many of them are ready to die the question is how and when will they die. as the lawyer for one of the detainees tells. the end of the day many inmates prefer the idea of. the. biggest emerging economy strength. to challenge the world's economic deals aimed at reducing the. global trade. immigrants who want to become british. around the country's history in a quick. parliament. just

now after three pm here in the russian capital this is. news from all around the world. the biggest hunger strike at guantanamo bay prison has seen in years now entering its fiftieth day with concerns for detainees health certainly on the rise fears it could soon lead to fatalities or even prompted the red cross to visit the camp a week earlier than planned three of the inmates protesting over mistreatment and indefinite detention have been hospitalized and at least ten are right now being force fed the situation though exacerbated by the fact that many of the hunger strikers are actually ready to die this according to u.s. federal public defender carlos warner but we're talking to my colleague bill dog earlier he exclusively showed a statement recently made by one it was one ton of obey clients of. a revealing the

ultimate desperation most of them a feeling i scare myself when i look in the mirror let them kill us is that we have nothing to lose we died when obama indefinitely detained us 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 to many clients there but i did see him last week and it was it was a shock 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 or kilis will his

wish come true or will he now be prepared to die. well i think that many of the men 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 has 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 to 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 meanwhile the white house is keeping very quiet over the whole situation even as the u.s. military admits the strike is growing saying thirty one inmates are now refusing food other lawyers claim the numbers are much higher. portnoy who's been following

the protest has the latest numbers funks and ficus. according to the center for constitutional rights the hunger strike began on or around february sixth when prisoners decided to protest the alleged confiscation of their personal life and the allegedly. handling of their korans u.s. military officials deny that. the 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 country currently there are one hundred sixty six detainee'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. party. for the seven weeks the hunger strike has been taking place been gathering statements from. prison officials and

international organizations if you had to or special timeline at all if you can get the full picture of the ongoing. prison if you will also see a lot. of the protests are getting from around the world as we speak. now more executives are feeling the strain in the fallout from the cypriot banking . now the c.e.o. of the country's biggest bank has reportedly been sacked as part of the country's bailout deal with the e.u. and the i.m.f. comes a day after the bank's chairman resigned the deal to avoid bankruptcy could see large depositors losing up to eighty percent of their savings that's a move seen by many as quote legalized theft r.t. contributor afshin rattansi says the cyprus turmoil is a clear indication or 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 is it work has already created panic and well it'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 to the cli because some analysts destroy the chinese call it western.

thank you for joining us here on arts for you today emerging market giants china and brazil have agreed to trade the equivalent of up to thirty billion dollars per year but in their current sees that the move is a bit challenging the long time dominance of the greenback and the euro in global trade and the so-called brics nations brazil russia india china and south africa but all been working to reinforce the clout of the world's fastest growing economies now let's have a look at some of the figures that truly illustrate their rapid rise here together these countries account for more than a quarter of the world's land masses that is no small plot and they represent around three billion people that's about forty percent of the world's population and almost a fifth of the global trade as well now economically speaking at the brics spoke me looking to have been doing better i should say should do a lot better than the g.d.p.

compared to other members of the g seven countries that's including the us germany and japan its economic growth in two thousand and twelve almost five times higher than that of the g seven so are the message to the brics leaders ascending to the u.s. and europe certainly is that the current balance of economic power in the world is untenable. position of has the latest now from the summit in the south african city of durban. china and brazil have decided to deal basically to conduct nearly half of the payments between each other international currency the total treat turnover of between the two nations growing stands at around seventy five billion euros dollars now also 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 over joint development bank possibly with a starter capital of around fifty billion us dollars into 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 they want and they 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 moving with a currency is also quite obvious that it helps the economies of the five member states of brics to be protected from things like currency wars war 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 basically all the steps that have been made so far only proof of the key goal of this organization of brics to promote a multiple world and what we're witnessing here now is basically the transformation of bricks from a dialogue form to

a full scale strategic cooperation giant. pissed off right there well let's not talk to charles robertson our global chief economist at a renaissance capital joining us live here on r.t. a pleasure to see you today thanks so much for joining us of the brics nations arguing that the current global economic order should be changed because it's out of date or perhaps out of balance what do you make of that. i don't know totally fair the architecture of international finance who set up in the one nine hundred forty s. to reflect the reality then which was obviously american power the u.k.'s power and europe in general so there are changes happening to the i.m.f. and to the world bank still we know that the head of these organizations is an american and as a european even though they've been a strong challenge i think the brics are saying they can't be bothered to wait any longer for the i.m.f. and world bank to change more dramatic you they can start making changes on their own but do you think

a deal that the members of the brics countries could they actually work to counter effectively counter the dominance of the u.s. dollar and the euro u.s. dollar there's two aspects here as a trading currency it makes a lot of sense to have one single. point of exchange or currency exchange that everybody uses that makes life simple so i think is that as a unit of exchange the dollars going to be dominant for a long time it took decades for the u.s. dollar to take over from the british pound and it's going to take decades for the u.s. dollar to lose its dominance in trade but in terms of saving money in foreign exchange reserves it makes an awful lot more sense to not use the dollar as your only store of value i think there's a lot to be argued in favor of of buying into local currency debt in russia brazil china these are currencies which remain well hold their value bets so you are talking about the diversification the diversification ultimately investing in

various currencies here not just not just the greenback if i may ask you very quickly charles the brics nations are hoping to establish a new global development bank up possibly to rival the i.m.f. and the world bank i mean how big of a challenge do you think such a new establishment could put towards the i.m.f. world bank. it i don't think you can replace them. for most countries most of the time but there's two aspects they're talking about one is a development bank which would be like the world bank itself providing funding for long term infrastructure for example the sort of things that the private sector won't do anyway that could challenge the world bank the other aspect of this is the international idea of setting up a foreign exchange fund to be there to intervene at a time of f.x. crisis a man if it was run by the brics led by the brics funded by the brics that might reduce dependence on some countries who otherwise would have no choice but to go to

the i.m.f. and then there have been a huge number to charles if i can jump in just one and i do apologize i'm so low on time here but i've got to make the most of this some critics are saying that the west is not particularly happy about the rising power of the brics countries and could actually act to undermine this growing influence you're making a mention about whether you've got a european and an american leader a certain top levels is a kind of difference being made. i personally think that feeding the west is against the rise of emerging markets is almost a twentieth century cold war it's just not true that the west is delighted that there's somewhere in the world that's growing faster than europe i mean my space is faster than america it's great because markets we grow but you choose for western firms and how do you want jobs in the west so i think the west is delighted by the rise of the brics. global chief economist at renaissance capital many thanks for

joining us here on r.t. today thank you. well there's not been a total consensus on a totally friendly atmosphere between all participants of the brics summit a south african guards nearly engaged with a brawl with the actual russian presidential guard top left over that one guys being stopped this guy have a look here this south african god he just gets downright physical with one of the members of the russian presidential security detail he's not the only one that feels the wrath of the south african summit security guys as well they just carries on but eventually from what i understand here at odds all the right protocol officials and security detail members were finally allowed into the break summit in durban south africa where you can get more footage from that of alex he taught called right now but i still to come your way in just a just a few minutes here when i see a big brother is watching i washington seeks ways to track citizens using an increasing number of drones the move was made by stopping opposition from individual states. also we tell you why the arab league has

a legalized sending arms to the syrian rebels and a lot more after the break. choose your language. according.

to the consensus. choose the opinions that you. choose the stories get in your life choose to. thanks for joining us here on out on real research i live in moscow and the arab league has given the green light for its members to stop sending to syrian rebels despite fears that the syrian opposition is being increasingly infiltrated by foreign she hottest fight has a bio me as a keyway the editor of the pan-african news wire he says the arab league is 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 heavily with the united states and the north atlantic treaty organization so it's really not surprising that in concert 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. and how the syrian conflict is increasingly

spreading beyond its borders finding itself at the crossroads of foreign interests so that's up for debate in a pill of cross talk program us coming your way in about twelve minutes from now. being supplied how do you believe supply. side they have to the iranian regime. saying that iran is not seriously need to go to rangers and i want to say one 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. particularly. the same time they are pouring petrol on a fire at. three twenty pm here in the russian capital it appears that the sky's the limit for u.s.

law enforcement aerial surveillance drones set to be used domestically a couple hill has certainly met some fierce resistance to the plans. and 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 the developer did not offer any details but said this or not disabling 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 antisocial and clothing line and this is a garment of designed to be firmly reflective of. which means that he bounces off and he does what's he was for thermal imaging. 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 in this particular location three days two hours four minutes ago and when i 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 where as a number of states try to restrict the use of drones at a federal level there is 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. home right now online for you. but there was self-inflicted and all told. the report shows that the child. suffered repeated injuries before his death in america but a medical condition that led him to self. poles apart from. chinese driver nearly losing his head.

post through the windscreen of his boss at the video in full and stunning footage and i want you to. now immigrants who want to become british now have. to study hard for the u.k. government introduced its citizenship test it's requiring an applicant to know as many as three thousand facts about the country's history and a test that even many british natives fail to pass. this report. also in scotland the famous british landmark in london's trafalgar square built to commemorate admiral nelson he died in the bus or to follow in eighteen a boy this is also now be our first one of the questions one person has. already 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 people who in the past had been prominent members of the government were being asked questions like. the british king who expel the danes for. i'm guessing completely and hopelessly wrong and you know that you supply these. they must first say that by putting british culture and history at the heart of the system that they're ensuring that those who want to settle in britain permanently fully understand british life but the 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 did some of these questions to members of the british public to find out how they fare which led looks of prehistoric monument which stands in the english country of well. 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 shit test 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. give you guys. not only. this all sorts of questions i've gone through them it's not as if these questions are good. people are going to be done online and they get to have plenty of opportunity to look through a very thin book frankly for if they can't do that then i think that. they see one. eighteen to twenty four questions correctly and the need to learn

details of backgrounds if they want to become. and many people day last year more than one hundred fifty thousand people. almost eighty thousand of which were here in london. in the world starting with me and ma where sectarian violence continues to escalate also where more curfews are being imposed as a muslim community is edged closer to the larger city of rangoon a state of emergency is in force in central regions where some forty deaths have been reported since the unrest began a week ago the trouble broke out after a reported to augment in a shop between a muslim and a buddhist twelve thousand muslims have since fled the predominantly buddhist region. north korea says it's cut a key military hotline with his neighbor born south korea's president against slandering. long range missiles on dog hillary will put in. getting

the u.s. mainland as well as why. the pentagon has condemned the moves saying it's ready to respond to any contingency the tensions between washington and pyongyang remain high following u.n. sanctions on the communist state of the north korea's nuclear test it was last month. what about all the news from me for now but just ahead for you peter lavelle gets. serious with syria it's all up for discussion is closed. to future. joint thousands of gadget gurus walk into the mobile world congress in barcelona for research in handset makers try to get their groove back. changed and software super chargers hope to spin previous successes forward crushes yandex

turns up the heat on google and despite a new twist on infotainment it's not just fun and games often overlooked video engines pretty flawless streaming clover just to the palm of your hands and there's a new player in town looking to show that too isn't that better than one fun to watch a day if you're on a. leave the country. on . the face with. his or.