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that really. a slew of us us nations the bombings and attacks targeting iraqi election kind of the situations i had all the original. cells the book is saying that the is stronger than ever. bringing the jihad 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 to rebel fighters. and guantanamo inmates are pressured to end their hunger strike gowalla t's struggles to break a wall of silence from washington over the weeks long protests.

thank you. international news analysis and reporter this is our duty with me to bomb would say. eighteen people have been killed a suicide attacks are struck several mosques in iraq for the deepening sectarian divisions the original iraqi election candidate also 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 believed to be the work of al qaeda cells artie's loser cavanagh has just returned from the country and described to me the atmosphere there. the iraq that we saw it really felt like a country that was still in some ways a war zone and on one hand you do have relative stability in the sense that there

aren't tanks shooting there aren't soldiers with guns fighting but almost anywhere you go the first thing you see is massive blast walls all around the streets to protect various buildings from suicide attacks such as the ones that took place today iraqis daily lives are guided by checkpoints that are set up almost everywhere that dictate where people can go anywhere you look on the street you see police officers military soldiers people with guns there may not be daily fighting and shooting but it feels like a country that is still under a military occupation except this time it's its own and the feeling really is that iraq never really recovered you know your. the thing that we heard from from almost everyone that we spoke to is that anywhere you go at any moment there could be a blast like this and how do you survive in a situation don't you feel safe on the ground i did not i mean it depends you know for example the kurdistan region is probably the only success story in iraq that has seen relative safety and stability but most of the other parts are so divided

that these days between sunni and shia factions christian neighborhoods turkmen neighborhoods cooper one of the blast happened today for example is a great example of a microcosm of everything that's wrong with the wrong you have all these different factions there you have the threat of terrorist attacks you have ethnic and sectarian divisions and of course you have the oil which has been the source of conflict between the iraqi government and the kurds and so it doesn't feel safe in fact we needed an armed escort to just get us to certain parts of the city because people you know if they see a foreigner if they see a stranger if they even see someone who's not necessarily of their sect or or ethnic origin you stand out and you're at risk for some sort of an attack you being a judge in this you on the ground you want to get the story you want to tell these stories what's going on to help people are coping and you didn't feel safe. so give us a picture of how ordinary iraqis feel every day having to deal with that what's their reaction to all of this it's a very mixed picture because on one hand the one thing that unites all the rockies

regardless of their religion or their ethnic origin is this fear this fear of an attack that could happen any time but the other on the other hand i mean this is their life they have to continue they can't just sit at home and wait for this instability to be over and so you know when we were driving through here quick we still saw schoolchildren getting out of their classes whistlestop people on the street but these people operate knowing that this kind of attack could happen at any point and we heard interesting ways of coping for example one man told us that he drives with all of his windows down now in case he is near a suicide attacks that the glass wouldn't necessarily shatter and hardest and hurt his family another man who was actually injured in an attack that it took happens took place several months ago so that he actually stopped going outside he says that you know we have democracy i can go outside but there's no guarantee that i will come home come back to my family and so in some ways it has been normalized to this violence because they have to cope with it somehow in other ways it really has changed their ways of functioning you know you don't go to for example to be bazaars you try not to gather in large groups i mean it's it's by no means is this

life as normal in your opinion you've covered iraq for the very long time you've seen how the country is what is your perception to that my perception is that most iraqis are united in their fear and they don't support al qaeda but because of the power vacuum that has been created because of the massive corruption that exists within the government because of the inability of the government to sort of you know effectively put controls on the country al-qaeda has been able or affiliated groups have been able to thrive essentially there isn't you know the yes on one hand and on on on paper there is a government there are military forces there is the police but at the end of the day look at what happened today and if there was stability if there was true and genuine stability these attacks wouldn't be able to happen and yet they do and they've been increasing. on my m i five agent any marshawn says the invasion of iraq has or ought to have all gone basic infrastructure in the country 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 under threat but for segments of other areas of society to things like proper hospitals schools even just water and sewage pipes and things like that have been decimated and not rebuilt appropriately 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 powers to represent their constituents then it's not a real democracy is just yet another oligarchy it's another dictatorship imposed on the hapless people later today we've got an exclusive interview with the former head of iraqi intelligence services american office he says iraq has descended into

chaos because a us invasion led to a long term plan for stabilizing the country. the cia told the pentagon toppling the iraqi regime is the easy part but what are your scenarios for iraq once you remove saddam hussein the da da replied just let a savior through and then everything will stabilize but that's the kind of mind frame that dominated the american war effort there was no sustainable long term strategy and that's why it all ended in chaos and look what happened to iraq after two thousand and three would warn the americans that if the regime would fall iraq would devolve into a jihadist stronghold. i mean it's the month since the guantanamo bay hunger strike began the still no sign of the crisis being resolved and some protesters are reportedly close to death sandeep a newco is a lawyer for one of the prisoners and is near camp delta she outlined her clients

plight and says guards are resorting to harsh tactics to force the inmates to end their campaign. the first say that i saw him he was very we 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 frigid 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 rooms the camp very cold and you have lost forty pounds when i saw sam's youth who weighs one hundred sixty seven edge is now one hundred twenty five pounds and when the prisoners began to strike it seemed that camp authorities began to treat someone 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 in there and they're also being treated as prisoners the reputation of the united states in the world is at stake here is the u.s. is not coming since hable the government authorities here do not come to the table and discuss what became needs improvement of the conditions here there are men who are going to begin to die. 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 our washington correspondent granted says you can explains why her attempts to get an official response 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 said 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 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 the information we've gathered so far head to our timeline on r.t. dot com. right also online taking a trip through opposed to nami goes down a google street view has

a virtual tour around a city in the fukushima prefecture left in ruins by the quake and deficit in wait which followed. orders red handed russian police arrest a group of smugglers at an airport attempting to bring firearms and several millions of dollars into the capital. and a date with the stars the russian soyuz rocket has made history by shooting up to the international space station in record time find out how they did it on r.t. dot com. britain is worried that its citizens who join up the fight alongside the syrian rebels could pose a serious terror threat when they return to the u.k. the home office says hundreds of europeans who are getting involved are learning combat skills from groups like al qaida but it's not preventing britain and france from pushing to supply arms to the opposition in syria so for it 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 though when u.k. residents for ten there's a risk that they may carry out attacks using skills that they've developed teva cvs now these are concerns that are only being highlighted by the british government but also being highlighted by other european members as well recently we saw the dutch heighten their security threat level as they said that they thought they had around one hundred foreign fighters that had gone to syria and these are also the concerns that i think you've been echoed by france as well say assessing not just a problem concerning for if in 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 monica thanks 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 he. was only twenty one when he died in syria and already he was a version of the libyan libyan war against gadhafi and despite his young age in the despite the fact that he studied nuclear lived you agree with his life is 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 it 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. and thank you very much for joining us on a describe 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. 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 tax and voice conversations plans that have provoked an

angry reaction from web users that still ahead. twenty one doctors a kid i'll be legal protest charges in but grain spending two years behind bars will be bringing you one but it's first time to experience all the case in a few moments. 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 everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

mission. critical free. free. free. free. free. free blog video for your media project free media r t v dot com. welcome back you're watching our. twenty one doctors have been cleared off involvement in the legal and to go. protests they arrest was part of a crackdown on program form demonstrations that started in february of two thousand and eleven dr dhar day you for who was on trial herself and spend some two months

behind bars things that acquittal is just a p.r. stunt and the government crackdown will continue we need to see the accountability established and those who are responsible of torturing the doctors and the listing the doctors and putting forth charges and crimes against the doctors and giving them all this spin all this time they should be brought to justice before we think of anything else it's just the doctor's case has this nature of a very high profile case and there is severe international pressure to resolve this case in particular. but seeing that the they will leave the monarchy. the printer moccasin protesters the crackdown is still going on with the same intensity it has not changed in two years it has not gone lists what you what you say during your private internet chat some calls more agencies are always been able

to request some details of our communications when necessary but the f.b.i. wants to go for them listening and watching as you talk and type in real time in new york marina 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 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 f.b.i. is 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 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. . israel has reopened gaza border crossings that had been shut down for weeks after a rocket attacks on the palestinian territory during obama's visit to television an increasing number of palestinians believe violence is now they only option to add to their government's failure to make any progress in peaceful dialogue all of this but to some of the. anger on the streets of ramallah against a palestinian government people here say is to be inactive to bring peace after years of negotiations between the two sides campaign protestors israeli settlements

have only expanded and the occupation deepened. 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 the security agent and a financial agent so it can control the palestinian people the palestinian authority does this for 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. hamas. with violence.

what. 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 squinting israel's archenemy us what has that in the position of hamas and all opposition and palestine is the failure of forcible. remember that twenty years have passed almost sort of agreement was signed what is the outcome more settlements more. apartheid ward shake mahmoud abu tir one is cut and lonely for game he was among a minority of west bank palestinians who supported him as he spent seven years in an israeli prison he says because he won a seat in the palestinian government on hamas ticket he blames the p.a. as much as israel. we hamas have roots in historical depth we are more

strong in the west bank than in gaza since the elections of two thousand and six in spite of all the arresting and all the harm that our youth suffers in the palestinian authority prisons people are convinced of our way or truth we worked and we are working for the people we are helping them and because of that they arrest us. the 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 martella view of 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. a look now at some other international

headlines in the egyptian capital where hundreds of voters see i guess the prosecutor general of pointed by president morsi is after all rest warrants were issued for four prominent opposition activists who are allegedly inciting violence at a recent rally near the muslim brotherhood headquarters protests are now taking place across the country with clashes reported in alexandria. a suicide blast has killed ten people and injured over thirty in near the u.s. consulate in pakistan's northwest and city of peshawar the attacker rode a motorbike or to a nearby security checkpoint before triggering the explosion most of the victims were civilians the taliban says it's behind the blast. a sixteen story building has collapsed in tanzania as commercial capital got a salaam killing and sees a three people rescue inside the scene and digging through the rubble as they try to reach dozens of thought to be trapped underneath will than forty people are

missing and its future the death toll will rise. breaking this that is up next and kevin i when will follow in thirty minutes.

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