world's attention to the point that some. of our. faces a rising tide of opposition as the facility marks twelve years of scandal and scrutiny . it's very easy to enter one ton of. new release. that you're not prosecute but the white house is unswayed saying process is a luxury it can do without detaining these men it's hard to tell right now exactly how long we'll be down here doing this mission we report from inside guantanamo bay on the future of one of the world's most maligned prisons plus parts a visit to yemen the home of more than half of the remaining inmates we focus on plans to build one ton of my base excessive there and high detainees relatives of the situation. and a publicly funded paradise of british tax pays the surprises and then they fall

more than ten million pounds in the last four years to support a small island community in the pacific. it was good to have you company watching coming from moscow. 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 twelve years old having survived torture scandals hunger strikes and global streets in a. kind of brings us her final 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 over half of them 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 dick 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 weak 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 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 called even you couldn't even go on top of 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 a suicide over the years countless detainee claims of mistreatment and abuse dozens of suicide attempts mass hunger strikes lost patience and hope 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 if close to it seems. to mean the state and us history forever it's very easy to end one ton of right you release the men that

you're not prosecuting. 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 on a promise to close the notorious facility on day one of his presidency he's now in his second term it's only a president who 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 the president has to come in and this. it's hard to tell right now exactly how long will be down here doing this mission. the s. and stacy churkin are artsy guantanamo bay cuba. but more than half the prisoners

still at guantanamo a yemeni nationals in the arab countries considering building a new facility to receive inmates after their release leading it to be dubbed guantanamo to. caffeine all of this just returned from yemen where she met relatives of the needs and shed her experiences with my colleague bill dot. it's difficult to stay positive about these detainees coming home when you've been awaiting us 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 to 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 it 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 him to get. to. the element in this is i am sure

that they have this feeling. toward the yemeni government because they have the feeling that we neglected them since a long long time and just briefly it's not perhaps it could actually be closed i absolutely would not read into about it at all where u.s. official. the key concern isn't the difficulty of reintegrating these former detainees into 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 there are 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 it to close unfortunately i don't think it's going to be sped up just because of this idea. we've got interviews with former guantanamo inmates and in-depth coverage of the international pressure facing the facility do had to r.t. dot com for that coming up later in the program afghanistan's drug disaster reaches

a whole new level twenty thirteen cities and unprecedented cultivation after a decade of failed international efforts to tackle the problem also a shadow workforce r t looks at why you legal labor in russia is becoming such a divisive issue. sun surf and sand it's a tiny tropical paradise in the south pacific and 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 british taxpayers to a silly report on where all the money is going. have you ever heard of care. ok no. not ever heard of pitcairn. island or yes. i think in the pacific so why. do

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 the facts where part of your taxes are go a. bit 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 of the islands main source of income include tourism and postage stamps bot. on british e.u. eight well let's break down the numbers here in the ninth european development fund or e.t.f. pitcairn received two million euros in eight 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 to proponents of development aid

the importance of maintaining quote solidarity and peace in developing nations that 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 allocation will be done but critics in the e.u. well particularly in 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 are cilia. and we're reporting on the great lengths some european countries are going to at the moment just to put money in their coffers motive for example is just

a week away from selling off passports for a whopping six hundred fifty thousand euros which. opium farmers in afghanistan are expecting a record harvest this year bringing huge profits for heroin traffickers and taliban militants according to the latest u.n. report poppy production continues to spread it is staggering some grow is claiming government officials are taking a cut from lucrative businesses opium cultivation inspired by more than a third in twenty three bringing the country share of global heroin supplies to around ninety percent. investigates the problem. opium 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 managed to tax 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 who 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 on. the director of russia . even though 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 four increase in production the. world powers 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 a fool i think we should all be concerned about that. and form afghan m.p.

died sultanzoy 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 nicely 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've. put them together and they should have addressed it in a joint effort. and today's edition of breaking the set looks at america's impact on the drug trade enough ghana stand is what to expect. and guess what guys the taliban had banned it almost completely eradicated opium afghanistan shortly before

the u.s. invaded look at these headlines the corporate media is 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 is always been about two things resources and control. just gone cold pasta live in a remote sky just ahead we'll be taking an inside look at moscow's migrant work force you watching. there's a war on for a piece of the mud pie yes the government is tolling out some maggot infested pieces of mud pie benefit slop and the prison voters are beating each other up

trying to grab a slice or two and if that fails then they try to deprive their neighbor of his unfair piece of the mud pie but while tax revolt austerity riots capture the public's imagination in secret back rooms in europe america trade deals are currently being negotiated which will impose a so-called investor state upon us all. we can with oh if you're going to. choose good consents to. choose to be great to. choose to stories could you. choose. to.

hello welcome back well let's start with that migration story because russian 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 paul scott takes a look at the statistics and perceptions on moscow's foreign labor force. 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 arty 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 site 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 of course and when you have thousands of migrant 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 around one quarter of the population and according to official statistics one in five murders wanting to rapes and one in three robberies a carried out by migrants your thirty's or kin to be seen to be tackling the problem as we found out before our meeting with mohammed. since the under arrest in the outskirts of moscow police have been tamping down on illegal immigration every friday they go in range of accommodation places of work 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. you know where do leave. where do you leave. the raid on the outskirts of moscow in this deficit was lost just about an hour and so far police have rounded up thirty five individuals who don't have the correct paperwork. around 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 means 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 ninety four percent of the legally it is creating a vast black market for cheap labor market this some key to keep out of the spotlight. r.t. moscow. she's become the face of the u.s.

president shaking health care reforms and has the emotional scars to prove it is cyberbullying over her unwanted role in promoting obamacare reaches fever pitch you can go online for the story the details on the story about the girl and pope francis has crossed the fear one investigator says and could be in danger as he pursues his vatican crackdown on church corruption this story two is that r.t. dot com. wiki leaks has published part of the draft of a u.s. brokered international trade deal whose exact wording has been kept secret for years the trans-pacific partnership agreement or pain is expected to encompass eleven nations representing about forty percent of the world's g.d.p. critics have already dubbed the scheme and he can chew monae say the league 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 mint and that does put the deal in real danger according to a lawyer from the public system consumer. it's an outrageous secretive process and this is going to significantly increase the pressure not only the congressional move but the fact that for the first time countries proposals are 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 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 hammered out by the u.s. and the you could see individual corporations lifted to the status of nation states in artie's financial guru max kaiser says that would lead you to my some highly controversial business activities. will they pass

a law to give the ability to go down to the amazonian jungle go to a country like ecuador who they have committed of ecological whole 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 mark we know we killed your son but you always fifty thousand dollars because we got to put on it we don't propose to do evil god is going to out. for the episode coming up in about ten minutes time now the white house is 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 iran and the old sanctions still stand and america's ally israel seems to be putting all its lobbying powers into hitting iran with new

restrictions but middle east political analyst side 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 but introduce a new sanctions at the same time they're inviting for that in the goetia nations is quite contra productive and may the confidence of radiance. to continue the negotiations and the only thing iran is trying to achieve is kind of for a go condition by five plus one about legal enrichment and to having rights for peaceful nuclear technology. a quick look now at some other news in thailand protests against a political amnesty bill are gathering pace with thousands flooding the streets of the capital bangkok critics say the legislation would allow prime minister actually

. jail sentence for corruption i'm returned from exile the legislation was rejected by the senate on monday but could be put forward again by the lower house in six months time opposition parties have told the demonstrations to continue to demand the government resign. egypt's supposed leader mohamed morsi has accused the military backed government of treason and warned the country cannot recover if his islamist party isn't put back in power he made the comments from prison from his lawyer and it is the most significant statement that 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 a team of palestinian negotiators has pulled out of peace talks with israel citing a lack of progress since they regimes in july the head of the delegation says the decision by tel of the to continue settlement expansion rendered further

negotiations meaningless officials from both sides admit they failed to find common ground in the last few months. next it is. stacy we think kaiser report. you know i love these rare moments where action of something fairly sounds positive to share with you the f.d.a. is working to ban partially hydrogenated oils which are the leading source of trance fats and foods and possibly the cause of up to twenty thousand heart attacks per year across the usa according to f.d.a. commissioner margaret hamburg as you know i would like the chemicals in my food kept to a minimum but the thing is the people at the f.d.a. are surely aware of all the hormones in beef and jim o's being produced why does

the span have such a very narrow narrow focus in fact when you look at all the things that americans consume smoke use that to swear health some get the violent band hammer while others are completely tolerated if you ever talk to hardcore marijuana smoker they'll tell you but dude weed is better for you than beer and that's the legal ban and they kind of have a point i think there is this is one of those rare instances where a balance position isn't really a good idea well the country could go the libertarian route and let it be everything be legal let people make their own choices or do what i think would be much much better actually really ban all the things that are destructive to our health both of these paths have positive and negative effects but they are a lot better than our current plan of ban some harmful things for some reason and a lot other harmful things because well they lobby better but that's just my opinion. this is the media leave us so we leave the baby. motions so to the. party

years ago. which is that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all politics only on our t.v. . hi max keyser welcome to the kaiser report. there's a war on for a piece of the mud pie yes the government is doling out some maggot infested pieces of mud pie benefit slop and the peasant voters are beating each other up trying to grab a slice or two and if that fails then they try to deprive their neighbor of his unfair piece of the mud pie but while tax revolt austerity riots capture the public's

imagination in secret back rooms in europe america trade deals are currently being negotiated which will impose a so-called investor state upon us all divorced and immune to the wants the needs the demands of these pesky mud pie eating boat loving citizen peasants the new investor state is technically infallible for a few us their ego mud pie right now feels the investor state has done anything wrong your quaint little nation state gets sued and tried in a tribunals in which the investor state always wins you've got a problem with a. joke you know i'm late but hey you can make a complaint to the on listed on man customer service line.