the guantanamo bay prison one hundred. fifty a day. prison mistreatment. of u.s. government officials who remain silent. with . a grim. wide ranging questions on. members of the british parliament who are unable to work.

with their well live from moscow this is with me will receive a thank you for joining us this. it is now fifty days since the biggest hunger strike ever began that america's war on terror detention facility with no progress being made to stop the protest which could actually be turning deadly fears the ongoing campaign among prisoners at guantanamo bay could see fatalities soon however now and none of that is a grabbing the attention of the media instead. of the red cross the organizations humanitarian workers have been to visit the camp a week earlier than planned the appetite for justice treatment has seen three of the protesting inmates hospitalized. at least being force fed and u.s. federal public defender carlos warner says the hunger strike is desperation as

reached its peak and they are ready to die he spoke to my colleague bill daughter. recently made by one of his guantanamo bay. 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 u.s. must take off its mask and kill us that was his statement. 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 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 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 shortly to explain the u.s. must have a justified legal reason for keeping these people locked up. yes the reason very simple i am a liberal i believe in president obama and i voted for him twice but this is a broken promise 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. and the reason the white house has a remaining rather tongue tied over the situation despite reports from the military that the strikes expanding and now involves more than thirty people lawyers however

claim the number of those are refusing food is more than three times higher. portnoy who's been following the protests has the latest details. according to the center for constitutional rights. on around sixty one prisoners decided to. confiscation of their personal. handling of. u.s. military officials. in any way . the white house. or the white house. currently there are one hundred sixty. the island more than one of those have already cleared for release and many of those most of them have been held there for more than

a decade. for the seven weeks the hunger strike has been taken place. from lawyers to prison officials international organizations you can go to right now and a very specific timeline that is covering the whole situation in guantanamo bay and you can also see what reaction the protest has invoked so far for your. credit rating agencies are ringing alarm bells. saying that you use approach to bailing it out of investors packing across europe brussels rescue for the. strong with some of the harshest conditions yet including a massive deposit. reporting calls from fearful savers who are looking to get their money out of a block contributor. 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 well it's the name of the bank governor and there isn't. 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 that will ultimately according to some analysts destroy chinese coolies western.

this is r t live from moscow a new global bank is being born in south africa where the world's top emerging markets a meeting of the new financial powerhouse would be a direct challenge to the world bank and the i.m.f. of course both dominated by the united states the dollar's fairing poorly there as well with brazil one russia india china and south africa mulling the idea of partly ditching green back trade citing how vulnerable it is to future crises artie's you've got pissed off reports now from the summit in durban. china and brazil have decided to reach a deal basically to conduct nearly half of the payments between each other in their national currencies the total treats earner of between the two nations currently stands at around seventy five billion u.s. dollars now also another project currently being worked on here at the brics 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 us dollars and why is all of this happening as 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 the thing with the 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 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 basically all the steps that have been made so far only prove the key goal of this organization of the brics to promote

a multi-polar 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. well as we continue to cover the brics summit charles robertson the chief global economist a renaissance capital says the idea of a brics bank is the result of the slow pace of change it established institutions. the architecture. of finance was set up in the 1940'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 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 proper to wait any

longer for the i.m.f. and world bank to change more dramatic you think in the start making changes on their own well there's not been a total consensus in a completely friendly atmosphere between all participants of the brics summit have a look right here the russian president's security detail in the black suit getting shelved by the local south african summit security guys as well apparently in not wanting to allow the russian presidential disappear to detail members to go through up and even gets even more physical between the local what some might call the rent a cop or the local security at the summit there above the russian presidential men were put back out they were eventually allowed to go back in but after a couple more scuffles. of the end it did turn out ok but if you go to r.t. dot com you can certainly see more footage of that right there. now the united states is supporting bashar al assad's policies in syria at least

that's what the leader of the opposition council says his request for effectively imposing a powerful no fly zone over syria was turned down by washington more on that is coming your way shortly. and a major countrywide surveillance plan in the united states hits a stumbling block as local governments say of. the drug an issue to have much more after the break. when you have no way to live. when you don't have a family. you can always count on. this man is respected by criminals and. people like he used to be. for the homeless.

good to have you with us here on r.t. on river sushi i live in moscow now the leader of the opposition syrian national council has accused washington of supporting president assad that's after the u.s.

made it clear that it won't fill his request to shoot down syrian warplanes with a nato patriot missiles deployed in neighboring turkey and the arab league meantime has handed syria's seat in the body to the opposition and also officially endorsed league member states to send to rebel fighters the russian foreign minister has a reacted by saying the moves are illegitimate and only encourage more bloodshed by o. me as a kiwi of the editor of the pan-african newswire says the arab league is looking out for itself when extending support to the rebels. we also have to understand the political composition of the arab league has been dominated over the last several years by the gulf emirates these elite forces are 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 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 on itself with a crossroads of foreign interests that's up for debate computer files cross talk program that's coming up a bit later today one. is being supplied. saying

that iran is 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 of the us. they are pouring petrol on a fire. the us government hopes to increase the number of its surveillance drones to ten thousand in the next seven years and the plans will be easy to realize there was a local authorities are not particularly happy about the idea of being watched twenty four seven parties guy nature can reports on the resistance. create 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 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 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 to develop it did not offer any details but said this or not this is enabling 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 mantissa valence clothing line this is a garment of designed to be thermally reflective. 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 it would actually show you exactly what happened if you were watching it there's actually enough resolution to be able to see people waving their arms or walking around with things 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 new 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. well talk about a good pick your words carefully when tweeting about your. application for the. head to the website right now for those details. details on the website.

if you want to become a british citizen and the new version of the controversial citizenship test has just been put into place and is being well harshly criticized for its difficult. history as. many brits themselves are struggling to find some of the most basic questions. also in scotland the famous british landmark in london's trafalgar square built to commemorate admiral nelson he died in the past or to fall in eighty nine by this also now be on one of the questions forces. 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's you know something which is supposed to be taken seriously and you know when it was fast announced we were involved in a few little quiz sessions where even you know prominent members of the people who

in the past had been prominent members of the government were being asked questions like who was the the british king who expelled the danes for. i'm guessing completely and hopelessly wrong and you know that you supply these. very muffet 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 to find out we put some of these questions to members of the british public to find out how they fare which landmarks a prehistoric monument which stands in the english country of well. the name of the admiral he's got a monument here in trafalgar square a lot 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. but. when you give you guys that save. it. there is all sorts of questions i've gone through them it's not as if these questions are. people going to be done online and they get to have plenty of opportunity to look through a very thin book frankly for it if they can do that i think that. they see one. correctly and. if they want to become. and many people did a lot more than a hundred thousand people. almost eighty thousand of which were here in london.

and into the world up there we go starting with italy right now the five star movement has said that it will not enter into negotiations to form a government with a center left alliance led by. the anti establishment party had previously said it would not support the big parties it blames for the current crisis the announcement leaves the italian parliament deadlocked and alliance one last month's election but did not get enough senate seats to govern on its own. and to bangladesh where protest is thought to be supporters of the opposition have detonated a handful of crude explosives in the capital and nobody was hurt in the blasts demonstrators are demanding the release of one hundred and fifty activists taken into custody earlier this month charged with inciting violence this comes on the second day of a nationwide strike called by the opposition. a strong earthquake has

taiwan shaking buildings and injuring twenty most of whom were hit by falling objects the six magnitude quake was felt all across the island but hit hardest in the region where the ceiling of an office building came down. taiwan is frequently hit by earthquakes but they are usually small and do only a minor amount of damage. wildfires are raging to the west of melbourne in southeastern australia destroying homes and injuring five people three of those hurt a fireman that's according to local media emergency services have been bombing water from planes to try to bring the flames under control authorities say although launch an investigation into how the fire was spotted. are just one here on our team coming up next it's a b. martin and breaking the sat.

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