one time the guards are accused of creating a bearable conditions for the hunger strikers pressuring them to and the weeks long progress with tactics the detainees lawyers described as excessively harsh. egypt's engulfed in fresh protests as an anti-government rally in alexandria sees clashes and injuries and angry crowds in cairo demand the resignation of the prosecutor general. and big depositors in cyprus are about to take a major hit with a growing likelihood their savings will be swallowed by the island's biggest bank as details of the e.u. is unprecedented bailout package emerge.

this is r t coming to you live from the russian capital with me marina joshua into the program now as the guantanamo hunger strike near is its eighth week conditions for the protesting inmates are allegedly becoming increasingly unbearable 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 city who isn't going time now also says the move only encourages more detainees to join the hunger strike and describe 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 stright it seemed that camp authorities began to treat them were harshly to try to end the strike and so many more men joined the strike to protest the searching of the qur'an and the worsening conditions and more harsh treatment here 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 these refutation of the united states in the world is at stake here if he really was does not come for the table the government authorities here do not come to the table and discuss with the team needs the improvement of the conditions here there are men who are going to

begin to die in a while there are still a lack of any political momentum to try and solve the guantanamo hunger strike rices thomas wilner a lawyer who has represented guantanamo detainees in the past so this fact coupled with the loss of any hope for release only makes the strikers more determined to face down. 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 fozzy allo to end violence how condrey are 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 the week long hunger strike at guantanamo bay is also the focus of breaking this out here on r t why the margin challenges the idea some journalist expressed that life is not so bad at the detention center after all and detainees should be grateful not protesting well here's a taste of what's to come next hour. i forgot to mention one thing about the guantanamo bay hunger strike going on how damn good the prisoners have it there are in a 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 is the other side of the get most strike detainees are treated absurdly well as absurdly well delicious meals video games for everyone then well life what more could these prisoners possibly want maybe the freedom 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 this. all scenes of violence are once again marking the end of the we can eject clashes between supporters and opponents of the president and the ruling muslim brotherhood party erupted in cairo and two other cities dozens were injured in alexandria worst sides exchanged stone throwing and fire bombs meanwhile in the capital protesters block the office of the prosecutor general outrage the actions the authorities have been taking at gansey opposition well truth has more from cairo. under the garbage in front of the course teaches general office they are accusing the brotherhood of controlling and the judiciary and also protesting against a recent summons in the fine ferry romain activists last week for their alleged involvement in the bloody clashes last week in this vote that had to take in the

capital protest is a change to do with the current general pace and call to the rest in something becoming a puppet government because this you can sound questionable off to the appeals court hearing tires overturn the presidential decree appointing him to we have violence outside the indecent psychosis if you don't exist right now there are these track is occurring between undercover protesters and what is yet written by. some people saying that they are pro president mohamed morsy supporters who might be undercover protestors on business saying they're actually in fact it's a shop i mean it's interesting to see but what do you think is being said at that moment folks and also the use all the good shots i miss really becoming quite fierce in comics on three of the protests now in terms of the back office coding for the 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. so how do you pay police face cutting their claws to soothe the budget seeking to

save more money britain's governments tries to get cheaper uniforms for its bobbies on the beat plus. later in the program were reports on why many who have fled to syrian conflict feel they are being humiliated in foreign countries. they depositors' in cyprus largest bank are likely to see most of their savings wiped out they were reportedly get back less than forty percent of their money under the latest rescue package and only in shares instead of catch while they remain there or may never be paid back well the terms of the painful side burst rescue are said to be finally announced on saturday c.e.o. of risk advisory firm says even the shares which the depositors will get are on the likely to bring in any relief. if the bank can pull a rabbit out of a hat and somehow make what appears to be near worthless shares somehow very

valuable then i suppose these the positives have some hope that they'll be receiving some of their money back but at this point in time that doesn't look very likely and what's happening now is the rise of the far right in many parts of europe has only in some respects taken off it's been very strong in a country like greece with with golden dawn and into in countries like switzerland where nearly a third of the popular vote in the most recent election went to the far right this type of action that we're seeing in greece in cyprus now and in greece is only going to fuel the fire is only going to comp more people in my estimation to run to the far right to become more nationalistic and to become more close minded about the options that they would consider for their future as the e.u. insists the cyprus rescue package won't be used as a template some market analysts believe brussels is simply not able to prevent this from happening again one of them is karl denninger the founder of finance blog and

he says some countries outside of europe have even been inspired by cyprus as example. the canadian government believe it or not just released a budget document and buried on the hundred forty third page of it is essentially the exact same template that was just used in cyprus so anyone that thinks that this is limited to a little island nation in the better training you've got to know isn't coming this isn't now what is going to be done to people and again it is not that they're that the losses should be borne by these people in order if that is in fact the case the problem is that you have a government regulatory scheme bulls in europe and in other nations where they're supposed to be monitoring these institutions and closing them before they get in trouble like this and they are deliberately not doing their job and then when there is a problem all of a sudden the people with absolutely nothing to do with this lack of action are the

ones who wind up taking it on the chin. later today max kaiser in state herbert reveal how some banks are trying to shift the blame for their mistakes to some of the most helpless and vulnerable members of society how your grandparents are stealing your money. by paying for benefits you won't be getting so here's a hedge from energy or saying it's your little granny who's stealing your money from social security and government deficits it's not the hedge fund managers it's not the stevie cohen's of the world it's not the lloyd blankfein to the world it's not the jamie diamonds of the world it's your little granny banks are just stealing money out of people's bank accounts they're victimizing their scapegoating little old ladies so little old ladies are the scapegoats for this whole granholm to feed the stevie cohen's of the world and then get all puffed up saying look i own eric holder i own barack obama i commit crime with impunity i own all the breakers and it's those grannies fault that soylent green watch is put grantees in your fingers

burgers and your fingers we're going to replace granny with the horse me how the granny burger. 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 and is said to be carried out by al qaida cells to scare a locals away from the polls in the run up to the vote at least eleven candidates for governor have already been assassinated geo political analyst sarah dries her told us that this is all a 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 well in

bahrain twenty one doctors have been cleared of involvement in illegal anti-government protests magics have spent more than a year and a half behind bars for as they say treating injured demonstrators dozens of house workers along with opposition activist have been arrested and charged since the uprising began more than two years ago dr. faced similar charges since those clear today and she told us what she had to go through during her confinement. it were called the down during interrogation who were forced to sign some fashion line without reading them and that you were thinking or like that. and i mean biased against their physical and psychological torture we've been denied from speaking for. the standing for days not given food or i know where you are hard to get in. our store last thing you think of

from what. holds it is that like all of five electrocution that has fictional harassment tax should be zero and three all of that to get extraction off confessions doing that is just basically become a break there and they will show the whole world that they are venturing you know are very are. just because that we treated with people i found myself at that knowledge before and there they were great my charges and they were actually as it goes like i have what i confess that i had a hundred back of life and i gave that to protect theirs so that they can. be back with more international isn't just a few moments to stay with us. speak

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free. free q. type free. download free blog videos for your media projects and free media r t v dot com. welcome back this is r.t. u.k. spending cuts to its police force are now focusing on how officers look at the government seeks ways to boost its budget the boys in blue are under pressure to curb spending on uniforms and protective clothing artie's point boyko explains. most of us in britain they're realizing you spend 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 stalled 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 orders their clothes and their equipment separately and to different specifications to take for example your high visibility jacket that people as much as up to one hundred pounds per unit in a spendthrift will last compared to a little as twenty pounds per unit minimal froogle constabulary lots of four hundred percent difference in price and the same applies to all the common place items that you'd expect would be standard issues such as boots handcuffs and even body armor this one has got velcro covering strap which covers the zip. zip with no velcro covering strop a time of austerity the last you need is a bit of bureaucracy get in the way of progress it makes sense to have one standardized way of buying 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 kwai the police forces are wasting resources time and money on disagreeing over how many pockets they should have on their uniforms the 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 poppies might find that they're burning too many holes in all those different pockets. see london. and if i'm more news and videos on our website dot com including the focal shame a disaster could have been avoided and that's according to japanese power company who initially claimed the main cause of the accident was the deadly tsunami that struck japan find out a line why the company has now decided to finally admit responsibility plus.

a huge rescue operation in lafayette were helicopter and navy ships saved more than two hundred people trapped on ice floes had drifted away from the shore find out more hour to dot com. well the u.n. has rebuked turkey over claims that a forced hundreds of syrians to return to their country after a riot at a border refugee camp the violent protest over a living conditions was reportedly caused by the death of a seven year old girl in a tank fire at 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 safer life many now feel they have ended up living in humiliating conditions as losing confidence now swings. they come here by the thousands carrying meager belongings and painful memories at the refugee camp in jordan as desert shortage of nearly everything has turned daily life into a battle for survival. everything is hard here we don't have clean water to drink and it makes the children sick. for others despair has turned to anger. inside the calm their 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. 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 of deliberate as 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 council 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 they live. aid groups call them the invisible victims the compass the one which is the easiest to see whereas if

you have families who are spread over a small circle of course they're much more difficult to find they tend to stay remain isolated very very quickly run out of means because many of the families who have arrived lately due north arrive basically without anything 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 in hopes of help. r.t. jordan now take a look at some other stories making news around the world. north korea says it has endured a state of war with south korea in a statement pyongyang says it would respond without mercy to any action from seoul that would harm its sovereignty but indicate if it was about to mount

a preemptive strike tensions in the area have been ratcheting up for months with north korea remaining defiant in the face of international efforts to hold its nuclear program. a spate of deadly mining accidents has struck china twenty eight people have been killed by a gas blast in a coal mine in the country's northeastern province of dylan and another incident over eighty workers have been buried by a massive landslide at a gold mine at a mountainous area of tibet almost two thousand rescuers have been dispatched to the area but no survivors have he have been found. clashes have erupted between palestinians and israeli security forces in the west bank on the eve of mass protests to mark so-called land day and demonstrations a march the thirtieth commemorate the nine hundred seventy six israeli government announcement that it would expire over it arab land in the galilee region which

resulted in deadly rallies thousands of palestinians are expected to take to the streets on saturday to vand their fury against what they call discriminatory israeli settlement policies. chicago has witnessed a massive protest as people voiced their anger against a president of plans to shut down dozens of schools in the city the rally resulted in fines for scores of demonstrators the closures are aimed at plugging a one billion dollar budget gap with authorities determined to go on with their plans despite mass protests are jesus's hear reports. record single school closure in u.s. history versus the people. chicago the third largest city in america plans to shut down fifty four public schools by autumn this year it makes us feel like we are not important to anybody

that makes us so much harder for us to get an education to school. thousands of protesters flooded onto the streets of the windy city to rally against this measure the demonstrators believe officials are targeting the vulnerable youths in the least well off neighborhoods. for several hours emotions ran high. 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 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 but 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 bright example of the need of a system overhaul if budget gaps are being filled at the expense of the future of children and r.t.e. chicago. illinois. and on the mind as i had here in our stay with us.

oh since the new pope was chosen the calls for reform are analysts everyone wants the new pope to allow this and to allow that but the problem is that the catholic church is a religion not a product and people don't like the way a pepsi bottle looks while the company will have to in theory change it to meet public demand but the pope claims to represent the will of the creator of the universe the pope supposedly holds and protects an ancient and eternal truth so how can you expect this eternal truth just up and change because of public demand even though they pretend like the adult religions do change over time but how can you expect the pope after hundreds of years of saying that people would be condemned to the fires of hell and eternity in the charge walls of the damned for certain sins just now say well i guess those sins are ok if you are catholic and you want your religion to change constantly then why do you believe in it why bother having principles and rules in the first place supposedly given to you by the almighty if

you're just going to change them whenever you feel like it i don't get this but that's just my opinion. from you on the money with the business of russia is business i'm peter lavelle russia is a competitive high tech leader in the world in this edition of the money we discuss what it takes to be competitive what specific skills and opportunities are found in the russian market also what are the next steps and what needs to happen for foreign. investment to continue to i this market. to discuss this i'm joined by dimitri rape in he is the c.e.o. of digital october technological entrepreneurship center maxime question eak he is the.