media coverage and legal appeals forced the u.s. military to admit the number of hunger strikers at guantanamo bay has gone up but it denies more than one hundred starving themselves. washington cuts the final part of its european missile defense shield saying there's not enough cash and will put more interceptors on its pacific coast instead. veterans and supporters both young and old marched through the capitol region causing discussed among locals and tourists witnessing be. flash back our top stories this hour.

international news and comment live from our studio here in moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day 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 off to prison guards desecrated their currents one time a spokesman captain robert duran denied the claims admitting that the number of detainees refusing all food has risen to fourteen he added that some of 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's also one clear i think that went on a mo 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 through 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 that our understanding is that based on previous standards the determination of who is a hunger striker is a discretionary determination that guantanamo 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 content of the fish was clean most of the alleged hunger strike is only refusing regular meals while still smoking but lawyers who bring to the base say they all shocked by the deteriorating condition of the detainees and despite the outcry the mainstream media continues to show in the story as alters marina port not reports. 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 three these 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 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. true defeat. to. most of them. so has been our position there needs to be a clear legal framework and a transparent. same goes for those detainees and it's to be transparent and fair to

alleviate the strains of media and motional mental strain of this uncertainty triggers for the detainees of the one hundred sixty six detainees languishing at get mo more than half eighty six to be exact have been cleared for release now this week the u.n. said that the us is a 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 i am heartsick. anthropologist talked to mark mason says the detainees many of them innocent only being human when taking extreme measures to protest against the unbearable conditions they held in outrage at being imprisoned in what can be characterized as nothing less than the american medieval torture chamber is nothing

less than that we get from the u.s. government a long list of false terms euphemisms such as detainee and rendition but we have here conditions were applied in sixty six people or imprisoned more than half have been cleared they should be out on the streets free today maybe six should be in a court of law like tomorrow morning dressing specific charges with appropriate opportunity to access to the defense attorneys right this is the condition we have a medieval torture chamber here. detainees are held at guantanamo indefinitely without charge or trodden some can't leave despite being cleared for release murat kurnaz was once among them held on groundless allegations and set free without an apology he shared the harrowing details of his ordeal with auti i have been myself tortured and different kinds 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 way to break us. 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 tortured 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 too if you 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. and on our website we want to know your opinion on the matter every voice counts and r.t. dot com where you can tell us why you think montana most still open after more than eleven years where perhaps you think the u.s. is to blame for still not keeping its promise to close the facility or maybe that cuba should never have least the base to american the first place perhaps you blame other countries for refusing to repatriate the detainees or indeed see the nine eleven terror attacks as the main reason that is still in business when you can head over to the web site and have your say right now and here's how the voting is looking so far the vast majority blame washington for failing to keep its pledges eighty one percent there and almost equally small numbers of you think others are

responsible for what is happening at guantanamo at the moment so if you haven't done so already cast your vote at all t. dot com you could hear from me. coming up in the program this hour distribution of defense the u.s. stops 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. those stories and others after the break. technology innovation. developments from around. sometimes you see

a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you. are welcome to the big picture. is to. use continues here naughty washington has scrapped

a key phase of its european missile defense shield citing a lack of funds and development problems united states will deploy additional ground based missile interceptors on its pacific coast instead in what is said to be response to pyongyang's recent nuclear threats all days i mean it 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 as the prime reason for beefing up missile capacity as an already existing base in alaska and placing an additional rater in 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 contention 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 richard vedder of in seoul that 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 former m i five agent an emotion she told me earlier that she believes that washington is using these threats from north korea as a pretext to gain more influence in the pacific region. what we're looking at at this point is north korea being the useful idiot the pretext for america to defend a resource rich part of the world and when i was in my five the one thing we were always taught in terms of assessing

a threat from any sort of source or country was wonder they have the capability and today they have the intention now of course north korea is very loudly said to have the intention to try and attack america but they certainly don't have the capability at this point and even if they were to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles near a special america they would hit only alaska but north korea's always been much more belligerent i think iran and this is the assessment of the entire u.s. intelligence community which was iran would stop trying to develop any sort of nuclear weapon. in two thousand and three and this has been stood up time and time again since two thousand and seven so we all know iran is not a real threat to america's interests we all know it's not a threat to the west and this fake shield they were trying to provide to eastern europe because they would be in range of any missiles that iran might want to launch was just a fake ploy i think it was used as an excuse so it's interesting now that the focus is moving to an overtly aggressive but very small and capable country away from iran. so i cured

a ten billion euro bailout deal from eurozone finance ministers to rescue its failing economy in return for a set of cards among the most severe measures and forced upon the island state a demand that everyone with cash in cypriot banks had over ten percent of the savings to boost the national budget over the altar of a different chief of trends magazine told me earlier that he thinks the measures could have grave consequences. it's a very tough brows because what has been agreed upon now means that on average there will be something like an eight percent tax because there's a difference between small and large in the terms of taxation which is of course a huge shock to the cypriot economy comes out of the purchasing power of the people and one of the immediate consequences of this of this measure will be that a recession which is already quite severe and will be gone much worse but let's not forget that. this also is

a message to other countries because what has been applied to cyprus now can eventually also be applied to other countries and i am very anxious to see on monday what the reaction will be in other so the european prizes countries in the eurozone because it is i think the fear that what has been agreed upon which respect to cyprus now might lead to. an increase again in capital flight from these other countries check out our website is online all the time and there you can find out about some stunning birth control data from the world's most populated country the number of abortions performed by chinese stopped since beijing took up the one child policy four decades ago amounts to fourteen times the population of london. there's a cover eastern europe with monstrous snowdrifts budapest there's no other choice to turn toward machines to rescue trapped motorists those stories and plenty of

others at r.t. dot com. veterans who fought alongside german nazis during world war two have held their annual march through the capital with the mood traditionally intense there are a number of arrests after the leader of a local anti fascist group was beaten up the parade's distinct nationalist tone and clear nazi references also outside latvia alexy was there. one gun silas was born in a prison in franco's fascists he and his parents were repressed by that regime so he was hurt when he learned that waffen s.s. veterans marched through the streets of lobbyist capital riga. all of europe fought so hard to eradicate fashion in spain. where it was one state ideology you would now never see even if the station which glorify now it's considered shameful what happens here in riga is totally incredible and outrageous. marches by former

lothian s.s. legionnaires in riga are nothing out of the ordinary since lottie became independent they've been held every year the man who once fought on the side of nazi germany are seen as freedom fighters by some here a view which divides society in this post soviet state for many years this march had been forbidden by the cities of dorothy's a court decision that overturned it and the market still took place this year the high court decided to strike first even before the mayor had to say the court said that the march must take place and force the mayor to apologize for all the yes he had been banning this march the masterminds of this march lot because nationalists say they want the younger generation to embrace their history and recognize their heroes. i'm especially proud to see so many young people today this is proof that we're living in a free country which had been under occupation for many years. but many in europe simply cannot understand what appreciation of freedom has to do with three year

olds walking alongside former nazi troops specially given that is a member of the e.u. which has no second opinion on fascism she is a member of the infamous not for remembrance of the locals and it's a very good book because it's very easy to non-fans that on one side you are a member of such an integral. an organization to remember what happened seventy years ago in order to avoid old children to repeat the mistakes of the easterlies and on the other side of those people the mob and to be the diversity because it's really quite easy change for the law to be as anti-fascist movement has been fighting these marches for a decade with no success they fear this movement is getting stronger as last year's economy gets weak and strengthening it is a well planned government tactic but it's easy to bring up nationalist ideas to

divert attention from economic troubles our parliament even wanted to make march sixteenth a national holiday of the latvian army this day had nothing to do with our army but in nazi germany march sixteenth was called a day of heroes praising the army this speaks volumes to what our government is about his lot is anti-fascist have sent petitions to the european commission many times to help get these marches outlawed with no response so far putting pictures of nazi camps and lot to be where tens of thousands bearish then the nine hundred forty s. is yet another attempt to have their outrage recognized. reporting from riga in la to via 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 rather lose around fourteen percent of their benefits if they have a spare room or move out on his pretty boy looks at how less well off

a trapped in a catch twenty two. try and ride it in for a two bedroom flat 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 yes it's my home of my dad my home we've done all the work and we've put the wood paneling on the. 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 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 their already stretched budgets will move and there is friends

bedroom according to the government lets find 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 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 her 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 it. and i find it hard to do which i would now realise is happening coming closer so i have no choice in the matter. is getting even more stressful the closer we get 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 hardest. step. a cameraman working for her big sister channel in egypt has been attacked with a stick while filming activists drop graffiti on walls and have been next to the headquarters of the muslim brotherhood party in the capital khartoum and these are pictures from the media after the attack which we got from the syrian. news channel cameras stolen during the assault injured man was immediately rushed to the nearest hospital where he needed stitches the crew says the attackers may have been islamists egypt is in a state of unrest currently without government protests across the country. so other world news in brief this hour hundreds of march on the parliament building in the afghan capital the demonstrators are mobbing the release of several people allegedly detained by the u.s.

military and an immediate pullout of american troops from the country's border province this after the afghan president had given u.s. troops two weeks to leave following allegations that locals had been abducted and tortured the wardak province in a recent increase in american led and insurgency operations. clashes broke out in the canadian city of montreal up to five hundred people attended an annual rally against police brutality hundreds of officers used pepper spray and cattle in tactics to disperse the march declared illegal protest organizers claim there were up to two hundred and fifty arrests. under the take to the streets of the bahraini city of voice their opposition to the presence of foreign military forces in the country troops from other gulf states have been stationed there since the outbreak of pro-forma protests in february two thousand and eleven and that time clashes with security forces have left up to eighty people dead while dozens of activists have been jailed. after bad weather

upset plans to return the international space station's crew back to earth on friday two russian cosmonauts and an american astronauts have now landed safe and sound with more of the things voyage home is our correspondent tom bottom. kevin ford oh leg novitsky and you have guinea terror in our 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 we 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. well that's it from me thanks very much for being with us here on altie julius kept out of the show we here with all the news and with the news tonight about. now and taking up to the end with his unique view of the world's financial headlines it is mexico and the kaiser report

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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 keiser 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 worry it doesn't sound like that's playing out in the pacific currency war theater one would think they were.