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media coverage and legal appeals forced the u.s. military to admit the number of hunger strikers that guantanamo bay has gone up but it's nice more than one hundred are starving themselves. washington cuts the final part of its european missile defense shield saying there's not enough house and will put more interceptors on its pacific coast instead. and the science capsule lands safely in the snowy steps of kazakhstan including a five month space mission the two russian cosmonauts and their u.s. crewmates. live from our studio in moscow you're watching our team with me and you so now
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a straight to our top story this saturday the u.s. military has denied reports of a mass hunger strike at guantanamo bay lawyers for more than one hundred detainees claim their clients have gone without food for over a month the captives most of whom were cleared for release years ago reportedly began the protest after prison guards desecrated their qur'an it's wanted a most spokesman captain robert to read and deny the claims and reading only about the number of detainees refusing all food has risen to fourteen out of the summer being force fed and one is in hospital a lawyer for the inmates told r.t. that reality is being twisted by authorities to downplay the crisis how they are defining hunger strikers that it is 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 to say these kinds of things there is
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a question about exactly how. how forty's are defining hunger strikers and determining when when they need to be. our understanding is that based on previous standards the determination of who is a hunger striker is a discretionary determination that one ton a moment makes if the definition of hunger striker is entirely in their control and it is a matter of their discretion that that explains how they are able to say that there are no more than a handful of men on hunger strike. but one tunnel officials claim most of the alleged hunger strikers are only refusing regular meals while still smacking but lawyers who've been to the base say they're shocked by the deteriorating condition of the detainees and despite the outcry the mainstream media continues to shot the story as our tears were in a fortnight now with ports when the us joined the united nations human rights council back in two thousand and nine president barack obama announced his
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intention to close the guantanamo bay detention center now as the island prison enters its twelfth year of operation one hundred sixty six the teams 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 be a legit sacrilegious handling of the qur'an during cell searches at the center for constitutional rights says that they perceive reports of detainees coughing blood losing consciousness and being hospitalized attorneys say that if the strike enters
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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 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. a lack of clear legal framework for detention many of them don't know most of them don't know what's going to happen and it's always been our position there needs to be a clear legal framework and a transparent process in terms of procedural safeguards. to be transparent to the strains really emotional mental strain. triggers for the detainees of the one
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hundred sixty six detainees languishing get mo more than eighty six to be exact have been cleared for release now this week the un said that the us is of 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 for nine r.t. . now human rights activists are calling for action to resolve the crisis act kuantan and although amnesty international usually a prominent voice hasn't joined the chorus r.t.s. an amnesty spokesperson why they're not buying the claims of lawyers who've recently been to guantanamo. not having access to detainees is a problem for a human rights organization is something we raise with the or poor it is we have
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access you know when when there is a true so-called military commission trial we're allowed to go and observe. trials but we have no access to them selves and yes of course it's a problem so we have to wait until the release of the we can speak to this of course leads to yes the reports 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 through so it's a really it's a really problematic situation but it's been problematic the whole toys. that the guantanamo detentions of breeding operation. detainees are held at guantanamo indefinitely without charge of trial and some can't leave despite being cleared for release. was among them held groundless on groundless i should say allegations and
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set free without an apology he said the harrowing details of his ordeal with our city. i have been myself tortured and different kind of. 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 torturing me in different kind of ways they just try to really all kind of weights to break us and. saw in they tried to psychological ways and physical torture to break the detainees and the
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same way with myself. every time if you refused to do anything they torture 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 watch those kids how they get getting beaten up in front of me and it was for me really harder to get tortured myself. now on our website we want to know your opinion on the matter every boy scouts at our two dot com where you can tell us why you think one tunnel was still open after more than eleven years so far the vast majority of you let's just wait for the results of this vote we have. we do have it there goes the vast majority of you eighty three percent. believe the u.s.
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still has not kept its promise to close the facility and it will continue that way some blame cuba for leasing the base to america in the first place while other thinks the countries that refuse to proprietary eight detainees are responsible although barely any of you the smallest percent believe that terrorist that these terrorists that attacked the u.s. are the main reason forget most ongoing operation if you haven't already do log on to our dot com and cast your vote. coming up here on r t the distribution of defiance the u.s. drops a key phase of its european missile defense shield opting to put more defenses on home soil. plus the cost of living as britain prepares to embrace new housing costs come april we take a closer look at what the bedroom tax will cost societies. will
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were there to live from the russian capital washington has scrapped a k. phrase of its european missile defense shield citing a lack of funds and development problems the united states will deploy additional ground based missile interceptors on a specific coast instead and what is said to be a response to pyongyang's recent nuclear threats. has the details looks like the nuclear threat coming from north korea is now considered far more dangerous by the us than any potential risk coming from iran at least it was pyongyang as missile threat that u.s. secretary of defense chuck hagel cited those the prime reason for beefing up
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missile capacity as an already existing base in alaska and placing an additional rater and japan at the same time washington officials announced plans to scrap the final phase of a defense shield in eastern europe which would have seen interceptors capable of destroying most of russia's nuclear missiles and that has been a huge point of going. tension between moscow and washington for quite some time now in fact going back to march of last year the infamous exchange between obama and then president mr medvedev in seoul at the nuclear security summit with the american president saying he will have more flexibility on the issue after the elections so we could speculate this could very well be the u.s. president sticking to his promises but this doesn't mean russia now has nothing to worry about after all japan and alaska aren't exactly far from its borders and anyway there are still plans to build some facilities in eastern europe though on a smaller scale than originally planned. beijing is yet to officially respond to
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america increasing its defense shield in china's backyard becoming as government has only just completed a once in a decade shift from one generation of leaders to the next the new prime minister likud chang is now facing the challenge of steering the world's second largest economy but one of the key challenges is boosting growth after recent slowdown take a look at this report from pricewaterhouse coopers which predicts that by twenty seventeen china will match the u.s. as the world's leading economies can see was predicted to happen after that way ahead of it the country's military spending is also set to grow rapidly this map shows how the u.s. has increased its military presence in the region all the way from south korea down to australia this is concern for china's new leaders c.c.t.v. correspondent ten weighing says the growth of american influence in the region is fuelling local disputes there used to be a superstitious belief almost in china about eight percent growth rate of the
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national t.v. coverage that let's 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 a growth phone to teach growth in college and many argue it is extremely important to do reform reform really has been the keyword for the new generation of leaders coming into power recently mr leak which outweighs the now the chinese premier he's been talking about reform is the largest ever the child that had enjoyed for the program by its president mr xi jinping after being elected was called the immediately two of president obama and he advocated the two countries quit had 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 pivot to asia or rebalancing as
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a result there has been the increasing number of territorial disputes and or disability in other stores between china and some of the asian labors of the coming year in the united states by be a backup for them in the region but the chinese teams always want to have eight she's the labor of what does seems to be a really believe the chinese have been holding over the history. catch up on another story from the world's most populated country on our website right now we have some stunning birth control data for you there the number of abortions formed by chinese dr seuss beijing took up the one child policy four decades ago amounts to forty times the population of london. and as losers cover eastern europe with monstrous snowdrifts brutal past there's no other choice but to turn to war machines to rescue trapped motorists.
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to eat. the u.k. has found a cheaper way to deal with the housing crisis the so-called bedroom tax means many who live in social housing would either lose around fourteen percent of their benefits if they have a spare room or move out polly boy to look at how the less well off are trapped in a catch twenty two. brian rider didn't ask for a two bedroom flats when he applied for emergency accommodation and it was what the council gave him it was meant to be temporary and he's now lived here for fourteen
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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 war. we stopped decorating halfway through when we realised there are more i have to move because i couldn't afford it and what's the point of decorating when i want it to improve but yeah it's more hard not all of my mind 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 lets find has 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
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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 him 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 into 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
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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 your 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 it. and i find it hard to do which i would now realise is happening marriage coming closer so i have no choice in the matter it has been getting even more stressful the 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. latvian veterans who fought alongside german nazis during world war two have marched
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through the capital riga they say they are paying respect to the victims of last year's struggle for independence over the railings to sink nationalist tone and clear nancy references have sparked concerns inside and outside the baltic country like syria after march around two thousand people have gathered in central riga to march the streets of the city in the march of the nationalist forces nationalist parties the march which is meant to commemorate those who as they say fought for independence back in the one nine hundred forty s. in reality and this has been said by many critics the people who are marching here veterans of the latvian legion of the waffen s.s. who fought alongside the nazi troops certainly this is creating lots of divide and a lot of concerns in a lot of the a we've spoken to several human rights activists from europe here on the site who said that they are very sad to see that on the european continent in the european union which fought against naziism things like this still exist and
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they believe this to be nothing else but glorification of the horrible things of the cross the glorification of naziism this march is nothing out of the ordinary for a lot of it happens every year amid protests and concerns by human rights activists all across europe but the biggest concern that they expressed to us when we talked to several of them was that the number of youths participating in this march is growing every year and to. relate this to rather tough economic branch which lot of it is experiencing at the moment the nazi and nationalist mood getting stronger in the country but we've seen with our own eyes little children aged three to seven let's say walking together with the veterans the anti-fashion. movement which had their rally of their own just close just basically meters to the small human here to that final point of the march they had
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their let's say ideological diversion as they called it when the marching veterans of the law to legion approached the square they turned on the soviet music and a war siren this was as they described their way to protest against what they believed to be glorification of fascism in morden day europe. still to come this hour unexpected alliances israel's prime minister gives up on his years long alliance with ultra orthodox jewish parties and seize significant power to rivals just to form a coalition. but first britain and france plan to push ahead with direct weapon supplies to the opposition in syria which is now into its third year of civil conflict on friday both nations trying to get the e.u. to drop its arms embargo to allow guns to stream into the hands of anti regime forces moscow says any such attempt would be in breach of international law however the french president says opposition fighters have offered guarantees arms will not
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end up in the hands of islamic extremists this comes amid rebel claims that hundreds of their men who've been trained by the u.s. to use anti-tank and anti-aircraft weaponry have returned from jordan to fight in syria political activist dr. thinks some gulf states are pushing for weapons to be sent. there are now qatar is using its financial pressure with. business contracts and billions of dollars with. pressure of britain towards such us or steps in terms of arming syrian rebels that's why now we hear rhetorics that britain may even go out of its way and start arming the rebels outside and the european union agreement. for outside international most of the humanitarian and not trust cities that we witnessed in syria are attributed to the ice off extrude commision in syria we've seen
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how even you and reports that we all know that were very very biased against the syrian government now they are reporting on the crimes against humanity on beheading on recruiting children on rape and on that torture. slowly doing just placement but then syria and outside syria so the humanitarian pretext for intervention is in a way a direct result of the western intervention in syria by which there are they continue to send armed militants into syria. later this hour we'll bring you the second half of our special report on the human cost of the conflict in syria and the scale of violence as seen by eyewitnesses. leadership argue she say she hopes we don't like. that. i. feel ready to clean up pollution or.
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bring new liberty to nature because there was absolutely free flow i think you like to be reduced way. cherian like a raid on our tree. israel prime minister is facing tough political decisions ahead after being forced to form a coalition with his rivals the motion was preceded by weeks of deadlock negotiations and resulted in benjamin netanyahu giving up a long term allies to keep power are just falsely or reports a new coalition agreement has been signed and this follows weeks of suspicion and mistrust between the various political parties and also tobin and coalition negotiations now they're all to newcomers to the israeli political scene the
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important point to make is that neither has a lot of political experience the first in fact has not and he is a media personality by the name of you know that period 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 city the 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 the dick. hate that the government is going to exclude the ultra orthodox parties not much from yahoo 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
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government in the next forty five days will have to present a new law on the issue of draw off to 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 no who would also need to parse the budget in the next few months so he certainly has his hands full. some other world lose in brief. hundreds have marched on the parliament building in the afghan capital the demonstrators are demanding the release of several people the edge of the detained by the u.s. military and the media pulled out of american troops from the country's war doc province this after the afghan president had given us troops two weeks to get out of war dop following allegations that locals had been abducted and tortured towards our province has seen a recent surge in american led anti insurgency operations. so i presume has secured a ten billion euro bailout deal from the eurozone finance ministers to rescue its
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found icon and me in return the island state has to boost taxes shrink the banking sector and cut its significant project deficit cypriot banks have been exposed to its austerity burden neighbor greece this comes just ahead of the country's finance minister's visit to russia which could also reportedly helping count the. clashes broke out in the canadian city of montreal after a five hundred people attended an annual rally against police brutality hundreds of officers used pepper spray and cancelling tactics to disperse the march to clarity illegal the protest organizers claim they were up to two hundred fifty over a. farty as have reported about up. bus filled with palestinians overturned near the border with israel killing at least fifteen people including the driver the vehicle was traveling through jordan from a religious pilgrimage in neighboring saudi arabia the accident apparently occurred after the brakes failed and the driver lost control skidding off the road.
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after bad weather up said plans to return the international space station crew back to earth on friday two russian cosmonauts and an american astronaut have now landed safe and sound with more on the team's voyage home here's our correspondent tom barton kevin ford oleg novitsky and you get me terril kin are back safely on earth after their five month stint op on the international space station on the video screen here at mission control in moscow we can see them being fished out of the soyuz capsule and kept warm after that rough descent through earth's atmosphere and down on to the step in their returns with delayed by day because of bad weather they can sure came in today over the caspian and black sea without a hitch to be met by recovery teams on the step in kazakhstan for the first time ever those teams including three.
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