the guantanamo bay prison hunger strike reaches its fiftieth day. prison mistreatment. of u.s. government officials. very very quiet on this is. the future of. the european. potentially reaching. the summit in south africa with the world's top emerging economies challenge to the dollar the west bank. immigrants face a new controversial citizenship test that includes wide ranging questions on the

history. of the british parliament. with your news from all around the world this is live from moscow with me rule thank you for joining us today it is now fifty days since the biggest hunger strike began that america's war on terror detention facility with no progress being made to stop the protest which could be close to turning deadly the appetite for justice in acceptable treatment has seen three of the protesting inmates hospitalized or authorities say at least being force fed. new york with more details on this right now marina hello to you over there in the big apple so the strike from what appears to be expanding the u.s.

government still remains very tight lipped over it. that's right the u.s. government remains tight lipped but as this hunger strike at the guantanamo bay detention center grows more dangerous by the day the international committee of the red cross has announced that they have sent a doctor and another delegate to the island prison a week earlier than planned because of concerns surrounding the health of those hunger strikers participating in this protest now the i.c.r.c. representatives are scheduled to make a regular two week visit to the detention camp on april first but as we already just reported the organization says that these sent two representatives early due to the issues in the concerns relieving to the hunger strike now in the meantime navy captain robert duran to spokesman for the detention operation who we've been communicating with more than two weeks now confirms that thirty one of the one

hundred sixty six give no prisoners are on hunger strike eleven of the men are being force fed three of those men were hospitalized for rehydration an observation now two weeks ago when r.t. reached out to captain duran and he dismissed any reports or allegations of a mass hunger strike taking place at the detention facility then the numbers started escalating went from five to fourteen to twenty one twenty four twenty six now he confirms that it is. thirty one inmates but according to the center for constitutional rights and other attorneys they say that the pentagon is playing down these numbers they believe the attorneys for the prisoners say that more than one hundred of the detainees at gitmo are participating in this fifty day hunger strike now within the past day we spoke with attorney carlos warner he recently went to go visit his clients for

a phase. in the detention center. mr warner said that his client has lost more than thirty pounds in a month but his client looked exhausted weak it was such a scary prisoner such a scary picture rather but the thirty seven year old prisoner is a citizen of kuwait he's been held at guantanamo for ten years and ten months he's been charged with war crimes but his attorney when speaking to our she read a statement from his client let's take a listen to that. quote 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. now this hunger strike began according to attorneys on or around february sixth attorneys say that

the prisoners went on the strike to protest the a legit confiscation of their personal items and the alleged sacrilege is handling their khurana guantanamo officials u.s. military officials deny. that any there was any mishandling of the korans or that their prisoners have been much mistreated in any way but what u.s. military officials have said in recent days is that this is this is not just about treatment this is about the fact that these inmates of these detainee detainees have lost hope that that closing guantanamo bay is still a realistic priority for u.s. president barack obama you know we do all recall that he promised to close down this this prison by the beginning of twenty ten we're now way past that due date

that he promised. is still open just a matter of fact. u.s. officials are asking for hundreds of millions of dollars to maintain and expand that facility and we should mention for our viewers they should understand that there's one hundred sixty six six prisoners languishing still kuantan though more than half of them have been cleared for either transfer or release attorneys say that by holding these men without charge without trial the united states is violating international laws of human rights and is standing in a point of contradiction by not preach it by not doing as it preaches when it comes to due process in justice take a listen to what the attorney have to say. these are men they're not animals that are people that we have grown to know 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. and we will be reaching out to the red cross to find out what their doctor and the other delicate has seen and heard during their visit get most so far and we will update our viewers once we have more information or i don't is more important with the latest ongoing hunger strike in guantanamo bay prison in cuba live in new york thank you. well up for the seven weeks the hunger strike has been taken place he's been gathering statements from lawyers are diverse prison officials on the international organizations and you can head over to our dot com right now we've got a very detailed timeline to give you more insight into the situation ongoing and guantanamo you can see some bird right here or you can also read about the what is now a global reaction the strike has invoked so far lots of details for you.

for now credit rating agencies are ringing alarm bells over cyprus saying the e.u.'s bungled rescue was sent in vesta's packing across europe brussels bailout for the tax haven aisle came strong with some of the harshest conditions yet including a big deposit tax e.u. banks are now reporting mass holds from fearful savers who are looking to get their money out of the block and. founder and c.e.o. of blacksmith energy consulting group he says the use of approach to solving the cypriot crisis has been less than ideal. 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 the particular case of cyprus shows a political move where we're we're we're we're trying to. to heal

a deep wound with a bandaid obviously cyprus is again in particular case but the overall discussion and the overall worry and fear that is that is underlying here is is for for every european citizen. responding to the brics summit charles robertson global chief economist at renaissance capital says that the idea of the group's own bank comes as the result of the slow pace of change or stablished institutions. the architects year to find out who set up in the mine to forty's to reflect the reality then which is 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. we know the head of these organizations is an american it is a european even though they've been

a strong challenge i think the brics are saying they can't people to wait any longer for the i.m.f. world bank to change more dramatic you think of the start making changes on their own. or there's an option a total consensus in a completely friendly atmosphere between all of those with the bric summit have a close look right here the bottom will actually say the right part of your screen now where south african security guards at the summit nearly all into a full on brawl with the russian president vladimir putin's security detail seems to be a bit of a case of misidentification here the south african summer security guys are getting rather aggressive certainly getting physical with president putin the security men thank goodness it didn't go any further though we have got some pretty shocking footage at r.t. dot com for you to see in your own spare time just a click away at the end of the day they were allowed in and no major brawls erupted . are tough and although the united states is supporting bashar al assad's policies in syria at least that's what the leader of the opposition council

says after his request for effectively imposing a partial no fly zone over syria was turned down by washington more and that is on the way shortly. and a major countrywide surveillance plan in america hits a stumbling block as local governments and say no to the drone initiative it's an important story and more after the break. join thousands of gadgets gurus plug 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 previous successes forward turns up the heat on google and despite a new twist on infotainment it's not just fun and games often overlooked video

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of supporting president assad and 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 meantime has had serious seat in the body to be opposition and also officially endorsed lead member states to send arms to rebel fighters and the russian foreign ministry has reacted by saying the moves are illegitimate and only encourage more bloodshed in syria about yomi as a kid we the editor of the pan-african news wire 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 a little last several years. the gulf emirates these elite forces. 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 for the crossroads of foreign interests all of that for debate with love elena's cross talk team that's coming your way in about an hour and fifteen minutes. syria is being. supplied. they have to be. 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. the same time they are pouring petrol on a fire. the u.s. 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 though was the local authorities are not too happy at all about the idea of being watched twenty four hours a day guy nature kind of reports. you know 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 the developer did not offer any details but said this for not disabling 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 with a garment of designed to be firmly 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 this particular location three days two hours four minutes ago and it would actually show you exactly what happened and you feel 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'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 up. on that also dot com right now a new reason to pick your words carefully when tweeting about your job or recently launched application for the social network trunks all negative posts you make about your work or your boss maybe sooner than later you had over to walk to dot com to learn how to avoid getting in trouble. and sweden i knew a list of new words for the first time removing google after succumbing to pressure from the american giant more information on their website. just turning six twenty pm here in the russian capital of the 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 or 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 artists or further forward so many brits themselves find that they are well. unable to answer many of the basic questions. 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 be on 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 the people who were in the past being prominent members of the government were being asked questions like who was the. british king who expelled the danes for. getting completely and hopelessly wrong and you know that used to supply these. very muffet 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 british was a find out we some of these questions to members of the press is public so find out how they fare which led looks 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 could this is an assistant shit test what you call the second largest party in the house of commons conservatives is the opposition. you go 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. i'll give you. 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. eighteen to twenty four questions correctly and the need to learn details historical background if they want to become. and many people did last year more

than one hundred fifty thousand people. almost eighty thousand of which were here in. our let's give it a now as promised starting with the five star movement has said that it will not enter into negotiations to form a government with the center left alliance led by would you personally. previously said that it would not support the big parties it blames for the current crisis and the announcement leaves the italian parliament deadlocked. lines that one last month's election but did not get enough senate seats to govern on its. protesters thought to be supporters of the opposition have detonated a handful of crude explosives in the capital dhaka and nobody was hurt in the blasts the demonstrators are demanding the release of one hundred fifty activists taken into custody earlier this month and charged with inciting violence this comes

on the second day of a nationwide strike called out by the opposition. and wildfires are raging to the west of melbourne in southeastern australia destroying homes and injuring at least five people four of them firemen and emergency services have been using to bomb the flames are trying to bring them under control authorities say they will be launching an investigation into how the fire was originally sparked. all right i just around the corner here want to see we took a close look at the life of a man who spent thirty years behind bars but is now spending the time to lend a helping hand to those who would just like live from moscow this is what.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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the board 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. i 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. the course i'm scared. i haven't been here in nine years i don't know what's waiting for me. or their idea of this is me as a baby or bolting in my mother's arms i look dumb 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 then 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 which you just need to with . to it we forget that you have to catch them at the right moment before a soon as they're out of the colony 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.