god. america's most decorated veterans denounced. the facility turns twelve years old it's very easy to end one ton of. you release the man. you're not prosecuting. but the white house is unswayed saying gee process is a luxury can do without it in detainee these men. it's hard to tell right now exactly what will be done here in this mission. we report from inside guantanamo bay on the future of one of the world's most maligned prisons plus arts a visit in the homeland of more than half of the remaining inmates we report on plans to build one town and obey successor there and how detainees relatives view the situation. and publicly funded paradise british taxpayers are

surprised to learn they forked out more than ten million pounds in the last four years to support a small island community in the pacific. hello there you with the smaller. three dozen of america's most respected former generals and admirals have joined calls for guantanamo bay prison to be closed down the military facility itself is just turned twelve years old having survived torture scandals hunger strikes and global scrutiny parties and brings a fine report from guantanamo. when it comes to this prison the numbers speak for themselves since being set up

after the attacks of nine eleven a total of seven hundred seventy nine hundred have been held at guantanamo today one hundred sixty four people remain. have been long cleared for release but remain locked up a total of six people is currently under trial alleged prisoners of war brought here since two thousand and two removed from the battlefield of america's ever expanding war on terror it's both the policy of the u.s. not to hold anyone longer than necessary but we also know that whenever we release someone we assume a richness over a period of more than a decade the majority of detainees held here have been set free and if the men of guantanamo are really these superhuman monsters you know the worst of the worst are quote that cheney. they would have been really. most of those still kept locked up have not been charged and are being held indefinitely what sort of a black hole of the system where the president of the united states simply refuses to say the innocent but u.s.

officials say the law of war remains behind this barbed wire the idea is that in a war when you capture folks you as the capturing authority are permitted to hold people during the duration of hostilities. when hostilities and or if there's no longer any purpose legitimate purpose to to hold them then they must be released a tiny problem the war on terror has no geographic borders with men once held here repeat treated to a wide array of countries. who are only specific to guantanamo you can't even you couldn't even the case on the u.s. mainland because it would be unconstitutional and illegal the war on terror also has no end in sight and national security is a popular excuse to simply ignore the law. the spite the rhetoric really isn't about national security or prisoners being so dangerous that they can't possibly be released and that can't be true after being locked up the legal process if any

moves at a glacial pace in two thousand and twelve five detainees were transferred to had completed their military commission sentence two were court ordered released. detainees have been repatriated and one was suicide over the years countless detainee claims of mistreatment and abuse dozens of suicide attempts mass hunger strikes lost patience and hold just this year the majority of the prison population refused to eat for six months street only to be force fed the. mandate that we have is being able to provide adequate nutrition to preserve life washington has appointed a new envoy to close a camp that is a dark spot on america's image this comes after a mass hunger strike that returned the world's attention to the place that some have dubbed the gulag of our times even the close it seems. to mean a stage in u.s. history forever it's very easy to end one ton of. you release the men that you're

not prosecuted. and as you said only six men are being prosecuted right now the military prosecutor has made clear that he intends to prosecute a few more but he's also made clear that it won't be more than a few more the record obama promised to close the notorious facility on day one of his presidency he's now in his second term it's only a president can do it and the idea that it's you know that it's congress's fault is just not correct it is the president the top holding these men in detention some president has to come in and this. it's hard to tell right now exactly how long will be down here doing this mission. and stacy churkin at r.t. guantanamo bay cuba. well more than half the prisoners still at guantanamo

a yemeni nationals in the arab countries considering building and you facility to receive inmates after their release leaving it to be dubbed one town and made to. office just returned from yemen where she met relatives of the detainees and she said her experiences with my colleague it was doctor. it's difficult to stay positive about these detainees coming home when you've been waiting as long as over a decade as was the case with some of the families who we've met now yemen is in a specific different situation for a variety of reasons than other countries more than half of the remaining detainees are get many citizens fifty six of them have been cleared for release to get sent back from guantanamo not a single one has come home and in fact the last citizen to return to the country came home in a body bag and twenty twelve and that is the fate that some of the families that we met with worry could be in store for or for some of their loved ones one of the fathers that we met said that his son told them everything was going well and then basically found out through news reports that his son was participating in quite

ill from the hunger strike which we have covered here at r.t. it's interesting enough there were reports of a similar detention center being set up in yemen do you read into that right so basically they get a government has been pushing for years now for a so-called rehabilitation facility which would basically take these detainees help them adjust to society and make sure that they don't rejoin with terrorist networks which is the main concern of the united states what we're learning now is that the united states and yemen actually had secret talks in rome about this proposed facility but there's very little details that have emerged and the issue really boils down to trust and money yemen has tried to use this as a political issue to get more funding from the united states in the past so the u.s. isn't necessarily willing to foot the bill actually the funding issue something that we spoke to about with yemen's human rights minister his cost of money we want. to integrate into society to. give element. i'm sure

that they have this feeling any. yemeni government because they have the feeling that we neglected them since a long long time and just briefly it's not a time perhaps at guantanamo could actually be closed i absolutely would not read into about it at all or u.s. official. the key concern isn't the difficulty of reintegrating these former detainees in society it's the concern that these detainees will reintegrate into al qaeda networks and it's not a completely not valid one we have to remember that al qaeda in the arabian peninsula was founded by former guantanamo detainee so it's certainly a valid concern this is going to be such a long way off i mean if we waited this long for a get close unfortunately i don't think it's going to be sped up just because of this idea. there's plenty more for you are online to from interviews with. to the new tide of opposition facing the facility to do head to r.t. dot com. coming up in the program afghanistan's drug disaster reaches a whole new level twenty thirteen season unprecedented opium cultivation after

a decade of failed international efforts to tackle the problem. also a shadow workforce are to look at why illegal migrant labor in russia is becoming such a divisive issue. sun and sand it's a tiny tropical paradise in the south pacific and home to just over fifty people and although residents of the pitcairn islands pay no tax they get tens of thousands of pounds per person each year straight from the pockets of the british taxpayers test riseley reports on where all the money is going. have you ever heard of care. ok not. not ever heard of pitcairn. island or yes. i think in the pacific so why.

did you know that part of your taxes go to that island. have you ever heard of pitcairn. if you've never heard of pitcairn and you're an e.u. citizen it might be well worth knowing for that's where part of your taxes are going. as one of britain's overseas territories a small island in the south pacific with a total population of about fifty people now locals don't pay taxes and the islands main source of income include tourism and postage stamps but it's still heavily reliant on british and e.u. eight well let's break down the numbers here in the ninth european development fund or e.t.f. received two million euros in aid allocated for infrastructure building in the tempi v.f.p. it can receive two point four million that's a total of four point four million in thirteen years about six thousand eight hundred euros per person per year but that's not all earlier this year it emerged that the u.k. had sent about ten million pounds over four years proponents of development aid

richer a fee importance of maintaining quote solidarity and peace in developing nations and the european commission has indicated its attention to strengthen the focus of the e.t.f. on the world's poorest countries but details are scarce on how that assessment of the allocation will be done but critics in the e.u. and particularly the u.k. have long been voicing their disapproval on the government's money management which is essentially protecting what's given to others while slashing budgets for those at home now a two thousand and twelve you gov survey says that fifty four percent of the british public think that the british government should not be giving very much overseas aid. regardless of what public opinion surveys say for now the status quo remains in place reporting from london i'm tess or sylvia. and you can go online to the great lengths some european countries are going to put money in their coffers at the moment baltar for example is just

a week away from selling off passports or walking six hundred fifty thousand euros . opium farmers in afghanistan are expecting a record harvest this year bringing huge profits for warlords heroin traffickers and corrupt politicians according to the latest un report poppy production continues to spread at a staggering pace with some growers claiming government officials are taking a cut from the lucrative business opium cultivation despite by more than a third in twenty bringing the country share of global heroin supplies to over ninety percent artie's guinea and investigates the problem. production has increased forty times in afghanistan since nato started its war on terror in two thousand and one and now the drug money goes to fund terror and god knows what else not to mention of course thousands of lives taken by heroin consumption every year

but expect more drugs coming out of afghanistan because the value of opium is so much higher than any other crop available to afghan farmers that afghans are not planning on giving up on poppies anytime soon even though the tribal leaders in the afghan government publicly denounce opium production according to afghan farmers they still manage to packs them for that and this is what one farmer said government officials grow opium themselves and if they don't grow it themselves they rent out their land to farmers to grow it if the officials don't care about the law there is no reason for us to respect it that's according to this farmer for more than a decade nato and the us of course of the government that it had put in place in kabul every fuse to impose a clear ban on poppy growing possibly thinking such a ban would turn more people against the u.s. but here's how u.s. officials explain it this is just trying to eradicate property and the opium it's also trying to give people an alternative mechanism to live and to feed their

families but there is so much money behind narcotics that even with alternative ways to make a living it's very difficult to imagine that such massive drug production will stop unless there is a clear cut then on it in washington i'm going to check and. meanwhile the director of russia's and. even of says the international community baz a large share of responsibility for the drug disaster gripping afghanistan. the international community approved the use of military force to oust the taliban from afghanistan but at the end of the day we have seen a forty front increase in production. well parents took responsibility for afghanistan and now this country is supplying the rest of the planet with its most destructive drug afghan heroin has killed more than a million people in the past decade of war i think we should all be concerned about that. and former afghan and pay died still tens or he says opium production is

bound to rise further when nato forces withdraw when they leave in large numbers and very few are left for training nice really the cultivation will increase that trafficking will increase their western nations. did not come to afghanistan to address this issue of drugs as afghans i am fully aware that the international community has a mandate was not to address the drug issue in afghanistan it was terrorism but unfortunately it did not recognize the relation of drug cultivation trafficking and terrorism and they should have recognized it much earlier and they should have. put them together and they should have addressed it in a joint effort and today's edition of breaking the set looks at the impact the u.s. has had on the booming drugs trade in afghanistan here's what to expect. and guess

what guys the taliban had banned it almost completely eradicated opium afghanistan shortly before the us invaded some of these headlines the corp when he was even lauding the taliban success fast forward to today the harvest this may result in five thousand five hundred metric tons of opium forty nine percent higher than last year wow that's a lot of heroin and a lot of money being made someone's got to be reaping the spoils which brings us back to war which has always been about two things resources and control.

to speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks about six of the ip interviews intriguing story to tell you. troy t. arabic to find out more visit arabic don't call. exactly what happened that day i don't know but a woman killed. piers lakers when i got arrested for. for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results. in this and people to confess the police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is like meant no because the psycho. trickle

techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse they were off taking they could do what they wanted they could say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said. science technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've gone to the future covered. again russian migration officials are pushing for tougher checks on foreign workers they want to ensure that incomers have all the necessary papers and to limit the time they can stay in the country artie's poor scott takes a look at the statistics on perceptions on moscow's foreign night before.

migration in moscow is a sensitive subject right now following last month's murder of russia the back of allegedly at the hands of an azerbaijani migrant and the nationalistic riots that followed the issue is firmly in the spotlight and an r.t. camera crew has found out just how sensitive the topic is we went to a market on the outskirts of moscow to try and film an interview with mohamed mage i'm the president of the russian federation of migrants just by getting private mission to film it soon became clear our presence was not welcome. you russian though i have to repeat myself the saw ends with the fence we have in chile set up our interview away from the market. yes i think they may have suspected some illegal activities to of course when you have thousands of migrants some of them may not have work permits or residence permits. the exact number of migrants in moscow is hard to calculate but best estimates put the figure at around one quarter

of the population and according to official statistics one in five murders one into rapes and one in three robberies a carried out by migrants the authorities are keen to be seen to be tackling the problem as we found out before our meeting with mohammed. was in the arm rest on the outskirts of moscow police have been clamping down on illegal immigration every friday they go on a range of accommodation places of looking for illegal immigrants it's friday morning we're going with the police on one of those raids and it didn't take long for the police to get down to business demanding people's paperwork. to. know where to leave. where do you leave. the raid on the outskirts of moscow in the stuff i was last did to just about an hour and so far police have rounded up thirty five individuals who don't have the correct paperwork. to room one hundred eighty thousand work permits are granted each year according to

mohammed this figure is far too low. to address it you need to conduct a survey as to how many migrant workers more scrutiny if it needs a million workers you should issue a million work permits not a mere hundred thousand. it's believed around three million migrants are working in moscow twenty four percent of the illegally it is creating a vast black market for cheap labor market is some key to keep out of the spotlight it's got. moscow. she's become the face of a bar most shaky health care reforms and has the emotional scars to prove it is cyberbullying over her own wanted role in promoting obamacare reaches fever she can go online for the details of this story also there pope francis is cross the italian mafia one investigator says and could be in danger as he pursues his vatican crackdown on church corruption that is that r.t.

dot com. and wiki leaks has published part of the draft of a u.s. brokered international trade deal his exact wording has been kept secret for years the trans-pacific partnership agreement or t p p is expected to encompass an eleven nations representing about forty percent of the world's g.d.p. critics have already dubbed this scheme and they say the elite makes it clear that it's tailor made for major corporations allowing them to strengthen their monopoly control over sectors from i.t. to pharmaceutical goods recently almost two hundred u.s. lawmakers resisted pressure to fast track the green lantern that puts the deal in real danger according to a lawyer from the public citizen consumer. it's an outrageous secretive process and this is going to significantly increase the pressure not only become gresh will move but the fact that for the first time countries proposals are exposed in the united states is visibly isolated it is clearly lost the debate and

is simply trying to bully and pressure countries by hook or by crook into lining up with big pharma to hollywood anywhere the united states can get that agreement but it's really not looking very good for those proposals. and another trade deal being how madame by the u.s. and the could see individual corporations lifted to the status of the nation states will artie's financial guru max kaiser says that would be just to mind some highly controversial business activities so they pass a law to give chevron the ability to go down to the amazonian jungle go to a country like ecuador who they have committed of ecological whole of cost and committed wholesale murder like we haven't seen in fifty or sixty years and then go to the victim's families and say we know we killed your mom we know we killed your son but you always fifty thousand dollars because we got to pay our bond if we

don't get out of their job you will god is going to laugh. at the kaiser report they're a bit later on the white house is the congress not to impose new sanctions on iran saying they could damage progress in ongoing international nuclear talks however washington has gone ahead with its annual renewal of what's called a state of emergency against terror and the old sanctions still stand and america's ally israel seems to be putting all its lobbying power is into hating iran with new restrictions but middle east political analyst side alley thinks that further measures would harm u.s. interests. bronner's provides a golden opportunity for. the global community to come around the table and iron out an agreement about introducing new sanctions at the same time they're inviting

for negotiations is quite contra productive and. the confidence of really needs. to continue the negotiations and the only thing iran is trying to achieve is kind of for a go commission by five plus one about. enrichment having rights for peaceful. technology. some international news a brief now in thailand protest against the political amnesty bill gathering pace with thousands flooding the streets of the capital bangkok critics say the legislation would allow prime minister thaksin shinawatra dodge a jail sentence for corruption and return from exile legislation was rejected by the senate on monday but could be put forward again by the lower house in six months time opposition parties it call for demonstrations to continue to demand the government to resign. egypt's deposed leader mohammed morsi has accused the

military backed government of treason and warned the country cannot recover if his islamic party isn't put back in power he made the comments from prison through his lawyer is the most significant statement from the former president has made on egypt's current crisis since he was detained at the beginning of july mohammed morsi is due to go on trial in january on charges of inciting violence. and. does has pulled out of peace talks with israel citing a lack of progress since they regime didn't july the head of the delegation says the decision by television to continue settlement expansion rendered third in the goshi ations meaningless officials from both sides admit they failed to find common ground in the last few months. but next was a part with oksana boyko that's coming your way if you.

will. science technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered. exactly what happened that i don't know but a woman killed. piers later is when i got arrested for. for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results you get people to confess the police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is like meant no because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse and they were taking

they could do what they wanted they could say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said. come on the welcome to worlds apart the reason rapper small between iran and the united states may potentially put to rest one of the most toxic and the truth in more than geopolitics a possibility that would arguably benefit many peace loving nations many but not israel a country that seems to be increasingly confident believing under what it calls and that's the standstill strat why is the spectral war sweeter than the chance of

peace well to discuss that i'm knowledge joined by ronen bergman an israeli investigative journalist mr bergman thank you very much for your time thank you for inviting me there is a very old ancient jewish proverb about a bad piece being better than a good war but it seems that for israel the state of bad peace has become so familiar so constable that these really leaders should simply contest for to lose it. than as an enemy they seem to be very than on keeping this animosity growing why is that. every time an israeli is invited to be interviewed outside of israel it is usually assumed as if he is representing the stance of the country's government so let me start and say i'm not representing benjamin ateneo i will try maybe to reflect what is considered to be the mindset of the israelis and absolutely leadership to your question. i don't.