anyway. the web at war. spam filtering group. is the biggest cyber attack ever life on line. the paralyzing capital control restrictions while the threat of a government. over thousands of businesses and. bloody civil war brings more devastation in syria fears grow stronger in the u.k. that some of its nationals are allegedly fighting on the rebel side may bring the conflict closer to home. the largest hunger strike in america's war on terrorism. he says the inmates are cut off from their basic rights and waste away behind bars . to the international

space station in record time and if all goes to plan they say they'll be there before. the top stories this. international news and comment live from a studio center here in moscow this is a party with 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 cyber bunker on its blacklist the host has allegedly struck back with a hacker attack of unprecedented scale according to spamhaus the assault was so powerful it slowed internet access world wide video agency ruptly helped us get in touch with. the attackers spokesman and he says the scale of the strike is

massively exaggerated by cloud flare and that's a company that promotes internet security. the whole event is a little thing that they're going to cause some issues that will mean that the. well basically all of that. try to make it seem like the woman in the exchange of the woman going into another exchange went down because of that this is not the case though. they are the result of a law and then. that makes them grow off basically zero zero zero as a straight line because it grew in the ground soft enough. down holden who's the director of security research at all but network cyber security company says it's still hard to draw a line between morally questionable and outright criminal internet activities

certainly as to how the internet should be used we do know of course that the majority in it and it's used for you know perfectly reasonable and legal revenue generation and we know there's also a lot of sanger criminals that use it for all gentlemen purposes this is one of those situations where kind of falls in the middle and is a bit you know 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 there's no better place on the internet for minimal damage to turn into an epic disaster given how much crucial data is stored on the web and the aunties alexi it assessed to report 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 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 and we're asking you what you think it could mean well here how here's how the numbers look at the moment at this hour so far with your responses there on screen 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 and almost as many believe it will eventually see the creation of tougher internet controls to prevent further hacks and close behind it seventy percent of those who say it is the end of internet security as we know it that's what you think so far at our website r t v dot com to have your say because to hear what you have to say. separate banks have reopened albeit with a slew of restrictions on what people can do with their money caps withdrawals monthly limits and a ban on any large transfers means for many their cash is still frozen ortiz to sicilia now 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 could just pan there's

a lot of media here and the people there the crowds of 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 together 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 of 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 tried to make the cash and had a fit 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 manner 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 but. the pension of my mom all of your life is coming up so. you make a plan for the. people. of your country. 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're worried that the company is headed for collapse and they may eventually lose their jobs and many cypriots told me that they are well aware that this is just the beginning of a long hard road i believe that. europe is germany's role because we'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 can easily happen tomorrow to italy to front soon to spain cyprus is part of your peer european union system files and for. paying the money through the european union to have. the other two countries you may embarrass the man yeah.

no but this cyprus have no problem or it's a personal economy or something else as economic drama continues with politicians and bankers drawing up painful measures to execute the years old i.m.f. backing bailout plan it's all too clear to ordinary cypriots who is going to be bearing the brunt need this as mother for example have her monthly pension cut from one thousand one hundred eighty nine year olds to just over one thousand a month ago why they cut from the simple people who have special needs they cut from the people for his part allies question all cypriots would like answered as well. does or sylvia r.t. because c.s. cyprus. most of the country's banks have now closed up for the night with the workday being shortened to just six hours you had van overtveldt at and chief of the trans magazine says the current capital control regime may last for a while before to way from the bell out scenario to the bill in scenario and or

in there you go first of all to the shareholders of the banks and then the insured deposit all this and it's first tried out and i know here in cyprus you also have installed now capital control mechanisms which are indeed totally new in this situation they are contradictory to the very principles of monetary union and when they last only for a few weeks well we'll have to wait and see what happened then if they last longer and really the chances are much larger that there will have to be kept intact over a much longer period than a few weeks then the ballgame changes then we have a new situation and we will have just to wait how markets how bombed all those are deposits all those are we investors react to the fact that one country becomes an isolated country within the euro zone in fact creating two separate euro's.

more accusations of mistreatment of being held in jail in the guantanamo bay detention facility the inmates who are refusing food over harsh conditions claim personnel that are now depriving them of drinking water and keeping temperatures inside the camp freezing point that's despite fears the youngest protests could soon lead to fatalities he spoke to us air force lieutenant colonel barry when he's . on my facility right now and he told us about his own client's plight. in almost five years coming up. for fall. hard to focus. he went from one forty seven down to one hundred. one third of body weight and he continued. i don't know if you want to or not. but i can tell you that after

eleven years of the region charge an opportunity. you know point out i'm not. performed thanks hundred sixty out here. cleared. no way and across. that you don't need one hundred. years from one country to work. the people of. iraq if it turns out that people begin to die here. but i think. people. are. probably. looking recommissioned well you know usually to. represent him only the former. let me try our try

but now he had targets for me to. go to we tried to keep hold of a compartment complete complete story. concept and then we will. for the rest of the bill why we are having an opportunity to defend not one leader of a country come to indefinite detention will be applied to guantanamo bay well when you die you will have. more news still to come after a short break stay with us. if

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he continues here on the mortar shells are being followed at damascus university at least fifteen people and wounding another twenty according to syrian state television the government blames rebels for the attack who are battling the in the area damascus based journalist abdullah. he says the opposition fighters have significantly increased their sold on civilian areas in the capital and in its suburbs. this attack comes on a cd of. been shedding all around syria but under mask a city they are. targeting heavily crowded areas in damascus we have one next to the main god in damascus we have one close to a mosque and we have two. motors in damascus university and this one is the difficulty of and it killed fifteen and it was twenty wanted and this massacre also

happened with another one that we're shooting off. at the state news agency and we have also hospital that was shelled and you have many a situation that was shelled we have we have this that is addition of the. latest one that allows every state of the arab state to provide weapons to day to day bills simply without offending back to the arab league and without making any decision or going back to the need for the resolution from the arab league or any other institution and this means that it will get smaller planes from arab states like saudi arabia they used to give weapons but now they have a kind of legitimate cover in order to continue supporting this russia has stated clearly that. this kind of act is not. enough we continue and it's going to increase the bloodshed of. syria so it looks like syria's future is something

that's being determined outside syria at the meetings between foreign countries and the external opposition the opinion of those who think that the government and internal opposition also carries weight is totally ignored. you know that the solution we should have a solution from inside syria not from outside syria and this everyone in damascus believe that this is this is the only way for solution if you are depending on outside only you should you could not find a solution permanent solution because there are many of power that interfering in this. security services in the u.k. say scores of brits are fighting in syria and could use their weapons know how to cause havoc when they come back home this is just one part of a wide ranging report into key terrorist threats faced by britain the extent to biological weapons attacks and cyber crime on the surface takes up the story the first annual report on the counterterrorism strategy and in it they highlighted the growing security threat from syria where al qaeda affiliates were tracking hundreds

of fighters from europe now let's take a look at some of what the report says and they said as and when u.k. residents return home there is a risk that they may carry out attacks using skills that they've developed eva cvs know these are concerns that only be highlighted by the british government but also being highlighted by other european members as well recently we saw the dutch heightened their security threat level as they said that they thought they had around one hundred foreign fighters that had gone to syria and these are also the concerns that i think you've been by france as well say assessing not just a problem confounding for if in the one obviously that we've seen highlighted in this counterterrorism strategy report and certainly i think a lot of concern amongst the british authorities with seeing these young british people fighting in the wars a. let's go live now to a labor m.p.

for khalid mahmoud for more on this terror report not just how serious these concerns that these people might be coming back with a lost to fight in the u k. well i think the serious concerns are the should be extremely concerned i've been raising this for the last year where no he's been taken by the security services or by the home office or the foreign office for that matter i'm glad that this is now on the agenda on their horizons because once you put people out there and they get that sort of training they get the ability to use the weapons that are available to them when they come back here wants to start to feel discontented in disquiet about particular issues they'll resort to that and that's happened before we know it's happened certainly in afghanistan in iraq and we want to learn those lessons and we have the that's what i was going to ask you why would they want to come back and wage

a war in their homeland what would be motivating them the motivations are our policies that they don't like or the see that are not been just see the fact as the muslim community has as a one single community and anybody who acts against it wherever it is in the world where this was happening in algiers with what's happening in palestine what's happening kashmir or anywhere else in the world what are those things that are happening they feel that i have an obligation to fight for them and with us fighting for them in the u.k. or europe or the u.s. or anywhere else in the world they do that and that's why we have these activities what about constituents where you are there in birmingham do you know young men going off to fight in syria. although there have been people that are very gone off i know the group to just come back this week gone on i. talk

for supporting. the communities out there and once you go out for a day then you get dragged into other issues and you start to look at resistance and he starts courting resistance and working with resistance people and then before you know it you're a freedom fighter and these sort of things happen regularly and what we're trying to do hopefully we can stop that by getting the security services to play the pay notice of these but this is the government encouraging these young men to go and find syria because after all the u.k. is supporting the rebels well that's that's why i've been against our policy of saying that we want to support the rebels because that gives. to these individuals who say look our government saying go out and do this or why should we be doing this so i think there is a real issue that the certainly the prime minister who's been very vocal about the issue supporting the rebels. syria and the foreign secretary but what they don't realize is every time the do that they actually engage more of the young people to

actually go out there doing the doing some of these activities and when it comes back to us it will come back as they hit us as hard as possible that what we've got to understand is that we need to learn the lessons of what's happened over the last two decades and we haven't learned those lessons and if we don't learn them now we'll be in further trouble and we'll see the devastation that we've seen in iraq in syria and possibly more and what about the problems there in birmingham are you worried about radicalization there and if so why particularly birmingham surely there are problems that you as an m.p. should be addressing and trying to sort out. well i address on a daily basis significant number of issues in my constituency and i continue to do that but one of the key interests of had as the all party parliamentary chair of the tackling terrorism group is you have turned to terrorism in the u.k. and abroad therefore our special interest in that and i think those are the issues that we need to be mindful of of what's going on and how we need to address some of

those issues birmingham has that a record number across the country in the u.k. the number of arrests of young people involved in extremist activity and a significant number of those have been charged for preparing for acts of terrorism and now the fact that we've been able to get the before they actually committed an offense is because of the good work of the security services that we have but if they were to get away with something that would be a huge catastrophe the in the u.k. labor m.p. there in burma and thank you very much indeed for joining us live here in r.t. good to talk to you thank you thank you but. it's not just over an hour before the soyuz spacecraft follows up its thrusters and blasts off on a record breaking mission to russians and american will be on board what's planned to be the fastest ever flight to the international space station is under former looks at what the cosmonauts have been doing to prepare for the big trip and just how they're going to get to the i assess 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 and left fastest time ever it was slash the journey from two days to just six hours and we'll achieve it by all within just sport 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're 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 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 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 root for 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 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 fairly 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 there are no singing i don't get good humor and a photo cool 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 pharma. kazakstan.

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