them are ready to die the question is how and when will they die. i can go on tottenham zero now in its fiftieth day threatening to turn fatal as a lawyer for one of the detainees tells r t many inmates prefer the idea of death to indefinite detention. the five biggest emerging economy strengthen their unity to challenge the world's economic order with deals aimed at reducing the dominance of the dollar and global trade. immigrants who want to become british will have to learn fountains of facts about the country's history and a quiz that even some members of the u.k. parliament failed to pass.

new and in moscow i match reza good having you with us here on r t our top story the biggest biggest hunger strike guantanamo bay prison is seen in years entering its fiftieth day with concerns for the detainees health growing fears it could soon lead to fatalities have even prompted the red cross to visit the camp a week earlier than planned fear of the inmates protesting over mistreatment an indefinite detention have been hospitalized at least ten are being force fed the white house is keeping silent while the u.s. military is accused of downplaying the scale of the strike prison officials admit thirty one inmates are refusing food now but defense attorneys say the true numbers are higher situation being aggravated by the fact that many of the hunger strikers are actually ready to die according to u.s. federal public defender carlos warner were talking earlier with my colleague bill dodd he shared a statement recently made by one of his pantano clients. are you really the ultimate desperation he says most of the detainees feel. i scare myself when i look

in the mirror let them kill us as we have nothing to lose we died when obama indefinitely detained us respect us or kill us it's your choice the us must take off its mask and kill us that was his statement as of today i saw him last week i represent more i have many clients there but i did see him last week and it was it was a shocked to see what i saw he was a man who was down over thirty pounds from less than a month ago he refused all nourishment his cheeks were sunken he was exhausted and could not stand. it was a scary scary meeting for me and his messages respect all kidless will his wish come true or will he now be prepared to die but i think that

many of the men in the ones that are indefinitely detained they have zero hope they have no hope because of the ministration i think many of them are ready to die the question is how and when will they die they have no hope of being released from that place and until being had some hope it's very difficult to live everybody in guantanamo is indefinitely detained nobody is being released cleared for release or not why nor joy give me surely and explain the u.s. must have a justified legal reason for keeping these people locked up. yes the reason very simple and it's at the foot of president obama this is a broken promise one that he has chosen to not abide by it he looks at the republicans in congress he says it's their fault well as of today there's not one person in the ministration i can contact to redress these problems there's nobody

in the entire obama administration i could call and say let's stop the hunger strike these are men they're not animals that are people that we have grown to know and respect and i don't want to see any of them die i don't want to see them die over this or any other protest they should get process there at the end of their rope if and it's not if it's when people die if the strike is not ended then sure there's going to be more attention but let me tell you as a human being i do not want to see my clients die and the fact that they're in this condition is one of the most heart wrenching things that i've had to experience as a lawyer. for the seven weeks the hunger strike has been going on artie's been gathering statements from lawyers activists prison officials and international organizations head to our timeline r.t. dot com to get a full picture of the guantanamo situation and see what response the protest has gotten so far. day of close banks in

cyprus anger growing over the belo deal with the e.u. and the i.m.f. thousands of students have been protesting in the capital nicosia against the powerful rescue plan and its ramifications the deal to avoid bankruptcy could see large deposits losing up to eighty percent of their savings a move seen by many as quote legalized theft r t contributor option returns he says of the cyprus turmoil is an indication of a fading economic model. the main thing about cyprus is this is a clear example of the euro zone elite and let's face it right from the start of the euro zone project was an elite system at the expense of the poor and the poor out there demonstrating in nicosia because they see that the confidence of the banking system is about confidence the initial panacea that they had to hook to the poorest people in cyprus as it were has already created panic and that's the name of the bank governor and there is no in the euro countries that we're looking at

right now and of course in the united states the government acts as a quasi private entity in itself and along with that kind of private profit idea within the banking system there in line the bubbles intimately because it's summer and destroy the chinese coolie western. emerging market giants china and brazil have agreed to trade the equivalent of up to thirty billion dollars a year in their own currencies the move aimed at challenging the longtime dominance of the dollar and the euro and global trade the so-called brics nations brazil russia india china south africa working to reinforce the clout of the world's fastest growing economies on the global stage. has more from the summit in the south african city of durban. it's the final and most important day of the brics summit here in south africa on tuesday the delegations mostly met separately then

today on wednesday brazil russia india china and south africa are all sitting down together to discuss the key issues and challenges facing the organization and there's lots to talk about like the future establishment of a joint development bank possibly with a starter capital of around fifty billion dollars also after last year's a brick summit in new delhi when the five partners decided to conduct all of the payments between each other in their national currencies to protect their economies from things like currency wars or the consequences of the change of the dollar rate there is also an idea of forming a joint bank for international payments and also in light of the latest turbulence in the global economy and especially new problems in the euro zone there is also an idea of establishing a joint anti crisis fund of up to possibly of two even two hundred forty billion

u.s. dollars now the potential of brics as an organization really can't be underestimated for the last two decades its members have clearly shown to be the most rapidly developing economies in the world in two thousand and twelve the average g.d.p. growth. of the five member states of brics was around four percent if you compare that to g seven it was less than one percent but it's really not about the economy and nor is it about the fact that the combined population of all the member states of great speeches nearly three billion people but it's also about politics and the fact that all the five member states of brics share the same point of view on the key international affairs including the iranian nuclear program and the crisis in syria russia and china have been constantly defending these positions points of views at the un security council the key idea of brics is not to oppose other international organizations but to work together with anyone willing to do so and to promote the bipolarity of the world actually one of the countries showing strong

interest in becoming a member of brics is egypt its president is also here in south africa monitoring what's happening within the framework of this emerging geopolitical giant. from under some analysis on this i'm joined by ballerina sami a professor of economics at china europe international business school thanks for joining us here on our t.v. so the brics countries they say that they're trying to challenge the current established model of economic order saying that it's out of date it doesn't apply to the current paradigm that there is out there how fair do you think are those accusations. obviously these economies are large compared to what they have been in the past but i think still we compare with the g seven economies they are still rather small so although the growth is high but when we look at the volume of growth this is still not as substantial as the g seven countries so in that sense i think it is difficult to say that. in the near

future with that they will become don't mean an economy that one the other thing that we should keep in mind is that even among the brics you know we are talking about china that probably don't mean needs in terms of the size of the economy china alone contribute less the potential portion will be the combined g.d.p. of these of this fight because it's so right now you could say it's almost a group of economic political and of up starts who are banding together out of their own mutual convenience do you think though that could grow into more important strategic alliance in the future or do you think eventually as they establish themselves it may push that apart. i think it is still going to be in some kind of an economic alliance and i don't see this going into any. as such i mean for example if you talk about you know the political dimension i mean we are

talking about you know the largest democratic country in the world and the largest non-democratic in the world we'd be in the alliance so if we look at some of the other areas that they might go into i actually don't see moving forward that much but on the economic slide i mean obviously you know with the brics one of the things that they have become is they have become the leaders of the developing world so so i think we need the combination of these five economies leading the developing world is the way forward so i don't think that this will probably remain an economic bloc and nothing more than that one of the things that they're trying to do they say is to challenge or kind of replace the dominance of the dollar and the euro in terms of this global stagnation that we have right now do you think that's a good idea and do you think there are capable of achieving an alternative to those two yeah i think again you know we got to understand that this is not

a very balanced alliance if you talk about trade for instance china alone makes up about three quarters of that create a month to the brics countries so if you talk about let's say for example between say brazil and india this is this is small compared to where the relationship between china and brazil for example so you know while we can talk about equal partners but i think we have to accept the fact that it is their m.b. that is playing a dominant feature now there are some critics who look at this whole thing in the say that the west and the established authority isn't taking kindly to the brics they're seeing them as kind of like the new kids on the block and they could work to undermine that influence what's your take on that. i mean obviously i think it's the report mentioned just now we are talking about a group of countries that represent huge portion of mankind so in that sense you know they should be taken seriously and i think a given the growth that they have although they have slowed down you know over the

last year or so but be still the most important sources of economic growth so i think the developed countries that do not take the bricks seriously maybe might be worth the price of all right belarus i mean thanks very much for your insight well there hasn't been a total consensus and totally friendly atmosphere between all of the participants of the brics on it south african guards nearly in gauged in a brawl with the guards of russian president vladimir putin after the leader went through his men reportedly asked to take that there are secret red button cases to be scanned now these never leave their owners hands now somewhere then asked to leave the building but all is well that ends well and the group was eventually let inside and everything turned out ok after that little snafu. well still to come in a couple of minutes big brother could be watching washington seeking ways to track

citizens using an increasing number of drones but the move met by stark opposition from individual states. also we'll tell you why the arab league allies sending arms to the syrian rebels that and more after a short break stay with us. please . join thousands of gadgets into the mobile world congress in barcelona for research and handset makers try to get their groove back. and software super chargers hope to spin preview success forward turns up the heat on google and despite a new twist on infotainment it's not just fun and games the overlooked video engine is pretty well this streaming clover just to the palm of your hands and there's a new player in town looking to show that is in fact better than one.

like. fifty minutes past the hour thanks for staying with us the arab league has given a green light for members to send arms to syrian rebels despite fears the syrian opposition is being increasingly infiltrated by foreign jihadi fighters. editor of the pan-african newswire thinks the arab league could be pursuing its own agenda in extending support for the rebels. we also have to understand the political

composition of the arab league has been dominated a little last several years by the gulf emirates these elite forces on operating in countries that are not democratic themselves therefore they have no real moral basis for criticism of the government in damascus also on these arab emirates in the gulf i'm heavily with the united states and the north atlantic treaty organization so it's really not surprising that in kata you would have a situation where the syrian government would be attacked and that you would have these opposition forces who are heavily divided themselves who have no real program for the future of syria and who have been reluctant and even obstinate in regard to negotiate any type of political settlement to the conflict in syria to be seated as a legitimate government of syria. how the syrian conflict increasingly spreading

beyond its borders finding itself at the crossroads of foreign interests except for the debate in petero about cross talk coming up later today take a look. syria is being supplied with leave supplied with. they have to the iranian regime. saying that iran is not seriously need to drop the ranters and i want to say when the situation it's just it's not true iran's role in the syrian uprising is really negligible because at the present moment there is the western powers the us france britain. are going to be i mean the same time that pouring petrol on a fire at. the sky could be the limit for u.s. law enforcement with the aerial drone the said to be used to mystically that capitol hill has made some firm resistance to its plans artie's guided she has more

on the attempts to fight back against the federal project. one point this documentary on u.s. public television touts the technological capabilities of drones and their new super sensors this image was taken seventeen thousand five hundred feet above quantico virginia and covers fifteen square miles if we wanted to know what is going on in any spot along the seam i'd say near this building at this intersection we can generate a moving image that shows what's going on in the area the state of virginia was the first to stand up against this kind of surveillance in early february the state legislature passed a two year moratorium on the use of drones but the bill is yet to be signed by the state's governor who is known to be very supportive of the spy aircraft. in charlottesville virginia police have never used drones but the city council has nonetheless restricted their use just in case these this technology is already

being heavily marketed to local law enforcement agencies and other groups and there's even one county in virginia that already purchased two drones for surveillance and so we know it's coming and we just we want to get out ahead of it at least twenty seven states are now considering legislation to outline how drones can be used by law enforcement or to ground them all together but there are those who believe the lawmakers at first will not the rise of the spy planes so they're taking the matter into their own hands a company in oregon says it has developed and will soon start selling to acknowledge that could shield people from surveillance drones over the phone to develop it did not offer any details but said this or not this able in their cameras or anything like that we are not doing anything physically to the drones we are simply not allowing their cameras that area. also in the battle for privacy a designer in new york came up with an anti sabella clothing line with

a garment of designed to be firmly reflective. which means that he bounces off it and he does what's used for thermal imaging and particular this technology is used a lot on drones and you refuse but it's doubtful that this designers gear however creative could compete with the cutting edge spiked acknowledging now being developed for government use a million terabytes of video a day which is the equivalent of five thousand hours of high definition footage so you can go back and say i would like to see what happened this particular location thirty days two hours four minutes ago and what i've seen the show you exactly what happened and you feel watching it live there's actually enough resolution to be able to see people waving their arms or walking around with those things where as a number of states try to restrict the use of drones at a federal level there is

a great push to expend their use the federal aviation administration projects that in seven years there will be thirty thousand you avi's flying over the u.s. there's absolutely no way of knowing if we are being filmed at the moment so we might as well wave to big brother up there in washington i'm going to check out. online for you right now a battered and bruised but the wounds were self-inflicted an autopsy report showing the adopted russian child maxime clues mean so for the repeated injuries before his death in the u.s. a medical condition led him to harm himself i know the details are. plus. check this out holes all part wait for it there it is a lucky chinese driver mysteriously escaping death as a lamppost smashes through the windshield of his bus the video into full and much more stunning footage available on our you tube chop.

immigrants who want to become british now have to study hard after the u.k. government introduced its citizenship test requires an applicant and it was many as three thousand facts about the country's history and a test even many british natives can't pass or sarraf earth reports from london. well since cullen the famous british landmark in london's trafalgar square commemorate i'm now so he died in the bus or to follow in a teenage boy but it's also now be on the first one of the questions persons. the way he is being criticized focusing too much on historical information and not enough on practical knowledge it's become

a standard joke and i mean that you know for something which is supposed to be taken seriously and you know when it was first announced we were involved in a few little quiz sessions where even you know prominent members of the people who were in the past being prominent members of the government were being asked questions like who was a good british king who expelled the danes for. i'm guessing completely in hopelessly wrong and yet he's disappeared. so he must say that by pissing british culture and history at the heart of the system that they're ensuring that they still want to settle in britain permanently fully understand british life those criticisms about the test being overly complex and focusing too much on historical information do the questions really represent what it means to be british was a find out we some of these questions to members of the press is public so find out how they feel we slam looks a prehistoric monument which stands in the english country of will. the name of the

admiral he's got a monument here in trafalgar square below the notion yes that's right ok we've got another one for you because this is an assistant ship ties what you call the second largest party in the house of commons conservatives it is the opposition. you go one of the to the name of the admiral he died in battle in eight hundred eighty five and has a monument here in trafalgar square. well. maybe i'll give you guys. than i only know that this is all sorts of questions i've gone through them it's not as if these questions are good. people going to be done online and they get to have plenty of opportunity to look through a very thin book but frankly i'd mug up for it if they can't do that then i think that's a little bunch they see once upon the testimony the eighteen to twenty people questions

correctly and then the details it's their call backgrounds if they want to become a brick and many people do you lost to more than a hundred and fifty thousand people so that they can see it. almost eighty thousand of which were here in london turning out of some other stories making global headlines sectarian violence continues in myanmar where more curfews have been imposed as attacks on muslim communities edged closer to the biggest city rangoon a state of emergency in force in central regions where some forty have died since the reported since the unrest began a week ago trouble broke out after a reported argument in a shop between a muslim and a buddhist at least twelve thousand muslims have fled the predominantly buddhist area. north korean long range rockets and artillery have been put in combat ready posture and are targeting the us mainland us hawaii and guam the pentagon has condemned the threat saying it's ready to

respond to any contingency tension between washington and pyongyang remains high following u.n. sanctions on the communist state after north korea's third nuclear test last month . of the former director of the cia general david petraeus has apologized for the conduct that led to his resignation last year which various stood down after details of an extramarital affair were uncovered he made the apology during his first public appearance at the university of southern california the audience including many military veterans. up next breaking the set stay with us you're out. when their own country jonjo for them a living even loving mothers sometimes have to leave their children behind. i don't

like to work just a bit longer. is the dream of millions of migrants that their children might choose their own motherland. i was. stunned. oh my room is new in america. i want my children to win over moscow. russia has become this stepmother land teammate's migrants working hard to find a way home. i mean so to know your city in europe on the hosts of the twenty four g. in the winter the picture. thank you. so much. thank you.

so. little. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i love. i mean. i know that i'm still really messed up. and we're all very sorry personally. and. the worst you're going to. live out to the. radio guy for a minute. and what we're about to give you never seen anything like this i'm told. what is going on the guy is out he martin and this is breaking the set so by now you probably heard about the supreme court ruling about today there's

a heated debate on gay rights that could lead the high court to outlaw prop eight which bans same sex marriage in california the supreme court ruling is not only significant to californians if they ruled it's unconstitutional it could be the impetus to ban this kind of legislation anywhere else in the country are going to huge victory for the l g b t community so here's to hoping that today signifies the beginning of real progress for gay rights and somewhat sadder news i have an update on the. america the palestinian political prisoner who's been on a hunger strike in an israeli jail for over two hundred days right now samar has a heartbeat of twenty eight beats per minute and doctors are saying that his heart could stop at any moment think about this chilling fact for one second and although these two stories are very different from opposite sides of the world they share raw commonality they both represent a fight for equality just is and pursuit of freedom and those are principles that you stand for to.