visit. the choice for guantanamo inmate. hunger strike is fueled by the. process the right to. the biggest cyber attack. disrupts internet access globally after a clash between a. company and. ripples out across the way. of the banks open their doors. with strict limits.

it isn't just after two pm here in the russian capital this is r t live with me in your news from around the world. the hunger strike in guantanamo bay prison has taken a twist the detainees who have been refusing food over mistreatment for weeks now claim they're being denied drinking water by the guards growing concerns the strike might turn deadly with several inmates already being hospitalized we actually spoke to us air force lieutenant colonel barry a military attorney who is right now in guantanamo he told us about his client's desperate condition. i've never seen her in almost five years coming one kind of. more than fifty constantly. 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 was only one third of body weight and he continued. i can you know if you want or not prepared to die but i can tell you that after eleven years of the region can charge in an opportunity to defend himself it's very open here and went out of the. movement he performed think of one hundred sixty six individual out here in the cleared individual. no way in any process of being released from here but i know that you know when you're on hundred. 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 you don't want to make a difference but i can't help that it doesn't come to that people need. more forward than we've been robbed of all profit we were told to get military

commissions well you know when we didn't have trouble let alone an opportunity to get him out i represent him only because the former minister we jointly give him a strong try but now he has no courage for me to defend i can't go to try to keep hold of it department complete complete straight up an extension of the concept and then will. for the rest of their lives without ever having an opportunity to defend. a leader of a country comes out indefinite detention will be applied to guantanamo bay well that's when you got the fact that you will happen to be breaking. and fears for the lives of hunger striking prisoners have prompted the red cross to send a delegation to check conditions at the facility are quite a bit earlier than planned camp officials say that more than thirty detainees are refusing food or lawyers and activists claim the number exceeds one hundred and

thirty talking to r.t. a spokesman for the international committee of the red cross in north america simon shore know he said the poor legal regulation in guantanamo is ultimately to blame for the situation from our observations of the eagles tensions and and this anguish that the knees are experiencing is clearly related to the lack of a clear legal framework in guantanamo and this is now obviously 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 to animal is this issues that lawyers are talking about the issue of the legal framework that that regiments the detention at guantanamo and this is the issue that the administration must address meanwhile the white house has broken its silence commenting for the first time since the strike broke out now almost seven weeks ago i want spokesman for the obama administration

is closely monitoring the situation and remains committed to closing the facility but former u.s. assistant secretary of state for public affairs under barack obama p.j. crowley he tells us here at r.t. that the president's hands are 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 no longer 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 i says 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. special. situation. we are of course in your.

virtual. describe the biggest.

around the world. between a. group. where the company's headquarters. battle. 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. 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 people do not comply it could grow up to be a demand they just missed the entire internet provider if to which all the groups. that they're going to lowers and 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 this is a whole internet is slowing down and so it could have some pretty dangerous repercussions of support 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's no better place than the internet for minimal damage to basically turn into an epic disaster certainly given how much crucial data are stored on the web and joining me now our teams. to bring us the latest details on this good to see you today i mean ultimately given the nature of the cyber attacks one person can cause an awful lot of damage is potential there for this to be a very powerful weapon well certainly cyber attacks are not as lethal let's say as cluster bombs that would not kill people but in our times they're becoming much more effective in terms of damage to the infrastructure and that happens every day besides if we compare the cost for instance of one missile which would make us like hundreds of thousands of dollars this is cheap and completely untraceable let's take for instance the recent stuxnet virus which was equated by the nato official story use of force which was aimed at disrupting the you renia nuclear problem imagine something went wrong there and nuclear facilities started exploding the

death toll would have been enormous or the another i'm going cyber attack from an unknown islamic organization on banks in the united states of course this is not killing people but definitely causing huge financial damage loans are being counseled accounts are being killed so definitely cyber attacks are getting stronger and stronger and more dangerous every year you know you talk about accounts being online a lot of us have banking online banking a credit card information maybe even medical information as well it would almost seem that that many of us could be a victim just by waking up to a problem the next morning but what about the bigger picture what about a big cyber attack on a government struck with worry that recent attack you mentioned before it's already been compared to a nuclear bomb dropped dropped on the internet experts said that if this attack was performed on downing street town the u.k. government's websites would have been down in a matter of seconds the cyber attacks in general have been more about hackers assertion themselves on the internet or rather active online vandalism let's take

for instance the hacking of c.i. . website in twenty eleven when obviously the website was down and nobody was killed no financial damage but the reputation of the cia was severely undermined by that by those actions or let's say another act by the anonymous hacker group when they made public the conversation between the scotland yard officials and the f.b.i. certainly again no official damage but their reputation was seriously harmed but they have already been cases of intergovernmental cyber attacks in twenty eleven pentagon was reportedly attacked by other government was a specified which government that was but twenty four thousand sensitive files were stolen and made public only god knows what consequences there were following this attack on the pentagon alexy talk about at the pentagon being a cyber attack you talk about hacking you talk about online economic warfare me to some the web might potentially seem to be a the new front for global warfare well let's say if any big global warfare happens then the cyber war will certainly be some kind of integral part of it and you

dimension in some way especially given that most of the missiles are now being launched through a computerized system through satellites imagine somebody hacking into those computers or satellites and diverting missiles in another direction definitely this is getting boring especially that some of the frozen conflicts ongoing conflicts and disputes are already being affected by the cyber cybernet warfare in particular the south korean north korean dispute with saul claiming that they suffered thirty two thousand cyber attacks over the course of last year and that north korea masterminding those attacks and even creating a special militarized unit to lead this cyber warfare something which is already happening in the united states according to u.s. officials they are having some kind of regiments of cyber warriors and recently the u.s. defense officials upgraded the threat potential threat from cyber attacks to a higher level than attacks by al qaeda which is something the first happened since nine eleven definitely this speaks volumes as to how serious this whole situation

is and how serious the concerns are all right. thank you. well the cyber attacks prove once again the perils of the internet where you can save. lots of stories. from the worldwide web including that google has successfully pushed the swedish government to remove the. from its official dictionary the phrase mean something. using the. next winter anything's possible here in russia as the government. of the white stuff for next year's olympics using a rather breakthrough technique and the full story on the web site. for now the world's biggest emerging economies have agreed in principle to set up

a new development bank that could rival established financial institutions in the brics nations brazil russia india china and south africa all calling for reforms to the world bank and the i.m.f. they say does not reflect the new balance of power in the world. believes that although the brics project is yet to be finalised it could ultimately pose a challenge to how the global economy. 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. with 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 as a man was a real economic hit man but the fact that right wing people like david frum in foreign policy can be so quick to deal brix the axis of asymmetry shows how behind the times people in washington really are. why the banks are opening in cyprus a live report from there in just about.

more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images cold world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are on the day . live from moscow this is our t.r.

rory sushi the banks have reopened in cyprus allowing access to savings for the first time in almost two weeks there's little relief for cash strapped citizens though with severe restrictions and imposing i should say on exactly how much money they can pull out of the limits to prevent a bank run thank you cyprus the first eurozone nation to introduce capital controls let's get some more on this right now cross live to our who is outside one of the main biased has a good to see you right there the bias now they've opened their doors just a couple of minutes ago a lot of people behind the scene help people feeling is it stress and tension a war. well you can see behind me that is the bank of cyprus there has been a lie that had gathered before the bag had opened but i have to say that the people there have really remained calm and also the fact is there are a lot of media here if you could just pan there's a lot of media here and the people there the crowds have gathered also just to see what is going on so it's really quite hard to gauge who's actually going to the

back and who is not but as far as the live right outside the bank they have been calm hoping i'm happy that the bags of finally opened after two weeks and also have to know that a lot of them are older people they say they don't have a.t.m. cards so they have to actually go into the back to gather their cash let's just talk about the restrictions that have been imposed those capital controls the first time in the euro zone now the people here can only get three hundred euros per person per day per bank and also if anyone is traveling out of cyprus they can only bring a cash amount of one thousand euros maximum and if they are abroad and they want to charge to their credit cards the maximum limit there is five thousand euros now really for the for many for the past two weeks people have been cash strapped and they tried to make the cash and had a fit and all of this of course we know is it falls under that e.u. i.m.f. plan bailout plan a cyprus agreed agreed upon so this is being in. posed in order to get the ten to billion euro deal now as far as the european leaders are concerned they think the business saved the country from bankruptcy but the people here many of them really

feel that they did not get the best solution that they could get and i've been speaking with a lot of locals and here is my report. like many in cyprus. 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 no cash a little lottery tickets a single parent unemployed and caring for a sick mother the unraveling of cyprus's financial woes couldn't have come at a worse time but i think showing 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 the people in the young and the old. you have. the economy of your country in the park system these. 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 though this one in particular is a gathering of black appointees 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 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. germany strolled 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 he is part of your peer european union system files and for. paying the money through the european

union to have. the other two contras you may embarrass. no but this. problem or it's because you know economy or suffering as economic drama continues the 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 bearing the brunt need us as 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 their people for his part allies question all cypriots would like answered as well. yes or sylvia r.t. because c.s. cyprus. i just a bit later today here on our team max keiser and stacy her put turning their

attention to the cyprus crisis which they described as nothing but a fully fledged war. reason papa grail 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 seeing it with the leadership in cyprus stealing money from people we've seen this story before there's a war going on there's two sides there's the corrupt banking banks 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. an inquest into the death of self exiled russian tycoon boris berezovsky now underway in the u.k. of course the first off he was found dead on the bathroom floor of his home west of london on saturday the hearing was heard that there was a around his neck with

a piece of similar material found on a shallow rail of police that his death was caused by hanging i mean there was no indication of a struggle. who was wanted in russia or on numerous charges including massive financial ones is widely thought to have committed suicide his friends say the former tycoon was deeply depressed after recently losing an expensive court case against fellow russian oligarch roman abramovich. into the world of day now also i think that with dresden germany where clashes have broken out did so where hundreds of far right national democratic party activists gathered calling for the deportation of foreigners who commit crimes in the country the trouble started as an opposing left wing group reached the protesters who were ultimately dispersed with tear gas i. returned home secretary has lost the latest bid to deport. the alleged al qaeda linked cleric wanted in jordan over terrorism charges of

a court of appeal rejected the attempted deportation citing human rights saying he wouldn't get a fair trial and the u.k. has been trying to deport the radical preacher earlier described as osama bin laden's right hand man for five years. well it is a less than a day before the soyuz spacecraft embarks on a record breaking mission it'll be the first ever six hour flight taking the new russian american team straight to the international space station artes and you farmer looks at the ups and downs of the latest developments rolling out what will be an 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 last the journey from two days to just six hours and we'll achieve it by all we see 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 loan 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 experience publishing to get

out of or chris cassidy they have been on previous missions and so now 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 through the six months of the voyage and the 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 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 and i only sing in the shower and we don't have a shower i was. singing i don't. know good humor and a cool ending months of preparation for a mission that aims to beat and a fast track to this and open up a new highway to the international space station andrey fama. kazakstan already just a moment aeronauts here we have a look at the life of a jail inmate who is now dedicating his time to helping others who have found themselves on the wrong side of all the. players to create a war medal for cyber warfare have been put on hold by new defense secretary chuck hagel but should they have been put on hold i mean hackers

a drone operators do play a real important role in modern militaries and there are already u.s. military medals for things that don't involve people shooting at you the antarctic a service medals given by the department of defense for service between fifteen and thirty consecutive days in antarctica although the cold down there is potentially deadly no penguins are going to storm the base with kalashnikovs the homeland security distinguished service medal has also never been issued to anyone on the battlefield because thankfully for america there haven't been any invading armies in the homeland so is there precedent for a medal like cyber warfare battles i mean yes just there is but when you think about it giving someone a medal for using a mouse to blow up blips on a monitor really seems to devalue the medals of the guys who are brave enough to storm the beaches on d.-day or slog through disease and sneak field swaps and vietnam so maybe for the sake of the prestige of the of their medals let's just let the cybersecurity one go but that's just my opinion.