a wall of silence and from washington over that one tom obey hunger strike two months into a protest that's putting prisoners life at risk. bringing jihad to hurt the u.k. fears of citizens fighting in syria could pose a terrorist threat when they return while the british government pushes to supply on good to rebel fighters. a new level of government snooping the f.b.i. could soon get the right to read your online tags and voice conversations plans that have provoked an angry reaction from web users. and a russian sawyer's rocket reaches the international space station that break and speed completing the journey in less so than the time it takes to fly from moscow to new york.

it's four pm here in a moscow you love with us on our show you with me to bum would say it's good to have you with. my nearly two months since of the longest hunger strike it went on i'm a baby gadow there's still no sign of a crisis being solved some of the inmates protesting over mistreatment at the jail are reportedly close to death. is a lawyer for one of the jailed man and is near i can delta joining us live cindy if you can get me the mad you represent has a been in jail since two thousand and two is he one of the hunger strikers yes you know hundreds frankly we were very are twenty thirty what's his condition right now . well he i have met with him for the last three days on

tuesday wednesday and thursday of this week. the first year that i saw him he was very weak he had not been able to sleep because he said said the camp authorities had lowered the temperature in much of the camp to very very free temperatures it's it appears that the guards here at the base are trying to end the hunger strike by making conditions more difficult for the prisoners here including making the room the camp very cold and he had lost forty pounds when i saw him he used to weigh one hundred sixty seven and he's now one hundred twenty five pounds. his condition and so he's a very very weak very very small he's got a lot of things. he's having a lot of stomach problems it's it's very sad. i mean is you know is your client prepared to die for this and what i is what how does he described his motivation or

what are the exact demands that all of the hunger strike out for. well. the desecration of the qur'an was one of the initial reasons why the prisoners initially started six strikes they believe that the qur'an which has not been searched by camp authorities for many many years now and has never been a security and never been a reason for any sort of security concerns was suddenly being searched again by the camp authorities and if would not happen since that scene at the time when president bush was running the prison camp and that was what started the strike and when the prisoners began to strike it seemed that camp authorities began to treat them were harshly to try to end the strike and so many more men joined the strike to protest the searching of the qur'an and the worsening conditions and more harsh

treatment here and also just that desperation that instead of getting better things are getting worse here at the camp for them there are many men who are cleared for release at least eighty six of them and now and they're also being treated as prisoners and things there as i said getting worse for them and not better and there's no hope they're not seeing any votes that's all i can't you help them you as a lawyer why country help get them out. i we have been trying for many years we've been challenging the dissension in civil courts in the u.s. . and to get judges who are ruling on these cases are some of them have ordered the men to be released some have orders that they cannot be released and in the cases where the judges have ordered release of them and. the government has

challenges those cases appealed to those orders and also president obama has my understanding close the one office it had been established in the department of state and state department it was an office headed by daniel fried to study and to you know it's actually carry out the closing of guantanamo that's now been closed it seems that there is no one in the government in the administration that would call to help with the closure of this phase as we continue to just challenge the detention in our courts cindy i'm running out of time about i want to ask you this why should the washington. the war about what's happening in one town i'm of a. because the reputation of the united states in the world is at stake here if the us does not come to table the government authorities here are committed to go and discuss with. the improvement of the contributors here

there are men who are going to begin to die for no reason at all when a simple solution would be to stop the searches of the program or if not to allow them and to turn older carouse seriously are not search and simple as zara would say it's a man who needs leaving tomorrow and the city back on track to be healthy are right now they're very very secure very weak to be very. loyal cindy who represents a long time in maid at guantanamo bay thank you for your time. all right is the u.s. government has been facing uncomfortable questions over the hunger strike at guantanamo bay but has failed to assure anyone that it's going to take any action now washington course one of granted you can explain the why add them to get an official response like getting no. 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 have 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'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. since the start of the hunger strike r.t. has been seeking answers from the u.s. government as well as the detainees attorneys and international human rights groups

for all the information we've gathered so far it was a time line on r.t.e. drive home. britain is worried that its citizens who join up to find alongside the syrian rebels could pose a serious terror threat when they return to the u.k. the home office is says hundreds of europeans who are getting involved are learning combat skills from groups like al qaeda but it's not preventing bridgend them from the from pushing to supply arms to the opposition in syria so our fruit has a story. 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 sees

no 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 concerns that i think you've been echoed by france as well say asserting not just a problem concerning flippant but one obviously that we've seen highlighted in this counterterrorism strategy reports 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 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 he was a book for all for the libyan war against gadhafi and despite he's going to it's quite difficult for the viewers like it's very much. the friends that i've spoken to is very much very british in many ways is a london boy despite that i think you found. in syria very attractive fish authorities are very concerned he says. seen it 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 a 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 you 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 being 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. on r.t. dot com we have more on how the syrian conflict is drawing in other nations also there how the country has been completely transformed by two years of violence we have a striking photos from the no knowledge as a city of of the date. watch

what you say during your private internet chats and calls law agencies have always been able to request some details of all communications when necessary but the f.b.i. wants to go for that listening and watching as you talk and type in real time in los angeles marina but my has been getting reaction. 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 and your love to leave 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 only thing we need to change that law because when we go to a company sometimes we get close 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 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 and your wife spend 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. . headbutting overgenerous settlements in the occupied territories as seems to be benefiting israel's all its enemy with ongoing expense and an increase and get a lack of dialogue where you put soon and hauled all palestinians are turning to hamas having lost hope that they will be in time seen. and as a banker mehldau no sees sign presses economy couldn't all from the e.u.

europe's negs generational think is beneath the way ahead is to give brussels a bit too will tell you what. you need to see good leverage sure to mccurdy was to build the needs most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans. this is why you should care what you are only. do we speak your language or not but they. will use programs and documentaries in

spanish matters to you breaking news a little too much of angles to the stories. here. the spanish find out more visit. it's been a record breaking voyage for the russian rocket which has successfully docked with the international space station three space travelers on board set at the previous best time of two days getting there in just six hours sun thomas has more now that the hatch has been opened and the astronauts and cosmonauts have greeted each other it marks the very beginning of 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 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's 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 council 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. israel has reopened the gaza border crossings that

had been shut down for a week the rocket attacks from the palestinian territory joining obama's visit to tel aviv palestinians tell policy what they think. 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 the this prayer of the more hamas will again if they don't believe in with a turn towards. this achieves with violence. what does not appear. to. have been to 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 hoping squinting israel's archenemy us what has that in the position of hamas and all opposition and palestine is the failure of war still. remember that twenty years have passed almost sort of agreement was signed what is the

outcome more settlements more. apartheid ward shape mahmoud abu tir once cut a 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 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 state 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. thank you since i've resigned getting any shorter as banks reopened for second day following the emergency two weeks shut down but strict limits mean a lot of people still can't get their hands on their own cash capital controls have effectively quarantined aside prison from the rest of the e.u. and will do so for at least another month something which lawrence freeman from executive intelligence review magazine indicates that the cyprus rescue has failed i don't think cyprus has been saved and i think the people in cyprus believe that with which you have right now is the beginning of the end of the euro system the euro house is burning and there is no reason to have confidence in the banking

system don't forget overnight they were shipping in billions of euros from germany into cyprus and then delivering them by truck because people could live so if you don't have confidence in your banking system it's not going to work and the system itself the euro system is a failed experiment i was always opposed to it we should have nation states with their own sovereign system so this now has proven that it doesn't work and the dictatorship from the european commission the european central bank and the i.m.f. to tell the people you have to suffer as a result of this in a similar way they are in greece you are going to see this crisis erupt in spain in italy right now there is no government all of europe is in a state of collapse produce is just the beginning of what we could see on a global scale right now and i'll turn to see europe's economic slashing strategy

is gaining traction a suggestion that a more radical form of capitalism is the way forward wary of brussels heavy handed approach undergraduates are teaming up to offer their vision of a european future free of government meddling but all of our reports. europe it's got food it's got culture it's certainly got history but it also has an increasing number of 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 hardline version 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 a 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 their 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. breaking this that is up next.

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 a 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 slug through disease and snake filled swamps and vietnam so maybe for the sake of the prestige of the of their 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 fabulous i had luck i got so many i mean family and the town i believe that i'm still really messed up. in the old story so personally. it's. worse for to live through the life out of a. regular guy and. i 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.