they wanted to move a 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 however we want to whenever we want to take a look at the history of the facility as people across the u.s. and other parts of the world join protests demanding the closure of the camp. despite recent diplomatic success in iran nuclear talks a growing number of u.s. senators are pushing for more sanctions against iran move the white house warns could drag the u.s. into another war. and a former israeli prime minister ariel sharon dies in eighty five after spending eight years in a coma we look back at the legacy of the controversial political and military leader.

in moscow i'm mad as a very good to have you with us our top story this hour human rights activists are protesting across the u.s. on the twelfth anniversary of the guantanamo bay detention center. there demanding the closure of u.n. for ms can't dogged by allegations of mistreatment and abuse something president obama promised years ago january eleventh now an annual day of action against the indefinite detention at the war on terror prison if he's honest actually church get a look at the history of the facility. hidden on a tropical island a symbol of promises made being far from promises kept it 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 you know then. the suppose it civilize. values that america has will be gone forever twelve years ago the us brought to guantanamo its first eighteen years 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 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 spike the rhetoric it really isn't about national security or prisoners being so dangerous that they can't possibly be released and 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 men in the whole of the previous three years so it's movement but it would be unwise to think that you know. 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 after a majority of detainees went on hunger strike last year obama's administration was pushed to make baby steps again 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 gray. 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 tell it your idea and probably trapped they are unable to emigrate because of the stigma kuantan 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 presidents 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 than it was five years ago he was president less politicians human rights organisations legal experts 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 that reasons to keep it around are likely to breed more anniversaries to come i'm stacey churkin r.t. . guantanamo starts a new chapter in its history washington is seeking to heighten the secrecy around the facility but snippets of what goes on and stop one side still occasionally leak here's the latest letter from a shocker amero the last remaining british inmate he described as the humiliating search methods used by some prison officials pardon me who were forced to undergo the procedure even if they just want to call their lawyer some guards are pushing it even further searching inmates genitalia media benjamin co-founder of the n.t.

were group code pink says what's happening in guantanamo amounts to psychological torture. 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 shakur 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 is 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 to join the annual day of protest against the detention of at least of prisoners at guantanamo 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 both the e.u.

and iran have said significant progress progress was made in talks on how to implement the nuclear deal reached in november this well bill proposing even more sanctions is gaining ground in the u.s. congress the white house has harshly condemned the senator supporting it saying they're undermining diplomatic efforts and could actually be seeking to drag the u.s. into another war or he's a marine 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 of the poor 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 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 or the obama administration says additional economic restrictions who 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 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 too quickly made up with 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 down it will be due in part to members of his own party reporting from new york. r.t. . be policy director of the national iranian american council thinks that senators supporting the bill aren't afraid of putting the nuclear deal in jeopardy 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 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. 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 spot 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 the with the six world powers actually guarantees iran the easing of sanctions so 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 tales of the agreement click away on our web site r t dot com. israel's

former prime minister ariel sharon has passed away at the age of eighty five he died from heart failure on 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 the man sharon a former political and military leader found himself in tangled in controversy though during his decades long tenure many in israel consider him a national hero for how he led his country both while in office any uniform during all of its wars before he went into a coma but there are palestinians who are celebrating his death he believes sharon pursued a path of war and aggression towards a policy reports the former prime minister is also. remembered the building part of all settlements in the west back. i will show 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 hours 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 god. dollars any food that you know natural 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. tel aviv still to come on the program sold for

a song economic hardships cause european countries to opt out of your vision twenty fourteen while the host nation is slashing the budget of the contest bus. broke from above artie's correspondent arming himself with a brawl at a travel to the eternal city to see how people there are coping with the fertilizing nature of some feathered friends those stories and more after this short but. some of the sixteen percent imports came from illegal fishing in. 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. but the territorial waters they fish they load the fish on to the ships and leave

for europe. to day illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our mouths. right from the sea. sir straight to you and i were being put. on a reporter's. instrument. to be a mum. on. thanks for staying with us sixteen minutes past the hour the two thousand and fourteen

euro vision song contest at risk of becoming the biggest failure in the history of the event facing a grim prognosis as at least twelve countries have already withdrawn the continent's economic troubles are seen as the main reason behind the exodus from the competition as artie's alexei or show ski 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 with these say researchers from switzerland actually you know you should use giving us a measure of species international relations of their feet your cohesion with european countries is measuring the show you see and it's culture i mean you french and what will be the market for the station in twenty two and three weeks after angela merkel pushed the creation of the european financial stability facility to bail out collapsing economies a german teenager lender my unit was crowned the eurovision swim. 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 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 euro vision like cyprus where roughly. every fifth person is on employ i'm not an expert on the euro region and white wood's company and i'm describing the situation in cyprus and i'm not surprised that this decision has been taken and given the fact that there were cuts in order in other domains i'm talking about health 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 companies dropping out of the competition they would likely have to invent something very soon to keep europe's longest running some contest from losing its voice like supersets to the baltic from moscow.

not only has era vision been losing contestants its budget it's also been slashed this year the event expected to cost four times less than three years ago international affairs expert meanwhile serge a trick of age thinks that you're a vision has also lost its significance. 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 in the east in europe than it used to be because many dependent 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 blew through its own peace and now days both politically and culturally its significance has declined so in the

period of a state in the period when. modest resources have to be matched against almost one of the requirements i believe that this decision does made by so many countries because they've concluded that univision some qantas simply does not matter. what if the milky way simply fell apart astronomers have found hypervelocity stars move fast enough to leave the galaxy and scientists have no idea what force is driving them click on r.t. dot com for more on that plus. protesting with hundreds gather in homburg for a flash mob pillow fight expressing their anger over the eviction of local squatters going to find more footage and details in the in motion section of our website. seems big brother and britain has been keeping close tabs on some of his younger siblings

a civil rights group found that alarming number of schools in the u.k. are fingerprinting students and it's considered normal practice in nearly a third of those schools did so without getting permission from the parents or his 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. it is controversial big brother watches 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 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 you know you stop 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 in 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 turning now to some other global headlines egypt's army chief could be running in a presidential election slated for this year he told the country's media that a presidential bid is possible in military support the move it's feared his candidacy could. further deepen divisions in the country that's were made in turmoil since the army ousted president mohamed morsi in july. tens of thousands gather in the streets of the spanish city bilbao in support of jailed members of a basque separatist group mass demonstrations that were banned by a high court judge but several pro independence movements joined forces to alter the rally into a march defending human rights. used of more than eight hundred killings over the years in two thousand and eleven though the group declared a secession of armed activity. at least nineteen people have died in the southern libyan city of during clashes between two local tribes fighting broke out after the killing of

a guard of the city's military leader who was a member of one of the tribes in a separate incident libya's deputy industry minister was found shot dead in his home east of the capital tripoli lyons has rocked the nation since the ousting of moammar gadhafi two years ago. a new thousands have rallied in the streets of rome protesting against same sex families demonstrators joined by members of the catholic church and local politicians italy remaining sharply divided over the issue of same sex relationships in december two thousand and thirteen the nation's democratic party introduced a bill allowing gay couples to register their partnership but it has still not yet been approved. staying in a row made may seem just to be a minor problem it is 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 is going off as more. role model 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 these. birds hundreds of thousands of starlings which migrate towards and the more every year making their mark as they go. shovel cargo but 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

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. paid i mean we took 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 has heard issues and a worse problem the city has to deal with but any case. for those playing to the fates you have a megaphone it may be

a good idea to grab the little guy even if the forecast is all clear. you go to school off roll. and coming up a look at how illegal industrial fishing in west african waters is rotting local fishermen of their means of survival stay with us r.t. international. when a country experiences a tragedy like the recent terrorism involved ground their 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 kratz 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.

when it has to do with illegal immigration. mediately send frontex to us. today they control us in our waters as if a new colonization were taking place they're experiencing a military occupation of the oceans when they want to combat drugs in america or asia they find the means to do it and. if they really want to combat illegal fishing they have the means to do it you they have the airplanes to photograph they have the patrols to stop them from fishing in our seas. because they are shrinking our country and what is more serious. they are destroying our fishing resources and marine wealth.