i do not support assassination by my government period. where the innocent or guilty is not our job right. unscary merciless and uncaring i should say muscle is untrodden secrecy on time of day marks his twelfth anniversary with more than one hundred fifty inmates still held behind bars despite never being charged they want a display place we can treat people however we want to whenever we want to take some look at the history of the facility as people across the u.s. prepared to march demanding and then talk to the infamous prison. also the white house warns of the risk with iran if the lawmakers initiative to impose further sanctions go through that as the number of senators backing the controversial proposal double. the four ways rady prime minister ariel sharon

dies at the age of eighty five after eight years in a coma look at some of his legacy. international with me your leadership of allah hello and welcome to the program the gone tanabe 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 detention center something president obama promised long ago he's in a situation that looks now a second 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 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 defy 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 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 thousand 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 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 kuantan 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 of 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 cause i'm spacesuit you're going to r.t. me. as the gun time of prison steps into it's sad to see have existed and washington's attempting to seven day already tiny stream of information coming from the facility but snippets. so i came out and here's the latest letter from shaka armor the last british inmate of 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 for searching inmates genitals and medea benjamin co-founder of the code pink antiwar group says it's happening in gun turn of a monster psychological torture let's remember these people have been held now for twelve years imagine in your old life what twelve years 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 note was heartbreaking because he said there were 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 tunnel he has never even seen his youngest child this is mental torture for these prisoners january the eleventh is now an annual day of action

against the indefinite detention of the war in terror prison and of course will be covering the protests as they get underway later on stage of. the white house has as harshly condemned a drive by u.s. lawmakers to impose further sanctions on iran over its nuclear program officials say such a distraction would do re last year's historic deal with tehran and could even drag washington into a war but despite the warnings from the administration the number of senators supporting fresh penalties has doubled in a fortnight 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 backing a new copy 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 the 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 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. the senate is backing the new sanctions bill claim it will serve as an insurance policy in the future nuclear talks but the policy director of the national iranian

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 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 and you can find out what agreements any new u.s. sanctions against iran would jeopardize on our website all the details of the landmark nuclear deal struck with terrifying geneva. israel's former prime minister ariel sharon has died at the age of eighty five having spent eight years in a coma caused by a stroke one of the country's most iconic politicians and military leaders passed away just days after his condition worsened drastically from the lebanon war to israel's disengagement from gaza sharon's gays in politics were marked by several historic decisions but what is likely to be remembered for by many israelis is the controversial issue of settlements in the west bank as artie's policy or reports are real should one cut a divisive figure between those who loved him and those who certainly didn't but

all agree are real shavon was undoubtedly the father of the israeli settler movement under his guidance more than one hundred settlers were built on the gaza strip his motto to defend and preserve the jewish state israel dar was a lifelong supporter of i will share born for twenty seven years he farmed spices and flowers in the former gaza settlement of give a towel he was the builder of settlements even in ours he built twenty new homes just like he did in other places we saw him as the father of the settlers and he did so much for us. but eight and a half years ago israel his wife and three children were forced out of the garza home along with eight thousand others his hero had become his enemy god god i feel betrayed like a husband who walked into his home to find his wife with his neighbor sharon will most likely be praised as he should be but i would also like him to be remembered for all the things that are not so pleasant and which were critical to all of

israel. for a long time champion of jewish settlements in the occupied territories came to believe they'd be more trouble than they were worth and because sharon was the one who built them it came as a shock that he was the one to destroy them at the end of the day he looks at them as instrumental for whatever needs he had at the moment when he thought that the settlers and the settlement movement were serving the needs of a stronger israel he supported them and supported them more than anyone had but when he felt that they were no longer serving the needs of a strong israel then he turned against them so much so that he was a total disengagement from gaza despite the anger it evoked among his supporters. to return as prime minister in fresh elections but in two thousand and five he suffered a stroke from which he never recovered after withdrawing from gaza sharon ruled out any fear that unilateral withdrawal but the settlements he built continue to be a major sticking point in negotiations between israelis and palestinians policy on

our team tel aviv. this is unseen international and coming up later in the show me now. european countries of the eurovision ship one by one are able to form the costly membership at times of economic hardship mastery after a very short break and also. bombs away he's correspondent on himself with an umbrella to travel to wyoming to see how people that cope with the vandalizing nature of sabbath brands stay with us for that. world with. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. there's a media leader so we leave the media. by the sea pushes your mother your party

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keeping the twenty four c. in your vision song contest the list of the to suppose has been getting shorter by the get on the economic troubles of the continent seen as the main reason as always and it's a question of scale 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 is to qualities say researchers from switzerland actually really shouldn't be nice in giving us a measure of species international relations of their feet your cohesion with european countries is measuring the society and its culture and then you french and what will be the market for this nation in twenty down three weeks after angela merkel pushed for creation of the european financial stability facility to bailout collapsing economies a german teenager lend a my ear 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 there were joined by boss nia turkey slovakia and portugal this time caray share so i'll be able garry 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 your 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 domains 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 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 could test its budget had also been on the decline because yes planned cost is four times less than what it will spend on the qantas three years ago here at beijing has also lost both its significance and artistic by you that's according to international affairs expert so attractive that . the euro vision song contest has become a political as well as cultural relevance became the nineties 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 you know a period when. modest resources have to be matched against almost all you need to do climates i believe that this decision was made by so many countries because they've concluded that your vision song contest simply does not matter. and online for you right now china shapes up on ships out the became the world's largest exporter of goods overtaking the two us with more than still trillion dollars worth of trade crossing its borders take a look at the number crunching at all see dot com. vision section if you can get the pictures of a fierce clampdown on protesters in a stumble demanding justice for three kurdish women murdered in paris last year. they flock to rome in the thousands and certainly their mark each day myriads of

birds block out the sun above the city and leave some hope to pale staters on the ground. can offer a false now on the scare tactics savage times used to keep this in history it's creating. 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 and roads and on pedestrians it's very slippery too we get tons of complaints. birds hundreds of thousands of starlings which migrate to rome from the north every year leaving their mark as they go.

every year this same we're surrounded by. the city annually spends tens of thousands of euros tackling the flying man 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 others starlings making a sound which warns of approaching danger the goal is to scare the feathered falls to less populated areas. maybe we do get 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 a good issue isn't the root problem i see that you don't really believe those waiting to be inserted see here unless you have a megaphone it may be a good idea to grab that. even if the work of your cast is a clear. r g rolled. around in some other world news right now members of the greek new nasa golden dawn party have gathered outside athens time to protest against the question 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 thirty in golden dawn it was stripped of state funding by a law banning financial aid to political movements involved in criminal activities . thousands of foreign nationals are being evacuated from the violence plagued

central african republic the international organization of the migration and i was the first charter planes will rescue several hundred champions today in a while clashes between muslim and christian militias going to new unabated this by the resignation of the country's self-proclaimed president over a thousand have been killed since the beginning of the conflict last year a security measure to far the debate so raging in the u.k. after it was revealed the fingerprinting of students has become a usual practice in schools these 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 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 then obviously parental consent should be sought how can we make sure for example at this date or 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 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. and up next it's a look at a local fisherman under threat in west africa and on the years i think u.k. it's breaking this up with. what 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 remember 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 do remember failed to mention high level cryptic rats 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.

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