holy war room. i made the largest hunger strike in america's war on terror a person speaks to a detainee's lawyer in guantanamo who says the inmates are cut off from their basic rights to waste away behind bars. cypriot banks reopened paralyzing capital control restrictions on the threat of a massive government grab hangs heavily over thousands of businesses and. wall hosting service in a spam filtering group clash across the internet in what some are claiming is the biggest cyber attack. online. at a slow u.s. rocket is set to jet three cosmonauts off to the international space station but this time. it's time to plan they say they'll be up well before the ice cream

even starts to melt. just after seven pm moscow time this is r t with me will receive it's good to have you with us today. more accusations of mistreatment of being a holder j. lo's in the guantanamo bay detention facility the inmates who are refusing food over harsh conditions claim personnel there are now depriving them of drinking water and a keeping temperatures inside the camp near freezing point that's despite fears the hunger protest could soon lead to fatalities we did speak to u.s. air force lieutenant colonel barry when god and military lawyer who's on guantanamo right now he told us about his own clients plight. you know.

i mean we talk about you know you forget whole. part of poker playing the games week he went from one forty seven down to one hundred seven i mean it was only one third of his body weight and he continued. i can you know if you want whether or not he's 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 no. movement the way he performed think of the hundred sixty six individuals out here even the cleared individual. no way can any profit really from here but i think that you know when you're on hundred. countries we support. the arabian. you know the people of all of that mean that

they're there that if it turns out that people begin to die here they don't want to make a difference but i just hope 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 is an interesting story and we don't mean to me. but now if he had no charges for me to defend i can totally try to keep falling apart and complete complete straight up an extension of the 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 die will happen. for the worsening situation at the

guantanamo bay prison has drawn closer attention from the red cross which actually brought forward a planned visit of some of its staff of the military claims more than thirty people are taking part in the hunger strike more lawyers say this figure is many times higher than talking to us here at r.t. the spokesman for the international committee of the red cross in north america simon short oh you said that poor legal regulation is to blame for the inmates suffering from our observations of the evils tensions and and this anguish that amy's 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 shoe beyond just what you know we are seeing right now going on tony 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 and the white house has actually broken its silence now and issued its first comments on the strike which has been ongoing for about 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 told r.t. that 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. 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 had 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 nicest congress that has basically frozen you know the situation in place the president is right now unable to move forward we can check out our top com to find out how the hunger crisis that guantanamo has been developing day by day and what reactions it's already sparked as you can see right here on your screen oh we've got the full timeline for you on our web site. for now a 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 they have ban on any large transfers means for many their cash

should still frozen or reporting from nicosia these tests are awesomely. 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 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 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 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 man who will finish 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 up on.

people younger. than me. corrupt 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 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 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 two fronts choose 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 files and for. paying the money through the european union to help. the other two contras you may embarrass the man yeah. no but is that cyprus have a problem or it's because you know economy or suffering as economic drama continues the politicians and bankers drawing a painful measures to execute the years old ira back to the bailout plan it's all too clear to ordinary cypriots who is going to be very into trucks 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. yes our sylvia our team make a c.s.i. place. so father you know a few reports of incidents on the banks reopened with police and we have private security guards keeping order but wall street journal correspondent matthew dalton says the reverberations of the cypriot rescue already echoing across europe the euro group president your own diesel gloom 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 or at 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 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 ludes depositors that includes even some bondholders and that was the approach earlier on in the crisis with ireland for example where every single bank liability was basically guaranteed at the start 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. i know next financial guru max kaiser delves deeper into the cyprus crisis and his findings well the rather grim to say the least here's a quick preview for you. he saw in greece public grayle stole money from the greek people put in his mom's account is suddenly showed up in switzerland how did that

get there who now are saying it with the leadership in cyprus stealing money from people who've seen this story before there's a war going on there's two sides there's the corrupt banking bank stirs and then there's people who are trying to hold on to what they have and i think if i'm not mistaken a bomb went off a couple of days ago in cyprus look for more of those types of things happening because this is a bloody war. and i'm back with more news after a short break. thanks

for joining us here on. cyber war appears to be waging across the internet a dutch web hosting company has launched a cyber attack against the geneva based. group which put it on its black list of the victims of the assault climate so powerful it slowed internet access world wide web. explains. 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 that 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 help us get in touch with us spend all of comfiest so the spokesman for the cyber attacking group he says the scale of the attack is massively exaggerated by cloud flare that's a company that's only out to promote internet security. hole is going to there's a little. bit of some issues there's a little money going to. be all of that.

to make it seem like the intimate exchange of them going into another exchange where because of the this is not the case those. are the major. basically zero zero zero as a straight line. no better place than the internet for minimal damage to turn into an epic disaster certainly given how much crucial data are stored on the web as aussies are you 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 iranian 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 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 online economic warfare me to some the web might potentially seem to be a the new front for global warfare and 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. relating a 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 if you can tell us what you think of this internet battle by just going to our web site and taking part in our online poll our t. dot com is where we're asking you are basically what you think it signals a let's see how is it going up the numbers for this hour. the ultimate web fallout one of our top stories here our voters are all over the place today the numbers changing every single hour up to forty four percent a majority saying it's a new age of cyberwarfare down a very distant second twenty percent behind saying of the governments will simply strike back and take preemptive strikes on cyber terrorists a third position expect web web laws to be toughened down to the last position here well fourteen percent of our voters saying internet security is just going out of

the window when you go to r.t. dot com you can still get involved with a poll that is fluctuating every single hour we love it when you have your say on the issues. well over the internet to. work. at the moment right now. head on. with. you can get the details.

thanks for joining us here it is an hour less than twelve hours before the soyuz spacecraft. blasts off on a record breaking mission. to russians and an american will be on board what's planned to be the fastest ever flight to the international space station. rolling out what will be and historic mission the iconic soyuz rocket will set another record from baikonur this week taking three crew to the international space station in the fastest time ever it was slashed the journey from two days to just six hours i'm going to achieve it by wishing 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 are aware that within 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 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 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 there is nothing particularly new for the experienced power going to

get out of or chris cassidy they have been on previous missions and so know all about the hectic shadow of scientific experiments and space walks but it is new territory for alexander 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. crew have prepared for every venture 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 tire says 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 and i

always sing in the shower and we don't have a shower i'm supposed to be nosing out of. good humor in 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. already just a moment on the r.t. world update for now though russia's black sea fleet has dusted down its water wings with the launch today of major navy drills and more than seven thousand troops battleships hundreds of armored vehicles have been mobilized and apparently follows a twilight call to action from president putin with the order personally delivered to the slumbering defense minister of four in the morning the president said to

have made the decision on the route from the brics summit in south africa last month moscow held its first on shared world military maneuvers in two decades involving special forces fighter jets and dozens of helicopters. into the arctic and fifteen students are being killed in a mortar attack on a damascus university this according to local media the bombs are thought to have landed on the canteen of an architecture department of the government media has said that rebels are to blame for the strike. the bus has plummeted down a ravine in the south of moving twenty four people dead rescue workers arrived at the scene to recover the bodies but have been hampered by the difficult terrain and investigation has already begun into what caused the accident. and thanks so much for watching today i'm real research area and moscow in just a moment it's abby martin and breaking the sound.

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