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it's great to have you with us here today. with your news from around the globe. more accusations of mistreatment of being the holder in the guantanamo bay detention facility and the inmates who are refusing food of a harsh conditions claim personnel there are now depriving them of drinking water and keeping temperatures inside the freezing point despite fears the hunger protest could soon lead to fatalities. a military lawyer who's. now he told us about his plight. i've never seen her in almost five years coming one kind of a. more than fifty kind i mean he talked about you know he for all

he. played the week he went from one forty seven down to one hundred seven i mean he was fully 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 an opportunity to defend himself it's a very low point here and one out of the. movement he performed think anybody of the hundred sixty six individuals out of here even the cleared individual or no way in any process of training really from what i know that you know when you're on hundred. only cleared not cleared from one country for. 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 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 a little of an opportunity to get him out represent him only because the former. minister we didn't mean to me. what. he had no charges 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 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 one time ok well that's when you die will happen. trippy. well the worsening situation not a one ton of a bay prison has drawn closer attention from the red cross which actually brought

forward the planned visit of some of its staff and the military claims more than thirty people are taking part in the hunger strike lawyers say the figure is many times higher now talking to r.t. a spokesman for the international committee of the red cross in north america simon sean oh he said that poor legal regulation is to blame for the inmates suffering from our observations of the eagles tensions and and this anguish that the knees are experiencing ease clearly related to the lack of a clear legal framework in guantanamo and this is now 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 administration must address. and the white house has broken its silence and issued

its first comments on the strike which has been going on now for about a seven weeks its 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 r.t. the president is effectively 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 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 it really is congress that has basically frozen you know the situation in place the president is right now unable you know to move forward or are you going to check out dot com to find out how the hunger crisis at guantanamo has been developing day by day and also what reactions it's you can see right here from the dot com we have the full timeline for you that. cypriot banks have reopened i'll be it with a slew of restrictions on what people can do with their money caps on withdrawals monthly limits and a new ban on any large transfers means for many that 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. 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 this is 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 i wish the banking crisis in his country seems to be spiraling out of control he shows us his wallet you know 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 a plan for the. people. of your country and things. so. you stand there 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 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 both because we're

a small economy they felt that the consequences would be minimal what they don't know is that the president has been said and what happened today in cyprus could easily happen tomorrow to italy to front soon to spain we just want to be left alone to pick up the pieces and get on with our lives to cyprus is part of your european union system files and for. paying the money through the european union who have to stand up to contras you may embarrass i. know but this is cyprus have a problem or it's because you know economy or suffering as economic drama continues with politicians and bankers drawing up painful measures to execute the euro zone i.m.f. package 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 their people for his part allies question all cypriots would like answered as well. does so sylvia our team make a c.s. cyprus. so far there have been a few reports of incidents as the banks reopened with police and an army of private security guards keeping order but as protests in cyprus intensified day by day and gulf in people from all walks of life some warn it may all spill into violence is 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 four or five years ago now they're making a very bold statement they're not asking any more they're just going to take it if

someone's trying to rob you then it would make sense that it could certainly lead to violence i think 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 to your friends or family around the world if you go on vacation you know take three thousand dollars i could certainly see an tempers flare. and a bit later in the day here on our. very own financial group we'll be delving deeper into the cyprus crisis and his findings well a grim to say the least here's a quick preview. we saw in greece a 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 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. a pleasure to have you with us here on so you'll be back with more news on a very quick break.

more news today. these are the images. from the streets of canada. all right so just. here in the russian capital this is a cyber war could be rippling out across the internet

a dutch web hosting company has allegedly launched a cyber attack against a geneva based fighting group which put it on its black list of the victims of the a sold claim is so powerful it slowed internet access around the world where producer andrew blake explained. 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 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 the whole internet is slowing down and so it could have some pretty dangerous repercussions of happening for an entire week now and is you know under investigation and as we saw earlier when we were talking to cyber bunker it seems like that that group isn't exactly ready to just sit back and go ahead and throw in the towel here and our new video agency ruptly helped us get in touch with all of comfiest so the spokesman for the cyber attacking group he says the scale of the attack is not simply exaggerated by could flare it's a company out to promote the very issue of internet security. a whole it is a little bit. they're going to come to some issues that will mean that the. president all of them. trying to make it seem like the woman in the exchange of the woman going into

another exchange where because of the this is not the case goes to. the maid. 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 so to me given how much crucial data restored on the web as i also use i like 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 a known islamic organization on banks in the united states of course this is not killing people but definitely causing huge financial damage loans are being canceled 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 all online economic warfare me to some 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 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 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. whether you can tell us what you think about this internet battle by just going to our web site and taking part in our on line poll though we are asking you basically what signals do you think here are going to going to come out of this. is it a case of a web fallout let's look at the votes well gosh they've changed a lot in the past one hour from marty dot com way up to forty four percent for the top vote here saying it's a brand new age of cyber warfare then a pretty distant second twenty percent behind the government's will strike back at cyber hackers to third position where we've got some tough web laws ahead on the minority that keeps on growing well internet security is a thing of the past it's never too late for you to get involved with a major stories here authority we really appreciate your participation cast your vote at r.t. dot com. well also on the web site. in the

united states for example. from their own. right head on. the issue of holocaust.

this is. less than twelve hours now before the. story. rolling out what will be in a story 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 slash the journey from two days to just six hours i'm going to achieve it by a whizzing just four times instead of thirty before docking that after cosmonauts decided they needed less time to adjust to weightlessness. one of the bandages will be to reduce weightlessness you can operate quite normally if you're aware 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'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 were fired 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 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 ventura 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 philly current i.s.a.'s commander chris hadfield took that to a new level by releasing a single in space last month although that's not something this next mission is likely to repeat fortunately all the musical talent left earth in december i always sing in the shower and we don't have a shower it was so. good humor and

a photo call ending months of preparation for a mission that aims to beat any fast track to the stars and open up a new highway to the international space station andrey farmer r.t. kazakstan. this is r.t. spanning four continents and a massive crisis fund to both got the green light of a summit of the world's fastest emerging economies in south africa collectively dubbed the brics the group includes brazil russia india china and south africa are the new financial institutions are to challenge the domination of the i.m.f. and world bank which some say are committed to maintaining the status quo and r.t. contributor afshin rattansi believes that this very inception it's already causing some to worry. the i.m.f.

and world bank for decades have acted as bad cop good cop as it were we mustn't forget how historic day which is being said the potential for this is infinite for decades the world bank would offer money to developing nations and the i.m.f. would threaten those nations we just have to speak drug what amal and or a argentinean 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. man who wrote i think the book is a memoir the real economic hit man but the fact that right wing people like david frum in foreign policy can be so quick to delve brix the axis of asymmetry shows how behind the times people in washington

really are. russia's black sea fleet has dusted down its water wings with the launch today of a major navy drills more than seven thousand troops battleships and hundreds of ahmed vehicles have been mobilized apparently follows a twilight call to action from president putin with the order personally delivered to the slumbering defense minister at four in the morning the president said to have made the decision on route from the bric summit in south africa last month moscow held its first un show jeweled military maneuvers in two decades involving special forces fighter jets and dozens of helicopters. into the world update now it's starting with twelve students that have been killed in a mortar attack on a damascus university at the bombs thought to have been landing on the canteen the roof of an architecture department above the canteen the media has said the rebels are to blame for the strike. and abbas has plummeted got

a ravine in the south of peru killing twenty four rescue workers arrived at the scene but having a tough time getting the bodies due to the difficult terrain and investigation has begun into what caused the accident. new japanese schoolbooks which make territorial claims over a group of disputed islands have provoked angry scenes in the south korean capital activists there clashed with police furious the textbook state are islands are located between the two countries that japanese territory has been the cause of diplomatic tension for years. i just a moment we have a close look at the life of a jail inmate who's now using his time to helping others who have found themselves on the wrong side of the law this is odds.

plans to create a war medal for cyber warfare have been put on hold by the new defense secretary chuck hagel but should 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 a 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 medals 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.