one ton of the inmates are pressured to end of a hunger strike well altie soon struggles to break a wall of silence from washington over the weeks long protest. bringing jihad home of the u.k. fears its citizens fighting in syria could pose a terrorist threat when they return this while the british government pushes to supply arms or to rebel fighters. and russians saw use rocket reaches the international space station at record speed completing the journey in less than the time it takes to fly from moscow to new york.

it's five pm here in moscow and you live with us on our g is good to have your company with us this friday. nearly two months dozens are going tom obey hunger strike began still no sign of the crisis being resolved and some protesters are reportedly closer to death. as a lawyer for one of the prisoners that is near camp delta she says camp officials are resorting to harsh tactics to force inmates to end the campaign. 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 fruitful 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 very big camp very cold and he had lost

forty pounds when i saw him he used to weigh one hundred sixty seven eggs now one hundred twenty five pounds and when the prisoners began to strike it seemed that camp authorities began to treat them well 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 the more harsh treatment here there are many men who are cleared for release at least eighty six of them and nowadays they're also being treated as prisoners be ready teaching of the united states in the world to get a dad see here is to us does not come from table the government authorities here do not come to the table and discuss it with the team needs the improvement of the conditions 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 churches of the surrender or if not to allow

them and to turn over their currency so that they are not search and it's just simple as that it would seem to many to be eating tomorrow and to be back on track to be healthy right now they're very very sick and very weak and it's a very sad. 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 on washington correspondent damage again explains why her attempts to get an official response i get you nowhere. 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 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. so the start of the hunger strike r t has been seeking answers from the u.s. government as well as detainees attorneys and international human rights groups for all the information we've gathered so far head to our timeline on r.t. dot com. right and later in the program we'll tell you about a new level of government snooping the f.b.i. could soon get the right to review online tags and voice conversations ones that have provoked an angry reaction from web users that's delayed.

britain's worried that its citizens who join up to fight alongside the syrian rebels could pose a serious terror threat when they return to the u.k. the home office us says hundreds of europeans who are getting involved are learning combat skills from groups like al-qaeda but it's not preventing britain and france from pushing to supply arms to the opposition in syria surfer who has the 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 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 concerns that i think you've been echoed by france as well so it's certainly not just a problem concerning flippant one obviously that we've seen highlighted in this counterterrorism strategy for forth 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 version of the libyan libyan war against going to gadhafi. despite his young age of the quite difficult to give the records like his very much. to 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 he says. highlighted in this count 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 one hundred fighters i think the real numbers probably are higher would be most concerning for the british security services of 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. and i think you very much for joining us and he described the phenomena 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 five to come together once again trying to find a resolution to the conflict watch what you say during your private internet chat some calls law agencies have always been able to request some details of our communications when necessary but the f.b.i. wants to go further listening and watching as you talk and type in real time in new york marina poured my has been finding out what this could mean for ordinary americans. 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 way. 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 e-mails needs transcripts but clearly that's not enough for the agency to keep tabs on what criminals would be terrorists 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. our team. a series of assassinations

and bombings a set the tone for iraq's elections kind of those any less holy institutions autologous it in brutal attacks i had a regional with al qaida cells and boasting that they are stronger than ever we've got some expert analysis on the situation after the break. oh. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

mission. critical you should treat in store for free arrangement free. three stooges free. and free blog video for your media project a free media party dot com. thank . you the work i'm back here watching r.t. original iraqi election candidate narrowly escaped an attempt on his life after a bomb found in his home was disarmed others have been less fortunate five candidates were killed in assassinations bombings and raids this month there jags are targets of both officials and voting stations and are believed to be the work

of al qaeda cells live now to former m i five agent any mashad mismeasured attacks like this have been intensifying recently what's the endgame here. i've not even sure if there is an endgame unfortunately by the west intervening in iraq through an illegal war ten years ago we've now seen a massive destabilization of the old structures and no real meaningful new structures put in place so it's not just the politicians who are in the threat but for segments of other areas of society to. so although that saddam wasn't his dictator for the vast majority of people under him he did provide stability and since he was removed they have lost that stability as well losing most of the basic infrastructure which kept their society running i mean just things like proper hospitals schools even just water and sewage and things like that have been decimated and not rebuilt appropriately following the american and western

intervention and of course this is led to social destabilization also health issues education issues going to cholera outbreak a few years ago so the country has been. wrecked really by the west intervention now these killings i mean we've had over two hundred forty five i think something like that just this month they're targeting those people they're targeting politicians who actually took david from all the killings. it's a very good question i mean you had a piece about syria just before this and you look at any of the other western interventions as well in the middle eastern country. breeze allows an incursion by security companies and security forces from the west which can be very good for big business from western companies that provide that security and it can also mean that instability allows the resources that country to flow out of that country with little oversight but for the people who live there it's become very very difficult

i would say though that casting back i think it's very ironic that the west intervened in order to provide democracy freedom to the iraqi people and yet the west intervened in a highly undemocratic and totally illegal way it was a done deal cooked up between george bush and tony blair eleven years ago which was then forced through our western democratic systems with no say so many millions of us marched against the incursion into iraq and yet it went to bed so for countries that take an illegal step in the legal system to go to war against iraq in an undemocratic way to then justified as giving democracy to iraq i think is pretty ok so we have twenty one thousand candidates competing now in this upcoming election in april tell we take that then as a good sign of democracy is that not what they wanted for their country. what the pentode define democracy i mean it's great that people are stepping forward and they want to represent their constituencies but if you can't guarantee that

democracy will be democratically elected you can't guarantee that people are not afraid to go and vote you can't guarantee there won't be oppression and violence around that process and you can't guarantee as well that the people who are then elected have real power to represent their constituents then it's not a real democracy it's just yet another oligarchy it's another dictatorship imposed on the hapless people any. m i five agent thank you for your insight and time. dr headbutting over jewish settlements in occupied territories are seems to be benefiting is raul's arch enemy with ongoing expansion an increase anger at a lack of dialogue we report soon on how more palestinians are turning to farmers having lost hope that there will be peace anytime soon. it's been a record of breaking voyage for the russian soyuz rocket which has successfully

doctor with the international space station the three space travelers on board shattered the previous best time of two days getting there in just six hours john thomas has more now from russia's a mission control center. now that the hatch has been opened and the astronauts and cosmonauts have agreed to do it march at the very beginning 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 camp's all has used this new fast track method that was developed by the

russian space agency now there have been one hundred seventeen at 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 gaza border crossings that have been shut down for a week after rocket attacks from the palestinian territory during obama's visit to tel aviv an increasing number of palestinians believe violence is now they only up singeing to the government's failure to make any progress in peaceful dialogue. 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 present a bass 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 will 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.

the 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 archenemy have asked what has that and then 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 segregation apartheid wall shake 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 prison your 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. butyric 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 martella view 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 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 policy r r t ramallah. online a dating a dripper through opposed to a tsunami goes to google street view as

a virtual toll on the city and the fukushima prefecture left in ruins by the quake and devastating wave which followed. and caught the red handed russian police arrest a group of smugglers at an airport attempting to bring firearms and several million dollars into the capital. the cures in cyprus aren't getting any shorter as banks reopen for a second day following the emergency two week shutdown the stricter limits of mean a lot of people still can't get their hands on their own cash capital controls have effectively quarantined cyprus 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 in the case that the slide prison rescue has failed. i don't think cyprus has been saved i think the people in cyprus believe

that which 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 couldn't 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 of cyprus you have to suffer as a result of this in a similar way the darling greece you're going to see this crisis interrupting spain in italy right now there is no government so all of europe is in the state of

collapse but this is just the beginning of what we could see on a global scale right now. a look now at some other international headlines the suicide bombers attack our military police convoy in northwest pakistan killing ten people and wounding more than a dozen others most of the victims were civilians the commander of the frontier constabulary who was in one of the vehicles escaped unharmed it's not yet known who is behind the blast but the taliban has carried out many similar bombings in the area. a bus train the court has cleared twenty one doctors of charges connected to the anti government uprisings they were arrested for providing medical aid to protesters clashing with police the case drew immediate criticism from human rights groups as some of the medics claimed they were tortured and forced to confess of instigating hatred and taking part in illegal assemblies.

pro and anti gun control campaigners have rallied in the u.s. town that saw one of the worst shooting massacres in american history the tragedy at sandy hook elementary school where gunman adam lanza killed twenty six people also children so weapons laws come under nationwide scrutiny president obama vowed to push for tougher restrictions but faces opposition from a powerful lobby of gun owners and conservative politicians. i'll be back with more international news than around thirty minutes but stay with us for technology update here on r.t. .

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