the choice for guantanamo inmates as the detainees lawyer exclusively. the hunger strike is fueled by the. legal process and the right to defend themselves. the biggest ever. around the world after a clash between a. company. across the way. and the banks open their doors but there's little relief for citizens with wallets with strict limits set to avoid a run for savings. a

pleasure to have you with us on this thursday. with your world wide. hunger strike in prison has taken a twist detainees who have been refusing food over mistreatment for weeks now claim they're being denied drinking water by the guards that's growing concerns the strike might turn deadly with several inmates already hospitalized we did speak to us. military attorney currently in guantanamo right now he told us about his client's desperate condition. i've never seen anything or in all my five years coming one kind of. be 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 he was only one third

of body weight and he continued. i can you know if you want whether 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 a very low point here and one out of no. movement the way he performed think of the hundred sixty six individuals out here even the clear individual. no way can any profit really from here but i know. you don't mean you're a hundred. countries we support. the radio. the people of all of that mean that if it turns out that people begin to die here they don't want to make a difference but i can hope that it doesn't come to that people. are forward we've been robbed of a promise we were told if we get military commissions well you tell me and you

don't even have let alone an opportunity to get him out i represent him only because the former minister has been willing to give him a trial or try but now he has no charges for me to defend i can totally try to keep hold of it department complete complete and straight. concept and then we'll. look at it and for the record bill why. we're 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. and of fears for the lives of hunger striking prisoners have prompted the red cross to send a delegation to check conditions at the facility quite a bit earlier than planned and camp officials say that more than thirty detainees are refusing food or lawyers and activists claim the number exceeds one hundred

thirty talking to our spokesman for the international committee of the red cross in north america simon shore no said the poor legal regulation in guantanamo bay is simply to blame for the situation from our observations 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. it is 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 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 almost seven weeks ago and one 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 that of p.j. crowley he tells r t 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 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 isis 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 the population and obviously that's having an effect. we're also interested.

thanks for joining us here on a dropping a virtual nuclear bomb on the internet this is how some security experts describe the biggest ever cyber attack that thought to affect millions of web users around

the world internet disruption and slowdown came after a spat between a major europe based spam fighting group and a dutch web hosting company the cyber bunker dutch police have made an attempt now to storm a bunker in the netherlands where the company's headquarters located auntie's web producer andrew blake explains exactly how the web battle went 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 to be. effect ok or censorship we're going to say which were the job into the bush issue and 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 with their demands they just missed the young guy or internet provider if to which all the groups blend of that going to one recent email 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 it's a pet name 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 turn into an epic

disaster given how much crucial data restored on the web as aussies are told me a bit earlier cyber attacks are increasingly becoming a very powerful weapon well certainly cyber attacks are not as lethal let's say as cluster bombs they 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 your in your nuclear program 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 the 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 a cia 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 there 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 her 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. spoke to him just a bit earlier in the program where the cyber attacks proved once again the perils of the internet where you can safely. we've got much more news our lineup for you

many of our greatest stories from all around the web including google has successfully pushed the swedish government to remove the. google from its official dictionary the phrase means something a user can find while using the giants. and saving snow for next winter perhaps anything's possible here in russia the government plans to stockpile thousands of tons of the white stuff for next year's olympics using quite a breakthrough technique of the full story. 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 or the brics nations brazil russia india china and south africa all 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 afshin

rattansi believes although the brics project is yet to be finalised it could pose a challenge to how the global economy is. 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 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 memoir the 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 back with more news after the break.

thanks for joining us here on out see the banks have reopened in cyprus allowing access to savings for the first time in almost two weeks for those little relief. with. how much money they can withdraw and the limits set to prevent a bank run was the first eurozone nations. capital controls.

the country's major banks. you can see behind me that is the bank of cyprus there has been a lie that had gathered before the baghdad open 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 can 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 is actually going to the back and who is not but as far as the live right outside the bank they have been called 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. card 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 no really for that for many for the past two weeks people have been cash strapped or they try to make the cash in hand to fit and all of this of course we know is it falls under that e.u. i.m.f. plan bailout plan of cyprus agreed agreed upon so this is being imposed in order to get the ten to billion euro deal now as far as the european leaders are concerned they think that 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 man who will finish the banking crisis and his country seems to be spiraling out of control he shows us his wallet no cash only lottery tickets a single parent unemployed and caring for his sick mother in raveling of cyprus's financial woes couldn't have come at a worse time by finishing the pension of my mom all of your life is coming up on

you make a plan for the future people younger than. the economy of your country and. so. you're 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 about 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 stalled

because we are 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 cyprus is part of your peer european union system files and for when cyprus was paying the money through the european union to help. the other two contras you may embarrass. no but this process have a problem or it's because you know economy or something else as economic drama continues the politicians and bankers drawing a painful measures to execute the eurozone i.m.f. back in 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 the people for his part allies question all cypriots would like answered as well. does or sylvia our team make a c.s.i. quick. and as the protests in cyprus intensify day by day engulfing people from all walks of life some predict that it will ultimately spill into violence financial governance over europe i don't think they care what the citizens of europe the five enemy people of european continent feel about how this crisis or these crises are being handled 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 for 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 where you can't transfer around the to your friends or family around the world three thousand dollars i could certainly see in tempers flare. and it will be next hour here on our team max kaiser in states but turning their attention to the cyprus crisis which they describe as nothing but a fully fledged war. reason papa stole money from the greek people put in his mom's account to 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 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. this is our see an inquest into the death of self exiled russian tycoon boris berezovsky has revealed now that there was a founder around his neck when he died with similar material discovered on the shallow rail of the business man's body was found on the bathroom floor of his home west of london on saturday early a police stated bears off skis death was caused by hanging at it there was no indication of a struggle the late on a dog is believed to have been suffering from depression after losing almost all of his fortune. made billions in russia after the breakup of the soviet union but he left for the u.k. after an investigation started into his activities at home he was wanted by moscow on numerous charges including embezzlement fraud money laundering and an attempted

power. i you know we've. been clashes in dresden germany 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 posing the left wing group reached the protesters and police used tear gas to disperse the crowd. britain's home secretary has lost the latest bid to deport abu qatada the alleged al qaeda leader cleric wanted in jordan over terrorism charges the 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 man the right hand man now for five years he remains in the u.k. prison for an alleged breach of bail conditions could soon walk free if no charges are brought up. north korea has cut off

a key military hotline with its southern neighbors claiming war may break out at any moment and this was the last form of communication between the two states military drills conducted by washington and seoul as well as u.n. sanctions after north korea's latest nuclear test certainly increased tensions young early ordered artillery and rocket units into combat aimed at america. or in just a moment i'll be martin and breaking the sad. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lang you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

wealthy british style. markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons are for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on . the news that secret laboratory to mccurry was able to build a new its most sophisticated robots which will unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tunes mission to teach music creation why it should care

about humans and world events this is why you should care only on the dog call. if you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food because you know how fabulous. i mean. i know that i'm sitting just really messed up. in the theory so closely apologize if that. worst should only pay off my doubts. for the. radio guy for a minute. i want. to give you never seen anything like this i'm telling. you guys walking the breaking news said i'm abby martin so while the supreme court was in its second day of oral arguments around gay marriage today the justice is

always also sent down a unanimous really in favor of rights for another group of individuals prisoners that's right in the case of millbrook versus the western justices ruled that the federal government cannot be sued over prisoner abuse claims against their guards it's not time prisoners had some rights consider in the u.s. house as one point six million adults in state and federal institutions around the country course we can't forget that the u.s. has only five percent of the population of the world that holds a quarter of the world's prisoners so guys this is a good move by the highest courts of the land so let's just hope that they make the right decision when it comes to same sex marriage two on that note let's break the set. another like. you've never seen anything like. imagine this scenario you're late to work on a beautiful city.