led campaign has so far failed to make a breakthrough against the taliban artie's military contributor says it's time for washington to give up and get out. the former u.s. ambassador to india robert blake well came up last year we have a very creative and innovative idea that is to partition afghanistan his proposition where some merrily dismissed oh across the board by afghan pakistani and american analysts as totally on the rally stick and harmful goals to the afghan and american interests in that area however this year robert black will repair his proposition and published in foreign affairs as plan b. for afghanistan and this time i believe it stands a good chance to be taken seriously because though it talks about the effect of separation of again a state in reality it implies how to separate the united states from afghanistan and to minimize the afghan exposure to the us foreign policy well it's another issue where the white house will accept this idea but for the time being the reason no other better option or solution. to the current circumstances for the u.s. policymakers in

streets of new york residents are outraged glamorous city is beginning to look more like a junkyard artie's anastasio dives headfirst into the big apple's russian reality. if you're standing next to a pile of garbage taller than yourself how does that make you feel it's a pretty impressive world the world marks the new year one thing marking new york are melton's of garbage. striking a huge blow to the city's traditionally glamorous image you can even cause the street with a baby carriage to hold the people cannot even walk and sit discreet. anthony is a mailman his job takes twice the time these days sadly he notes his salary has not doubled so that makes my work very very hard because the blog really box. to do the work in one instance however the mounds of garbage prevented a tragedy as one new yorker suicide attempt proved unsuccessful this weekend when it jumped out of the window did not turn fatal due to an unexpected software drift into piles of refuse one of thousands filling many of the almost six thousand miles of new york city streets the average american is said to produce fifty

you all with artie it's good to have you with us today still ahead for you in the program how goods from a nuclear contaminated area may soon end up in european shops ukraine plan to turn the atomic disasters on an internet agricultural center we take a look at the safety features also. parenting agent mysticism but with a modern technology i'm sure on thomasson coming up on our t.v. we explore the world of the siberian sharman. christmas is over for most christians across the world but for some orthodox belief as the holy day is yet to come thursday is christmas eve for the russian orthodox church that celebrates the birth of christ on january the seventh the differences because russians marked religious feasts using the julian calendar where as most western countries use the gregorian calendar on thursday night rituals will be held in the thousands of russian churches across the world patriarch kirill of moscow and all russia will head a service in the nation's main place of worship christ the savior cathedral here in the capital a number of other orthodox churches also celebrate chris

in two thousand and seven since then they've been restricted and rarely reaches its destination as artie's paula sleazier discovered. israelis insist their economic siege on gaza is easing but they can't deny the border and international condemnation is heating up an asian aid convoy with politicians and activists from eighteen countries is on its way to gaza m border one hundred eighty people food and medical supplies and a determined core to reach gaza on the second anniversary of the last israel gaza war the convoy dubbed asia to gaza solidarity caravan sits sail from new delhi at the beginning of december it's trying to do what an aid flotilla failed to do in may break the israeli blockade on the coastal strip that earlier attempt left nine activists did since then israel insists things have gotten better there is a humanitarian analysis that we are making on a daily basis which allow us to see a broad picture about dealing with their own conditions and the situation in the. moment but gazans complain life is still unbearable. israel has limited the number of trucks clothes and shoes c

artie's paulus leo reporting there from cairo. and while we surely exploits to a u.s. hand behind the current uprising in egypt it's not the first time washington has been suspected of involvement in regime change many believe the so-called color revolutions that took place in former soviet countries have been initiated and sponsored by the united states and as artie's alexei or chef ski reports they're not the only parallels with the current unrest in north africa. georgio two thousand and three. and ukraine two thousand four. killed just on two thousand and five. and egypt twenty eleven i think these are all completely different revolts well think again and not only because they're raised fist was one of their symbols if you look more closely you look at the people who are leading those are being coached in the they're being coached by u.s. intelligence services the same way the orange revolution was when you know the roles revolution was saakashvili and in georgia a string of revolutions some bloodless some north to grok the post soviet space at the beginning of the

shut its border with the gaza strip and jammed a local transmission of the al jazeera news network artie's polis leader is in the capital cairo with the latest. early hours of this morning ten people were killed while trying to break into the interior ministry this brings the total number of dead to some more than one hundred at the same time thousands of prisoners have broken out of jails around the country among them are muslim extremist muslim militants and we're hearing reports that some of them have already made their way back to palestine but as a result the egyptian government has closed its border with gaza not far from where i'm standing a few hours ago there were gunshots on the cairo university bridge as protesters clashed with their things have been relatively quiet on the sixth day of violence in the comparative previous mornings the protesters are still marching the streets the city remains in a lockdown the protesters say they're going no way until mubarak himself steps down the egyptian president says he's going no way he has sacked his government at the same time he's appo

from their governments and are often forced to reveal their sources once the country is latvia and artie's alexia's yes q had some journalists in the baltic state. with professional persistence latvian t.v. reporter. interviews a local politician in twenty years as a journalist she has done hundreds but one of them got her in serious trouble an expose on a security breach in latvia state revenue body and that with police in her apartment was forced they opened their doors and went into my flat and then they showed that they had a security search they had a search warrant one say took my computer and information i had i got they also acquired information all of them my information sources which by a law i am allowed to protect and that was the biggest problem for me as a journalist because i could not protect my information sources use a story shocked many in law to be a country used to press scrutiny just a couple of years ago allowed to be a boast that one of the highest freedom of press ratings in all of europe being placed seventh on the annual reporters without borders index but for on

restoring the historical old town as are tearing it down and putting up new modern structures and as artie's found out the locals are none too pleased with the changes. to police his old town is undergoing some major changes a government backed construction project aims to revamp the aging architecture they call it new life for the old town but others have called it a battle for the city's. first century these winding cobbled streets old houses all in balconies have delighted visitors and inhabitants but there are signs of construction everywhere people are worried that if this drawing with hounds historical. neither nor historians work here the people conducting the reconstruction works were simply told to make it look nice the restoration project has proved extremely controversial much of the housing here is in desperate need of repair but in many cases the government has simply rebuilt tearing down beautiful and often historical structures and putting in their place poor replicas. you know they've just done work to the facade everything has been done in a slipshod way. part of the cash fu

alleged that the plane could only have diverted to a backup airport if self gave the order well as artie's got there are reports polish officials responses to the claim have been contradictory. forced to land according to one article in a russian newspaper that was the cause of this man's plane crash which killed the polish president his wife and most of poland's political elite but the decision according to the paper's anonymous source was it made by the pilots or air traffic controllers the banner reverting to a backup airport was allegedly put in effect for the president himself one polish journalist whose name is not disclosed for o.b.'s reasons said that the special every asian regiment that flies v.a.p. passengers received a secret instruction which said the plane could dive only with permission from its main passenger. the rules state that the pilots priorities however should never have changed whether such instructions existed or not. maybe could even force him to rule it but i don't want to know about it because according to every existing rule in regulation the group is the fligh

egypt well it comes as dozens have been killed in the violent anti-government protests since tuesday artie's polis leader has the latest from the egyptian capital cairo. so far more than one hundred people have been killed as mobile clinics throughout the city continue to operate there treating wounded many of whom are reporting that they were by police after being arrested and one of the most well in developments was that of looting the cairo museum was looted with money has there been ransacked we're also hearing reports from a number of neighborhoods where people say that their homes were broken into and goods a stolen now the egyptian president hosni mubarak has tried to address protesters demands by appointing for the first time in thirty years the country's first vice president now that is almost a woman who used to head the intelligence here at the same time the new prime minister mr ahmed shafik he's a technocrat he's from the aviation industry he's been tasked with forming a new government but speaking to protesters and these moves are not going to do a lot of pacify them they say t

of those hit by falling wages and high unemployment are employing a new tactic economic disobedience artie's lauren lesser takes a look. the only language that they understand and shutting down in the us most are familiar with the age old protest tactic of civil disobedience we usually mob protests you're supposing what's established standing somewhere with signs would be civil disobedience but these days with rising inequality and low wages in the us being a pressing issue many researchers and activists are documented wages are falling cutting benefits for people taking away their pensions there is evidence of a different form of disobedience now taking place all over the country may not be a part paid to the papers there are no statement making a right this is left with a razor heard call it economic descent i may not see it but it is going on underground. and poor neighborhoods in new york city some residents organized to raise a little money to buy subway cards offering unlimited rides they swipe as many people in as they can to give them a free ride here were resisting ferrites were res

artie's tom barton reporting right there well this is artie live from moscow and later for you in the program we report from iraq's slums under. scatterings for a meager life in junkyards untouched by the billions of american dollars being pumped into the country's reconstruction. a series of mysterious and mass animal deaths around the globe have been battling scientists and stirring speculation the first incident to be noticed was when black birds began falling from the sky in the american state of arkansas on new year's eve then flocks of birds dying in sweden and italy as well as millions of fish from brazil to new zealand it triggered some far fetched online guesswork theories over the course range from pollution to signaling the beginning of the end miami based of that lewis race told r.t. that it's happened before but a thorough investigation is needed. but. it's impossible to say for sure what's happened to the birds and fish until proper investigations are held in fact i don't believe that these events are interlinked he followed one after another and that attracted universal

artie's tomba reporting that well it's been pounced on by conspiracy theorists puzzled scientists and even start up a media frenzy the alarming trend of unexplained mass animal deaths in different parts of the globe has still got everyone guessing it all started on new year's eve with reports of black birds falling from the sky in the american state of arkansas then there were flocks of birds dying in sweden and in italy and finally millions of dead fish from brazil to new zealand have triggered some fevered online speculation experts have suggested a range of explanations from a changing climate to parasites and poisoning conspiracy theorists a secret government experiments could be behind the deaths with some even claiming it's a sign of looming armageddon miami based a veterinarian who is race told r.t. that a thorough investigation is needed. it's impossible to see for sure what's happened to the birds and fish until proper investigations are held in fact i don't believe that these events are interlinked they followed one after another and that attracted universal attention it's n

had an eerie forerunner an american videogame released two years ago featured a similar story line as artie's lauren lyster found out the game was sold worldwide without any condemnation. terrorist attack kills dozens of innocent people and creates chaos at a moscow airport fact. or fiction it's the scenario being played out here in this popular american video game sold worldwide call of duty modern warfare two dozen new russian in this mission the player goes on a terrorist rampage hoping to massacre civilians in a fictitious moscow airport it may have seemed too gruesome and tragic to become true were it not for the very real events seen here at the doing we did to vote airport more than thirty people have been killed more than one hundred eighty injured stars a video game version a lot more people have been involved in this violent video game was released in november of two thousand and nine by the american company activision and in just a few months sales had surpassed one billion dollars now even for people that didn't download the game just a simple youtube search where you type in no r

the problem appears to be coming from its own ranks with soldiers posting secrets on social networks artie's poor looks at the israeli defense forces struggle to keep it skeletons in the closet. the israeli army showing off its cyber unit telling the world's media how it connects the nation by phone radio and internet during war time they're facing a lot of. it will be an occasion in the hours is this who we are for ourselves. for those threads but perhaps the i.d.f. should look closer to home israeli army secrets are beaming around the world some deliberate some unwittingly and they're coming from the inside now with just one click anything and everything that a few years ago might have been off limits is available to millions of people. is really could all been see gruber received this threat in the post it accuses him of killing children in gaza his name is on a website listing the phone numbers and other personal details of his radio soldiers involved in the last gaza war he's worried they're now floating around cyberspace they have in the. in this moment although i don't think that this

government attracts newcomers through official visa lottery guarding them green cards but as artie's a long list of reports for many people the quest for the american dream can turn out to be a grim reality. in the united states and here in new york every year countless people play the lottery. entering for a chance to win or a mega million dollar fantasy believing a few dollars and a dream could buy them so for the life of a ticket that could change their lives every year more than ten million people also play a different kind of lottery and fifty thousand when i meet one of them my name is owen and her husband teenage son and seven year old daughter you see here. are immigrants from nepal they entered and won the united states diversity visa lottery this lottery is a congressional mandate it's supposed to be an opportunity for people to come to america from countries with historically low rates of immigration jackpot with permanent residency the prize is not cash but green cards and this startling experience is due to about us we have to start from scratch from zero once we got her

artie's sara forth has more. for thirty t.p.m. on the twenty fourth of january a suicide bomb that plays a part the packed arrivals hall at russia's busiest airports. my first thought was to get away a lot of people willing motionless even more people were being piled up near the first aid area some world already dead they were dragged away a horrible picture. i looked at my watch and then flash and i passed out when i woke up there was a ringing in my ears it was a sour smell everything in ash is everyone is groaning three or four men were piled up on top of me the one directly above me it was wounded in the chest she took all the shrapnel. amongst the thirty five dead people for many nationalities days made it when the father's golden koos then his tea to marry the mother of his child correll buckhalter shelves wife watched him die in front of her on the airport floor around the world families now grieving the days who will say precisely calles. they're going to. have some very very serious just. very close to the start paralyza

artie's dental bushell who's in switzerland now has been listening to his speech. mr chevelle of really saying that russia needs to move from a resource based economy that's natural resources oil and gas to a people based one really pointing to the pepsi co deal approved with the purchase of we're both russia's largest dairy producer and he also added that he understands the difficulties that foreigners perceive in russia and that they're working to improve it first transparency we understand that these maybe number one for all the government and for the all the institutions we need to you know to to work on it what can we say to the existing and possible investors how can we attract new investors and we all you know came to the conclusion dead providing more and more transparency in all the institutions will show that russia is changing what the head of pepsi was also on stage and she was very bullish not only about the deal with wimbledon but also about the general perspective for the russian economy we're not there it's a temporary player in russia in russia we

artie's laura and reporting from oslo stay with us here on r t coming your way later this hour why love can't be bought in afghanistan it seems it's india that may be winning afghan hearts and minds while u.s. dollars may go to waste details shortly plus. as those for extreme depression divers plunge into ice water is this winter and you can follow the journey of these fearless thrill seekers in just a few moments. first though an explosion and fire at a giant shopping complex in russia's year olds has left two people dead five others were injured after the blast in the city of the flaw in russia's republic of court of fire then broke out during construction work inside the multistory retail center but also housed restaurants offices and nightclubs and initial investigation says a gas leak may have caused the explosion. there's no sign of any fusion at the latest round of talks on iran's nuclear program international powers who carried out the two day talks with tehran say they're disappointed with the outcome in istanbul our correspondent. the situation is quite two sided at the moment

the ratification of the us to teach of arms reduction treaty in its third and last reading artie's that you go to prison officers following the hearing for us. the meeting started with a note of sorrow a minute of silence commemorating the victims of monday's attack in moscow as the much of the airport the vote on the new strategic arms reduction treaty between moscow and washington is going to be held at around five pm moscow time it's known that in the same fashion as the u.s. congress the state duma is also making its amendments to the treaty which is expected to reduce the number of nuclear or on each side by around one third which is significant in terms of the global nuclear arms reduction for more on this i'm joined by the head of the state duma can commit you for international affairs and i think essential thank you very much for joining me. first of all can you tell us more about these amendments and why are they being implemented. will the two presidents signed the treaty is the big redeployment trying to synchronize the rectification procedures. by that i believe they meant t

artie's military contributor colonel. fair let's take a brief look now at some other stories making headlines around the world a suicide car bomber has attacked a vehicle carrying a senior pakistani police official in northwest pakistan killing him and four other deputy superintendent of southern peshawar died along with his driver bodyguards and some by eight other people who are going to attack no group has admitted the bombing but more has been repeatedly targeted by the pakistani taliban. or korea is calling for defense talks with the south to be held tomorrow two weeks earlier than planned last week sold agreed to take part in negotiations and a step towards easing tension on the peninsula if held they would be the first talks between the two countries since the north felt a south korean island in november gang insist it was in retaliation of souls large scale military drills close to the maritime border. and authorities in oman say they have uncovered a spy ring working for the united arab emirates the network has r

it's not a problem for the men with the muscles tom barton arty. the brave man indeed to tackle tom now the star of the new year's always a good time for wishful thinking of course and with unemployment still high in the united states hopes for a better life are as high as well many of blame the problems on globalization which is driving jobs overseas what next web talk show host laurie huff in a skate opinion on the streets of new york all of that. society is becoming more and more globalized is that a positive development or is it the beginning of the end this week let's talk about that i think it's very important that we grow together and that we also care about each other because we're for review for europe where we want to be taken care of here as well and on the same we do for you as well what do you think the effects of globalization are on our children oh i think it's a good thing i'm actually in education so i see it every day but it exposes our kids to a different cultures and they're more understanding i think more tolerant just overall

has no legal right to put him in court artie's unnecessary reports. i want to for everyone people. only question. how we are in the other eleven. that's hollywood's take on forty four year old russian cargo dealing businessman victor boot but in real life is he really the merchant of death or the lord of war or simply a victim of propaganda u.s. prosecutors are not thinking twice about which label to pick the so-called merchant of death is now a federal inmate the american media months ahead of trial also have their mind made up this is the lord of war. the merchant of death right and you've got him in your hands right he's in custody it's a great feeling with presumption of innocence out the window all these nicknames exist for one man. has not committed any criminal activity and has not been found guilty neither in the us nor in any other country in america however he faces four charges. one conspiring to kill united states nationals two conspiring to kill united states officers and employees three conspiring to use an acquire anti-aircraft missiles and for conspiring to provide

very warm welcome this is artie here in moscow we have breaking news for you this hour a car bomb has exploded by a cafe in russia's republic of dagestan reports that two people have been killed and eight others critically injured in the city of course of unit they were inside the cafe at the time we'll be bringing you more on the story as soon as we get it other news this hour. the key nuclear arms reduction treaty between moscow and washington is approved by the russian parliament in the second of three readings the start pact which was signed last year has already been given the go ahead by the u.s. senate. and poland acknowledges it's partly to blame for the last plane crash which killed president that could put water or says it will still launch its own investigation as it claims the official report leaves some questions unanswered. well that will bring you more news and also an update on that developing story here in r.t. in about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime we got sports with a tiny. hello and welcome this artie's sports news life begin with a brief look at the lat

it hails the end of the world but is there really something fishy going on or is it being overhyped artie's country and as our reports. sing a song of suspense one where the end is nigh as thousands of black birds so out of the sky and when the birds were found the news began to sing the end of days conspiracy does have a can't she wearing. at first it was just arkansas grabbing the world's attention then louisiana followed suit and your brush filled some feathers with mysterious avian deaths in sweden experts attempted to calm the public by suggesting the birds got scared of fireworks who are flew into trees and cars because of bad weather and we know is that fireworks or weather could not cause five thousand black birds to have a liquefied insides that's what the fish and wildlife veterinarian sad they've never seen anything like it now we're seeing the same polarization of the insides of black birds they are dad when they hit the ground they are dying in the night while there were trees but then one hundred thousand dead fish joined up. that seem to have opened the floodgates i think the

cause for celebration the divorce the latest figures show hof the marriages in america break down as artie's garniture can discover a variety of businesses are there on the spot to turn the misery to fun for the falsities and into fortune for themselves. in the age when half of marriages in the us end in divorce. there's a whole new trend celebrating the breakup and yes. where there is demand there is supply party planners divorced gifts all sorts of related merchandise from clothes to kitchenware even divorce cakes looking at these one might think a breakup doesn't always need a bitter taste back in the day. what. a negative and nowadays. there are many. more of a. divorce is hardly a positive trend but some americans are making the most of it non the less sure when will you release pain from your life. claim willing to release me from my life celebration agencies are now getting divorced ceremonies to their menu almost like a wedding without a ring or weakness some preferred with a ring here's what they get. that number with that i think really helped him to turn red. the transition we're

passengers but warsaw says the report is incomplete as artie's and he said no reports. for the first time the last seconds are heard before polish president lech kaczynski plane crashed. the crew ignored warnings from the aircraft's automated system to pull up and advice from air traffic controllers to land at an alternate airport plus were inexperienced flying in bad weather the interstate aviation committee highlighted what they found to be the main causes behind the tragedy in their final report. a failure to make a timely decision to land at the reserve airport based on multiple becoming day sions about poor weather conditions at smolensk airport descending lower than the safe minimum height necessary to make a second landing attempt failure to react properly to automatic amongst those are the reasons which led to the tragic crash of the aircraft into the land and the death of those on board. the findings also claim passenger pressure on the crew to land as soon as possible played a vital role in the incident here is evidence the crew was afraid of disappointing som

breakers are making their way to the trapped prisoners let's now get the latest on the situation from artie's natalia antonova cover. let's you know tasha so understandably this type of rescue mission is certainly a battle against the elements but officials had said the mission would be over by now tell me why is it taking so long at this point. well first of all when initially three vessels got stuck in the bay of stuff into ice breakers were sent down for the rescue mission and the russian transport ministry has warned the sailors about the difficult weather conditions in the area nonetheless another ship sailed off the coast of south and got ice in the waters of the bay and that is because it was so close to the coast and was being dragged towards the coast it was in the most dangerous situation than the other three in a more dangerous situation than the other three so the two ice breakers had to change their initial direction of rescuing those three ships and rescue that fourth on that was stuck on their way there one of the the smaller of the two ice breakers got also trapped in the icy

international space station have been speaking about their out of this world experience artie's told barton had a chance to quiz the team of three about life in orbit. hundreds of people have turned up here today to welcome back the crew of t m a nineteen and it's the hundredth mission that's been to the international space station and i have all three of them here with me goto your chicken challenge shannon walker and douglas wheelock have all spent six months in space conducting experiments and doing maintenance to the space station and when they arrived here today they laid some flowers at the statue of eureka current as it is fifty years since he was the first man in space so all three of you first of all been up there for six months what would you say you've achieved in your time and not six miles just a little less than six one of the just going to do it it's an easy of. the four was a base in spades unfortunately for each of us yeah maybe a much greater if you're going to go. for it in the us since me since i was six months in space posts like just one day but they were lots o

crops there are immune to the radiation caused by the nuclear disaster twenty five years ago but as artie's alexy reports shoot outs remain over safety issues these berries may look ripe and delicious but they're definitely not part of a healthy diet the bush is inside a thirty kilometer chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine and radiation levels are off the scale people do not live here anymore but same cannot be said about flora and fauna some say it is the absence of anthropogenic harm in the church nor will exclusion zone which made nature develop here rapidly after the one nine hundred eighty six fallout in chernobyl the environment suffered badly one strip of forest was burned by radiation and turned red people left the area but mother nature stepped in now chernobyl is home to many species of wild animals and rare plants scientists from slovakia studying most in the area made an incredible discovery a lot of the plant life is immune to radiation. we still don't understand how it's possible plans to grow. at the very beginning of the earth when life start to. activity on the surface. lev

appealing to some so much so that the works of marx engels and even lenin are going through a resurgence arty's little easter went to meet a few of america's socialists. the very first sentence of the congress manifesto in . a specter hangs over europe the speaker of communism like. in modern day us the specter of communism hangs over the bottom floor of a brick building on the west side of downtown new york city the rock from started out actually as the new york marks of school in one nine hundred seventy five here communism is certainly no bogeyman and it's poster philosopher so to speak is revered. and i wanted to be around other more and it's just a talk with all the marxists in the u.s. that may sound a little taboo even unpatriotic to the average joe but these days amid rising poverty and inequality in the country more and more people are joining in the discussion certainly since the kind of the economic crisis where the financial crisis kind of hit home and a lot of people realized you know there are some systemic problems we saw a huge increase in influx of traffic here people opening t

two companies have agreed to explore and extract the vast untapped natural resources of the arctic artie's lore and it reports. it's a deal that both parties are calling a groundbreaking strategic global alliance russia's biggest oil company has signed swap deal with b. . it's the first major equity linked partnership between a national and international oil company when it's done in five percent of b.p. in exchange for a night in a half percent share in the russian oil major ross next chairman deputy prime minister told r.t. it's the beginning of a new direction for the company. is working on a new strategy aimed at transforming the company into an international energy holding our deal with b.p. is of course part of the strategy they've gained a great deal of experience including the gulf of mexico oil spill cleanup operation b.p. has learned from this experience and our joint venture will be carried out with the greatest level of measures aimed at protecting the environment we've been working with b.p. for many years they're competent and have strong experience of russian companies the a

intelligence report paints a rosy picture of the war assuring that it will eventually be one that artie's military contributor says that's not going to happen unless washington changes its approach to beating the taliban. another year another january and yet another article in the herald tribune yet again from the cia sources it's the bruce riedel a famous cia analyst claiming that eventually i kind of will be definitive user that president obama charm offensive these are the muslim community all around the globe while the terrorist threat is real it is not confined we're even closely related to afghanistan itself the terrorist threat comes along the afghan pakistani badland take out the war alone afghan pakistani badland and substituted for a cross and that instantly will finally start making sense until that washington decision makers we'll accomplish that this linguistic exercise they are doomed to play all along this vicious circle paying lip service to the threat coming from pakistan while ignoring the clear and present danger of narco terrorism that comes from afghanistan. let's get

them a beta closed for good they wore black hoods and orange jumpsuits to represent its inmates and artie's christine for cell was their. they call themselves anti torture or with a group called witness against torture i mean it's yearly pilgrimage here in washington d.c. to bring attention to the fact that the detention facility at guantanamo bay is still open there are in fact one hundred seventy three men still detained there and they're represented by people here and jump you know they started the rally in front of the white house the home of u.s. president barack obama who started off his presidency with a pledge to close down the detention facility at guantanamo bay and yet two years later it is still open and nearly fifty of those one hundred seventy three men inside are considered too dangerous to release but too difficult to prosecute so what that they stay until they die although they've come out here for the last several years there is a slight change this year to the prison uniform many here are wearing stickers with the image of private first class bradley manning he's accused

absent from public life and his six month it was the prime minister's demanded to know his whereabouts artie's cesky investigates the disappearance of the city chief. many here for agree that over the past six months ukraine's capital has become a better place to live in but locals are bewildered as to who should take the credit as the man in charge of the city has gone missing. the mayor i am definitely. in five years as city's top dog and each and maybe a ski has been a journalist delight from singing at a press conference. taking a dive in front of cameras to prove he was mentally sane the eccentricity of key of smear earned him the nickname spaceman and when locals yes i am a spaceman absolutely true if he had gone to space it might at least explain the mystery of where he actually is that's because the last time should not be askew was seen in public was almost six months ago it is troubling not just ordinary citizens but those at the very top as well. as the authorities define to novitsky in tell him that the people of kiev miss him and want him to return to work. after an avalanche of c

the marquis thought their own death is one way through all thinkers are enjoying the winter season artie's either bennett joined the brave few who journey beneath the i. perched above the unknown with the icy depths below it requires guts to take the plunge. i was going down. on the surface it's like a trap door to a sinister nether world but from the road beguiling i starving in rushes a popular sport but it's not something to be taken lightly the divers are under the ice now which is around thirty centimeters thick the only sign left on the surface is this rope that's their safety line they're attached to and case they get lost on the water because there is of course only one way out and that's here the maximum depth of the dive is nine metres but the rope allows a horizontal range of twenty to the only one exit the surface contact must not be lost. some of us know it's crucial that the rope is always kept taut and its torso can pull and it wants to ask them if they're ok see the target wants to telling me it's all right down there that's how we communicate through it it's these divers f

have foiled several serious attempts and that the wave of recent arrests is proof that they're coping artie's ago police can offer ports next from austria where the ears asylum policies have come under fire for letting potential terrorists walk straight in through europe's front door. like many others small you would be and downs in southern austria seems quiet and peaceful while never judge a book by its cover one of its residents is now under arrest suspected of being the brains behind a nice network recruiting extremists and plotting attacks in the heartland of the european union and ethnic chechen as for me it was detained at the airport in vienna. to mecca news about the incident went around the world or streams none of the locals seem to know much about it. we didn't hear anything about it. i'm afraid i wasn't for this. i know nothing about it and i don't care some didn't want to be filmed at all but was it really because of a lack of information. and the deputy chief of one of australia's biggest newspapers has been personally following this case or and with only a voice recorder in he

both sides are non binding meaning they will not affect the actual implementation of the agreement artie's you're going to school for putting that now time for the business news with dmitri. thanks very much rory emerging economies are considered the main growth drivers and twenty eleven and that's reflected in the turnout for the world economic for a record number of executives from emerging markets. as is our correspondent daniel bushel and he's been looking at the guest list. if you are critical iraq's top honor he calls it fact cats in the snow nonetheless bono is here today along with a record number of v.i.p.'s behind me as you can see it's a very packed hall today on the opening day that was in fashion again after three years of global meltdown and bankers are once again coming to the fore last year when the head of barclays bank told me he gets people's anger at the bankers and the banking system but this year he says the time for same story is over but it might be too late anyway because the chinese are coming china's economy thought ten percent last year through the global collap

explorers for help they have enlisted animals to aid humanity's quest for more distant from tears and as artie's tom partner reports the rodents are set to break records. it's fifty years since the first human went to space it's counted as one of our greatest achievements but as some scientists point out we shouldn't forget the role of the first space pioneers for working with the animals sleep shorter lives than humans their metabolism is different so we can extrapolate data from animal experience to the conditions of man splayed into outer space. here with the into tutor of biomedical problems in moscow these rodents are hoping solve space riddles being in orbit can have big effect on our bodies and although man's been in space for decades there's still much that we need to know if we want to travel further away from planet earth what is the purpose of all the previous flights when you're the buying program how the zero g. condition effects living organisms and to conduct experiments that can be carried out in humans but are possible in animals the biome program starting in one nine hundred se

this is arty life from moscow now the most notorious prison of the twenty first century the guantanamo bay detention center has now entered its tenth year and there's still no sign that president obama is about to fulfill his promise and shut it down guantanamo has now become synonymous with torture and as artie's jihad halfassed reports she was far from happy that having america's dirty work carried out on its own soil. it's a place forever immortalized by images of torture known by its abbreviation get america's notorious detention facility in guantanamo bay cuba has been the source of world condemnation where abuse lack of legal recourse and indefinite detention is the norm it's also been the subject of decades of strife with cuban authorities who argue the forty five square mile military base violates cuban sovereignty and amounts to a military occupation the green room under which the u.s. has to be. kuantan a moment let's hear it piece. from earlier earliest years of the twentieth century the plot amendment was imposed following the u.s. occupation of cuba after the spanish ameri

networks can present them with unbiased output well arty's on us to see if you're going to delve deeper into the means and message of the main broadcasters. everyone seems to know that he who pays the piper gets to call the town. in the us paying the piper and running the show are corporations that you may call what american see hear and read it's a money maker it's a cash cow people don't think that that there's any money in the media i mean aside from health care these days there's probably the media is is the industry of the twenty first century half a century ago fifty corporations rammed a major networks and newspapers since then a rapid concentration of media ownership has resulted in near media monopolies spearheaded by a lucky few pumping money from the news cash cow and piping corporate interests to the viewers and readers the danger of this kind of media concentration is that it robs democracy of diversity it robs viewers from being exposed to a wider range of views. analysts say the u.s. is living in the golden age of media bias. it's never been easier for them to find out ex

bunker a relic from the cold war it still provides a chilling reminder of the threat of atomic attack artie's pedro oliver went to explore. was it's a door like no other designed to stop a nuclear blast is that here doris was a pretty big thing as a shockwave or one of her stray but here's a way to both one point five goals are the same as the interest for scarlett was a massive new myself was it has a wall sickness about six meters or fraying force of corporate if you had been lucky enough to escape the initial explosion inside or enough food in end to last about two weeks it was to command and control. surface forces and nothing more. but you know what sixteen days later nuclear war all fires in the radiation level decreased as a level where when you can walk and breathe in special protective suits those stationed at the shelters would have had less the ninety seconds to put on a suit should radiation be detected inside and i could tell you that they aren't easy to get on in a rush stock nor are they particularly comfortable to wear. it's not just these purpose built facilities they were de

but not joined by artie's people of l. the host of crosstalk our thanks for joining me so you know we're seeing the security measures being implemented here we've seen the russian president addressing the public we're seeing from our correspondents at the airports that despite what is a terrorist act and despite the large number of casualties here in general people unauthorized well i've lived here for over twelve years and russians are very stoic people have gone through a lot since the collapse of the soviet union which by the way crosstalk is going to be focusing a lot on this year. but they've gotten hardened by it i see a huge learning curve as i pointed out in the previous hour and dealing with security in beefing it up and dealing with it a more high tech level dealing with citizens getting citizens involved you know unfortunately with the old soviet habit of secret see you know was there and now they have to wear it down they had to get citizens involved i was so proud of muscovites and we were right next to the me

thousands have fled the country during the conflict with many choosing israel as a safe haven but as artie's polis lior has been finding out many are hoping to return home. but the road to freedom is long and its role wasn't their first choice egypt was but as the thousands of refugees fleeing sudan found themselves under assault in cairo by a police force trying to clean up the streets the decision to cross over into israel seemed and logical one. is near from here and israel is. and they do. and christian but the journey was long sometimes on foot sometimes penguins to drive them you have to cross the border and coming to the israeli border with the. measure. of not to see you otherwise you would be something shooting and to me a martyr made their journey three years ago with his wife and four children he watched friends and family die along the way some were shot some died of hunger. but israel doesn't really know what to do with these refugees last year alone eighteen thousand and one lived just from sudan and eritrea is always party to the convention on the status of refugees which mean

well that was artie's military contributor colonel you have again a crucial and now let's take a brief look at some other headlines from around the world a suicide car bomb has attacked a vehicle carrying a senior pakistani police official in northwest pakistan killing him and two others the deputy superintendent of southern peshawar died along with his driver and a passer by eight other people were going to be attacked well no group has admitted the bombing but the war has been repeatedly targeted by pakistani taliban. north korea is calling for defense talks with the south to be held tomorrow that's two weeks earlier than planned last week seoul agreed to take part in negotiations it a step towards easing tension on the peninsula relations between the two countries are at their lowest for decades that's after the sinking of a southern warship last march well since then the south has engaged in large scale military drills close to the maritime border. authorities in oman say they have uncovered a spy ring working for the united arab emirates the network has reportedly been spying on t