where the innocent or guilty is not our job right here. we go on time a gray prison that marks its twelfth anniversary with more than one hundred fifty inmates still held behind bars despite never being charged they want to display a place that we can treat people however we want to whenever we want to takes a look at the history of the facility as people across the u.s. prepared to march demanding and then to the infamous prison. also this hour the white house walls of the risk of a war with iran if the lawmakers initiative to impose further sanctions go through as the number of senators backing the controversial proposal doubles. the fourways rate of prime minister ariel sharon dies at the age of eighty five after eight years in a coma but look at some of his legacy. this

is an international coming to life for most. of all auto top story now gone 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 and then to the infamous detention center something president obama promised long ago our season is to say trick 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 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 seventeen nineteen needs 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 here kitty have 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 arclight jamila busy at the oh 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 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 these 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 it is by portraying it really as a credit mess you know as if this was somehow harder to do now that it was five years ago he was the president but politicians human rights organizations legal experts and common sense. and the struggle of guantanamo prisoners but america's self-made mess of the last twelve years is already so hard to clean up there are reasons to keep it around are likely to breed more anniversaries to come and stacy churkin our party. as the gone time in prison steps into its existence that washington's attempting to sever the already tiny stream of information coming from the sites that snippets to occasion. leak out and here's the latest letter from the last british inmate who describes the humiliating search methods used by the prison administration and inmates are forced to undergo the procedure even if they just want to call their lawyer some guys are pushing it even faggot searching inmates

chantal's and was proud to appoint all stale from the legal charity group just as the more we find out about gun time the heart of washington tries to bury it out of sight and i think we think. we know no one who can reason our scrutiny. finally president obama moves trying to round up what happened last year with the widespread hunger strike of more than one hundred detainees and we really thought momentum for the first trying. to was closing the prison again but the other thing we know is that the military. preferably that kind of scrutiny and we're seeing a real deterioration. was we know there were huge challenges up when you've been brand that we're not trying to challenge for twelve years an answer being tortured . and your release without an apology without without medical care and. without support in my experience mind all the men i work with simply want to

get on the lead normal lives with. the intention. so january the eleventh season our annual day of action against the indefinite detention of the war on terror prison and of course we'll be covering the protests as they get underway later on so stay tuned for that. 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 legislation would derail last year's history deal with tehran and could even drug washington into a war but despite the warnings from their ministration that amber of senators supporting fresh penalties has doubled or she's wearing a burton eye has more now on the growing internal bickering and where 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 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 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. r.t.

. senators backing the new sanctions bell claim it also as an insurance policy in future nuclear talks but jamal abdi 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. the u.s. negotiators would rather be focused on. go sharing with iran to get a looter 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 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 and all the details of the landmark nuclear deal struck with tehran in geneva are on r.t. dot com. 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 while some dramatically from the lebanon war to israel's disengagement from gaza sharon's years 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 artists policy who reports.

i reel should one cut a divisive figure between those who loved him and those who certainly didn't but all agree i will share one was undoubtedly the father of the israeli settler movement under his guidance more than one hundred six womans were pulled from the gaza strip and his motto to defend and preserve the jewish state is where eldar was a lifelong supporter of i will show born for twenty seven years he farmed spices and flowers in the former gaza settlement of can a towel log. 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 gaza home along with eight thousand others his hero had become his enemy. of 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 in the settlement movement were serving the needs of a stronger israel he supported them and he 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 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 unilateral withdrawal but the settlements he built continue to be a major sticking point in negotiations between israelis and palestinians policy our team tel aviv. this is also international and coming up later in the. european countries. one by one to take a times of economic. story. and also. a way. to travel to see how people that are coping with. some of the trends more after the break. good luck. to build.

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this is our international welcome arc at least twelve european countries are skipping the twenty fourteen eurovision song contest the list of participants has been getting shorter by the year and the economic troubles of the continent all seen as the main reason as. reports. good 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 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 the 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 influencing what will be their market and it's this nation 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 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 so be able gary 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 region and why would 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 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 euro vision been losing contestants its budget has also been on the decline they see as planned cost is four times less than what was spent three years ago eurovision has also lost both its significance and artistic value according to international affairs expert coverage. the eurovision song contest has become a political as well as cultural irrelevance became the nineties it suddenly became much more important in central in the 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 you know to stick to. it has been rather worthless congress

and now days both politically and culturally its significance has declined so in a period of a story to 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 euro vision song contest simply does not matter. for you right now china shapes up and ships other became the world's largest exporter of goods overtaking the us but more than four trillion dollars worth of trade offs in its borders take a look at the number crunching at auntie dot com. and in our invasion section you can get the pictures of a clamp down on protesters in istanbul demanding justice for three kurdish women murdered in paris last year. they flock to rome and the

thousands and certainly leave their mark each day myriads of bats block out the sun above the city and leave some hard to remove stains on the ground. reports now on they scare tactics subway tunnels used to keep the city streets clean. rome one of the most beautiful and romantic cities in the world a popular destination for lovers art 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. birds hundreds of thousands of starlings which migrate to rome from the north every year leaving their mark as they go.

over your 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 a fair bit 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 foes to less populated areas. i mean 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 the right word even if the forecast is a clear. r g rolled. and in some other world news the solemn members of the greek new notes a golden door to the 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 and twenty says him golden dawn was stripped of state funding by a little buying financial aid to political movements in gold in her eyes.

thousands of foreign nationals are being evacuated from the violence plagued central african republic international organization for migration announced the first child of lanes or rescue several hundred as chartered institute a and while clashes between armed muslim christian militias continue unabated just by the resignation of the country's self-proclaimed president more than a thousand have been killed since the beginning of the conflict last year. a security measure to fog the debates raging in the u.k. also it was revealed the fingerprinting of students has become a usual practice in schools these stories caused particular controversy after almost a third of schools collected the data without consulting parents laura smith has a day's. gone are the days when the only time you'd be asked your fingerprints is if you were suspected of a crime nowadays they're starting them young at school to be precise research shows more than a million schoolchildren have been fingerprinted and their biometric data used to

identify them for things like cash free lunches checking attendance and what. it is controversial the big brother watch is particularly worried about schools having access to this information and the car particularly when it's been collected without parents' consent and absolutely so it seems that over a million children in a single academic had this information collected so i think it's really necessary for schools to be transparent especially when it's related to very sensitive personal information what's your solution and obviously parental consent should be sought how can we make sure for example that this data is discarded once children leave school well the first stage in terms of ensuring that the right procedures are taking place was updating the law to say that parents absolutely have a legal guarantee that their consent should be sought and also children have to be incorporated into the process as well not only is probably education process to teach them the importance of questioning went missing on information but also to

understand just what's happening within the system the school itself the figures show forty percent of secondary school pupils have been targeted and thirty one percent of schools didn't 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. up next day is breaking the side for our international viewers and going underground for those of you london starting here in just a few minutes. he

survived war atrocities. to make it a psychologist says she. has changed his life and the world around him. by giving up. hope. and love to so many children. nikolai the american worker on t.v. . i know c.n.n. the most obviously news have taken some lots lately but the fact is i admired their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's closer to the truth might take. off. because it's because one full attention in the

mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on here. and our teen years we have a different brain. because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not i. have. got a set of jokes i will hand over this stuff that i've got. how do you people have a martin and this is breaking the set so it's no secret that the u.s. military has over five thousand nuclear warheads enough to eliminate most life on earth but it may surprise you how much it costs just to maintain these weapons all

new study from the center for nonproliferation studies just concluded that of the course of the next thirty years the u.s. will spend nearly one trillion dollars to either keep these weapons operational or modernize them because you would know the cold war never really ended and if there's one thing we need to be spending billions of dollars on it's a mass killing machines so all this country continues to lag behind in education income equality and sustainable energy at least we can keep the people of the world up at night knowing that the cold war is alive and well and we got our nukes and locked and loaded i looked break the set. it was a. very hard to take. that had sex with her hair.