the largest hunger strike in america's war on terror a prisoner speaks to a detainee in guantanamo who says the inmates are cut off from their basic rights to waste away behind bars. cypriot banks reopened. capital control restrictions and while the threat of mass forfeiture over thousands of businesses. the war. across the internet and the victims of what some are claiming is the biggest cyber attack ever to hit life online. and a. jet. to the international space station. all goes according to plan for the ice cream.

it's great to have you with us here on our to today. live in moscow more accusations of mistreatment of being hurled to jail in the guantanamo bay detention facility and the inmates who are refusing food over harsh conditions personnel there are now depriving them of drinking water and keeping temperatures inside the freezing point that's despite fears the hunger protest could soon lead to fatalities here and we spoke to us a force lieutenant colonel. a military lawyer who's right now he told us about his own clients plight. you know.

you know you forget paul he even. 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 only find you on whether or not he 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 performed think of the hundred sixty six individuals out here even the cleared individual. no way and in the process of getting released from here but i think that you know when you're on hundred sixteen and only cleared not cleared from countries we support. the regime. the people of all of that mean that they're there. if it turns out that

people begin to die here they don't want to make a difference but i can tell that it doesn't come to that people. are we've been robbed probably we were told if we 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 we didn't mean to me. try but now he had no courage for me to defend that i can totally try to keep calling for me to complete complete story. concept and then we will. for the rest of their lives without ever having an opportunity to defend. a leader of a country indefinite detention will be applied to guantanamo bay well that's when you try. to keep breathing trippy. and the worsening situation at the guantanamo

bay prison has drawn closer attention from the red cross which actually brought forward a planned visit as some of its staff and the military claims more than thirty people are taking part in the hunger strike lawyers say this figure is actually many times higher than talking to our spokesman for the international committee of the red cross in north america simon shore no he says that our poor legal regulation is to blame for the inmates suffering from our observations of the eagles tensions and and this anguish that they need or 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 for the phillies 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. or the white

house has finally broken its silence and issued its first comments on the strike which has been now ongoing for about seven weeks and spokesman said the u.s. government is keeping a close eye on the situation and remains committed to closing the facility but obama's former assistant secretary of state for public affairs p.j. crowley he told us here at r t the president effectively is powerless to act. 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 too long 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 it really is the congress that has basically frozen you know the situation in place the president is right now unable to move forward you cannot check out all dot com to find out how the hunger crisis at guantanamo has been developing day by day and what a reaction it is so the full line up for you as you can see it right there at the dot com. cypriot banks have reopened be it with a slew of restrictions on what people can actually do with their money cups on withdrawals monthly limits and in a ban on any large transfers means for many their cash is still frozen tester

australia has this report from nicosia. 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. 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 as 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. one 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 this has 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 a 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 upside

down you make of plans for the future people younger. than these. 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 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 and 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 are 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 when cyprus was paying the money through the european union to have to stand up the other two contras you may embarrass. nobody 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. package 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 her 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 see a cycle. well so far there have been a few reports of incidents as the banks have reopened with police and an army of private security guards trying to keep order let's get more perspective on the crisis now when what may well abode poorly or perhaps even well fairly ok for europe matthew dalton now of course one of the wall street journal joining us live here on r.t. good to see you today so there is concern that the cypriot model of taxing depositors could actually be used in other parts of europe how do you feel. it's still unclear this is a debate that is really bubbling up right now and has been prompted by the cypriot bailout the euro group president your own diesel bloom caused

a lot of havoc in the markets earlier this week when he suggested that yes in fact the cypriot template would be used to deal with other failing banks throughout the euro zone and that's that includes imposing losses on an insured bank depositors this is something that is still quite controversial among other eurozone countries and you had a number of countries such as luxembourg france and others saying wait a second you know we've got to think about this before we go down that road well certainly you bring up the issue of luxembourg let's address to the e.u. is all the tax havens of malta and indeed luxembourg they are being painted as you alluded to as the next in line off to cyprus does that seem realistic to you. i don't think so not in the near future luxembourg is actually a much bigger financial center than cyprus ever was its bank assets are around twenty two percent of annual economic output whereas they were only seven times put in cyprus but luxembourg is truly an international financial financial center the

banks there are part of international banking groups and if any of those banks failing to into trouble i think luxembourg could reasonably expect and it would probably happen that the host governments of those banks would help to bail out the bank branches in. luxembourg or the banking groups luxembourg would have to pick up part of the tab but it would be doable whereas in the case of cyprus cyprus really was on the hook for all of the trouble caused by bank of cyprus and my. now it's certainly a e.u. taxpayers have long resented having to bail out banks here but is it possible that making a deposit is pay them off to fill in the void is the next best solution some lawmakers have certainly and. this is this is what suffer debate i think a lot of germany and the netherlands among others would like to see really the banks pay the tab for their own troubles so

a shareholder if if necessary shareholders wiped out junior bond holders right then senior bondholders and then if necessary uninsured depositors and the line would really only be drawn at people who have guaranteed deposits under one hundred thousand euros or whatever the the amount that is insured in each national government a lot of other people say look you're playing with fire when you when you try and impose this kind of solution in a crisis you're really going to have to guarantee a significant portion of bank liabilities that includes depositors that includes even some bondholders and that was the approach early on in the crisis with ireland for example where every single bank liability was basically guaranteed at the start and that that got ireland into a lot of trouble so there's a wide gulf between what they've done for ireland and what they did for cyprus and probably the solution will end up being somewhere in between but it's difficult to say where it will play out but mr mr dalton very quick i'm low on time but let me let's be frank about this is it fair in you'll view the average person has to lose

his or her own money life savings even in potential to pay for the bank's mistake tell us is it fair. it surely isn't fair and i think the question is the debate right now is whether you know that richer people should have to contribute and richard when you say richer when i say richer people i mean people with a large bank deposits and in banks so significantly so over one hundred thousand euros which is what they're doing in cyprus now some people that's rich some people some other people that's not rich but it's unclear where you draw the line and i i can't answer that question for you right now going to the wall street journal matthew dalton joining us here live on a great pleasure to have you on the program thanks very much indeed thanks a lot. well i'll be back after a short break with more news hope you can stay with us.

a cyber war could be rippling out across the internet and web hosting company has allegedly launched a cyber attack against a geneva based. group which had put on its black list of the victims of the old so powerful that it slowed internet access to world wide. 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 that 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 hold us lots of material and they don't like being told what they can and can't do on line and what has erupted is a battle on the web that has in some instances actually crippled internet traffic internationally 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 a whole internet is slowing down and so it could have some pretty dangerous repercussions it's a pattern 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 and now a new video agency ruptly help us to get in touch with spend all of comforters so the spokesman for cyber bunker he says the scale of the attack is massively

exaggerated by could flare a company out to promote internet security. hole it is a little. they're going to some issues that will mean that the group over. mostly all of them. try to make it seem like an intimate exchange of the one going into another exchange where because of the this is not the case though. they are the result of. the. basically zero zero zero as a straight line. well there's no better place than the internet for minimal damage to turn into an epic disaster given how much crucial data are stored on the web and as aunties alexy other chefs he told me

a bit earlier in the program 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 and growing 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 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 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 her online economic warfare me to some of the web might potentially seem to be a the new front for global warfare 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. special militarized unit to lead to 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 that first have happened since nine eleven definitely this speaks volumes as to how serious this whole situation is and how serious the concerns are well you can certainly tell us what you think of this internet battle by just going to our web site and taking part in our online poll which is still in effect right now just a click away we're asking a basically what's going to be the fallout from this cyber attack leading a number of our voters at thirty six percent saying well it's a new age of cyber warfare coming in a very close second the governments will strike back those who are behind the cyber attacks we see we've got about twenty percent nearly for that we've got tough where

but law is ahead for us and now it's actually boosted up this hour up to fourteen percent internet security is gone and we're still taking your votes at r.t. dot com please do have your say. from the internet network in the us the f.b.i. is facing a court. where they are both. plus the russian parliament. right ahead on. holocaust. online.

this is artsy less than twelve hours before the soyuz spacecraft. blasts off. board what's planned to be the fastest ever flight to the international space station. looks at what the cosmonauts have been doing to prepare for the big trip and well just how they going to get so quickly rolling out what will be mission. will set another record from baikonur this week taking three crew to the international space station in time ever it was. from two days to just six hours and we'll achieve it. just. before docking.

they need time to adjust to weightlessness. one of the bandages will be to reduce weightlessness you can operate quite normally if you're a witness in the first few hours another advantage is that you can take biological experience of the patient 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 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 part of in a 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 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 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 only sing in the shower and we don't have a shower i'm supposed to be nosing i don't. know good humor and a photo cool and the months of preparation for a mission that aims to beat any fast track to this stuff and open up a new highway to the international space station andrey farmer. kazakstan. and into the r.t. world cup that we are starting with the story that twelve students have been killed in a mortar attack on a bus whose university or into syrian state media are the bombs are thought to have landed on the canteen of an architecture department by government media has said that the rebels are to blame for the strike. a bus has plummeted down a ravine in the south of killing at least twenty four

a rescue workers arrived to the scene to recover the bodies would have been hampered by the difficult terrain an investigation is officially underway into the accident. clashes are broken out in dresden germany where hundreds of foreign national democratic party activists gathered at the calling for foreigners who commit crimes to be forced to leave the country the trouble started as an opposing left wing group reached the protesters. eventually dispersed the police using tear gas. oh i just to come in just a moment here it ought to have a close look at the life of a jail inmate who's now dedicating his time to helping others who have found themselves on the wrong side of the live from moscow this is all.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. when you have no way to live. when you don't have a family. when you have no one to ask for help you can always count on. this man is respected by criminals and also as he is a like field soundex conviction that it was people like he used to be. in for the homeless on our city.