latest news on the week's top stories here on our sleeve a report of mass hunger strike in guantanamo bay is heading into its fourth day with more than one hundred inmates said to be taking past that as u.s. authorities continue to deny the scale of the protest. over the seventy thousand killed millions left homeless and no sign of peace in the foreseeable future a serious civil war and a surge here of bloodshed and while the yuan struggles to end the conflict some european states are trying to pour more arms into the war torn nation. and a fifth generation of leaders to take the reins of power in china after the once in a decade power transfer was finally completed a new president and prime minister faces staining the country's economic growth and deeded with an ever expanding american presence in asia pacific.

your shing the weekly on r c was me thanks for joining us. the u.s. authorities continue to deny that a massive hunger strike is underway in gone tony mowbray it's claimed more than one hundred detainees are starving themselves the protest was sponsored by the alleged mishandling of the inmates korans by prison guards lawyers for the detainees say they stayed with their inmates health is getting close to live a threatening more in a burden i 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 life threatening hunger strike and their hunger strikes are the only way they have of even making themselves heard years and years without any hope 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 qur'an 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 in that sense of the 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 at you know how are they defining hunger striker and when are they just terminating that someone needs to be to that 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 our team the current tensions in guantanamo as far as we can see and as far as we understand are really the result of the uncertainty faced by the detainees in guantanamo and in certainty 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 it's always been our 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 really that emotional mental strain that 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 put bring an end to these illegal practices by either prosecuting prisoners in civilian court or releasing them before me from new york very important party. informing gone tom obey god rhonda needless says the detention facility creates more problems for the

u.s. than solves them. facility is a lot better but speak guards of been there over the last few years all the dream inside as far as 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 the inside hasn't changed too much are people forget that half these people have been cleared for release by not only the obama administration but also by the bush administration and there to be into 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 gross and this is their only what form of protest they have is to go on hunger strike and the fact is that when whoever open it can decided open wants on one knew from the get go and that it 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 information they have gotten as mindy to be had to 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 what we dropped the ball in new and unknown we've created more terrorists and enemies around the world than we could ever imagine. and is actually based action correction says that if the u.s. is serious about closing guantanamo it has to do its. inside america basically because there is no real. public resentment of what is taking place there most of the pressure that's coming is internationally yes you have some groups are working very hard to highlight the issue and to make sure that it stays on the agenda but unfortunately for the vast majority of americans they're quite happy for these detainees to continue to be detained without charge or trial basically a one ton numbers over going to close it's going to be within these next four years . obama has the best interest to do that this is

a second time we cannot have. you know where hoping. it might be misplaced our hope but basically he will try in use these last years of his presidency in order to do the right thing in a situation where the only thing that has ever happened is the wrong thing. and there's always in our website of want to know you want to take on the show so every voice counts that r.t. dot com where we can tell us why you think lantana most still open after more than eleven years and 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 the base to america in the first place or maybe you blame other countries for refusing to repatriate on 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 head to dot com and have your say right now and here is how the voting is

going on so far and the past majority of you blaming washington for failing to keep its pledges and almost equally as small numbers of you think other is responsible for what's happening at gun tunnel base do casting about if you still haven't done it here. series now in a third year of civil war between government and anti assad forces france and britain met the anniversary with calls to better equip rebel fighters that despite numerous reports of radical islamists among the opposition ranks and as all season are if an ocean reports now the conflict has seen seventy thousand people killed and millions leave their homes this part of syria known as mesopotamia between the tigris and euphrates rivers is considered a cradle of civilization has been home to many asked nic 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 to 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 to go both at home and abroad have decided to target would 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 the more me once that one again. we should keep our unity in all of all of. it gabriel a point from commercially living in syria's north east all during sunni dominated turkey and mostly shia iraq says here in about six tarion intolerance is something new for syria and very alarming your. will feel this pressure for months now especially from the gulf countries trying to drag us to this perilous share soon again it's a big threat because a tear 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 one and a cut its 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 maybe do as early ones killing his own people we've never been treated like that but 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 fall instead. from syria. far away broken has been shaken by process and oxford some not planning to

stop that lays in the parlak at how the death of a black teenager at the hands of the new cities had led to the public outrage among the citizens that after the way. they've been living this way since the seventeenth century. their rituals are strict. their communities are the selling. they clearly missed english between their own and the alien. and guard their family and thinks treasure. a clear image of iraq after inflation. twenty day taxi trip through the

country. the road full of dangerous. clear evidence from north to south. the rich map of iraqi tragedy. after the war waiting for peace. taxi on r.t.e. . in cairo police have used tear gas and arrested a number of protesters near the headquarters of the muslim brotherhood attacks on journalists aren't lee what sparked the demonstration the clashes come after a group of oxidase who were running against islamist policies were assaulted by

armed gangs on saturday belcher isn't the direction capital with the details. we've had reports that tens have been arrested including one journalists as fierce clashes continue between anti-government protesters and security forces outside the muslim brotherhood headquarters here in the capital the police have reportedly been firing birdshot but it's an tear gas hundreds who gathered today to protest against an attack they said happened against journalists by muslim brotherhood members groups with a rising at the area outside this main headquarters of the mission brotherhood and riding with sticks and naives on the journalist attempted to film anti-government protesters spraying anti brotherhood slogans on this main headquarters and you elected journalist in the one who said this was another example of a crackdown on freedom of speech by the most brotherhood's he called on the supreme guide which is the leading spiritual figure of the regime but they had to apologize to the brotherhood for their part say that this occurred after groups attempted to

break into the building it's still not clear how this story's going to end we're seeing significant unrest and lots 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 casting in doubt this economic problem is 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 you've got a situation in poor saeed's and here the capital over there is very contentious verdict in the port side football trial which saw several people die in the last

few weeks so what we're seeing really is continual protests continue on to government sentiments and with not any solutions on the horizon. the killing of blank teenager by new york police has sparked a sevenths night of angry protests in the bar of facts of us accuse the n.y.p.d. of racism and demand justice from go clashes between demonstrations and new in force and officials resulted in dozens of arrests in this to say a trickle now has more now on the story. that. 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 or 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 have a weapon on him as these candles burn 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 no different than it was. you know so it's like it's 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 are not supposed to bury their children the absolutely honest party new york. remember you can always find more news and videos at our website dot com and here's

a look at some of the stories we're out there for you right now perhaps not the best place for sushi dangerous levels of radioactivity are recorded on fish off the coast of the fukushima nuclear plant potentially devastating japan's lucrative fishing industry well that's on the right. and also the top greek football player is banned for life from playing for the national team after celebrating a goal with a nazi salute find out why he did it on a website obviously don't call. china's new president has called for the great or in a sense of the chinese nation he made a statement during his maiden speech after the country concluded its once in a decade transfer of power to voters now the fears generation of leaders c.c.t.v. correspondent way told us the triumph brings both challengers 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 liko chow who is the now the cut chinese premier he's been talking about reform is the largest dividend china can enjoy for its course for the progress he's 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 will start coming in the united states might be a backup for them in the region but the china seems always want to have a peaceful neighborhood that seems to be a really believe the chinese have been holding over the history. so being a has inherited the world's second largest national economy and will try to keep the eggs in power house growing and over sinful costs look promising a report from pricewaterhouse coopers predicts that china will catch up with the u.s. by twenty seventeen before surging ahead so the new leadership has also promised to invest heavily in building up the country's defense capabilities this comes amid america's growing military expansion in asia pacific and u.s. efforts to gain a stronger foothold in the struggle to 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 raid tracking station in japan they say it's in response to north korean nuclear threat in the meantime china's priority is economic growth robin military expansion that's according to also and journalist martin jacques relations with the united states have steadily be getting more complicated and i think the reason for that is because before you know china was very much still a developing country a much weaker global power down the united states but china of course has been growing like crazy is more and more present around the world in different continents in different countries i don't think the chinese are going to be militarily aggressive i mean not as not be personally chinese history and secondly actually the tradition of this regime especially since nine hundred seventy eight i mean you know if the chinese military i mean we talk about the rise of expenditure

but actually compared with the united states china is very very weak militarily what has been great growth and remains it which is the economic development. cyprus is working on a last minute deal to ease the pressure on small depositors eleven on their savings their one of ten percent time was agreed upon as part of the bailout package from the eurozone finance ministers and the i.m.f. cypriots where the decision was short and raided and a.t.m. which ran dry within hours people's frustration calls the parliamentary vote on the deal to be delayed until monday and dr helen suddenly from leading british think time the british group believes there's little alternative for their 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. try to introduce a stereotype and 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 rocked into riots is something we shall see in the next few days. and now to some other news making headlines across the globe hundreds of people have gathered in the german capital to protest against their demolition of a part of the berlin 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 access promised more protests if they're grammont with developers won't be reached. and india authorities have

arrested five men over a ghana rape of a swiss woman on a camping trip with her husband a total of twenty men were detained earlier for questioning in connection with that time police say all the suspects have already confessed this comes amid a spate of such a souls and just three months after the fatal gal rape in new delhi that caused a nationwide outrage. over thousand s.s. veterans and supporters gathered on saturday in the latin capital riga for their annual rally the event went ahead despite attempts by the med to ban it a court overturned the decision fuelling tension between fascists and those who served with glass when you know so the of us on s.s. the march sparked controversy with chris downing it as a glorification of the country's involvement with the nazis. who 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 for so hard to eradicate fashion in spain. where it was one state ideology you would now never see a manifestation as which glorify now it's considered shameful what happens here in riga is totally incredible and outrageous. marches by former latina says legionnaires in riga are nothing out of the ordinary since largely became independent they've been held every year the man who once fought on the side of not . germany are seen as freedom fighters by some here have you which divides society in this post soviet state for many years this march had been forbidden by the cities of dorothy's acord 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 especially given that lot is a member of the e.u. which has no second opinion on fascism. as a member of the infamous an outside force for remembrance of the locals and it's very difficult to say it's very easy to non-fans 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 show and on the other side those

people come out and to read the diversity because it's pretty crazy change for the law to be as anti-fascist movement has been fighting these marches for a decade with no success because they fear this movement is getting stronger as last year's economy gets weak and strengthening it is a well planned government tactic for the chicago 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 asked them this they had nothing to do with the. army but in nazi germany march sixteenth it was called a day of heroes praising the army this speaks volumes to what our government does 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 right after the break we'll be taking a look into the secluded lines of a group of old believe is the last latin america to start everything i knew him russia the children of the schism is just ahead to stay with us. choose your language. call it we can without any financial literacy still some. choose to use the consensus to. choose the opinions that invigorating to. choose the stories that impact your life choose b. access to.