a desperate act of defiance of more than one hundred guantanamo prisoners on a hunger strike and putting their lives online but the u.s. military is trying to play down the scale of the protest. it's an anniversary but nothing to celebrate it's been two years of under arrest in syria inspired by the arab spring revolutions but it's resulted in a civil war that has claimed tens of thousands of lives. and a peaceful vigil turns violent in new york demonstrators vento period over the police killing of a black teenager blaming the cops for racism and brutality. you're

watching r t a line from moscow with me to ban would say it's good to have in company with us 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 seizure of personal letters and the rough handling off of their korans their lawyers and human rights activists are sounding the lead over their critical condition budging u.s. military officials claim nobody is in danger r.t. has also tried to contact the guantanamo authorities got no responses so far guy and she can investigate. 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 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. at this 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 that substantial as they are for this well it strikes continue for weeks we've 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 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 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'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. lawyers representing gun tunnel prisoners have sent a letter to the u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel urging him to help and get to the stand of one of them eric montalvo running the facility and spending millions in doing so is just

absurd with those kids of all charges by the obama administration still healthy for no 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 sent home human rights groups around the globe campaigning against the torture and inhumane conditions at guantanamo inmates not being subjected to double mildmay things and anthropologists who studies the cultural factors behind him and suffering says that putting people in isolation chain but is in itself 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 communities and

now quite frankly with the internet we are should not put it this is site is something trivial. and many people in our generation in this day and age have important contacts people important to more life around the globe so putting people and the isolation chamber alone is is unequivocally torture treatment we have a conditions here where they know they're in indefinite detention and 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. and on our website where asking you when will the guantanamo bay detention center eventually close had to r.t. dot com to voice your opinion. by let's have

a look at what do you think at the moment does so far round of the believe it will only happen if the u.s. runs out of money to maintain the facility and almost at the same feel that it would shut down if a new prison was set up elsewhere else and just three percent think it will happen when america defeat the world terrorism while the majority of you however sixty two percent of asians say it will never happen as the u.s. has no interest in closing it we want to know what you think about when the natori of prison will be closed head to r.t. dot com to cost it's. it's a very good two years or since the start of the conflict in syria what began as protests calling for reform and change inspired by the revolution in favor of the arab spring has turned into a bloody civil war that's killed tens of thousands syria's been torn apart by violence and while some world of ours have been trying to settle its future they

have only helped in the flaming of the war my colleague imad transfers spoke to marie of the national who's been to the country many times. 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 of what 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 side i was like how you feel about that you just lost your kid it 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. 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. of 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 to see. his weakest point and i've been working on things idea and here's my report 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 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 to go both at home and abroad have decided to target with 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 of. our unity in all of all of. it gabriel a point from commercially livin in syria's north east all during sunni dominated turkey and mostly shia iraq says here in about six tarion intolerance is something new for syria and very alarming 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 us 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 a cloak its approval cations appear in 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 but 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. the leaders of britain and france all one day could well supply weapons such as syrian rebels just find an embargo david cameron and francois hollande sceptic press the e.u. to lift the ban russia has responded by saying that any such a time to would be in breach of international little odd treat contribute to afshin rattansi believes it will eventually backfire on western countries if i am the anti us our fight is by definition as 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 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 a missed because the blowback will be phenomenal. rebel fighters tactics in syria come under international scrutiny human rights organizations ways. groups torture summary executions and kidnappings find out more online and.

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live . welcome back thanks for staying with our team people have gathered in the new york district of brooklyn full fourth night to venting their anger over the police killing of a black sixteen year old boy the area was packed with police and dozens were arrested when punches pro-gun the protesters accuse the n.y.p.d. of systematic racism and brutality artie's marrying up on my own has details in a rage crowd are 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 can money was released on wednesday

indicating that the sixteen year old boy was struck with the seven times by bullets and three of those bullets hit him from behind of this clearly ruled the anger that that has already been boiling for days many new yorkers believe that this is another indication other example of a truce we tell them of police targeting minorities according to the new york city police department what they say is that on saturday evening to plink those officers out of a car in east flatbush around eleven thirty pm it was an unmarked car and were approaching kamani gray they said and at that point he was shuffling with his pants or his belt and according to police they say that gray out a gun and pointed it at the under cover officers and that's when they fired off a leaven 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 a police officer at any police officer let alone you know two that were there on scene. archies and team is a not only on screen but also online a can of the wise slow war extreme thousands of lives ever would be determined. as we report in archie dot com a new study says years claiming the u.s. led conflict in iraq has close to one point seven trillion dollars a figure far greater than previously believed. and another click away for you already giving intelligence services access to private data without a court order skype is still being pressured into registering as a telecoms agency which would mean that the government could have a series of legal loopholes that on our key dot com. the chinese government has officially reshuffled its top posts are sharing in

a new premier and a president who chung has become the head of the government while she has assumed to the presidency in a once in a decade transition of poem president she will be leading the world's a second largest economy and as david gossage from the china europe international business school says it will go further shifting the balance of global powers. i think we are going through a very. in boston to change easy now we're ordered again the chinese run a cell's being the most important factor of change and of these degrade the sheets and beans the gate by twenty twenty twenty twenty one china will be the largest economy in the world so the sees a very significant change and we are leaving i would say in one sentence the new world which is increasingly merged people are any new which sour sauce

relations as much as the norse norse relations and it is why at the end of the mons mr xi jinping we visit moscow to have discussions we didn't only as a way to do fiefs a brief semi enduring man in selves africa. a trio of russian astronauts from the international space station were due to land back on earth today after almost six months in all of it but fog and stormy weather delayed the return for twenty four hours while waiting for its calls made explorers all for one mission russia is gearing up for an even more ambitious space adventure axel mohsin says fall live on the red planet it will be a joint project with the european space agency where the russian providing the launch rockets artie's you've got a piece going up reports. this is for past or present life on mars clinton news and this time scientists are digging deep the mars project is based on 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 work out of cosmodrome in kazakhstan sending a european orbital proved and a stationary test lander to the red planet 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 surface 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 a landing pod will also develop some of these scientific equipment so far the red planet has only been visited by u.s. vehicles eggs or mars will be europe's first visit to the red planet spin off r.t. . now to some other news making headlines around the globe are thousands of shia protesters clashed with riot police in bufferin on the second anniversary of a saudi supported crackdown on the nation's pro-democracy uprising protesters burning tires and hurled story and police responded by firing stun grenades at least thirty five people wounded buff rain has been logged in political and religious term over the past few years with a shia majority demanding a greater voice of from this rooney rule is. afghan intelligence

as services have averted what could have been the biggest bomb attack ever in the country seven point eight tons of explosives were wired and ready to blow in an eastern district of the capital officials claim that the device was planted inside a truck by pakistani insurgents with links to al qaeda had it detonated the bomb could have wiped out a whole district of kabul since its discovery on wednesday two militants have been arrested. ten thousand people marched in brussels as e.u. leaders got together to discuss a fresh alstare team measure is when he says stepped in to arrest protesters one hundred fifty activists from belgian denmark germany and it's of the stoning to the european union headquarters as the demonstrators demanded that the block street is refocus on employment rather than raising taxes and cutting spending. the beetle of l. and his guest that clash in

a heated debate and cross talk. a un 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 of 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 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 birdie if you out there even have to think that they will 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 or how much its investigators whine and plead and beg but that's just my opinion.

hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle the catholic church has a new leader of pope francis from argentina and it jesuit you see mr 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 when from the global south. across not 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 in atlanta we have diane she is an ordained minister in the association of roman catholic women priests and in on a 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.