care about human to. this is why you should. only. one time of a president or in twelve in the military celebrates with an information blackout activism all the advantages of for the annual march on the white house. your original sees a cut in cash on competitors and small countries will say they're too poor to take part in the flashy pan-european song contest. for iran to score some points in the west as the e.u. praises the progress of nuclear talks and even the white house defense or on one sanction wind assented. and. previously in the u.k. as a new report finds more than a million british students have given their fingerprints just so they can eat in the school canteen all for

a library book. it's one pm here in other russian capital you live with us on our international i am to be on with the human rights activists lawyers and journalists standing shoulder to shoulder and preparing to march on the white house with one to mend shut down guantanamo bay saturday is now the annual day of action used to approach has twelve years of indefinite detention at the war on terror prison and as i do going to see a chicken i reports age has a mellowed guantanamo one bit. hidden on a tropical island a symbol of promises made being far flung promises kept 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 that 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 that they want to display a place that we can treat people however we want to whenever we want to the tube 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 spike 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 eighty s. 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 we're nearly there there are hundred fifty five men still in guantanamo and seventy six of those men were cleared for release the us struggling with what to do with them and then even bleaker future still ahead for the other seventy nine prisoners facing the abyss of indefinite detention. because they were somewhere somebody where the 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 busiek and 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 . and probably trapped there unable to emigrate because of the stigma of kuantan row 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 than 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 reasons to keep it around are likely to breed more anniversaries to come and spicy chicken to our teeth. in terms of transparency and twenty four teams off to a murky start for one ton a month washington is trying harder than ever to control the information coming out of the prison but snippets still a leak out. here's the latest letter from a shit i married the last british inmate at guantanamo ended he describes the humiliating and degrading searches inmates are forced to undergo just to make

a phone call to their lawyer but one tunnel has failed to dent in his spirits and he does make a number of curbs about the guards going out of their way to search even inmates genitals media been. antiwar groups says what's happening in guantanamo amounts to psychological torture let's remember these people have been held now for twelve years imagine in your own life for twelve years we would be like we received today a note from one of the prisoners shakur armor who is a citizen of britain has been cleared for release for years now and his know it was heartbreaking because he said that what he really misses most is having played a part in the lives of his children his youngest child was born on the day that he arrived in one time to mow he's never even seen his youngest child this is mental torture for these prisoners will be covering the march on the white house as it

gets under way later on stay tuned for that here on r.t. international. believes as a very good progress has been made in talks with iran on implementing a nuclear deal that was agreed in november and to run itself insists all outstanding issues have been resolved but those positive signals have been counterbalanced by an internal raw across the atlantic the white house says senators who support a bill proposing further sanctions risk pushing america into war is marina put my 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 backing

a new package of unilateral sanctions aimed to increase pressure on iran for its nuclear. 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 iran 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 now 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 meet a potential war with tehran although more likely oddly enough at least sixteen democrats are supporting new sanctions 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 marina r.t. . thanatos back in the new sanctions bill claim it will serve as an insurance policy in future nuclear talks but the policy director of the national iranian american council for things this is nothing but a pretext of 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. but that's the lengths

taking part in europe's biggest and flashiest singing contest has been confirmed and it's getting shot by b.m. economic troubles are forcing country after country to jump the euro vision chip as other teams alexei your reports. 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 east and giving us a measure of specie international relations. between european countries is measuring the society and its culture and then she's influencing what will be their market and it's this nation's in twenty down three weeks after angela merkel pushed for creation of the european financial stability facility to bail out collapsing economies a german teenager was crowned the euro visions winner. 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 there were joined by boss near turkey slovakia

and portugal this time caray share serbia bulgaria and cyprus have also jumped off the 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 an employed i'm not an expert on the euro region and why 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 the. 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 continue 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 they would likely have to invent something new and very soon to keep europe's longest running song contest from losing its voice. reporting from moscow.

not only has zero vision been losing contestants if the budget has also been on the decline in twenty ten no we spent fifteen million euros as host that one up for germany in twenty eleven when they hosted twenty two million euros and that in twenty twelve us we didn't cut that budget in half and this year only five million is planned for the budget for the competition. right now let's get more on why countries are quoting a year arisen from. foreign affairs editor of chronicles magazines joining us are right now good to have you with us your country serbia is one of the countries turning down the euro vision participant the c.e.o. why is that. because the euro vision song qantas has become a political as well as cultural irrelevance back in the ninety's suddenly

became much more important in central and eastern europe them used to be because many newly independent countries of the former yugoslavia and the former u.s.s.r. wanted to put their name on the panel so to say it was the period of creation of bosnia herzegovina macedonia. ukraine georgia or by john and others jumped on the bandwagon but for many many years in musical sooner to stick. it has been rather worthless contest and now days both politically and culturally its significance has declined so in a period of a story in a period where and. modest resources have to be matched against almost only me to requirement i believe that this decision was made by so many countries because they

concluded that your vision song on this simply does not matter but some say that winning and subsequently hosting eurovision can provide a base for the country the country the image and as well as its tourism is going to worth the sacrifice to at least invest in some of those two factors to carry on and be part of the your vision. well i believe that the experts who know more about this and i do have tried to correlate the benefits of this is the cost and i have come to the conclusion that to have a once a year immune from initial. connected with poor taste for pillow or simple weirdness let's just remember the last time around is is not something that projects the right image for the countries that in fact it projects in the image of the lowest common denominator in cultural terms and many countries that

are developing their tourist industry would like to be associated with something a little bit more market that's. all right what about the countries who do then take part in this competition do you think that the crisis will stare into bailouts could affect the way that people weren't it's been said sometimes that people vote differently because of the political side of things. well we've seen political voting all along and for instance cyprus and greece award each other all twelve points while giving zero to turkey the scandinavians in particular are notorious the swedes in the regions giving denmark twelve divisive and also finland in the stone you help each other so there is no real correlation between voting patterns and the quality of the entries themselves and as i have already said that quality can be quickly because most of the time and even that one global hit that he moved

from europe vision song context does a little from one can see on the floor is just a typical example of cheesy europop she is very low you know a pop that some might like and some might not thank you very much that is a city out there it's got his foreign affairs editor of the chronicles magazine showing us his thoughts on at the your vision contest for the. weinmann that in iraq as the government tries to push terrorists out of key cities coming up here on our team to national thousand saw feeding the bloodshed americans and force in the country say the violence is rooted in a society ripped apart by. an awareness and a prayer for romance later this all we meet the people who sing and hosing down and cleaning up a city besieged by birds. speak

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stories. the spanish find out more visit. 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 an opposition leader in the country demonstrators broke the law enforcement buses and worries in the capital they threw rocks at the rio cools and tried to pepper spray the officers they were angered by the court's ruling to put three activists in jail for six years each was activists with allegedly planning a terrorist act to blow up one image of london. more than a million children in the u.k.

have had their fingerprints taken by the schools as a form of identity according to a new report by big brother watch and it's fought the parents of almost a third weren't even asked for their consent are just last words you said what critics say is a worrying attack on child privacy. gone are the days when the only time you'd be off 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 of 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 only is part the education process to teach them the importance of questioning when writing 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 up and ships out it's become the world's largest export elven goods ever take in the u.s. with more than four trillion dollars worth of trade crossing its borders take a look at the number crunching at r.t. dot com. and protesters demanding justice for three kurdish women murdered in paris last year have been unceremoniously host away from in front of the french embassy in istanbul you can find the pictures online. it's a squawking disaster rome is besieged by swarming flocks of birds to tell tale ma wherever they go so are you going to be going up when to find out the weird and wonderful tactics people they're using to clean up the slippery streets. of rome one of the most beautiful and romantic cities in the world

a popular destination for lovers or enthusiasts history addicts and. being with counselors it all falls on top of cars roads and on pedestrians it's very slippery to get tons of complaints. birds hundreds of thousands of starlix which migrate toward from the north every year leaving their mark as they go. shoulder every year this same we're surrounded by a show. the city annually spends tens of thousands of your ass tackling the flying men as a species a special operation in itself ok 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. but the real mission takes place at sunset dressed in protective gear and armed with a loud hailer scientists storm the bird's favorite sleeping spots 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 falls to less populated areas. we took 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 is good issues are the root problem the city has you know really peace for those waiting to get searched see fear of the beggar for it

may be a good idea to grab but. even if the forecast is a clear. road. rash on the stories making headlines around the world this hour a shooting near an opposition rally in thailand's capital bangkok as killed one person and left seven injured witnesses say it happened during a scuffle between two groups of people one of which is made up of anti-government demonstrators the country is in the midst of a political uprising with tens of thousands demanding the resignation of the prime minister they accused of corruption. hundreds of people have reportedly fallen sick in the same mess of chemicals bill into a west virginia riva incident has led to an indefinite ban on tap water for around three thousand people who have been affected across the nine counties people have been emptying shelves of drinking water with authorities unable to confirm when the

contamination will be dealt with. next summer to international mexico as with us the secrets of the words of the year just because i'll see it tomorrow. when a country experiences a tragedy like the recent terrorism in volgograd this 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 various groups including terrorists because the death penalty is the perfect way to punish a suicide bomber also this do remember 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.

welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser 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 have to be followed by or full cause now one often the sees tersely worded 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 get another multi billion dollar fine because criminal yet another wedding party getting thrown because.