are ready to die the question is how and when will they die strike in guantanamo now its fiftieth day threatening to turn fatal as a lawyer for one of the detainees tells our team many inmates prefer the idea of death indefinite detention. the five biggest emerging economies string thing unity to challenge the world's economic order with deals aimed at reducing the dominance of the dollar in global trade. immigrants who want to become british will have to learn thousands of facts about the country's history and a quiz that even some members of the u.k. parliament can't pass.

one pm in moscow why matras a good having you with us here on r t our top story the biggest hunger strike kuantan m o b detention center is seen in years and during its fiftieth day with concerns for detainees health growing fears it could soon lead to fatalities even prompted the red cross to visit the camp a week earlier than planned three of the inmates protesting over mistreatment indefinite detention have been hospitalized at least ten now being force fed situation exacerbated by the fact that many of the hunger strikers say they're ready to die according to u.s. federal public defender carlos warner when talking earlier with my colleague bill dodd he exclusively shared a statement recently made by one of his guantanamo clients faisal kind diary revealing the ultimate desperation he says most 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 detain. this respect us or kill us it's your choice the u.s.

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 kilis will his wish come true or will he now be prepared to die but i think that many of the man 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 shortly 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 and 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 you know all the white house is keeping silent on the situation even as the u.s. military admits the strike is growing saying there are thirty one inmates are refusing food lawyers claim the numbers are higher though portnoy has been following the protests she brings us the details from new york. according to the center for constitutional rights the hunger strike began on around february sixth when prisoners decided to protest the confiscation of their personal life and yet legit satterlee just handling of their korans now u.s.

military officials deny that the qur'an inmates have been mishandled in any way. to the white house for for comment but a spokesperson for the white house referred us to the pentagon currently there are one hundred sixty six detainee he's still languishing on the island more than half of those men have already been cleared for release and many of those men most of them have been held there for more than a decade reporting from new york. r.t. . for seven weeks the hunger strikes been happening our team has been gathering statements from lawyers activists prison officials and international organizations clipped to our special timeline r.t. dot com for a full picture of the situation there and see what response the protest has gotten so far. another day of close banks in cyprus with anger growing over the belo deal with the e.u. and the i.m.f. thousands of students protesting in the capital nicosia against the painful rescue

plan and has ramifications the deal to avoid bankruptcy could see large deposits losing up to eighty percent of their savings moved out seen by many as quote legalise faffed r t contributor option written so you think this is to cyprus turmoil as 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 the thing to hook to the poorest people and psychoses the world has already created panic and that's the name of the bank governors are in the euro are countries where 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 lima bubbles into the clink because someone has destroyed the chinese call it western capitalism. emerging market giants china and brazil have agreed to a multi-billion dollar deal aimed at challenging a long time dominance of the greenback and the euro in global trade so-called brics countries brazil russia india china and south africa working to reinforce the cloud of the world's fastest growing economies. is at the summit in the south african city of durban joining us live with more so you're going to tell us more about this agreement agreement between china brazil. china and brazil have decided there and reached a deal basically to conduct nearly half of the payments between each other in their national currencies the total to return over between the two nations currently

stands at around seventy five billion euros dollars now another project currently being worked on here at the bric summit in south africa and has already been agreed in principle is the future establishment of a joint development bank possibly with a starter capital of around fifty billion u.s. dollars and why is all of this happening well the five members of the brics organisation for the past two decades have been the most rapidly developing economies in the world and they do want to trade freely and how we want and we do want to be independent from financial problems in the current stagnating economic global system especially with the latest problems in the euro zone and other issues and turbulence in the global economy now the thing with the currencies is also quite obvious that it helps the economy is off the five member states of brics to be protected from things like currency wars or consequences related to the changes of the euro and of the dollar and establishing

a joint development bank would also help them not be affected by problems in say the i.m.f. or the world bank so the idea is this for this organization is to promote the world and i knew sort of economic model which these five member states of the organizations have clearly shown that is. very effective possibly even more effective than what we're seeing now in the global economy all right artie's europe is going of life arose in durban thanks very much for that update. professor of economics and finance at new york university and leave things many of the bricks groups moves could be triggered by the establishment resistance to its growing influence they certainly are growing in more influence they are growing in wealth perhaps down the road their political power will also be stronger certainly the western countries have been resisting that and this is part of the

reason why you see them trying to create their own version of a development bank so that you know they don't have to feel that they're just excluded from the western club that they can now start their own club because they have. cohesion enough common interests to do so in the car and the strength to do so well there hasn't been a total consensus in a friendly atmosphere between all of the participants in the brics summit take a look at this video here you just saw a lot of your putin and his entourage go in but these are some of putin's guards right over here and suddenly they're going to get testy with some of the guards from durban calling over some other security now deal with it these are some of putin's entourage apparently they were holding some of them in the case that's always supposed to be carried with them that involves national security information and there was a scuffle and some of them were asked to leave but eventually we were told everything got ironed out and the men went through without much problem.

well coming up in just a few minutes big brother could be watching washington seeking ways to track citizens using an increasing number of drones but the move met with opposition from several individual states stay with us for that plus. we'll tell you why the arab league has legalized sending arms to syrian rebels this and more after a short break stay with us here on our team. when you have nowhere to live. when you don't have a family. when you have no one to ask for help you can always count on. this man is respected by criminals and also as he's a like soundex comix anonymous people like he used to be. for the homeless on our city.

thirteen minutes past the hour now the arab league has given the green light for its members to send arms to syrian rebels despite fears the syrian opposition is being increasingly infiltrated by foreign jihadi fighters he has

a keyway an editor of the pad africa news wire says the arab league could be pursuing its own agenda and 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 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 absent 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 is increasingly spreading beyond its borders finding itself at a crossroads of foreign interest that and more are for debating peter lavelle's cross talk later today take a look. syria is being supplied. supplied with. they have to be. saying that iran is not seriously the answer isn't to say we're in the situation and 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 i must just i'm not. going to be i mean the same time that pouring petrol on a fire at. the

sky could be the limit for us law enforcement with the aerial drone set to be used domestically capitol hill though meeting resistance to the plans or he's got a 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 in the drew is taken seventeen thousand five hundred feet above quantico virginia and covers fifteen square miles of flu 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 effort 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 the developer 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 to look at areas. also in the battle for privacy a designer in new york came up with a man to sabella a clothing line with a garment of designed to be firmly reflective. which means that he bounces off it and he just wants to use 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 would do 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 three days two hours four minutes ago and it would actually show you exactly what happened if you will watching it there's actually enough resolution to be able to see people waving their arms or walking

around with clothes they wear as a number of states try to restrict the use of drones at a federal level there's a great push to expand their use the federal aviation administration projects that in seven years there will be thirty thousand 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. for you right now battered and bruised but the wounds self-inflicted autopsy reports showing adopted russian child maxime cruz men suffered repeated injuries before his death in the u.s. but a medical condition led him to self harm find out more details on our. holes all part check out this video right here into the windshield all lucky driver escaping death as a lamppost smashes through the windscreen of his bus the video in full and much

more stunning footage available on our you tube. immigrants hoping to become british citizens now off to study hard after the u.k. government introduced its citizenship test requiring an applicant to know as many as three thousand facts about the country's history in a test even many british natives fail to pass or peace are furthest morphologic. well since cullen the famous british landmark in london's trafalgar square built to commemorate admiral nelson he died in the past or to follow in eighteen a boy but it's also now we are one of the questions persons since that time the

ready 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 in the past have been prominent members of the government that were being asked questions like who was a good british king who expelled the danes for. i'm guessing completely and hopelessly wrong and yet his discipline. they must say that by putting british culture and history at the heart of the system said that they're insuring 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 versus what's

a find out we've got some of these questions to members of the british public to find out how they fed which lie most of 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. hugo 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 is going to be done online and they get to have plenty of opportunity to look through

a very thin book but frankly for it if they can do that then i think that's a little box they see once the path that path leads to eighteen to twenty people questions correctly and the towns it's there are called backgrounds if they want to become a brick and many people did last year more than one hundred fifty thousand people said that. they almost eighty thousand of which were here in the. turnout of some other stories making global headlines sectarian violence continues in myanmar war more curfews have been imposed as attacks on muslim communities edged closer to the largest city rangoon a state of emergency in force in central regions where some forty deaths were reported since unrest started a week ago trouble broke out after reported argument in a shop between a muslim and a buddhist at least twelve thousand muslims of since fled the predominantly buddhist region. north korea says it's cut

a key military hotline with its neighbor and warns south korea's president against quote slandering earlier pyongyang's long range missiles and artillery will put in combat posture targeting the u.s. mainland including hawaii and guam the pentagon's condemned the threats saying you know it's ready to respond to any contingency tensions between pyongyang and washington remain high after the u.n. sanctions on the communist state after north korea's third nuclear test last month . the former cia director general david petraeus has apologized for conduct that led to his resignation last year betray a step down after details of an extramarital affair were revealed he made the apology during his first public appearance at the university of southern california where the audience included many military veterans. coming up a look at the life of a man who spent three decades behind bars is now lending a helping hand those in the same situation stay with us.

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billboard before they just released me from prison. come here from the colony. i spent nine years there in the far north. it was for robbery under article one six two. only have one son but he doesn't need me one for he's already an adult. that i'd like my life to be normal. like everyone else go to work come home find a woman start a family. and just live. with

course i'm scared. i haven't been here in nine years i don't know what's waiting for me. or they are there through this is me as a baby or will tell you in my mother's arms. record i should be a kindergarten i was such a well behaved boy then wore a sailor suit it was a fashion in those days and these pictures are from penal colonies but there's me as a youngster this is comes out. of all the pictures were black and white but again these are just some of the things to show that i was once on hard times too i also lived in a refuge. what i'm saying is that you can break out of it you just need the will.

to it we've got to get that you have to catch them at the right moment for a thought a soon as they're out of the colony you encourage them a bit you say. listen. there's a lift take you back to jail or you can turn right there's deep meaning in that. i needed to get a place. which train as soon as possible there are no trains today ok whenever the next one is and.