u.s. officials in the mainstream media dismiss any ignore allegations of a life threatening prices at guantanamo where more than one hundred detainees are reportedly on hunger strike force the second one. is forty two years of violence and seventy thousand lives lost in syria some western nations are ready to send more arms to the rebels including antitank and empty aircraft weapons. and the once in a decade policy shift is complete in china with a new president and prime minister said to pose political policies that will shape the world.

at seven pm here in wasco you live with us on our t. with me to one with say lawyers are for more than one hundred detainees on a hunger strike a gun tunnel base a many of them are close to death the situation has become so desperate representatives of the captives have made direct appeal to the u.s. defense secretary but u.s. officials deny the allegations and much of the mainstream media remains unmoved as artie's granted she can report. 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 do ran the media person for 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 lost hearing full 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 we've 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 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 is a desire to kind of forget about guantanamo it's very much reflected in the mainstream media here and in the scarce where porting that we have seen on the show in washington i'm going to check and. let's not get some reaction and inside from psycho atalissa dr stephen isolde dr stephen these detainees have been on a hunger strike for more than five weeks now what is the what is it like a physical and mental mental condition that they in at this moment well.

they. it's your reporters say that the hunger strike has major physical. effects which are starting to be felt there are reports from some of the attorneys that they say that after seven after about two weeks they cease to feel hunger so the motivation to start eating again is not very great at that point. the. obviously the whack of energy the you know without taking food in. the effects one both psychologically in terms of the ability to to even think very clearly. and there's a danger if you're again if you're a reporter and parties. return he stated that some of these effects become

permanent around this time point so they're in great danger let's talk about these detainees some of those prisoners have been held without charge for years and subjected to torture does this violate international laws. well if one believes it's stronger obviously yes. i'm not i'm not a lawyer not an expert but clearly torture and cruel inhuman and degrading treatment to spend on the convention against torture with the united states signed in one nine hundred ninety six. there certainly international bodies have said that the indefinite detention you know that it fell so let me also ask you this then as a psychoanalyst as a doctor when do you think upon the release of these people when do you think they'll start showing signs of what happened to them while they were detained and being. secured from the rest of. civilization i mean how is this going to affect them and how long will it take in fact it will vary by individual i mean remember

they've been there some of them have been there over ten years this is been they've suffered all kinds of horrors from torture. in the in the in the form said everyone would agree to probe long day solution for many if not most of them which has profound effects all kinds of abuse simply the not knowing what's going to happen to you imagine being in a setting like that for year after year and having no idea if you're ever going to get out so how then can they stay there without food i guess that's the main question how long can they withstand this without food. well one thing that isn't clear to me and it may be clear to others there is to what extent the us is force feeding people in past hunger strike study have forcibly remove people from their

cells sometimes quite brutally and for and force fed them so it is unclear to me. if they're not getting any nutrition at this stage or not though the reports of extensive weight loss suggest that in fact they are they are not. and. this is the the effects in the next few weeks can be quite devastating physically. i just want to know what it takes to rehab billy he said it varies according to individual and individual but to rehab it we have been to take somebody who's been locked up for over ten years and now has decided to go on hunger strike this must take a toll on both physically and their mind will they be able to even stand trial can we actually put them to stand trial up to going through such a hardship in prison well it depends i mean obviously they can stand trial the u.s. has had all kinds of trials so they have great difficulties with that whether they

can fairly straight and trial there's a question of all partially on the basis of you're talking about events eight or ten years ago how could any reasonable defense be put forward regarding events that happened thousands of miles away. to a decade ago with no resources for the defense to investigate so that alone for many of them well we're out of a fair trial. whether they are in a mental state to cooperate with their defense is a psychological issue there are deep concerns for a number of them. so some of them i've consulted on a couple other cases there earned at least one of them was in. such psychological state that it was not at all clear that he could cooperate with his attorneys and we many of the attorneys report that basically can't talk about anything what.

does or does not help them to cooperate in their defense. stephen souls will have to deal with this psychoanalyst giving us some kind of idea of how people who have who are in that hunger strike my come out right now on our website we want to know your opinion on the matter every voice counts at our to dot com where you can tell us when and if you think one time obey will eventually close now let's just take a look at upaya poll sixty two percent of you say this would never happen the u.s. has no interest in closing guantanamo bay sixteen percent of you think once a new u.s. prison is ready elsewhere then the u.s. might close one time while third nineteen percent of you feel that when the u.s. runs out of cash it might actually decide to close guantanamo bay and only a three percent of you believe that upon the defeat of global terrorism perhaps this is when the u.s.

will decide that. a detention center can be closed now we want to know from view. dot com and have your say and cost your vote. the bloody conflict in syria has reached a thirty year and yet some european nations want to pour more weapons into the crisis torn country if foreign ministers will look at the possibility of lifting an arms embargo to syrian extreme after fronts 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 early always spoke to are his memory of a national who has followed 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. and despair is in the and fighters in the so it's

very painful to look at how the country actually has been changed i've talked wants to 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 my crew was to to understand that to die just a few war and. peace and war were sharing the same reality and gunman killing innocent civilians and children. 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 syrians 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 mrs. 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 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 killing others have become an every day reality of those wanting a son to go both at home and abroad have decided to target would 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 shiite minority a more ignorant position and sometimes. it was never to

make a city and it's not to move in one step one i can. give our unity that we live in all of all on. gabriel a poise from commercially living 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 for months now especially from gulf countries trying to drag us to this perilous share soon again it's a big threat because a to 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 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 for a crowd 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 earlier ones killing his own people we've never been treated like that that of course when violence targets us it can't not affect relations in a cool. and fears that those who wanted to see the fall of the regime weakness the country's fall instead. from syria. she contribute to absolute times it believes it is aya to arm and. could eventually backfire on the

foreign nations during it. by definition it would be supplied with french and british governments would be in the wrong because they are supplying rebels in a civil war and therefore they all the wrong 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 limits because the blowback will be phenomenal. the streets of buffalo a night in flames again the opposition crosses flozell with the regime's security forces will continue as a since the deadly intervention by saudi troops that's just state.

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something else you hear or see some other part of it. and realized everything you thought you don't have time for is a big. thank you. welcome back you're watching our team bahrain has been engulfed by clashes between protesters and police on the second anniversary of saudi intervention which crusades pro-democracy uprising security forces fired stun grenades and tear gas at thousands of angry marchers who burned tires and hold stones at police along this latest a wave of andress i'm joined now by. former m.p. form the largest opposition party mr most the way the authorities claim many uniform were attacked by stones iron rods and even

a homemade bombs it's obvious police have to act to stop that isn't it. so we do believe the police have the role exist. to be remaining and keeping this peculiarity in the country for everybody this is part and that's what we are looking for and this is the man's role of the police but even on the other the police they don't follow the code of conduct they gone through the security and safety of the forms the collective punishment is the. kind of policy of the. security forces lots of people being killed by excessive force by the security forces which means that the police are not taking their rights role in keeping the

security for people not for this is happening before him and he don't agree anyone touches police or north of the police torching the or have some on the road so the government has always responded to the protest marches with an iron fist and nothing new for bahrain why aren't people scared the by the consequences when they turn up to marches again and again i mean they come out in the hundreds. to be honest the authorities. have no intention to admit that there is a political problem in. a crisis of human rights in bahrain as a result of the uprisings of the of evolution started in two thousand and eleven because it broke during the uprising. this makes the

problem worse and worse they don't want to admit that there is a political problem no up all of the killed or woman to our situation which makes the people prostrated the people in sr stay on row peacefully and to show their intention to continue to leave and when the moment comes they achieve their goals our goal is very simple our goal is to have elected government is to have equality between. between the citizens our goal is to be a part of all establishment in the country to be a part of the of rain well ok so do you think then that now that the opposition and government have come to the end of this deadlock of talks within each other is reconciliation possible and with these marches going on

with some of these andrus that we see is that possible. to be honest the offer to be squeezed under very hard oppression from the. international community dance-y. the authority called for a break. saying come on and so on the. table this is just new things not actually. the opposition realize this is just a meeting the crow the government would like to sell it for the. community saying we are the law and why aren't the authorities the subject of the decision makers they did not appear in this table and that's why the opposition incest to make solid base to have a success and truthful dialogue that are we we've heard you thank you so much

for your time slade had the alamosa we a former butler in the m.p. sharing his thoughts on the subject. in china the shift from one generation of leaders to the next one is complete a new prime minister likud chang is now in charge of the world's second largest economy he faces the challenge of boosting economic growth which has slowed in recent years a recent report of from price a waterhouse cooper says that by twenty seventeen china will match the u.s. as the world's leading economy before surging ahead also said to increase its military spending now the struggle for regional influence between beijing and washington is longstanding this map here shows how the u.s. if you look at the map the u.s. has actually increased its military presence in the region as

a source of concern for chinese leaders c.c.t.v. correspondent ian way says of the growth of american influence in these regions is fueling local disputes. there used to be a superstitious belief almost in china about the eight percent growth rate of the national g.d.p. number has been slowed down to about seven point five percent it has to be a slow down number because china is doing this transition from a growth fund to t. to a growth in quality many argue it is extremely important to do reform reform really has been the key word for the new generation of leaders coming into power recently . child who is the now the cut chinese premier he's been talking about reform is the largest dividend china can enjoy for its course for the progress by its president mr xi jinping after being elected was calling him a delay to our president obama and he advocated if the two countries could have mutual respect and openness to one another things can be better and he's been

talking about a new kinds of relations between new powers and that of course the definition is not being given by the chinese side however it seems that the u.s. has already got its own definition for example cuba to asia or rebalancing and as a result there has been increasing number of turturro disputes or disputes in other stores between china and some of the asian neighbors with the coming in the united states might be a backup for them in the region but the china seems always want to have a peaceful neighborhood that seems to be a really believe the chinese have been holding over the history and it is important that the chinese believe to settle your territorial disputes with its eight neighbors is southeast asia. protesters gathered in the new york district of brooklyn for a fourth a night to venting anger over the fatal police shooting of a black sixteen year old can the heavy n.y.p.d. presence in the area only serve to stir up the crowd and dozens well rested up to

punches broke out protesters say the killing highlights the brutality and racism of the police force as all he is wearing up ordinary ports. 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 kamandi gray 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 truce for talent 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 flopper and eleven thirty pm it was an unmarked car and more

approaching come on a grade they set it at that point he was shuffling with his pants or his belt and according to police they say that gray pulled out a gun and pointed it at the under cover officers at knott's where they fired off a leavening 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 up next peter lavelle and his guest the pledge and a heated debate and cross talk.

or you were did was to give members and has decided to not let the sins of the recent past go he's demanding that the u.s. government release documents about the series program. 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 un 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 birdie of 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.