tonight on r t assassinations bombings and attacks set the stage for the next iraqi election with resurgent al qaeda cells posting that they're stronger than ever we report. also angry crowds in cairo demand the resignation of the prosecutor general of the arrest warrants are issued for four leading pro-democracy activists. make it so pressured to end a hunger strike while our team battles to try to break a wall of silence from washington over the desperate weeks long campaign that. busts twenty one doctors it cleared of illegal protest charges in bahrain after spending two years behind bars while some still remain in legal limbo.

over good evening news center tonight it's now nine pm moscow time first the nineteen people have been killed in a wave of suicide attacks on mosques in iraq is the latest in a bloody campaign that's playing on sectarian divisions regional iraqi election candidate narrowly escaped an attempt on his life after a bomb found in his home was disarmed five other candidates though how big killed in assassinations bombings and raids this month believed to be the work of al qaeda cells loosely caffein off just returned from the country she described to my colleague ted we must say what the atmosphere was like. 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 our lives were 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. around 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 between sunni and shia factions christian neighborhoods churchmen neighborhoods

where one of the blast happened today for example is a great example of a microcosm of everything that's wrong with the rock 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 feel someone who is 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 journalist 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 the 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 all right and so you know when we were driving through kirkuk 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 harness and hurt his family another man who was actually injured in an attack that took happens to place several months ago said 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 big bazaars you try not to gather in large groups i mean it's it's by no means is this life as normal. full deborah swede's director of the world. group she

says the culture of bloodshed in iraq is a direct consequence of the u.s. led occupation. all of what is happening in iraq right now i would strongly argue is the fruit of this illegitimate occupation it may be that the u.s. wanted all of the instability and it certainly probably didn't intend an opening for its rivals to come in but that's exactly what's been created by the way the country was decimated democracy can't be achieved anywhere by the barrel of a gun by white phosphorus by starvation sanctions by all of the things that the us subjected the iraqi people to the american war is not over for the iraqi people and anything imposed from the outside first of all is never going to express the actual interests of the iraqi people and and also by that create

a very unstable political situation again after twenty years of u.s. sanctions and overt occupation in iraq the iraqi people are much worse off than they were. well i let you know that next hour we got exclusive interview coming up for you with a former head of the iraqi intelligence services american office he told us iraq has descended into chaos because the u.s. invasion lacked a long term plan for stabilizing the country. the cia told the pentagon toppling the iraqi regime is the easy part but what's your scenarios for iraq once you remove saddam hussein the d.o.t. replied they just lead to save it through him 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 oh look what happened to iraq after two thousand and three we warned the americans that if the regime would fall iraq would devolve into jihadist stronghold.

they're focusing on egypt now showing for a bit in the capital protesters have gathered in front of the prosecutor general's office demanding his resignation and voicing their anger against the muslim brotherhood bell truth is in cairo for us. understood gabbett in front of the prosecutor's general office after the main opposition coalition enough summation front called today's protest they are accusing the brotherhood of controlling and the judiciary and also protesting against the recent summoning of find very well known activists last week for their alleged involvement in the bloody clashes last week in this most difficult is in the capital protest is a change to do with the prosecutor general's office and called to the arrest and summons in the coming months if you take a week position the south is questionable off to the appeals court here in cairo overturn the presidential to create appointing him how do we have violence outside

of cairo in egypt psychosis if you don't think so right now there are these street battles occurring between undercover protesters and what is yet to be identified. some people are saying that they are pro president mohamed morsy supporters who are fighting the undercover protesters are there's a saying they're actually to shop owners in the vicinity but what is being said is that mona talks and also the use of the shots i mean this really becoming quite fierce in alexandria the protests now in terms of for their part according to early presidential elections saying that president morsi has not yet implemented any changes that he promised and that he really is not fit to govern the country. while nearly two months since the go and trying to move a hunger strike began the still no sign of the crisis being resolved some protesters are reportedly close to death in deeper newco is a lawyer for one of the prisoners and is near come lying to us for this next story the clients plight and says the guards are resorting to harsh tactics to force

inmates to end their company. 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 sam's use 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 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 more harsh treatment

here there are many men who are cleared for release at least eighty six of them in now 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. does not come for its label the government authorities here do not come to the table and discuss it because he needs the improvement of the conditions here there are men who are going to begin to die the u.s. government's been facing on total questions over the hunger strike a guantanamo bay but it's failed to show anyone that is going to take any action washington correspondent got a chance you can explains next why her attempts to get an official response will try to anyway go 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 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 august like artie's been trying to seek answers like gunny there from the u.s. government as well as the detainees attorneys and international human rights groups who want more information we've gathered so far ahead for the timeline of it to r.t. dot com which will chronicle their future but while you're online as well a couple of other stories tonight take a trip through of posts an army ghost towns were amazing quite creepy pictures the google street view spread out about it's now got this virtual tour around the city right the middle the fukushima prefecture that was left in ruins by that with quake

and devastating wave which followed highly radioactive of course as well that's why it's so empty and also a late night launch and up with assess in time for breakfast a soyuz russian rocket dock successfully after cutting the flight time from two days to just six hours and find out how they did it but our express powered r.t. dot com website. britain's worry that its citizens who join up to fight alongside the syrian rebels could pose a serious threat when they return back home to the u.k. the home office says hundreds of europeans are getting involved in 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 sara firth is got the story tonight. 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 flights is from europe now let's take

a look at some of what the report says and they said as and when u.k. residents return there is a risk that they may carry out attacks using skills that they've developed they deceive no these are concerns that only be 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 forfeit 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 sort of first coming up soon would come from the front line of bahrain's uprising a look at the latest to the eggs for the eurozone or

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three. three. three. three. video for your media project a free media. life from twenty one sixteen this is our tease kevin over here with you now in bahrain twenty one doctors have been cleared of involvement in illegal anti-government protests the rest was part of a crackdown on proforma demonstrations that started back in february twentieth lectures jeff ski correspondent a long time in bahrain reporting there you see it with us now high in fact you just came back in december didn't you you had some contact with these medics tell us about it well what would they have to say about what's going on there i actually wish i had more contacts with doctors but when i came to so many hospital which is the mainly i made a constitution in bahrain it looked more like a fortress with riot police protecting its doors and for the reason we just

couldn't get in and talk to the doctors but i did my. to talk to some of them and things they told me were just astonishing. they told me that if you were a protester if you were part of the opposition you were injured at a protest you're being delivered to the hospital there's a high chance you will be delivered to a basement of the hospital and tortured there one of the doctors told me that a member of the royal family was personally involved in torturing her she electrocuted her beat her up and did some horrible things with her this woman this member of the royal family later went on trial as we know but still i mean things happen like that imagine how difficult for unicef to. do and how much contact you had with the authorities what have they had to say about that well credit to the bahraini authorities we had a huge access to the governmental spokes spokespeople and they all claimed in one voice that those doctors were performing acts of national treason that they were conspiring against the regime that they were doing illegal stuff and they were actually bringing weapons into the hospital something of course denial of the

torture allegations didn't even have a chance to put that to them certainly i mean i asked him about the torture but it refuted all such allegations saying that nothing like this took place later after we came back from bahrain it emerged that the royal member of the world family went on trial for the alleged torture what is life like there at the moment we've been reporting about this for months now and years no saying that a lot of the rest the world's media isn't talking about it what is the scale of the protest movement now well if you if you go to bahrain you'll see a very well civilized state beautiful roads nice infrastructure hotels nightclubs everything is absolutely perfect there it's one of the most open states in the gulf i could say but if you just go into shiite villages just off the road just a little closer to the city. of the capital city you'll see the hardcore of the protest movement the poor people who are suffering who wants to want a change in their country you can never asked to meet you can have a numerate how many people are there there could be thousands tens of thousands hundreds of thousands but definitely the movement is strong and they're very angry

i could say because crucially what's the government doing. but if on one hand this the protesters a committing treason against the state i guess that means they're not listening in a way of course because the torture allegations and claims by the human rights activists are suggesting clearly that this is a this is a dead end there's no solution to the situation one side wants to change the other side clearly doesn't want this change they say the government says it's open for dialogue they want to clearly change the whole situation and appease the opposition but as far as we can see there are protests happening every day nothing's happening nothing's changing so what's your assumption of where it's going to go next is this going to continue this tit for tat the protests the government denying it locking people up abusing them according to your allegations that we're going to go until as i see it until they have some kind of proper election with many candidates running for parliament for for different structures of power this is this may continue because protests are happening every day not all of them are being

dispersed not all of them are being brutally handled by the police as it happened before this a certain degree to certain degree the government has backed down in its brutality towards the protesters but the standoff is still there there's no political compromise is no solution so far as we can see all right thank you for that let's talk now. he's a former m.p. from bahrain's the largest opposition party he's one of those who had this solution citizenship in fact revoked back in november how the midst of fruits thanks for being with us i'm not sure if you heard what our correspondent had to say there but you know one of the main stories we're talking about today those twenty one acquittals we think up to twenty eight are still in jail even though a mixture of being acquitted maybe in the middle of being acquitted what do you make of these acquittals today is it just paying lip service to the opposition or is it really good news as far as you're concerned. this is all it is so clear that the current regime they are in a blazing with the judicial system to use it as

a political tool sometimes to read what i want to be detained under different conditions or some one of the three of them or. in this very high fashion it is not related to the crimes they committed the clear example that is the the artemis so how come they really do want you want to maliciously day in the same time with this in charges there are more six to seven million in prison for five years the charges were the same and this will do that for how they will pay their rights that because they be detained there will be sacked from their jobs and they meet on the bin to flow chart and also all this happen they will go on this is ok and now we are innocent you are free to get this right just to get this straight as far as you're concerned these twenty one that have been acquitted so far basically wasted up to two years of their lives in jail that's the real picture here. exactly

see their charges billiard balls on their boards and when you present i'll well there is either part of the new sentence for three years or two years or even more than that give me an example they have their human right because the person who believes this is the chargers it's been a ball i'm going the road you want it. for three years that there were four years while the law is only all eyes on him now do you think he will be freed the i don't think so because just because you know how active in the exam think this is their charges would be no order and that meant is that now we are really this in charge i mean i guess me or my kids went to. jail and had to shut up one more question all of these ideas are told in a double is that the and that is not this business doesn't think independent. judiciary system that you can depend on addition to that because it is there that

counts and what you're going to do that is the pressure of the business nation and a life of war in the state of the uk what do the pressure on the government to find the solution for that political reform and ensure that when one of the more pressure comes maybe they will then throw stuff out a correspondent there again i'm not sure how much you heard from lecturers as he spent a lot of time there but the end of our conversation he basically said that it's impasse the government said they are going to listen the protesters say they're going to continue with the protesters at least be emboldened by these twenty one acquittals now. i don't think so at that point you know they're probably right now there's a demonstration in cambridge that men are in the other mall they have the men want to get everest activists at night right now and far in that direction and you know i think the people they are now don't bother either are they going to be yet or are they going to be read either lament it's going to be in jail or are they going to.

do with their little pride is not more right. around issues so i think that the core of it this is going to be a serious with more of the lending. people should be in for there should be at total separation between all these. executive we're going to have the judiciary that is that are. listening to us right. because there is i'm afraid we're going to lose a long time we might lose you completely we're going to a break but thank you ever so much been on the program we do appreciate having you say thank you. morning's today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world is seeing from the streets of canada after. shelling operations rule the day.

because of cyprus are going to be shorter as banks reopen for a second day following the emergency two week shutdown but strict limits mean a still hard for people to get hold of their cash capital controls affectively quarantine cyprus and the rest of the e.u. will do so for at least another month lawrence freeman from executive intelligence review magazine told us it shows then that the cyprus rescues 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 to greece you are going to see this crisis in europe in 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. well newsy brief tonight north korea is threatening that its missiles are on standby ready to strike us cities in response to american stealth bomber flights over the korean peninsula leader kim jong il would warn that military bases in the pacific and south korea would be primary targets in a potential strike with russia voiced concerns urging all sides to prevent the

situation from escalating. a suicide is killed ten people injured over thirty near the u.s. consulate in pakistan's northwestern city of push the attacker rode a motorbike to a nearby security checkpoint before triggering the explosion most of the victims were civilians the taliban said it was behind the blast. a sixty story buildings collapsing tons of nails commercial capital data salaam it's killed at least four people rescuers are at the same scouring through the rubble with the help of local residents as they try to reach dozens that are still thought to be trapped underneath a lot more than forty people are missing and it's feared the death toll is sadly set to rise. it's twenty seven and a half minutes past nine now era moscow soon a frank discussion of what's at stake for israel in the civil war raging across syria next cross talk of the break.

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