guards are accused of creating on bearable conditions for the hunger strikers pressuring them to and the weeks long protests with tactics the detainees lawyers describe as excessively harsh. ejects and gholston fresh broadus as an anti-government rally in alexandria sees clashes and injuries and angry crowds in cairo demand the resignation of a prosecutor general. they depositors' in cyprus take a major hit and look likely to see most of your savings slip through our fingers as details of the president of bailout package emerge and. will harass the next to be killed and be all of that just to get a section of the fish and. bring you the first hand testimony of

a bahraini doctor who speaks out of twenty one other medics are acquitted of illegal protest charges after spending two years behind bars. it is not i am of the russian capital you're watching r t i'm marina josh and welcome to the program now as the one time a hunger strike nears its eighth week conditions for the protesting and mates are allegedly becoming increasingly bearable r.t. talked to a lawyer of one of the striking detainees and she told us the guards are resorting to harsh tactics to pressure them to and their campaign cindy ponoka who is in guantanamo now also says the move only encourages more detainees to join the hunger strike and described her own clients plight. the first day 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 frequent 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 eggs now one hundred twenty five pounds and when the prisoners the gantry streitz it seemed that camp authorities began to treat them well harshly to try to end the strike and so many more men joined the strikes and protests 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 refutation of the united states in the world is at stake here if we really let's not come to table the government authorities here do not come to the table and discuss what the team needs the improvement of the conditions here there are men who are going to begin to die meanwhile there's still a lack of any political momentum to try and solve the guantanamo hunger strike crisis thomas wilner a lawyer has represented one ton of detainees in the past this fact coupled with the loss of any hope for release only makes the strikers more determined to face death. what's really wrong and the real cause of the hunger strike is the absolute desperation in despair of these people eighty six of the people down there more than half of the people down there eighty six of them have been cleared for

over three years easer innocent people who are continue to be held my former clients. because the aloe to and by is how condrey our innocent people who are wrongly held the president can get in and make sure that those people are released and sent home they don't pose a danger those people are desperate they want to die if they can't get out of guantanamo no one in the united states has been covering guantanamo for the past three years if you talk to people in the united states they simply don't know about guantanamo they don't know today that eighty six of the hundred sixty six people down there are innocent have been cleared have already been cleared many of the others are also innocent they don't know that the people at guantanamo weren't picked up on a battlefield they were sold for bounties by northern alliance people they don't know these facts anymore because there is no coverage in the united states. now a week song hauger strike at guantanamo bay is also the focus of breaking the set

here in our teeth abby martin challenges the idea some journalists expressed that life is not so bad at the detention center after all and detainees should be grateful not protesting now here's a taste of what's to come a little later here in r.t. . i forgot to mention one thing about the guantanamo bay hunger strike going on how damn good the prisoners have it there are in the robert johnson military defense editor at business insider the hunger strike is not only been overhyped but get mo is apparently more like a club med than it is a prison about this headline it has the other side of the get most strike detainees are treated absurdly well as absurdly well delicious meals video games for everyone's then well life what more could these prisoners possibly want maybe the freedom maybe to see their families and have a normal life outside of a prison cell especially since the majority of already been cleared for release

having been declared not guilty and just today it came out that as a punishment for the strike some of the prisoners are filing complaints and pleading for humanitarian aid for being denied a potable drinking water and heat yeah doesn't seem like that nice of a vacation getaway does it and hey robert johnson even though you think it most so absurdly awesome i'll bet you couldn't handle it for a week let alone the rest of your life without trial or charge and on that note let's break. scenes of violence are once again marking the aunt of that week in egypt clashes between supporters and opponents of the president and the ruling muslim brotherhood party erupted in cairo and two other cities dozens were injured alexander the worst sides exchanged stone throwing and fire bombs meanwhile in the capital protesters

block the office of the prosecutor general outraged at the actions the authorities have been taking against the opposition held true has more from cairo. under the garbage in front of the prosecutor's general office they are accusing the brotherhood of controlling the judiciary and also protesting against the recent summons in the fine ferry boat just last week for their alleged involvement in the bloody clashes last week in this most difficult just in the capital protest is a change shot he too was the first place and called for the arrest and some of the current prosecutors to come a weak position can sound is questionable off to the appeals court here overturn the presidential decree appointing him to we have violence outside of cairo in egypt psychosis if you don't mix right now there are these street battles occurring between undercover protesters and what is yet written by. some people saying that they are profiles that mahmoud saikal this group fighting the undercover protesters

all business saying they're actually in fact is a shop the news just in to see if it's what you feel is being said a moment folks and also the use of the bird shot i miss really becoming quite fierce in comics on three of the protests now in terms of that they're going to put in for early presidential elections saying that president morsi has not implemented any changes that you promised i mean he really is not fit to govern the country and still how do you pay police face cutting their claws to suit the budget seeking to ses and more money for this government tries to get cheaper uniforms for its bobbies on the beat. and cause the teachers fight back at authorities attempts to slash the city's education budget and close schools that much more in a couple of minutes here in our. big deposit or in cyprus are likely to see most of their savings why tallaght less than forty percent

of their money will reportedly be exchanged for bank shares under the latest rescue package while the remainder may never be paid back well the terms of the pain full cyprus rescue plan. and are said to be finally announced on saturday when the mean time to discuss what's ahead for the secrets with the latest package i'm joined by harlan green editor of popular economics dot com thank you so much for joining us sir to talk about this so it looks like the big depositors' will only get shares so the question is are these shares worth anything or is it just another way of saying you'll get nothing. for many many years to come they will probably get nothing unfortunately fortunately when they put a deposit put their money in specially for depositors they didn't seem to realize that the greeks cypriots were still greek and therefore very close to the greece the greek mainland and because of that they were anybody could have seen that the problems in greece would have leaked over into cyprus and as long as cyprus stays

in the euro the consensus even among people like economists like all group is that it will be many many years of suffering. capital controls are one of the reasons that foreign capital will no longer want to be in cyprus and so cyprus so it will have to rely strictly on its tourism right now is no longer have a banking business about its overseas banking foreign banking business will be destroyed so as you just said the foreign investors will no longer be wanting to be there at least so it seems for now so does that actually signal the aunt of cyprus is an offshore banking hub that yeah oh absolutely absolutely it's and that's the whole purpose of the of the agreement and the troika. i guess we do call that. sense that they put on the cypriots and on the side of cyprus banks is that they no longer wanted to be an offshore haven well we don't have a crystal ball at the moment but doesn't actually mean that cyprus can go bankrupt

in the long term what's your forecast well and obviously not i mean as long it's that's the price it's paying to stay in the euro has to be downsized into something more like it's its g.d.p. end of the words. and do you do the europeans are saying that as long as you do this you can stay the euro and know that there will be a bank they'll keep supporting them in this particular case long as they downsize and and carry out. now and now proven and many are saying that things there will be a much more severe depression here i mean some economists are saying they should leave the euro quite frankly and that their sentence would be reduced if they did. well it's certainly interesting to take a look at cyprus in the light of its relationship with brussels i mean the cypriot president said the e.u. has been experimenting with this country so no i does brussels feel it has the right to do so and in your opinion how democratic or fair is that well certainly

not fair to the cypriots. because they're such a small tiny country and. they at all costs they seem to want to belong to the euro and they're going to have to pay the price of belonging to the euro which means being reduced to their to their former side basically and so if they're if they're kept in their place they can't be a banking haven there i don't think they'll go bankrupt i think but it will be such it will be devaluation devaluation and all forms of workers there will suffer a loss a drop in wages. could be a very severe depression. well speaking of the situation and the long term i mean cyprus says it's not intending to leave the euro for now but with the shock therapy and years of painful austerity had as experts predict will all these sacrifices be actually worse said i mean is it going to get worse before it gets better what's the situation there oh we'll have much worse some people are predicting three

percent drop in g.d.p. which be a severe depression but the real problem is i think the rest of europe also will follow i think your the european union is already teetering on recession again and britain's basically got back into into it so the warning to others who want to join the euro is that they should now i think poland's a country for it's is said they're doing so well why would they want to join the euro but apparently they're there or the ruling party says they want to join the euro which i think it's crazy i think knowing shit right now and few of the smaller countries capital controls are the real problem and they're going to be capital controls on cyprus for a long time to come i think just as in iceland they have a list let's look at yes. all right harlan green no thank you very much for your views here that was her out of her of popular economics dot com you're welcome and you're watching r t live from moscow and later today max kaiser and stacey herbert

give their a guinea take on what's going on in cyprus and the shop waste it's sending across the globe so watch the program at seven am g.m.t. here on alt. well twenty three people have been killed in a wave of suicide attacks on mosques in iraq the violence comes ahead of provincial elections in april at a set to be carried out by al qaida cells to scare locals away from the polls in the run up to the vote at least eleven candidates for governor or have already been assassinated geopolitical analysts eric draitser told us that this is all part of a high level turf war caused by the u.s. invasion. american presence is not simply quote unquote boots on the ground what you what you have to realize is that much of the iraqi political ruling class is handpicked by the united states take for example the ascendance of maliki to the to

the role of prime minister this was in opposition to the un s hand-picked successor to saddam hussein be followed by the other u.s. darling alawi and so maliki really represents the u.s. as worst nightmare and they have worked night and day to do whatever they can to destabilize maliki's government we should remember that al qaeda was created by the united states by the intelligence establishment of the west and to a large extent depending on situations that oftentimes works in their interests and iraq iraq is one battlefield of that we see that al qaeda is a potent weapon of the western powers in syria and much of that is spilled over into unbar province in iraq some of the al qaeda affiliated groups are certainly questionable as to their origins and i think that al qaeda is in many ways that destabilizing force that is needed in order to create the necessary chaos and pretext in iraq for some kind of an intervention whether that be indigenous regime

change or from the outside but the political crisis is taking on a geo political international dimension and that is the real story here in bahrain twenty one doctors have been cleared of involvement in illegal anti-government protests the magic's have spanned more than a year and a half behind bars for as they say treating injured demonstrators dozens of health workers along with opposition activists have been arrested and charged since the uprising began more than two years ago dr if a team haji faced similar charges as that was clear today well she told us what she had to go through during her confinement. we were told the most of the sound during interrogations who were forced to sign some fashion line without reading them and that if something were taken or extract that my goodness and i mean by severe storms or physical and psychological torture we've been denied from speaking for our. be standing for days not given food or

a clue where we were hard to get in. our words one last thing you think of from what. holds it is that like all of five electrocution that has fictional harassment tax should be angry that it gets its traction off the impression that it just basically become a break there for diversity and they will show the whole world that they are venting you know are they are torturing us just because that we three kids going to see it but i find myself at that knowledge before and there they write my charges and they were actually as it goes like i have what i confessed that i had a hundred back off life and i guess that's a perfect so that they can see. their interests. the un

criticizes turkey over claims that sam back sauza is of syrian refugees after a protest against living conditions at a refugee camp in just a few minutes we were poor and why many who have fled the syrian conflict feel they are being humiliated in foreign countries. meantime u.k. spending cuts to its police force are now focusing on how officers look at the government seeks ways to boost its budgets the boys in blue are under pressure to curb spending on uniforms and protective clothing artist foley boyko explains. most of us in britain realising you've spent too much money on clothes especially when your budgets are already squeezed it could happen to anyone but this time it's the boys in blue the u.k. government spending more dogs says the police are wasting too much money on ordering different bits of uniform there are forty three police forces in england

and wales and each one or does that plagues on their equipment separately and to different specifications to take for example your high visibility jacket that can cost as much as up to one hundred pounds per unit in a spendthrift force compadres little as twenty pounds per unit in a more frugal constabulary lots of four hundred percent difference in price and the same applies to all the commonplace items that you'd expect would be standard issues such as boots handcuffs and even body armor this was his goal velcro covering strap which was the zip was this. the zip with no velcro covering strop at. the last you need is a bit of bureaucracy get in the way of progress we make change to have standardized weight bearing stuff and yes it will be a look like cheap police federation around the country have been very vocally

protesting cuts to their budgets recently yet the public accounts committee says that instead of tackling cry and police forces are wasting resources time and money on disagreeing over how many pockets they should have on their uniforms for national audit office says that police forces around the country simply need some fun together in order to increase them find power and drive down the costs of their uniforms otherwise britain's bobbies might find that they're burning too many holes in all those different pockets poorly boy care see london i can find more news on videos on our website. here are just some of the stories waiting for you there right now over the sheema disaster could have been avoided that's according to japanese power company tepco who initially claimed a major cause of the nuclear disaster it was the deadly tsunami that struck japan to find out a lie and why the company has now decided to finally admit responsibility plus.

a huge rescue operation and law were helicopter and navy ships saved more than two hundred people trapped on ice floes that drifted away from the shore find out more at r.t. dot com. the u.n. and has rebuked turkey over claims that a forced hundreds of syrians to return to their country after a riot at a border refugee camp a violent protest over a living conditions was reportedly caused by the death of a seven year old girl at a tan fire and estimated one million people have left syria since the beginning of

the civil conflict two years ago was many fleeing to neighboring turkey and jordan but having left for a safer life many now feel they have ended up living in humiliating conditions as lucy confidence now explains. they come here by the thousands carrying meager belongings and painful memories at the zaatari refugee camp in jordan is desert shortage of nearly everything has turned daily life into a battle for survival this woman and her four children have lived at the camp for four months now she says she doesn't know how much longer they can last here. everything is hard here we didn't have clean water to drink and it makes the children sick. for others despair has turned to anger. inside the calm they're suffering in syria we're suffering why is the suffering still going on and why the hell with human rights to hell with the world to hell with the big countries. that. the un says there are

now more than one point two million refugees a number that could double even triple this year but those living in camps are only the most visible part of the problem the tip of the iceberg in a disaster that is far more vast than meets the eye around eighty percent of jordan's syrian refugees live in cities and towns many of them are concentrated right here in urban about twenty kilometers from the syrian border and while camp life certainly is hard urban refugees have problems of their own a deliberate us family to jordan after their home was destroyed in the war they now share this two room apartment with another syrian family. we felt we couldn't stay inside the towns because of our children we found this home but we can barely pay the rent there is no help with food or supplies for people like us no one has mercy on us this mother of six also lives here she tells us her daughter hasn't had milk

in three days they've run out of money and they don't know where to turn to for help. ifas unfair here is full of humiliation how can we live. aid groups call them the invisible victims of the compass the one which is the easiest to see because you have a large number of people who are regrouped who live under in the difficult conditions whereas if you have families who are spread over a small city and of course they're much more difficult to find they tend to stay remain isolated they don't feel like going out they don't have a big social network they're very quickly run out of means because many of the families who have arrived lately due north arrive basically without anything for jordan suffering from its own economic problems the syrian crisis has strange resources beyond capacity local charities catering to urban refugees do exist but they're struggling to this clinic for syrian refugees depends entirely on donations but it hasn't been able to buy new medicines for days the money simply isn't coming

in and that means no medication for this syrian baby at least for now just like the countless refugees languishing in camps and struggling in cities his parents will have to wait and hopes of help lucy catherine of r.t.e. jordan look at some other stories from around the world north korea has a state of war with neighboring south korea according to reports from the state run korean central news agency a statement also included a threat to dissolve the u.s. mainland tensions in the area have been ratcheting up for months with north korea remain defiant in the face of international efforts to hold off its nuclear program . a gas blast in a north east china coal mine has killed twenty eight people according to the spokesman of the provincial work safety bureau with thirteen others were rescued after the accident of a coal mine in julian province rescue work is finished and the cause of the

accident is under investigation the accident occurred on the same day as a huge landslide buried eighty three workers in a gold mining area in tibet. clashes have erupted between palestinians and israeli security forces in the west bank on the eve of mass protests to mark the so-called land day annual demonstrations on march thirtieth to commemorate the nine hundred seventy six israeli government announcement that it would expire bland in the region which resulted in deadly rallies thousands of palestinians are expected to take to the streets on saturday to vandy are furious danced with a call discriminatory israeli settlements policy changes to their thousands have taken to the streets of chicago to voice their anger against unprecedented plans to shut down dozens of schools in the city the rally resulted in fines for scores of protesters the closures are aimed at plugging a one billion dollars budget gap with authorities determined to go on with their

plans despite mass protests aren't enough to see a trick in the reports. record single school closure in u.s. history versus the people. here. chicago the third largest city in america plans to shut down fifty four public schools by autumn this year and makes us feel like we are not important to anybody and makes us so much harder for us to get an education to school clothes. thousands of protesters flooded onto the streets of the windy city to rally against this measure on wednesday the demonstrators believe officials are targeting the vulnerable youths in the least well off neighborhoods. for several hours emotions ran high. with marches and sit ins in downtown chicago. one hundred sixty demonstrators were arrested including this organizer we're talking

about a number of school closures that has not been paralleled in this country's history other than hurricane katrina a total of sixty one school buildings including this one are targeted currently teaching thirty thousand students and amounting to ten percent of all elementary schools in the city chicago officials say the step is key in closing a one billion dollar budget deficit the district says it will save five hundred sixty million over the next decade though the transition will cost approximately two hundred thirty three million but parents teachers and students refuse to accept this. activist and parents sabrina morey lives in a home with eleven children she calls the closures racism ninety percent of the schools are in african-american communities where is our kids going to go to school they go to cross through terrible neighborhoods gay insisted neighborhoods. the

protesters have calmed for now. promised to return to fight for education justice if their voices remain ignored even though the final vote on the mass closures and the cuts to teachers' wages won't come until the end of may and the schools won't be shut until august this is already a great example of the need of a system overhaul its budget gaps are being filled at the expense of the future of children and those who turkana our t. chicago illinois. avi back with more of a national news about thirty minutes time before that brandon rice technology update. on in sochi the oldest city in europe and the hosts of the twenty four g. which.