life threatening mass hunger strike in guantanamo detention camp continues but prison officials still deny a threat naming just fourteen inmates are refusing food. the government of compromises israeli prime minister netanyahu striking a coalition deal after seven weeks of deadlock negotiations with political rivals. back to earth after one hundred forty two days in orbit a u.s. astronaut and two russian cosmonauts land in kazakstan after having completed their mission aboard the international space station. eight am in moscow i met très a good to have you with us here on our t.v.

our top story the health of detainees at guantanamo bay prison under serious threat with a mass hunger strike strike continuing for more than five weeks now it's claimed more than one hundred inmates the majority of them jailed without charge or refusing food in an act of defiance struggling to draw attention to their plight camp officials say this any talk of being a mass strike is a gross exaggeration on our requests for information in prison spokesman captain robert duran responded the number of detainees refusing all food is fourteen today risen from six c. information we got it's the first time the tunnel officials have admitted the number of hunger strikers has more than doubled following weeks of denial one of the inmates attorneys part is cabaret says the authorities are using questionable definitions to play down the scale of the fast. how they are defining hunger strikers that is also one clear i think that went on a most is being very careful in the way that they're they're denying these claims

they're saying the number of men who have refused all food the number of men who are being to. these kinds of things there is a question about exactly how the authorities are defining hunger strikers and determining when when they need to be to that our understanding is that based on previous standards the determination of who is a hunger strike there is a discretionary determination that kuantan a moment makes if the definition of hunger striker is entirely in their control and it is a matter of their discretion then i that explains how they are able to say that there are no more than a handful of men on hunger strike the military at guantanamo bay argues the hunger strikers are only refusing regular meals while snacking from the pantries but the lawyers who have been to the base said they were shocked by the physical state of their clients artie's marina porton i reports u.s. officials and the mainstream media are used to ignoring alarming reports coming

from get money. when the us joined the united nations human rights council back in two thousand and nine president barack obama announced his intention to close the guantanamo bay detention center now as the island prison enters its twelfth year of operation one hundred sixty two you are still languishing there and over forty one hundred thirty are on a life threatening hunger strike the story has been denied by washington and essentially ignored by mainstream media now is r t first reported on tuesday lawyers for the get more prisoners say the men began their hunger strike on february sixth to protest the alleged confiscation of their personal items including letters personal photos bed sheets razors and also the alleged sacrilegious handling of their kranz during cell searches now the center for constitutional rights says that they've received reports of detainees coughing

blood losing consciousness and being hospitalized attorneys say that if the strike enters its forty fifth day that participants can experience hearing loss and potential blindness now lawyers for the get more prisoners have sent a letter to u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel urging him to help end the mass hunger strike. in the meantime organizations like the red cross have made attempts to check in on the inmates here's what a representative told r.t. the current tensions in guantanamo as far as we can see. are really the result of uncertainty. to defeat. to. most of them. and it's always been our position there needs to be a clear legal framework and

a transparent process. these needs to be transported to the. mental strain. of the one hundred sixty six detainee's languishing get mom or then how eighty six to be exact have been cleared for release now this week the u.n. said that the us is violating international human rights law by indefinitely holding prisoners at guantanamo without charge the human rights council is urging washington to quote bring an end to these illegal practices by either prosecuting prisoners in civilian court or releasing them before me from new york. r.t. . most of the detainees in guantanamo have been held there for years without charge or trial. as we now resides in germany was among them he was released after being found not guilty in two thousand and six and it was only after five years of

detention and torture. i have been myself tortured and different kind of. laws and the only reason why they brought us to guantanamo was because there's no any human rights existing over there like in prisons. and that's mean they could. do and make with us whatever they like to do and. they specially tortured me to force me for signing papers and every time when i refused they kept just torturing me in different kind of face they just try to really all kind of waits to break us in i saw in they tried psychological ways and physical torture to break the detainees and the same way with myself. every time if you refused to do anything they torture if

you punish you for this i must have got tortured by electroshocks and waterboarding and stuff like that but i have seen also a. kid's life nine years to a few sold kids inside the camp and of course it was for me more difficult to to watch of those kids how they get getting beaten up in front of me and it was for me really harder to get tortured myself. human rights activists are campaigning should to shut down the notorious detention camp at guantanamo bay many say they're losing hope though that will happen on our website we're asking when do you think one time tomorrow will be closed here's what the majority are saying so far and sixty percent think it will never happen since the u.s. isn't interested in doing so almost twenty percent say the prison will be shut down when the u.s. runs out of money to fund it a little less sixteen percent think the u.s. just needs to set up a prison elsewhere to be elsewhere to be able to close guantanamo two percent think

it will happen after the u.s. defeats global terror well what do you think log on to r t dot com and cast your vote. well stay with us here on r t still ahead in the program how the u.k. making money in the bedroom we take a look at how the recession is betting brits in the most literal of weights plus. a space mission complete a soyuz spacecraft letting in kazakstan bringing home two russian cosmonauts and an american astronaut after nearly five months in orbit stay with us.

ten minutes past the hour now israel's prime minister has finally managed to form a coalition ahead of saturday's deadline but at a cost of some compromise but the first time in a decade ultra-orthodox groups longtime allies of benjamin netanyahu were left out

in the cold or his policy or has more from television. a new coalition agreement has been signed and this follows weeks of suspicion and mistrust between the various political parties and also turbulent coalition negotiations now there are two newcomers to the israeli political scene the important point to make is that neither has a lot of political experience the first in fact does not mean he is a media personality that the name of played and he is to be the new finance minister which is a hugely important ministry for someone who has no financial background the second is a guy by the name of nothing to be bennett he represents the secular movement and he is to be appointed the minister of economy and trade his number two would also be the minister of construction and housing now the importance of this is that it is going to make it harder for the prime minister netanyahu to freeze or stop settlement construction and as a result of also make it more difficult for him to reach any kind of peace deal

with the palestinians this is also the first time in a decade that the government is going to exclude the ultra orthodox parties not netanyahu has counted on the support of the ultra orthodox parties in the past he would have wanted them in this coalition he would have also wanted a bigger coalition and now moving forward as part of the coalition agreement the government in the next forty five days will have to present a new law on the issue of draw fitting the ultra religious to the army the new coalition partners one thing to serve in the army the ultra religious parties of course do not want to serve there are now who would also need to pass the budget in the next few months so he certainly has his hands full. another challenge rattling the nerves of israeli leaders has always been a two state solution with palestine struggling for its right to become a country and a law party spoke exclusively with the head of palestine the head of palestine palestinian leader mahmoud abbas head to r.t. dot com to watch in full talks of the hard vote recognition and the horizon is now

open to the country. also online u.s. drone strikes in pakistan's volatile pakistan violate the country's sovereignty that's the conclusion of a u.n. team investigating the conflict after a secret research trip gathered multiple reports from locals caught in the crossfire of the attacks more on our website. with syria's conflict now into its third year britain and france are pushing to open the door to directly arming the rebels the two states say they want to lift the e.u. and bargo in a war and that even if it isn't they may still supply weapons moscow says any such a town would be in breach of international law the french president said the opposition fighters had given guarantees that the lethal aid wouldn't fall into the wrong hands this is syrian rebels claimed hundreds of their men who'd been given weapons training organized by the u.s. in jordan are back in syria washington's boosted its aid to the opposition but so far restrained from directly arming it political analyst robert horan eyes thinks

the e.u. will eventually find a way to allow more arms though to reach the war torn country. i'm quite sure there will be some modification of the fans to lead the league loophole so that britain and france can actually draw the coach and horses through it they've already been sending weapons into syria so it's it's childish to pretend that this is a new development but they want to do it more openly and more directly need a few months ago from said oh they were terribly worried about poor refugees so they sent a hospital to me just happened to be a military hospital i'm at the time various people sent out every day we go this is the that's all i'm out of there are several different allied armies and they are training our rebels i mean i do aries you go from to now you're going to have the children from to distract the syrian government's attacks it take them on two planks. u.k. has found a cheaper way to deal with the housing crisis as of april first it will either be

to cough up or get out as a so-called bedroom tax comes into effect or he's probably boyko took stock of the spirally accommodation situation with some of the victims of the new tax. brian rider didn't ask for a two bedroom flats when he applied for emergency accommodation it was what the council gave him it was meant to be temporary and he's now live to fourteen year is it's my home of my dad my home we've done all the work and we've put the wood paneling on the wall. we stopped decorating halfway through we realized there are more it have to move because i couldn't afford it and what's the point of decorating when i want it to appreciate it but yeah it's more hard not all of my get mine it will upset me to move on but brian who suffers from osteoporosis and can't work has little choice the government's so-called bedroom tax comes into

effect from april first six hundred forty thousand social housing tenants with at least one spare room i have to cough up the cash from that already stretched budgets will move and there is friends bedroom according to the government less finances now officially under occupied that's because he's also got this bad dream . and as a result he's going to have to fork out fifty pounds from his housing benefit every month in order to pay for it that's money that bryan needs to put towards food and heating so he's willing to downsize in order to avoid losing the money he so desperately needs but he's been told that there are no available properties i asked them for problems one was about six months ago for moving to a one bedroom every time i've been told but can't move me to one bedroom nevertheless westminster says the twenty three billion pound housing benefit bill needs to be slashed people are being told they should move to a smaller flat but in my constituency there are fewer than

a hundred places people could move to a much fairly typical across the country as a whole if you can't move to a smaller property you can't avoid it you just have to pay the money and you're left with very very little i'm not just does seem very unfair the government is saying they won't have a tax on big mansions but they are having a bedroom tax on the poorest people in the country the department for work and pensions declined to comment on the controversial policy the impending changes of course such widespread concern that the government announced the parents of those serving in the armed forces foster carers and parents of severely disabled children will now be exempt from the changes as for the rest of the body in this situation is being blocked into a corner and until the council finds him a smaller flat brian will have to take the financial hit i haven't had any suggestions from any of them about what to do if and when they do is run out and i

find it hard to which i would now realise it's happening it's coming closer. i have no choice in the matter it has been getting even more stressful for closer we've got to because i just don't know what i'm going to do with what many are calling black april fast approaching critics say it's those with the least. but it being the hottest. china's once in a decade power shift now over with the new prime minister likud chang beginning his job at inheriting the task to run the world's second largest economy the immediate challenge facing a new generation of leaders is now to boost economic growth which has slowed in recent years a report from pricewaterhouse coopers proves the task is within the country's reach that would predicts china will match the u.s. of the world's leading economy in two thousand and seventeen before possibly overtaking it statistics must be rattling washington's nerves take a look at the map showing the u.s. intense flexing of its military in china's backyard u.s.

efforts to gain a stronger foothold in asia and the struggle for regional influence has put beijing on edge in recent months as why rapid growth in the country's military spending was placed among the top priorities for the new leadership c c c d c c t.v. correspondent john way thinks the u.s. moves are doing little to ensure mutual respect and dialogue between the two. there used to be a superstitious belief almost in china about eight percent growth rate of the national g.d.p. for that little 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 quantity rose 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 mr legal challenge who is the now the cut chinese premier he's been talking about reform is the largest evidence china can enjoy for its course for the

progress 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 people to asia or rebalancing and as a result there has been increasing number of territorial disputes and 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 i mean about their short break back with feet on solid ground catch up with three intrepid space explorers. to some people extreme cold isn't

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thanks for staying with us let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe the u.s. new secretary of defense has announced plans to downsize its european missile defense system plans to place interceptors in poland and possibly hungary have been scrapped because of lack of funds instead the cash will be diverted to add another fourteen missile interceptors along the west coast in direct response to pyongyang's recent threats and rising tensions on the korean peninsula. ten days after his death the body of late venezuelan leader hugo chavez has been laid to rest at the site of his failed one thousand nine hundred two coup and bombing the leader was recently ruled out by russian experts thousands flooded the streets for one last march in honor of the president of fourteen years recession was headed by nicolas maduro the interim president and candidate in next month's elections. major a new government rallies been held in the eastern saudi arabian town and despite

a warning from the country's rulers they would firmly deal with any dissent demonstrators called for the release of political prisoners and condemned the government's crackdown on protests saudi arabia has seen a string of rallies since the beginning of the arab spring most of which were held in the country's oil rich east. a soyuz spacecraft has successfully touched down in kazakstan in central russia and brought back to earth two russian cosmonauts and a u.s. astronaut who spent nearly five months of duty aboard the international space station artie's tom barton has the latest. kevin ford oleg novitsky and he of guinea terror are back safely on earth after their five months stint up on the international space station on the video screen here at mission control in moscow you can see them being fished out of their soyuz capsule and kept warm after that rough descent through earth's atmosphere and down on to the step in kazakstan their

return to earth delayed by a day because of bad weather they're casual came in today over the caspian and black seas without a hitch to be met by recovery teams on the step in kazakhstan for the first time ever those teams including three women helping to fish them out of their capsule and get them on the road to a climate izing back to the atmosphere here on earth whilst on the international space station they help the crew up there conduct maintenance on the orbiting platform and also research much of that research focusing on the affects of microgravity both on the human body and on various engineering substances the next manned mission up to the international space station in a couple of weeks time will attempt something novel for a manned mission that is to rapidly and drastically cut the time it takes for those three crewmembers to get up to the space station from the current two days

down to just six hours and that mission will carry the next three crewmembers up for their turn orbiting earth. i mean up kaiser report stay with us. the commission free accreditation free coupons for charges free. range month free risk free studio time free.

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from the streets of canada. today. to get. prize or welcome to the kaiser report you know the problem with china starting a currency war is that a half hour later you want to start another one this year ever ok you saw it what's going on there next. yes that's a train down there coming into penn station but you know there are consequences the biggest story that we've been covering here in the kaiser report for the past three or four years and china has been very vocal speaking out against the currency war why china fears currency wars on friday commerce minister chen deming was the

latest to raise concerns about competitive currency depreciation and the effects of excessive money printing by central banks the head of china sovereign wealth fund was less diplomatic reportedly warning japan against treating your neighbors as your garbage bin and starting a currency war right what i thought according to christine lagarde everybody was on the same page with this global currency war but they were all devaluing together and that there was a currency war it was a currency worry it doesn't sound like that's playing out in the pacific currency war theater one would think they were you know it through the passage of this currency war on china's behalf they've been very concerned about america and their money printing and quantitative easing but it's moved down to japan they're concerned primarily now it's about japan because since the middle of last november the yen has fallen by close to eighteen percent against the dollar this is likely to promise capital flows into hard.