accusations of racism. on the streets of brooklyn for. the police shooting of a black teenage boy. the u.n. says children are being used as fighters by both government and opposition forces in syria. from abroad despite an international embargo. in europe with a block wide day of action. budget cuts that are blamed for an epidemic of unemployment. comes to power in china beijing and washington struggle for dominance in asia looks set to heat up our top stories on.

international news and comment from our studio here in moscow this is r.t. with you we're with you twenty four hours a day. at least forty people to be arrested in new york on a night i third night of demonstrations after police shot dead a black sixteen year old authorities say the officers were acting in self-defense when they fired eleven rounds at the teenager but the protesters accuse police of systematic racism and brutality. as. the night began on wednesday with a peaceful vigil to honor kamani gray soon after and their rage crowd are split off from the vigil broke out into the streets and subsequently clashed with police officers dressed in riot gear what fuelled all these anger is the fact that the autopsy on can money was released on wednesday indicating that

the sixteen year old boy was struck by the seven times by bullets and three of those bullets hit him from behind this clearly will be anger that that has already been boiling for days many new yorkers believe that this is another indication other example of a loose brutality of police targeting minorities according to the new york city police department what they say is that on saturday evening to clean clothes officers out of a car in east la push around eleven thirty pm it was an unmarked car and were approaching come on a grade they said and at that point you were shuffling with his pants or his belt and according to police they say that gray pulled out and gone and pointed it at the under cover officers at knott's when they fired off a levin rounds at the teenager shooting him seven times by friends and family of gray i spoke with one personally told me that this young boy would never ever point

a gun at police any police officer let alone two that were there on scene mommy griese mother carol grey as well as other relatives are according to reports planning to hold a press conference in brooklyn thursday afternoon it is not clear what they will yet discussed previously gray's parents said that they would not speak publicly into the violence stop or clearly there's been a change of heart in this news is coming from a spokesperson for the families. running for patients gods reportedly threatened to return. to the dark days and the bush rights groups as more than one hundred inmates of the facility a hunger strike in protest of abuse and conditions. will get live expert reaction on that development shortly here but in the meantime

child soldiers are fighting on both sides of the bloody conflict in syria that's according to un investigators and charities as the crisis in syria approaches its second anniversary this week the un is warning that this is not a simple battle between good rebels and an evil regime reporter. he has this update for us now from damascus. the conflict is getting more complicated we have seen many many phenomena regarding the children being involved in this crisis we have seen many children eighteen and these children in the school ages where there's going to destroy and they don't have any other thing they've done some time paid for or paid for they've paid in one of the most important example of this was the video that was produced or let's say on you tube something like a month month two months ago child of seven years old by heading cutting the head of military office at an airport and we have many reports about position position

of force especially from a group in syria they are recruiting people are recruiting children between eleven years old and fifteen years old in order to fight with this extremist group against the government extremist groups getting more control over that evolution we have vetted the market will report by al-qaeda of attacking some syrian soldiers in iraq and we have also some areas where the extremist groups. trying to implement ischemic sharia law in some areas of and in italy and implementing all the all the traditional laws of al qaeda inside the cities. the leaders of britain france say they could well supply weapons to the syrian rebels despite a u.n. embargo russia responded by saying any attempt to do that would be a breach of international law and that is more of a notion or explains foreign involvement is increasing all the time. the syrian uprising the last of the arab spring sprang up in march two thousand and eleven by

august of that year when in another arab spring country in libya colonel gadhafi had lost defacto power it was already clear who was next in the firing line this morning president obama called on assad to step aside as if unpeel many others would soon echo the same rhetoric is time for bashar to go to the message to president assad is it is time for transition it is totally to go with the regime of bashar al assad must come to an end we asked the regime to step down. has to go syrian forces fighting assad immediately felt encouraged the train was in motion and a two year journey later had the destabilization on syria has been a us nato project from day one they have lined up all of their allies in a very ugly effort to overturn the government of syria and to create

instability at emory and. so perhaps america did indeed pull the others in to then pull itself out. two years on washington is criticized for its failure to bring things to the head in syria both at home and abroad we are providing vital humanitarian assistance for my it is here in assistance doesn't stop bombs. the rebels who have suffered losses as having as the military now say they feel betrayed by the u.s. we did not get any real action on the ground from the united nation from the united states speculation is brewing that washington is starting to view the assad regime as the lesser of two evils preferable to radical jihadist groups the obama administration although there are levels and levels of what you what governments do basically it is has been interested in seeing if there's a way out of this mess but in reality america is still in

a white house decision last month may have ruled out arming the rebels an idea backed by the pentagon cia and state department but the country is doing little to stop others doing just that washington was silent when other nato member turkey asked for the arms embargo to be lifted nor did protest when the arab league gave the go ahead for weapons supplies and more recently when the u.k. said it could veto the e.u.'s arms ban the us offered no objections everyone knows that the us if it were to tell saudi arabia or qatar or turkey or whoever of its friends there that they should stop it well everyone knows that the u.s. but the rain would prevail instead the u.s. has decided to watch from a safe distance when it played a crucial role in starting the americans can't fix this problem syrians have to fix this problem is genuinely surprising after telling years seventy thousand deaths

a million people displaced tough sanctions imposed on syria dozens of countries within nato and the arab league condemning assad and urging him to go and after so much. money and weaponry invested to achieve this to hear america's ambassador to syria saying that only syrians can fix their problems perhaps there was a time when syrians could have resolved things on their own but pressure from the outside has been relentless and now it could simply be too late for anybody to fix this. knotty mosco and altie contributor afshin rattansi told me earlier that he believes western countries would eventually feel the blowback if they rebels in syria by definition that would be supplied by the french or british governments would be in the wrong hands because they are supplying rebels in a civil war and therefore they are the wrong no matter who britain or france.

this is i suppose what's interesting here is that washington is much more nervous about the arming of rebels because they are obviously concerned that the afghanistan scenario is beginning yet again but it is so sad that leaders of countries like france and britain can think of these limits because the blowback will be phenomenal on a website of the moment we're asking what you think that foreign supplies of weapons to syrian rebels could actually lead to and so far most of those who have voted over forty percent we can see that say this will only prolong the conflict and lead to more bloodshed every quarter say this will cause other countries to both sides in the conflict ultimately setting the whole region on fire slightly fewer twenty four percent believe that such a move would spark a worldwide diplomatic crisis and just six percent think that this will actually lead to an end in the conflict with the opposition emerging victorious dot com

that's where all voting is. a day of action involving some of the largest trade unions in europe is coinciding with a two day summit in brussels the protesters want to see drastic job shortages tackled across the block a situation that has been made worse by deep sturdy cuts a correspondent is in brussels and reports on the agonies and aspirations of those protesting. well we're here today in brussels where thousands of people are gathered from across the e.u. to protest against the u.s. stared that they're seeing across the a continent of angry at the a cots thousands of job cuts that they've already seen in their own countries talk of the. system rather than imposes thirty they can fight the enterprises and workers because of their less people working when there are less consumers to make

the economy work but of course no they won't listen to anything and that's why we're here because they were implicit. so we will say what we need to come back if we have to and do this all the time. for so long the further who are duplicated this is from small and was elected the workers have only been disappointed he's doing the opposite of what he promised during the elections the social benefits system for example he cut social benefits alone to simply a continuation of nicolas sarkozy's we must fight against this situation. now interestingly enough just beyond this facade over here that's where the twenty seven e.u. leaders will be gathering for the e.u. summit to discuss precisely a sturdy and unemployment in the policies and they've been imposing to try to get out of this a sovereign debt crisis going on for three years now with twenty seven million e.u. citizens unemployed that's eleven percent of the population and what's interesting is there's always a debate about austerity versus growth but economists are now pointing to the fact

that the social impact is actually one of the biggest factors that could be breaking the very fabric of the e.u. even if those economists from think tanks that have been advising the e.u. they're warning that this kind of social dissatisfaction could really bubble over and cause a bigger rupture than they've already been seeing so far and the economic a series of been argued before people here are saying there's absolutely no theory to be argued when they're looking at their own lives they have no jobs and they don't have enough money and that's simply the reality that they're seeing on the ground across europe. international consultant and former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament load of a new says it is a struggle that will last for years. one cannot measure social service not social struggle on a day by day basis this is definitely a long term start and that's going to take years and definitely what we see now more and more is governments and governments implementing ball assist and go

against the will on their own people now they call it all study they call it courageous decision and so on basically what it is is the destruction of the social gold backed as it was constructed after the second world war and that is exactly what the problem is that for the moment the willingness to listen to when these people have to say i mean it's always about austerity it's also about privatization it's always about cutting down public the services or the devices that say you have to do exactly the opposite to revive the economy are not being heard and that's why you get these protests i mean this opens the way to forms of extremism and people who are desperate especially young people will look for answers on the extremes with us from the left side on the right said his mother but if you want to really prevent this to happen there's only one way out you have to invest you have to invest in jobs and jobs john but especially for the young that's the only way to do

it. and still coming up with this. new pope all the problems. sex abuse scandals corruption within the catholic church in shrinking congregations and just some of the challenges the first latin american pontiff will have to cope with that and more for you after the short break. wealthy british style. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy with. no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser report.

more news today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. corp. the. technology innovation. developments around russia we. covered. these continues without charge behind bars on. a hunger strike at guantanamo bay has been joined by nearly all the inmates intent on bringing attention to the

dismal and deteriorating conditions at the facility have allegedly been abusing inmates and threatening to return the prison to quote the darkest days of bush well let's get more on the strike now with investigative journalist and he specializes. some inmates reportedly so sick that coughing up blood all those are being hospitalized and force fed just how bad is this strike getting do you think. well it sounds very bad you know and the problem that we have is that on the one hand we have the lawyers for the men talking about how the over one hundred of the remaining one hundred sixty six men are on a hunger strike and that this strike started last month and on the other hand we have ministration apparently claiming that there isn't really much going on so that's not really helping us to get any clarity but of course that's always been the problem we've grown tired of knows that this is a very opaque facility however much the administration first of all bush and obama

has tried to pretend that they're open about what's happened i think. this is true and you know it's an enormous sense of despair amongst the grunts and of the prisoners we've got over half the men who told we're told years ago that they were going to be released who are still held we've got other men who were designated for indefinite detention which is a terrible thing anyway but obama issued an executive order authorizing that but promising that their cases would be reviewed and they haven't had their cases reviewed the men must feel like in a living to so what will this hunger strike achieve do you think. well it's already achieving i imagine part of what the purposes which is to let the outside world know that it's not acceptable for these men to be held for ever with nobody making any moves to release them even though as i say over half of them have been cleared for release but they've been forgotten and they've been primarily forgotten by by the united states government by the united states media and by the

american people and that's really not acceptable so you know we are talking about it here i notice that this is filtering out gradually into the mainstream media and it's getting the issue discussed because clearly the situation that we've had for some time. is that president obama can't really be bothered to overcome opposition in congress can't really be bothered to try and secure a decent legacy for himself by revisiting his failed promise to close the prison everyone's forgotten about but what about an issue of human rights though from obama's point of view is not of a concern to him what about the issue of human rights for obama is not of concern well i mean it should be of concern i mean the president claims that you know the legislation passed under bush just after the nine eleven attacks authorizes the detention of prisoners and that therefore it's acceptable for these men to be held but it isn't acceptable you know these are still men who aren't held either as prisoners of war according to the geneva conventions always criminal suspects who

are going to face a trial nearly all of the men in guantanamo are effectively still held was enemy combatants the bush administration's plan was to hold people forever without ever having to justify objectively why they were being that's effectively but one of but one of the reasons they are saying is of course the people held because the intelligence gathered at guantanamo has indeed saved american lives and terrorist attacks throughout the world isn't that a justification. no i think that's nonsense i mean you know the united states authorities have never officially claimed that any more than a few dozen of people that their child and people with any actions terrorism there has been no actual evidence provided that the. prison has led to any information that actually forms terrorist attacks what they're left with is a problem mostly of detaining people who have you know been horribly abused throughout their eleven years in custody primarily it's opposition within congress

and in activity in the administration to clear up this terrible terrible mess that was left by the bush administration and it's now obama's prison it's very much a place where he's not doing anything about the people held there as i say the majority the majority of them who are supposed to be released who are still being held that's a terrible indictment the way that president obama is behaving and it seems to be down to the prisoners to make the world aware of the situation while on the likes of you investigative journalist the meter obviously paying attention to what's happening would perhaps not have any influence over obama after all he did promise to close it down back in two thousand and nine do you think this sort of international pressure will have an effect on his decision i hope so i mean what it needs to be backed up by is for you know for sustained reporting about this. and i would hope for for representatives of other governments to try and put pressure on the united states it's maybe the home countries of the people who are held in

guantanamo need to stop putting what pressure on as it stands you know lawyers for the prisoners have been trying to go to the the the american commission on human rights which doesn't have power of the united states but is at least a venue where they can raise these issues because sadly the united states is not answerable to anybody about its behavior and i think what we're seeing with going to hand them over is a problem that you know this is an american problem that they don't want to have to do. because there isn't in turn only in the united states enough political capital in it so you know the rest of the world needs to just very funnily briefly are we going to see people die here will they are that she threaten their own lives just that desperate just briefly oh very. clearly was going to happen and the case of a sustained hunger strike like this with some of these men who are obviously in a very weak state is that that's very much a reality all right thank you very much indeed and whether to investigate journalist joining us live there in london thanks for time. in china she jim

ping has been formally confirmed as the new president completing a lengthy transition process he's already announced his first priorities as leader tackling corruption and narrowing the wealth gap at home very boosting the military budget the plans come amid u.s. efforts to gain a stronger foothold in asia a tendency that has put beijing on edge washington has been expanding its military reach in the region so you can see there on the map china expert martin jake suspect him of the live he thinks that the more china grows as a power the more concerned the u.s. becomes. the whole way now in which the chinese leadership is constructed i mean if it's going to shift it's not a shift now it will shift you know several years down the road i think what will it mean for relations with the united states i mean relations with the united states have steadily be getting more complicated and i think the reason for that is because before you know china was very much still a developing country

a much weaker global power down the united states but china of course has been growing like crazy. more and more presence around the world in different continents and different countries so. interests are liable to be in conflict in more areas that were previously the case and i think this is the reason why it's getting more complicated. well the pearl games between the u.s. and china are also playing out in the digital world washington has lashed out at beijing accusing chinese hackers of most of money attacks on american soil security . investigated whether the us is really the victim here a bigger threat than al qaeda this is how washington officials now describe the legit cyber attacks coming from china u.s. stop or delegates officials now rank the threat of computer large foreign of sorts higher than terrorism transnational organized crime and weapons of mass destruction for the first time since nine eleven washington has long queues china stealing

military secrets and intellectual property from hacking president obama's facebook page to cyber attacks against u.s. flagship media like the new york times but a recent u.s. congress report warns of going beyond online vandalism chinese penetration of defense systems threaten the u.s. military's readiness and ability to operate it said that could include u.s. satellites weapons start getting systems navigation computers and many more but are the chinese really the aggressors here as washington wants everyone to believe and is the united states really an innocent victim china's ministry of national defense claims sixty three percent of the one hundred forty four thousand monthly cyber attacks that it recorded last year came from the u.s. based be addresses while washington claims its military cyber programs are there only to defend the country's borders but the stuxnet virus signaled a new aggression experts have no doubt it was created by israel and the united states to derail iran's nuclear program both american and chinese leaders continue

to shake hands and speak of fruitful cooperation at official meetings such real world optimism is undermined if not totally negated when it comes to cyberspace and given reports of mutual cyber attacks intensifying in the last six seven months as well as beijing changing the man at the wheel it seems that only in competition between the superpowers will remain fractious if not downright dangerous. roman catholics have a new leader hard time born pope francis has become the first pontiff ever from the americas and the first from outside europe in over a thousand years the seventy six year old was elected by a conclave of cardinals after five rounds of voting the search for a man to lead more than a billion catholics worldwide began when benedict the sixteenth resigned one of the main goals for the new pope will be rebuilding the churches reputation following a spate of scandals a string of child sex abuse cases where the most damaging and let's have a quick look at some of the numbers involved here where the largest number of reported cases of children being abused by priests is in the u.s.

allegations were made against more than four thousand priests and deacons more than a billion dollars has been paid to victims in settlements in arland which comes second in these grim statistics the church had been turning a blind eye to the allegations for thirty years and in germany two thirds of all dioceses were allegedly involved in sex abuse scandals and austria is an example of how these scandals have led to people's disillusionment within the church almost ninety thousand austrians have deserted the church in just one year there. that brings up today for the moment coming up the kaiser report in r.t. stay with us. a u.n. investigator been emerson has decided to not let the sins of the recent past go he's demanding that the u.s.

government release documents about the cia's program of addition and secret detention of suspected terrorists everson believes that there is now credible evidence that shows that cia black sites were used to extradite suspected terrorists with neither charges nor access to a lawyer you know nothing says protect a democracy like snagging people in foreign countries without even charging them with a crime this huge investigator may have good intentions but the thing is that no matter how much he and his u.n. pals urge the us to prosecute officials connect with torture or expose classified information they really have no power to do anything if you haven't noticed the un is very happy to section and punish certain countries bernie if you out there i even have to think that they'll sanction the usa or send a peacekeeping mission to stop the human rights violators in washington not a chance the un really has no business meddling in the affairs of sovereign countries but they do it all the time but there is a zero percent chance that the un will stand up to the bad behavior from the us

government no matter how much its investigators whine and plead and beg but that's just my opinion. oh man shows or this is the guy's a report you know numbers can tell different stories don't get fooled by the hope station over tells more yes max in the past week we've had the dow jones hitting all time highs and everybody of course celebrating that the jobs numbers look good they came in better than expected but check out this headline and yet the labor force participation rate is still falling and turning to this nice chart here and you can see that yes indeed this is the participation rate by those available to work in the market and they are now.