is why you should care only. iran finds itself trapped in a corner as world powers again disagree on a nuclear deal to end sanctions against this room is a merger of the potential military strike. talks of problems syria is given a new timetable to get rid of its chemical weapons but there are major hurdles in a way that no country is willing to host the destruction work. plus twelve years of scandal and no end in sight marks another round of the. america's most decorated former generals speak against it our report from inside the facility in a few minutes and more than just a nuisance a debate flares up in the u.k. over a new open ended law that could make the right to hold peaceful protests i think for.

l.a. watching r.t. with meandering pharma. hopes of reconciliation are on hold for iran with crippling sanctions over its nuclear program still in place and opposing powers lining up against it despite all the smiles and handshakes the u.s. is renewing its trade restrictions and even considering toughening them meanwhile iran's most outspoken critic israel seems to have a new partner in france was shot down last week's tentative deal in geneva more details now from artie's to bang not say the pieces are in place. we have time and again said that i know no circumstances would we seek any weapons of mass destruction including nuclear weapons nor will we ever wrong and how you.

operate with respect to this good connectivity is to be undertaken by going to meet all of all present and party. woman words flowing relations yet just as the deal in geneva was on the concert between the world pollens and iran came concern from france a surprise move that stall the talks but end friends new friends in israel who'd been the traditional stumbling block up to now still small ting from the threats and intense rhetoric of the recent ponced is will refuses to budge that's a bad deal it's a dangerous. because it keeps iran as a nuclear threshold nation. we are not blind and i don't think we're stupid as were the main bargaining chips the sanctions like me not could prove a dealmaker when congress is having none of it put in president obama in

a tough spot i think rouhani has staked his position on the idea that he can improve relations with the rest of the world and so far he's been saying a lot of the right things if i were the prime minister of israel. be very wary as well of any kind of. talk from the iranians and then there's the bargaining hammer israel building most subtle moments when things don't go its way approving more units only last month leaving us congress to get trigger happy with more sanctions don't draw us into a bad deal with iran we already know how israel's benjamin netanyahu feels advocating his case on twitter through yet another colorful graphic presentation and the red carpet will be rolled out for its newfound french friends present it's tough to predict whether the p five plus one will equal unity when they get back

around the table next week in geneva. they are to moscow. now although israel and saudi arabia officially have no diplomatic relations they are rumored to be preparing a joint bombing campaign against iran the sunday times suggests an attack may take place if a new round of international talks failed to produce a deal rolling back to iran's nuclear power program israel considers iran its enemy number one and has wrongly accused the country of working on an atomic bomb a charge that iran denies while under the reported plan saudi arabia would grant israel the use of its airspace it would also assist israel in the deployment of combat drones helicopters and tanker planes the saudis are furious under willing to give israel all the help it needs that's what an anonymous source allegedly told a british newspaper iranian political analyst side mohammad marandi thinks that if this scenario worth to play out there would be no witness. well we don't know if

these reports are true but the saudis and the israelis are moving closer and closer to one another however tie the mike the saudis or the israelis would really want to attack iran because they both countries would be losers they would be seen. obviously the iranians would retaliate the soviets would you know very vulnerable it would create an economic catastrophe for the world. that would mobilize the whole middle east especially people on the streets in support of iran they would isolate israel after all the americans with all their firepower. failed in their attempt to bring about syria because world public opinion and american public opinion simply would not accept it. but iran and world powers will soon get another chance to reach a compromise a second round of talks on the nuclear deal will kick off next week and according to russia there's a strong likelihood of success you can find out what is behind that optimism at

r.t. dot com. this week the international chemical watchdog unveiled a challenging road map for syria to get rid of its toxic weapons the end of june next year has been set is the moment of truth when syria has declare itself a chemical arms free country the organization says that so far damascus has proved to be a reliable partner working hard on meeting every deadline but despite the positive momentum major stumbling blocks could be lurking on the country's road to chemical disarmament is artie's paula slater explains it was banking on albania to take these weapons in and albania has since indicated that it will not be party to this now this decision in this announcement by albania came as a shock to the united states and the european union of the union is seen as a very strong partner with a so-called and shakable alliance to the waste it is also a very poor country but there were wide scale protests in albania. with people

saying that they refuse to allow the government to be party to taking in the weapons from syria now the problem is that only a norway also indicated that it would not allow these weapons to be brought to its shore no way however saying that it will send a ship that will help with transferring the weapons to wherever they are taken but this is the problem it's not yet clear where in fact it will be taken and the latest word from the united states is that it has other options on the table but no indication as to what these options are this is a very ambitious time frame that has been saved by the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons it says that by the end of next year most of syria's chemical weapons will have been destroyed and that by the end of june all of them will have been destroyed but again it seems that it's facing an uphill battle not least of all with the decision as to when pressed to destroy these weapons while european nations so far seem on willing to take on the task of

destroying those weapons foreign affairs during this robot hannah's says there are more than just practical concerns at stake the reason why france is a vias candidate is that france has a considerable program running all the time disposing of chemical weapons a little dazed from the second world war which keep the gun coverage so they have the technical capacity to deal with the problem the traps of the french apart from the fact that they appear to be recognizing bashar al assad who they have spent months and years decrying on every possible ground is that the public may well say that if france minded he said business in the first place that would be this all could position of having to be helpful over chemical weapons in a certain areas where the syrian government can't go and certainly the team of inspectors cargo series difficult to criticize it the moment quest rankly and therefore i can't see this process being easily just because of the short term countries are queuing up to take chemical weapons. coming up iraq remains on the

sad trail of daily sectarian bloodshed so every new dawn means more deaths for the iraqis some experts think the political instability created by the war is fueling terrorist groups. this week's or a heated debate in the u.k. over a proposed law that could land people in jail for annoying behavior the new bill would make it easier for local councils to break up peaceful protests and this vague wording means it can be interpreted in many different ways if passed it will become an offense that even threatened to be a nuisance to other people activist kerry and mendoza says this could seriously undermine freedom of speech what they're attempting to do is give the police the also to make any lawful protest immediately illegal simply because it's and i quote this directly from the legislation may has always likely to cause nuisance or

annoyance as you can imagine the whole point of protest is to cause a nuisance an annoyance is to get in the way to disrupt people in their ordinary daily lives so that you can have them focus on an otherwise ignore or issue which is really important also in the u.k. officials are resorting to text messages to tell illegal migrants to get out of the country the home office is being accused of spamming tactics and it's not always illegals who get beyond this messages we've got this story coming up in a few minutes time. on time obey reached a grim milestone this week marking twelve years of torture scandal and scrutiny three dozen former generals and admirals of the united states military use the occasion to call for its closure labeling it a betrayal of american values our season to see talking 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 man is going to talk them or really these superhuman monsters you know the worst of the worst quote dick cheney. they would have been. 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 brings 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 and 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 call even you couldn't even the case on the us 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 straight 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 it seems. to mean a state in u.s.

history forever it's very easy to end one ton of. 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 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 we'll be down here doing this mission.

and stacy churkin at artsy guantanamo bay cuba not locking people up might seem like an unlikely way to get rich but it is turning a profit to certain u.s. companies and to the private prison complex the industry being washington to make even the lightest offenses punishable this much time on the inside as possible we've got this story coming up just after quite bright. exactly what happened there i don't know but if i 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. innocent 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 men know because the psychological techniques are

more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse and they were often they could get what they wanted they can say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said. welcome back now the u.k. is adding to its arsenal of anti migrant tactics illegals mobile phones are being bombarded with text telling them to go home but some of those messages are reaching

the wrong people as artie's or smith reports. your phone is a text message a friend may be asking if you'll free for dinner or your mom just checking your ok but no it's the home office telling you you are illegal in this country and have to leave this is the text book we got fair enough if he was illegal but he's not and he doesn't even know how they got his details i have been a british citizen for at least in this country so. it's all part of a government campaign to weed out illegals first round threatening. and now they're threatening texts although the home office denies sending one to chan it's triggered two hundred complaints but the government defends the program we are

taking proactive steps to contact individuals who record show have novell it right to be in the u.k. some of which date back to december two thousand and eight we believe it's right to enforce the immigration rules chan who's an immigration case officer reckons it won't have any effect on genuine illegals they'll just get a new sim card but will intimidate and alienate entirely legitimate community pointing to what we're not welcome in this country chinatown in london's west end is where the majority of china's clients work and he says several of them have themselves received messages from the hope that together with a series of surprise raids on restaurants by the u.k. border agency makes the u.k. a pretty scary place to be chinese or indeed any kind of ethnic minority at the moment bans texts and raids all add up say activists to an anti immigrant campaign

and jeremy corbyn m.p. who represents a lot. constituency says we can expect to see more of it at the general election approach. i mean it's essentially a battle for political ground between the right wing conservatives in the far right you put it's a pretty unseemly image that we're getting this is electioneering paid for by the taxpayer knows strike rate data is available yet for the forty thousand text messages that although the home office reports just eleven illegal immigrants have gone home as a result of that it's cheaper than forcibly removing them apparently but at the cost of the good will of immigrant communities country why it's laura smith r.t. . now don't forget to take a look at our website if you get a minute we've got plenty more there to including freak weather in riyadh severe flooding has hit the saudi arabian capital a rare occurrence in a country dominated by the arabian desert an r.t. dot com we've got the reactions from shocked locals also online child's dream come

true a five year old leukemia survivor becomes his favorite superhero for one day thanks to a san francisco wish fulfillment foundation these stories and more at r.t. dot com. the deadly spiral of violence is far from over in iraq with more than one hundred thirty civilians killed there this week alone bombings and shootings are claiming dozens of lives every day as security forces seem to be unable to withstand the terrorist onslaught all that is pushing this year's death toll towards eight thousand the highest figure since two thousand and eight political refugee from saddam hussein's regime sami and i met danny thinks the political chaos is creating fertile ground for terrorist groups. the united states wanted to separate all the iraqi forces and to play on sectarian divisions and sneak divisions exasperating and natural differences elevating them and trying

to muster d m clashes but there is also this presence of the terrorist organizations which which is you know and then atmosphere of conflict between these political organizations and groups represented within the government. we have launched a special project document in the violence in iraq this year not this web site address and you can see it bottom of your screen right now you can follow the month by month timeline detailing the major instance and casualty numbers.

crime does pay hit turns out and it's america's burgeoning private prison industry that is cashing in business has been booming for years now and pays for a massive lobbying campaign calling for even petty crimes be punished with hard time but as artie's marina portnoy explains there is 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 are serious and 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 their stores with more than to put millions people currently incarcerated the united states chomps 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 lava from the watchdog group beyond bars says many of the companies contracts guarantee occupancy lock up quotas basically say if you're a private person and you have a contract with say or a local government you have a guaranteed number of people in your car go down with it doesn't matter

taxpayers are still on the hook when 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 puerto nile are to. a man who spent a decade behind bars in both private and public jails and is now a human rights advocate alex friedman told us private the. prisons are all about profit and not rehabilitating criminals serve six years at a privately operated prison this 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 the private prison industry it is a very drastic experience people come out of prison generally worse than they went in to get the isolation due to the lack of resources and rehabilitative programs

and what that means of course is that when they get out they are more likely to be honest to recidivate to come back and that benefits no one except for companies like c.c.a. because if you profit from incarceration then the more people you have locked up the more money you can get. a monday the sochi twenty fourteen olympic torch cutting back to from the most unusual leg of its read that it had spent three days on the international space station was even taken out for a first ever space for the friends watched the amazing jet. right here in mission control when the big red letters landed flashed on the screen a huge round of applause went up to see the torch back safely here on earth with three crew members of russian cosmonauts fyodor yurchikhin american karen nyberg and italian luca parmitano now we watched as the capsule broke through the atmosphere and that large parachute opened up over the skies of kazakstan as it

came hurdling back toward earth the torch has been in space before but it's never been taken on a space walk and that's exactly what occurred it blasted off from the back door cosmodrome on thursday made it safely up to the eye assess nine crew members up there and then it was taken out on a spacewalk on saturday by two cars minutes we were here live watching and it was very exciting to see the engineers actually walk walk the cosmonauts through the steps on how to get around the i.s.a.'s with that torch in hand of course it was not lit but nonetheless the spirit of unity and sportsmanship was up there on the i assessed in the form of that torch next it plans to go to the beautiful area out in the eastern part of russia and it's going to go to the bottom of lake baikal it's going to go to the top of europe's highest peak mount elbrus and it's going to continue on on this longest relay and olympic torch history and all the way to saatchi in february something that we're all watching and enjoying

a lot but certainly this detour to outer space was something very momentous and historic to see happen. here with our next u.s. police of caught on camera going too far and interrogations. you know i love these rare moments where action of something at least 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 and b. and gitmo is being produced why does this ban 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 what do we do is better for you than beer and that's the eagle man and they kind of have a point i think there is this is one of those rare instances where a balance position is a really 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 while they lobby better but that's just my opinion.

the crime is that a viola man voom a seventy four year old woman found dead on the twenty ninth of november one thousand nine hundred eighty eight along the track. dozens of suspects will be questions and old will be released including from. sterling seen in this photograph . two years later detectives trained by reid reopen the case and are convinced frank is guilty. a few years earlier his brother had been sentenced to prison for raping viola manning and frank stirling is thought to have wanted revenge. the police are relentless and press sterling until he cracks on the eleventh of july one thousand nine hundred ninety one and exhausted frank sterling admits to the mudda his confession is recorded.