life threatening mass hundred strike in the one town of the detention camp continues prison officials deny that for leaving only fourteen inmates are accusing . the government of compromise israeli prime minister netanyahu striking a publishing 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 two russian cosmonauts landed kazakstan after leaving their mission aboard the international space station.

eleven am in moscow i met très a good to have you with us here on r.t. our top story the health of detainees at the guantanamo bay detention center under serious threat with a mass hunger strike continuing for more than five weeks it's claim more than one hundred inmates many of the majority of them jailed without charge or refusing food in an act of defiance struggling to draw attention to their plight camp officials though say any talk of it being a mass trike is a gross exaggeration upon our information request prison spokesman captain robert duran responded that the number of detainees refusing all food is fourteen having risen from six it's the first time the guantanamo officials admitted the number of hunger strikers has more than doubled after weeks of denial one of the inmates lawyers though part is cabaret thinks the authorities are using questionable definitions to play down the scale of the fast how they are defining hunger strikers that it's also one clear i think that one ton of no 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 too. 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 striker 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 guantanamo bay argues the hunger strikers are only refusing regular meals while snacking from pantries but the lawyers who visited the base say they were shocked by the physical state of some of their clients artie's worried a port my details u.s. officials and the mainstream media are used to ignoring alarming reports from good

mom. 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 a legit sacrilegious handling of the qur'an 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 this 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 understand are really the result of the uncertainty. to defeat. most of them. and so has been our position there needs to be

a clear legal framework and a transparent process. same goes for those detainees and it's to be transparent in fear to alleviate the strains really emotional mental strain that this uncertainty triggers for the detainees of the one hundred sixty six detainees languishing get mo more than how eighty six to be exact have been cleared for release now this week the u.n. said that the u.s. 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 reporting from new york marina point r.t. here in a rights activists are sounding an alert over what they are calling a critical situation in guantanamo but there's been no reaction from one of the most powerful groups amnesty international boasting more than three million

supporters and more than one hundred fifty countries are since usa researcher rob freer as to why not having access to detainees is a problem for human rights organization is something we raise with the authorities we have access you know when when there is a true military commission trial we're allowed to go and observe the trials but we have no access to the detainees themselves and yes of course it's a problem so we have to wait until it is released and so we can speak to this of course leads to yes the reporting of. only individual detainee cases and it leads to a time lag because like i say the law is themselves not spent you know they're not there the whole time it requires declassification of information when they do get it so it's a really it's a really problematic situation but it's been problematic the whole time that the guantanamo detentions have been in operation. most of the detainees in guantanamo

have been held there for years without charge or trial turkish born murat chronology who now lives in germany was among them he was released after being found not guilty in two thousand and six but claims it was only after five years of detention 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 or us 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 touching me in different kind of face they just try to really all kind of waits to break us in i saw. 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 told shut 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 if you sold kids inside the camp and of course it was for me more difficult to two 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 around the globe campaigning to shut down the detention camp at guantanamo bay but many are losing hope it'll ever happen on our website we're asking when will want time to be closed let's take a look at the survey now the majority around sixty percent think it will never happen since the u.s.

isn't interested in doing so twenty percent say the prison will be shut only when the us runs out of money to fund and maintain it a little sixteen per cent think of the prison needs to be set up elsewhere and be able to close guantanamo two percent the minority think it will happen after the u.s. wins the war on terror going to argee dot com and click your vote well stay with us here on r t still to come how the u.k. is making money in the bedroom we'll take a look at just how the recession is betting where it's in the most literal of ways and. mission accomplished so you spacecraft landed in catholic stand bringing home two russian cosmonauts and a u.s. astronaut after nearly five months in space. technology innovation all the developments from around russia. that's huge you're

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thanks for staying with us here on r t eleven minutes past the hour now the u.s. set to downsize its european missile defense system new secretary of defense chuck hagel has announced plans to place interceptors in poland and maybe hungary have been scrapped because of a lack of funding instead the pentagon will divert one billion dollars to add another fourteen missile interceptors along the west coast of the u.s. washington will also deploy a radar tracking station in japan the defense reshuffle is said to be in direct response to pyongyang the recent threats and rising tensions on the korean peninsula despite the changes the pentagon said it's still standing true to its commitment to the european shield with missile batteries said to be stablished in poland and romania by twenty eighteen moscow views the u.s. missile defense system as a threat to its security after washington refused to provide legal guarantees that it's not aimed at russia. israel's prime minister has finally managed to form

a coalition ahead of saturday's deadline but at the cost of some uneasy compromise for the first time in a decade ultra-orthodox groups longtime allies of benjamin netanyahu were left out or he's paul asli or as more from tel aviv. 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 by the name of yet you elected 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 but 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 of other challenges rattling the nerves of israel's leaders has always been a two state solution with palestine which is struggling for its right to become a country in law or to spoken exclusively but the head of power of the abbas

lagarde dot com to watch the full interview was in speaks of the long battle for recognition and the rise in this it could open. also on large u.s. drone strikes in pakistan violating. country's sovereignty which according to the u.n. team investigating casualties of the conflict after a secret research trip gathered multiple reports from locals caught in the crossfire of the attacks more on our t.v. dot com. with the syrian conflict now entering its third year britain and france are pushing to open the door to directly arming the rebels two states say they want to lift any e.u. embargoed of war and that even if it isn't they may still supply the weapons moscow says any attempt would be in a breach of international law france's president said opposition fighters had given guarantees the lethal aid wouldn't fall into the wrong hands this is syrian rebels claim hundreds of their men who've been given weapons training organized by the u.s. and jordan are back in syria washington's boosted aid to the opposition but has so

far restrained from directly arming it but it will add a list robert harness thinks the e.u. will eventually find out a way to allow more arms 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 connection on us is through that 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 open in the end more directly need a few months ago franks said oh they were terribly worried about the poor refugees so they sent a hospital to join it just happened to be a military hospital i'm at the time various people sent out every day we go this is the foot in the door i'm now there are several different allied armies in jordan and they are training up rebels there and the idea here is you go from to now you're going to have the children from to distract the syrian government attacks and take them on to its flanks we'll keep watching as here on r t in the next hour

we bring you a report about the human cost of the syrian conflict in the scale of the violence in the war torn country with eyewitnesses sharing their stories take a look. these are decent faces of freedom like. you're ready to clean up a new sewer. and bring new liberty. is the ability to loot play free. i. would. like to be reduced to a. syrian diary on r t. u k found a cheaper way to deal with its housing crisis as of april first it'll be either cough up or get out of the so-called bedroom tax comes into effect artie's probably

boyko took stock of the spiralling 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 as 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 when we realized there are more to move because i couldn't afford it and what's the point of decorating when i want to uproot but it's more harm not all of my. 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 to have to cough

up the cash from their already stretched budgets will move and there is friends bedroom according to the government lets find out is 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 brian needs to fix or wants 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 room for problems once was about six months ago for moving to a one bedroom every time i've been told but can't remember one but 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 fact 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 do which i would now realise is happening coming closer so i

have no choice in the matter it has been getting even more stressful for closer we've got to the day 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 play came. china's once in a decade power shift over now with a new prime minister likud chang beginning his job and herring the task to run the world's second biggest economy immediate challenge facing the new generation of leaders how to boost economic growth which has slowed in recent years a report from pricewaterhouse coopers though proves the task is within the country's reach it predicts china will match the u.s. as the world's leading economy in two thousand and seventeen before overtaking it out of the say with these statistics if you look at the map it could explain the us current intense flexing of its military might 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 recently it's why rapid growth in the country's military spending is placed among the top priorities of the new leadership correspondent on way reporting for t.v. says the u.s. moves are doing little to ensure mutual respect and dialogue between the two countries. there used to be a superstitious belief almost in china about eight percent growth rate of the national g.d.p. over that number has been slowed down to about seven point five percent it has to be a slowdown number because china is doing this transition from. quantity 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. cut chinese premier he's been talking about reform is the largest ever that china can enjoy further progress by you president mr xi jinping after being elected was called the immediately president obama and he advocated the two countries could

have mutual respect and openness to one another things can be better and he's been talking about kinds of relations between new powers and 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 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 seems to be a really believe the chinese have been holding over the history. of now some other stories making headlines across the globe ten days after his death the body of venezuelan leader hugo chavez has been laid to rest at the site of his failed one thousand nine hundred two in bali bombing the leader was recently ruled out by russian experts thousands but of the streets for one last march in honor of the

president of fourteen years recession was headed by nicolas maduro interim president and candidate in next month's elections. vatican already under fire for its choice of a new pope francis and his. links to argentina's dirty war former cardinal jorge mario bergoglio failed to openly confront the decade of dictatorship it is country where in which approximately twenty two thousand people disappeared it's not the first time the vatican has selected a religious leader with a rowdy background german predecessor benedict the sixteenth had been a member of the hitler youth during the second world war. major anti-government rallies been held in the eastern saudi arabian town of despite a warning from the country's rulers that they would fully deal with any dissent demonstrators called for the release of political prisoners and condemned the government crackdown on protests saudi arabia has seen a string of rallies since the start 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 bringing back to earth two russian cosmonauts and an american 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 your guinea terril kin 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 effects 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 term orbiting earth. up next matt kaiser and stacy herbert talking about currency wars and money worries and the kaiser report stay with us. all.

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more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images kobold has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations to rule the day. cries are 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 over booking aside 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 that they were all devaluing together and that there was a currency war it was a currency you worried 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 prompt capital flows into hard current. so in the asia region max they're considered the you add it's considered hard currency relative to the yeah so all this capital inflows are going into china causing inflation crossing more property speculation right while bank of japan is bennett socially nationalized by the new government in japan and they've been told to print print print money a wildly recklessly out of control meanwhile mark carney's being moved from the bank of canada over to the bank of england this mandate like japan.