the latest news on the week's top stories here in our c are reports of mass hunger strike in gone tunnel days heading into its forty first day with more than a hundred inmates said to be taking part that says u.s. authorities continue to deny the scale of the protests. over seventy thousand killed millions left homeless and no sign of peace and leave the siebel future as syria's civil war and as a third year of bloodshed and while the u.n. struggles to end the conflict some european states are they trying to pour morons into the return from. the fifth generation of leaders to take the reins of power in china after the once in a decade power transfer was finally completed the new president and prime minister face of staining the country's economic growth and dealing with an ever expanding american presence in asia pacific.

this is the weekly here on r.t. with me hello and welcome to the program. the u.s. authorities continued to deny that a massive hunger strike is underway in grand tunnel bay it's claimed more than one hundred detainees are starving themselves their protest was sponsored by the alleged mishandling of the inmates korans by prison guards lawyers for the detainees say the state of the inmates health is getting close to life threatening more in a fortnight now reports. u.s. president barack obama began his first term announcing his intention to close the guantanamo bay detention center now just two months into his second term the prison enters its twelfth year of operation with one hundred sixty six detainees still

languishing behind bars and a reported one hundred thirty on a life threatening hunger strike their hunger strikes are the only way they have of even making themselves heard years and years without any hold a release without any real charges this story has been denied by washington and essentially ignored by mainstream media outlets lawyers for the get more prisoners say the men began the hunger strike on february sixth to protest against the alleged confiscation of personal items such as photographs and mail and the sacrilegious handling of their currency during cell searches the center for constitutional rights says they've received reports of detainees coughing up blood losing consciousness dropping more than twenty pounds and being hospitalized by day forty five medical experts say hunger strike participants can experience hearing loss and potential blindness and that's in addition to the psychological suffering

they've endured for more than a decade that context where we have individuals incarcerated isolated from each other and they don't know if they're going to get out tomorrow or never and that sets up a circumstance for extreme psychological stress it's really an abominable you know humanitarian situation where you're depriving these people of life liberty and for no really valid basis the director of public affairs for joint task force guantanamo captain robert duran released a statement to our teeth in it he denies all claims of a mass hunger strike or any mishandling of the koran duran says only fourteen detainees at the detention center are refusing all food. our understanding is that based on previous standards the determination of who is a hunger striker is a discretionary determination that one chinaman makes what those standards are what

the criteria are are questions that they need to be asked you know how are they defining hunger striker and when are they just terminating that someone needs to be tube fed and if it is 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 lawyers representing get more prisoners have sent a letter to us defense secretary chuck hagel urging him to help and the protest in the meantime organizations like the red cross have made attempts to check on the inmates welfare here's what a representative told r.t. the current tensions in guantanamo as far as we can see and as far as we understand are really the result of the uncertainty used by detainees in guantanamo and uncertainty linked to defeat what's going to happen to them you know 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 open and so there's been no position and there needs to be a clear legal framework and a transparent process into the procedural safeguards for those detainees and it's to be transparent and fair to alleviate the strains of emotional mental strain of this uncertainty triggers for the detainees of the one hundred sixty sixty knees at guantanamo bay eighty six have been cleared for release now this week the u.n. 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 them before me from new york very important i am heartsick. on the gun tom will be gone brandon need this of the dissension for say this it creates more

problems for the u.s. than it solves. so silly as it is a lot better but speak guards of been there over the last few years are the dream inside of the internal reaction force team and the way the crown is treated in a stuff like that or not much has changed maybe the outside is changed but inside hasn't changed too much are people forget that i have these people been cleared for release by not only the obama administration but also by the bush administration and they're going to be in there definitely all through whom goes along they don't know when they're going to see their families again or where they're going to go i think the fact that they don't know what's going to happen you know is it makes them grow and this is their only one form of protest they have this to go on richard and the fact is the one who were open the cameras out of open guantanamo knew from the get go there was wrong that it was was illegally and it was a violation of human rights and the fact is it has to be closed the fact is will never bring them into a federal court system because a lot of the information they have gotten as mindy to have been have gotten out of

the use of torture so they can it's on a missile if the reports are still well we dropped the ball we have a system here and we have the opportunity to show the world that arse still and our way of life actually works when we drop the ball in newnan and we've created more terrorists and enemies around the world than we could ever imagine. and investigative journalist andy why i think and acts that have gone thomas has brought the bomb has gone back on his pledge to shut down the facility in order to please you know like. you know these are sterile men who aren't held either misters innocent or according to the geneva conventions always criminal suspects who are going to face a trial nearly all of the medic went out and more effectively still held as enemy combatants the bush administration's plan was to hold people forever without ever having to justify objected lee why they were being held clearly the situation that we've had for some time though is that president obama can't really be involved but to overcome opposition in congress can't really be bothered to try and secure a decent legacy for him so by revisiting his failed promise to close the prison

everyone's forgotten about him. all right and on our website i want to know your take on the issue so every voice of course can said ask dot com where you can tell us why you think gun tunnel is still open after more than eleven years or perhaps you think the u.s. is to blame for not keeping its promise to close the facility or maybe cuba should never have leave to america and maybe you blame other countries for refusing to repatriate gone time with detainees or indeed you may see the nine eleven terror attacks as the main reason that it's still in business and you can had on line right now to have your say and here's how the voting is going on so far with the vast majority of you blaming washington for failing to keep its pledges and almost equally small numbers of you think others are responsible for what's happening at gun tunnel bay so to cast your vote if you haven't over eighty. great to see reason our third year civil war between government and anti assad

forces france and britain the anniversary with calls to better equip rebel fighters that's despite numerous reports of radical islam is among the opposition ranks as the conflict has so far seen seventy thousand people killed and millions of fleeing their homes auntie's more of a notion now reports. this part of syria known as mesopotamia between the tigris and euphrates rivers is considered a cradle of civilization has been home to many athlete and religious groups living in peace and harmony for ages people here believe this diversity is serious strong point but some warn it could also be used against the country and that's something to destroy. and the regime slogans in syria have been repeated the longest of all the arab spring countries but assad didn't step down within weeks like the leaders of to measure and egypt nor did his regime fall

within months like colonel gadhafi is in libya opposing sides have gone beyond demonstrations and clashes killings have become an everyday reality those wanting a son to go both at home and abroad have decided to target what hurt the most serious diversity pitting people against each other after every massacre and every killing rivers of blood have been joined by streams of mutual accusations and hatred. the first blow was dealt to relations between the country's sunni majority and the ruling shia minority some more ignorant position and sometimes. it was never to make a city and it's not to me once that one again. we should keep our unity we live in all of all of. it gabriel a point from commercially living in syria's north east bordering sunni dominated turkey and mostly shia iraq says here in about six tarion intolerance is something

new for syria and very alarming in your will feel this pressure for months now especially from gulf countries trying to drag us to this perilous share sunni game it's a big threat because a to society from the inside. and some say it's been feud from the outside it is part of the u.s. strategy and some of the western strategy is to destroy syria by syrians and by arabs and this they are doing successfully another blow followed with an explosion at palestinian refugee camps in syria and the cold blooded murder of palestinian conscripts these drove a wedge between the two arab peoples previously on friendly terms they wanted to both weaken the regime and spread despair among palestinians. with kurdish villages in syria's north east targeted the kurdish syrian peaceful co-existence has also

been endangered but for a crook it's approval cations a pure and very dangerous more syrian kurds want to be integrated into syrian society have rights and be respected some turkish kurds may be doing as early ones killing his own people we've never been treated like that of course when violence targets us it can't not affect relations. and fears that those who wanted to see the fall of the regime will witness the country's whole instead. from syria. for a week brooklyn has been shaken by process and acts of it so no planning to stop and right after the break we'll look at how the death of a black teenager and the hands of the new york police has led to the public outrage among the citizens to stay with us.

download the official application to yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television well it just doesn't matter about what your mobile device says you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are on the day .

technology innovation. developments around russia. the future however. this is elsie welcome back now the killing of a black teenager by new york police has sparked angry protests in the bar of brooklyn the acts of us accused the n.y.p.d. of racism and demanding justice from the authorities clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement officials resulted in dozens of arrests and to situate going to has more now on the story. oh that's. sixteen year old kimani gray was killed by police shot four times in the front and three in the back the n.y.p.d. claimed the team had pointed a gun at them however this remains uncertain that there was a weapon that no one saw and not his friends his family didn't know he had

a weapon and there were a lot of witnesses outside who were able to see it that this individual to show didn't have a weapon on him as these candles burned in memory of yet another killed youth an entire community rises up night after night to demand justice and an end to police brutality for three nights in a row peaceful vigil turned chaotic clashes broke out. leaving one officer hospitalized after reportedly being injured with a brick a total of forty six arrests were made wednesday yes. but no violence erupted thursday night tensions however still ran high. i mean this is. you know. this is like another country a lot of people are just tired of the period with solutions to stop the violence nowhere in sight deeply seated issues between the police and the community remain unaddressed leaving many worried children parents and. obsolete

honest party new york. in cairo police have used tear gas and arrested a number of processes close to the headquarters of the muslim brotherhood some journalists are apparently able to spot the demonstration the clashes come a day after a group of activists who were running against islamist conses were times by an unarmed. true has to details now. tens have been arrested including one journalist as fierce clashes continue between anti-government protesters and security forces outside the main muslim brotherhood headquarters here in the capital the police have reportedly been firing birdshot but it's an tear gas canisters hundreds who gathered today to demonstrate against what they said was a vicious attack by muslim brotherhood members on journalists yesterday russian they come from the arabic service himself received a head injury he reported that armed groups with sticks and knives attacked journalists as they attempted to cover. anti-government protesters spraying slogans

on this main building there have also been reports of vicious attacks on female journalists today's protest was backed by new year lek to journalists in the one who said this was another example of a crackdown on freedom of speech by the most brotherhood's and he called on the supreme guide which is the leading spiritual figure of the regime brotherhood to apologize the brotherhood for their part say that this is yesterday skirmishes that occurred after groups attempted to break into the building it's still not clear how this story's going to end we sing significant unrest a lot of anti brotherhood sentiment across the country this protest happening almost on a daily basis and a lot of skirmishes even here in the capital by to her square on the banks of the nile we're seeing a daily fights between a youth anti-government protesters and security forces the president is fighting many different problems at the same time in addition the parliamentary elections have been suspended after the admission of courts said there was

a problem with the electoral law putting the future of the political side too. casting in doubt this economic problem say a major economic problems the president is trying to secure an unpopular four point eight billion dollar loan from the i.m.f. which could see subsidies cuts and tax hikes that people have been protesting against of course we've got a situation in port side and here the capital over this very contentious verdict in the portside football trial which saw several people die in the last few weeks so what we're seeing really is continual protests continual anti government sentiments and with not any solutions on the horizon. and later in the program here on our c britain is best at least that's their feet you know the falklands love islanders who voted to stay and overseas u.k. terror treaty sparking fewer in argentina so we have more than just a few minutes. china's new president has called for the great war in a sense of the chinese nation he made this statement during his maiden speech after

the country concluded its once in a decade transfer of power to what is now the fifth generation of leaders as correspondent at thai way reports the change brings both challenges and hope. there used to be a superstitious belief almost in china about eight percent growth rate of the national g.d.p. for that little number has been slowed down to about seven point five percent it has to be a slow down number because china is doing this transition from a growth in quantity to a 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 mr likud chow who is the now the cut chinese premier he's been talking about reform is the largest evidence china can enjoy very close for the progress the new president mr xi jinping after being elected was calling him a delay to our president obama and he advocated if the two countries could have

mutual respect and openness to one another things can be better and he's been talking about a new kinds of relations between new powers and that of course the definition is not being given by the chinese side however it seems that the u.s. has already got its own definition for example pivot to asia or rebalancing and as a result there has been increasing number of territorial disputes and or disputes in other stores between china and some of the asian neighbors with the coming in the united states by be a backup for them in the region but the china seems always want to have a peaceful neighborhood does seems to be a really believe the chinese have been holding over the history. so season payne has inherited a wall second largest national economy and will try to keep the engine powerhouse growing and with some forecasts are promising a report from pricewaterhouse coopers predicts that china will catch up with the u.s. by two thousand to seventeen for surging ahead the new leadership has also promised

to invest heavily in building up the country's defense capabilities and this comes amid america's growing military expansion in asia pacific u.s. efforts to gain a stronger foothold there and the struggle for regional influence has been causing concern in beijing just days ago the pentagon announced a decision to put fourteen more missile interceptors along america's west coast and deploy a radar tracking station in japan and they say it's in response to north korea north korean nuclear. threat and david of course that from the china europe international business course as the chinese economy will continue to expand shifting the global balance of power i think we are going through a very. involved and the changes in our world in the cheney's runny souls being most important fact of change in of the gate this is the gate by twenty two indeed twenty twenty one shine we'll be the largest economy in the world

so the sees a very significant change in we are living in i would say in one sentence the new world which is increasingly murky people are any new which sour sauce relations as much as the north north relations and it is why at the end of the mounts mr xi jinping will visit moscow to have discussions with bloodier putin on is a way to do fiefs breeks meet in. selves africa. and remember you can find more news and videos at our website assy dot com and here's a look at some of the stories we'll have there for you right now perhaps not the best place for sushi fish because still be pretty sure a nuclear plant recorded radioactive lead levels seventy four hundred times the government limit deemed safe for human consumption all that online plus.

a top greek food bowl plays a bond for live from from the playing for the national team after celebrating a goal with a nazi salute find out why they did it on our website r.t. dot com. cyprus is working on a last minute deal to ease the pressure on small depositors paid by a levy on their savings the one of ten percent tax was agreed upon apart as part of a bailout package from the eurozone finance ministers and the i.m.f. . made the decision to say that this isn't with shock and aerated a.t.m.'s which ran dry within just hours people's frustration calls the parliamentary vote on the deal to be delayed until monday and dr helen smiles lee from leading british thing trying the british group believes there is little alternative for the island state . they will have to try and make it go ahead because the really do desperately need

the bailout money unless of course they do the alternative which is actually drop out of the euro and probably default at some point which will not necessarily be the worst thing that can happen but that doesn't seem to appeal to any of the governments in question i mean we've had this problem with greece and we've had this problem with other countries that is how it's all been going on about the about the bailouts the way things have gone we see greece is that you know these these bailouts happen they try to introduce a stare it never works and then after a while there is another request for another bailout. whether it will actually work or whether cyprus will be wrapped into riots is something we shall see in the next few days. center of some other stories making news around the globe this hour hundreds of people have gathered in the german capital to protest against the demolition of a part of the burden wall remains demonstrators opposed to plans to build residential apartments on the location of the longest surviving section of the wall

they say it's a crucial part of the city's cultural history activists promise more projects if they're grim and with developers one breached. and indian authorities have arrested five men over a gang rape of a swiss woman on a camping trip with her husband a total of twenty man were detained for questioning in connection with police says say all the suspects have already confused and confessed and this comes of latest spate of such assaults on just three months after the fatal gang rape in new delhi that caused nationwide outrage. the long running dispute between britain and. ireland islands has entered a new chapter on monday an overwhelming majority of ireland's population have voted yes to remain a british overseas territory london hails the results of the referendum with number ten biking the island has a right to self-determination however argentina which claims the islands as their

own can damage the vote as a farce accusing the population of beings quarters as ari's based author and political consultant adrian saul butcher believes britain wants control of the falklands only because of its natural resources. britain is trying to legitimize its presence there because one of the key factors is oil there is that there are huge oil reserves on the ocean but they're actually part of the continental shelf which even geo geologically and geographically belongs to argentina so they need to have all the legal legal trimmings in place as much as possible regarding the actual result of that referendum it's like asking the ultra right wing israeli settlers on the west bank whether they want to continue being israeli or they want to become palestinian maybe they should open up immigration and if you have twenty or thirty thousand argentinian settle there then we can have another referendum and see what happens argentina has no military prowess or credibility whatsoever so britain in a way are laughing their way as they are they are seek out against it and exploit

this oil so sixty six or sixty some odd billion barrels are just a rough estimate but the whole continental shelf which is very shallow around the four bit mugginess seems to have really huge oil reserves and on top of that it is in an area which is not a hot spot for the united states and britain as the middle east is. and now we continue that remote area of colombia where a new gold rush is underway in the country's jungles. there was a time in america when buses were officially segregated and today if they tried to resegregate the wall next to there would be outrage throughout the usa every t.v. channel and newspaper so segregation in america was wrong but no america funding

segregation no sort of via foreign aid seems to be a ok and jim dandy arab language leaflets have been spread around west bank in palestinian areas asking residents to start using special bus lines plans to put palestinians on separate bus lines were first announced in november of two thousand and twelve after some complaints by jewish settlers of trouble on the buses between passengers of different ethnicities in regards to the special bus line it's really human rights groups but selim said the attempt to bus segregation is appalling and the current arguments about security needs an overcrowding must not be allowed to camouflage blatant racism you know when south africa had apartheid they were slammed with sanctions including from the us but if you're israel go ahead and segregate all the buses you like and you'll still be the u.s.'s top recipient of foreign aid at three point one billion dollars a year if there's one thing i don't like it's hypocrisy like this but that's just

my opinion. for the past ten years colombia has will come to foreign capital with open arms in his turn the new president juan manuel santos places mining at the center of his developed. model in bogota be independent expert coolio hero denounces and insist race relationship between the multinationals and the colombian political class. no i thought about it it isn't just an impression it's a reality that there exists a very strong link between these companies and the political elite that they serve the interests of the big multinationals that marked in red on the map of the country the land requested for mining concessions a vast area.