peaceful vigil turns violent in new york protesters vent their firy over the police killing of a black teenager blaming the cops for racism and brutality. an act of defiance more than one hundred one time most prisoners on a hunger strike putting their lives on the line but the u.s. military downplaying the scale of the protest. anniversary but nothing to celebrate two years of unrest in syria inspired by the arab spring revolutionary vibe but it's led to a civil war that's claimed tens of thousands of lives. ten am in moscow i'm at present good to have you with us here on our t.v.

we start out in new york where people are gathered again in the bro or of brooklyn for a fourth night venting anger over the police killing of a black sixteen year old the area was packed with police dozens were arrested when violence broke out protesters accuse the n.y.p.d. of systematic racism and brutality marina portnoy has the details. in a rage crowd split off from the vigil broke out into the streets and subsequently clashed with police officers dressed in riot gear what fueled all these anger is the fact that the autopsy on come on 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 and this clearly fueled the anger that that has already been boiling for days many new yorkers believe that this is another 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 in these flop going on 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 not when they fired off a levin rounds the teenager shooting him seven times but friends and family of i spoke with one personally told me that this young boy would never ever point a gun at police at 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 discuss previously gray's parents said that they would not speak publicly until

the violence stops but clearly there's been a change of heart in this news is coming from a spokesperson for the families. well that honored prisoners of the one ton i'm ok i've been on a hunger strike for five weeks now we did desperate attempt to draw attention to their dismal party destroyed it was launched in protest against the composition of the letters minnow and rough handling of the qur'an and their lawyers and human rights activists suddenly alert over their critical condition but the u.s. military is claiming that nobody is in danger. to exhort. guantanamo detainees have been on a hunger strike for more than a month now the facility which is now on strike holds most of the inmates there 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 will left a message with robert deal 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 is 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. just point the strike is more than thirty days old and by a forty by we understand from medical experts there are serious health repercussions that start happening things like lost hearing chancel blindness and in a couple of weeks worse than that ultimately you know that substantial as they are for this well it strikes continue for weeks 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 prisoners 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 want to get the word out 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 u.n. says holding detainees indefinitely at guantanamo bay it amounts to torture four years ago president obama signed an executive order to stop torture there but according to the u.n. 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 one tunnel that gives some idea about the level of hopelessness cause. 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 is a desire to kind of forget about one problem and it's very much reflected in the mainstream media here and in the scarce where porting that we have seen on the air in washington i'm going to check on you tourney's of guantanamo prisoners have sent a letter to u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel urging him to help and the strike one of his lawyers eric mantello says running the facility and spending millions doing so is absurd with those cleared of all charges by the administration still being held for no

reason there are people in guantanamo bay right now that have been determined by the obama administration to be clear of any trudges 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 send help. exactly two years since the start of the conflict in syria what began as protests calling for reform and change inspired by the revolt fervor coming from the arab spring states has turned into a bloody civil war that's killed tens of thousands syria's been torn apart by violence while some countries abroad have been trying to settle its future they've only helped fan the flames are wary of 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 someone it could also be used against the country and that's

something to destroy. and the regime slogans in syria have been repeated to the longest of 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 home and abroad have decided to target with hurt the most serious diversity teaching 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 she had minority some more ignorant position and sometimes executed.

in order to make a city and it's not to move in once the one i don't. keep our unity in all of all of. it gave real a poise from commercially livin in syria's north east all green sunni dominated turkey and mostly shia iraq says here in about six tarion intolerance is something new for syria and very alarming in your. will feel this pressure for months now especially from gulf countries trying to drag us to this perilous share soon again it's a big threat because a tear society from the inside. and some say it's been feud from the outside it is part of the u.s. strategy and some of the western strategy is to destroy syria by syrians and by arabs and this they are doing successfully another blow followed with an explosion at palestinian refugee camps in syria and the cold blooded murder of palestinian

conscripts these drove a wedge between the two arab peoples previously on friendly terms they wanted to both weaken the regime and spread despair among palestinians. with kurdish villages in syria's north east targeted the kurdish syrian peaceful co-existence has also been endangered but on account of its approval cations appear in very dangerous moment syrian kurds want to be integrated into syrian society have rights and be respected some turkish occurrence may be due as earlier 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 that those who want to see the fall of the regime will weakness the countries. from syria. leaders of britain and france claim they could well supply weapons to the syrian rebels despite

a un embargo russia responded by saying any attempt to do so would be a breach of international law on our website we're asking where any foreign arms supply to ante assad fighters could lead so far thirty six percent of respondents things will think this will only result in more deaths almost the same thing this will cause other countries to arm both sides ultimately setting the whole region on fire most a quarter think such a move could spark a worldwide diplomatic crises and only seven percent think it will help end the conflict with the opposition winning the war what do you think click on r.t. dot com and cast your vote well answering that very same question r.t. contributor option written see things that will eventually backfire on the west if they arm syrian rebels. by definition it would be supplied by the french and british governments would be in the wrong head 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 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 a click away on our t. dot com the war crimes of syrian rebels on the rise human rights groups raise the alarm over opposition fighters resorting to torture summary executions and kidnappings find out more at r.t. dot com. and still to come after a short break all eyes on beijing ushering in new leader as we bring you expert opinion after a break stay with us. choose

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us here on r t seventeen minutes past the hour now china is officially reassigned its top jobs ushering in the new premier and president lee creek hange has become the head of government xi jinping is assume the presidency in so you know once in a decade transition of power there newly elected leaders already held phone talks with u.s. president barack obama and it was said 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 a show of support to its allies japan and south korea it's been expanding its military reach in the region china expert martin jakes thinks the move into things the more china grows a power the more concerned the u.s. may become. 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 it means for nations 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 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 and more prisons around the world in different continents and different countries so the interests are a lot of will to be in conflict areas that was previously the case and i think this is the reason why it's getting more complicated. it's a question that's blood experts for generations is there really life on the red planet now the european space agency with a little russian help is trying to find out the mission dubbed exo mars will drill thirty times deeper beneath the surface of the planet than what the curiosity rover has so far managed russia will supply the rockets and facilitate launches from the bike and extend our ports the search for past or present life

on mars clinton news this time scientists are digging deep explore mars project is based on it to freeze exploration first in two thousand and sixteen russian proton heavy rockets are usually used for delivering satellites and space station components should blast off from waco to cosmodrome in kazakhstan sending a european orbital proved and a stationary test lander to the red planet speech to his plan for two thousand and eighteen when a second proton rocket will deliver a rule were 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 surface to find out what dangers there may be for future manned missions barrelful 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 a landing pod will also develop some of the same defect equipment so far the red planet has only been visited by u.s. vehicles exile mars will be europe's first visit to the red planet you've got this kind of arty. artie's team is not only onscreen it's online too there you can find this story in the price of war that's claimed thousands of lives ever be actually tallied up as we report on our t. dot com a new study claims yes saying the u.s. led conflict in iraq has cost one point seven trillion dollars a figure far greater than first thought bus. while already

giving intelligence services access to private data without a court order skype's still being pressured to register as a telecom agency which would allow intelligence to operate around a series of legal loopholes and more on that on our website. our d.c. faces freedom. and. they're ready to clean up and. bring you liberty. salute free. to be treated this way. syrian diary an arche.

twenty two minutes past the hour now the catholic church has a new leader argentine cardinal jorge mario bergoglio has become the first pope ever from the americas and the first from beyond europe for more than a thousand years is election. greeted by tens of thousands who flooded into 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 resigned unexpectedly now 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

a heretic gossip packed baggage of scandals connected with the vatileaks revelations which were contained in documents that tarnish the saintly image of some representatives of the religious elite the publication of a leaked data has shown the vatican drawn deep into corruption and caused a stir in the holy see there released by an italian journalist of a controversial book with. a controversial book containing confidential letters between the former head of the catholic church as secretary added to the tension showing the pope's personal finances and involvement in bribery and other challenge facing pope francis will be how to reform the finances of the vatican bank italian journalist franco all the things that needs to be such a large spiritual rebranding of the church it will be a tough task especially in a crisis that european world. but a group who comes from so the mirror disagree since. well before the start of progress but the issue is who to freeze the new. terms which will europe for it should.

be your dream home. can be. especially in europe where you get you. to find their needs you know that you're in the region. is going to be to be problem if you will did you know they were jewish to do that through. turning now to some other stories making global headlines this hour thousands of shia protesters with riot police in bahrain marking two years since the saudi led crackdown on the nation's pro-democracy uprising protesters burned tires and threw stones at police who responded by firing stun grenades at least thirty five people wounded clashes with the most violent scene in the last few weeks bahrain's been locked in political and religious turmoil for years with the shia majority demanding

a greater voice from the sunni rulers. a blast targeting the office of a t.v. network in pakistan's kharaj he has left three dead and five wounded the remote detonated to kill obama's planted near office gates in a poor area in the east of the city no groups claim responsibility for the strike ethnic and political tensions in pakistan running high as the country heads towards a general election in may. ten thousand belgians marched as leaders got together to discuss fresh austerity plans police stepped in to arrest protesters after a hundred fifty activists from belgium denmark germany and italy occupied the european union headquarters demonstrators demanding the block's leaders refocus autumn rather than fast track public savings by raising taxes and cutting spending . across talk coming up next stay with us here on r.t. .

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 for 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 naive

enough 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. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered on peter lavelle the catholic church has a new leader of pope francis from argentina and it jesuit you see there dramatic

even bold departure from the past can this simple man of humble origins reverse the fortunes of a church in crisis and what can the world expect from a pope hate win from the global south. cross-talk the recent election i'm joined by sister my report in london she is a religious sister and a founding member of catholic woman's ordination it land we have diane doddery she is an ordained minister in the association of roman catholic women priests and in our well we cross to john henry weston he is the co-founder and editor in chief of life site news dot com all right folks crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want sister myra we have a new pope is he the right man at the right time with the right message i don't know much about sorry i don't know much about him but he seems a radical choice at the moment but we're find out ok diane you want to die and you

want to answer the same question. one of the things that i'm excited about is that he's a jesuit which means he's lived community life and also he lives in an apartment he brags the bus well he won't do any more for him so why don't more he won't be doing that anymore etc. but what you're saying he's a man of the people we'll see. he's a man of the people ok some people john henry how do you feel about the new pope. i'm actually very encouraged we've seen in pope francis in his former wife cardinal bergoglio we've seen him reach out to the poor in a way that we haven't seen before one things one of the things i found extremely interesting was his visit to an aids hospice where he kissed the feet of twelve pay.