in the spotlight once again oscar winning movie argo has outraged iran which is planning to sue over hollywood fear mongering. explain the hunger strike over amount treatment by guantanamo prisoners is turning the camp into a humanitarian crisis with lawyers saying inmates conditions are close a critical. all change in china as the new party chief prepares to take control all eyes are on whether the revamped leadership can keep the growth going to surpass america's economy in a few years. contentious referendum that saw the focus on choose to remain british brings to light the story of another island his residence had no say when britain deprived them of their land.

in moscow you watching r t with me marina joshie now the oscar winning blockbuster argo may have been bathing in gongs and glowing praise but now it's getting some attention its makers probably don't want iran is apparently planning a lawsuit over the movie which chronicles the storming of the u.s. embassy in tehran and nine hundred seventy nine calling it a distorted and unrealistic portrayal of their country there's like here she ascii on the drama that's now been released. you won't see such at the oscars every year none other than the u.s. first lady announced the best movie award and ben affleck could not hide his delight at scooping the top statue for our goal not forgetting though to stick another boot into iran's backside right at the ceremony and we think canada our friends in iran living in terrible circumstances right now but will affleck is

probably still celebrating his triumph his movie set to be based on a real cia operation sparked fury in iran needless to say argo has been forbidden for screening in the islamic republic but a closed circle of iranian officials and critics watched it and described it as cia propaganda aimed at moring the country's image this episode the storming of the us embassy caused particular fury witnesses of the nine hundred seventy nine when say only students took part whilst affleck chose to portray them as bloodthirsty terrorists holywood just trades on the spirit types and loves it remember borrett such a baron cohen's comedy that depicted cannes acts as uncivilised farmers a comedy for some but kazakhs definitely were not laughing borat was heavily criticised but it never went beyond that this time iran may go one step further iranian media report that controversial french lawyer is the payer is now in tehran preparing an unprecedented lawsuit the islamic republic versus hollywood affleck himself is yet to respond to the accusations but with such strong statement of

intent coming from iran soon enough hollywood produces may have to argo defend themselves. well ron spawning to take on hollywood at its own game by producing a movie was to ron's version of events described in argo more details of that matter to dot com. human rights activists are sounding the alarm over what they're calling a humanitarian crisis unfolding at the guantanamo bay prison camp and started around one hundred inmates are on hunger strike over fresh claims of mistreatment their lawyers say some are close to being in critical condition and the prisons authorities insist just a few inmates are involved are just not as fully developed as they are. more than one hundred going to one of the detainees at the camp six prison there reportedly began their hunger strike approximately three weeks ago to protest what their lawyers say are conditions of confinement and the alleged confiscation and desecration of their personal items including the koran now the prisoners more of

half of whom have been cleared for release told their attorneys that since early february good north already have been confiscating items including their razors their toothbrushes their books family photos letters and legal mail poured into the center for constitutional rights authorities had also restricted exercise for the detainees seemingly without provocation or cause the prisoners also allege that arabic interpreters have desecrated their korans when they have searched the holy books for contraband now one hundred sixty six men are still incarcerated at get mo and camp six houses around one hundred thirty prisoners those prisoners are considered ones that don't pose disciplinary problems and aren't regarded as a particular risk now according to attorneys everyone in that in that camp six prison except for the silk or the elderly is on a hunger strike in the center for constitutional rights says that they've received reports about the hunger strike detainees coughing up blood losing consciousness

being hospitalized now being force fed and the sea is the center for constitutional rights says the situation is. rapidly deteriorating and reaching a potential critical level however robert duran the director of the public affairs for the joint taskforce kuantan m o denies claims of a mass hunger strike he says only nine detainees are engaged in hunger strikes five of whom are being fed through tubes inserted into their stomachs so clearly there's a discrepancy in the reports here but if we're going to listen to the civil rights attorneys and the all the attorneys representing these men it's more than a hundred of these prisoners that are now refusing food for more than three weeks this is deja vu admit in many respects back in two thousand and eleven more than fifteen prisoners at guantanamo protested and went on hunger strike to protest indefinite detention order signed by u.s. president barack obama in two thousand and seven more than a dozen prisoners subjected. to hunger strike and had to be force fed subsequently

had to be force fed two thousand five hundred twenty eight detainees went on hunger strike for more than a month and in two thousand and two nearly two hundred inmates at guantanamo bay went on hunger strike so clearly this is a pattern that continues repeating but it is quite a dangerous pattern because any human being that goes without food for a long period of time can in evidently lose their lives well geopolitical analyst line dawson who has written extensively on guantanamo believes confiscating personal belongings is only the tip of the iceberg with and mates mainly protesting over the indefinite detention. it's hard to get lower than guantanamo bay a lot of these men are detained without trial some without even charges it doesn't mean they're innocent but it doesn't mean they're guilty either and the problem is secrecy when you have this level of secrecy you're just creating a environment for abuse because they are basically human beings with no rights and

they can defer starstruck was over beatings from the i.r.s. which is the inmate response force this one again confiscating their items this is the little freedom they have and so this is a really a low point but i don't know if it's a new low point because it's continually low well it is of course not the first time and mates have endured severe maltreatment aben a tour is going ton of prison and remember no one in there right now has faced a trial well today on our web site r.t. dot com we're asking you if you think this could be the final straw that leads to the infamous facility being shut down let's take a look now at the picture of the site vote. so as you can see more than half of the viewers have voted so far online and our poll believe that guantanamo will stay open no matter what almost a fifth of voters think it will only close when it becomes financially viable to maintain it and slightly fewer say that one time a will only be shut down when

a similar prison is an operation elsewhere well just two percent as you can see it's tiny fraction there believe it will be closed down only when the world white terror is defeated so do let us know what you think on this issue by logging on to our dot com. china's new leader is expected to formally take over from incumbent who jintao later this week the world's got a close eye on the once in a decade power transition the fast rising global player and second biggest economy

while beijing has been rapidly growing over the last two decades at a speed which has brought a close to the traditionally major economies including the u.s. and even allowed to surpass europe's powerhouse germany that's slowed down a bit recently but china is still expected to overtake united states as the world's biggest economy in twenty seventeen so that's the prediction there now the economic rivalry comes amid the battle for influence in asia between the two countries beijing based correspondent chan of on sohn says foreign policy is another hurdle and you leadership faces. the obama administration announced a pivot to asia last year which means an increase in military spending on military military resources by the united states being focused in asia so that's very significant and china is really increasing its own military spending its developing its military they have appointed a couple of a few senior diplomats in charge of china's foreign affairs one person who's been

the point person on japan for a long time another person who's very familiar in dealing with the united states so how this will affect. leadership going forward particularly in terms of these territorial disputes china has been very assertive and sometimes even bellicose over the last year when talking about these territorial disputes and they seem to really want to show their strength in terms of talking about these issues to just increasingly china increasingly china has the military strength now to back up some of these more bellicose claims and territorial claims and these parts of asia. as i have read this hour here in our sleep it's not just people's pockets they're emptying in the recession ravaged europe. italian hoovers that he's have seen a dramatic drop in student applications we'll look at that and talk to some students who see their graduate futurist grim. plans why washington is now threatening pakistan with sanctions after trying to ease its crippling energy

crisis by sealing a deal with iran. victims

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welcome back you're watching r.t. now there is a new war of words between the u.k. in argentina after folding islanders voted overwhelmingly to remain a british territory argentina also claims the islands and denounced the referendum as irrelevant by the british prime minister david cameron said his country will always stand for the focal nurse but that's in sharp contrast to the country's treatment of other islanders as sarah first now reports. this is the story of an island a proud and spirited people displaced and like government he put it devastatingly high price paradise chokingly for many it will be the first time the stories ever being heard. of the happiness that we were leaving to each other and the way when been treating here we discover meant it's

very hard to get us is a british colony in the indian nation and the largest of the chaebol silence has a population of a fifty thousand people about the same as the local and. good memories. there you go it's a home a real paradise today they da gusty is one of america's biggest military advice is because it's our plan. it's not for them. you know when you see them you got this anger because they are enjoying. we are suffering back in the one nine hundred sixty s. and it is shrouded in secrecy pushed cynically to loan the islands to the u.s. but there was a problem the island had for generations been inhabited by the chikezie and people they'd built schools hospitals

a whole life and what did the british government they simply pretended none of this existed by fixing the entire population from their homes secrets lies deception dishonesty always rooted in facts in one thousand nine hundred eighty s. britain went to war protecting the folks and islanders from argentina in training first sums of money and costing precious lives the exact same time it was also using extensive resources preventing the people of the chakan silence from attending the falkland living in the homeland and they have a choice to say where they they wanted to stay under. the rule of the british or if they wanted to go to the folk argenti and time rules they have a say but with the suction we don't have the sea he gave me the impression that there's not just this event the british government is the one like you every now

and then used you hear in the news talking about human rights justice social justice and so on but they are the one that many people in the justice the chico seeing community have been fighting for their right to return to the islands ever since they winning some of their court cases pushed. government have continually appealed blocking their progress every step of the way how differently the chikezie in people have been treated there's been a government balloting or knocking on doors on their behalf or asking what they want the h word comes to my mind. for how long are you going to punish us for how long we're going to live this life. we don't want to be here we don't want this life. we want to go back home. where we belong that's all we're trying to send us back home perhaps the most shocking thing about

this story is this is simply something that happened decades ago this past injustices have been compounded by successive british governments right up to the coalition of today he continued to fight against the child go since returning to their island and say their stories remain largely consigned to the shadows and yet the chikezie in people continue to bravely fight to return to their home. says. sarah. now britain's overseas policies as well as weather of the folk and referendum will make any difference to the bitter dispute between the ukraine arjun time all this up for discussion in artie's cross-talk coming up later today. the view from full the island is a completely and absolutely irrelevant is not true the the worst of the wishes and the will of the islanders is very important here this is what it's all about it's

about what do the people of the falkland islands want to live under do they want to live under the crown of the united kingdom or do we want to be part of argentina the reason a debate about sovereignty two countries claim these islands and they should get together and have a discussion about what might happen and that is what the british absolutely refuse to do. you believe we. are. getting a decent education in italy is proving to be either an affordable or a fruitless the country's major money troubles have seen tuition fees pushed out of reach for many and those who do have qualifications can get jobs reports it's causing a slump in university applications. italy was once an abode for thinkers philosophers and artists known for its own universities and schools now however the tables have

turned as more and more students choose not to receive higher education for the simple reason of not being able to afford it and i could to make say no one but the government is to blame the country's national university council estimates in roman to italy universities dropped by nearly sixty thousand applicants in ten years that's equivalent to losing an institution the size of the university of new lawn in the last six or seven years we have. diminished from twenty percent. to the access to university. twenty percent in five years the me young people understand that even if they go to university they would not find a job propped up on the scaffolding art history student and restore to reset continues from work even during our interview for her long working hours aren't a burden but a blessing. it's very difficult to combine work and school i used to spend four

hours just getting to work but i can't complain i'm actually very lucky that i got this opportunity because it's hard to find a job as it is and since tradition fees have gone up i have to have a job otherwise it's impossible to continue with school although italy and arts are considered to be synonymous with one another teresa says an art historian like her is likely to be doing something entirely different after graduation the i meant that he might have been this my specialty is restoration i'm going to get a diploma yet i will look for a job in other fields as it's hardly. possible to get a job in this area there's a very slim chance to get a solid long term contract so i'll be looking for other ways to make money at the moment. the displacement is something students seem to share with the faculty who have an equally dismount perception of the situation. but i feel quite awkward talking about it but we the professors have really felt the strain we haven't had

a seldom a raise in a decade but we have it easy and can't complain in comparison to the students and normal families who don't think of hyde occasion as a stepping stone for the future it's no longer considered a worthy investment and a lot of families can afford. for a country with a glorious past where at times people were literally ready to die for knowledge this trend does not bode well for a bright future in rome in a coastal r.t. . well look now at some of the world's other headlines here in r.t.e. full audio recording of bradley manning telling a military court why gave classified data to weeklies has been leaked the spy a core band magnus heard accusing the u.s. army of not value human life in iraq and comparing servicemen to children torturing and with a magnifying glass is the first time the public's heard manning's voice in his twenty ten arrest he's pleaded guilty to misusing secret materials but we jumped more serious charges including aiding the enemy. it's round two in the

conclave which is trying to elect a new pope black smoke rose from the sistine chapel signaling that one hundred fifteen cardinals have failed to agree so far they'll vote for times a day until there is a two thirds majority for a single candidate although there is no clear front runner to replace the retired benedict the sixteenth to me the world's one point two billion catholics. that's why your twenty five year old man has been shot down and two others wounded by israeli troops in the west bank according to palestinian medical officials the man who was among a group throwing stones at a clash with israeli forces at a refugee camp near the city of hebron palestinians have become increasingly enraged in recent weeks over israeli soldiers using live rounds and tear gas against unarmed civilians there's been no comment from tel aviv on what's happened . pakistan could soon become

a victim of american sanctions aimed at iran's energy sector is because islamabad signed up to a joint iranian pakistani gas pipeline to ease its crisis it could be a fresh blow to the already fragile relations with washington which have been deteriorating over massive million casualties caused by u.s. drone strikes are history explains why the risk of sanctions isn't preventing pakistan from pushing ahead with a pipeline plans to study are facing a very. big problems and very short a big shortage and you know the. there have been a lot of meetings between the americans and pakistan on this issue but study side has really demanded that the americans still have them out on the no sheet to solve the energy crisis that they're facing since a few years they have you know all the promises from the american side but they have said that we want to solve the problems even if we go with the iranians and it's spite of the sanctions so there is

a determination by the start because of the leadership in both the start of this after all debate between the two sides and the us which led to where reza rashi from the national reigning american council says sticking to a deal with iran will be a challenge for pakistan given that washington is unlikely to ease up on the pressure. so many other deals that the iranians signed with numerous countries around the world you know signing the deals and operationalizing them are two very different things so the weeks and months ahead are going to be very indicative of what the pakistani approach is are they trying to raise the stakes of these to be the united states or are they actually trying to address very real energy shortages by pursuing sweetheart deals that heavily sanctioned iran can offer if there were legitimate alternative energy sources that the pakistanis could pursue chances are the united states would have already pointed them out by now and the united states will continue to try to point them out going forward but even if you find those alternative sources if you are going to be able to offer the terms that the

iranians are offering the iranians put up five hundred million dollars of a one point five billion dollar project loan to the pakistanis and you know the construction is already halfway done so it's going to be tough to get the pakistanis to go on this completely but the united states isn't going to let up the pressure going forward. well some dodgy luxury luggage has proved to be an eye opener for russian costumes officers this credible diamonds well as two hundred fifty i phones and other gadgets were seized a suspected smuggler claiming he was just doing a friend a favor by carrying his bags we've got the story online. also there the nine year old schoolgirl left stranded in the freezing moscow cold for hours after a bus driver wouldn't let her board because she had no money for stories or if you don't pop. and after the break a look at a far from glittering side of gold in colombia stay with us.

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