the plight of guantanamo hunger strikers getting worse some claim they're being denied drinking water all the where i'd cross that rushes to the facility in the growing concerns for the inmates health. plus losing a third of your body weight and hope the u.s. military attorney now in guantanamo tells r.t. desperation over indefinite detention is reaching a critical level among detainees. and the biggest ever cyber attack of its kind of internet access globally after a clash between us bamm filtering company and a hosting firm ripples out across the web. and the banks open their doors in cyprus but little relief for citizens with empty wallets with strict cash limits set to avoid

a run on the same. eight am in moscow i matter as a good having you with us here on our t.v. our top story the hunger strike in guantanamo prison going from bad to worse detainees who've been refusing food over mistreatment for several weeks now claim they're being denied drinking water by the guards there's some a growing concerns a strike might turn deadly with several inmates already hospitalized arche spoke with u.s. air force lieutenant colonel barry when guarded military attorney in guantanamo now who told us about the desperate conditions he says he found his clients. for an attorney in almost five years coming one time of. the more than fifty thousand i mean we talk about you know you forget whole. part of poker

playing that week he went from one forty seven down to one hundred seven i mean he was only one third of body weight and he continued. i can't you know if you want to or not but i can tell you that after eleven years of the region can charge in an opportunity to defend himself it's a very low point here and one out of no question was an exceptional movement the way he performed think of one hundred sixty six individual out here in the cleared individual. no way in any process of any relief from here. we've been robbed of a process that we were told we would get military commissions well you know we don't even have charge let alone an opportunity to get him out represent him only because of the former. regime and what it would mean to me. try but now he had no charges for me and i can't go to college department.

quite that if. i die back when president obama declared. an extension of the concept then we will. end for the rest of their lives without ever having an opportunity to defend him now when a leader of a country come to an indefinite detention will be applied to guantanamo bay well that's when you tie. breaking trippy. fears for the lives of the hunger striking prisoners have prompted the red cross to send a delegation to check conditions at the facility earlier than planned camp officials say more than thirty detainees are refusing food the lawyers and activists claim the number exceeds one hundred thirty talking with r t a spokesman for the international committee of the red cross in north america simon shore no said poor legal regulation in guantanamo is to blame for the situation from our observations eagles tensions and and this anguish that he needs or experience and

he's clearly related to the lack of a clear legal framework in guantanamo and this is now a real impact and as an impact forty three days for some time on their mental health on their emotional for us would be the issue beyond just what you know we are seeing right now going on tunnel is these issues that lawyers are talking about the issue of the legal framework that that regiments the detention at guantanamo and this is that you should that the administration must address meanwhile the white house has broken its silence commenting for the first time since the strike started almost seven weeks ago a spokesman says the obama administration is closely monitoring the situation and remains committed to closing the facility former u.s. assistant secretary of state for public affairs under obama p.j. crowley tells r.t. the president's hands are tied though in this situation. having worked for president obama i thought that president obama had the right policy approach when he came into office in two thousand and nine to close guantanamo within one year

the united states civilian justice system has for decades been able to handle terrorism cases we've had a number of them in recent months and years however as the president had had signed an executive order pledging he had to close guantanamo congress has prevented him from doing that there was a secondary effort through the state department for those. detainees who were judged to belong to no longer pose a threat or have been mistakenly brought to judge guantanamo the first place to transport those back to home countries third countries and that has simply had tried that had over time made the challenges smaller unfortunately the state department has been forced because of funding issues to close that office down so it really is congress that has basically frozen you know the situation in place the president is right now unable to move forward to reduce the population close to

population and obviously that's having an effect head over to our timeline r.t. dot com for more response to the situation you get most plus of course we're interested in your take on the issue in our online poll today we're asking what the result of the protest is likely to be and see the opinion is stacking up so far more than half of those voting think the debt's think deaths among congress strikers are eminent and that only a token policy change will be the result fifth more optimistic saying conditions for prisoners will improve as a result of the protest less think the u.s. will close guantanamo to save face but carry on with the indefinite detention policy seven percent claim the bad press generated by the story will put an end to that policy r.t. dot com is the place to go to cast your vote so go over there and click it.

a cyber war is being waged across the internet millions around the world are thought to be affected by disruption the loss of speed in their web services and what security experts are calling the biggest d.d. o. s. attack in history the disruptions came after a spat between major spam fighting group based in geneva and a dutch web hosting company our web producer andrew blake explains my colleague bill dodd how the battle turned global. this is actually just a fight among two companies one geneva based spamhaus which is a nonprofit but has bases all over the world they actually provide security services to keep bad things from going through the internet they actually protect one point four billion e-mail accounts across the entire world than the other side

we have cyber bunker a company a dutch company who is very open about being able to do whatever they want on the internet they can host lots of material and they don't like being told what they can and can't do online and what has erupted is a battle on the web that has in some instances actually crippled internet traffic internationally i know earlier you guys actually spoke to someone from from cyber bunker who you know didn't go ahead and actually credit himself with that with this attack but kind of defended it and said it was a stance that was existing so that they can go up against this big international nonprofit who so they claim can actually control what goes on the web. and to be. effect censorship we're going to say which were the job into position where they can just go to the website and it would show up and do it on a regular basis if people do not comply to demand they just young guy or internet

provider of to which all the groups blend of that going towards an e-mail so you can see here this isn't a case of like a particular government saying what can and can happen on their internet this is actually a company a nonprofit with in thirty eight headquarters across the world i believe thursday i'm sorry thirty investigators in ten countries across the world protecting a huge chunk of the internet so that spamhaus and cyber bunker is saying like i'm sorry here but you can't just be you know in showers of the internet and if you think you can do that we'll show you just how powerful you are but the thing is you and millions of all that uses the internet around the world to be affected by this or they just feel bad all these. attacks i mean this school that is affecting everybody one interesting thing that we should say here is that these attacks now if they're actually taking down parts of the internet that are used for communications in the united states for example the telecommunications sector is actually considered a vital in critical part of the nation's infrastructure so once that goes down that

is actually considered to purge nato's definitions of cyber war so i think we're seeing something that's a little childish it's between two groups who just don't don't quite get along what's happening as a result of this is the whole internet is slowing down and so it could have some pretty dangerous repercussions of that happening for an entire week now and is you know under investigation and as we saw earlier when we were talking to cyber bunker it seems like that group isn't exactly ready to just sit back and go ahead and throw in the towel here. cyber attacks prove once again the perils of the internet but you can safely log on to our website r.t. dot com where there's plenty more stories lined up for you from across the web including sweden all during its official dictionary so new words are in and others are out including the word google coming to pressure from the web giant . breaking the liquid gold almost

a report on a russian man who spent three years beating a tunnel to siphon crude oil from a pipeline on our team dot com why a life of riches remains only a pipe dream. worlds biggest emerging economies have agreed in principle to a set up a new development bank that could rival the established financial institutions brics nations brazil russia india china south africa calling for reforms to the world bank and the i.m.f. saying they don't reflect the new balance of power in the world contributor option written see things although the brics project is yet to be finalized it could pose a challenge to the global economies government. the i.m.f. and world bank for decades have acted as bad cop good cop as it were we mustn't forget how historic day which is being said the potential for this is infinite for decades the world bank would offer money to developing nations and the i.m.f. would threaten those nations who we just have to speak to our guatemalan or

a argentinian or an african to know how the world bank and i operated for so many decades and killed so many millions tens of millions of people losing their policies in giving aid only dependent on their particular brand of washington consensus according to people like former i.m.f. man who wrote i think the book is a meme was a real economic hit man but the fact that right wing people like david frum in foreign policy can be so quick to delve brix the axis of asymmetry shows how behind the times people in washington really are. still ahead for you here a bomb blast striking the center of the greek capital sparking fears of more violence to power was the country fails and deeper into recession with people desperate they say over the state's financial future and. ready for a take up we'll look at a hopefully historic mission for the iconic soyuz rocket and international crew

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be. fifteen minutes past the hour a nail biting time in europe with cypriot banks due to reopen after being paralyzed for nearly two weeks little relief over cash citizens with severe restrictions imposed on how much money they can withdraw limits are set to prevent a bank run making cyprus the first euro zone country to introduce capital controls

are these tests are silly reports on the anger and despair on the ground as cypriots try to adapt to a new reality. like many in cyprus. this is simply stunned at the speed and man who will finish the banking crisis in his country seems to be spiraling out of control he shows us his wallet no cash a lean lottery tickets a single parent unemployed and caring for his sick mother the unraveling of cypresses financial woes couldn't have come at a worse time and i feel that i live with a pension of my mom all of your life is coming up side down you make a plan for the future so that people in the younger. you can have the economy of your country in the box. so. you standing with an empty hands. a

sentiment echoed throughout the tiny island nation. scenes like these becoming a daily occurrence another day in nicosia cyprus another protest though this one in particular is a gathering of that the police of the country's largest lender the bank of cyprus but they're worried that the company is headed for collapse and they may eventually lose their jobs though many cypriots told me that they are well aware that this is just the beginning of a long hard road i believe that. europe is germany's role because we're a small economy they felt that the consequences would be minimal what they don't know is that the president has been said and what happened today in cyprus could easily happen tomorrow to italy to front soon to spain we just want to be left alone to pick up the pieces and get on with our lives to cyprus is part of your peer european union system files and for. paying the money through the

european union who have to stand up to contras you may embarrass the man yeah. no but is that cyprus have a problem or it's because you know economy or something else as economic drama continues with politicians and bankers drawing up painful measures to execute the eurozone i.m.f. back to bailout plan it's all too clear to ordinary cypriots who is going to be very the brunt need this is mother for example have a monthly pension cut from one thousand one hundred eighty nine year olds to just over one thousand a month ago why they cut from the simple people who have special needs they cut from the people for his part allies question all cypriots would like answered as well. yes or sylvia r.t. because c.s. cyprus. has protests in cyprus intensified by the day engulfing people from all

walks of life some predict it will spill into violence. it is financial governance over europe i don't think they care what the citizens of europe the five hundred million people of european continent feel this crisis or these crises are being and it is governed by crisis to the extent extreme you know they were polite and said we're going to get you early on in this crisis four or five years ago now they're making a very bold statement they're not asking any more they're just going to take it if someone's trying to rob you then it would make sense that it could certainly lead to violence i mean that is the ultimate outcome if somebody is trying to get access what is theirs you know their money so they can put food on their table and they're being told no you can only take out three in a time or you can transfer around the to your friends or family around the world if you go on vacation you know take three thousand dollars i could certainly see an tempers flare. later today max kaiser and stacy herbert turned their attention to the cyprus crisis and they described as nothing but

a full fledged war. we saw it in greece and papa grayle stole money from the greek people put his mom's account to suddenly showed up in switzerland how did that get there who now are saying it with the leadership in cyprus stealing money from people who've seen this story before there's a war going on there's two sides there's the corrupt banking bank stirs and then there's people who are trying to hold on to what they have and i think if i'm not mistaken a bomb went off a couple of days ago in cyprus look for more of those types of things happening because this is a bloody war. it is gloomy prediction by kaiser there seems to be becoming a reality in greece a bomb explosion in athens near a famous tourist hot spot the acropolis apparently targeting the house of a shipping magnate who also used to sit on the board of the bank of cyprus is the

latest in a series of bomb attacks have been plaguing greece since this economy sunk into recession reflecting people's growing outrage artie's tom barton has more from athens. the bomb planted in a backpack exploded just hundreds of meters away from athens is i comic across the lists the police did manage to evacuate people from the area because of a tip off given to a greek newspaper just twenty minutes before the bomb was planted outside the house of little shack or such a rich figure owning a greek shipping company he is also recently reportedly been on the board of governors for the bank of cyprus greece has seen numerous small bomb attacks in previous years but there is a fear that there could be growing political violence linked to the effects of austerity and people's reaction against that a bomb was set off in cyprus on sunday there have also been bomb attacks in greece

in january one of those a softening sent another targeting the houses of five journalists and now this we've also seen violent protests over the past couple of years as greece's politicians have tried to struggle with their financial crisis and the ensuing need for austerity many people here are looking at the road ahead as a bleak one and it's feared that there may be people turning to more desperate means to express their frustration with the current situation. i'll be back after this short break stay with us.

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turning out of the most stories making international headlines this hour clashes of broke out in dresden germany where hundreds of national democratic party activists gathered calling for the deportation of foreigners who commit crimes in the country trouble started as an opposing left wing group reached the protesters police used tear gas to disperse the crowds the location of the rally symbolic next to a spot where german man was attacked by a non german then last. hundreds of people have marched through the streets of chicago protesting the closure of more than fifty schools because of budget cuts protests organized by the chicago teachers union more than one hundred demonstrators were given fines after staging a sit in in one of the city's main streets local authorities claim they'll save more than a billion dollars over ten years but the move forces more than thirty thousand

students to find new schools. u.k. home secretary who has lost the latest bid to depart to abu qatada a radical cleric who wanted it wanted in jordan over terrorists are just since the late ninety's the court of appeal rejected the attempt citing human rights oh said qatada is a very dangerous person quote the alleged al qaeda link terrorist was freed on bail conditions last year but returned to his prison this month for breaching rules. north korea's cut off a key military hotline with its southern neighbors claiming war may break out at any moment it was a last form of communication between the two states military drills conducted by washington and seoul including u.n. sanctions after north korea's latest nuclear test have increased tensions earlier ordering artillery and rocket units into combat posture aimed at the u.s. . less than a day before the soyuz spacecraft embarks on

a record breaking mission it will be the first ever six hour flight taking the new russian and american team to the international space station artie's enter a farmer looks at the ups and downs of the fast new route and what it means for the crew rolling out what will be in this story the iconic sillies rocky set another record from by canoe with the sweet taking three crew to the international space station in the fastest time ever it was last the journey from two days to just six hours and we achieve it by. just full times instead of thirty the full docking that off the coast and it was decided they needed less time to adjust to weightlessness. one of the bandages will be to reduce weightlessness you can operate quite normally if you were aware it was in the first few hours another advantage is that you can take biological experience for the station very quickly also it means we're going to bring ice cream to the space station before it melts

the russian in good spirits as he spoke behind glass and in quarantine at the crew's last press conference but they also admit the new express route will bring extra challenges less laps of the earth means less room for error the rocket must take off just as the space station passes overhead within ten minutes the soyuz will begin its first orbit and we're five boosters to catch up and dock with the i assess a few hours later this work course of a spacecraft is ready for yet another launch from the step of kazakstan and when it does dock with the space station each tree will begin one hundred sixty eight days in orbit now that is nothing particularly new for the experienced power to get out of or chris cassidy they have been on previous missions and so know all about the hectic shadow of scientific experiments in space walks but it is new territory for alexander will be making his debut in space what can i expect of the most exciting journey not just in my life but the life of any individual it is difficult to put

into words i hope the excitement will remain to route the six months of the voyage and their hard work will not prevent me from feeling the thrill of such an epic adventure despite the thrill there are obvious dangers and the crew have prepared for every event to ality simulating a crash landing in a forest for three days was part of their training but there's also a monday inside to being a spaceman on a six month mission they also have down time and need place to fill it current i assess commander chris hadfield took that to a new level by releasing a single in space last month or though that's not something this next mission is likely to repeat fortunately all the musical talent left earth. december and i always sing in the shower and we don't have a shower so. good humor and a cold and the months of preparation for a mission that aims to beat a new fast track to this stuff and open up a new call the way to the international space station and. kazakstan

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