tear gas and stun grenades israeli police clashed with crowds of angry palestinians rallying against the occupation of their land r t was that the flashpoint on the west bank border when the protests turned violent. it goes from bad to worse in cyprus where many are lucky to see more than half of the savings wiped out overnight as the e.u. demands an unprecedented rate on bank deposits in exchange for a bailout to rescue the country's failing economy. on top of the bay detainees press on with their weeks long hunger strike as lawyers for the inmates claim many and their deaths door as a result of their protest. international

news and comment twenty four hours a day this is just. well there's been violence thousands of palestinians took poets who walk to school the land today randi israeli security forces clashed with demonstrators on the west bank border crossing using tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the crowd when you were gathering commemorates an event almost three decades ago used rail announced it would seize for settlements and suing protests six palestinians were killed by police in the event seen as a flashpoint in. there my colleague to bring let's say it spoke to auntie's when he was on the border the most recent scuffles. the tension actually is running high it seemed for a while like it had it has been subsiding here at the kalandia checkpoint between ramallah and is jerusalem but now even though the israeli military has pushed back

slightly towards the checkpoint the demonstrators nevertheless a continuing their advancement on them they have been they have begun burning tires just very recently earlier there has been exchanges. between the protesters and the border police when the protesters are throwing rocks at the israeli forces and the israeli forces were responding with stun grenades and tear gas it kind of comes and goes in waves but of course the palestinians are showing no signs of giving up at all of the this this actually has the land demonstrations have been a tradition since one nine hundred seventy six when they occurred for the first time and six palestinians were killed in a confrontation with the israeli police and israeli armed forces and it has been happening every here as it is happening today last year the protests were extremely violent and they usually turn more violent in gaza where the israeli police and military forces are generally using live ammunition and we know that at least one person has been wounded with live ammo earlier today in the gaza strip as for

what's happening in the west bank where of course protesters being held by the palestinians all over the place. there has been an exchange like i said stun grenades and tear gas we do not so we have asked the israeli forces whether they have used rubber bullets they have said no but palestinian media is reporting that there have been at least two wounds from from the use of rubber bullets by these really for says of course the palestinians are protesting against the israelis sorry palestinians are protesting against the israeli occupation of land especially against the israeli settlements which not only did not subside but they actually are growing especially over the past decade and especially under the government of benyamin netanyahu what's happening around you right now we see people running we've seen fires in the back just describe what's going on around you as well. what i can tell you that that ban was actually stun grenade i'm sorry it's not it's not particularly dangerous they just kind of really literally stuns you and now we can

see that the tear gas that vehicle that has pulled up maybe we can turn around and you can see what's happening actually as we talk so we yeah we see the vehicles which i have the tear gas dispersal units on them they're there are edging they're trying to edge the protesters out as we as we speak the protesters are lined up on the street the only hill right above there and see they're using these special these special i don't i don't know if we do we want to call them the gadgets which with which they throw stones which are fly quite far i have to say majority of them are very young from even kids as young as ten to rather full grown men to about thirty they're not go they're not showing any signs of giving up. well protests and demonstrations the expansion of settlements military operations and a rising number of victims israeli palestinian conflict has been a constant political sore point in one of the world's most volatile regions but today r.t. dot com we're asking if you think the peace process between the two sides will ever

come to anything. this is how the numbers are shaping up so far today there we go that forty six percent almost half say israel will simply absorb the palestinian land eventually into its own territory twenty eight percent at the top think there will be no breakthrough at all until global powers stop using the conflict inside as pawns and the fifth exactly if if if you are believe the situation has reached a dead end is neither side is interested in dialogue only six percent today are optimistic that regional pressure will eventually force israelis and palestinians to make peace where we talked to mr barghouti a member of the palestinian legislative council he believes israel would come best if any peace agreement is ever reached. this is not a conflict between two equal sides that don't have an able to find a way to solve the problem this is one side which is the israeli side occupying another for the longest occupation in modern history forty six years of occupation

one side or pressing the palestinians i don't think there is any chance for peace process as long as we have this israeli government because what you have now inside the israeli government. ministers who are themselves settlers and this is the highest number of settlers who are sitting in the government they are also controlling housing the ministry and they are controlling the industrial and commercial ministry and they are also controlling the finance committee in the israeli knesset and practically they control the policy regarding the occupied territories because also the minister of defense who is in charge of the army is also loyal to the settlers in the ality with such an israeli government it's impossible to move into a real peace process unless the punishment acts taking. a six figure savings stand to see the bulk of that deposits wiped out as part of

a painful rescue plan from the e.u. the central bank says sixty percent of all deposits a one hundred thousand euros will be drained investors will be compensated this shit is about forty percent of the seized deposits many analysts warn stock in the failing banks is likely to be junk doubts whether the positives will ever get their hands on the money having center genest on a website joining the e.u. do you cyprus any favors. was tracked by coming into the e.u. because one of the. thought of joining the. e.u. will. turkish problem. and the promise to never happen so i don't know during the last president was there the socialist president you read only dream of you readers occasion you resigned two weeks before the banks closed so it's

a disaster here people are realizing it waking up to it and i think the rest of europe i mean if this happened look if this happened in spain there would be riots in the streets buildings banks would be burned down it's not really greece well but because because cyprus was a soft target for the troika one of the ones to sit idly by max and stacey dove in the cypriot crisis in the kinds of reports in two hours they'll also be sharing their lack of optimism a new case the latest plan to make an economic comeback. but i told you about gold that is to say told you to buy gold four years ago right here in the kaiser report many of you asked but what if the government confiscates our gold maybe the more intelligent question you should have been asking was what if they seize your bank account when i talk to you about bitcoin that is to say i told you to buy bitcoin at five dollars per bitcoin you screeched what if they shut down the

internet well maybe you should have been asking what if they shut down all the banks. well it's too late now the template has been set and while europe melts down let's see what the template holds for the united kingdom oh right here in old britannia were over my shoulder you can see the plank above the mayor's office where boris johnson the mayor may very well commit suicide. hunger strikers at the gun time of bay prison are saying they're ready to face death rather than and their protest that's according to their lawyers who say the majority of their clients are starving themselves of the u.s. military admits the number is risen to thirty seven around a dozen and now reportedly being force fed prisoners have complained of guards denying them drinking water and keeping temperatures inside the camp there freezing point to bring an end to the protest the general public in the us remains ignorant

of the rights abuses in the taurus prison supports a lawyer thomas when he represented going time detainees in the past and see what he had to say. 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 the white house has said that it's still interested in closing guantanamo but i think it's delegated the issue to other people and it's also thrown up its hands and said well congress is stopping us from doing anything my former client. was the allo to and by as well kondraty 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 the u.s. courts have no authority to order a release of someone who is in guantanamo they're in the hands of the president the president has the authority to do it congress has said he could do it only with difficulty but he has the authority to do it he needs to step up to the plate and get it done on some in the u.s. insists that the guantanamo prisoners have nothing to complain about claiming they enjoy excellent conditions in the detention center and i think not in challenges the idea put forward by some generous at the prison is eventually a cuban one as a result i think breaking the second chance i could say i'm not a. i forgot to mention one thing about the guantanamo bay hunger strike going on how damn good the prisoners have it there up there 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 yes absurdly well delicious meals video games for everyone sports then what a 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 on that note let's

break that. what is it going to be war or peace on the korean peninsula when young announces it's in the states would sell off the break with the little latest tensions could lead.

i. covered international airport in the very heart of moscow. by sustain without hear more stories for you now north korea has stepped up its aggressive rhetoric stating once again it's in a state of war with its southern neighbor going on his message of hardened

following a recent joint exercise held in the region by u.s. and south korean forces once and droll from the korean friendship association thinks the american led maneuvers are endangering peace on the peninsula. concerning threats we especially to be talking about other things specifically peace peace is what everybody wants nobody wants a war the number of human lives that would go into any kind of aggression either side is incalculable if united states thinks this is just a war game then kim jong un will prove what is not a game game a game that is not only played out on national scales with human lives and that's what the united states been doing to decades peace is a serious matter that needs to be taken seriously by the united states if that is what it is in the world desires they want these six party talks but the only parties need to be talking are the united states and the democratic people's republic of korea a an open and honest hearing of grievances between those two countries bahraini police have reportedly used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse surprise reform

demonstrators as after the conviction of twenty one doctors for taking part in antigovernment protests and twenty eleven was overturned on appeal but dozens of medics not position activists still remain behind bars with dr fatima haji sentenced to five years in jail but acquitted eight months ago told us what she went through tearing her confinement. we were blindfolded. most of the during interrogation we were forced to sign pull some fashion line in that we did them and that you some questions were taken or strikes. and i mean by severe storms or physically open psychological torture we've seen deny from speaking for our. standing for days not given food or nowhere through our hearts to get seen so we get our words one last thing you think that from what.

holds it is that like whole of five electrocution that has fictional harassment facts to be angry all of that just to get struction off confession and doing that is just basically become a break they're preventing and they will shove the whole word that they are preventing you know are they are. just because that we treated with a thief but i found myself at that knowledge before and then there they were great my charges and they were actually as it goes by i have what i confess that i hundred back off a lot and i get to protect theirs so that they can see. their interests. here in australia and the supporter of the whistleblower julian the sun you can join the wiki leaks political party because it's announced that five hundred repay members only did officially register with the australian election commission that happens sounds just like the senator go online to find out all the details plus.

saudi arabia wants to end twitter and the unity government plans to link social media users to unique i.d.'s with personal information. twitter stand out for you least three to your opinion at our website r.t. dot com. well in britain right now it's cut such any cost leaving public workers fearing for their jobs so out of the two thousand post office staff who walked out on saturday in the latest industrial to street the police seem to have one eye on their wardrobe while fighting crime which is probably going to explains whether they're managing to cut their cloth accordingly . most of us in britain realising you spent too much money on clothes especially when your budgets 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 back who called as much as up to one hundred pounds per unit in a bench press force compared to as 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 one has got a velcro covering strap which 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

a standardized way of buying stuff and yes it will be a look like cheap police federations around the country have been very vocally protesting cuts to their budgets recently yet the public accounts committee says that instead of tackling crime 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 to band together in order to increase their buying 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 artsy london. some other world news in brief this hour at least one child has been killed the nato helicopter pilots insurgents in southeastern afghanistan a pilot was reportedly blocking a group of local security forces despite president karzai recent bad old calling

for air support in residential areas later a nato spokesman apparently amended a statement saying the helicopter was on a separate mission unconfirmed eyewitness reports from sort of said that not one but two children were killed in the strike. three thousand make albanians have rallied in a divided city of crossover against ongoing talks and some of the e.u. mediated negotiations are in that deciding which side controls the area and some believe the talks could lead to the city being divided in the northern part of freshly fall into belgrade's hands most of us the ceded from here in two thousand and eight with most of the e.u. recognizing it is a new state. it's a bet two bodies have been found as rescue workers continue the search for survivors there are mine hit by a massive landslide the fate of more than eighty workers thought to be buried under

their priest to mainz on clear. the rescuers were rescued raters have been scouring the area for more than twenty four hours the chances of finding one else alive or fading a massive landslide struck in the early hours of friday while the miners were sleeping in their hearts. and chile's capital santiago has seen a second day of clashes between police and left will use. they have the young competent over fifty four people were arrested in a similar number injured in the violence with allegations songwriter's shotguns it comes just days after mass student demonstrations of education reforms rallies are held every year to commemorate the deaths of two brothers to ninety five protests against the regime. the two years of conflict in syria more than a million people have been forced to flee their water on country desperate syrians trying to find safety it seems life gets worse no matter which way they turn just

recently turkey has been blamed for the actually deporting one hundred thirty syrian refugees but to be involved in violence we've been living conditions while in jordan. reports life in the majesty camps is often the grim. they come here by the thousands carrying meager belongings and painful memories at the zaatari refugee camp in jordan's 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 to hell with human rights. the 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 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 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. isis 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 city of course they're much more difficult to find they tend to stay remain isolated they are very quickly run out of means because many of the families who have arrived late do not arrive basically without any 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 lucy catherine of r t jordan. with just a few minutes we take you to the council on capital boss alone for a look at what's on offer at the mobile world congress the latest technology update program here dotty stay with us.

all 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 anytime. truth so how can you expect this eternal truth just up and change because of public demand even though they pretend like 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 charred walls of the damned for certain sins just

now say well i guess those sins are ok if you're 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. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tired of the big check.

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we have found a handful of innovations the limits of mobile technology it's that time of year again when the whole community descends on the catalonian capital while the annual gathering has been happening for more than a quarter century organizers build this mobile world congress as bigger and better than ever having moved into a newer and more spacious center is a one stop shop for just about everything in personal tech with one exception all the industry's big players who are there hoping to investors and gadget guru so like so apple staying away as it traditionally does samsung was able to bask in the knowledge that it was far and away the biggest fish in the pond with an eye on keeping its share of the android based the no eight point zero made its big debut and got the blog buzzing but it's going to have to work hard to fight off challenges for both new and old competitors. nokia was also on hand to tout its latest smartphone.