hunger strikers and guantanamo bay prison are allegedly pressure are two and there are weeks long protest while the u.s. military failed to address the situation that increasingly threatens to turn down only. british intelligence chiefs warn the u.k. could face terrorist attacks by u.k. citizens that have been aiding rebel forces in syria as a government calls for the right to see an arms to the opposition. and the russian soyuz spacecraft hearing a crew 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 i'm marina josh welcome to the program and hunger strikers at one time of day are accusing authorities there of pressuring them to and their protest by denying them drinking water and keeping their cells of frigid temperatures at least eleven inmates protesting mistreatment an indefinite detention or being force fed a practice the lawyers say is highly controversial at the same time no movement and the weeks long strike has been seen at a high level with the past gone completely ignoring the situation at its latest briefing are just going to she can 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 men in 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 question is remained an answer there 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's 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. now 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 full accounts of the situation for all the information we've gathered you had to respect the timeline section r.t. 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 home office says hundreds of europeans were a fighting alongside syrian rebels are gaining experience from groups like al qaida the warning comes as the british government forces for the right to supply the syrian opposition with weapons are the sara 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 and when u.k. residents for ten there's a risk that they may carry out attacks using skills that they've developed eva sees no these are concerns that are 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 so certainly 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 virtual thirty five 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 and 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 veteran of the libyan libyan war against gadhafi and despite his young age the it's quite difficult to look it was like it's very much. the friends 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 you see. seen it highlighted in this kind 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 higher would be most concerning for the british security services 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. thank you very much for joining us and he described 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 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 now labor m.p. for birmingham how to mahmoud's has the u.k. saw similar terror threats before the conflict in syria i'm glad this is now in 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 burnable 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 stop and certainly not gonna stop in iraq and we want to learn those lessons and we have those lessons . on actually dot com we have more on the impact the syrian conflict is having on

other nations and also on our website how the country itself has been completely transformed by two years of violence so log on to see striking photos from the city of deride dobbed the city of the dead. tell us stories now cypriots have been queuing to take their cash as the country's banks reopen after nearly two weeks long standstill strict limits have been imposed including a cap on daily withdrawals of three hundred euro per person restrictions which cyprus says will last for a month but johan van overtveldt 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 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. and 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 cyprus has been saved i think

the people in cyprus believe that would do what you have right now is the beginning of the end of the euro. the euro house is burning and it cannot be saved because what people see and what the european leadership aides say 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 that the prizes are essentially stealing money from the people and while the e.u. decision makers are so far failing to stand the contagion disappointed students all across europe team up tackle the problem were reported out later this hour. plus power of radical hamas gains momentum in the west bank as more and more palestinians accuse their governments of failing to resolve the political deadlock with israel that are more just ahead. and russian so

you spacecraft has successfully docked with the international space station after a record breaking journey it's a crew of three just six hours to get to the i assess a cosmic cut compared to the usual two day flight r.t. shaun 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 will be making the crew of the international space station a full six man crew in fact this particular crew is consisting of been a good 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's not only an experienced space shuttle astronaut he's

also a movie seal as well this is his second flight in space this is the first time that the series capsule has it 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 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. well sean has been closely watching this how his mission from blast off to docking and instantly posting updates on twitter so you can catch all the details by following him at shine tell us underscore our take. well and other back with more news in just a few moments stay with us. sigrid

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the spanish find out more visit eye to eye on t.v. . welcome back here with our web users online communications may be about to get a wider and possibly unwanted audience the f.b.i. is seeking more power to spawn people's e-mails and in a natural ads in real time the proposals have already been met with criticism that they are a complete breach of privacy and artie's moreno were not out swain's. 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 to leave 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 guy saying we need to change that law because when we go to a company sometimes we get quote ration 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 e-mails needs 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 the line for you it's on guard for russian troops as the country's military rolls out scores of warships hundreds of armored vehicles and thousands of soldiers

for sudden massive navy drill details and more food are. also online and not so official take on the daily news and world affairs at our website the cartoon section so i am there for some i catch ing illustrations. israel has reopened the gaza border crossings after being closed following rocket attacks from the palestinian territory last week during president obama's visit to tel aviv our disposal euro 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. in 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 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 is there more there by the many and this prayer of prayer the more hamas will again if

they don't believe in with a turn towards hamas achieves with violence. what. not. 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 army by refusing to talk with the p.a. netanyahu is helping strengthen israel's arch enemy harass what has that in the position of hamas and all opposition and palestine is the failure of all still. remember that twenty years have passed almost sort of agreement was signed what is the outcome more settlements more. apartheid ward chef mahmoud abu tir once cut a lonely figure. 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 or truth we worked and we are working for the people we are helping them and because of that they arrest us. but check 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 for television promotes his cause although no date has been set 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 certainly giving the other political candidates a run for their money policy r t. now 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 straight un secretary-general ban ki moon earlier a span of the meeting hoping to persuade them to go back on their decision iran claims that the draft treated nor as the legitimate demand to prohibit the flow of arms to those who commit aggression in order to come into force the draft needs to be supported by all one hundred ninety three un member states. at least six people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in northwest pakistan the bomber apparently targeted one of country's senior security force commanders at a checkpoint in the city of peshawar he survived but eleven others were reportedly

wounded by the explosion. a funeral procession for a bar radio activists who was killed in clashes with police has been dispersed by security forces authorities use tear gas and stun grenades against the mourners according to reports manny you were injured during the crackdown the gulf martin has been accused of using excessive force against protesters seeking more rights and freedoms since uprisings began in two thousand and eleven. in chile as two 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 free high quality education from the government since two thousand and eleven. pope francis has washed and kissed the feet of twelve young offenders at

a juvenile detention center in rome during a holy thursday ceremony the ritual representing the twelve apostles before christ was a fiction for the first time included two women earlier the pontiff urged priest to do less soul searching and engage more with their parishioners it's. now men why aid spread disappointment and debt ridden europe and new movement is becoming more and more popular in its challenge to brussels handling of each you both students from all over the continent are teaming up to express their ideas on how europe should shape up artist to oliver 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 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 pockets they haven't got an overnight fix for europe's woes but they say it's time for 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 not 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 overextension of the unit chill goal. 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 at the moment 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 and i

had here in our t. is breaking the set with abby martin. 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 and 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 battles i mean yes just there is but when you think about it giving someone a medal for using a mouse to blow up blips on a monitor really seems to devalue the medals of the guys who are brave enough to storm the beaches on d.-day or slog through disease and sneak field swaps in vietnam so maybe for the sake of the prestige of the other medals let's just let the cybersecurity one go but that's just my opinion. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how badly. i mean.

that i've seen. really that's. very sort. of. the worst for the little thing the white house or the. radio guy. they. want. to give you never seen anything like this until it. was up and out of martin this is breaking news that so guys monsanto was just granted even more immunity they already had up on tuesday obama signed what's been dubbed the month santa protection act so it was a small provision deceitfully disguise and slipped into the latest agricultural appropriations bill in fact some congressmen have came out since and said that they

were told that this bill would have verge of government shutdown but they're completely unaware of the stipulations unfortunately these to play sions will do away with consumer rights and eliminate federal oversight for the continued use of genetically modified foods and the bill was signed despite an outcry over a quarter million people who signed a petition pleading with obama not to pass it this latest move sets yet another dangerous precedent one where corporate interests are first and consumer safety is second to the guys there is a silver lining here in the provision is only active for six months so let's use this time to organize better and make it clear that this will not stand breaks that . one of the most controversial practices being used across the muslim world is the use of unmanned predator drones program utterly lacking in transparency which is why independent media sources have began to fill the void left by this government.