsal evening now of course everybody in st petersburg and around the world has been waiting in anticipation for this new space as we all know is marine steve the mother sister all but the new marines can be

a to achieve as well when down to but up to ten yes and seven hundred billion dollars on spend on making this grand space we're already to see what it looked like and why both and feel what the sound from performances sounded like and nothing was short of a spectacular now of course this evening was meant to highlight how the space can work in terms of the different genres and the different performances from opera to ballet to all kids show us all here in this interchangeable stage of course one of the best people we're looking on for tonight was none other than a district director of the marine stevia one admitting to give you did see a valerie get together he gave a stunning performance when he moved us of course he was not the only pulmo we were looking for one of the one of russia's renowned pianists was also here who should a little bit about what he thought this space meant for him to use one of the best

new. worlds. one of the most important things to steve fossett is incredible now do we know that the performances a do sound amazing and we know what to look odd for on that the grand opening of maria's give here to see what about the space itself well early on i caught up with some of st petersburg's freezing to find out why they thought about the space but this is a great need so. more of them and all our future is in modern technologies that's why i. like this building is here to will attract more young people about the three opening performances highlighted at the capacity of the stage of the supreme variety all the performances they can actually put up on the stage and of course on how to merge very successfully classical as well as contemporary performances so join us on our g on the second of may as we bring you live here the ground to air

opening performances at the marine ski theatre to from st petersburg that's it for me for now i look forward to giving you more and everything you need to know about this new space join me to my mil's a second of may. here on r.t. petersburg well the curtain rises on the inaugural performance at eight pm moscow time and will be also bringing you full coverage online at r.t. dot com. now tens of thousands of rejected asylum seekers are living in the u.k. was out homes or jobs and unable to go back to their own countries artist boy boy who went to glasgow to find out more are as floodwater in iraq he's been in glasgow for five years and he's had three asylum claims rejected so he has no right to work and nowhere to live he's here illegally or just in this region for three artists i can go back to you know because i am under the threat the assassin of my family all

my family nowadays he sleeps on the floor of this gym in a shelter inside the local community center but for iran and others just like him the abject poverty he subjected to is still better than going home on the home office to get in as like this is because he was you know like your pupil or the home of his legacy where they are not the right they lend to us. how is iraq safe. the. last time i heard it were last week a lot of people been kidnapped by the tito he's in iraq in the especially in my city where the home of his isn't always a safe i mean there is no theories about are they lying to you they one thing you go back i mean. they want to get the redo of you we asked the u.k. home office about their policy toward destitute silence seek is this is the statement we got failed asylum seekers have no right to remain in the u.k.

and no need for protection they have a duty to return home any support provided is temporary well individuals make those arrangements the u.k. government will see people don't need to be in this situation but i think that callously masks the reality they are in limbo maybe for years i have to tell you who are living with nothing absolutely nothing not even meeting the u.n. millennium goal of around five dollars pity this is absolutely nothing glasgow city authorities say they want to help people like arise but that their hands are tied because of policies made over six hundred kilometers away in westminster the law has been constructed in such a we actually illegal for the council to provide support for asylum seekers so what has happened is that the numbers of destitute people have started to rise and build up over the years it's a terrible situation it's a humanitarian crisis or school scotland's biggest city is the first in the u.k.

to openly condemn the government's treatment of failed asylum seekers we want to treat people with compassion in scotland the government won't let us do that in the standing in our world it's not known exactly how many destitute asylum seekers there are drifting about the city because after the home office rejects a case they slip through the net and disappear from the view of the all thirty's so they're left with no support and no way of working in a city that's just been ranked the most violent in the u.k. the shelter volunteers provide a hot meal for a few hours at least men and women can experience a safe environment i think it must be really difficult to be in a city. you don't know any what. you might be called speak the language you don't. what the law is you don't know you. you don't know what you've got no money it must be horrific but less frightening experience to be that at this time to wake up.

and face another day of trying to stay and survive in the united kingdom i never expected. they treat me like that i want to have a better life and i want to have a job so i want to leave i mean as a human being and then when i feel i am i think the main person in this company. you want to live in moscow coming up this hour of cosmic lions after years of the pan and song baikonur cosmodrome and cattle stand rush is building a unique spaceport on its own soil the test a new generation of rockets and launch a lunar expeditions of all stories just ahead.

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talk about it watching our team now some u.s. officials are calling for tougher national security measures in the wake of the deadly boston bombings more than a decade of multi-billion dollar surveillance at the expense of civil liberties has failed to prevent terror at home as artie's marina bordeaux reports experts say washington security strategy has already cost far more than it's worth. september eleventh two thousand and one terrorism claims the lives of nearly three thousand americans and the construction of a super sized us security paradigm begins. surveillance technology has become the driving force behind washington's counterterrorism strategy bodies scanned at airports faces filmed on the streets and social media closely monitored in cyberspace a severe denigration civil rights civil liberties and the anger a nation of power by federal government authorities and by law enforcement against individual since two thousand and one around seven hundred and ninety billion

dollars has reportedly been spent on cementing america's homeland security apparatus a platinum wall of defense easily shattered by inexpensive pressure cookers ball bearings nails and differing bomb building manuals that could be found on the internet you just can't prevent terrorism in the current model with these surveillance technologies i can go into a right and walk with the makings of a bomb. build a bomb in my own house put it in a backpack. put it on a street corner and kill fifteen or twenty people three people died and more than two hundred seventy were hospitalized last month after twin bombs exploded near the boston marathon finish line by terrorist attack in broad daylight that no camera or law enforcement official was able to prevent i believe this was a massive failure of the the surveillance state that we've created in america since

nine eleven we have spent over seven hundred billion dollars on national security and a lot of that surveillance with the help of surveillance video the f.b.i. was eventually able to identify the boston bombing suspects however the best images did not come from a public camera the video was reportedly filmed by a private camera belonging to the department store lord taylor every publicly a small camera for every camera that the n.y.p.d. puts out or bloomberg kelley puts out or or some security agency puts out there's anywhere from thirty to fifty hardly installed they're being installed everywhere it's a pin up the car everywhere you go you're being watched in new york city the u.s. capitol of surveillance four thousand cameras are mounted just in lower manhattan alone as a visual recognition has become the new normal in the big apple and recently city

officials proclaimed privacy to be off the table the attacks in boston and the news that new york city was next on the terrorist list shows just how critical it is for the federal government to devote resources to high risk areas it also shows just how crucial it is for the n.y.p.d. to continue to gather it's to expand its counterterrorism capabilities and intelligence gathering activities meanwhile the u.s. president is questioning whether his administration needs to apply new strategies to tackle domestic terrorism and are there more things that we can do when. it's. engaging in engaging with communities where there's a potential for self radicalization of this sort is there work that can be done in terms of detection detecting terror in the homeland eleven and a half years after america's global war on terror began. r.t.

new york. well stay up to date on world events twenty four seven by logging on to our t dot com where you can find out about the charges filed against three friends of the surviving boston bombing suspect dzhokhar and nine of course mates allegedly dumped his laptop and backpack during the crucial manhunt for the nineteen year old suspect a terrorist. also online they tear gas and water cannon took center stage at may day marches around the world and all the best picture there for you at. least be cool language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. the fourteenth of botox six o'clock pm to treat this story are you. trying. to find out more visit our big don't.

take a look at some other stories from around the world and american citizen has been sentenced to fifteen years of hard labor in north korea john yang accuses can of attempting to overthrow the regime of forty four year old was arrested last november after andrey north korea as a tourist and this comes at a time of tense relations between john yang and western powers which escalated after north korea's third nuclear bomb test in february. six people all buddhist have been killed and one injured in an attack by islamic insurgents in southern thailand the gunmen opened fire outside a shop and then fled the scene on motorcycles a muslim insurgency in thailand's volatile south near the malaysian border has claimed at least five thousand lives since two thousand and four. ortiz and chad say these for oil the plots to overthrow the government several people

including an opposition lawmaker have been arrested a government statement said security forces have been tracking the conspirators for the past four months the central african nation has a long history of uprisings the current president idriss deby himself came to power after a coup in one thousand nine hundred. least twenty two people were killed in iraq on wednesday in a series of ghonim bomb attacks across the country that was after last week's bloody clashes which claimed over two hundred thirty lives and fueled fears that a nation could slip further its a tarion chaos well the latest on the rest comes a decade after washington's proud claim a victory dance operation iraqi freedom norman solomon director of the institute for public accuracy things instability in iraq is only likely to deepen. there's a very corrupt interest truck sure and a lot of political repression torture and chilling both in public and behind prison

walls which was also the case under saddam hussein but i think by most measures the magnitude has been the u.s. in a worse in the last ten years and going forward the prospects look very grim i think that the united states government should be apologizing to the american people for the lies and especially to the iraqi people because of so much evil and injury that continues to take place because of and in the aftermath of the invasion occupation under the bush cheney administration it was all effort to justify a pump up the war is something glorious a lot of the problem that we have is that the reality of the war is followed up by president bush and then president obama to the extent that there's a knock on the steel about the why is that where the basis of the war and the suffering that is the result of the war. construction is in full swing in the

russian far east to finish the country's new space for its the first unmanned launch from the new facility is expected in twenty fifteen was manning more flights here saskia reports. this site is now being described as the main construction side of russia's far east in just two years time this will become the top priority facility in russia the brand new cosmodrome. this will make russia independent mostly dependent from the baikonur cosmodrome which is now using and paying an annual rent of six hundred million us dollars of this will also make life easy in terms of political decisions on several occasions blocked the launch of russia's satellites and manned space ships of course when russia will have its own space port here in the far east this problem will no longer exist there will of course be

some disadvantages for instance the transportation of the russian carriers to the cosmodrome here in the far east right now it takes several days to deliver them to the baikonur cosmodrome which is two thousand five hundred kilometers away from moscow this side here is five thousand five hundred kilometers from moscow so it will take longer and a little more closely but the advantages which exist in this project of having its russia having its own cosmodrome are much more more significant in the first place the parts of the carriers the parts of rockets which are falling off from the rocket when it enters the atmosphere will no longer full on to the land and of course will no longer create risks of these parts holding on to populated areas in the case of the drawn these parts will fall into the ocean but the biggest and the most significant benefit which russia will have from having its own cosmodrome is its lunar program by the year twenty thirty as expected a space ship

a manned space ship will take off from here to the moon which will then circle the earth satellites orbit. just the beginning that was a way to a whole new moon exploration program with plans to build an observatory and the research lab on the lunar surface already voiced by russian scientists should dug successful a whole string of facilities including helium mining shafts may follow there's even a possibility that now lifeless planet could be made inhabitable by humans and enjoying a quiet evening watching lunar landscape from the balcony of a moon hotel would no longer be science fiction but an absolutely real option. while the appeal of gold investments is stronger than ever despite the recent price light according to our financial guru max kaiser and his latest show coming up at twelve thirty pm g.m.t. explains why. that's a new phenomenon usually when the price of gold goes down people have been sellers because they believe hollywood they believe washington they believe obama they

believe bernanke now people know that obama bernanke in ways of dollars and one america is full of books who they don't believe them anymore so when the price goes down the demand surges demand surges on price breaks that's something new in the past fifty years we have not seen this in fifty years when the price goes down demand increases because of the watchers of the show around the world in hotel rooms in airports and homes throughout the entire globe and they're in the hallway they're saying because you're going to buy gold and the demand was stampeding for the gold they love it they know the dollar was done. and coming out party looks at the drug wars and daily shootings in the rest of the mexican city of tijuana.

famous american political figure ron paul has decided create his own liberty oriented homeschooling curriculum at ron paul curriculum back to parents not turning up to standard public education you know when i was a kid homeschooling was only for like the kids of wacko's and cultus if you met someone who was homeschooled you always look at them with some suspicion like what that did with what those parents i mean who would home school their kids well let's look at it this way who would grow their own food when american supermarkets are stocked with pure healthy and natural food the problem is that food in stores is now loaded up with all sorts of mystery chemicals and g m o's and it makes perfect sense that nowadays people are intro starting to grow their own food and this logic applies to education too when public education. so dismal it is perfectly logical and reasonable to try to educate your kids yourself the no child left behind

program did a fine job of making the american education system lower the bar down to the very basement of the lowest common denominator i mean if you think there should be more in the high school graduates had besides reading writing and arithmetic that homeschooling might be for you as art sports and music and science programs all across the nation to the lack of funding is ron paul's libertarian curriculum what's best for your kids i can't say but it's definitely worth taking a look at other alternatives given the d. minus quality of public education holidays but that's just my opinion. and any welcome to. hear you can feel if.

you're going to. live up to. three people who were. there were cuts of pieces in the.

there were three from what i saw one. with no head with no wrists and with no legs all i could see.