protests are expected to greet president obama as he arrives in the west bank with palestinians unhappy over a lack of movement from the u.s. and israel towards a two state solution this is obama reaffirms washington's unbreakable bond with television. a bull in a china shop russia's prime minister slams the e.u. over its handling of the cypriot economic crisis and a cool welcome as brussels officials arrive in moscow attempting to calm the financial storm. and syria's government and opposition both demand an international . deadly chemical attack both sides are blaming each other.

you're watching with me and. now for rockets have reportedly been fired from gaza into israel where u.s. president barack obama is on his first foreign visit since re-election he's expected to head to the west bank later on thursday as part of his middle east tour our correspondent paula slay is there and brings us the details. there were four rockets that were fired from the northern gaza and town of beit hanoun as israel two landed inside gaza but one landed in the backyard of a residential home in the southern israeli town of store water now there were no injuries although there was some damage to the back yard this coming on the second day of the american president barack obama's visit to the region and just hours before he will arrive here in the palestinian city of ramallah so he obama so far is speaking primarily to the israeli public and he admitted as much last night

after he met with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he said that his goal is to talk to the israelis he's spoken about the importance of israeli security and he's also committed american financial assistance to israel particularly in terms of military programs beyond two thousand and seventeen when the current contracts expire now there's been very little mention so far of the palestinians of the peace process of the continued israeli settlement expansion and this is in stark contrast to the speech the president gave back in two thousand and nine in cairo when he said that one of his priorities in terms of his foreign policy was resolving the palestinian issue having said that though there is a lot of mistrust between obama and netanyahu there is a lot of areas and disagreement they certainly don't see eye to eye on the issue of iraq and here we have missed on yahoo continuing to call for a military strike while obama continues to say that all options are on the table and that there is still time for diplomacy so certainly in this what we see is that

despite the p.r. efforts there is no running away from the fact that mr han yahoo still holds firm to israeli commitment even if it means turning his back on his close allies we here in this clip israel can never see the road to the for a nurse to others even to the greatest of our friends there's already been a handful of demonstrations against the american president here in the west bank and certainly today the police already now. are in full force on the streets there's a strong security presence and this isn't in anticipation of the thousands of people who are expected to come to the streets to protest against the american president president's arrival here the plan is for him to meet at the mccotter the palestinian headquarters you see behind me he'll be meeting with the palestinian president mahmoud abbas as well as the palestinian prime minister salam fayad no real information that we have at this stage in terms of what will be presented during those talks but we do think that the american president is likely to ask the

palestinian leadership to resume talks without preconditions now this is an israeli position the palestinian position is that there needs to be overturned one nine hundred sixty seven borders there needs to be a halt in construction of settlements and in this respect the anticipation and at least the analysis on the ground is that obama is not going to push the israelis but rather push the palestinians to meet the israeli demands. political analyst in about an illusion says palestinians are angry over an apparent lack of desire on the part of israel and the u.s. to bring peace to the region. there's nothing substantial to be expected from this visit the primary goal of this visit is to embellish obama's image as an unsigned matanya whole personality and so this is mainly a public relations visit that is meant to improve the status of the democratic party in the united states visibly the israeli lobby and the u.s.

congress of all the things that are supposed to be discussed during obama's visit to occupied palestine i think the question of iran being a target is probably the most important one on the list obviously we have different agendas here but at the same time let's not forget is that the prominence of iran and the gulf area and across the other broods on the view has also upsetting. the balance of power and the reads on as far as this so-called peace process. there's nothing on the table really and all that is being asked of the palestinian authorities so for this to accept unconditional surrender the israeli terms well the president of the palestinian authority mahmoud abbas also appears to have little hope of results from obama's visit the pair meet later on thursday in exclusive with artie's arabic channel abbas says

a bomb has plenty of. very detail action when it comes to israeli settlement expansion the interviews coming up a bit later on but he's equipped. in his statements president obama has repeatedly voiced his opposition to illegal landings and propagation and we think his right now all the tremaine sees to translate words into action but i have always asked americans and europeans to tell me eve there has been no as a single miscalculation on my part in domestic or foreign policies over eight years supple well israel makes mistakes every day so why do you let them know. big talks over a small country moscow has become the focal point in efforts to solve the cypriot economic crisis e.u.

officials are in the russian capital joining the cypriot finance minister the ailing euro zone state is running out of time to avoid bankruptcy after the country's parliament rejected preconditions for a new loan artie's piece going off has this report. officials are gathering in the russian capital including the head of the european commission or barroso they're expected to discuss the crisis in cyprus with the russian of the audi's and this is happening after prime minister dmitry medvedev had some really strong words to say about the whole situation but so far the e.u. together with the cyprus parliament have unfortunately acted like a bull in a china shop i think all possible mistakes which could have been made in this situation have been made the prime minister didn't stop there he also compared the approach with which european union officials are ready to deal with bribing bank accounts to how soviet authorities dealt with the money of soviet citizens meaning

expropriation of private property now the cypriot finance minister is also in moscow on wednesday he met with his russian counterpart and also with the first deputy prime minister there is speculation that cyprus is asking russia for a loan the finance minister said that no official offer has been made straightforward he stressed he's not leaving the russian capital until an agreement is reached and now all this is happening despite angela merkel being completely furious with cyprus for even talking to moscow about this earlier she directly called on the country not even to consult with anyone on its current economic problems except for the us also and the so-called troika of p. investors earlier the cypriot quadrant rejected the choice because bailout proposal which included taxing private bank accounts and. the country's lore of the cypriot media week or so that the country's parliament is set to review an alternative plan of trying to resolve the crisis on thursday not many details are normally known but

perhaps it could include plans to tap into social funds or like the retirement fund through through which simply adds authorities to collect around five billion euros which is pretty much. see them out we would have collected would be introduced to this tax for private very good crowds we need time for the country is running out the supreme banking system is still shut down and the country's president said that the crisis must be resolved before the end of the day. and the european central bank says it will have to cut cypresses funding unless the island state gets a bailout soon robert always chairman of the bridge group which is nice think tank believes the ease pressure on cyprus exposes a worrying hierarchy within the block. it seems that certain countries such as germany are we pushing their own agenda in those countries are the small and can't really stand up to the larger interests in the your opinion the large

financial interests of french and german banks are really pushed around and are and are bullied and do not get a good deal and this is very dark from the e.u. to try and take percentage of the savings of the p. banks which is actually we could argue that's actually breaching e.u. rules on protection taking deposits so it's actually very silly and it's also bullying and he's actually counterproductive because it's now threatening the whole banking system in southern europe because people see he's no friend of those who have tapings in bank accounts he's no friend of protecting deposits and bank profits on what actually is this really otherwise should be. it is a story that is generating a lot of opinion and later today r.t. is next kaiser gives his take on cyprus. they just keep blowing this this chunks of vomit in people's face the people in cyprus are being knocked down with

projectile vomit coming out of the mouth of of the e.c.b. and the i.m.f. christine lagarde projectile vomiting into the face of the people of cyprus and saying eat that shit up and they're saying look you i'm not in the environment and america proper just either christie and then the new york times all right what's the big deal oh mary ross sorkin i don't see anything wrong here meanwhile he's sucking christie's vomit down as fast as he can. a taste of the kaiser report later today now syria's government and rebels are both demanding an international probe into an alleged deadly chemical attack they traded accusations as to who was behind the assault near the northern city of aleppo that killed up to thirty one people and wounded dozens of others r.t. said in a collusion is following the developments. reports indicate chemical weapons have

been used in the. area of the aleppo province this is are not clear at the moment people were rushed to hospital after the attack few had visible wounds to their bodies but some of them were clearly suffering from some breathing difficulties now the activists of the assaults were saying that they saw other people falling to the floor dying witnesses have confirmed to r.t. that people have been suffering from effects of what seems to be some sort of guess . who could. you hear. where you're. over. now who could be behind this attack both assad's forces and rebels are pointing the finger of blame at each other but the rockets reportedly fell in areas controlled by the government the syrian rebels have long tried to overrun the weapons plant located

in the very same area you can see on the map right there aleppo and then also fear that is the place where some of the country's chemical stockpile is said to be stored in fact the syrian government said in december that rebel forces plundered supplied of chlorine gas and some time ago this video was posted online showing animals purportedly being killed with chemicals those behind this footage affiliated themselves with assad's opponents and threaten to do the same with those who support the syrian president yet all of this evidence doesn't seem to convince president obama deeply skeptical. any claim. it was the opposition that used chemical weapons and interesting use of the word skeptical when the stakes being so high one of the biggest concerns for all is this scenario where syria's chemical arsenal falls into the hands of extremists fighters among opposition forces as history has shown there are examples when fighters supported by the west have eventually turned their arms against their backers now let's for

just a moment imagine that extremists among the rebel fighters could get hold of chemical weapons how bad could the logged in attacks for example of two thousand and five have been if that was the case we've already seen images of a chemical attack on a subway in a huge city in one thousand nine hundred five in tokyo by religious sect now imagine a similar scenario was staged by people who work through all the calls that in syria initially supported by the west coming up later this hour powerless and hopeless the condition of guantanamo bay prisoners deteriorates as they continue their hunger strike with the first official reaction coming after more than a month of silence. the u.k. government on the wards world war two veterans who took supplies to the soviet union some consider it. they refused permission to accept brushes aboard for what's being described as the worst in the world.

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maintain is more than one hundred r.t.s. again brings us the latest. what we see here is a small protest in front of the white house one told them all has been out of the media spotlight for a while now you don't see much coverage on major u.s. news channels even with the hunger strike going on there right now so these people are trying to draw attention to the detainees more than fifty lawyers representing the president sent a letter to defense secretary chuck hagel urging him to help in that letter they said the participants health had deteriorated alarmingly and that some had lost more than twenty or thirty pounds that is nine to fourteen kilograms medical experts say by day forty five participants can experience potential blindness and potential loss of hearing so what prompted these people to resort to such a desperate move i was a consultant if you were the case. those men would tell their. basic i don't want to talk with your what's the point of talking with you i don't want to know the date i'm going to get out of here but there is no date all. being completely

oh as many of the detainees have come to believe and this is what they say we heard this from their lawyers that the only way out of guantanamo for them is in a coffin in january department shut down the office that was working to close guantanamo more than half of those detainees are sitting there with papers from the u.s. clearing them for with yet with no hope that they're ever going to be free again the officials are certainly trying to downplay the hunger strike but they're pressed for answers and they sure know what's going on and what cost the strike in the first place marine corps general john kelly and it's his command that oversees guantanamo he was testifying in congress this wednesday he said the prisoners have launched a hunger strike because they're frustrated take a listen they had great optimism that guantanamo would be closed they were devastated when the president did you know backed off at least their perception of closing the facility that has caused them to become frustrated and they want to

get this i think turned you don't get it back in the media. on our part will continue to press for answers as the strike continues and involves more people in washington i'm going to check on. a large part of the media have been playing down the story but r.t. has been following it from the beginning and we've got a timeline of events for you on our website where we've also gathered comments by the un prison officials detainees lawyers and activists to give you a full picture of what is going on there so you can head to our t.v. dot com for that and while you're there you might also find the voyager spacecraft may have just become the first manmade object to exit the solar system find out all the details online plus meet the rodent that almost caused yet another meltdown at japan's fukushima nuclear plant find out how close the country came to disaster all because of one rat knowing through a few why is there a lot more at r.t. dot com. striking civil servants have booed the british chancellor

george osborne as he announced his intention to stick with the stereotypic more than two hundred fifty thousand people were involved in the industrial action as the chancellor delivered his twenty thirteen budget to parliament despite three years of spending cuts and tax hikes the country is still on the brink of a triple dip recession richard wellings from the institute of economic affairs says the chancellor is suffocating the economy with his strategy. other people are pretty pessimistic about their long term outlook they don't think there's going to be this two or three percent growth that the government predicts in a couple of years' time obviously the big question mark is over what happens in the eurozone which accounts for around forty percent of u.k. exports and if they are just goes from crisis to crisis it has been seen recently in cyprus that must can't really have a very good name effect on growth in the u.k. so it's completely unpredictable this huge uncertainty in this context a cautious chance that would have actually made some greater spend the snow to actually put the public promises on

a more prudent fourteen but what we didn't see was any massive program of deregulation and this is really the way for him to get out of his current fix instead we saw even more tax complexity and more red tape being piled on and that's the office to have top of all this stuff coming from the european union which is very very harmful to the u.k. . a select group of u.k. world war two veterans have been awarded by prime minister david cameron for their service during the arctic convoys the convoys brought supplies to the soviet union in the fight against nazi germany last year london was criticized for rejecting moscow's offer to grant the british veterans a special award as party boyko reports feelings of gratitude are tainted with sadness and anger. a quarter of a million men took part in the arctic convoys over seventy years ago sadly today just a handful of those brave men still survived after decades of campaigning the case arctic convoy veterans are at downing street to pick up their new limited medals at

launch but it's all been worth it it's been a long while he'd british been a wonderful day long time coming i tried to survive one there will be a sadness as oh all my shipmates has crossed the back. and forth to die during the war ninety two year old vic bashford served in the royal air force as an electrical engineer him he was part of a secret operation that traveled on board the first optic convoy to russia back in one thousand nine hundred forty one stalin was urging mr jewett you to start a second front to go back into into prague to relieve the pressure. on the russians mr. we will certainly use some airplanes and we'll send you a brain to fly them well so near the moon too so buying time and. by will treat you and we will finish war o'briens so that's why we kind of you to be in the in russia

during world war two british ships transported around four million tons of supplies food and missions for the soviet union more than three thousand sailors didn't survive the journey west subzero temperatures and german air raids were a fact of life on earth. on the rig on the royals. crash. of. the month produce and die after they're out of their soup can be a bit frightening last year the british government came under fire for blocking veterans from receiving a special commemorative award from the russian government that medal was to be awarded as a symbol of gratitude for all that british veterans did to help the soviet union during the darkest days of the war and we now know we went through modules yet despite the opposition of m.p.'s the foreign office blocked the move saying the

fight against nazi germany happened too long ago for the men to be recognized effectively leaving some veterans to die without recognition for their service and the thanks they deserved or think it's disgraceful absolutely disgraceful that the we were not the commode rooms. are those that ruined the american. though been a war mode except one of us normally the russians he was with us so this arctic star is. a little bit of a soft. if you're. not with the pride but i would hope the russian. for those who braved the arctic waters and served their country all those years ago it's

a day of celebration shaking hands with the prime minister followed by a reception on the h.m.s. belfast with their arctic stars in tow but for many it's a celebration that's left a bitter aftertaste for the owner that's come too late for those who could still wear it. artsy london. i'm back with more news for you and often as time makes that we continue our journey through iraq looking at everyday life a decade after the photo of saddam hussein. jorge rios an argentinean student at seventeen other similar students from foreign countries all paid

a private company between three thousand and four thousand dollars so that they get to take part in a u.s. state department work study program he was promised forty hours of work per week at a common fast food restaurant with a decent salary but the reality he claims was quite different he was actually only given around four hours of work per week but was expected to be on call twenty four seven like a surgeon i guess in case of some burger emergency he says he was forced to live in accommodations that were provided by the restaurant real six plane that he had to sleep in a child sized bunk bed in a basement with seven other people in filthy conditions and for this service he had to pay the restaurant three hundred dollars a month overall real swallowed up paying the burger joint to work for them what a way to not make a living though this story sounds funny on the surface many foreigners in work and study and work in travel programs do experience exploitation upon arrival in the usa i've even personally met some of them so i know but more than that in

a time when millions of americans are struggling to put food on the kitchen table why are companies searching for thousands of exploitable foreigners to work for two dollars an hour cheaper it is corporate greed and their absolute disrespect for americans that allows this to happen just pay the extra two dollars and have americans work for you to cheap corporate pigs. but that's just my opinion.

live. the speech. i wish i. lived. a missile good luck. just seems. odd to me.