not to nations condemns what it calls the torture of detainees at guantanamo bay but a lawyer for one of the captives says u.s. authorities are not doing enough to end the mass hunger strike. the stage is set for the grand opening of st petersburg's new multi-million dollar theater to take you an exclusive tour of the many. displaced by violence in their homeland unwelcome in the west we look at the impoverished refugees who had their son in claims rejected by the u.k. leaving them with nowhere to go.

much more twenty four hours a day they carry. united nations has branded the treatment of detainees at guantanamo bay is torture un human rights office says indefinite detention and force feeding constitutes inhumane treatment and violates international law when it comes as more prisoners join the grueling three month 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 go is for the captives have always maintained this twenty three detainees are now being force fed a procedure that said to be extremely painful when any of my colleague kevin owen spoke to cindy pony we represents one of the inmates she says washington is failing to take the steps needed to defuse the crisis. the prisoners are kind of vital that

has been on strike since february sixteenth chosen not to eat not to speak any of the cards in protest against ransom forcing someone to do what they don't want to do and now strap in their words here and sticking to their nose is. no liberty you have it walk with. you but you don't love to do that anywhere and most places in the world to to kill yourself is not legal. sure they're going to judy of care the prison w. that has to come into it somewhere. yes but the problem here is that this. problem could be resolved with something as simple as. meeting with them talking to them. discussing with them what it is. and the hunger strike and it's a simple as allowing them to return or to not have their search that they haven't seen very many years do you think the condemnation from the u.n.

now that we're hearing will so influence the situation at the prison that 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 finally heard. from president obama yes you have been silent for many many years how since he committed to close that we find we. really need you and your condemnation of the president because new york law and i'm sure you've been speaking to me has been telling your brother to still have the same resolve is what went into this. is the resolve is still there we just had our counsel yesterday we hope novel and richard said will be written next week and he remains maybe it's you continuing to protest not just. now also in the prisoners and his indefinite detention without any sort of.

well coming up in the program big brother blind america's security system looks set for a major oval office failed to prevent the boston terrorist attack split more than a decade of course the surveillance. so petersburg's world renowned at my risk youth theatre which introduced the nutcracker about it to the world is poised to celebrate the opening of its new state of the art twin venue with the ground going to auntie's to bang let's say takes you backstage now of one of the most vicious cultural projects in modern russian history. it was a full house here at the marine ski theatre at the pre opening evening performances where veterans of my reinstate war veterans as well as a performance arts 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 marine skis be a to as well renowned to be up to ten yes and seven hundred million dollars are spent on making this grand space we're already to see what it looked like and why potently 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 also one of the best people we're looking on for tonight was none other than a district director over the marines do you fear an admiring skewed view do you of valerie get together he gave a stunning performance way he moved us of course he was not the only pull 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 do sound amazing and i want to look odds on at the grand opening of money here to see what about the space itself where early on i caught up with some of st petersburg to see to find out why they thought about the space but this is a great meet so for more down town hall. 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 the capacity of the stage the supreme variety of the performances they can actually put up on this stage and of course on how to merge very successfully classical as well as contemporary performances so

join us on our eighty on the second of may as we bring you live here on the ground to air opening performances at the marine theater two 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 my mil's a second of may. here on r.g.p. petersburg. well the curtain rises on the no group of former pm moscow time will also be bring you full coverage online article called. moving on now tens of thousands of rejected asylum seekers are residing in the u.k. but without homes or jobs and unable to go back to their own countries. has been to glasgow to find out more about those who are now forced to live in limbo as flood water in iraq has 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 i just

been this shit for three artists i can't go back to iraq 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 a raz and others just like him the abject poverty he subjected to is still better than going home and the home office did it in as like this is. the home of his save where they are not right they lying to us. the how is iraq save the. last time i heard it well 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 silence 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 return home and any support provided is temporary well individuals make the arrangements the u.k. government will see people don't need to be in this situation but i think that callously mosques in reality they are in limbo many for years i have to tell you who are living with nothing absolutely nothing not even. the u.n. millennium goal over in five dollars pretty this is absolutely nothing glasgow city authorities say they want to help people like iran's 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 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 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 so silent 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 earth or sees 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 anyone because you might because speak the language. you don't know what the lore is you don't know your rights you don't know what you're going to do you got no money it must be

a horrific frightening less frightening experience leave that 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 in they treat me like that i want to have a better life and i want to have it so i want to leave i mean like that as a human being so at the moment i feel i am underneath them in pairs and in this hunting party boy artie glaus. coming up this cosmic plans all to me is a dependence on the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan russia is building a unique space port on its own soil to test a new generation of rockets launched an expedition to the story just ahead.

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this is our team or world news for you now and many of us government officials are calling for tougher national security measures in the wake of the deadly boston bombings and more than a decade of multi-billion dollar surveillance at the expense of civil liberties and failed to prevent terror at home or in a port now reports experts saying 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 u.s. 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 anger and geisha

of power by federal government authorities and by law enforcement against individual since two thousand and one hour round 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 a free 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 or 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 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 camera for every camera that the n.y.p.d. puts out or bloomberg or kelly puts out or or some security agency puts out there's anywhere from thirty to fifty privately installed as 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 nest 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 its 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 or the. more things that we can do whether 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. you can stay up to date on world events twenty four seven by logging on to r.t. dot com and while you're there be sure to check out this video is a presence of turkmenistan coming in first in a horse race. for the wrong just seconds off he crosses the finish line of a leader was in good enough shape to turn up. also online tear gas and water cannons took center stage at. around the world. dot com. please speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. the team from the world talks of the ip interviews intriguing story for you here.

in trying. to find out more visit our big. news in brief now from around the world this hour an american citizen has been sentenced to fifteen years of hard labor in north korea. kenneth bay of attempting to overthrow the regime forty four year old was arrested last november after entering the country tourist becomes a ton of tense relations between north korea and western powers which escalated from the communist states nuclear bomb testing for every. six people all good ists have been killed in one injured in an attack. in southern thailand a gunman opened fire outside a shop before fleeing the scene on motorcycles insurgency in thailand's all target area near the malaysian border has claimed at least five thousand lives in two thousand and four. and. forty thousand tried to say they foiled

a plot to overthrow the government several people including an opposition lawmaker have been arrested government statement said security forces had been tracking the conspirators for the past four months the central african nation has a long history of uprisings the current price and to steady himself hour after doing ninety ninety. at least twenty two people were killed in iraq on wednesday in a series of on the tops of the country united nations says april was the deadliest month since mid two thousand and eight with more than seven hundred lives lost in the rest of monks' a decade since washington's claim a victory in its ration iraqi freedom norman solomon to make. her see things instability that was and is not going 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 that by most

measures the magnitude has been the worst 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. death 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 and pump up the war is something glorious a lot of the problem that we have is that. reality but war is by president bush and then president obama to the extent that there's not honesty about the whys that were the basis of the war and the suffering that is the result of the war. now construction is in full swing in russia's far east to finish the

country's new space ports. the first unmanned the once from the new facility is expected in twenty fifteen and many more flights to follow. the 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 independent from the baikonur cosmodrome which is now using and paying an annual rent of six hundred million u.s. 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 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 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 or. just the beginning that's why it will play exploration program with plans to build an observatory and the research lab on the lunar surface already voiced by russian scientists should that 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 a moon hotel will no longer be science fiction but an absolutely real option. when the case for investing in gold is stronger than the despite a recent price slide that's according to lottie's financial guru max kinds of the latest show which will bring you in just over an hour he explains why in his style . 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 and now people know that obama bernanke in ways of the all they want america is full of book who they don't believe them anymore so when the price goes down the demand surges and then 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. next to look at the history behind labor day and breaking the set it up the mountain.

famous american political figure ron paul has decided to create his own liberty oriented home schooling curriculum at ron paul curriculum back to give parents not turn of the 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 sort of suspicion like what's with that kid with what's with 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 jewels 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 becomes 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 a 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 due 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 nowadays but that's just my opinion. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous and lucky i got. i mean. i know that i'm still really messed up. really so closely the. worst cheaper to live. by that sort of

a. radio guy in a minute. what. we're about to give you never seen anything like this i'm sorry. what's going on i have a martin and this is breaking the sat so you get the hunger strike going on where one hundred prisoners are starving themselves to send a message to the world well obama's been gravely silent about this new development up until now and yesterday during a press conference one reporter pushed the present on the issue he loves to avoid the most guantanamo. prison probably where there's a growing oh right look beautiful. is it a surprise really for this. insight to their confinement

i've asked my team to review everything that's currently being done in guantanamo everything that we can do administratively and i'm going to reengage with congress to try to make the case that this is not something that's in the best interest of the american people let me just reiterate that question. is any surprise really that the prisoners would prefer death rather than to have no end in sight to their confinement and is it now before i continue let me just say kudos to c.b.s. is built went to is actually bold enough to do his job and asked the president the right question but to president obama who actually had the nerve to answer by projecting the blame on congress alone shame shame on you because we all know.