media and legal pressure force washington to concede the number of hunger strikers have gone tunnel baze higher than first admitted that it denies more than a hundred inmates are starving themselves. washington has put on hold in the final phase of its controversial european missile shield due to lack of cash instead deciding to focus on bolstering its defenses against what the paying young says pentagon rather says is the threat posed by north korea. and the latin capital riga plays host in our annual march by over a thousand nazi that trans who served in the s.s. sparking outrage both inside the country and abroad.

and you saw russia and around the world this is the with me hugo chavez hello and a very well welcome to the program in the u.s. military has denied claims prisoners have gone tunnel bay detention center are engaged in a mass hunger strike that's despite the laws of more than one hundred detainees claim their clients have gone without food for more than a month and it's been reported that the inmates most of whom were cleared from release years ago began starving themselves after prison guards desecrated their korans guantanamo spokesman captain robert durand deny the allegations saying only that the number of detainees refusing all food has risen to fourteen and according to do around some of this strike is are being force fed and one has ended up in hospital a lawyer for the inmates told r.t. the authorities denials cannot be trusted as they only want to downplay the crisis care. they are defining hunger strikers that is 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 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 tube fed 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 that that explains how they are able to say that there are no more than a handful of men on hunger strike. gone time officials claim most of the alleged hunger strikers are only refusing regular meals while still smoking but lawyers who

have been to the base say they're shocked by the deteriorating conditional detainees and despite the outcry the mainstream media continues to shun the story as well she is more in accord now reports. when the u.s. 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 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 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. . as far as we can see. are really the result of. certainty linked to defeat what's going to happen to them there is 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 that there needs to be a clear legal framework and a transparent process in terms of procedural safeguards for those detainees to be transparent and fair to alleviate the strains really emotional or mental strain that this uncertainty triggers for the detainees of the one hundred sixty six detainees languishing get mo more than half eighty six to be exact have been cleared for release now this week the un said that the u.s. 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 aborning from new york very important party. and dr

mark mason says that the majority of detainees should be immediately set free and only about six of them should stand trial. outrage head being imprisoned in what can be characterized as nothing less than the american sort medieval torture chamber it's nothing less than that we get from the u.s. government a long list of false terms and euphemisms such as detainees and rendition but we have here conditions where hundred sixty six people are imprisoned more than half have been cleared he 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 but this is the condition we have a medieval torture chamber here. for detainees or how did grant on a million definitely without charge or trial and some are not permitted to leave

despite being cleared for release and murat kurnaz was once among them how to groundless a geisha and set free without an apology and he shared with r.t. the details of abuse and torture he suffered had grown tired of it i have been myself tortured and different kind of. that was. the only reason why they brought us to gaunt and i was because there's no any human rights existing over there like in prison so he was 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 just try to really all kind of weights to break us. so. 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. kids slights nine years to if you saw the 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 you can head over to our if you don't come to give us your opinion i'm gone tunnel bye and dad dad where asking who you think is responsible for the whole torah is the central santa remaining open up to modern eleven years and here are the options we offer you so. perhaps using the u.s. is to blame for failing to close the facility despite promising to do so or maybe

that cuba should never have released the base to america in the first place also maybe other countries are at fault for refusing to go on time or in made spawn or indeed is the terrorist threat that hangs over the us the main reason the facility is still in operation and he is the latest results of our online poll and they show the vast majority of you actually blame washington for not keeping promises and almost equally small numbers of you think others are responsible for what's happening and going to turn away so did had to r.t. dot com and cast your vote if you haven't done it yet. our cameraman working for artie's our big sister channel in egypt has been attacked with a stick while filming activists roaring graffiti on walls the incident happened next to the headquarters of the muslim brotherhood party in the capital cairo and we go all these pictures from the syrian bahrain news channel and they were filmed directly out of the assault in which r.t.

his camera was also stolen the injured man was immediately rushed to the nearest hospital way needed stitches the crew says their trackers may have been islamicists police for a ride at the scene clashed with the activists and used tear gas to disperse the crowd in egypt is currently a state of one in a state of rest with anti-government protests across the country. distribution of defense washington council councils a key phase of its european missile defense shield right after the break as he looks at why the us suddenly decided to deploy more anti missile interceptors on its pacific coast instead. of. its technology innovation all the developments around russia. the future however. you know sometimes you see

a story and it seems so for langley you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom hartman welcome to the big picture. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations rule the day.

you're watching our see life from good to have you with us washington has abandoned the final stage of its european on to missile shield saying it doesn't have the cash to pay for it instead the pentagon is going to deploy additional interceptors along its pacific coast and according to the u.s. defense secretary of the move as a response to the threat posed by north korea the communist state recently tested a third nuclear bomb. has the details now for us looks like the nuclear threat coming from north korea is now considered far more dangerous by the u.s. than any potential risk coming from iran at least it was pyongyang as missile threats 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 mr medvedev 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 his borders and anyway there are still plans to build some facilities in eastern europe though on a smaller scale than originally planned. young reportedly threatened surtax south korean islands along the disputed maritime border is the latest threat to emerge from north korea after the u.n. imposed sanctions over the country's third nuclear weapons test and a former m i five agent an emotional and believes this iteration plays into america's hands allowing it to gain more influence in the pacific region what we're

looking at at this point is north korea being a useful idiot the pretext for america to defend a resource rich part of the world and when i was near my five for one thing we were always taught in terms of assessing a threat from any sort of source or country it was wonder they have the capability and today they have the intention now of course north korea is very loudly said they have the intention to try will target america but they certainly don't have the capability at this point and even if they were to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles the nearest base for 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 if they see it in two thousand and three and this has been stood up time and time again since two thousand and seven so we all know it rather 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. and coming up shortly here on r.c. the cost of living as britain for them brace new budget come april would take a closer look at one of the so-called bedroom types were called the poorest people in society. that's later but now cyprus has secured a ten billion euro bailout from the euro zone finance ministers devoid bankruptcy but people there are not particularly high. happy with the deal in return for the rescue package they're facing a ten percent levy on their savings to boost the budget hours after the deal was announced people started lining up at a.t.m.'s to cash out before the levee takes effect one man was so frustrated he parked his bulldozer in front of the bank apparently threatening to break in and your hands on over at the same chief of

trans magazine said of the deal may set a dangerous precedent. 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 of the. taxation which is of course a huge shock to the. economy. power of people and one of the media consequences of this of this measure will be a recession which is already quite severe and so gross it will be much worse but let's not forget that. this also is a message to other countries because what has been applied to cyprus now general 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 of this i think the fear that what has been agreed upon which you

speak to cyprus now might lead to. greece again in capital flight from these other countries. and of course you can find more on the crisis had snipers on our web site r.t. dot com where we have all the latest news and details from around the world for you and here's a quick look at what we have there for you right now they close trikes in syria according to u.s. officials the cia is boosting intelligence gathering on islamic radicals in the country in preparation for the possible of arrival of planetoids later. and you can also check our web site for the latest pictures from the angry protests in new york after the fatal police shooting of a black teenager. all that just a click away at r.t. dot com. a march by veterans of world war two is a thing to celebrate not so not here that's out of northern a thousand s.s. veterans and supporters gathered in the capital riga for their annual rally at

least four people were detained during the march which sparked controversy and criticism that it's a glorification of an artist and he's an excellent reports now from reka. gonzales 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 was what it says veterans marched through the streets of lobbyist capital riga. all of europe fought so hard to eradicate fascism in spain. where it was one state ideology you would now never see a manifestation as which glorify nazism it's considered shameful what happens here in riga is totally incredible and outrageous. marches by former law. are nothing out of the ordinary since lotty became independent they've been held every year the men 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 accord 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 is nationalist say they want the younger generation to embrace their history and recognize their heroes. you know what 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 especially given that is a member of the e.u. which has no second opinion on fascism. as a member of the infamous and for remembrance of the locals and it's very difficult

to see determinate economic trends that on one side you are members of such an evolving organisation to remember what happened seven years ago in order to avoid all children we feed the mistakes of the easterlies and on the other side those people and to be the first to know because it truly crazy chain for the law to be is 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. it's easy to be. nationalist ideas to divert attention from economic troubles our parliament even though i 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 it was called a day of heroes praising the army this speaks volumes to what our government is

about this 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 law to be. and later in the program the five month long out of this well business trip that is finally over the last three crew members of the international space station finally touched down in kazakhstan after successful mission so we have all the details just ahead for you. thousands of people across the u.k. have protest against the so-called bedroom tax which is due to kick in in april so the change will affect over half a million people who will lose around fourteen percent of their housing benefits if

they have a spare room the government claims the new cuts will unleash billions of pounds annually but as always point to boycott reports now is the country's poorest who will pay the price. brian vida 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 or my dad my home we've done all the work and we've put the wood paneling on the. we stopped decorating halfway through realised there are more have to move because i couldn't afford it and what's the point of decorating when i want to uproot. more home out of my. 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 let's fast is now officially under occupied that's because he's also got this bad bedroom. 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 room for problems once i was about six months ago for moving to a one bedroom every time i've been told me to 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 are now. 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 if the money do is run out and i

find it hard to do which i would now realize 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 that is being hit the hardest. artsy kidderminster. and some other stories making news around the globe this hour in pakistan twenty four soldiers have been killed and five injured when a basket of a mountainous road into the deep ravine the troops were on leave from a gallery in the north of the country officials say that the crash was most likely caused by driver error accidents like this are common in the country where many road conditions remain paul. a female swiss tourist has been hospitalized after being gang raped in central india well than a dozen suspects have already been arrested by police the victim and her husband

were on a bicycle trip when they stopped for a knife near a small village so they were on a time to buy up to ten men on to with stakes this comes after a spate of such attacks sparked public anger over the treatment of women in the country. now finally back home after a bad weather upset plans to return to international space station's crew on friday a five month long expedition has finally ended for three crewmembers on the ice two russian cosmonauts and an american astronaut and are safe and sound. with more on the teams of voyage home here's our correspondent. qanbar. 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. just ahead for you how do you think you'd fact if you follow if a siberian train in minus forty degree temperatures where he almost nothing at all happened to valarie malco who managed to survive this one the chilling experience ordeal his stories up next he went to. a u.n. investigator ben emmerson has decided to not let the sins of the recent past go he's demanding that the u.s. government release documents about the cia's program of addition and secret detention of suspected terrorists everson believes that there is now credible

evidence that shows that cia black sites were used to extradite suspected terrorists with neither charges nor access to a lawyer you know nothing says protect a democracy like snagging people in foreign countries without even charging them with a crime this huge investigator may have good intentions but the thing is that no matter how much he and his u.n. pals urge the u.s. to prosecute officials connected with torture or expose classified information they really have no power to do anything if you haven't noticed the u.n. is very happy to say action upon the sudden countries birdie of you out there i even have to think that they will sanction the usa or send a peacekeeping mission to stop the human rights violators in washington not a chance the un really has no business meddling in the affairs of sovereign countries but they do it all the time but there is a zero percent chance that the un will stand up to the bad behavior from the u.s. government no matter how much it's investigators wind and plead and beg but that's just why a.