well the time. came to be we can you see. me there i was and i was in the hood. well i said. i don't want to die i just really do not want to die young. a presidential funds up to progress on syria's chemical disarmament lot of your putin phones bashar assad to discuss the elimination of his toxic arsenal the ongoing conflict and the prospects to end it. it's very easy to end one ton of it's hard to tell right now exactly how long we'll be down here doing this mission easy to promise but hard to deliver the closure of guantanamo is elusive as ever as

it is up twelve years as a terror jail archie reports from inside on what future it may face. tax haven on the take britain sends millions of pounds to prop up a rocky outcrop taxpayers at home are in the dark about who gets it and why. also this hour of the on the arrest in the outskirts of moscow police have been something down along with illegal immigration every friday they go on raids of accommodation places of world looking for illegal immigrants it's friday morning and we're going with the police one of those raids. you're watching our two live from our studios in moscow i'm lindsey france thanks for joining me. russia's president has praised the cooperation between syrian authorities and the chemical weapons watchdog and. landmark phone conversation with

the syrian leader vladimir putin became the first head of a u.n. security council member state in years to personally talk to bashar assad artes nor if an ocean who's reported from the country from the war torn country several times earlier explained the significance of that phone call. this is very significant in terms of of course from russia and from the u.n. security council to show support for all the mission that the syrian authorities are now undertaking to end the crisis in the country and mostly focused on the chemical arsenal of syria the demolition of the chemical weapons of syria but also another important topic was geneva two peace talks that despite some skepticism is considered by many as important as. the we saw peacefully track to the crisis in syria as they say it takes two to tango and this is where the main obstacle in solving the syrian crisis lies and has been lined

since the beginning since the conflict started because syrian opposition has repeatedly rejected any dialogue with syria into forty's with president assad personally saying that they will never talk to him and they will never come back to dialogue. to he goes and bashar assad easily determine the president of syria is too so it is quite. so we actually heard some opposition factions saying that they are now ready but i've been to syria many times including held rebel held territories and i've seen that the opposition is very much divided and sometimes fractions that are fighting president bashar assad in syria are not doing connected to each other they don't even know about the child it's so it's like even if we're hearing from one fraction but. now ready it doesn't

necessarily mean unfortunately that all their position all the forces are now ready for dialogue and this is why it's quite difficult at this time to talk about any peace between the warring sides. they held key positions in the world's biggest military and they want one ton m a president closed thirty eight of the united states most respected retired generals and admirals admirals want the senate to take immediate steps despite pressure and promises the jail stills reached its twelfth anniversary punctuated by torture and hunger strikes along the way an associate churkin his final report from the detention center looks at what its future may hold. when it comes to this prism the numbers speak for themselves since being set up after the attacks of nine eleven a total of seven hundred seventy nine detainee's 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 ruthless 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 with. most of those still kept locked up have not been charged and are being held indefinitely what sort of a black hole of the existing in would 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 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. this by 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 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 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 if close. to the meanest stage in u.s. 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 direct 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 the president has to come in and this. it's hard to tell right now exactly how long we'll be down here doing this mission. and stacy church in an artsy one ton movie cuba. more than half of guantanamo prisoners are yet many nationals and for them released from the prison may not mean the end of their misfortunes u.s. and yemen are now discussing plans to build a new center to house inmates after their release that's already been labeled as

guantanamo to a correspondent lucy capping off has just returned from yemen where she met relatives of some of the detainees she shared her experiences with bill dot. 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 interesting enough

there were reports of a similar detention center being set up in yemen do you read into that right so basically to get any 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 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 with yemen's human rights minister his cost of money we want. to integrate into society to. give element in this is i am sure that they have. any. yemeni government because they have the feeling that

we neglected them since a long long time and just briefly it's not a 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 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 detainees 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 it's a. dot com watch our full series life inside one tunnel as well as more interviews with former prisoners and in-depth coverage of the international pressure to close the facility. in britain you're never far from feeling a tap on the shoulder from the tax man but not everywhere under her majesty's

jurisdiction gets forced to fund the crowned coffers in fact could be quite the opposite as our celia knows just such a place. have you ever heard of care. ok not. not ever heard of pitcairn. island or you. think of 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 go a. bit kiran is 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 on 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. care 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 proponents of development aid the importance of maintaining quote solidarity and peace in developing nations of 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. 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. regard less of what public opinion surveys say for now the status quo remains in place reporting from london i'm tess are cilia. british hero m.p. got free boom it's all about politics geopolitics influence money but who's actually getting back on this who's t. being here who's t. being that there's no wood it trailed nobody seems to know what's going on nobody knows why the money goes there and it's absolutely a national it's a good national disgrace it's a european national disgrace but of course what they're doing is buying influence if you go down to those french polynesia and islands and you could buy the entire town council for a few hundred euros and then you could rate their fishing waters and i think you'll find this is what it's all about. later in the program opium on the up there's been

a dramatic surge in factional opium in afghanistan this year almost a decade of fruitless international efforts to stop the drugs lethal spread. margy dot com is launching a special project to mark the appalling scale of violence in iraq. we want you to know. dramas that your. stories others use

them though. places change the world right. to take your days. from around the. globe to. welcome back you're watching r t live from our studios in moscow i'm lindsey france thanks for joining me. three attacks targeting shiite worshipers in eastern iraq have left at least forty one people dead the blast took place during events to mark the most important day in the muslim calendar more than seven thousand people have been killed by insurgency in a country this year alone a political refugee from saddam hussein's regime told us that iraq is reaping the

fruits of america's divide and conquer policy used during its occupation take a listen the united states wanted to separate all of the iraqi forces and to play on sectarian divisions and snake divisions exasperating and not true as differences in eventing them and trying to muster t m clashes but there is also this presence of the terrorist organizations which which is in and out was fair all this conflict between these political organizations and groups represented within the government. it's not only iraq feeling the legacy of the united states interfering there's been bumper crops for afghans farmers but that's bad news opium cultivation has hit record numbers meaning huge profits for local warlords and hundreds more lives destroyed by the drug now the latest un report says poppy production has spiked in some regions by more than

a third just this year with thousands of tons of opium annually afghanistan provides ninety percent of the drugs total global production for the farmers it's a lifeline because it's the only realistic chance for their families to earn a living wage traditional agriculture just doesn't pay in the war ravaged state artie's that i teach you can look at the roots of this 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 what 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 peck's 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 that such a ban would turn more people against the u.s. but here's how u.s. officials explain it does in just trying to eradicate property and go pm 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. america's impact on the

drug trade in afghanistan and who's profiting from it come up in later this hour back in the fat. not only have oil companies and private military contractors made a killing off the occupation big pharma which collectively lobbies over two hundred fifty million dollars annually to congress needs opium latex to manufacture drugs for this pill happy nation don't forget about the best. see trillions in black market sales are being funneled through banks and this money is got to come out clean on the other side. the whereabouts of one of the jailed pussy riot punk band members has finally been established after weeks of uncertainty nadezhda conical via turned up in a hospital in siberia where she was transferred from the penal colony officials say she was hospitalized as part of a standard medical quarantine after being transferred to another prison. and

another pussy right number were convicted of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred for staging a performance at moscow's christ the savior cathedral she's serving a two year sentence and is due for release next march. the pope is taking on the godfather in a corruption crusade but one investigator warns that the pontiff could be in danger as he tries to clean up the catholic church that story r.t. dot com. and even though nato is member countries have been watching the pennies we'll tell you how the alliance has still managed to find their billion dollars to build a new headquarters. in the market like. it's good.

to have you with us here on t.v. today i roll researcher. a long awaited nuclear deal with iran could have been struck last week if it wasn't for the last minute amendments to the u.s. proposal that tehran had already agreed to the details on why the latest round of talks but no result came from russia's foreign minister as all sides acquaint themselves with the amendments there is a danger the negotiations could be further de railed if washington imposes new sanctions on iran the obama administration has one congress against such a move saying new penalties would jeopardize a peaceful resolution on iran's nuclear crisis middle east political analysts say he'd really explains why brown is providing a golden opportunity for. the global community to come around the table and

announce an agreement about introducing new sanctions at the same time the inviting for that in the goetia nations is quote contra productive and may erode the confidence of. 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. enrichment and to having rights for. nuclear technology. u.s. lawmakers are not the only ones that could jeopardize a possible deal a couple of hours oksana boycott looks at israel's role. the recent rapprochement between iran and the united states may potentially put to rest one of the most talk sick and machines in more than geopolitics a possibility that would arguably benefit many peace loving nations many but not

a country that seems to be increasingly cost the believing on what it calls an existential threat why is the specter of war sweeter than the chance of peace. now for some more news from around the world. is now known to have claimed over two thousand three hundred lives in the philippines significantly less than previously thought despite unprecedented aid from neighboring countries though many victims remain cut off from food and water supplies as many as eleven million people may have been affected by one of the worst ever storms recorded which hit the city of tacloban just last week. by police have been deployed in bahrain to disperse a procession commemorating the muslim festival of assura images of tear gas circulating in the air have emerged on social media security forces also reportedly used shotguns to disperse the crowd which was thought to have been infiltrated by

anti-government protesters. a protest over pay for close workers in bangladesh has turned violent with the right police deployed to disperse crowds more than two hundred fifty garment factories which had been closed in the dispute reopened on thursday after owners agreed to pay sixty eight dollars a month bangladesh close workers supply some of the world's biggest chains and a multibillion dollar industry at the country has some of the worst wages in asia. french students have blockaded their schools in protest against the deportation of their roma classmates in paris protesters blocked the streets with rubbish bins the anger over deportation started in october when french police took a fifteen year old girl off a school bus to send her back to kosovo with her family. and next as promised abby martin looks at the surge in afghan opium and the corporate interests behind it.

you know i love these rare moments where action of something fairly sounds positive to share with you the f.t.'s work in the band partially hydrogenated oils which are the leading source of trans 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 and beef and jim o's being produced why does this band 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 vile. band hammer while others

are completely tolerated if you ever talk to a hardcore marijuana smoker they'll tell you what do we does better for you than beer and that's legal then and they kind of have a point i think there is this is one of those rare instances where a balanced position isn't really a good idea well the country could go the libertarian route at 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 band some harmful things for some reason and allow other harmful things because well they lobby better but that's just my opinion.

think you need to review economic sounds in the final. day to learn the deal sang night and the rest of life it's a neat make believe every week. what's going on guys i'm abby martin and this is a break in the set you guys i have something really serious and talk to you about the mark of the beast yes it's here well maybe not in the biblical sense but what i have to show you is some crazy see google is happening the first electronic neck tattoo that's right the web giant planets the other are the roads everything from smart phones to gaming devices and here's what might look like all hands free option to make phone calls or listen to music without earphones it may sound

appealing to some. this technology could easily be transformed for more sinister purposes according to the patent the cyber tattoo could even be used as a lie detector and the about this with everyone so worried about hacking and spine in the wake of the n.s.a. revelations who's to say that a digital tattoo capable of monitoring vital signs can be hacked as well so is this the future people volunteering to be consumer slaves proudly displaying their google bar codes on their next god i hope not. the. it's a. very hard to take a. look. at yet or had sex with that they're right there.