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of the. news from all around the world. it is now fifty days since the biggest. war on terror detention facility with no progress being made to stop the protest which could be close to deadly. three of the protesting inmates hospitalized. being force fed. a federal public defender carlos warner says the hunger strike is desperation has reached its peak and they are ready to die.

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 as of today i saw him last week i represent more of the 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 could not stand. it was a scary scary meeting for me 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 well the white house is remaining rather tongue tied over the situation and despite reports from the military that the strikes expanding the now involves more than thirty people lawyers however claim the number of those refusing food is more than three times that. she's been following the protest as these details. according to the center for constitutional rights the hunger strike began on or around february sixth when prisoners decided to protest the confiscation of their personal life and the. handling of their korans u.s. military officials deny that. the inmates have been mishandled in any way r.t. has also reached out 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 detainees 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. well for the seven weeks the hunger strike has been taking place has been gathering statements from. prison officials and international organizations you can see it all right here on the special. dot com is where you can get inside in the situation ongoing in guantanamo and certainly you can gauge the reaction it's provoked already from all around the world. and for now credit rating agencies are ringing alarm bells over cyprus saying the e.u.'s bungled rescue her sent investors packing across europe brussels bail out for the tax haven i'll came strong with some of the harshest conditions yet including a deposit tax banks are now reporting mass calls from fearful savers who are

looking to get their money out of the block let's get more of the crisis now with the founder and c.e.o. of blacksmith energy consulting group are now joining us live here on r.t. good to see you today a lovely if you behind here i they would like to he fell very quickly to jump into what we're talking about here regarding cyprus it appears now according to some that it's safe that it will not be heading to the out of bankruptcy but do you think the price of the bailout and all the measures involved have made it worthwhile. worthwhile i don't know because i think the i think the debate here is obviously much broader than the particular case of cyprus and the political message that's being conveyed behind the the high end of the base and been going on for the last week or so are clearly underlining the lack of a lack of vision. behind europe's bailout i mean i think

cyprus is again a particular case of the overall discussion and the overall worry and fear that is that is underlying here is for for every european citizen well i mean certainly there are a lot of concerns not just for every european citizen but other members of the other economy economic members of the eurozone itself when it comes to what's been happening in cyprus with people losing certain amounts of their bank deposits and so on and so forth we're also hearing that foreign capital has been it quickly smuggled out of cyprus via loopholes in recent days if that's the case nicosia might need even more money how do you read into that. i think it again the i feel that the particular case of cyprus shows a a political move we're we're we're we're trying to. to heal

a deep wound with a band-aid. the issue here is all you see behind saving the economy of cyprus and when you step back a little and just look at cyprus like any. any person or corporate corporate asking for a loan any financial institution would wonder if if the debtor will be measured to repay or not as it stands in cyprus cyprus is the economy relying quite significantly on its tax haven status. it is quite consistent from the european union not to not to rely on on cyprus is you know favorite tax regime to to repay whatever the. when when you talk about cyprus i was i was sort of jump in here jeff i mean cyprus has been a legal haven it's a safety zone for those who want to invest that money there it's

a legally that you know the money should be safe in that degree when it comes to the frustration of the people there on cyprus we're hearing some describing the e.u. bailout and the grabbing of funds from the two leading banks as basically legalized theft. believe it's true to a certain extent and that's where i again i come back to the idea of the political message there is a economical situation with a country that is nearly closed to bankruptcy and where a bailout is needed that's for sure but one and one must wonder and particularly politicians must wonder at what is the cause and again of that situation clearly aside from that there is the there is the challenge of the european union which which has been ongoing for the last decades which is tax harmonization and again as a european citizen i feel that. harm minimisation of tax tax regime

across europe europe is clearly a concern. and the fact that within europe countries tax haven as legal as you say but still very. significant benefits compared to their compared to the other euro members clearly create a conflict sure situation and that i mean i mean when you talk about you talk about getting into a day situation i'm sort of jumping i've got zero time left but very quickly jeremy on some of this what we've seen with the e.u. bailout in cyprus could that could that set a precedent what could happen to other eurozone economies quickly i don't believe so to a larger extent i believe that other countries with. with very particular tax regimes and with obviously critical economical situations could be come from to

similar situations. founder and c.e.o. of a blacksmith consultancy for energy firms thank you very much indeed for joining us here on out sea life from powers thank you. it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today a new global bank is being born in south africa where the world's top emerging markets are meeting now the new financial powerhouse would be a direct challenger to the world bank and the i.m.f. both of course dominated by the united states and the dollar's fairing poorly there as well with brazil russia india china and south africa mulling the idea of partially ditching greenback trade citing how vulnerable it is to future crises are going off as this report from the summit that is now taking place in dublin. china and brazil have decided to reach a deal basically to conduct nearly half of the payments between each other international currency the total treats earner of between the two nations growing

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 u.s. 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 of the key goal of this organization of brics to promote a multi-polar world and what we're witnessing here now is basically the transformation of brit's from a dialogue forum to a full scale strategic cooperation giant. well responding to the bric summit charles robinson global chief economist at renaissance capital he says the idea of the group's own bank well that comes as the result of the slow pace of change at a stumbling institution. the architecture. of finance was set up in the one to 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 people were to wait any longer for the i.m.f. and world bank to change more dramatic you think imma start making changes on their own with a certainly not in a total consensus in a completely friendly atmosphere between all the members there the brics somewhat in durban have a look right here this chap over here is part of the russian presidential security detail the guy in the gray suit that is south african summer security basically telling a lot of me of putin's security details to get out that they're not welcomed of course this is just a case of mistaken identity. it got rather physically aggressive i don't see i don't see the russian president's security guys getting getting physical but certainly the south african guys have been shoving and pushing though at the end of

the day the confusion was done away with and they were all allowed peacefully into the summit more footage of that on our web site r t dot com. well the united states is supporting bashar al assad's policies in syria at least that's what the leader of the opposition council says to his request for effectively imposing a partial no fly zone was turned down by washington more and that is just around the corner. and a major countrywide surveillance plan in the united states hits a stumbling block as local governments say a full no to the drone and this and much more after the break.

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a report on our. good to have you with us here on our rovers who shall live in moscow the leader of the opposition syrian national count. seoul is accused washington of supporting president assad that's after the u.s. made it clear that it won't fulfill his request to shoot down syrian warplanes with a nato patriot missiles deployed in neighboring turkey and the arab league meanwhile has handed syria's seat in the in the body to the opposition and also officially endorsed any member states to send to rebel fighters the russian foreign minister has reacted by saying the moves are illegitimate and only encourage more bloodshed by on the us a kiwi the editor of the pan-african newswire he 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 it 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 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 with

a crossroads of foreign interests i want to debate with his team on cross talk that's coming your way a bit later today. as being supply. side they have to the iranian regime. 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 the us france britain. the same time 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 won't be easy to realize there was

a local authorities are not too happy about the idea of being watched around the clock by reporting on the resistance to use guy in a church you can. create a 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 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 knowledge that could shield people from surveillance drones over the phone the developer 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 that area. also in the battle for privacy

a designer in new york came up with an anti civilian clothing line this is a garment of designed to be firmly reflective of. which means that he bounces off it 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. a million terabytes of video which is the equivalent of five thousand hours of high definition footage so you can go back and say i would like to see. 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 is 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 is 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. talk about a new reason to pick your words carefully one tweeting about your job. application for the social network trucks all the negative posts you make about your work or your boss if you had over a website right now you can learn the details you know. has its annual list of new words for the first time removing the. coming to pressure from the american details on the website.

it's a nearly world update time here on r.t. for now though with a stone age jury service and the london olympics just three subjects you can now be quizzed on if you want to become a british citizen the new version of the controversial u.k. citizenship test has just been put into place and is being well harshly criticized for its difficulty and focus on history as auntie sarah further reports there are plenty of brits themselves who will cause many of the most basic questions. well sons call them the famous british landmark in london's trafalgar square don't commemorate admiral nelson he died in the past or to fall in eighty nine by this also now we are first to one of the questions persons with. 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 the. british king who expel the danes for. i'm guessing completely and hopelessly wrong and yet. they must say that by putting 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 but with 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 british public to find out

how they fare which landmarks 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 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 five and has a monument here in trafalgar square. but. maybe i did give you guys that save. it. this is 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 it if they can do that i think that. they

see one. eighteen to twenty four questions correctly and the need to learn details historical background if they want to become. and many people do you lost more than one hundred fifty thousand people. almost eighty thousand of which were here in the . starting with where the five star movement is said it will not enter into into negotiations to form a government with the center left alliance led by pier luigi bersani 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. alliance one last month's election did not get enough senate seats to govern on its own. in bangladesh protesters thought to be supporters of the opposition and detonated

a handful of crude explosives in the capital dhaka nobody was hurt the demonstrators are demanding the release of one hundred fifty activists taken into custody earlier this month they were charged with inciting violence and this comes on the second day of a nationwide strike called by the opposition. a strong earthquake. shaking buildings and injuring twenty people most of whom were hit by calling objects of the six magnitude quake was felt all across the island that hit hardest in the region where the ceiling of an office building came down wounding one that's why one is frequently hit by earthquakes but they're usually small and doing the minor damage. wildfires are raging to the west of melbourne in southeastern australia destroying homes and injuring five people at least four of those hurt a fireman that's according to the local media motions and services have been i'm saying because the bottom of the flames trying to bring them under control

authorities say launch an investigation into how the fire was. and in just a moment here are a close look at the life of a man who spent thirteen years behind bars and is now lending a helping hand to those who would just like you live from moscow this is. when their own country turned off for them a living loving mother sometimes have to leave their children behind. i don't like to wonder just depends longer. if the dream of millions of migrants that their children might choose their motherland. is. i want my children to win over moscow. russia has

become this motherland. migrants working hard to find a way home. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. so.