innocent and guilty is not our job. uncaring merciless and shrouded in secrecy the guantanamo bay prison its twelfth anniversary with more than one hundred fifty inmates still held behind despite never being. a display place we can treat. however we want to whenever we want to take a look at the history of the facility as people across the us prepare to. an end to the infamous prison. also the white house the risk of a war with iran from his initiative to impose further sanctions goes through the number of backing the controversial proposal. the former israeli prime minister ariel sharon at the age of eighty five after eight years in

a coma we look at some of his top stories this. international within twenty four hours a day. the. president 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. looks at the controversial 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 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

seven thousand nine hundred eighteen ease 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 nearly there there are hundred fifty five. 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 to. 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 a credit mess you know as if this was somehow harder to do now that it was five years ago he was president but politicians human rights organizations legal experts and common sense have called for an end to the struggle of guantanamo prisoners but america's self-made mess of the last twelve years is already so hard to clean up that reasons to keep it around are likely to breed more anniversaries to pop and r.t. . as the granting of a prison steps into its thirteenth year of existence washington's attempting to cut off the already stream of information coming from the site but snippet still occasionally only killed by his the. latest letter from shaker aamer he's the last remaining british inmate there and he 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 guards are pushing even further searching inmates genitals well we spoke to from the legal charity group she says that the more we find out about guantanamo the harder washington tries to bury it out of sight and i think we we know. we have. risen up but 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 the man from for the first time. towards closing the prison again but the other thing we know i mean the military brought. preferably to that kind of scrutiny and we're seeing a real deterioration and. i'm going to obviously know there are huge challenges after you've been banned that we're not trying to charge for twelve years and i'm still been tortured and very scary and you're really throughout college and without

without. enough support in my experience mind all of the men i've worked with simply want to get on lead normal lives i'm overjoyed that the intention. general eleventh is now an annual day of action against the indefinite detention of the war on terror prison and we'll be covering the protests as they get underway later on so stay with us for that here on r.t. international. 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 historic deal with terror on and could even drag washington into a war but despite the warnings from the administration the number of senators supporting fresh penalties has doubled. has more 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 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 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 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. well senators backing the new sanctions bill claim it will serve as an insurance policy in future nuclear talks but your model 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 then i think that probably president obama and the u.s.

negotiators would rather be focused on the go sharing with iraq 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 or the details of the landmark nuclear deal struck with iran in geneva or a 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 worsened 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

controverted controversial issue of settlements in the west bank as artie's paula now reports are real sharon cut a divisive figure between those who loved him and those who certainly didn't but all agree i will serve one was undoubtedly the father of the israeli settler movement under his guidance more than one hundred settlements were built on the gaza strip his motto to defend and preserve the jewish state. israel dar was a lifelong supporter of i will shove on 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 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 further that unilateral withdrawal but the settlements he built continue to be a major sticking point in negotiations between israelis and palestinians policy r.t. television. this is r.t. international live here in moscow coming up later in the program for choosing old european countries jump off the euro vision ship one by one. unable to afford to take times of economic hardship that story. also. a way. to travel to rome to see how people there are coping with the vandalizing nature of some feathered friend.

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of these twelve european countries are skipping the twenty fourteen euro vision song contest and this to participants has been getting shorter by the year and the economic troubles of the continent seen as the main reason. 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 to get to know us and so they began to come to our concerts it was great. music experience because it was a concert on the great greatest. auditory that i could ever imagine. from drag queens to hellish creatures and some of europe's brightest

talents one of the world's most watched t.v. programs the eurovision song contest brought fame to the likes of celine dion and julio iglesias however votes have not always been spread purely for it to stick qualities say researchers from switzerland actually east and giving us a measure of specie international relations are there. to european countries is measuring the society and its culture and then she's in french in what will be their market and it's this nation's in twenty down three weeks after angela merkel pushed for creation of the european financial stability facility to bail out collapsing economies a german teenager was crowned the eurovision swimming. 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 region and why woods happening i'm describing the situation in cyprus and i'm not surprised that this decision has been taken and 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 continue to do so whenever needed to keep the euro vision song contest the most popular pan-european entertainment t.v. show but at this rate of countries dropping out of the competition they would likely have to invent something new and very soon to keep europe's longest running

song contest from losing its voice. reporting from moscow. not only is your aversion been losing contestants its budget has also been on the decline this year as planned cost is four times less than it was three years ago eurovision has also lost both its significance and artistic value that's according to international affairs expert said it's your call which. the euro vision song contest has become a political as well as cultural irrelevance 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 you know 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. at the moment 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. and in the invasion section you get the pictures of a fierce clampdown on protesters in istanbul demanding justice for three kurdish women murdered in paris last year. they flock to rome in the thousands and certainly leave their mark each day myriads of birds block out the sun the bob the

city and me some hard to remove states on the ground what is your opinion of reports on the scare tactics used to keep the city's 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 a species a special operation in itself careful feeds no drive it's very difficult to clean it off these birds are worse than vandals it's like they're angry at 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. hey get me to 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 was heard issue isn't the worst problem a city has to deal with but anything. waiting to see here you have a bag of it may be a good idea to grab but. even if the forecast is will we. see rolled. time now for some other world news this hour members of the greek golden dawn party gathered outside athens to test against the questioning of the leaders head of the party and several other lawmakers have been arrested on charges of running a criminal organization last year and twenty thirteen golden dome was stripped of state funding banning financial aid to political movements involved in criminal offense. thousands of foreign nationals being evacuated from the violence plate central african republic the international organization for migration announced the

first charter planes will rescue several hundred chaldeans today clashes between muslim and christian militias continue unabated despite the resignation of the country self-proclaimed president more than a thousand to been killed since the beginning of the conflict last year. a security measure to follow the debates raging in the u.k. after it was revealed the fingerprinting of students has become a usual practice in schools the stories cost particular controversy after almost a third of schools collected the data without consulting parents or smith as 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 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 thoughts 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 always part the 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 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 news just over half an hour from now in the meantime you try to look at the future of cryptocurrency that is in the cause report after this short break . there are many internal battles in society liberals and conservatives will never agree on gun rights or abortion but there is one battle that is often more generational than anything the battle for school uniforms teachers argue that

uniforms eliminate a big distraction in the classroom and break up the caste systems that can evolve at school between the cool fashionable kids and the ones who can barely afford lunch like me in my younger years but teenagers will scream uniforms crush their freedom of expression and that they have a right to express who they are their individuality who has the right to dictate to them what to wear the thing they don't realize is that if the school doesn't tell them what to wear that big corporations and m.t.v. will all the cool individuals who dress alike and blindly follow all the trends are just obeying corporate marketing instead of their parents yeah for some reason it is bad if the school punishes you for dressing improperly but if the cool kids make your life a living hell for not wearing the right brand of shoes well that's all well and good for some reason hey look at it this way school uniforms are cheap which leaves more money for parents to buy you video games being individual in your actions and not a fake individual in trendy clothes but that's just my opinion. welcome

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a party because tired america losing empire because lazy j.p. morgan paying get another multi billion dollar fine because a criminal yet another wedding party getting thrown because us about the department of justice losing faith in a valid bitcoin because concern troll 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 so you know they hold dread pirate roberts out of bitcoin worth something like one hundred twenty five million pounds in total between the two but they say that apparently the millions of dollars in between seized by the f.b.i. from ross albrecht and the first silk road currently stored in the set of online wallets appears to be on the move a source in the u.s. justice department said that authorities have.