going title of a prison turns twelve and the military celebrates with an information blackout while rights acts of it unfold that ban is for the annual march on the white house . eurovision sees a constant cash on competitors as more countries say that super corps to take part and be flashed upon a european song contest. also iran scored some points in the west as the e.u. praises the progress of nuclear talks while even the white house defends tehran from sanctions minded senators. and anger over child promising 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 or burra in liberia but.

international news and common live from moscow you're motional to international was made thanks for joining us human rights activists lawyers and journalists are standing shoulder to shoulder and preparing to march on the white house with one demand shut down guantanamo bay saturdays now the annual day of action has to protest twelve years of indefinite detention at the war on terror prison and as a tease us to see tricking our forwards age doesn't mellowed gone tunnel no one bit . hidden on a tropical island a symbol of promises made being far from 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 it's civilised 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 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 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 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. 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 busy at need spent 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 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 you were the president you know let's 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 mass 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 and they see a target on our team. in terms of transparency twenty fourteen is off to a murky start for guntown amar washington is trying harder than ever to control the information coming out of the prison but snippets so leak out and here's the latest letter from shaka the last british inmate in guntown about it he describes the humiliating and degrading searches inmates are forced to undergo just to make a phone call to their lawyer but gun tunnel has failed to dampen his spirits and he does make

a number of quips about the guards going out of their way to search even inmates genitals and stale from the or prevent legal action charity says the more we find out about gun tonneau the harder washington tries to bury it out of sight and we. think. we know no one who can reason our scrutiny. finally president obama minutes trying for now and what happened last year with the widespread hunger strike of more than one hundred detainees and we really thought momentum for the birds flying. towards closing the prison again and the other thing we know is that the military. preferably that kind of scrutiny and we're seeing a real deterioration. was real and there were huge challenges that were not. challenged for twelve years a civilian it was your first. your release without an apology without

without. all in my experience mind all the men i would simply want to go to lead normal lives. and of course will be covering the march from the white house as it gets underway later on so stay tuned for that. the list of arts taking part in europe's biggest and fleischer singing contest has been confirmed and it's getting shorter by the year it can only troubles are forcing country after country to jump the euro vision ship as are. now 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 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. auditoria 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. programmes 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 shouldn't he's given us a measure of specie international relations of their feet your cohesion with european countries is measuring the society and its culture and then she's in french in what will be the market for the station 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 vision's win. 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 unemployed i'm not an expert on the euro vision and white woods happening i'm describing the situation in cyprus and i'm not surprised that this decision has been taken given the fact that there are. other gaming i'm talking about here with education culture the shows 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 they would likely have to invent something very soon to keep europe's longest running song contest from losing its voice. reporting from moscow. and not only has your beijing been losing contestants its budget has also been on the decline in twenty ten norway spent fifteen million euros as host that went up to twenty two million spend by germany in twenty eleven and twenty twelfth's wait in car but in hope this year the planned budget has been cut by more than half again and subject of foreign affairs editor at chronicles magazine says while your vision was once seen as important to international image it has since lost both its

significance and autistic quality. the euro vision song contest has become a political as well as cultural irrelevant since back in the ninety's it suddenly became much more important in central in eastern europe than it 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 but for many many years in musical terms in there to stick to. it has been rather worthless pompous and now days both politically and culturally its significance has declined so in a period of a story in a period when. modest resources have to be matched against almost unlimited requirements i believe that this decision was made by so many countries because

they've concluded that your vision song contest simply does not matter. when it comes to europe losing money our financial guru always has a shot what undid his latest program he's on hand with a lesson in modern grammar with his special twist. 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 thirty mm ben zimmer chair of the new words committee of the american dialect society said no longer does because we followed by or of for cause now one off or the c. ters leeward rationales like because science or because reasons you might not go to a party because tired america losing ampyra 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 because concern for all the n.s.a. spying on every single person on earth because just because. the you says very good progress has been made in talks with iran on implementing the nuclear deal that was agreed in november until one itself insists all outstanding issues have been resolved but those positive signals have been counted balanced by an internal raw across that line take the white house says senators who support a bill but posing further sanctions risk pushing america into a bore oh she's marrying up like nine explain. 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 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 a fact if tehran violates the six month interim deal or lets it expire without a comprehensive nuclear agreement a us 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 taking on 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 diplomat. 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. . can be 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

thinks this is just a pretext for something much while. 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 case it is coming out as thousands flee the bloodshed some americans who fought in the countryside the violence is now operated in a society ripped apart by war and. on the wane and a prayer for roselands later this hour meet the people closing down and cleaning out the state say besieged by bugs that's not how the break. will. slip its technology innovation called a list of elements from around russia we've dumped a huge earth covered. there's a media lead also we leave the media by the sea ocean securely play your party there's a goal to the jews that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers

from. politic you. are to pull. dramas that can't be ignored to. stories others refuse to notice. things since changing the world lights never. to picture of today's leaves no longer lines from around the globe. look please don't. pull. it will also international welcome bag at least ten. so kia as antigovernment protesters clashed with police among those wounded was the

country's former interior minister who is now an opposition leader in the country demonstrators blocked law enforcement buses on roads in the capital they threw rocks at the vehicles and tried to pepper spray the offices they were angered by a court ruling to put three activists in jail for six years each those activists were allegedly planning a terrorist acts to blow up a monument or leg. or than a million children in the u.k. have had their fingerprints taken by their schools as a form of identity according to a new report by big brother watch and it's thought the parents of almost a third won't even ask for their consent larcenous looks now at what critics say is a warringah tae-kwon child privacy. 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 school children 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 puppy 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 seek 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 a become the world's largest exporter of goods overtaking the us with more than four trillion dollars worth of trade crossing its borders take a look at the number crunching at mt dot com. protests is demanding justice but in paris last year i've been unceremoniously hosed away from in front of the french embassy in istanbul you can find the free the pictures online.

it's a squawking disaster rome is besieged by swarming flocks of birds who leave their telltale mark wherever they go. to find out the weird and wonderful top ticks people there 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 these. birds hundreds of thousands of starlings which migrate toward from the north every year leaving their mark as they go.

live. shovel cargo but every year the same we're surrounded by a show. the city annually spends tens of thousands of euros tackling the flying menace is species a 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 cd spots and this irritating lor's 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. pay them enough to get the idea from science books

it works great if only for short periods of time. but even when they do manage to steer the birds you'll be just moved to other residential zones and always come back at sundown. of course was heard issues of the worst problem a city has to deal with but any case. those waiting to get so you see here unless you have a megaphone it may be a good idea to grab a brillo even if you want to forecast we're. going to get off our g. roll. to all the stories making headlines around the world this hour a sure thing near an opposition rally in thailand's competent buying congress has 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 is in the midst of a political uprising with tens of thousands demanding the resignation of the prime minister who they accuse of corruption. fierce fighting between iraqi special

forces and militants in the anbar province have reportedly caused at least fourteen thousand people to flee to neighboring regions violence has been escalating as the government tries to regain control of the two k. cities in the area including fallujah after they fell into the hands of al qaeda affiliated fighters and ross county is a former u.s. marine and his things the u.s. led invasion has helped widen the sectarian get in iraq a society. the reason that there is 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 unbar 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 it would be even more immoral for us to send troops to participate in this repression. and hundreds of people have reportedly fallen the say can be due as aftermath of chemicals. bill into a west virginia river the incident has led to an indefinite ban on top order for around three hundred thousand feet have been affected across nine counties people have been emptying shells of drinking water with authorities unable to confound when the contamination will be dealt with. when i see international now a look at local fisherman under threat in west africa. and the ground when.

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