i don't think. they want to obey detention camp marks its twelfth anniversary with more than one hundred fifty inmates still behind bars despite never being charged they want to display a place that we can treat people how every we want to whenever we want to take a look at this tree of the facility is people across the u.s. and other parts of the globe join protests demanding the closure of the camp. despite recent diplomatic success in nuclear talks with iran a growing number of senators are pushing for more sanctions against tehran and with the white house warns could drag the us into another war. former israeli prime minister ariel sharon dies at the age of eighty five after spending eight years in a coma we look back at the controversial legacy of the political and military leader.

in moscow i am at present very good to have you with us our top story this hour a human rights activists are protesting across the u.s. on the twelfth anniversary of the guantanamo bay detention center there demanding the closure of the infamous camp dogged by a location of mistreatment and abuse something president obama promised years ago artie's anastasio churkin a look at the history of the controversial 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 defied international law it's a decision that's been maimed that they want to display a place that we can treat people however we want to whenever we want to the to be is poured into the bag gandel surrounding torture and force feeding mass hunger strikes of desperation and dozens of suicide attackers that hasn't been something that has been an issue since i have been here in a facility that has long stopped making sense if it ever did despite the rhetoric it really isn't about national security or prisoners being so dangerous that they can't possibly be released and therefore that can't be true out of seven hundred seventy nine hundred eighty s. held at guantanamo in these past twelve years only seven have been convicted and sentenced we have seen eleven prisoners released between august and december last year compared to just five man 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 busy at that 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 but 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 in a legend 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 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 less politicians human rights organizations legal

experts and common sense the long haul 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 spicy chicken on our team knew i was going to most starts a new chapter washington is seeking to heighten the secrecy around the facility but the snippets of what goes on inside still occasionally leak out here as late as later from shock or amara the last remaining burn. detainee he describes the humiliating search methods used by some prison administration where the inmates are forced to undergo the procedure even if they just want to call their lawyer some guards he says push it even further searching inmates genitalia medea benjamin co-founder of the antiwar group code pink says what's happening guantanamo amounts to psychological torture she thinks let's remember these people have been held now for twelve years a mansion in your own life what twelve years we would be like we received

a note from one of the prisoners who is a citizen of britain has been cleared for release for years now and his note was heartbreaking because he said that what he really misses most having played a part in the life that his children his youngest child was born on the day that he arrived in guantanamo he has never even seen his youngest child this is mental torture for these prisoners in yemen activists gathered outside the u.s. embassy joining the annual day of protest against indefinite detention of guantanamo prisoners more than half the inmates held at the detention center without charge or trial or yemenis although most of them have been cleared for release by the obama administration will be covering the protests as they develop both the e.u. and iran say that significant progress was made progress or progress was made in talks on how to implement the nuclear deal reached in november this while a bill proposed an even more sanctions though is gaining strength in the u.s.

congress the white house is harshly condemned senator supporting it saying they're undermining diplomatic efforts and could actually be seeking to drag the country into war or he's more important i reports from new york. 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 getting on violates the six month interim deal or let it expire without a comprehensive nuclear agreement a u.s. president barack obama has vowed to veto the bill if it makes it to congress but the problem is that the senate will actually achieve sixty seven votes it could override a presidential veto or the obama administration says additional economic restrictions who threaten a historic diplomatic opportunity with iran for its been cement do over the past three months let's remember in november world powers reached an interim deal in which to long 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 won't be similarly

made a potential war with tehran all the more likely oddly enough at least sixteen democrats are supporting new sanctions and sadly if president obama's historic diplomat. progress with iran comes crumbling down it will be due in part to members of his own party reporting from new york marina artsy. policy director of the national iranian american council think senators supporting the bill aren't afraid of jeopardizing the nuclear deal because they aren't interested in a diplomatic solution. 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 this is their way or the highway there. 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 negotiating 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 slot and i think that's 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 the deal with six world powers actually guarantees iran the easing of sanctions as long as the country complies with a number of demands toward its nuclear program you can find out what those are as well as the details of the agreement on our website r.t. dot com. israel's former prime minister ariel sharon has died at the age of eighty five he passed away from heart failure saturday after spending eight years in a stroke induced coma israel's current prime minister benjamin netanyahu praised his predecessor for doing his best to keep the nation secure condolences have been

pouring in from other politicians and world leaders president obama saying the u.s. is joining israel in honoring sure own former political and military leader sharon found himself entangled though plenty of controversy during his decades long tenure meaning israel consider him a national hero we led to both his his country both while in office and in uniform during all of its wars before he went into a coma but there are palestinians who are celebrating his death they believe sure on pursued a path of war and aggression toward them as archy's policy reports the former prime minister is also being remembered. building controversial settlements in the west bank. are real sharon cut a divisive figure between those who loved him and those who certainly didn't but all agree i will shavon 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 getting a towel large. he was the builder of settlements even in ours he built twenty new homes just like he did in other places before 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 who 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 that 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. will dollars any food that unilateral withdrawals but the six months he built continue to be a major sticking point in negotiations between israelis and palestinians to see on t.v. ten of it still to come on the program sold for a song economic hardships causing european countries to opt out of your evasion two thousand and fourteen while the host nation slashes the budget of the contest plus . rome under attack from above our team's correspondent arms himself with

a broad to travel to the eternal city and see how people are coping with the vandalizing nature of southern feathered friends those stories and more after a short break. drug some of the sixteen percent imports came from illegal fishing. 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 of the fish they load the fish on to the ships and leave for europe. to day illegal fishing is taking the bread out of our mouths.

right from the sea. sir straight to you and i think what you're. on our reporters twitter. and instagram. are going to be a number. on. sixteen minutes past the hour now the two thousand and fourteen your vision song contest is at risk of becoming the biggest failure in the history of the event facing a grim prognosis has at least twelve countries of already withdrawn the continent's economic woes are seen as the main reason behind the mass exodus from competition as artie's aleck's airships he explains.

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 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 both have not always been spread purely for it is to qualities say researchers from switzerland actually you know you should be nice if

you've given us a measure of species international relations at their feet your cohesion with european countries is measuring the society and its culture and then she's in french and what will be their market to the station 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 lender my unit 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 they were joined by boss near turkey slovakia and portugal this time caray share so be able garry and cyprus have also jumped off their 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 on employ i'm not an expert on the euro region and white woods happening i'm describing the situation in cyprus and i'm not surprised that this decision has been taken and given to the cuts in order in other domains i'm talking about health education culture this shows the 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 companies dropping out of the competition there would likely have to invent something very soon to keep europe's longest running some contest from losing its voice. recalled from moscow. not only has your vision been losing contestants its budget it's also been on the decline this year the event expected to cost four times less than three years ago international affairs expert certain attributes meanwhile thinks your vision has

lost its significance and artistic value. 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. music scene there to stick to. it has been rather luther's pompous and now days both politically and culturally its significance has declined so you know a period of a state in the period when. modest resources have to be matched against the interest on the deployments i believe that this decision does made by so many

countries because they've concluded that univision some client is simply does not matter. what if the milky way simply fell apart astronomers have discovered a hyper velocity of stars that are moving fast enough to leave the galaxy scientists have no idea what forces driving them but an r.v. dot com for the full story there plus. protesting that with hundreds gathering in hamburg for a pillow fight flash mob expressing anger over the eviction of the emotion section of our web site footage and details. it seems that british big brother has been keeping close tabs on some of its younger siblings the civil rights group found that an alarming number of schools in the u.k. are fingerprinting students and it's considered normal practice and nearly a third of the schools did so without getting permission from the children's parents are laura smith reports. 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 call particularly when it's being 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 saw 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 you see just 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 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. now to some other global headlines egypt's army chief could be running in the presidential election slated for this year he told the country's media that a presidential bid is a possibility of the public and military support the move it's for. it is candidacy could further deepen divisions in the country though it remains in turmoil since the army ousted president mohamed morsi in july. tens of thousands gathered in

the streets of the spanish city build in support of jailed members of the past separatist movement at mass demonstrations were banned by the high court judge but several pro independence movements joined forces to alter the rally into a march defending the human rights it is accused of more than eight hundred killings in two thousand and eleven the group declared a cessation of all armed activity. at least nineteen people have died in sabah in southern libya during clashes between two local tribes fighting broke out after the killing of a guard in the killing of the guard of the city's military leader who was a member of one of the tribes violence in iraq the country since the ousting of moammar gadhafi two years ago local militias and tribes continue to fight with each other across the country in the struggle to control libya. thousands of people rallied on the streets of rome protesting same sex families

demonstrators were joined by members of the catholic church and local politicians italy remains sharply divided over the issue of same sex relationships in december of last year the nation's democratic party introduced a bill allowing gay couples to register their partnership though it has yet to be approved. and staying in a room it may seem that he seemed to be just a minor problem it leaves economic crisis and soaring unemployment but thousands of birds flocking to the eternal city each winter and they're certainly leaving their mark and the mess or he's eager piskun of reports. rome one of the most beautiful and romantic cities in the world a popular destination for lovers or enthusiasts history addicts and. being with countless it all falls on top of cars and roads and on pedestrians it's very slippery to get tons of complaints is the birds hundreds of

thousands of starlings which migrate toward from the more favorite year leaving their mark as they go. shovel cargo every year this same we're surrounded by a show. the city annually spends tens of thousands of euros tackling the flying menace a species special operation in itself careful it's so dry it's very difficult to clean it off these birds are worse than vandals it's like they're angry 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 falls 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 steer the birds usually they just move to other residential zones and always come back at sundown. of course was heard issues in the worst problems the city has to deal with but any case. for those playing to the site see if you have a megaphone it may be a good idea to read a little even if the forecast is all clear. you go to school for r t roll. and up next we look at how illegal industrial fishing in west african waters is robbing local fishermen of their means of survival stay with us here are the international.

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 festival 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. the bigger. the. the a.

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