the web of war hosting service sent of spam filtering group clash across the internet claiming is the biggest cyber attack ever to hit life. separate banks reopened on the paralyzing capital control restrictions while the threat of a massive grab hand over piles of business is pensioners. amid the largest hunger strike in america's war on terror a prison detainees lawyer in guantanamo he says the inmates cut off from their basic rights and waste away. also reporting this hour a soyuz rocket is set to hit three cosmonauts to the international space station in

record time out of all goes to plan they say they'll be up there before their ice cream melts the top stories this hour. international news in common live from studio center here in moscow this is twenty four hours a day. a war appears to be waging across the internet it began when the anti spam group called spamhaus put the web hosting company side the bunker on its blacklist the host is allegedly struck back with an accurate attack of unprecedented scale according to spamhaus the assault was so powerful it slowed internet access worldwide on a video agency ruptly helped to skate in touch with spent. the attackers spokesman and he says the scale of the strike is massively exaggerated by cloud flare that's

a company that promotes internet security. the whole if. they don't come to some issues that will mean that the. well i'll be all of that. they try to make it seem like the woman in them and the exchange of them going into another exchange went on because of that this is not the case though. they are the result of a small and. that makes them off basically zero zero zero as a straight line. down toss them off for more on the current attack inside the wolf as a whole let's join don holden who's the director of security for such an all board network's cyber security company that the people from cloud flare that make it sound potentially apocalyptic how would you assess the scale of this attack.

well i would certainly consider it the largest distributed denial of service that it has been witnessed to date it is four to five times larger than the attacks that have been occurring over the last five to six months on the u.s. financial institutions so it is certainly an important story and something to take note of just because of its sheer size and scope but have you had reports of people being affected by it indeed not just small companies but large institutions hasn't really had a big impact. i haven't we haven't been able to measure any type of impact i haven't seen anyone else ve. been able to come with any kind of real world statistics to do such and it doesn't appear that anyone has come out and said yes we were affected. however it's certainly possible that others you know adjacent to the to spamhaus being attacked might have been affected in some ways but nothing

that would lead you to suspect you know that the internet is crumbling or or any kind of armageddon has occurred involve terms or on internet could an attack of this nature be big and indeed affect much bigger organizations such as governments is there a potential for that could this be a sign of what could happen. we have certainly seen this type of attack before so it's not new in that regard however as i mentioned it is the largest ever witnessed . it certainly is possible that this type of attack could be larger right so what do you do about it and what can you do about these sort of attacks well certainly if the internet service providers you know are aware of this type of attack they know how to defend against it in most cases certainly that defense capability is different from provider to invite or vendor to vendor but i do think that there is

certainly the possibility to mitigate this type of act. and it's not necessarily is as bad as it could be. the company that was targeted said that it was blacklisted because some of its users were sending spam and there are of course many that just didn't use a so what they had the right holiday and the right to know they being. being wrongly targeted well certainly that depends on your point of view and certainly as to how the internet should be used we do know of course that the majority didn't and it's used for you know perfectly reasonable and legal revenue generation and then we know there's also a lot of cyber criminals that use it for all gentlemen purposes this is one of those situations where falls in the middle and as a bit you know you you could say sketchy or dodgy type of activity where they will post things that are perhaps morally questionable and that's where the the debate if you will comes comes into question just one final question which many people

want to ask you when we ever have a spam free world to place it could be possible. you know the day it becomes unprofitable will be the day that we have a spam free world i would say at least it's certainly better than it used to be say a decade ago great to talk to you thank you very much for your time dan holding that director of security for search at all but networks obvious security company life aeronautics thank you thank you. 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 but as a teaser told my colleague rory sushi earlier cyber attacks are increasingly becoming a very powerful weapon. well certainly cyber attacks are not as lethal let's say as cluster bombs they would not kill people but in our times they're becoming much more effective in terms of damage to the infrastructure and that happens every day besides if we compare the cost for instance of one missile which would make us like

hundreds of thousands of dollars this is cheap and completely untraceable let's take for instance the recent stuxnet virus which was equated by the nato official story use of force which was aimed at disrupting the you renia 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 canceled 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 web site and taking part in our poll we're asking what you think this could mean we'll here's how the numbers are looking so far with your responses here on the screen about forty percent of you think it's the dawn of

a new age of cyber warfare twenty two percent think that it will lead to an increase in preemptive government strikes on cyber terrorists almost as many believe that it will eventually see the creation of tougher internet controls to prevent further attacks and close behind it seventy percent of those who say it's the end of internet security as we know it good to hear from dot com and have your say on the issue from the internet to mobile networks in the u.s. the f.b.i. is facing a court case over claims. info from their own phones and locate exactly where they are that's on the web site. plus the russian parliament is set to tackle the extreme right head on after a new bill put before them threatens holocaust denial with jail time and huge fines . right now online.

its. banks have reopened for the first time in two weeks albeit with a slew of restrictions on what people can do with them money caps on withdrawals monthly limits and a ban on any launch transfers means for many that cash is still frozen and prayed to the demands of europe's leaders. reports now 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 no really for the for many for the past two weeks people have been cash strapped and they try to make the cash in hand to fit now as far as the european leaders are concerned they think that business saved the country for 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 manner will finish the banking crisis in 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 a sick mother in raveling of cyprus's financial have come at a worse time by finishing the pension of my mom all of your life. people are younger. than these. corrupt so. you're standing with an empty hands. a sentiment echoed throughout the tiny island nation.

scenes like these becoming a daily occurrence another day in nicosia cyprus another protest though this one in particular is a gathering about the police of the country's largest lender the bank of cyprus but they 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 role 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 june to spain supper's is part of your peer european union system files and for when cyprus was paying the money through the european union to help to spawn the other two contras you may embarrass. no but is that 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 years old i.m.f. back to the bailout plan it's all too clear to ordinary cypriots who is going to be bearing the brunt need us as mother for example have a monthly pension cut from one thousand one hundred eighty nine year olds to just over one thousand a month ago why they cut from 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 c.s. cyprus. most of the country's banks have now shut up for the night with the day being shortened to just six to minimize capital flight will street journal correspondent matthew dalton says that 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 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 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 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. later in the day auntie's financial guru max kaiser delves deeper into the cyprus crisis and his findings a grim to say the least is a preview. in greece when papa grail 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. because a report coming your way a little later today more news here on r.t. over the short break stay with us.

he continues here in our team more accusations of mistreatment of being held in jail as in the guantanamo bay detention facility the maids who are refusing food out of a whole conditions claim personnel that are not depriving them of drinking water and to keeping temperatures inside the camp near freezing point that's despite fiza hunger protests could soon lead to fatalities spoke to us air force lieutenant colonel barry ween god he's a military lawyer who's at the guantanamo facility right now and he told us about his own plight. i've never seen anything of her in all my five years coming one

kind of. more than fifty times i mean. you know you forget whole. part of poker playing the week he went from one forty seven down to one hundred seven i mean he was fully one third of the body weight and he continued. 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 in any process of getting released from here but i think that you know when you're on hundred sixteen and only cleared not cleared from one country we support.

the radio. the people of all of that means that they're there. 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. were more forward than we've been robbed probably 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 administration the bush administration willing to give him a trial or try what. he had encouraging for me to defend can't go to we try to keep all of it departments complete complete straight up an extension of the concept and then we'll. look at it and for the rest of their lives without ever having an opportunity to defend now when a leader of a country comes out indefinite detention will be applied to guantanamo bay well that's when you've got the fact that he will have to be breathing trippy. the

worsening situation at the guantanamo bay prison has drawn closer attention from the red cross which brought forward 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 marty spokesman for the international committee of the red cross in north america seven sure no said poor legal regulation is to blame for the inmate suffering from our observations we are those 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 impactful 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 going on for around seven weeks is 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 has 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 it 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 tried that over time made the challenge smaller unfortunately the state department has

been forced because of funding issues to close that office down congress that has basically frozen you know the situation in place the president is right now unable to move forward check out r.t. dot com our web site 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 there. when it's not just a few hours before the soyuz spacecraft thrusters and blast off on a record breaking mission two russians and an american will be on board what's planned to be the fastest ever flight to the international space station always under a farmer looks at what the cosmonauts have been doing to prepare for the big trip and just how they're going to get to the ice 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 we'll 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 advantages will be to reduce weightlessness you can operate quite normally if you were where 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 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 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 there is nothing particularly new for the experience publishing to get out of or chris cassidy they have been on previous missions and so know all about the hectic shojo 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 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 waste affiliate 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 on the space station so there are no singing out of our good humor and a photo cole ending months of preparation for a mission that aims to beat any fast track to this style and open up a new highway to the international space station andrey fama. kazakstan. so the historic launch is coming in about three hours from now we'll be bringing you more on that and of course live coverage. well now some international news in

brief this hour fifteen students have been killed in a mortar attack on a damascus university syrian state media is reporting the bombs are thought to have landed on the canteen of an architecture department government media has said rebels are to blame for the strike. the buses plummeted down a ravine in the south of peru leaving twenty four people dead rescue workers arrived at the same to recover the bodies but have been hampered by the difficult terrain and investigation has begun into what caused the accident. that's it for me in the news team for the moment will be back with more for you in less than half an hour from now in the meantime we look at the life of a journey inmate dedicating his time now to helping others who found themselves on the wrong side of the law that's after the break.

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