disarming the skeptics after syria meets the initial targets to get rid of its chemical weapons un inspectors plan the next day. justice on profits rolled into one in a few minutes we take you on a tour of the lucrative world of u.s. private prisons when you incarcerate people for the purpose of generating corporate profit you have a built in incentive to incarcerate as many people as you can for as long as possible morality and ethics aside business is booming for america's prison corporations is the number of inmates sourced to new heights. and covering their tracks the british conservative party's accused of trying to bury evidence of broken promises the speeches made before the passing came to power are removed from

its website. they're welcome you watching. that getting rid of syria's chemical weapons appears to be pushing ahead at a rapid pace that's despite widespread skepticism that declaring and destroying its stockpiles would be possible in the middle of a civil war the government in damascus is even willing to speed up the process is artie's paula slayer explains. today is the deadline for the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons to go up destruction and deadlines for syria's chemical arsenal so far damascus has made all deadlines in its destruction program with the latest being the first of november when it had to destroy all equipment used for the mixing of conduction of poison gases and nerve agents to mask the face of remains committed to meeting these big ones on our part we are ready to do

whatever it takes to commit ourselves to these the blood's but experts see we can do it sooner we are ready to do it i was recently in damascus where enough to foreign experts that overseeing the destruction of syria's chemical weapons program would speak on camera other than to say that they were extremely satisfied with the progress that was being made and that damascus was cooperating fully we have made a commitment and syria as well known for respecting its commitments this is not a commitment to the security council this is not a commitment to the p.c. that we do this is a commitment also to our russian friends and one of the debates right now is way to actually destroy syria's chemical weapons which are estimated at around a thousand tons possible sites including albania france and belgium to be chemical weapons or become

a heavy burden on syria to be specially of the presence of militant groups in its soil that might want to use such weapons or could even induce a disaster but i'm just rambling but if the final deadline for syria destroying its entire stockpile of chemical weapons is the middle of next year paula three r.t. television. so let's have a recap of where things stand at the moment damascus has so far revealed where all its chemical weapons are located although it's worth mentioning not all of the sites have been visited yet because of the fighting however they have managed to meet the november target for destroying all equipment used to make its toxic arsenal however take a look at this map and you'll see what the inspectors are up against these are the major stockpiles sites with some in areas close to where heavy fighting is breaking out so that makes their job a lot more difficult and to see the latest footage from syria's conflict zones visit the in motion section of our website. the

conservative party in the u.k. has purged its official web site apparently hoping to clean up its online image it's removed a whole section of pledges made before the party came to power the opposition is labeled the move and an attempt to brush broken promises under the carpet will artie's party boyko as the story. but you never ever wish you could care about him time and simply take back something you said or promise was made and. i certainly have answers here when you taste cases of the federal government's apparently after it was revealed that the virtual tory when site had six days ago raised all of this is beaches made before the conservative party was elected into power back in two thousand and ten its race especially is that in the run up to the next general election that someone simply trying to hit this elite button on their part of the promises remember that time that david cameron pledged not to

reorganize the n.h.s. well the speech is no longer on their website and it could be because after being elected the government to went on to preside over one of the largest three organizations in n.h.s. history there was also that time that david cameron promise not to cut child benefits after which the coalition scrapped the welfare payment for higher earners and froze it for the rest of u.k. families and drive one economy and other thing that's now much harder to locate on the net is a quote of david cameron saying that the internet is democratizing the world's information try searching bags on the tory party website rather than just removing it from the conservatives like they've tried to remove it from the internet archive when he became prime minister one of the first promises he made was this the most open government and it's pretty clear that's not the case the irony is that the speeches deletion is simply fueling public interest in the line from conservative

h.q. is that their revamping their website for a new digital era just starting a new chapter. polly boy artsy london still to come this hour seeing isn't quite believing iran holds the expansion of its nuclear program but is still struggling to gain the trust of western powers with the us pushing for new signs. despite ongoing talks also trapped and desperate professional footballers' union plans a trip to katz to support a french player he's been barred from returning home over legal tangle. though if you're looking for somewhere to invest and on to ball the thing moral implications private jails could be an option the number of inmates being held in them has swelled and that scathing private shareholders bump up profits but as artie's marina portnoy explains there's a huge conflict of interests. corrections corporation of america is the hilton of

the private prison industry a multibillion dollar business that's getting rich off punishment we are c.c.a. the more people locked up behind bars and the longer they stay there the more money c.c.a. makes last year the company banked a reported one point seven billion dollars they are fully aware of the reality which is that they need massive our story should in order to stay in business they need excessive sentences for nonviolent crime so yes they push for legislation that will sure more and more people are in there with more than to put millions people currently incarcerated the united states trumps china russia and the rest of the world in the number of prisoners doing time about half of those in u.s. jails are in for nonviolent offenses since one nine hundred ninety america's private prison population has increased sixteen hundred percent the war on drugs mandatory sentencing and a broken immigration policy have forced more people into prison c.c.a.

has roughly ninety thousand prison beds in twenty states jesse law from the watchdog group beyond bars says many of the companies contracts guarantee occupancy lock up quotas basically say you know if you're a private person and you have a contract with say or a local government you have a guaranteed number. it will be in your arms go down it doesn't matter it's taxpayers are still on the hook the government is on the hook for filling up your prisons. in the land of the free it is hard to expect the prison population to decrease as long as corporations continue profiting by keeping people locked up reporting from new york marina port and i are to. alex friedman is managing editor of prison legal news dot org he spent a decade behind bars in both private and public giles and explained to us why he

believes privatizing prisons is such a bad idea serve six years at a privately operated prison as part of the ten years total that i spent incarcerated and my experience is privately operated prison pretty much is what led me on to a career if you will fighting against private prison industry it is a very drastic experience and people come out of prison generally worse than they went in to get the isolation due to the lack of resources and rehabilitation programs in place and what that means of course is that when they get out they are more likely to die and those are sort of a comeback and that benefits no one except for companies like c c yeah because if you profit from incarceration then the more people you have locked up the more money you can get. alex is also the associate director of the human rights defenders center where he's campaigning against prison corporations that he says have a strong influence on government policy. the people really benefiting from prison

privatization are not the public it's not the prisoners it's not the states that contract with these companies necessarily rather corporate executives and the shareholders who own stock when you incarcerate for the purpose of generating corporate profit in the built in incentive to incarcerate as many people as you can for as long as possible because that's how the the market system works the companies have to face considerable criticism for lobbying governments and corporations intension officials and other government officials for basically more contracts and to put more people in prison. and don't forget artsy also recently toured with the most infamous of u.s. prisons. access to the military facility and her series of reports are all available on our website providing a glimpse into life under censorship and indefinite. to come in the program as chaos and tara. get some expert opinion on why death seems to be so

commonplace ten years after u.s. led invasion. we all know that in the modern world there is a great deal of monitoring of international communications a lot of this is directed to stopping and intercepting terrorist activities but i think that is legitimate and people people support that. the trouble is this that the technology has run the political control exercised over it if the technology permits you to do something then on the whole people will do it unless they all specifically told not to do it and it's quite clear that we have perhaps got stuck to beyond what is necessary for dealing with international terrorism and international crime areas where it is a question of. people's privacy that is

a problem we have admitted it to be built with a very open. welcome back now iran has stopped expanding its nuclear facilities since assam rouhani became president three months ago that's confirmed in a new report from the international atomic energy agency released during negotiations on iran's nuclear program however with the u.s. congress pushing for new sanctions against iran the news doesn't necessarily mean progress in the talks are you can reports right now negotiations with iran on

a nuclear deal or at this very fragile stage with one big component missing trust iranians don't trust the u.s. they've been duped before washington doesn't trust iran when they say they're developing nuclear technology for civilian use and are not trying to build a bomb. just released the report saying in the last three months in gone has not expanded its nuclear facilities it also said there were one has also not big on operating any new generation centrifuges that quote no major components had been installed i don't react to being built at. this could be perceived as a confidence building step that you want is taking to move forward with a deal on its nuclear program the talks with six won't powers in geneva last week did not produce an agreement as we know but there is another round of talks coming up next week and this new report by the i.a.e.a.

may play a role but will also play a role is what's happening here in washington and the u.s. congress wants to pass a new round of sanctions president obama has urged congress not to do that he said if the u.s. is serious about using diplomacy to prevent iran from developing nuclear weapons there is no need to add new sanctions on top of sanctions already in place. so congress can potentially undermine any chance there is for a deal as well as entrenched the iranians in this view that whatever they do washington is not going to lift the sanctions and is not going to recognize their right to develop nuclear program for civilian use in washington i'm going to check out. meanwhile israel seems to be using all its powers of persuasion in washington to push for new sanctions on iran gareth porter who's an investigative journalist and historian on u.s. national security policy believes they're being will make that happen. i don't think the president's statement or speech at this point is going to hold off the

members of congress who are determined to go ahead with this move i think the house is more likely to be responsive to israel's urgings on this and most likely to go ahead with with sanctions this is the track record that both the majority of the senate majority the house have compiled in recent years which is to say that they have been responsive whenever a pack of the lobbying organization devoted to israel's interests has put forward legislation. but nuclear weapons can still serve a peaceful purposes the story on our website is showing that we've got the details on the so-called megatons to make a what's agreement under which russia's old warheads have been converted into fuel for the u.s. . also on the web site not so transparent after all j.p. morgan retreats into a shell of secrecy after canceling it shared jul twenty q.

and a session over some thorny questions on its multinational banking activities. that nato is fielding a brand new headquarters at a cost of a billion dollars despite deep military spending cuts in member states you can read about these stories at r.t. dot com. a series of attacks targeting shiite muslims in iraq has killed at least forty one people during the religious festival of assura a suicide bomber blew himself up in a city northeast of baghdad leaving more than fifteen dead earlier twin blasts in the city of west seat to the southeast of a capital ripped through a festival procession killing nine antiwar activist richard becker says the u.s. policy of putting certain religious groups first has given fertile ground to violence. from ninety nine thousand through there was a kind of violence inside the country. gender drive us occupation and by the

us shows. graber certain and national groups around others and work behind with an american i'm going to war. what we're seeing is that the u.s. and some of their allies bring the same words that are trying to bring a new government. who are radical as well as other parts of the middle east. and we've launched a special project document saying the violence in iraq this year at the web address you can see at the bottom of your screen right now you can follow the month by month timeline detailing the major instance and casualty numbers. my

. the international football is sending a delegation to katter to negotiate on behalf of the stranded french nationals say hey bonnie has been barred from leaving the gulf states for over a year g two a legal dispute with is based club has already said it cannot intervene in the case but any has written to former world cup twenty twenty two ambassadors and indians a dan and pep guardiola asking them to find his course andrew or starting from the football his union told us just how desperate the french player race. we understand that he's also had to act in this matter and that includes the fact that he sold off most of his positions that he will be evicted from his own in

a matter of days and their full we have offered through our hardship fund here a few for the opportunity for him at the very least while we help to try and resolve this situation that he at least has some way to live to stay in a hotel or whatever the case by be for him his wife and his two daughters we are also very mindful of the fact that he is a very fragile mental state right now it's a precarious situation we're deeply concerned and so we are asking for the international football community to unite support if broke within at the highest levels of government and within football authorities this is already gone right to the top side here bellini and today himself has written begging for help this is just one player but it's one of c. . thousand we represent around the world and we want to release that we release now . bellone got stranded in qatar after trying to sue his employer for not paying him he is now being refused an exit visa which foreign workers need in order to leave

the country r.t. spoke to the footballer and here's what he told us about his situation and the impact it's having on his family when i went to the tribunals i never imagined that i wouldn't be able to leave the country i didn't think they would block me my wife is depressed and she can't work i thought of going on hunger strike but my lawyers told me not to be already on a hunger strike would only hurt my wife and kids enough is enough. not the only control we see facing cats are as it makes initial preparations for the twenty twenty two world cup the country is also facing unwelcome attention over the living and working conditions of its migrant construction workers one german investigative journalist even found himself make atari jail after trying to film a documentary on labor uses there are taste spoke to the man the interview is available on our website along with all the details of the human price being paid

for the world cup. 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 crown's coffers in fact it can be quite the opposite test for syria no such place. have you ever heard of pit care. ok no. not ever heard of pitcairn. pick an island. 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 the facts where part of your taxes are going. on 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. 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 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 allocation will be done but critics in the e.u. and 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. british your m.p. called free bling tells us what he thinks lies behind this apparent generosity politics geopolitics influence and money and who's actually getting back handers who's dealing here who's the being there 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 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 polynesian 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. a quick look now at some other international news the number of people killed by the typhoon that ravaged the philippines last week has risen to three thousand six hundred military planes in the u.s. aircraft carrier have arrived with food and emergency supplies but crippled infrastructure and looting are hampering relief efforts the storm is thought to be the strongest to hit the country since records began. a gas pipeline explosion in a polish village has left two people dead and at least thirteen injured but dozens of homes destroyed the blast reportedly took place during work to modernize the pipeline authorities say the existing pipe may have been damaged but an official investigation has been launched to determine the course. the cia is secretly amassing vast rows of data on private money transfers carried out by firms

including western union that information coming from anonymous u.s. government officials who disclosed the scheme to the media the program focusing on transactions outside the u.s. was authorized by the post nine eleven patriot act with the game a tracking terrorist financing doubtless the same law used to justify mass surveillance by america's national security agency. a recent attack on a prominent member of moscow's as a big community has reignited ethnic tensions and disputes over migration russia has the world's second largest migrant population but a worryingly high number of them are in the country illegally paul scott try to get to the heart of the problem. 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 azerbaijan migrant 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 a high. president of the russian federation of migrants despite getting prive commission to film it soon became clear a presence was not welcome. you russian though i have to repeat myself the site ends with the fence we have intially set up our interview away from the market. 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 the 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 your thirty's a cane to be seen to be tackling the problem as we found out before our meeting

with mohammed. morsi of the on the arrest in the outskirts of moscow police have been chomping down on the illegal immigration every friday they go on a range of accommodation places of looking for illegal immigrants it's friday morning and 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 pay to walk. you know where do i leave. where do you leave. now the raid on the outskirts of moscow in the stuff i was last did to just about an hour and so i thought police have rounded up thirty five individuals who don't have the correct type of walk. the room one hundred eighty thousand work permits to grow into each year according to mohammad this figure is far too low. to address it so you need to conduct a survey as to how many migrant worker a small school needs 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 them illegally is creating a vast black market for cheap labor markets some keen to keep out of the spotlight let's go to. mosco. up next some hard hitting questions in suffolk county. you know i love these rare moments where i actually have 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 have 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 gitmo is 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 destroy our health some get the violent band hammer while others are completely tolerated if you ever talk to hard core marijuana smoker they'll tell you what do we do is better for you than beer and that's legal man and that kind of a. if 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 bad 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 banned some harmful things for some reason and allow other harmful things because well they lobby better but that's just my.