a desperate act of defiance more than one hundred one ton of most prisoners on hunger strike putting lives on the line but the u.s. military downplaying the scale of the protests. no i never syria to celebrate two years of unrest in syria inspired by arab spring revolutions but leading to a civil war about's claimed tens of thousands of lives. as full vigil turns violent in new york demonstrators bent theory over the police killing of a black teenager blaming the cops for racism and brutality. one pm in moscow i met très a good to have you with us here on our t.v.

our top story more than one hundred prisoners at the guantanamo camp have been on a hunger strike for five weeks now in a desperate attempt to draw attention to their plight the strike was launched in protest against the confiscation of personal letters and rough handling of their qur'an the lawyers and human rights activists are sounding the alarm over their critical condition but the u.s. military claims nobody's in danger or he's also trying to reach out to guantanamo authorities but we haven't gotten a response yet. takes a look. tunnel 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 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 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 day forty by we understand from medical experts there are serious health repercussions that start happening things like loss of hearing chancel blindness and in a couple of weeks worse than that ultimately you know the chancel is there 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 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 or one of very few channels to congress this story there is a desire to kind of forget about one problem it's very much reflected in the mainstream media here and in the scarce we're porting that we have seen on the air in washington i'm going to check on. lawyers representing guantanamo detainees was sent a letter to u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel urging him to help end the standoff one of them eric montoya both says running the facility and spending millions doing so is absurd with those cleared of all charges by the administration still being held 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 this is 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. human rights groups around the world campaigning against torture in inhumane conditions in guantanamo and i mean that at eighteen that the inmates are being subjected to dr mark mason an anthropologist specializing in socio somatic illnesses and studying cultural factors affecting human suffering says putting people in an isolation chamber itself constitutes torture we are social animals very few of us run off to the mountains and live in a cave not at all to be facetious each one of us has very important schuman interactions ranging from our family members to community and now quite frankly with the internet we are should not put this is side is something trivial me and many people in our generation in this day and age i have important

contacts people important to my life around the globe so putting people and isolation chamber alone is is unequivocally torture treatment we have the conditions here where they know they're in indefinite detention and that that context where we have individuals incarcerated isolated from each other and they don't know if they're going to get out tomorrow or never and that sets up a circumstance for extreme a psychological scar us. on our website r.t. dot com we're asking you when will one tunnel obey eventually shut down and head over to our web site to voice your opinion in our online poll let's take a look at how the vote is stacking up right now so far about a fifth think it will happen when the u.s. runs out of money to fund and maintain the facility almost the same feel it would shut if a new prison were set up somewhere else three percent the minority think it will

happen when the u.s. defeats global terror but the majority sixty two percent say it will never happen as the u.s. has no interest in shutting it down what do you think love to hear your opinion click on r t dot com and cast your ballot. well it's exactly been 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 as turned instead to a bloody civil war that's killed tens of thousands syria's been ripped apart by violence and most some countries abroad have been trying to settle its future if only help fan the flames spoke with artie's marie if an ocean has been to the country several times she has more. i always compare today syria with the country i once visited before war and hatred and devastation came to these lands what we see today the country is destroyed. and its heritage is damaged and despair is in the and fight is in the air so it's very painful to look at how the

country actually has been changed when you're there when the people see you really want to talk about the culprit and what of this i've talked wants to do a father whose son was just killed in a fight in the clashes he was he was so-called process i was like how you feel about that you just lost your kid and he was like i'm proud to be the father of a martyr because this is this is a fight against forces that. want to destroy our country and i want to protect my country and here's my input to this fight the hardest thing for me and for my crew was to to understand that to digest if you want. peace and war we're sharing the same reality and gunman killing innocent civilians and children. we had been cutting has of other people and again civilians taking dinners and families walking on the streets in the same

place at the same time and me is part of this reality as well there was there was the most difficult thing to understand it was the sense that the future for the people there what do they say they want because they still see the future in syria but not in syria which is right now on the ground but in that syria that they used to leave before it's been a country of an amazing diversity it's been it's been one of the strongest points of assyrians and actually and actually it's it's been a very chilly turned to this. serious weakest points and i've been working on these idea and his mom reports about that this part of syria known as mesopotamia between the tigris and euphrates rivers is considered a cradle of civilization has been home to many ask 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. and the regime slogans in syria have been repeated to 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 she had minority some more ignorant position and sometimes.

it was never to make a city and it's not to me once that one again. we should keep our unity we live in all of all of. it gabriel a point 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 for 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 few 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 a 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 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 weakness the countries fall instead. from syria. it is

a burden in france war and they could well supply weapons to syrian rebels despite a un embargo russia responded by saying any such attempt would be a breach of international law r.t. contributor i'm sure aton see things will eventually backfire on western states if they are many assad fighters by definition the arms 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 the 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 limits because the blowback will be phenomenal. rebel fighters tactics in syria coming under

international scrutiny human rights organizations raise the alarm over armed opposition groups resorting to torture summary executions and kidnappings more online at r t dot com. and still to come all eyes on beijing china ushering in new leaders we'll bring you expert opinion after this break stay with us. these are decent faces of freedom quite a. bit. odd up there ready to clean up in this order. that. i'm bringing you liberty anytime absolutely free fall all

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investigation is a dead. he says. stop your bullshit and keep quiet or else you'll suffer the consequences. your bodyguards to watch themselves because the same goes for them. retards from go see i've never heard of such a case is ours are so much money and gold has killed so many. for all the gold in colombia. eighteen minutes past the hour now people have gathered in new york's district of brooklyn for a fourth night venting anger over the police killing of a black sixteen year old teen area was packed with police and dozens were arrested when the violence broke out protesters accuse the n.y.p.d.

of systematic racism and brutality or he's wearing a board i as the details and our 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 this anger is the fact that the autopsy on kalani greg was released wednesday indicating that the sixteen year old boy was struck seven times by bullets and three of those bullets hit him from behind this. really you will be angry that that has already been boiling for days many new yorkers that believe that this is a nother 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 east la pleasure an eleven thirty pm it was an unmarked car and were approaching come on a gray they set it 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 a police officer at any police officer let alone you know two that were there on seeing him on agrees mother carol gray 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 grace 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. artie's team not only on screen but online too there you can find this story could the price of war that's claimed thousands of

lives ever be tallied up as reported already dot com a new study says yes claiming the u.s. led conflict in iraq cost one point seven trillion dollars a figure far greater than previously thought also applied to a. already giving intelligence services access to private data without a court order still being pressured into registering as a telecom agency would lower intelligence to operate around a series of legal loopholes more on this. on our website. china's government officially reshuffle its top post assuring a new premier and president lee creek aying has become the head of the government paying his assumed the presidency is that once in a decade transition of power president xi will be leading the world's second largest economy as david gossett from the shiny europe international business school says it will grow further shifting the balance of global power i seen we are going through a very. to change easy now world again dick cheney's ronnie stone's

being the most important factor of change the end of the gate the gate by twenty two indeed twenty twenty one china we'll be there not just good to meet in the word so the she's a very significant change and we only leaving i would say in one sentence the new world which is increasingly merged people aren't any new south wales relations as much as the norse norse relations and he's why at the end of the mons. mosco to discussions we've got to me it didn't only as a way to do fiefs breeks some meat. solves africa. it's a question that the dog the experts for dinner and generations is there life on mars

one of the european space agency with a lot from russia is going to try and figure it out the mission dubbed exo mars will drill thirty times deeper beneath the surface of the planet has been managed so far russia will supply the rockets and facilitate launches from the bike on our site and cause extent are reports. this search for past or present life on mars screen to news and this time scientists are digging deep the 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 pod will also develop some of these same defect equipment so far the red planet has only been visited by soviet and us vehicles eggs or mars will be europe's first visit to the red planet is going of r.t. . turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe thousands of shia protesters with riot police in the rain marking two years since the saudi led

crackdown on the nation's pro-democracy uprising protesters burned tires and threw stones at police responded by firing stun grenades at least thirty five people who . were the most violent seen in the last few weeks. been a lot of political and religious turmoil for years the shiite majority calling for a greater voice there so you. a blast targeting the office of a t.v. network in pakistan's kharaj he left three dead five wounded the remotely detonated to kill obama was planted near the office gates in a poor area in the east of the city no groups claim responsibility for the attack ethnic and political tensions in pakistan are running high as the country heads toward a general election in may. ten thousand belgians march dizzy leaders got together to discuss fresh austerity measures police stepped in to arrest protesters after one hundred fifty activists from belgium denmark germany

and italy ikea five european union headquarters in strangers called for the block's leaders to really focus on employment rather than fast track public savings by raising taxes and cutting spending. two years of fighting and violence up next we'll take a look at the diary of the syrian conflict stay with us for that. a u.n. investigator ben emmerson 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 and recent believe 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 u.s. to prosecute officials connected with torture or expose classified information they really have no power to do anything if you haven't noticed the u.n. is very happy to section and punish certain countries birdie 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 u.s. government no matter how much it's investigators wind and plead and beg but that's just my opinion.

the truth about them and when i am ugly i hate to hear the truth about myself. but the arab countries themselves. out of the national humanitarian. and many couldn't beauties and do what next to nothing thirty five people we knew died in the day we were leaving and if according to informal sources over nine

thousand soldiers died. let alone all those peaceful civilians who died at the hands of the so called freedom fighters from the free syrian army. these instigators want to divide syria along sectarian lines and establish a few independent states instead the opposition is divided some want to secular state others want theocracy there are also those who want to take up arms and destroy the country the only thing they do is argue with one another the people and the authorities this opposition is ruled in men is from outside they have no political goals but they actually want is to spread chaos i've invited everyone even the people who now live abroad to sit down and negotiate however they refuse to come what they want is to take power and so they just keep on saying that they won't enter into talks until the president goes but if that happens who are they going to to talk.