stories at night chemical weapons are reportedly used in a rocket attack that killed twenty six people in northern syria but the opposition and the government blaming each other for the assault. make you save or save banks cypriot stand to see up to ten percent of their life savings wiped away over e.u. bailout conditions evoking fear of islanders and beyond. the un expresses concerns over the ongoing hunger strike in guantanamo bay despite authorities efforts to play down the protest. bus a series of bomb attacks through baghdad killing dozens and injuring hundreds as iraq struggles to get back on its feet on the tenth anniversary of the u.s. led invasion.

over getting things covered over here it out to you tonight a top story rocket attack on a town outside aleppo in syria's north has left dozens dead including sixteen government soldiers details about what exactly happened on the ground then but there are reports chemical weapons could have been used both the syrian government and the opposition are accusing each other of his roof and i was in the country recently she joined me a bit earlier here in the studio. and reports here recently from syria and as is often the case over the last two years with a surprise it in syria h. side is accusing the other one and these accusations sound quite similar we're hearing from syria's news agency national news agency that the rabble have fight a missile containing chemical agents in the country's north not far from syria's biggest city a lefroy scene of devastation violence over the last year and that the attack has killed dozens of people and this is almost a direct aid of what we're hearing from a u.k. based opposition group. syrian observatory for human rights with the only difference

says the army is behind this attack i've contacted several people on the ground some journalists we used to work with in syria and they've also confirmed that these half aren't but it's very hard to verify at this point exactly who is behind the attack and how many people happened. we seem to be hearing never-ending claims and counterclaims it keeps going big circle doesn't it now absolutely and it's very hard for journalists even those working on the ground to to cover this conflict because there are always contradicting each reports contradict each other i remember when i was in hama in two thousand and eleven in august when the uprising has just started on a video appeared on you tube showing dead bodies being thrown from the cities and they were two descriptions for what they speak to one say that these are the rabble is and the other one saying that these are policemen well people of the regime and

when we came at the scene when we arrived in the city of hama i mean it was just impossible to get the information on exactly what happened despite all the diplomatic efforts it's still continuing absolutely and the war scene is that we've seen often intensification of violence and had a big international meetings on syria maybe you remember houla massacre last may. when it happened right on the eve of u.n. general assembly and in that respect the syrian opposition exile has just nominated a prime minister who is expected to fill a seat prepared for him at the arab league meeting in qatar and again we see intensification of the violence in what do we know about my prime minister not actually very much. cato fifty years old he's a syrian born naturalized american has been living in taxes for decades he used to be executive and came to prominence working with the humanitarian. agency during

the war and of course expectations are very high that we're at very high that i mean these nomination cooed how stop the flights in the country for it's all about the arab league meeting what are we what are we expecting from the as i sad unfortunately expectations are very high but unfortunately we can't expect too much of of progress here though john kerry and russian foreign minister lavrov found common ground on the geneva declaration recent and kerry's reported to have a personal relationship with our side it seems that fighting is continuing the ground violence is is intensifying as well as claims and both sides i mean ready to talk actually are continuing to blame each other and are still warring sides. journalist neil clark who's written extensively about syria says it's no accident spend a large part of his life in the us before being voted in as the opposition prime minister the americans want to make sure that when president assad falls they got their man in damascus and they cherry picked him you know he voted by thirty five

people it's quite ludicrous to argue this guy has the right to rule syria where is president assad whether we support him or not does have sizable support in the country which is why still in power and so i think the answer your question the u.s. wants this man as an ideal sort of leader opposed to sow to take power and obviously to do the things expected of him which would be to open up this unit commonly to u.s. multinationals to productize economy and of course to great with hezbollah to break with iran would be lunacy and madness for political president assad's forces to use chemical weapons and so if you know we've heard that chemical weapons has been used it has to be by the rebels and if that's the case then obviously that will highlight the hypocrisy of the u.s. and the west because they said that the red line the chemical weapons are only seems to apply if president assad's forces use them the syrian army and so we've got to be consistent on his chemical weapons to use them it's wrong and if the rebels are using a should be conducted a war crimes. we've got more analysis on the cyprus later in the program also to

a new coalition government for israel after weeks of intense negotiations that what experts think could be short lived as baby's powers of persuasion bishes new political bedfellows look for the limelight that story much more still ahead for you this out. taking the model to extremes the use give insight personal tomato meter for savers to save banks or go bankrupt live pictures here now you sing from artie's ruptly news agency broadcast from us live online from a couch more than a reality dot com they're coming from in front of the cypriot parliament and you can see it is the scene there right now many there now of course start to see it to ten percent of their life savings raised it's caused a huge rumpus they all to secure indebted banks with a bailout from brussels russians being volatile street protests and mass withdrawals from a.t.m.'s limits on internet transactions as well more tests are

a sinner is therefore. what is happening right here in front of the cypriot parliament here and on to my left you might be hearing some chanting there some protesters are already starting to gather here i guess that decision passed by brussels on saturday morning at the ten billion a year old bailout on the condition that a one time bank deposit tax be imposed that this is really where the problem as started the anger from the people coming where. attacks will be imposed on the money they hold in banks are the initial proposal. with any amount of money from one hundred thousand below will have six point seven five percent tax and those above one hundred thousand will get up to nine point nine percent now their leaders here are trying to scramble to find an acceptable. package here because it's seems that the expectation is that it will get through through parliament now the vote has been postponed we hear that it might be happening tomorrow now if we talk about the reaction from the ground they feel that the

a small savers of modest savers who just simply been putting their money in the back are getting affected by this and those even those who are trying to keep their motions in check are trying to be rational about this they feel that cyprus and the people have really been cornered and now are being used as guinea pigs as sort of an experiment an economic experiment because this is the first time that the e.u. is going to be dipping into the savings of people and so now leaders are really scrambling to find an acceptable solution not just a problem and what are the people who are protesting on the streets clearly the anger seems to be boiling over a new crack if you will in this a euro zone story again i can hear the people chanting here they're really saying that it's putting the country putting the country into a corner so now the foreign investment here in cyprus making a big bulk of it you have russian and british investments or it could be in trouble that you are fearing capital flight people have been going out into the streets trying to empty a.t.m. machines trying to get their savings i've been to some of the machines the locals can get some money out of it and as the voters postponed the banks will remain

closed it will be a problem trying to get cash and liquidity flowing in the economy so where does that leave cyprus really if you put it one word it's kind of a mess of right now there is no solution that they can see that's viable for for all parties involved whether economically or socially or even politically. or a corresponding level separate parliament is no jew going to vote on the proposed cuts on wednesday at about six hundred g.m.t. but you know of independence party i mean pay nigel farage told me the tax would be nothing short of theft as he sees it. cyprus is now the fifth country out of the seventeen that's needed to be bailed out and that is why the germans extracted the terms that they did but i must say even in my diaries predictions in this parliament over the years about the way the e.u. bosses were behaving never did i think that they would in a completely unprecedented manner resort to stealing money from people's bank accounts and they know that once one country goes the whole deck of cards will come

tumbling down and countries like germany will realize absolutely vast losses possibly as much as one trillion euros so so they are prepared now to do anything literally anything to try to keep the euro afloat and that is why they've now resorted as i say to what can only be described as theft and now they've done it in one country they're quite capable of doing it in italy spain portugal or anywhere else for the message that sends to people who've got savings in banks in those countries certainly if i was there is get your money out don't invest in the euro zone do not invest anywhere in the euro zone you've got to be mad to do so because it's now run by people who don't respect democracy they are propping up a euro zone which in the end is going to collapse in disastrous failure or they are prepared to do anything to do so i think that this decision this german dominated and led decision is the worst decision we've seen so far in this whole euro zone

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again the youngest strike at guantanamo bay continues to gain momentum as it finally draws from cautious concern of the u.n. in an official statement it seemed right sport he said it is actually investigating the allegations now of mistreatment but forty two days on his new detainee's joined the protest u.s. officials maintain that it makes have never been mistreated at his miniport joins

me now live with details by the marina how exactly did the u.n. react to these if you sell occasions for the set a bit more. welcome we received our team received a long statement from the office of the un's high commissioner for human rights navi pillay now directly related to the one tunnel hunger strike that's ongoing and as you mentioned into its forty second day that statement said that quote while aware of some of the allegations of mistreatment of inmates said to have been provoked said to have provoked the hunger strike which includes undue interference with inmates personal effects we are still trying to confirm the details unquote that was a statement coming from the un's office of of commissioner for human rights now the statement went on to say that the human rights commissioner has repeatedly regretted that the u.s. government has not closed get mail and has she's also expressed concern over the obstacles the national defense authorization act has created for losing the island

prison and for trying prisoners that are there the statement went on to say the way in which the guantanamo officials are running the prison holding people that have been cleared for release more than half of the one hundred sixty six detainees still languishing and get mo have been cleared for release and that is something that the u.s. the u.n. is opposed to it was just last week when this story broke that the u.n. came out and said that the united states is violating international human rights law by keeping detainees in guantanamo bay with out without trial and those that are not have not been charged so what we're hearing from the u.n. high commissioner is that they're still trying to confirm the details even the united nations has not been able to have enough access at guantanamo to see in depth what

is taking place with this hunger strike that is now continuing you are going to conflicting reports as you say how big this hunger strike is how many people are involved what it overshoots or does it sort of gets minimal some of the sources we've been talking to say it's nearly everybody that. that's right there is definitely discrepancies with the numbers when our t. first reported this story a week ago it was the center for constitutional rights and other attorneys for the detainees there that said that a reported one hundred thirty prisoners at guantanamo bay one on hunger strike hunger strike on february sixth in protest of the alleged confiscation of their personal items and. sacrilegious handling of their qur'an at that time the u.s. military was saying that only a handful of prisoners were on hunger strike then by friday we received a statement from navy captain robert duran who is the spokesman for the detention center and he said at that point fourteen prisoners were on hunger strike as of

today the u.s. military is now saying twenty one detainees at guantanamo bay are on hunger strike but durandal maintains that claims of a mouse hunger strike have been blown out of proportion that it's not an estimated one thirty as the attorneys for the detainees say it is but we do know that medical experts have told us and so have attorneys that once this hunger strike enters its forty fifty day hunger strike participants risk losing their eyesight and losing their hearing there's been reports according to attorneys of hunger strike participants losing up to thirty pounds if not more coughing up blood losing consciousness being hospitalized so the attorneys for these state detainees are sounding the alarm as they've even of the center for constitutional rights even sent a letter to u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel say help us end this hunger strike but the u.n. has no military force is an entertaining it's not

a big deal do we know if we're going to be fooled there are there are reports. well that that has happened in the past and that has happened in the past where hunger strike participants have been force fed according to the u.s. military the spokesperson for guantanamo bay as of law. there were five inmates that were being force fed force fed but the problem is we as journalists do not have direct access to my time of day the information we get of what is taking place there with the with the inmates is censored by the military so right now we are basing our information on what the attorneys are telling us of the detainees and this hunger strike but it can get to the point of those detainees being force that understood me to put my things to bring said today the new york. one of the tourney who represented several guantanamo bay prisoners says many of them remain behind bars even though they were of course cleared long ago let's take a listen there are a hundred sixty six people at guantanamo of those who are probably at most twenty guys who are bad guys who were taken in later guys like khalid shaikh muhammad the

other people are and most nothing more than half of them eighty six of them may have been cleared at least for three years and some during the bush administration cleared as innocent people and they're still there and they're frustrated i mean i don't care if you're held in the dorchester hotel in london or the best hotel the ritz carlton in moscow and you're confined to that room for eleven years and you can't see your family you can't go out and talk to people you can't read freely you can't get about i don't care that so how is the condition even if you're fed the best food every day and believe me they're not i mean they are imprisoned improperly without a chance to get out that's the worst condition. it took six weeks of drawn out negotiations but israel's new coalition government is now being formed i'm sworn in prime minister binyamin netanyahu known as the office is to both

a sense of party and a far right political grouping to take the reins because pulis leader explains next you all could compromise could soon lead to cracks in the new government. he might have perfected the role of israel's great communicator but as prime minister benjamin netanyahu enters his third term of office from nike's audience his powers of persuasion are shrinking. you need to watch the body language of how this coalition was forged it changed from aggressive to disappointed and after the disappointment the anger will come we'll see that in the open. what's already being seen in the open is that netanyahu is new partners are not the ones he wanted form a media personality out yet appeared and representative of these weighty second movement naftali bennett their everything he's not young contemporary and popular. he's panicked netanyahu realizes they are the next generation it's like a national geographic film where the young lions push the old line aside they get

the females and the future is theirs. but bibi as he's called is nothing if not supremely confident over the past dozen years he's earned a doctorate in defeat and how it may be avoided he's a pro at welding together the broken parts so they can hold on for a little bit longer he is. driven by the fact that he has some kind of paranoid when you're paranoid. makes you minimize the volume of mistakes that you might do and i think that he when he always thinks that there's a product that someone is. about to pull a trick on him he's there were prepared as he is to sit around a table with partners who might eventually signal his downfall. netanyahu ran a confused campaign and a confused negotiation although he is very smart very experienced it didn't show

the goals were constantly changing there was no planning needs to sit now and get his house in order. it wasn't that long ago that time magazine crowned him king bibi the influential magazine ran with the headline that he's conquered israel but nine months later it's not so clear that israel hasn't finally conquered netanyahu in the final act the great communicator might not be able to communicate so great after all if we are thirteen eleven. at least fifty six people have been killed and over two hundred wounded in a series of bombings across baghdad the attack struck mostly shiite neighborhoods of the city officials say there's been at least ten separate incidents including suicide car and roadside explosions in busy areas all within one hour and one of the deadliest attacks struck near the heavily fortified green zone the seat of many government buildings and embassies no one has officially claimed responsibility but

sunni militants have been stepping up their attacks in the country to destabilize the government come as the rock marks ten years since a coalition led by the u.s. and britain invaded the country with their freedom and democracy notion for insight on the situation in iraq now as peter bryan drill a t.v. filmmakers produced a number of documentaries on the issue brian either all or course widely assumed to be one of the main reasons for the u.s. led invasion but could foreign investment in that such a sector actually benefit the country the end of the day could it be tinge of gold at the end of all this. well you know in two thousand and five the deep dish t.v. where i work did a series called shocking and awful which examined in twelve programs the reasons and the nature of this war we're doing a follow up now called they had to destroy the country in order to save it the question is who are they trying to save the country for and i think that unless you

understand america's imperial necessity and its intensity in controlling the oil resources of the middle east you can understand why this war was fought and all the nonsense that was put out in the new york times and every other u.s. media outlet about democracy about avenging even some on the left talked about avenging bush avenging is father all that nonsense missed the point and i think that what the us attempted to call their invasion in the beginning it was called all i operation in iraq liberation actually gets to the point more succinctly than the thousands of hours of television coverage that have ok then hired since then ok with that in mind as it would have gone to plan because you can't repeat any of this without security in the city and no security there or little of it anyway well i'm not sure that they were ever i'm not sure that they were ever

interested in very much security or the chaos that was left behind in iraq yes it's true they need to have the oil pumping and this is not oil for us gas stations and automobiles this is to control the spigots that are the life blood of industrial society how can america maintain its top dog role in the world if it doesn't control the vital resource that all industrial societies run on and what was the cost they were willing to pay in order to control those spigots and i think the cost was the destruction of iran. it's social fabric the creation of a task within the country and as we know the loss of maybe upwards of a million iraqi civilian lives and at least five thousand american soldiers lives and other so-called coalition forces. so this is a fairly brutal and cold calculation now has it turned out the way they hoped i suspect that it has not well they took full to dictate the pending on which side of

the fence you regard saddam hussein as well look you don't have to be a supporter of saddam hussein to impose impose the invasion of the country. you know the hypocrisy of it all is what's most startling i mean look they charge saddam hussein with crimes that i'm sure he committed you know the use of gas against the kurds but who used the gas first winston churchill used gas against the iraqi national liberation struggle in one nine hundred twenty and i argued that why shouldn't we use poison gas against uncivilized tribes and so now we can down more then we can down saddam hussein for using poison gas of course he should be condemned for it but does that mean that we support a military invasion that has destroyed a country and frankly brought another group of thugs into power and created this

kind of international scene conflict within the country itself this can all be attributed to the united states and its mission to control the oil of the middle east t.v. if you make a broad really frank you've been on the program tonight that gives a shit fools. it said nine twenty six moscow ton of extent of big business influence over politicians is up for discussion under section x. in the cars report on it after the break.

there was a time in america when buses were officially segregated and today if they tried to resegregate the wall next to it 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 for 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 lines it's really human rights groups but selim said the attempt at 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. we're old believe us we're not supposed to be public people we'd rather not be filmed or shown on television we're supposed to live a quiet life and keep distant from worldly masses that's what we need if we're to keep our traditions. not to be disturbed too much.

with a live edition. of the world would. be good. in. this a small community of orthodox traditionalists returned to russia just over a year ago their ancestors emigrated to let in america in the one nine hundred forty s. coming back to their homeland has been their cherished dream ever since.