the league. 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 a mass hunger strike there. the countdown is on for the grand opening of st petersburg's new multi-million dollar theater a bar used to take you on an exclusive tour of the venue. displaced by violence in their homelands but a welcome in the west we will gather wise of a published refugees who have had their asylum claims rejected by the u.k. leaving them with nowhere to go.

this is already coming to live from the russian capital with me marina joshie and the united nations has ran of the treatment of detainees at guantanamo bay as torture the u.n. human rights office says that indefinite detention and force feeding could constitute inhumane treatment and kind of international law this comes as more prisoners joined a grueling three month hunger strike at the u.s. facility in cuba american military admits that the total number of protesters is now over one hundred but the lawyers for the captives have said all along that the actual figure is even higher twenty three detainees are now being force fed a procedure that said to be evenly painful well earlier my colleague kevin no one 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 as one tom. the prisoners are quiet ohio has been on strike since february sixth he has chosen not to eat not to speak any of the cards in protest to its pension forcing someone to do what

they don't want to do or at tying them down strapping them to chair and sticking to their nose is depriving them of their liberties and you have a walk with your own body but you don't lead 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 w. 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 as simple as allowing them to return the qur'an or to not have their qur'an searched that they haven't seen very many years do you think the condemnation from the u.n. now that we hear it will settle influence the situation at the prison and we've

been covering this story at length as you know the doesn't seem to agree much give over the last couple of months. well we've finally heard from president obama on the issue he had been silent for many many years however since he committed to close the grave and we find we. really need you and your condemnation that the president destroyed his new york law and i'm sure you've been speaking to me telling your brother to still have the same resolve visually went into this. is the resolve is still there. who counseled him yesterday we have my co-counsel and richardson who will be with me next week and he remains committed so you are 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 requests. well coming up in the program big brother blind america's security system is set for a major overhaul after it failed to prevent the boston terror attack despite more

than a decade of costly surveillance. same put as bird's world renowned mariinsky theatre 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 god artist about once a takes you back stage 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 pre opening evening performances where veterans of my reinstate war veterans as well as a performance arts and culture and of the who's who of us in petersburg were invited here for there's a pretty 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 do theater to you as well renowned

to but after 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 potently what the sound from the 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 all proud 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 be a duty of valerie get together he gave a stunning performance when he moved us of course he was not the only pulmo we were looking our for one of the one of russia's renowned pianists was also here we 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. for six incredible now do we know that the performances and do sound amazing and we know what to look out for on that the grand opening of mary's give here to see what about the space itself where early on i caught up with some of us in petersburg to see to find out what they thought about the space but this is great a. leads me to so far more down or with our future is in modern technologies that's why i. like this building this theater will attract more young people about the pre opening performances highlighted of the capacity of the stage 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 grind to 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 i'd tell you everything you need to know about this new space join me to mahmoud's a second of may. here on r.g.p. petersburg while the curtain rises on the inaugural performance at eight pm also time and we'll also bringing you full coverage online at r.t. dot com. tens of thousands of rejected asylum seekers are living in the u.k. without homes or jobs and unable to go back to their own countries artist billy boy who went to glasgow to find out more. are as spread on iraq he's been in glasgow for five years instead of three asylum claims rejected two he has no right to work and no way to live he's here illegally or just be discharged for throughout us i can walk to you know because i am under the threat assessment of my family all my

friends nowadays he sleeps on the floor of this gym in a shelter inside the local community center but for a raz and others just like him the abject poverty he subjected to is still better than going home and the home office deduction as a leg of this is. the home of his so you know i can see where they are not the right they lend to us that how is iraq safe. the. last time i heard it were last week a lot of people being kidnapped by the teacher is 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 rid of you we asked the u.k. home office about their policy towards destitute silent 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 and 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 we are living with nothing absolutely nothing not even meeting the u.n. millennium goal over in five dollars but to you this is absolutely nothing glasgow city authorities say they want to help people like a razz but 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 the sense of 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 school and they get in government won't let us do that in the standing in our way 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 slipped through the net and disappeared 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. at 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 anyone. you might recall speak the. you don't know what the law is you don't know your rights. you don't know where what you're going to do you got no money it must be horrific frightening less frightening experience to be that lost at seven fifteen it's time to wake up.

and face another day of trying to stay and survive in the united kingdom i never expected. they to meet me letting the. one top of. the hour enjoy. i want to never make that as a human being. on the moon when i feel i am one of them in person in this company. playboy team last day. and coming up the sour cosmic player after years of the patents on the baikonur cosmodrome and castle stan brushes building a unique spaceport on its own soil to test a new generation of rockets and launch lunar expeditions the full story is just ahead.

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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 and as artie's marina port now reports experts say washington security strategy has already cost far more than its 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 there has been a severe denigration of civil rights and civil liberties and the eggs are 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 of bomb building manual that could be found on the internet you just can't prevent terrorism in the current model with 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 a terrorist attack in broad daylight that no camera or a volume forced an official was able to predict i believe this was a massive failure of the sick the surveillance state that we've created in america to levon we have spent over seven hundred billion dollars on national security and

a lot of that is 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 and taylor every publicly installed for every camera that the n.y.p.d. puts our bloomberg o'kelly puts out or or some security agency puts out there's anywhere from thirty to fifty privately 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 security cameras are mounted just in lower manhattan alone just 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 whether. it's . engaging in pune engaging with communities where there's a potential for self radicalization of this 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 staff today on world twenty four seven by logging on to r.t.

dot com where you can find out the charges filed against three friends of the surviving boston bombing suspect dzhokhar turn on is forced mates allegedly delved his laptop and backpack during a crucial manhunt for the nineteen year old suspect the terrorist. also online tear gas and water cannon to center stage at may day marches around the world all the best pictures there for you at or t. dot com. please speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on the. fourteenth in the world talks about six of the c.r.p. interviews intriguing story are you. trying. to find out more visit or a big. dog called. news in brief from around the world an american citizen

has been sentenced to fifteen years of hard labor and north korea pyongyang accuses the baby of him to throw the regime the forty four year old was arrested last november after entering north korea as a tourist this comes at a time of tense relations between pyongyang 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 falls ill south near the malaysian border has claimed at least five thousand lives since two thousand and four. sorties in chad cd for all the plot to overthrow the government several people including an opposition lawmaker have been arrested a government stephen said security forces have been tracking the conspirators for

the past four months central african nation has a long history uprising of the current president idriss deby himself came to power after a coup in one thousand nine hundred. at least twenty two people were killed in iraq on wednesday in a series of gun and bomb attacks across the country that was after last week's bloody clashes which claimed over two hundred thirty lives making april the deadliest month for iraqis since mid two thousand and eight while the unrest marks a decade since washington's brough claim of victory in this operation iraqi freedom norman solomon director of the a.n.c. good for public accuracy things instability there is only likely to deepen. there's a very corrupt interest drop 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 worst in the last ten years and going forward 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 the reality of the war is followed up by president bush and then president obama to the extent that there is not honesty about the why is that 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 current mused a start a first on manned launch for the new front

a new facility is expected in three fifteen with manning more flights to all. 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 priority facility in russia's brand new cosmodrome. this will make russia independent mostly independent from the baikonur cosmodrome which is now using and pay an annual rent of six hundred million us dollars of this will also make life easy in terms of political decisions on several occasions asked on the blocked 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 course will join 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 much 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 drum 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 it's 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's quite a paved 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 rushed. scientists should be 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 landscapes from the balcony of the moon hotel will no longer be science fiction but an absolutely real option. the appeal of gold investments is stronger than ever despite the recent price live according to our financial guru max kaiser in the latest show up at twelve thirty pm g.m.t. he 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 they believe bernanke eat an apple know that obama bernanke in ways of the all in 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 this 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 still beating for the gold they love it they know the dollar was done. well when we come back the full story behind global financial had lines in our new show prime interest famous. famous american political figure ron paul has decided to create his own liberty

oriented homeschooling curriculum at ron paul curriculum back to give parents not turn it into standard public education you know when i was a kid homeschooling was only for like the kids of wacko's and cultists if you met someone who was homeschooled you always look at them with some sort of suspicion like what's with that kid with what his 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 mr 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 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 lack of funding is wrong post 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. good afternoon i welcome the prime interest i'm carrying boring here and washington d.c. and here are the issues that we're tracking today. maybe we buy more maybe what i'm talking about bond ben bernanke and the f.o. and the announced today and the pace of its q e purchases would depend on labor market and price inflation development the vague new england gives the fed

a potential exit later in the year something that it's been hinting at but an employment report this morning missed expectations so it looks like the fed maintains considerable wiggle room to keep the printing presses rolling for now we'll talk about our previous monetary regime under for invoice with author ben steele and a bit. the new york minutes has been shaved down to a chicago millisecond and that's just about all the time it takes for high frequency trading algos the front runner trades at the chicago mercantile exchange futures markets from gold to crude oil to soybeans have been game to this way for years the night gary gensler was already pushing the fia to feed em. new oversight of high speed traders this was after last week's twitter hack that sent markets plummeting in just a minute because of this and more on today's daily dual and. that is the head of fannie and freddie mel watt is the president's nominee to lead the federal housing finance agency the representative from north carolina would replace ed demarco who

has been criticized by democrats for resisting measures to help homebuyers and the expense of taxpayers watch will likely feed were the marker didn't know much of the mortgage giants are being wound down now and get to what's been your prime minister .