one time the guards are accused of creating an bearable conditions for the hunger strikers pressuring them to and the weeks long progress with tactics the detainees lawyers describe as excessively harsh. egyptian golf and fresh protest 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 deposit or as 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.'s unprecedented bailout package emerge.

one pm and moscow this is r.t.m. arena joshie welcome to the program as the guantanamo hunger strike near is it's a three week conditions for the protesting inmates 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. who is in guantanamo now also says the move only encourages more detainees to join the hunger strike and described her own client's plight. the first year that i saw him he was very weak he had not been able to sleep because he said said the camp authorities had lowered the temperature in much of the camp to very very fruitful temperatures it's it appears that the guards here at the base are trying to end the hunger

strike by making conditions more difficult for the prisoners here including making the room 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 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 of the refutation of the united states in the world is at stake here is the realistic not coming from table the government authorities here do not come to the table and discuss with the detainees the improvement of the conditions here there are men who are going to

begin to die while there are still a lack of any political momentum to try and solve the guantanamo hunger strike crisis tell us while there are a lawyer who has represented guantanamo detainees in the past says this fact coupled with a 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 out my former clients . because the aloe to and by is 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 that we flung hunger strike as guantanamo bay's also the focus of breaking the set here on our tape abby martin 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 later this 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 being 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's sports 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 a 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 end of the 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 in alexandria where sides exchanged stone throwing and fire bombs meanwhile in the capital protesters block the office of the prosecutor general outrage that actions stories have been taking against the opposition belle troop has more from cairo. hundreds of garbage in front of the prosecutor's general office they are accusing the brotherhood of controlling and the judiciary and also protesting against a recent summons in the fine very well known activists last week for their alleged

involvement in the bloody clashes last week in this most typical case and in the capital protests it is a change show to do with the prosecutor general's office and cool to the arrest and some of the current prosecutor coming down a weak position can sound is questionable off to the appeals court here in cairo over time the presidential decree appointing him how do we have time violence outside the cairo in egypt psychosis a to comics on right now there are these street battles occurring between undercover protesters and what is yet written by. some people saying that they are appropriate in mahmoud's people since they're fighting the undercover protestors are there's a saying they're actually infected shopping is interesting to see if it's what they used to be is being said to them on a talks and pulls a big piece also a good shot i miss really becoming quite fierce in the comics on three of the protests now in terms of the back office quoting from early presidential elections saying that president morsi has not implemented any changes that he promised and

that he really is not fit to govern the country. while still had u.k. police face cutting. the budget seeking to save more money britain's government tries to get cheaper uniforms for its bobbies on the beat was. later in the program really poor why manny who have fled the syrian conflict feel they are being humiliated in foreign countries. thousands of palestinians in israel and the west bank are gearing up to protest against israel's occupation of their territories the annual land day demonstrations commemorate the israeli government's seizure twenty seven years ago of a large chunk of arab land which resulted in deadly rallies well we can now cross live to our correspondent who is at a checkpoint where the palestinian israeli border and tensions were running high well rena tell us judging by your gear of course we say that there could be some

violence where you are now tell us a bit more about that. well you can you can see that the demonstrations how essentially started and they have begun last last night actually on friday in some cities in the west bank and in the palestinian territories we are expecting more massive show of discontent to you this is how this has been traditionally the day for palestinians to protest what they call in the just treatment off them and also the way that israel is taking up land as they say now with the protesters have been out on the streets demanding that israel stop the. this stop the intensification off the israeli settlements in the west bank and in the gaza strip and also have called for the release of political prisoners which of the palestinian political prisoners now that protests are continuing today where at kalandia check point which is on the border between jerusalem and ramallah we are expecting some so we expected large crowds in fact you cannot you may not be able

to see it really well behind me because of that massive traffic jam that is happening but it's happening largely because of the crowd of protesters that are coming closer to the israeli checkpoint and we do have some of the border police here who were just earlier throwing stun grenades one of which exploded under my feet so there we do have tires burning again unfortunately you cannot see this but i can i can try and move to the side so now i'm just afraid we're going to see the cars anyways basically the palestinians are on happy extremely unhappy with the with these really settlements of which there is around. there are more than two hundred in the palestinian territories compared to the facts that said there are just roughly over three million palestinians living in the west bank compare that to the number of israeli settlements in the very same area which is half a million you can understand the creation of the palestinian people so we're expecting major demonstrations protests and they did get violent last year at least one person was killed in the gaza strip hundreds were injured in the west bank and

in the gaza strip again we're in for another hot day in boston. territories today. as we know the settlement issue has long been at the center of the israeli and palestinian conflict mediated by the international player so where do we stand now in terms of the resolution of the conflict. we're standing exactly where we were a year before you can say we're still standing at the crossroads and kind of facing it dead and of course you have president barak obama who was just in the area who was just in israel and palestine very recently in fact last week and he did say that the israeli settlements are essentially impeding the peace process is the israeli palestine peaceful solution and get the does that see if he was expected to sit down pressure on the israeli government that did not happen unfortunately to unfortunately for many of course there was a u.n. report from last year which said that essentially israeli settlements and the way israel is treating palestinians in the west bank and gaza strip is a severe violation of palestinians human rights there is tension being displaced

off their lands they are. they are being there they are being treated violently their crops are being destroyed and their land is being taken away however israel chose to ignore that report by the un and has not made any move in fact over the past ten years that there has been an increase in the israeli in the israeli settlements especially intensifying under the government of any minute and you off with since two thousand and nine. for bringing us the situation on the ground there are corresponding there arena. and now let's take a look at some other stories that we are following for you here r.t. today big depositors and cyprus largest baggara likely to see most of their savings wiped out it will reportedly get back less than forty percent of their money under the latest rescue package and only share is instead of cash while the remainder may never be paid back the terms of the painful cyprus rescue are set to be finally

announced on saturday they are walking. a risk advisory firm says even the sharers which the depositors will gather on will likely to bring 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 and 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 instant country 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 will be used as a template some more get out as well leave brussels is simply not able to prevent this from happening again one of them is called that you are the fower of finance waga 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 this isn't coming this is 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 as things 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 of 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 they're scapegoating little old ladies so little old ladies are the scapegoats for this whole growing defeated the stevie collins 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 bankers and it's those grannies fault that soylent green watch is put grannies in your findus burgers and your fingers was going to replace granny with a horsemeat have a granny burger. watching our day i'll be back with more international news in just a few moments stay with us. choose your language. clearly we can't without if you're going to go on to say still some . choose good sense to. choose the good news that you think are great to. choose the stories but if you.

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in bahrain twenty one doctors have been cleared of involvement in a legal anti-government protest the medics have spent more than a year and a half behind bars for as they say treating injured demonstrators thousands of health workers along with opposition activists have been arrested and charged since the uprising began more than two years ago dr fifteen haji faced similar charges as those clear today she told us what she had to go through during her confinement. blindfold the one. who imports to find food from fashion line without reading them and that you think you know that. if you don't they're physically. ok we've been i phone phreaking for. the standing part of the not given food owner. who are hard to get. so we

get our one last thing you think that would stick. with it is that like five electrocution and then have fictional harassment that should be and bring all of that to get traction off the fish and doing that just basically become a break then it will show the whole world that eventually you know are. suffering because that we think it would be fun i found myself at the knowledge before and then there they are very much alive and they were at the goal of like i have with. that that i hundred back of life and i gave that to perfect so that they can. refuse they're there and get. more news and videos on our website r.t. dot com including the focus shima disaster could have been avoided and that's according to japanese power company tepco who initially claimed the main cause of

the accident was the deadly tsunami that struck japan find out online why the company has now decided to finally admit its responsibility. and i see journey with god the story of almost two hundred people in the lobby i had a narrow escape after being stranded in the breakaway ice floes learn more about their fate at r.t. dot com. u.k. spending cuts to its police force are now focusing on how officers look as a government seeks ways to boost its budgets the boys in blue are under pressure to

curb spending on uniforms and protective clothing boyko explains. most of us in britain 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 that clothes on their equipment separately and to different specifications to take for example your high visibility jacket back who called as much as up to one hundred pounds per unit in a spendthrift people was combative little as twenty pounds per unit minimal 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 one has got velcro covering strap which the zip wears this body the zip with no velcro covering strop at. the last you need is a bit of bureaucracy get in the way of progress it makes sense to have a standardized way of boring stuff and yes it will be a look like cheap police federation is around the country has been very vocally protesting cuts to their budgets recently yet the public accounts committee says that instead of tackling kwai 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 time 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 boy care to see london. and out of some other stories making news around the world to north korea says it has entered a state of war with south korea in a statement pyongyang says of would respond without mercy to any action from seoul that would harm itself and but indicated it was not about to mount if preemptive strike tensions in the area have been ratcheting up for months as north korea remaining defiant in the face of international efforts to hold its nuclear program . a spate of deadly a mining accidents has struck china twenty eight people have been killed by a gas blast at a coal mine in the country's northeastern province of julian and another incident over eighty workers have been buried by a massive landslide of a gold mine in a mountainous area of tibet almost two thousand rescuers have been dispatched to the area but no survivors have yet been found.

the un has rebuked turkey over claims that it 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 with manny fleeing to neighboring turkey and jordan but having left for a safer ally mannie now feel they have ended up living in humiliating conditions as lucy coffin of now explains. they come here by the thousands carrying meager belongings and painful memories at the refugee camp in jordan as desert a 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 abdullah brought his family to jordan after their home was destroyed in the war they now share this two room apartment with another syrian family. we thought 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. us is unfair here is full of humiliation how can they live. aid groups call them the invisible victims of the compass the one which is the easiest to see whereas if you have families who are spread over a small thicket of course they're much more difficult to find they tend to stay remain isolated they very quickly run out of means because many of the promenades who have arrived late do not 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 and hopes of help lucy catherine of r t jordan breaking a sad that he martin in just a few moments here on our team to stay with us. plans to create a war medal for cyber warfare have been put on hold by new defense secretary chuck hagel but should they have been put on hold i mean hackers a drone operators do play a real important role in modern militaries and there are already u.s. military medals for things that don't involve people shooting at you the antarctic a service medals given by the department of defense for sort of between fifteen and thirty consecutive days in antarctica although the cold down there is potentially deadly no penguins are going to storm the base with kalashnikovs the homeland

security distinguished service medal has also never been issued to anyone on the battlefield because thankfully for america there haven't been any invading armies in the homeland so is there precedent for a medal like cyber warfare battles i mean yes just there is but when you think about it giving someone a medal for use. a mouse to blow up blips on a monitor really seems to devalue the medals of the guys who are brave enough to storm the beaches on d.-day or slog through disease and snake filled swamps in vietnam so maybe for the sake of the prestige of the other metals let's just let the cyber security one go but that's just my opinion. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck i got so. i mean. i know that i'm still really messed up. in the old story so

closely. it's. worse for the little. white house to give a. radio guy four minutes from a click. away what we're about to give you never seen anything like this until. it was going on abby martin and this is breaking this is that so i forgot to mention one thing about the guantanamo bay hunger strike going on how damn good the prisoners have it they're now up to robert johnson military defense editor and 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.