hunger strikers add one time of a prison are allegedly pressure to and there were weeks long protest while the u.s. military failed to address the situation that increasingly threatens to turn deadly . british intelligence chiefs warned the u.k. could face terrorist attacks by u.k. citizens that have been aiding rebel forces in syria as the government calls for the right to send arms to the opposition. and a russian so you spacecraft carrying a crew of three success with docks with the international space station following a record breaking flight of just six hours.

in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie welcome to the program hunger strikers and when time of day 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 are being force fed to practice their lawyers say it's highly controversial at the same time no movement to and the weeks long strike has been seen at a high level with the pentagon completely ignoring the situation at its latest briefing artie's going to check out 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 and 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. and for the weeks the hunger strike has been taking place r.t. has been badgering not only authorities in the us but also international human rights groups and the detainees attorneys for four counts of the situation well for all the information we've gathered it had to respect a timeline section on our t.v. dot com. british intelligence chiefs are warning that

u.k. muslims fighting in syria could soon return and carry out terrorist attacks in britain the helm office says hundreds of europeans horrifying alongside syrian rebels are gaining spirit from groups like al qaida the warning comes as the british government pushes for the right to supply the syrian opposition with weapons are just their first takes a closer look at the growing terrorist threat. 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 for ten there's a risk that they may carry out attacks using skills that they've developed a deceived these are concerns that only been 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 have been echoed by france as well say assessing not just a problem concerning force 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 war zone 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 and i 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 he was a virtual call for the libyan war against gadhafi. despite his young age the despite the focus. of his life is very much. the sons that i've spoken to is very much very british in many ways as a london boy despite that i think you found. in syria very attractive fish authorities are very concerned he says. 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 that the report said there were probably around one hundred fighters i think the real numbers probably are higher would be most concerning for the british security services are british muslims of asian descent of the pakistan you 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.

mary 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 the implications of what is happening in syria right now be we have the u.n. envoy to syria speaking today calling for the desperately urgent need for all sides to come together once again trying to find a resolution to the conflict while all labor m.p. for bringing our mahmoud says the u.k. saw a similar terror threats before the conflict in syria. i'm glad that 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 and disquiet about particular issues then resort to that and that's happened before we know top and certainly in afghanistan and iraq and we want to learn those lessons and we have those lessons. what to do here is

a brute force i can't completely transform the image of syria at r.t. dot com you'll find some striking photos from the city of the riot dubbed the city of the dead log on to take a look. to other stories now cypriots have been queuing to take their cash as the country's banks reopen after nearly two week long standstill strict limits have been imposed including a cap on daily withdrawals of three hundred euro per person restrictions which cyber says will last for a month but you heard of that over felt editor in chief of the trans magazine thinks they're likely to stay for much longer before get away from the bail out scenario to the bail in scenario and they're in 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. peter then a few weeks then the ballgame changes then we have a new situation and we will have just to wait how markets how boehm told us our deposits all dissolve investors react to defect that one country becomes an isolated country within the euro zone in fact creating two separate euros. 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 eurozone. i don't think.

people believe that you have right now is the beginning of the. people see 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 the . dealing money from the people. and while the e.u. decision makers are so far bailing on the contagion. all across europe. probably. also the power of radical hamas in the west bank as more and more.

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all here on the t.v. reporting from the world talks about six of the ip interviews intriguing story are you. trying. to find out more visit our big dog teeth dog called. welcome back you're watching our team live from the russian capital a russian soyuz spacecraft has successfully docked with the international space station after a record breaking journey well to the crew of three just six hours to get to the eye assess a cosmic compared to the usual today flight r.t. showing thomas has more now from russia's mission control center. now that the hatch has been opened and the astronauts and cosmonauts have greeted each other it marks 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 that will be making the crew of the international space station a full six man crew in fact this particular crew is consisting of in a get out of the this is his third trip in space he is 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 thirty 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 the 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 all shot has been closely watching this so his mission from blast off to docking in instantly posting updates on twitter so you can catch all the details by following him at schon thomas underscore r t. now where he is or isn't lying the communications may be about to get a wider and possibly unwanted audience the f.b.i. seeking more powers to spy on people's e-mails and internet chats in real time the proposals have already been met with criticism that they are a complete breach of privacy at artie's maria. 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 coca leaves the phone companies were required by law to implement technology that allows this 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 f.b.i. saying we need to change that law because when we go to a company sometimes we get cooperation 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 power. hours 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. . line for you right now it's on guard for russian troops

as the country's military rolls out scores of warships hundreds of armored vehicles and sounds of soldiers. massively baby drill details and more food. also online a not so official take on the daily news and world affairs that our web site is cartoon section so pad there are for some i catch illustrations. right. now israel has reopened gaza border crossings after being closed following rocket attacks from the palestinian territory last week during president obama's visit to tel aviv artist policy looks at how well lack of high profile dialogue is causing

even more to stand in the rest of the 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 complain 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 present bass is a servant of the israeli occupation israel wants from the palestinian authority two things the security agent and a financial agent so it can control the palestinian people the palestinian authority does this for them jamal juma 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 a 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 they're more there by

the many and this prayer of prayer the more hamas will again if they don't believe in with. hamas achieves with violence. what does not appear. so simple as that president abbas says he won't talk of tel aviv unless there's 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 strengthen israel's arch enemy amass what has that inthe and the position of hamas and all opposition and palestine is the failure of forcible. please remember that twenty years have passed almost sort of agreement was signed what is the outcome more settlements more segregation apartheid wall shake

mahmoud abu tir once cut a lonely figure in ramallah he was among a minority of west bank palestinians who supported him us 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 worked 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 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 stage for the next

palestinian elections people here are starting to think about who to vote for and while the must will never be as popular in the west bank as it is in gaza it's certainly giving the other political candidates a run for their money. on t.v. ramallah. and now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world north korea iran and syria have blocked a u.n. treaty aimed at the regulation of the international arms trade u.n. secretary general ban ki moon earlier as the span of that meeting hoping to persuade them to go back on their decision iran claims that the draft treaty nor its that would just have a demand to prohibit flow of arms to those who commit aggression in order to account to force the draft needs to be supported by all one hundred ninety three u.n. member states. the funeral procession or of a radio activist who was killed in clashes with police has been dispersed by security forces authorities use tear gas and stun grenade against the mourners according to reports manning you 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 twenty eleven. in chile a student demonstration 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 who have been demanding for a high quality education from the government since twenty one. the u.n. security council has unanimously approved the sand its first ever offensive intervention were gauged 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 that is tasked with neutralizing the rebels the government of the republic as far as the congolese revolutionary army known as am twenty three since twenty twelve when it took over some of the country's key cities. now

amid widespread disappointments in debt ridden europe and new movement is becoming more and more popular in its challenge to brussels handling of e.u. woes students from all over the kardashians are teaming up to express their ideas on how york should shape up artist peter all over now reports. 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 it is the over extension of the unit chill call. they were designed to to maintain peace have

a free market to make sure people could move freely around europe and they 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 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. 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 over r t live in belgium. well brings us up to date and i'll be back with more news about thirty minutes time and meantime cross-tab with peter lavelle starts here in just a couple of minutes. plans

to create a 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 the 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 medals 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 other medals let's just let the cybersecurity one go but that's just my opinion.

hello and welcome across town where all things considered i'm going to really go can the brics countries brazil russia india china and south africa reinvent the international system can they collectively challenge the germany of western dominated trade and finance or do they merely want a greater say in how the world is run and for whom. to cross-talk the brics i'm joined by yet a slightly so bola here in moscow he's the chief economist at deutsche bank russia in washington we have brian becker he is the national coordinator for the answer coalition and in new york we cross to and we she is an adjunct professor at new york university and the author of the book what the u.s. can learn from china crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it yourself when i go to you first do the brics want to take on the west is that kind of relationship they have. well i think not necessarily but in some respects it seems as this is the trend in terms of the

recent policy measures that we're seeing from the brics one of the measures is to combine the foreign exchange reserves of the countries and form a reserve that it potentially could be used to deal with the crises in the world economy and to some degree you could look at this effort as a way to create a competitor to the international monetary fund and then the other. potential effort that is now undertaken by the brics countries is to create a development bank. much like the world bank would provide resources for developing countries to foster growth to deal with social issues etc so in some respects we're seeing that the brics are starting to create their own institutions.