a peaceful vigil turns violent in brooklyn protesters vent their fury over the police killing of a black teenager blaming the cops for racism and brutality. a desperate act of defiance more than one hundred one ton of prisoners on hunger strike putting their lives on the line but the u.s. military trying to play down the scale of the protests. not an adverse to celebrate two years of unrest in syria inspired by the arab spring revolutionary vibe but in the result a civil war that's claimed tens of thousands of lives.

it's eight am in moscow i met très a good to have you with us here on r t our top story this hour people have gathered once again in brooklyn new york for a fourth night venting anger over the police killing of a sixteen year old black teenager the area packed with police and dozens were arrested when violence broke out protesters accuse the n.y.p.d. of systematic racism and brutality are he's burning a port niaz more. the night began on wednesday with a peaceful vigil to honor kamani gray soon after and their rage crowd 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 kamandi greg was released 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 a rather indication other example of a police brutality of police targeting minorities according to the new york city police department what they say is that on saturday evening two plainclothes officers got out of a car. around eleven thirty pm it was an unmarked car and were approaching come on a grade they said and at that point he was shuffling with his pants or his belts and according to police they say that gray pulled out a gun and pointed it at the under cover officers and knots when they fired off a levin rounds at the teenager shooting him seven times by friends and family of i spoke with one personally told me that this young boy would never ever point a gun at police any police officer let alone you know 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 stops but clearly there's been a change of heart in this news is coming from a spokesperson for the families. lawyers who want to move. bay prisoners currently on hunger strike are urging the u.s. defense secretary to address the cause of their action which is now threatening their client's lives more than one hundred detainees have been refusing food since february protesting at the comes from of letters legal mail and rough handling of their qur'an as u.s. military officials claim it's not a strike and nobody's in danger or she's got a need she takes a look quantum of detainees have been on a hunger strike for more than a month now the facility which is now on strike holds most of the in mayfair one hundred thirty people out of one hundred sixty six the total number of prisoners at

guantanamo the detainees through their lawyers say most of them are taking part in this we cannot verify exactly how many were left a message with robert do ran the media person from guantanamo very much hope he will get back to us the attorneys for the detainees are saying their health is deteriorating we spoke with. her client there says he lost twenty pounds since the beginning of the strike at the beginning of february said she and a number of other attorneys had sent a letter with their questions to the authorities at guantanamo copying the justice department she said they hadn't responded yet. at this point the strike is more than thirty days old and by day forty five we understand from medical experts there are serious health repercussions that start happening things like loss of hearing intentional blindness and in a couple of weeks worse than that ultimately you know the potential is there for death as well and if congress strikes continue for weeks we've missed no response

to that letter so our parties also say they want to response from the authorities more meaningful than the few remarks by the prison spokesperson in the media robert duran i mentioned him earlier responded to the allegations that the prisoner's copies of the koran had been mistreated and that's what presumably triggered the strike he said it was a routine search for contraband and quote the koran is treated with the outmost respect end of quote it may very well be so from the conversations that we had with the lawyers i got a sense that this act of desperation is not just about the koran the lawyers are saying that these detainees desperately. about the situation that they're in not formally accused of anything not knowing whether they're ever going to see their day in court detained indefinitely the un says holding detainees indefinitely at guantanamo bay amounts to torture four years ago president obama signed an executive order to stop torture there but according to the un indefinite detention itself is also

a form of torture it's hard to measure the degree of desperation among the inmates there half of them eighty six to be precise are sitting there with papers from the u.s. government which can clear them for release and yet they're still there are human rights organizations where port hundreds of suicide attempts at least seven of them were successful a detainee named odd non latif took his own life last september he was cleared for release by both bush and obama administrations and yet never released he had spent eleven years at it added on top of that gives some idea about the level of hopelessness caused by indefinite detention so it's somewhat obvious that through this hunger strike the detainees want to make themselves heard and it's not easy we're one of very few channels to congress this story there's a desire to kind of forget about guantanamo it's very much reflected in the mainstream media here and in the scarce reporting that we have seen on the issue in washington i'm going to check on another lawyer for some of the guantanamo inmates

. running the facility and spending millions in doing so was absurd with those cleared of all charges by the administration still staying there for a reason. there are people in guantanamo bay right now that have been determined by the obama administration to be clear of any charges but they languish down there because we have policies of no transport to certain countries like yemen it's really an abominable you know humanitarian situation where you're depriving these people of life and liberty and for no really valid basis president obama in his first term within twenty four hours said you know i'm going to close guantanamo bay because this doesn't need to exist and yet we sit here how many years later and we talk about you know all of the the budget cuts and all the concerns in the millions and millions and millions of dollars that we're

spending upon this facility the medical care the transportation of personnel to and from the upgrade of the facilities it's just nonsense a call it makes absolutely no sense and somebody needs to go down there make some decisions and clear their place out because it has no purpose other than babysitting a bunch of adult people that have been cleared of any wrongdoing and they just need to be you know sent sent home dr mark mason after apologist who specializes in socio somatic illnesses and studies cultural factors affecting human suffering says the u.s. is refusing to admit its mistakes. and he are risking their lives to get the message out which is that one time a prison is little more than a torture chamber operated by the us government we have the american empire the president is the represent of the empire and empires like never say never did

anything wrong we functionally have a dictatorship it's no different structurally no different in terms of the behavior and the brutality of the american government when we compare it to the dictatorship of burma or the monarchy of bahrain we have central power it's way way out of control the american people old have no influence on what happens it washington anymore is controlled by bankers and the military industrial complex and the outcome is that what we have is a fraud it's a fraudulent system. still ahead in the program the holy see in the stormy weather . with a newly elected head of the catholic church from argentina the vatican is hoping to recover from the nightmares and heritage from the previous leader with sex abuse and graft scandals rocking the institution plus. is there life on the red

planet russia agrees help supply a european space agency expedition to try and shed light on the mystery on mars. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. our d.c. faces of freedom fighters. and. they're ready to clean up a new story. that. i'm bringing you live. any time if so loop play free float.

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ok. you do you. thanks for staying with us twelve minutes past the hour now two years since the start of the conflict in syria what began as protests calling for reform and change inspired by the revolt fever coming from the arab spring states has become a bloody civil war that's killed tens of thousands since it started syria's been ripped apart by violence while some countries abroad i've also been trying to settle its future if only help fan the flames artie's marie if an ocean of reports . this part of syria known as mesopotamia between the tigris and euphrates rivers is considered a cradle of civilization has been home to many asked nic and religious groups living in peace and harmony for ages people here believe this diversity is serious

strong point but some warn it could also be used against the country and that's something to destroy. the mantra of the revolution in syria these words have been repeated the longest of all the arab spring countries but assad didn't step down within weeks like the leaders of to measure and egypt nor did his regime fall within months like colonel gadhafi is in libya opposing sides have gone beyond demonstrations and clashes killings have become an everyday reality those wanting a son to go both at home and abroad have decided to target what hurt the most serious diversity pitting people against each other after every massacre and every killing rivers of blood have been joined by streams of mutual accusations and hatred the first blow was dealt to relations between the country's sunni majority and the ruling shia minority some more ignorant opposition and sometimes executed.

it was never to make a city and it's not to me once that one again. we should keep our unity in all of all on that point in syria. gabriel a point from commercially living in syria's north east bordering sunni dominated turkey and mostly shia iraq says here in about six tarion intolerance is something new for syria and very alarming in your book will feel this pressure for months now especially from gulf countries trying to drag us to this perilous share sunni game it's a big threat because a tear society from the inside. and some say it's been fud from the outside it is part of the us that i.p.c. and some of the west a strategy is to destroy syria by syrians and by arabs and this the ability to accept fully another blow followed with an explosion as palestinian

refugee camps in syria and the cold blooded murder of palestinian conscripts these german wedge between the two arab peoples previously on friendly terms he wanted to both weaken the regime and spread to spear among palestinians with kurdish villages in syria's north east targeted the kurdish syrian peaceful coexistence has also been endangered but cut its approval cations a pure and very dangerous moment syrian kurds want to be integrated into syrian society have rights and be respected some turkish kurds maybe do as early ones killing his own people we've never been treated like that of course when violence targets us it can't not affect relations. and fears are that those who wanted to see the fall of the regime will witness the country's fall instead. from syria leaders of britain for britain and france they may could well supply weapons

to the syrian rebels despite a un embargo russia responded saying any attempt to do so would be a breach of international law on our website or asking where any where any foreign arms supply to assad fighters could lead so far thirty six percent of respondents say that this will only result in more deaths almost the same believes it will cause other countries to arm both sides alternately setting the whole region on fire was to a quarter think such a move would spark a worldwide diplomatic crisis and the minority seven percent think this will help end the conflict with the opposition winning the war we want to know what you think click on r.t. dot com and cast your vote. r.t. contributor option or aton see thinks eventually it'll backfire on western states if they arm syrian rebels by definition that would be supplied by the french and british governments would be in the wrong hands because they are supplying rebels in a civil war and therefore they are the wrong hands no matter who britain or france

and so 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 as the mists because the blowback will be phenomenal also on our web site war crimes of syrian rebels on the rise human rights groups raise the alarm over opposition fighters resorting to torture summary execution and kidnapping find out more on our t.v. dot com. new leader in the catholic church argentina jorge mario bergoglio has become the first pope ever from the americas and the first from beyond europe for more than one thousand years his election was greeted by tens of thousands who flooded st

peter's square in the vatican the seventy six year old pontiff was elected by a conclave of cardinals after five rounds of closed door voting the search for a man to lead more than a billion worldwide catholics started after the previous pope benedict the sixteenth resigned unexpectedly the main task ahead for the new pope will be to rebuild the church's reputation after a spate of scandals from his forerunner benedict the sixteenth francis inherited a gossip packed baggage of scandals connected with the so-called vatileaks revelations contained in documents that tarnish the same the image of some representatives of the religious elite publication of leaked data as shown the vatican drawn deep into corruption and caused a stir within the holy see there released by the italian journalist of a controversial book detailing confidential letters between the ex head of the catholic church and the secretary to the tension showing the post personal finances and involvement in bribery another challenge facing pope francis will be how to reform or how to reform the finances of the vatican bank italian journalist franco

all these things there needs to be such a large spiritual rebranding of the church that will be a tough task especially in the current crisis hit europe. nobody who comes from sold american disagree since it would be for the study of progress but be assured. of terms which will europe for action you should read. can be. especially in europe where you should get used to their needs you know that you and the region. is going to be could be. the world did you know are you you sure. remember artie's not only on the air but online is well there you can find this in

the price of war that's claimed thousands of lives be determined as we report on r.t. dot com a new study says yes blaming the u.s. led conflict in iraq has cost one point seven trillion dollars of figure far greater than thought in the past. and another click away well already giving intelligence services access to private data without a court order the sky is still being pressured into registering as telecoms a as a telecoms agency that would allow intelligence to operate around a series of legal loopholes more on that on our website r t v dot com. as of thousands of workers and some of the largest trade unions in europe organized mass demonstrations during a trans national day of action this is e.u. leaders flock to brussels for a two day summit on ways out of europe's economic turmoil demonstrators demanded the e.u. refocus on creating employment rather than fast tracking austerity by raising taxes and cutting spending our correspondent tessera cilia is in brussels and reports on

the agonies and aspirations of the protesters. 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 i fear cuts 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 of her goal of. 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 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 advised in the e.u. they're warning that this kind of social dissatisfaction could really bubble over and cause bigger rupture than they've already been seeing so far and the economic a series of been argued before people here say 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 . china is officially reassigned the top jobs are showing in the new premier and president kang's become the head of government xi jinping is assume the presidency in a once in a decade transition of power there the newly elected leader has already held phone talks with barack obama and said it has to be about mutual respect washington's been trying to gain a stronger foothold in asia continuously seen as one of its top foreign policy priorities and show support to its allies japan and south korea u.s. has been expanding its military reach in the region trying to export martin jakes though thinks the more china grows as a power the more concerned the u.s. could become. the whole way now in which the chinese leadership is confronted 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 it means is that the united states i mean relations with the united states have to be

getting more complicated and i think the reason for that is because the fool 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 is more moved chris is around the world in different continents and different countries so. interests are laudable to be in conflict areas that was previously the case and i think this is the reason why it's getting more complicated is a question as a bug to experts for generations is there really life on mars one of the european space agency with a lot from russia is going to try and find out the mission exo mars will drill thirty times deeper beneath the surface of the red planet than what the curiosity rover has mattered so far russia will supply rockets and facilitate launches from the bike inner side even cosmic stan are he's eager to spin off reports. the search

for the past or present life on mars screen to news and this time scientists are digging deep exo mars project is based on it to freeze exploration first in two thousand and sixteen russian proton heavy rocket to usually used for delivering satellites and space station components should blast off from lack of a cosmodrome in kazakhstan sending a european orbital probe and a stationary test lander to the red planet speech to his plan for two thousand and eighteen one a second proton rocket will deliver a rover named pastor after landing it will then begin tracing the life on mars this includes drilling two meters deep into the ground that's around six and a half feet to collect samples the mission's other objective is to study mars a service to find out what dangers there may be for future manned missions powerful dust storms extreme temperatures radiation and so on are not exactly your ideal

working conditions the european space agency has already invested over four hundred million euro into the project which was initially supposed to be conducted with nasa but it backed out due to financial constraints russia on the other hand was happy to jump in and the science providing delivery vehicles including the landing pad will also develop some of the same defect equipment so far the red planet has only been visited by soviet and us vehicles eggs on mars will be europe's first visit to the red planet you've got this kind of arty. during out of some other stories making headlines across the globe thousands of shia protesters clashed with riot police in bahrain marking two years since the saudi led crackdown on the nation's pro-democracy uprising protesters burning tires and threw stones at police responded by firing stun grenades at least thirty five people were wounded clashes were the most violent scene in the last week offering been locked in political and religious turmoil for years with a shia majority demanding

a greater voice from the sunni rule. blast targeting the office of a television network in the pakistani city karachi's left three dead and five wounded their only detonated to kill obama was planted near the office gates in a poor area in the eastern part of the city no group has claimed responsibility for the attack ethnic and political tensions in pakistan running high as the country heads towards a general election in may. breaking the set coming up next stay with us. to speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic

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