elements from around russia we've got the future covered. hunger strikers at guantanamo bay prison are allegedly pressured to and their weeks long protests while the u.s. military failed to address the situation that increasingly threatens to turn deadly . british intelligence chiefs warn the u.k. could face terrorist attacks by u.k. citizens that have been aiding rebels forces in syria as the government calls for the right to say at arms to the opposition. to russian so you spacecraft carrying a pool of three successfully docks with the international space station following a record breaking flight of just six hours.

this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital hi marina joshing welcome to the program a hunger strike or is that when tom obey are accusing authorities there of pressuring them to and their progress by denying them drinking water and keeping their cells of frigid temperatures at least eleven inmates protesting mistreatment and indefinite detention or being force fed a practice their lawyers say is highly controversial at the same time no movement and the weeks long straw has been seen at a high level with the pentagon completely ignoring the situation out of slater's briefing artie's going to she count was there for us. not a word from defense secretary chuck hagel on the situation in guantanamo i was at a news conference with the defense secretary this thursday at the pentagon he never to my question i frankly don't know why i was right there in front of him raising my hand as everyone else as you know half of the many guantanamo has been cleared for release many of them years ago yet they're still there locked up stuck in this

limbo desperate and i was going to ask when they will let these men go on whether it would make any difference if somebody died in this ongoing hunger strike again i never got the chance to ask that question the pentagon has just requested almost two hundred million dollars to renovate the guantanamo prison that kind of investment may suggest that they're not planning to shutting down anytime soon at the beginning of the year the state department closed the office that was in charge of closing the prison i went to a state department briefing earlier this week again never got a chance to ask a question it's either they watch our t.v. or the media person they're just didn't take questions from anyone who is not attending to the briefings on a daily basis which i don't one way or another our questions remain unanswered they're the only person who's been responding to our inquiries about the situation with the detainees was robert during the spokesman for guantanamo but the only comments he can offer are about the health of the detainees which is apparently deteriorating and also the latest numbers as far as how many detainees are on

strike at the moment the latest we have from him is thirty one person but that's it there's complete silence on the most important questions about the future of the prison what's going to happen to these people president obama spokesperson said the president's team is closely monitoring the hunger strikers guantanamo bay and i can tell you that the administration remains committed to closing the detention facility at guantanamo bay but at the same time offering no specifics as to weigh in and how and how are they going to do that if the pentagon is requesting millions of dollars to renovate it. well for the weeks the hunger strike has been taking place r.t. has been badgering not only authorities in the u.s. but also international human rights groups and the detainees attorneys for full accounts of the situation for all the information we've gathered you can head to our special timeline section on r.t. dot com now british intelligence chiefs are warning that the u.k.

in muslims fighting in syria could soon return and carry out terrorist attacks in britain the home office says hundreds of europeans who are fighting alongside syrian rebels are gaining experience from groups like al qaida the warning comes as the british government pushes for the right to supply the syrian opposition with weapons or sarah first takes a closer look at the growing terrorist threat. this is 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 in when u.k. residents for ten there's a risk that they may carry out attacks using skills that they've developed eva cvs know these are concerns that only being highlighted by the british government but also being highlighted by the european members as well recently we saw the dutch

heighten 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 echoed by france as well say assessing not just a problem concerning flippant but one obviously that we've seen highlighted in this counterterrorism strategy report and certainly i think a lot of concern amongst the british authorities that we're seeing these young british people fighting in the war now i'm joined by freelancer in journalist money thank you very much for joining us we were speaking about this subject a couple of weeks before the report was released and obviously this is something that is already going on in the know you've spoken to the friends of the young british man he was actually the first confirmed british fighter he died over in syria can you tell us a bit about that well you know. it was only twenty one when he died in syria and

already you were the books of all for the libyan war against gadhafi. just what is going to be quite difficult for you because the market very much. friends that i've spoken to is very much very british in many ways is along the border. i think you found. in syria very attractive fish authorities are very concerned you see. highlighted in this country terrorism report how worried should they be how much of a threat do you think this is to britain well i think the report said there were probably around one hundred fighters i think the real numbers probably higher would be most concerning for the british security services of british muslims of asian descent. of the pakistani bangladesh or india who might go to places like syria because they're the ones in the past ten years or so who've been involved in the most dangerous terrorist threats in the u.k. thank you very much for joining us on a describe the tsunami i don't think anyone could have had any idea of just how

complex and how far reaching implications of what is happening in syria right now be we had the u.n. envoy to syria speaking today calling for the desperately need for all sides to come together once again trying to find a resolution to the conflict labor m.p. for birmingham how mahmoud's has the u.k. saw similar terrorist threats before the conflict in syria i'm glad this is now on the agenda on their horizons because once you put people out there they get that sort of training they get the ability to use the weapons that are available to them one become back here one to start to feel discontented in disquiet about particular issues they resort to that and that's happened before we know top and certainly in afghanistan in iraq and we want to learn those lessons i know the group to just come back this this week gone on 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 you start supporting the resistance and working with resistance people. two years of ruthless conflict have completely transformed the image of syria at r.t.l. com you'll find some striking photos from the city of dried dubbed the city of the dead log on to take a look. watching r t now let's turn to some other stories cypriots have been queuing to take their cash as the country's banks are open after a nearly two week long standstill strict limits have been imposed including a cap on daily was drawls of three hundred euro per person restrictions which cyber is say will last for a month but you know one of our felt editor in chief of the trans magazine things are likely to stay for

a much longer. we've walked away from the bail out scenario to the bail in scenario and door and there you go first of all to the shareholders of the banks and then the insured deposit holders 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 euros.

now lawrence freeman and alice for executive intelligence review magazine says it's too early for brussels to pop the champagne corks because the banks will continue to cause turbulence across the euro zone. i don't think cyprus has been saved i think the people in cyprus believe that would do what you have right now is the beginning of. the euro house is burning and it cannot be saved because of what people see and what the european leadership. is that this is the template for the rest of europe so when the banking system is failing which you will continue to fail they now are going to take money from the people and they're going to take it the prizes are essentially the owing money from the people and while the e.u. decision makers are so far failing to stand the contagion disappointed students all across europe to tackle the problem we reported out later this hour. the

power of hamas gains momentum in the west bank as more and more palestinians accuse their governments failing to resolve the political deadlock with israel but that more.

welcome back you're watching our team coming to you live from moscow a russian soyuz spacecraft has successfully docked with the international space station after a record breaking journey it took the crew of three just six hours to get to the ice s. a cosmic cut compared to the usual two day flight thomas has more now from russia's mission control center let's take a look. now that the hatch has been opened and the astronauts and cosmonauts have agreed to do it march at the very beginning of i assess expedition number thirty five which will last for six months the crew of three that have just come with the soyuz capsule will be making the crew of the international space station a full six man crew in fact this particular crew is consisting of pawel going to get out of the this is his third trip in space he's the commander of the soyuz capsule the rookie of the flight alexander me sort of him it's his first flight and then christopher cassidy who is not only an experienced space shuttle astronaut

he's also a navy seal as well this is his second flight in space this is the first time that the series capsule has used this new fast track method that was developed by the russian space agency now there have been one hundred seventeen that launches a total of three spacecraft but again this is the first time this new launch process which cuts the time significantly from two days to six hours the time it took is less than it takes to get from moscow to new york on in transatlantic flight so historic flight historic mission ahead of them and they'll be there for about six months and then come back home to earth and of course we'll be here covering that for you as well. as been closely watching this so his mission from blast off to docking it instantly posting updates on twitter and you can catch all the details by following him at john thomas underscore r t. now israel has reopened the gaza border crossings after being closed following a rocket attacks from the palestinian territory last week during president obama's

visit to tel aviv artie's fall asleep looks at how a lack of high profile dialogue is causing even more dissent in the rest of region . anger on the streets of ramallah against a palestinian government people here say is too weak inactive to bring peace after years of negotiations between the two sides campaign protest as israeli settlements have only expanded and the occupation deepened your use of the palestinian authority is part of the problem and not the solution president abbas is a servant of the israeli occupation israel wants from the palestinian authority two things a security agent and a financial agent so it can control the palestinian people the palestinian authority does this for them. or organizes regular demonstrations against the palestinian authority he says if there was one thing that would change his opinion it would be if he saw real progress from palestinian israeli dialogue but the two sides haven't sat down together since september two thousand and ten many moderate

palestinians are losing faith and looking across the border for inspiration but they're more the by the many and this prayer of prayer the more hamas will again if they don't believe in with a turn towards. achieve with violence. what does not appear. so simple as that president abbas says he won't talk of tel aviv and this is a freeze on israeli settlement construction something prime minister netanyahu won't agree on especially now in lieu of his new right wing coalition government the irony by refusing to talk with the p.a. netanyahu is helping squinting israel's arch enemy to mass what has that and then the position of hamas and all opposition and palestine is the failure of forcible. please remember that twenty years have passed almost since was the agreement was signed what is the outcome more settlements more segregation apartheid

ward shared mahmoud abu tir once cut and lonely for game he was among a minority of west bank palestinians who supported him as he spent seven years in an israeli prison he says because he won a seat in the palestinian government on hamas ticket he blames the p.a. as much as israel. we hamas have roots in historical depth we are more strong in the west bank than in gaza since the elections of two thousand and six in spite of all the arresting and all the harm that our youth suffers in the palestinian authority prisons people are convinced of our way our truth we work and we are working for the people we are helping them and because of that they arrest us. but chip is not worried about being arrested again despite his intention to stand again for a palestinian parliamentary elections due to be held later this year he says he doesn't even have to come pain he merely has to sit and wait while tel aviv

promotes his cause although no date has been saved for the next palestinian elections people here are starting to think about who to vote for and while hamas will never be as popular in the west bank as it is in gaza it's so if you're giving the other political candidates a run for their money. well on line for today it's on guard for russian troops as the country's military rolls out spores of war ships hundreds of armored vehicles and thousands of soldiers for sudden a massive navy drill details and more food. also there and not so with official take on the daily news and world affairs a world at our website is a cartoon section so had there for some i mean catching illustrations.

now web users online communications may be about to get a wider and possibly unwonted audience the f.b.i. is seeking more powers to spy on people's emails and internet chats real time the proposals have already been met with criticism they are a complete breach of privacy as explains. an estimated six hundred million people use skype to chat with family friends and colleagues i'm using the video ip service to talk to you right now and this year a top priority for the f.b.i. is to gain the power to be able to monitor internet chats e-mails and basically all on line correspondence as it is taking place washington is working on legislation

that would force email cloud services and chop providers like skype to install in surveillance equipment within their networks that equipment would give the u.s. intelligence community the ability to monitor online correspondence in real time basically the same way that the f.b.i. could listen in on phone conversations with court approval under love. the phone companies were required by law to implement technology that allows these wire when you're looking at something like skype or some of the other networks those laws do not apply to these places and the only thing we need to change that law because when we go to a company sometimes we get quote gratian and technical assistance sometimes we don't and that's just not enough courtesy of the electronic communications privacy act the f.b.i. can already out says archives of emails tweets and transcripts but clearly that's not enough for the agency to keep tabs on what criminals would be terrorists and

dissidents are saying online the problem is where we are today so the way that we communicate is really not limited to telephone companies and sort of the old fashioned you know picking the phone and calling someone you have i mean g. mail google voice dropbox according to google's latest transparency report the united states is the world leader when it comes to requesting user data on its own citizens f.b.i. general counsel andrew weissman says the agency is working to expand its internet spy powers by the end of the year and by then a skype chat between two people may include a bigger audience reporting from new york. r.t. . now let's take a look at some of the stories from around the world the funeral procession for a bahraini activist who was killed and clashes with police has been dispersed by security forces authorities use tear gas and stun grenades against the mourners

according to reports many were injured during the crackdown the gulf monarchies has been accused of using excessive force against protesters seeking more rights and freedoms since uprisings began in two thousand and eleven. in chile a student demonstrations turned violent when thousands of protesters clashed with police around sixty people were arrested and one police officer was injured this was the first walkout in two thousand and thirteen by chilean students we have been demanding free high quality education from the government since two thousand and eleven. b.n. security council has unanimously approved a say in its first ever offensive intervention brigade to the democratic republic of congo to help the country oust militants according to the resolution the squad will be added to the current peacekeeping mission and is tasked with neutralizing the rebels the government of the republic has fought the congolese revolutionary

army known as am twenty three since twenty twelve when it took over some of the countries he sees. and widespread disappointments in debt ridden europe and new movement is becoming more and more popular in its challenge to brussels you wos students from all over the continent are teaming up to express their ideas of how you are should shape up or the speed oliver has more. europe it's got food it's got culture it's certainly got history but it also has an increasing number of young people that feel that their future is being sold from underneath. this group of students for liberty is seeing its membership swelled by young people dissatisfied with the status quo they believe in a hard line of capitalism and their ranks are growing and growing and growing this weekend we have four hundred students here from forty five forty four countries i

never thought it was possible it is very exciting to see this growth all over europe and the demand is huge for these ideas so i'm very optimistic for the future there conferences are organized by young people for young people they aren't financially backed by any political party and everyone who made their way here did so out of their own pocket they haven't got an overnight fix for europe's woes but they say it's time for the new approaches i think it's quite a dangerous situation because that means that you have politicians and bureaucrats ruling over nearly five hundred million people and so on not necessarily do they know always what the best things are for us the changes they want to see include more freedom to do business less interference from bureaucrats and the d. centralization of power away from brussels today's europe the most important problem with you is the overextension of the unit. they were designed to

to maintain peace have a free market to make sure people could move freely around europe and have started like building a new nation or trying to build a new nation as the next generation they want to contribute to europe's future something they believe they're being denied at the moment and i think it's a expression of the fact that people young people in europe feel stripped of their own power. you know their own right. it's almost i mean we have fifty percent unemployment among young people in spain how can you feel empowered when you can't get a job and it's that feeling of being left behind that pushes this group of young people to look for a way to change their situation these are all of the r.t. live in belgium. while brings us up to date and i'll be back with more national news and around thirty minutes time but stay with us for technology of date here on our team.

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