i do not support assassination by my government period. go on tunnel obey all sources draw a veil of silence over the infamous prison as it reaches its twelfth anniversary while dr sacks of his prepare for the annual march in washington with the demands to put an end to the facility. the white house warns of the risk of a war with iran if the lawmakers initiative to impose further sanctions goes through that as the number of senators backing the controversial proposal double its. and cheering out european countries jump of the eurovision ship one by one and able to afford the cost of membership at times of economic hardship.

this is asking to national coming to you live from moscow. thanks for joining us. the grand tunnel bay prison turns twelve today and human rights activists have prepared a special way to mark the anniversary people across the u.s. plan to take to the streets demanding an end to the infamous dissensions center something president obama promised long ago she's in the situation and looks now at the unsettling history of the facility. 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 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 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 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 seventeen nineteen 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 we're nearly there there are hundred fifty five men still in guantanamo and seventy six of those men were cleared for release the u.s. 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 here 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 bey as he 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. 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 your 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 all heard the struggle of one town in the presenter's america's self-made mass of the last twelve years it's already so hard to clean up there are reasons to keep it around are likely to breed more anniversaries to crop and stacy churkin are our team. as the grown time of praise and steps into. existence washington's attempting to sever the already tiny stream of information coming from the facility but snippets still occasionally leak out. so here's the latest letter from a shocker on the last british inmate at the site he describes the humiliating search methods used by the prison restriction and inmates are forced to undergo the procedure even if they just want to call their lawyer some guards are pushing it even further searching inmates trying to tools and we spoke to a point of all stale from the legal charity group she says the more we find out about got a ton of dough the heart of washington tries to buried out of sight and i think we

. think. we know when he will britain are threatening. finally president obama. and what happened last year with the widespread hunger strike of more than one hundred detainees and we really thought the man from probably trying. to was closing the prison again but the other thing we know is that the military will. lead to that kind of scrutiny and we're seeing a real deterioration. and we always remember there were huge challenges of the new brand that we're not trying to charge for twelve months of being tortured. and you're released without an apology without without. without support in my experience mind all the men i work with simply want to get on the lead normal lives. so january the

eleventh is now an annual day of action against the indefinite detention of the war on terror prison will be covering the protests as they get underway later. the white house has harshly condemned a drive by u.s. lawmakers to impose further sanctions on iran over its nuclear program officials say such a dislocation would deal ray last year's historic deal with tehran and could even drug washington into a war but displayed the warnings from the administration the number of senators supporting fresh penalties has doubled or she's merino portnoy has more now on the growing internal bickering and way it could lead. 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 bathgate 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 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 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 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. . santos is backing the new sanctions bill claim it will serve as it insurance

policy in future nuclear talks but after the policy direction of the national train american council says all the initiative will do is undermine washington's role in any dialogue 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. 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 and you can find down to what agreements any new u.s. sanctions against iran would jeopardize on our website all the details of the landmark nuclear deal struck with tehran in geneva are not. i please twelve european countries skipping the twenty foreseen eurovision song contest their list of participants has been getting shorter by the year and the economic troubles of the continent are seen as the main reason as aussies an excuse to ask how reports. good knowledge represented russia at the euro vision 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 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. 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 east and giving us a measure of specie international relations or their. european countries is measuring the society and its culture and then she's influencing what will be their market and it's this change in twenty two and 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 winner. but ironically it's the

europe wide financial turmoil which is now threatening the whole existence of the contest in twenty eleven when 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 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 region why would happen in describing the situation in cyprus and i'm not surprised that this decision has been taken given the. cuts you know in other domains i'm talking about here with 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 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 your vision been losing contestants its budget has also been on the decline they see as planned cost is four times less than what all spent on the contest three years ago your vision has also lost both its significance and artistic value according to international affairs expert subject of garbage. euro vision song contest has become a political as well as cultural irrelevance back in the ninety's it suddenly became much more important in central and 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. excuse me when it comes to europe losing money our financial guru max kind that always has a shop would his latest problem he's on hand with a lesson in motion with these special twist. because it has been voted the word

of the year by the american dialect society after the humble conjunction exploded with new grab a medical possibilities and twenty thirty mm ben zimmer chair of the new words committee of the american dialect society said no longer does because we followed by for a full cause now one often the c. ters flee 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 yet another multi billion dollar fine because a 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. coming up later announcing to national the unusual practice in some u.k.

schools to control children researchers say more than a minute students have been fingerprinted and in lots of the cases without their parents' permission. forms away all c's correspondent with an umbrella to travel to run to see how people that would be vandalizing nature of that friends that's coming your way shortly after the break. the. economic downturn. the final long stay the longer the deal and the rest because it's a neat case it'll be every week a leg police. cars.

flipped on your arm and a lot of bank of new knowledge face time peter limone please. plug. a pleasure to have you with us here on r t today i'm sure. this is all seem to national welcome back. they flock to row in the thousands and suddenly leave them all day myriads of buzz block out the sun above the city and leave some hole to peel stains on the ground is going off reports now on this cat

tucker takes sadie tynan's used to keep the city streets clean. rome 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 and roads and on pedestrians it's very slippery too we get tons of complaints about birds hundreds of thousands of starlings which migrate to rome from the north every year leaving their mark as they go. over europe every year this 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 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 an 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 feather it falls to us populated areas. pared back we took the idea from sun. 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 a good issue is elusive problem if you really believe those waiting to be inserted see here you have a megaphone it may be a good idea to grab but. even if there was a forecast we. got our g. rolled. and online for you this hour china shapes up and ships out as it became 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 r.t. dot com. now invision section you can get the pictures of a fierce clamp down on protesters in istanbul demanding justice for three kurdish women murdered in paris last year. negotiators in iraq are working on a deal to avoid a further on the offensive on al-qaeda militants in fallujah and ceding control to

local tribal leaders in while thousands have fled the surrounding areas after more than a week of fierce fighting and loss kaput see a former u.s. marine things the u.s. led invasion has helped widen the sectarian gaps in iraqi society. i think the reason that there's discontent in iraq right now is because the 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 the 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 in some other world news in brief

seven people have been injured and at least one critically in a shooting outside and antigovernment protest camp in the thai capital bangkok reports say unknown gunmen opened fire at demonstrators near the site the country has seen weeks of political turmoil with tens of thousands demanding the resignation of the prime minister who becky is of corruption. members of the greek new no say golden dawn party home gathered outside athens high court to protest against the questioning of their leaders the head of the party and several other lawmakers have been arrested on charges of running a criminal organization last year in twenty thirteen golden dawn was stripped of state funding by a law banning financial aid to political movements involved in criminal affairs. thousands of foreign nationals are being evacuated from the violence plague central african republic the international organization for migration announced the first chart of plans will rescue several hundred charges today meanwhile clashes between

armed muslim and christian militias continue unabated despite the resignation of the country's self-proclaimed president thousands have been killed since the beginning of the conflict last year. and part of a historial tied to better and tyrone in southwest china has been destroyed by huge fire firefighters soldiers and of volunteers needed some ten hours to bring the flames under control but by then one hundred ancient wooden houses have been lost none i was injured in the in the one thousand three hundred eight year old town of juba song is one of the most famous attractions in the region. a security measure to far the data is the debates raging in the u.k. after it was revealed that the fingerprinting of students has become a usual practice in schools the stories caused particular controversy after it was

revealed almost a third of schools collected the data without consulting parents laura smith has the details. 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 always puppy education process to teach them the importance of freshening when icing 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 next to the kinds of report but in the u.k. it's picnic with george galloway.

i've. dropped some at least sixty percent of imports came from illegal since she was. the european union is ironically taking fish from some of the poorest nations on earth so this is

a very serious and very urgent problem that needs immediate international action. on the territorial waters they fish they load the fish into the ships and leave for . illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our mouths. 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 thirty mm ben zimmer chair of the new words committee of the american dialect society said no longer does because have to be followed by of or a 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 yet another multi billion dollar fine because of criminal yet another wedding party getting thrown because us about the department of justice losing faith in a valid bitcoin because concerned for all the n.s.a. spying on every single person on earth because just because stacey yes max well we're first going to speak about this because concern troll the department of justice has lost faith in the value of bitcoin.