golden rice. a prison turns twelve in the military celebrates with an information blackout while rights activists all they're bad for the annual march on the white house. eurovision sees a cut in cash income taxes says more countries say they too could take part in the flashy pan-european stone contest. also iran score some points in the west as the e.u. praises the progress of nuclear talks while even the white house decides to run from sanction minded senator. and child previously in the u.k. as a new report finds more than a million british students have given their fingerprints just so they can each in their school and team up our library.

thank you for choosing our to international you with me to say first. citing guantanamo where human rights activists lawyers and journalists are standing shoulder to shoulder and preparing to march on the white house with one to mend shut down guantanamo bay saturday is now the end well day of action to protest twelve years of indefinite detention the war on terror present and as artie's honest i see a chicken i reports age hasn't allowed one tunnel one bit. hidden on a tropical island a symbol of promises made being far from promises kept it will leave an appalling black mark in the history books unless the people who advocate for its continued existence when and if they win then. i. suppose it civilized values that america

has will be gone forever twelve years ago the us brought to guantanamo its first detainees of the war on terror the us and powerful sections in the ruling class of the us want a place that openly defied international law it's a decision that's been made and that they want to display a place that we can treat people however we want to whenever we want to the to be is poured into the bag scandal surrounding torture and force feeding mass hunger strikes of desperation and dozens of suicide attempts that hasn't been something that has been an issue since i have been here in a facility that has long stopped making sense if it ever did despite the rhetoric it really isn't about national security or prisoners being so dangerous that they can't possibly be released and therefore that can't be true out of seven hundred seventy nine hundred eighteen is held at guantanamo in these past twelve years only seven have been convicted and sentenced we have seen eleven prisoners released

between august and december last year compared to just five men in the whole of the previous three years so it's movement but it would be unwise to think that you know . there are hundred fifty five men still lingering time. and seventy six of those men were cleared for release the us struggling with what to do with them and an even bleaker future still ahead for the other seventy nine prisoners facing the abyss of indefinite detention. because they were somewhere so if somebody whether they're innocent or guilty is not our job right after a majority of detainees went on hunger strike last year obama's administration was pushed to make baby steps again marred by double standards and overlooking the law international treaty obligations mean that we shouldn't be sending people back to countries where they face the risk of a treatment of torture this followed in some cases but completely ignored in others

two men were recently sent to algeria amid grave concerns of possible persecution on the ground the guy who was our client jamila busy at the end his whole adult life basically in europe and in canada and there was really no reason why college educated guy was fluent in german and english and french and i should be sent home to tell a jury and probably trapped there unable to emigrate because of the stigma of the future of some of those released over the years even more questioned and increasingly grim as media claims surfaced that the cia might have reportedly been engaged in recruiting some of the prisoners as double agents in exchange for freedom our job here is to do the safe legal humane and transparent care and custody of the detainees while an alleged tug of war between the president's will to shut the prison and congress resisting this is officially used as an excuse to avoid simply closing the place down despite obama's personal promises to do so i think the only reason he can get away with that is by portraying it really as

a credit mess you know as if this was somehow harder to do now that it was five years ago he was the president but politicians human rights organizations legal experts and common sense have long called for an end to the struggle of guantanamo prisoners but america's self-made mess of the last twelve years is already so hard to clean up that reasons to keep it around are likely to breed more anniversaries to come. our team. in terms of transparency twenty four teens off to a murky start of for one tunnel more washington is trying harder than ever to control the information coming out of the prison strip it's still leaking out and take a look here's the latest letter from shaquille a matter of the last british inmate at guantanamo in it he describes the humiliating searches inmates are forced to undergo even if they all they want to do is make a telephone to their lawyer he then describes how even the gods are sometimes have

second thoughts about what the jewing and how they are forced to carry out genital searches for q. then i q is the camp's new doctor being just another stooge at the commander's disposal polly rosedale from the reprieve all legal action charity says or the more we find out about guantanamo the harder washington tries to bury it out of sight i think we are two things. we know that when you. was returning. finally president obama trying to down what happened last year was why more than one hundred detainees and we really call for the first time. that's what closing the prison again but the other thing we know are the military. the police that kind of reference reasoning and we're seeing a real to really. be there are there were huge challenges when you've been burned out without trying to challenge for twenty years and to really talk to. your

release and acknowledging without without. all in my mind all the men on that simply want to go home in the league normal i was overjoyed. at the institute. will be covering the march on the white house as it gets underway later on stage in india for that here on r.t. international. the list of the acts taking part in europe's big is and flashiest a singing contest has been confirmed and it's getting shorter by the year economic troubles are forcing country after country to jump the euro vision ship as artie's reports. good bit of knowledge represented russia at the u. revision song contest in twenty ten despite only coming eleventh he describes his

participation as a major highlight which propelled him to new heights our audience grew very very much many people to get to know us and so they began to come to our concerts it was great. music experience because it was a concert on the great greatest. auditory that i could ever imagine. from drag queens to hellish creatures and some of europe's brightest talents one of the world's most watched t.v. programs the eurovision song contest brought fame to the likes of celine dion and julio iglesias however votes have not always been spread purely for it to stick qualities say researchers from switzerland actually really should be nice giving us a measure of species international relations at their feet your cohesion with european countries is measuring the society and its culture and then the new french in what will be the market for the future in twenty down three weeks after angela

merkel pushed for creation of the european financial stability facility to bailout collapsing economies a german teenager lenna my unit was crowned the eurovision swimmer. but ironically it's the europe wide financial turmoil which is now threatening the whole existence of the contest in twenty eleven one financial turmoil was already raging in europe eurovision saw a peak participation of forty three countries next year poland and armenia withdrew from the contest in twenty thirteen they were joined by boss near turkey slovakia and portugal this time gracious serbia bulgaria and cyprus have also jumped off their eurovision ship. and that list could expand as many simply cannot afford to take part in the future circus that is euro vision like cyprus where roughly. every fifth person is on employed i'm not an expert on the euro region and white what's happening i'm describing the situation in cyprus and i'm not surprised that this decision has been taken given the fact that. you know in other domains i'm talking

about health education culture the show's bosses say there's nothing to worry about we refresh the format and continued to do so whenever needed to keep the euro vision song contest the most popular pan-european entertainment t.v. show but at this rate of countries dropping out of the competition there would likely have to invent something very soon to keep europe's longest running some contest from losing its voice. as he recalled from moscow. not only has here a vision been losing contest since it's budget has also been on the decline in two thousand and ten in no way spent fifteen million euros as heights that went up to twenty two million for germany in two thousand and eleven and two thousand and twelve so sweet and cut that budget in half this year the planned budget has also been cut by more than half again. when it comes to your open losing money off

financial guru max kaiser always keeps has a sharp words and he in his latest programme is on hand with a lesson in modern grama with his own special twist. because it has been voted the word of the year by the american dialect society after the humble conjunction exploded with new grad magical possibilities in twenty thirteen ben zimmer chair of the new words committee of the american dialect society said no longer does because we followed by or for cause now one often the c. ters leeward rationales like because science or because reasons you might not go to a party because tired america losing empire because lazy j.p. morgan paying yet another multi billion dollar fine because criminal yet another wedding party getting it wrong because us about the department of justice losing faith in the value bitcoin because concerned for all the n.s.a.

spying on every single person on earth because just because. the e.u. says the very good progress has been made in talks with iran on implementing a nuclear deal that was agreed in november and to run itself in says all outstanding issues have been resolved but those positive signals have been counterbalanced by an internal across the atlantic white house senators who support a bill proposing for the sanctions or risk in pushing america into war. explains. it was just a few months ago inside the united nations headquarters where the presidents of iran and the us laid groundwork for new and positive diplomatic relations however the historic success achieved over the past four months may soon be significantly compromised if not destroyed by america's own lawmakers according to reports fifty

nine u.s. senators are now bagged a new package of unilateral sanctions aimed to increase pressure on iran for its nuclear program this means that the senate is just one vote away from the sixty needed to pass most legislation with the house of representatives which is already showing strong support for economic pressure against tehran according to reports the legislation would blacklist several iranian industrial sectors and threaten banks and companies around the world with being banned from the u.s. market if they help you want to export any more oil now the provisions would only take effect if tehran violates the six month interim deal or lets it expire without a comprehensive nuclear agreement a u.s. president barack obama has vowed to veto the bill if it makes it to congress but the problem is if the senate actually achieve sixty seven votes it could override a presidential veto the obama administration says additional economic restrictions

could threaten a historic diplomatic opportunity with iran that's been cementing over the past few months let's remember in november world powers reached an interim deal with to iran over its nuclear program and negotiations on a final agreement are still underway not only will more sanctions compromise the success that's already been made but the white house says it will only timidly make a potential war with tehran all the more likely oddly enough at least sixteen democrats are supporting new sanctions and sadly if president obama's historic diplomatic progress with iran comes crumbling down it will be due in part to members of his own party reporting from new york. are two. senators back in the new sanctions bill claim it will say as an insurance policy and nuclear talks but jamelle the policy director of the national iranian american console things this is nothing but a pretext for something much worse they claim that this is not

a violation of the interim deal it is a violation of the interim deal the deal says no new sanctions this imposes new sanctions there's a lot of word games being played but really it comes down to these senators don't want to see a deal they don't want to see a diplomatic solution they view this as their way or the highway either. iran completely capitulates potentially you have a regime change or something like that or the united states is going to go to war and i think that probably president obama and the u.s. negotiators would rather be focused on go sharing with iran to get a nuclear deal rather than having to negotiate with hardliners in the senate just to protect the nuclear deal that he's already achieved so he's in a very tough spot and i think this really undermines the position of the united states going into those negotiate negotiations because it conveys his message that the president is not in control of his own foreign policy. violence escalates in

iraq as the government tries to push terrorists out of the key cities coming up as thousands flee the bloodshed some americans who fought in the country say the violence is now rooted in a sense i do ripped apart by a war. and a way and a prayer for amends later this all we need the people hosing down and cleaning up a such a perceived by birds that's off to the big. old . technology innovation. developments from around russia we've got the future are covered. there's a media leave us so we leave the b.b.c. . by the sea pushing through the play you call it the musical. for shoes that no one is there still with the guests that you deserve answers from

it's all politics. are t.v. . dramas the truth be ignored. stories others refused to notice. the food since changed the world. to picture of today's mug. from around the globe. look to. the oak is still watching our team's national at least ten people were injured in ukraine's capital kiev as antigovernment protesters clashed with police among those wounded was the country's former interior minister who's now the leader of an

opposition movement demonstrators blocked law enforcement buses on roads in the capital they threw rocks at the vehicles and tried to pull strips spray the offices they were angered by aid for drooling to put three activists in jail for six years each those activists were allegedly planning a terrorist act to blow up a monument of letting. more than a million children in the u.k. have had their fingerprints taken by their schools as a form of identity a new report says son it's thought the parents of almost a third weren't even asked for their consent artie's last met a look said what critics say is worrying attack on child prosy. gone are the days when the only time you'd be asked your fingerprints is if you were suspected of a crime nowadays they're starting them young at school to be precise research shows more than a million schoolchildren have been fingerprinted and their biometric data used to identify them for things like cash free lunches checking attendance and what.

it is controversial the big brother watch is particularly worried about schools having access to this information and the car particularly when it's been collected without parents' consent and absolutely so it seems that over a million children in a single academic had this information collected so i think it's really necessary for schools to be transparent especially when it's related to very sensitive personal information what's your solution and obviously parental consent should be sought how can we make sure for example that this data is discarded once children leave school well the first stage in terms of ensuring that the right procedures are taking place was updating the law to say that parents absolutely have a legal guarantee that their consent should be sought and also children have to be incorporated into the process as well not always public education process to teach them the importance of questioning went missing on information but also to understand just what's happening within the system the school itself the figures show forty percent of secondary school pupils have been targeted and thirty one

percent of schools didn't see parental consent so as they go back to school after the festive break children are handing over sensitive personal data in many cases not knowing that they're within their rights to refuse and big brother watches main concern that an entire generation of children will grow up conditions to think that's normal. china shapes ups and ships out say it's become the world's largest sells of goods so overtaken the u.s. with more than four trillion dollars worth of trade osting its orders take a look at the number crunching and r g eight dot com. and protesters demanding justice was recruited for women murdered in paris last year have been unceremoniously her east away from in front of the french embassy in istanbul you can find the pictures online. it's this walking disaster are rare images besieged by swarming flocks of birds who leave the

telltale mob wherever they go so argues you go to the school of when to find out what the wait and wonderful tactics people they are using to clean up the slippery streets. role model one of the most beautiful and romantic cities in the world a popular destination for lovers or enthusiasts history addicts and. being with councils it all falls on top of cars boats and on pedestrians it's very slippery to get tons of complaints is the. birds hundreds of thousands of starlings which migrate to rome from the north every year leaving their mark as they go.

shovel cargo but every year this same we're surrounded by a show. the city annually spends tens of thousands of euros tackling the flying menace a species special operation in itself careful it's so dry it's very difficult to clean it off these birds are worse than vandals it's like they're angry with me personally. few. but the real mission takes place at sunset dressed in protective gear and armed with a loud hailer scientists storm the bird's favorite c.b. response and this irritating noise is none other than a recording of other starlings making a sound which warns of approaching danger the goal is to scare the feathered foes to less populated areas. hey get me to the idea from science books it works great but only for short periods of time. but even when they do manage to

scare the birds usually they just move to other residential zones and always come back at sundown. of course this bird issue isn't the worst problem a city has to deal with but any case. waiting to get in so you see here unless you have a megaphone it may be a good idea to grab a brillo even if the weather forecast is a we're. going to get off our g. rolled. to other stories making headlines around the world now a shooting and opposition rally in thailand capital bangkok killed one person and left seven injured witnesses say it happened during a scuffle between two groups of people one of which was made up of anti-government demonstrators the country's in the midst of a political uprising tens of thousands demanding the resignation of the prime minister. fierce fighting between iraqi special forces and militants in the province have reportedly calls at least

fourteen thousand people to flee to neighboring regions wyman's has been escalating as the government tries to regain control of the two key cities in the area including for after they fell into the hands of al qaeda affiliates or fly to the us. is a former u.s. marine and he thinks the u.s. led invasion has helped why did the sectarian gaps in iraqi society. i think the reason that there's discontent in iraq right now is because the u.s. led occupation put in place a lot of structural injustices that are the root of all the violence in iraq right now one of the results of the occupation of iraq was that the sunni community. became a very marginalized targeted group within iraq so this is the root of a lot of the fighting in on by province right now. i think for the u.s. government to continue arming the rocky government to facilitate their internal oppression of various ethnic minorities within the country i think that would be

very immoral on our part and i think would be even more immoral for us to send troops to participate in this repression. hundreds of people have reportedly fallen sick in the u.s. after messrs. chemical spill into a west virginia area the incident has led to an indefinite ban on tap water for around three hundred thousand people who have been affected across nine cantin people have been emptying shelves of drinking water with authorities unable to confirm when the contamination will be dealt with. now is a third time for every block since the breaking of the sands. when a country experiences a tragedy like the recent terrorism in volgograd there question is what to do about

it i mean we have to do something right let's never let a good tragedy go to waste one do a member recommends getting rid of the moratorium on the death penalty for prayers groups including terrorists because the death penalty is the perfect way to punish a suicide bomber also this duma member failed to mention high level cryptic kratz in the government as those who could possibly face the firing squad perhaps that was just an honest oversight i'm not against the death penalty in some rare instances but punishing terrorists after the fact doesn't bring victims back the focus needs to be on the source of terrorism soldiers can play around all day with weapons because the government gives them a salary weapons and training some people are recruiting arming and training new terrorists you don't need to usher in a massive surveillance state to stop terrorism or go death penalty crazy what you need to do is hit the funding and training source hard if you can i mean how many of you guys out there could make a remotely detonated bomb a c four on your own without help almost none of you see for doesn't grow on trees

someone pays for it but that's just my opinion. how do you people have a martin and this is breaking the set so it's no secret that the u.s. military has over five thousand nuclear warheads enough to eliminate most life on earth but it may surprise you how much it costs just to maintain these weapons all new study from the center for nonproliferation studies just concluded that of the course of the next thirty years the u.s. will spend nearly one trillion dollars to either keep these weapons operational or

modernize them because you would know the cold war never really ended and if there's one thing we need to be spending billions of dollars on it's in the mass killing machines so all this country continues to lag behind in education income equality and sustainable energy at least we can keep the people of the world up at night knowing that the cold war is alive and well and we got our nukes and locked and loaded i look break the set. of the please please please take a look very hard to take. that back with the terror threat there the.

plague. when people hear the word u.f.o. they tend to tune out the term does not necessarily mean little green men from mars it's a scientific term that means unidentified flying objects and there are hundreds if not thousands of u.f.o. sightings in reports every year worldwide in fact just two days ago flights in bremen germany were grounded cancelled and i diverted to do you have showing up multiple times in the airports radar screen this comes on the heels of a july event that's now surfacing about a bizarre incident near london's heathrow airport where a pilot was convinced he was going to collide mid flight with a metallic object shaped like a rugby ball both incidents are still been in bed.