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international news and comment line from australia sent to him in moscow this is where the twenty four hours a day a cyber war appears to be waging across the internet a dutch web hosting company has allegedly launched a cyber attack against a geneva based group which would put it on its blacklist the victims of the assault claim it is so powerful it has slowed internet access worldwide when producer andrew blake explains will. this is actually just a fight among two companies one 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 the 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. new video agency ruptly helped to get in touch with. the spokesman for the cyber attack a group he says the scared of the attack is massively exaggerated by cloud fan and that's a company that promotes internet security. a whole it is

a little bit. of some issues that will meet at the show. but as we all know that. they try to make it seem like the intimate exchange of them going into another change because of the this is not the case goes into the. mall and then. the maid. basically goes into this is zero as a straight line. down soft enough. well for more on the massive cyber attack and what it could mean for the internet let's talk to andy hall so he's a cyber security expert and campaign manager for the u.k. pirate party. and a cyber attack that affects the whole internet really does sound quite worrying but

is it that bad. no it's not i mean a cyber attack that would have an impact on the entire internet would really be shocking but we have to remember that the internet has a vast amount of capacity this attack does appear to be massive but it's massive on a scale that it's hitting the organization spamhaus causing them some problems even though they have a good distributed network but it certainly isn't having the kind of global impact some people are. suggesting it might be having if you know something some people services are slowing down of the moment can they attribute it to that banks for example in the u.k. is saying it could be happening from what i've seen on u.k. traffic it doesn't look like u.k. traffic is massively above where we'd expect it to be however there is some reporting that the attack is being carried out through u.k. routers and machines that have been hijacked in the u.k. if that's the case there might be some minimal impact on other users on those networks but it certainly isn't having the kind of global impact that some people

are reporting three hundred gigabits a second which is what has been quoted in media is a huge amount of traffic but it's not a huge amount of traffic on the scale of the entire internet but could an attack bigger than this be a lot some people are saying that something like this could actually perhaps target a government not just a company it's perfectly possible i mean these attacks grow year on year in terms of size and scale but that's at least in part because we see broadband speeds increasing we see the capability of the kind of hosts that are compromised if you think about a home computer two or three years ago might have had to make a connection now it might have one hundred megabit connection that gives hackers and attacks a lot more bandwidth to play with but on the other side we do have these huge organization why a species in fact building systems that can handle distributed denial of service attacks which is what this is however the fundamental concept of the internet wasn't built with security in mind in a lot of areas d.n.a.'s the system that's being used for this attack has been seen

as inherently insecure for a long time but the technology is changing it will to. it's a long time to fix the issues that we do have but we will get there as these attacks increase as the kind of things we've seen over the last week and people realize it is important and a priority to deal with now cyber bunker was blacklisted by this company called spamhaus because that anti spam is they blackness and for indeed spamming but now this company space cyber bunker is now saying that spamhaus is censoring the web and that's why they're targeting this company a says a matter of freedom of speech who's in the right here it's about drawing a line i'm not entirely sure where you can draw the line spamhaus provides a service which starts blacklist demands a lot of people sometimes they get it wrong and sometimes they do blacklist people maybe shouldn't be blacklisted however i think largely they do do a good job anybody who's had to manage a mail server in the last ten years will tell you that the kind of blacklist especially volunteer live stuff is

a good thing it's reduced the amount of spam. administrates have to deal with that users have and just to talk about you and me for example are e-mails that protecting the likes of you and me from this deluge of spam that we have to experience and knowledge with every day which is a scourge on society many say they are however it is the largest provider of this kind of service at the moment and obviously with great power comes great responsibility. that is responsible for is being intrusted with this power they have to do it properly otherwise we will end up in a situation where they could lock somebody for reasons beyond spam or at least they could get it wrong and block somebody for the wrong reasons so you could argue that they are able to arbitrarily take people off the internet in terms of sending emails and terms of blacklisting them i think generally they do a good job but it's an interesting question because it is a private volunteer run i believe organization that has a lot of power at the moment over who continue to play with who certain extent and

the really interesting tortie thank you very much indeed andy olsen's cyber security expert and campaign manager for the u.k. pirate party thanks for joining us or well there's no better place than the internet for minimal damage to turn into an epic disaster given how much crucial data is stored on the web and is not easily exceed cesky reports cyber attacks are increasingly becoming a very powerful weapon. well certainly cyber attacks are not as lethal let's say as cluster bombs that would not kill people but in our times they're becoming much more effective in terms of damage to the infrastructure and that happens every day besides if we compare the cost for instance of one missile which would make us like hundreds of thousands of dollars this is cheap and completely untraceable let's take for instance the recent stuxnet virus which was equated by the nato official story use of force which was aimed at disrupting the you're 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 loans are being counseled accounts are being killed so definitely cyber attacks are getting stronger and stronger more dangerous every year 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 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 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 the first 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 tell us what you think of this internet battle by going to our website and taking part in our on line poll well we're asking what you think it could all mean and here's how the numbers look so far with your responses here on screen forty percent of you think it's the dawn of a new age of cyber warfare twenty two percent reckon it will lead to an increase in preemptive government strikes on cyber terrorists and almost as many of you believe that will eventually see the creation of tougher internet controls to prevent further hacks and close behind it's seventeen percent of those who say it's the end of the internet security as we know it go to r.t. dot com and have your say on the issue because to hear from me separate banks have

reopened albeit with a slew of restrictions on what people can do with their money caps on withdrawals monthly limits and a near ban on any large transfers means for many their cash is still frozen all these tests are still in our reports 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. 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 now really for the for many for the past two weeks people have been cash strapped or 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 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 you know cash

a little 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. 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 about the poor use 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 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 stalled 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 european you know system files and for. paying the money to 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 something else as economic drama

continues with politicians and bankers drawing a painful measures to execute the years old i have a back to the bailout plan it's all too clear to ordinary cypriots who is going to be very bright need us as mother for example have a monthly pension cut from one thousand one hundred eighty nine euros 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 or sylvia our team make a c.s. cyprus. so father being few reports of incidents such as the banks reopened with police and an army of private security guards keeping order but wall street journal correspondent matthew dalton says the reverberations of the cypriot rescue 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 early 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. bring you more the latest news right after this break this is l.t.

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news today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations rule the day. continues here in r.t. more accusations of mistreatment of being held at jail as in the guantanamo bay detention facility the inmates who are refusing food over harsh conditions claim personnel that depriving them of drinking water and keeping temperatures inside the camp near freezing point that's despite fiza hunger protests could soon lead to fatalities. force lieutenant colonel barry wing god he's a military lawyer who's at the guantanamo facility right now and he told us about his own clients plight. never seen anything in all my five years coming

one kind of. more than fifty times i mean. you know you forget whole. part of folk playing this 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 only find you one whether or not he 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 open here and went out of the. movement the way he performed think of one hundred sixty six individuals out of here even cleared to be told. no way in any process of getting released from here but i know that you know when you're hundred. only cleared not cleared from one country 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 do hope that it doesn't come to that people need. more forward than we've been robbed of a promise that we were told if we get military commissions well you know we don't even have let alone an opportunity to get him out represent him only because of the former. regime and we're going to give him a trial or at least try what. he has encouraged for me to defend i can't totally cut i can call it department complete complete straight up an extension 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 at one time ok well that's when you got the fact that you will have to break trippy. the worsening situation at the

guantanamo bay prison has drawn close attention from the red cross which brought forth a planned visit of some of its staff the military claims more than thirty people are taking part in the hunger strike while lawyers say this figure is many times higher talking to r.t. spokesman for the international committee of the red cross in north america simon sean it said poor legal regulation is to blame for the inmate suffering from our observations it reveals tensions and and this anguish that knees are experiencing is clearly related to the lack of a clear legal framework in guantanamo and this is now a real impact and as an impact for the 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 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 ongoing for around seven weeks it's postmen 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. 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 however as the president had had signed an executive order congress has prevented him from doing that there was a secondary effort through the state department for those. detainees who were judged to no longer 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 the u.s.

is congress that has basically frozen you know the situation in place the president is right now unable to move forward. kick out all of the dot com to find out how the hunger crisis at guantanamo has been developing day by day and what reactions it has sparked we've got a full timeline there for you right now. it's less than twelve hours before the soyuz spacecraft fires up its thrusters and blasts off on a record breaking mission two russians out of the american will be on board what is planned to be the fastest ever flight to the international space station on his hundred farmer books what the cosmonauts have been doing to prepare for the big trip and just how they're going to get to the s.s. so quickly 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 slash the journey from

two days to just six hours and will achieve it by. 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'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 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 experienced power 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 their 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 eventuality 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 a space station so you know i was thinking i don't get good humor in a photo cole ending 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 fama. kazakstan. and that's all happening in less than twelve hours from now and of course we'll be bring you coverage of that here not to mention stay cia in just a few minutes because reporters they delve deeper into the cypriot financial

disaster i'll be back with more news with the team in just about half an hour from the. plans to create a war medal for cyber warfare have been put on hold by the new defense secretary chuck hagel but should they have been put on hold i mean hackers a drone operators do play a real important role in modern militaries and there are already u.s. military medals for things that don't involve people shooting at you the antarctic a service medals given by the department of defense for service between fifteen and thirty consecutive days in antarctica although the cold down there is potentially deadly no penguins are going to storm the base with kalashnikovs the homeland security distinguished service medal has also never been issued to anyone on

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 battles i mean yes just there is but when you think about it giving someone a medal for using a mouse to blow up blips on a monitor really seems to devalue the medals of the guys who are brave enough to storm the beaches on d.-day or slog through disease and sneak field swaps in vietnam so maybe for the sake of the prestige of the of their medals let's just let the cybersecurity one go but that's just my opinion. british stock.

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