u.s. officials and the mainstream media dismiss added no allegations of a lot of threatening crisis at guantanamo bay more than a hundred tape knees are reportedly on hunger strike for the second month. is why two years of violence and seventy thousand lives lost in syria some western nations are ready to send more on the rebels including antitank an anti aircraft weapons. and to the once in a decade polish ship is compete in china with a new president and prime minister said to impose political policies that will shape the world. since five pm here in the russian capital you live with r.t.

for more international news analysis and reports lawyers for more than one hundred detainees on hunger strike at guantanamo bay say many of them are close to death the situation has become so desperate representatives of the captives have made a direct appeal to the u.s. defense secretary but he was officials deny the allegations and much of the mainstream media remains on moved as archie's gannett cheek and reports. 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. 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 that substantial is there for this well and if strikes continue for weeks you can just 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 they beep a nice 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 tunnel 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 out one of the lawyers for the detainees eric one tavo says of the u.s. president as should on his long running pledge to shut down the obsolete and expensive facility 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 may 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 globe are raising the alarm a over the cruelty being inflicted at guantanamo dr mildmay thin neck but on depression says the conditions good not detainees are being held in a little sort of 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 but each one of us has a very important schuman interactions ranging from our family members to community and now quite frankly with the internet we are should not put this aside is something trivial. and many people in our generation in this day and age i have important contacts people important to more life around the globe so putting people and the isolation chamber alone is is unequivocally

a torture treatment and 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 stress. and on our website we want to know your opinion on the matter every piece of voice counts at r.t. dot com where you can tell us when and if you think guantanamo bay will eventually close let's take a look at our pioneer pie poll here now sort of you believe get more war always be open because washington has no interest in shutting it down around a fifth as say the facility will cease to exist or when the us runs out of money to maintain it slightly lesser than you think that it will close ups another prison is

set up to replace it and barely well three percent of you think that the painful history of guantanamo will end when the us defeats international terrorism so if you already happened cost your voters head over to r.t. dot com and have your say. the bloody conflict in syria has reached a third a year and some european nations want to pour more weapons to the crisis torn country in foreign ministers will look at the possibility of lifting an arms and bargo in syria next week after france and britain made a major push to put more guns into the hands of anti assad forces the civil war has already claimed an estimated seventy thousand lives earlier we spoke to our g.'s a maria for national who was has been forming the nation's plight from the beginning. 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 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 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 my crew was to to understand that to digest if you want. peace and war we're sharing the same reality and gunmen killing innocent civilians and

children. had been cutting has of their 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 cause 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 series weakest points and i've been working on these idea and here's my report about that this part of syria known as mr. tamia 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 move me once when i don't. get our unity in all of all of. it gabriel 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. with feel this pressure from 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 drive 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 one o'clock its approval cations appear in very dangerous more 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.

to contribute to afshin rattansi believes that is i. could eventually backfire on the foreign nations doing it 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 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 as the mists because the blowback will be phenomenal. well we just can't take it any mole says a new york in just

a few minutes all reports on how allegations of brutality by the n.y.p.d. have taken the people of brooklyn to the limits. and there's now a new play in the quest to find live all flight the plane plummets find out if there is said to rival nesses curiosity rover on mars offset. leadership hard dijon facial freedom flight or. dead. body. they're ready to clean up a new solar. bring new liberty and into. the loop play free of the lot but. not. like to be treated this way.

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thank. you. so much. phoenix thank you for staying with us you're watching our team protests again in the new york district of brooklyn full of fourth a night venting anger over the fatal police shooting of a black sixteen year old the heavy n.y.p.d. presence in the area only served to stir up the crowd and dozens were arrested after clashes broke out protesters say the killing highlighted to the brutality and racism all the police force as are teams moving up on reports. 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 fuelled all these anger is the fact that the autopsy on can money was released on wednesday indicating that the sixteen year old boy was struck by the seven times by bullets and three of those bullets hit him from behind and this clearly will be anger that that has already been boiling for days many new yorkers believe that this is another indication other example of a loose brutality of police targeting minorities according to the new york city police department what they say is that on saturday evening to clean clothes officers out of a car in east la for sure and 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 at knott's where they fired off

eleven rounds at the teenager shooting him seven times by friends and family of gray i spoke with one personally told me that this young boy would never ever point a gun at police at any police officer let alone you know two that were there on scene. and there's more insight into the case coming up later here on r.g.p. in breaking the senate will be much to. the what you will be required to give you better for your good old. in china the shift from one generation of leaders to the next one is a complete with a new prime minister chang and now in charge of the world second largest economy and there are

a number of challenges the success of wen jiabao will have to deal with in this next a ten years of his that term right a key goal for would be to boost economy growth a which has slowed down after years of represents pension a recent report from price waterkeeper says that by twenty seventeen china will move ahead of the u.s. as the world's leading economy with more expensive expected in the years after that and then the national community is closely watching the changes which will include a significant increase to military spending now also the influence in the region has been a point of long lasting struggle between beijing and washington barack obama has shifted american foreign policy in what is known as the asia pivot as you can see here on a map but america or the u.s. has been busy increasing its military presence around to the raising concerns among the chinese a leadership of her and leading china expert martin johnson as

a washington is getting increasingly more tense over the growth of its asian rival . it's the whole way now in which the chinese leadership is constructed i mean if it's 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 a nation is that 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 full you know china was very much still a developing country and a much weaker global power down the united states but china of course has been growing like crazy and is more and more present around the world in different continents and different countries so. interests are larval to be in conflict in more areas than with previously the case and i think this is the reason why it's getting more complicated. when i say up to speed with the current

international news online at r.t. dot com which today will report on an ill fated campaign a report suggests that the much anticipated major withdrawal from afghanistan in twenty fourteen leave the country defenseless against militant attacks. plots north korean leader kim jong on that survives an assassination attempt a reportedly one of the country's military magnates find out more about the political power struggle in one of the world's most secretive state. skull ring the red planet for traces of life means rising up to some daunting technical challenges and one of the toughest is digging deep into its soil and

that's the goal of a brand new mission that's just been agreed by the european and russian space agencies a rover to be sent to mars in twenty eighteen will drill thirty times for the below the surface of the current operating curiosity vehicle with more on the ambitious plans he has eagle beast going to. this search for past or present life on mars clinton news 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 pool 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 soviet and us vehicles eggs on mars will be europe's first visit to the red planet of r.t. . some other world news in the thousands of syrians gathered in the streets of

spain's capital madrid on the thursday this after the country's government does less education funding in a bid to ease as spain's crushing debt burden demonstrators are outraged over soaring to wishing fees at spanish universities while tens of thousands of teaching staff have been laid off meanwhile spain are faces record unemployment with fifty five percent of young people currently out of work. but rain has been engulfed by the most intense of clashes between protesters and police in a week that's on the second anniversary of a saudi intervention which a crush of the nation's pro-democracy uprising security forces grenades and tear gas at thousands of angry marchers who bring tires and stones at least the prince been mired in political and religious turmoil in recent years with a shia majority demanding a greater voice in this we want to. thank. a bomb attack ad

targeting a television network has left three people dead and five injured in pakistan's largest city karachi according to officials an explosive device was a planted at the gates to the network's headquarters and detonated remotely it's the latest in a recent string of terrorist attacks in karate as tensions are similar ahead of the country's may general elections. on the way back to the syrian come face on team brings you the personal experiences and we collections of journalism spent seven months in the war torn states you're watching on. 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 over 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 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 upon the sudden countries birdie if you out there i 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 u.s.

government no matter how much it's investigators wind and plead and beg but that's just my opinion. please.