detainee's desperation r t following the mass hunger strike at the guantanamo bay prison entering its forty first day now with some inmates claiming it's a do or die protest a prison officials insisting reports are exaggerated. panic in cyprus the controversial offer of assistance has huge implications with people losing large chunks of their life savings. the legacy of the war still haunting iraq nearly ten years since the u.s. invasion two car bombs killed at least ten people in the latest spark of violence amid ongoing criticism of washington's decade old decision. you're very lucky to meet satan in person we remember it was not something i see again that's what the president of bellerose how does evolution go answers those

who love to hate him in an exclusive interview saying his ambition is for his country to live as a normal european state. noon in moscow why matter has a good to have you with us here on r t our top story this hour the u.s. continuing to downplay a mass hunger strike at the guantanamo prison more than one hundred detainees reportedly fasting now for more than forty days in a desperate act of defiance sparked they say by the confiscation of personal items and desecration of their qur'an prison officials though insist that these are outright falsehoods saying there's only a handful of prisoners refusing food here's how the camp spokesman captain robert duran described the situation in response to an r t request. he said the mission provides safe legal humane trends and transparent care and custody of the detainees

adding that joint task force guantanamo's guantanamo seeks to ensure it stays true to the highest standards by colleague bill dawes spoke with one former guantanamo guard brandon neely earlier and asked him how he thought the detainees were treated at his time in the facility. there were you know we were told before we actually got to guantanamo that the geneva convention would not be held. on the detainees when they first arrived there when he will now go walk around in their cells or cages as i call among the dead they were allowed to pray they were allowed to do nothing when the international red cross came also some you know loosened up and they were able to talk and stuff but you know that they were treated horrible you know they were they were abused by you know by us guards when it came to the inter reaction force team and it was just mistreated all around especially at the beginning do you think the detainees are treated any differently today as just to remind viewers you were that over ten years ago has anything changed. i think from

the outside look at it in a strange as far as the p.r. the way the government trying to spin it because the facility is a lot better but still 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 chronos treated in a stuff like that how much has changed maybe the outside it's changed but inside hasn't changed too much adriance sixty sixty chaney's being held there at the moment eighty six of them have been cleared for release in two thousand and nine but enable to be sent home because of transfer a stretch and they want to mowbray camps been operating for more than eleven years now despite president obama's pledge to close it or he's eager piskun all blocks back in his attempts to shut down the facility. the story around the closure of guantanamo bay prison has stuck to president obama ever since he promised to shut it down and here are some of the key dates on the way in january two thousand and nine when obama was inaugurated he ordered the facility to be closed within a year and banned certain into regression methods after the us government admitted torturing some of the detainees but in me the same year the u.s.

senate refused to fund the closure until the president provided more detail as to what he would do with the prisoners in mid october appear the situation changed as congress allowed some detainees to be moved to the united states for prosecution but at the end of two thousand and ten congress approved the defense spending bill which prevented u.s.b. straus for guantanamo detainees and in january two thousand and eleven hopes a bomb would keep his campaign promise dimmed further when he signed the defense of the reasons bill which ruled out shutting one tunnel be down and prevented the transfer of prisoners from the camp in march obama also signed an executive order resuming military trials for guantanamo detainees a move seen by many as a complete reversal of its previous policy while in december two thousand and eleven the president failed to veto the national defense bill believing the way for prisoners to be held indefinitely and without charge and extending the ban on moving them from the prison finally in july last year the pentagon announced its

plans to leave forty million dollars fiber optic cable from guantanamo bay to the u.s. mainland not exactly a sign washington is planning to wrap up its operations in the controversial detention center lack of information secrecy surrounding good mower making the situation worse according to a london based human rights activist i mean e.r. her group don't cover what goes on at the camp and she says the media and u.s. officials have always done their best to contain any scandals there. there's a lot of things that get official you deny that half the time in the bay for example last year when. the tea one of the prisoners died in a strange circumstance and it took time for the truth to actually come out he actually died we still don't know exactly what circumstances in which he did die and it was made impossible for there to be an independent autopsy because some of his organs when they returned to his family months later. had generated so much that it would be impossible to know what the actual cause of death was so there's

a lot of secrecy surrounding what happens at guantanamo bay if there are requests for information they get covered up by national security issues and also there's just a lack of general interest in actually one is happening on time to move one of the curious things that has come out over the last couple of weeks is that one of the deterioration of the prisons complained about. is that in january the bullets were fired out of prisoners during a protest that they had held and this happened this was corroborated by the pentagon and again it's just it's incredibly curious this has been admitted a couple of months down the line but there has hardly been any outcry in some of the more tentative presses there's been some coverage in the mainstream media it's managed to get a couple of pieces but it's not actually being considered as a news worthy item. closely following the situation in guantanamo on our website as well click on r.t. dot com for more analysis and opinion there you can find more about how the lawyers of the hunger strikers are expressing their concerns over the worsening health of

their clients detainees claim most inmates are now involved in the protests. more comment from activists psychologists and one former detainee claiming he saw a boy he thought was as young as nine being beaten by guards at the guantanamo facility. police fired tear gas and clash with crowds protesting against an assault of journalists in cairo a cameraman for marty's arabic sister channel was among those attacked by brotherhood members ball filming graffiti artist painting near the muslim

brotherhood's headquarters are true has more on the rest. 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's headquarters here in the capital the police have reportedly been firing birdshot but it's tear gas hundreds who gathered to protest against an attack they said happened against journalists by muslim brotherhood members groups with the rising at the area outside the main headquarters of the mission brotherhood arriving with sticks and knives on the journalist attempted to film anti-government protesters spraying anti brotherhood slogans on this main headquarters new year lech to join a syndicate had 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 problems 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 this 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 governments

sentiments and with not any solutions on the horizon. well stay with us still to come a rescue plan causing panic. or opting for cash instead of bank accounts as the government plans a controversial levee required for the news ten billion euro bailout package also. a war of aggression on iraq killed a couple hundred thousand people and mess it up a major league including the region. ten years after the start of the iraq war which was far more costly than the u.s. ever expected still much public questioning of whether it was all worth it the report after a short break. is

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thanks for staying with us thirteen minutes past the hour now over the weekend cypriots rushed to a.t.m.'s in a panic over a planned tax on savings accounts as part of a european union and i.m.f. deal the so-called rescue plan for the tiny eurozone country would see a one time levy on deposits to avoid a national default in exchange the e.u. was promised a ten billion euro bailout to heal the battered economy there under proposed terms of the package people in cyprus with less than one hundred thousand euros in their accounts would have to pay a tax of around seven percent of that those who savings are greater would be hit up with a ten percent tax is the first first such move where private depository would be forced to sacrifice their money to foot the bill bellowed conditions have been deeply criticized there are expected to have mainly the poor people and pensioners are the hardest moreover fears are mounting over the intense outflow of cash from the country people's anger is cause the parliamentary vote on the deal to be

delayed until today dr helen samuel you from the leading british think tank the brewers group thinks the tiny island state is feeling blackmailed and is uncomfortable into the e.u. and. they will have to try and make it go ahead because they really do desperately need the bailout money on this of course. the alternative which has actually dropped 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 that the about the bailouts the way things have gone we say greece is that you know these these bandits happen. to do susteren any never works and then after a while there is another request for another band. of whether it will actually work over the cyprus will be wrapped into riots is something we shall see in the next

few days. at the tenth anniversary of the start of the a walk or iraq war two car bomb attacks hit the country killing at least ten people overall the war has claimed thousands of lives and cost many billions of dollars still a decade on arguments continue over one of the most controversial u.s. policy decisions or he's a guy named sheik young reports. i know. there's no greater cost to more than shatter human lives the u.s. invasion into iraq resulted in the deaths of almost two hundred thousand iraqis according to various estimates the deadly metals released by bombs and bullets continue to kill. in fallujah more than half of all babies who were conceived after the start of the war were born with birth defects the infant mortality rate there is disturbing. on the u.s. side the war took the lives of four thousand four hundred eighty six soldiers when you talk a country the size of iraq everyone knows someone that was killed. in the states

when you're here less than one percent of people participated in the war so at this point most americans have turned that off it's as though it didn't happen ten years of death and destruction and it's as though in this country we're done with that we've moved on and it's difficult if not impossible for any veterans and iraqis to move on from ten years of death and destruction the most recent study puts the total cost of the war at two trillion dollars that the u.s. the authors of the reports say the country will continue to pay and over the next four decades that cost could reach six trillion dollars but on top of the human loss and dollars spent there's also been a political price to pay for american credibility and influence went down well iran's went up and we're still living with the consequences of this ten years later so law of unintended consequences are you know polar moment ended when we went into

baghdad but we didn't know it from the berlin wall to that time we destroyed the earth like a grand colossus and then after that it's all been very different colonel lawrence wilkerson who served as chief of staff to secretary of state colin powell at the time of the invasion says you won't because change the way the world sees the us people look at what we do they do not. judge us by our rhetoric our rhetoric is high and lofty and we talk about human rights and human dignity and freedom and democracy and what do we do we mount a war of aggression on iraq kill a couple hundred thousand people and mess it up majorly including the region much of what is happening now is a result of what we did in the right in the world looks at that and they say this is not something we need in the world this kind of absolutely inept leadership and when this happens in the world of international relations the world stands up and began to balance the hedge among today many of those who cheered for the iraq war

on t.v. shows and then their memoirs struggle to justify the decisions they made and the actions they took yes history will hold them responsible and render some sort of indictment but there is no accountability for people who make grievous errors in high office in the united states were the united states of amnesia as gore but also actually said the tendency to forget and to move on could prove dangerous with new war talk brewing in washington with many of the same people who pushed for the iraq war answer now pushing to drag american to another conflict in the middle east and number of being fighters from the bush administration have come out and said the desire to topple directly government trumped all other considerations at the time of the invasion there was no credible intelligence that saddam had weapons of mass destruction or ties with al qaida and yet the administration wanted to invade at all costs but we see from these policymakers today are just different shades of denial in washington i'm going to check on. policy advisor fergus hodson thinks

there's too many warring factions in iraq now for an end to be peace anytime soon. problem is that prior to the invasion there really was a difficult situation already the no fly zones in force by the british u.s. and french military and the end of very difficult sanctions meant that iraq prior to the invasion was already in a very poor state and so it's hard to say it remains in a very difficult situation one interesting point to note though is that a recent gallup survey in iraq said the people gave the message that basically they thought the place was small secure and now when the u.s. forces were present in greater numbers people should know that there are still many u.s. contractors there so it's not as though there is zero presence of united states and many people still see that as a presence which they want to fight against also iraq already was a very divided nation you have could you have so many different minorities who are necessarily happy with each other or with the prevailing leadership looking for its

place in the sun and wanting to live as a normal civilized european state is how the president of belarus selling center looking shango outlining the future goals for his country an exclusive interview with us here on r t he's the man that many media outlets love to hate dubbing him more happy to dub him europe's last and take pedro de luca shango says he takes it on the chin because he knows it's just not true in fact the interview he points out that when he eventually steps down he doesn't want to be replaced by someone willing to be extreme but just someone continuing his course the president of the former soviet republic was repeatedly criticized by the west for violating human rights in oppressing the opposition hits back saying democracy at home is just as good as that in europe or the us take a listen. i can prove here right now that there is no dictatorship in belarus shall i very simply in just a few words this is the argument i used to convince my western partners in order to be a dictator like starlin one has to have the resources resources of paramount you need

to understand that do i have any nuclear weapons exactly i do not do i have as much oil as hugo chavez did in venezuela no do i have as much natural gas as russia number two and so on and so forth do i have so many people as china does one point five billion people you know that in order to be a dictator in dictate one's will one has to have the resources economic social military population and so on but we have none and i am being objective about it i am telling you that we have no claims of global importance and don't see ourselves solving major global problems we don't have the resources to do so what we want to do is find our place in the sun and live as an average civilized european state that's all i want so i ask for dictatorship i say to them you're very lucky to meet

europe's last dictator alive in person remember it is that something you probably won't see again. all exclusive interview with the belarus president alexander lukashenko in ten minutes or on our website any time outside r.t. dot com. you now but in several better when villages say they're not going to back down in the face of israel's ball those are villages already been raised forty seven times from the ground official saying the bedouins have no proof of ownership of the property but the community claims they've been there for more than a century and have no plans to surrender it or his policy or has more from the negative. there's not much here but what there is within hours is destroyed. part of an israeli plan to rid the negev desert of its bedwyn residents. if they even demolish the village

a thousand times i will rebuild it as long as i'm alive i will keep struggling i will not give up my living in fear all the time whenever somebody calls us and says there bulldozers in the main street we take all our stuff outside the tent and take it to the cemetery and now they're threatening to demolish the cemetery. village has become the focal point of tel aviv's plans it started with the first demolition more than three years ago and since then most families have relocated to neighboring towns but well meant that we're not afraid we're waiting for them to come again a steadfast few who live near the threat and symmetry wait to rebuild their homes after the bulldozers leave there is a lighter side to the story residents here have asked the guinness book of world records to enter them as the village that has been demolished the most times in history forty seven and counting. nearly half of the bedwyn population of the negative around ninety thousand people live in forty five villages and recognized

by the israeli government they don't appear on any map and have no official signs marking their existence when they are not being torn down they are being torn apart through the government's refusal to provide sewage systems roads electricity water schools or hospitals but tell of if says it's ready to change that if the bedouins move to recognize villages it promises to provide them with basic services and compensation. they are living on lions that belong to the state israel is a country of law and institutions and when you claim land belongs to you should be able to prove it through legal papers the better ones don't have these papers so it's very hard to accept their claimants. but shake saya all too he disagrees he says his ancestors are buried in a cemetery where graves stayed back at least one hundred years. we have papers from the in one thousand and five we paid taxes for this land from the year one thousand

twenty one until nine hundred forty seven we have papers from the british in one hundred twenty nine and we even have papers from the year of nine hundred seventy three signed by israel itself all these papers prove that the land belongs to us. these ready government is expected soon to possible that we'll see more than twenty and recognized big when villages destroyed and some fifty thousand bedouins displaced about two thirds of the land is threatened with confiscation the government trying to organize their vigilance against their will of the bedouins prefer to live in agricultural villages to brazil or more a way of living and to brazil of their own culture it's only a matter of time before the village gets demolished for the forty eighth time and the people living here hope for more than just the guinness book of world records will take note policy r t r keep village in the negev desert. where turn vanguard waves up next with our

latest sports news stay with us here on r.t. . they've been living this way since the seventeenth century. their rituals are strict. their communities on the syllabus. they clearly missed english between their own and the alien. and guard their family and things in the trash. go.

hello and welcome to the anti sports show with me richard bump or bleeds over the next thirty minutes we'll bring you all the news from russia and abroad but it starts with the headlines. in our piece seven point lead at the top of the russian a premier league second place angie drop points in their first man should be a new stadium. california dreaming maria sharapova rushes caroline

wozniacki to claim her first title of the year the indian wells open and returns to number two in the world. and who hundred mall skopec up their third straight win in the top sixteen expensive old photos of. inch closer to the early quarterfinals. look sad for their first premier league title in seven years has been moved to seven points clear of the top of the table following a one nil victory against krasnodar where all the action from week twenty one is constantly but top of. the old. league leaders to scott had a narrow one zero win over across on the our at the luzhniki stadium russian midfielder allen's i go way of getting the only goal of the game up to seventeen minutes which was the twenty second year old for for the season and says dustin with the back increasing their cushion at the top of the table to seven points from

one g. b i whose heating side lost in the last seconds of their europa league tie with newcastle on thursday but it looked as they would get back to winning ways in the first game in their new stadium against willis i gather however said he couldn't and could gave the team from some are a shock lead just after the hour mark but they expand solely assembled on dream managed to restore parity ten minutes from time when i see what our restoring from close range. is in each europa league conditions also came to an abrupt told last week however they kept their hopes of gaining a champions league place a life with a one nil victory against the old brazil and paul get the winner to record the story told by somebody. spartak moscow dominated the encounter with city rivals will come on t.v.

however the red on words fail to convert their numerous chances as they had to settle for a goal is drawn in we wish to work on take the best out of his team but look at what he has goalkeeper brazil and made sure the deadlock wasn't broken with a number of fine saves. be. deny much done get the rascal visited the store because the one in the must decide to pull weeds through alexander according to one who assume level but i can buy that getting they call isaac is deny my six game winning streak on stale man beat the b. after beating spanish live on to a next or time rubina remained russia's last representatives in the last eight of the europa league exhausted was on site managed holding out for a goal is brought terry had the be rust off and walter well looking to ease their really good.