starving to death versus languishing in cages that's the choice for guantanamo inmates as the detainees lawyer exclusively tells our teeth that the weeks long hunger strike is fueled by the created by the fact prisoners have been robbed of legal process and the right to defend themselves. the biggest ever cyber attack of its kind of internet access globally after a clash between a spam filtering company and a hosting firm ripples across the web. banks finally open their doors in cyprus but little relief in sight for citizens with empty wallets with strict cash limits set to avoid a run on saving. one

pm in moscow très a good having you with us here on r t our top story the hunger strike in guantanamo prison has taken a twist detainees who've been refusing food over mistreatment for weeks now say they're being denied drinking water by the guards this amid growing concerns the strike may turn deadly with several inmates already hospitalized arche spoke with u.s. air force lieutenant colonel barry when guarded military lawyer in guantanamo right now he's about told us about his client's desperate situation. i've never seen anything in all my five years coming one kind of. being more than fifty constantly . talk about you know you forget the whole. part of folk playing the games week he went from one forty seven down to one hundred seven i mean was only one third of body weight and he continued. i can you know if

you want whether or not he prepared to die but i can tell you that after eleven years of the region can charge an opportunity to defend himself if you're you know point here and run out of the. movement perform to the hundred sixty second if you want to out of here even the cleared individual. will weigh and profit and release from here but i think that you know when you're on hundred. only cleared not cleared from one country we support. the radio. the people of all of that mean that they're there. if it turns out that people begin to die here that we're going to make a difference but i can't help that it doesn't come to the people we need. or we've been robbed probably we were told if we would get military commissions well you know we don't even have trouble let alone an opportunity to get him out

represent him only because the former minister when it went to mr crowley try what. he had charge for me to defend i can't totally try to keep all of the compartment completely complete and straight up an extension of the concept and then we will. for the rest of their lives without ever having an opportunity to defend him now when a leader of a country indefinite detention will be applied to guantanamo bay well that's when you got the fact that you will have to break. here's where the lives of the hunger striking prisoners have prompted the red cross to send a delegation to check on conditions at the facility earlier than scheduled capita fishel say more than thirty detainees are refusing food orders and activists peg the number of more than one hundred thirty speaking with r t a spokesman for the international committee of the red cross north america simon shore no said poor legal regulation in guantanamo is to blame from our observations eagles tensions

and and this anguish that they need or experience and ease 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 this issues that lawyers are talking about the issue of the legal framework that regiments the detention at guantanamo and this is that you should the administration must address knew all the white house has broken its silence commentating for the for commenting for the first time since the strike work out almost seven weeks ago a spokesman says the administration is closely monitoring the situation and remains committed to closing the facility but a former u.s. assistant secretary of state for public affairs under obama p.j. crowley tells r t the president's hands in this case may be tied. 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 quantum in the first place to transport those back to home countries third countries and that has simply had tried that over time made the challenge smaller unfortunately the state department has been forced because of funding issues to close that office down so it really is the u.s. 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. timeline r.t. dot com for more response to the situation in guantanamo plus we're of course 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 out of the opinion is stacked stacked up so far more than half of those who voted believe deaths among hunger strikers are eminent and that only token policy changes will result a fifth the 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 indefinite detention only six percent claim bad press generated by the story will put an end to the indefinite detention policy question r.t. dot com cast your vote.

a cyber war raging across the internet millions around the world thought to be affected by disruption and loss of speed to popular web services and what security experts are dubbing the biggest denial of service attack in history and eruptions come after a spat between a major euro base spam fighting for a minute dutch web hosting company the cyber bunker dutch police are currently trying to storm the bunker in the netherlands where the company's headquarters is located or his web producer andrew blake has more about how the web battle turned global. this is actually just a fight among two companies one guest 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 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 we spoke to someone from from cyber bunker who you know defended it and said it was a stance that was existing. and should be either effect ok or the censorship we're going to say which were the job into position where they can just go to the website and it would shut down. and do it on a regular basis if it will do not comply to their demands they just young guy or internet provider if to which all the girls. that they're going to will resent 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 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 that group isn't exactly ready to just sit back and go ahead and throw in the towel here. well there is no better place than the internet for a minimal damage to epic disaster given how much crucial data is stored on the web these days joining me now our teams alexia shows you who has been covering the story for us here on our t.v. so alexy given the nature of cyber attacks it is possible that one person by themselves can do a lot of damage isn't it well cyber attacks may not be as deadly they're not directly killing people as the weapons of mass destruction do but in terms of infrastructural damage they're just as effective take for instance the recent stuxnet virus attack by the u.s. government on the iranian nuclear program imagine something went wrong there and

let's say for instance the nuclear facilities started exploding the death toll would have been enormous or take the ongoing cyber attack from an unknown islamic organization on banks in the united states this is not killing people this is not directly causing any bodily harm but certainly the fact that this attack which has already been described by experts as the longest standing cyber attack on industrial sector is creating huge financial damage the accounts are being frozen loans are being counseled and things like that so definitely cyber attacks are getting more and more serious every day. we imagine of this point also the effect it would have if this kind of attack were leveled at a government agency well the attack you mentioned earlier experts said that if it was directed at downing street ten the u.k. government's website would have been down in a matter of seconds you know january cyber attacks have been all about mostly about online vandalism asserting themselves on the internet like for instance the downing of the cia web site by the anonymous hacker group last year it didn't kill anyone

it didn't cause huge financial damage but certainly the reputation of the central intelligence agency was seriously harmed by those actions and another case like that was when a conversation between officials from the scotland yard and the f.b.i. was made public by the anonymous by the same hacker group also causing serious reputational damage to the boat. organizations but there have been cases already known cases of intergovernmental cyber attacks in twenty eleven a very sensitive attack as it was put back then by the pentagon was launched on the u.s. defense ministry and twenty four thousand sensitive files were stolen and made public god knows what the consequences of this massive leak was back then now what are the chances then for warfare in general to go online instead of on the battlefield will should any major warfare major conflict happen definitely the cyber part of it will be something of a new dimension something of an integral part of this conflict especially that

we're living in an era when satellites control the missiles and imagine somebody hacking into those satellites and directing missiles in the other direction already some ongoing conflicts are being affected by the cyber warfare in particular the dispute between south korea and north korea with saul claiming that they've suffered thirty two thousand cyber attacks from presumably from north korea over the past year and that north korea is actually preparing a whole cyber squad to fight south korean case of a major war the fact that the u.s. defense officials recently upgraded the threat potential threat from cyber attacks to higher level than terrorist attacks from al qaeda speaks volumes so this is how serious it is and this is how serious is being considered by the authorities worldwide all right artie's alexy on top of the story for us thanks very much for that update. well cyber attacks again proving the perils of the internet but don't fear you can surf safely on our website r.t. dot com where there's plenty more stories lined up for you from across the world

wide web including this google successfully pushes the swedish government to remove the term google from its dictionary the phrase means something a user can't find using the giant search engine plus. saving snow for next winter well certainly we've had our share of it here in moscow possible though in russia the government trying to stockpile all these thousands of tons of snow for next year's sochi olympic games using a breakthrough technique that you can find only about an hour to dot com. the world's biggest emerging economies have agreed in principle to set up a new development bank that could rival 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 or aton see things although the brics project is yet to be finalized it could pose a challenge to the global economy is governed. 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 in fit 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 or what our modern or a argentinian or an african to know how the world bank and 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. a man who wrote i think the book is a meme was a real economic 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 we're back with more international news

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thanks for staying with us seventeen minutes past the hour a nail biting time for europe with cyprus banks due to reopen after being paralyzed for almost two weeks a little relief though in sight for cash strapped citizens with severe restrictions placed on how much money they can withdraw from banks wire transfers to limits are set to prevent a run on banks making cyprus the first euro zone country to introduce capital controls or contests are silly reports the anger and despair in the streets of cypriots try to adapt to

a new reality. like many in cyprus labor leaders agreed this is simply stunned at the speed and manner with which the banking crisis in his country seems to be spiraling out of control he shows us his wallet yo cash a lean lottery tickets a single parent unemployed and caring for a sick mother in raveling of cyprus's financial woes couldn't have come at a worse time but i feel shame that i live with a pension of my mom all of your life is coming up so i don't you make a plan for the future for the people in the young and. suddenly you hear that the economy of your country or in the park system is. corrupt so. you standing with an empty hands. a sentiment echoed throughout the tiny island nation. with

scenes like these becoming a daily occurrence another day in nicosia cyprus another protest now this one in particular is a gathering about the police of the country's largest lender the bank of cyprus but they worry that the company is headed for collapse and they may eventually lose their jobs so 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 told 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 june 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 falls and for. paying the money through the european union to have. the other two contras you may embarrass like those in the

main yeah. no but this process have a problem or it's because you know economy or softened as economic drama continues with politicians and bankers drawing a painful measures to execute the years old i.m.f. back to the bailout plan it's all too clear to ordinary cypriots who is going to be bearing 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 people who have special needs they cut from the people for his part allies question all cypriots would like answered as well. this or sylvia our team because c.s. cyprus. later this hour max keiser and stacy herbert turned their attention to the cyprus crisis that they described as nothing but a full fledged war. in greece and papa dr stole money from the greek people put in

his mom's account is 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. max as late as gloomy predictions used to be becoming a reality in greece bomb explosion in athens near a famous tourist hot spot the acropolis apparently targeted the house of a shipping magnate who also used to sit on the board of the bank of cyprus the latest in a series of bombings that have been plaguing the country since its economy sunk into recession reflecting people's growing outrage as artie's tom barton reports.

the bomb planted in a backpack exploded just hundreds of meters away from athens is i conic across the lists the priest has managed 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 nicholas sat horse 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 at a softening center 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. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe clashes 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's troubles started as an opposing left wing group reached the protesters police used tear gas to disperse the location of the rally significant it was next to a spot where a german man was attacked by a foreigner last week. hundreds of people marched through the streets of chicago protesting the closure of more than fifty schools because of budget cuts or

in the protest was organized by the chicago teachers union more than one hundred demonstrators were given fines after a sit in on one of the city's main streets local authorities say they'll save more than a billion dollars over ten years but the move forces more than thirty thousand students to find new school. britain's home secretary has lost his latest bid to deport abu qatada the alleged al qaeda link cleric wanted in jordan over terrorists are get a court of appeal rejected the attempted deportation citing human rights saying he would get a fair trial in jordan the u.k. has been trying to deport the radical preacher earlier described as osama bin laden's right hand man for five years he remains in the u.k. prison on an alleged breach of bail conditions but could walk free if no charges are filed. finally this news block less than a day before the soyuz spacecraft and barks on a record breaking mission the first ever six hour flight to be taking new russian american team to the international space station artie's andrew farmer looks at the

ups and downs of the latest developments and what they mean for the crew. roading act what will be and historic mission the iconic soyuz rocket will set another record from baikonur this week taking three crew to the international space station in the fastest time ever it was slashed the journey from two days to just six hours and will achieve it by a whizzing earth just four times instead of thirty before docking that after cosmonauts decided they needed less time to adjust to weightlessness. one of the advantages will be to reduce weightlessness you can operate quite normally if you were where it was in the first few hours another advantage is that you can take biological experience to the station very quickly also it means we can 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 there is nothing particularly new for the experience publishing to get out of or chris cassidy they have been on previous missions and so know all about the hectic shadow of scientific experiments and space walks but it is new territory for alexander who'll 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 downtime and need waste a fairly 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 i only sing in the shower and we don't have a shower it was so. good humor and a photo cool ending months of preparation for a mission that aims to beat a new fast track to this stuff and open up a new highway to the international space station andrey fama. kazakstan. knox and stacey stacey coming up next kaiser report stay with us here on r.t.

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