a national at the very heart of moscow. terrorist twist a former u.s. soldier is charged with fighting alongside al qaida linked syrian rebels posing with known militants in a video. one time a hunger strike is going today fifty five facing a growing risk of serious health problems and even death as one of the lawyers claims jail is a tough in conditions to make them stop. and one small step towards inhabiting the moon less than two decades russian scientists say the research that would serve a treat on this instance neighbors. around the world around the clock this is carried. a u.s.

army veteran has been charged with conspiracy for fighting alongside a syrian rebel group linked to al qaida eric harroun known to syrians as the american as appeared in numerous videos of members of the own nusra front designated by the u.s. as a terrorist organization but his father claims his son was working for the cia and would never join a militant group well he's going to charge account examines now where the u.s. draws the nothing between terrorists and so-called freedom fighters the u.s. army veteran eric karun posted the speed on line while fighting with the rebels in syria. the former c.e.o. eric karun has joined the al qaeda linked group gentleness were the only rebel group in syria that the u.s. has designated as terrorists while in syria erik actively posted photos and videos of himself holding various weapons spraying about the rebels latest attacks and calling himself a freedom fighter charlotte your days are numbered you're going to die no matter

what where you go we will find you and kill you upon arrival in the u.s. he was arrested and charged with illegally using a rocket propelled grenade on behalf of the al qaeda affiliated group according to court documents eric told the f.b.i. that quote he hated al qaeda he did not know any al qaeda members and would fight any regime if it impose sharia law in syria end of quote but in an interview with a journalist before he was arrested eric responded to a question about fighting alongside terrorists is syria by saying quote the us plays both sides to end of quote erica had never served overseas during his brief time with the u.s. military before heading for syria he had a quiet job with a mortgage company in phoenix arizona worlds away from the walls of the middle east i spoke with and speckhard a leading expert on terror psychology on why westerners end up in the ranks of terrorists some people over here. sure and in canada i was just up in canada

talking to are going over to syria to be to join freedom fighters son they really believe they're there fighting for freedom but they get there and it's a chaotic situation. may be looking a factor and once you're in a chaotic war torn environment your emotions are. scared and you may just affiliate with a group that you might not otherwise have affiliated with the official message that these are freedom fighters and they need to help you in some way it just confuses them even more than it is really about a really good point because you know we are calling this a fight for freedom we are speaking about it on the media that it's freedom fighting so when someone feels strongly about it and wants to go and how. are we to blame them. but then when they get over there if i join a group that's been designated as a terrorist group it's confucian probably and we need to get straight on that we

need to decide exactly what we're going to do about syria i think that we have a very confused response ourselves as a government right now since the start of the arab spring the u.s. media has finally dream a job or freedom fighter no use featuring stories with the likes of mass event don't ask an american who first fought with libyan rebels and then switched to syria once i fought in the war in libya in two thousand and eleven and i saw the effects of what we accomplished and i want syrians to our freedoms well. in recent months the obama administration has tried to publicly distance itself from radical islamists fighting among the syrian rebels by saying washington supports the more moderate forces among the opposition. but on the ground in syria in the middle of a bloody civil war that line is blurred many of those in the syrian opposition who washington supports welcome the efforts of radical groups like on the street. while politicians are. argue about who is the terrorist and who is afraid of or who is

a terrorist that can be useful now and dealt with later young westerners like eric are made by themselves confused about what they're fighting for in a place like syria in washington i'm going to check out. the hunger strike by going town of the bay detainees shows no signs of ending as it is the eight week mark lawyers representing some of the inmates say their clients are ready to die unless their demands are met prisoners want an end to indefinite detention and intrusive searches lawyers and activists say that the vast majority of the one hundred sixty six detainees at the facility not taking part in u.s. military initially did not report so the protest now says only thirty seven prisoners on both most of the inmates there have been cleared for release but the u.s. government is still keeping them behind bars. so stated it's committed to shutting down the prison the pentagon says it's also set for a fifty million dollars renovation was in deep undercover noire for one of the

strikers. i met with him from tuesday through thursday every day and when i first met with him on tuesday i was extremely shocked to see that he had lost about forty pounds from the last time that i saw him and he was in a terribly weak state he was bending over from stomach pains he also said that he had not eaten since february sixth so he was one of the initial hunger strikers and he was in that terribly bad state when i saw you so you can confirm one of you is a hearing i was told where there's maybe a heart when we're talking about some of these guys being close to death this is what you've actually seen with your eyes i've seen it with my own eyes and i heard him tell me he's supposed to have another meeting with his military council in the following week and he told me to let them know that. he may not be in

a state to meet with them he maybe by the time they come see him he may be in isolation or he may be under medical watch or he may be being force fed by that time and really not be able to meet with them and he wanted me to take that message to them is this brinkmanship how long is it going to tell you how long do you estimate it's going to take before maybe someone dies who's going to blink first or the hunger strike is maybe going to back off is the government going to do anything what's going to happen next. well you know the for you know my meetings with mike with my client last week and his conversations with other straight you know other detainees and prisoners who are also on strike they are paired to stand up for the principles of not having their religious practices disrespected not having the qur'an desecrated and now it's become an even bigger message that they want to deliver which is that they have been now detained since you know two thousand too many of them mike i and for eleven years now since two thousand and two some of

them are cleared for release have been declared in the sim by the united states however the u.s. refuses to transfer them and the congress refuses to provide funds for that the obama administration has closed the office that it had set up in the state department to study the closure of guantanamo and carry that out and it hasn't happened and so this is gone beyond the desecration of the qur'an that disrespect of their religion and they're now also protesting the worsening conditions as these prison officials are essentially retaliating against them and trying to end the strike by making conditions harsher and the detainees have been enduring all of this and plan to continue to do so. well on a strike because hundreds to stage a sit in in front of the u.s. embassy in kuwait protest has expressed outrage at the lack of action by kuwait's government to condemn the treatment of to of its nationals been housed in a tourist prison for the decade of the inmates has been charged with war crimes was

no his side of it was mostly based on hearsay nothing about and one another kuwaiti prisoners being held without charge. pushing for talks with the taliban kabul looks to negotiate with taliban insurgents and the terror in afghanistan a militant still refused to talk to president karzai on that shortly. also ahead get ready to take your seats in a space observatory on the surface of the moon we'll tell you more about russia's plans for earth's closest neighbor. i'm in sochi the no new city in europe the host of the twenty four g. in winter the pick a. sun see. such . thing. as on the.

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talk about this is whether cyprus comes to terms a severe e.u. bailout cash controls millions of euros are alleged to have been. there is that out of the country just days before the euro group proposed the punishing levy on bank deposits that's one of the newspaper is reporting pointing the finger at a company related to president anastasio others but affirmed by the supreme leader's son in law reportedly transferred twenty one million euros to banks in the u.k. over the company criticised the article as a malicious attempt to politicize the dictum of economic activities while the president says the claims should be investigative report comes a separate struggle to get their money out of the banks of the unprecedented restrictions these restrictions include daily cash withdrawals limited to three hundred euros per person per bank no checks can be cashed by anyone in payments and transfers outside cyprus are limited to five thousand euros

a month per person those travelling abroad can't take more than one thousand euros with them but he spoke to wolfgang sure saw a former chancellor of austria who says look a serious troubles were looming large but nothing was done to avert the. there's a tiny countries here a point in the one year of point two percent of the g.d.p. of the eurozone but the problem was cyprus his eight times more were turned over by a limb by limb of pain compared to be cheap times more that this is absolutely unsustainable it ever but if you would within the european union people where were the the mass media newspapers where all the time complaining that something must be done so nobody should be surprised government not one but the previous government led by a former communist who should have done much earlier the reduction of this size of the financial sector i mean this is you cannot have such

a huge financial sectors are due banks and you can watch for the full interview with wolfgang's just or later today at eight hundred forty five g.m.t. . when the chaotic situation surrounding the cyprus spread out is once again on bail the floors in europe's financial system that's not just the first hole that is trying to patch struggling to find a way out of the cash crisis it's a day in this panel of guests debate how west of finances of managed to fall into an abyss. this capitalism has been around for a while i mean these the bailouts of two thousand and eight follow on from the earlier bailouts of in one thousand nine hundred five all of the goldman sachs. that was of this who the huge crisis goldman sachs needed to bail out over its loans to mexico that was the bailout of the s n l's that was the bailout of the banks in the one nine hundred eighty s. each time there was this bailout we are the same situation which is that the

bankers go to government and say well we've taken all these risky loans and if you don't bail us out the entire economy of the world will come tumbling down and the politicians are don't know whether this is true or not and immediately whip out their checkbooks and write it out this is what capitalism is and therefore what is precisely that the richest are bailed out they continue to earn the massive bonuses while everybody else has to pay for their risky loans and the risky you know nonsensical decisions whereas the personal responsibility in all of this i mean if there is nobody willing to take on loans that they couldn't afford to pay that take on mortgages that they couldn't afford to pay. there wouldn't be a crisis i mean if if banks where they're saying to people look i want to force this loan or party when people said look i really can't pay that i really shouldn't be taking that because it's out of my knee and i should really leave anybody out here right on the way around what is the other way round for it in any other way

around isn't it the other way around these banks these people who are not paying. where you can watch people about as lively debate show in full hair on r.t. at about ten thirty g.m.t. . the afghan government says it will push for peace talks with the taliban before foreign troops withdraw at the end you twenty fourteen the statement came during president karzai is trip to qatar where any of the afghan leaders said the greatest threat to the country is not the taliban but interference by foreign states years of storm discussions with the us afghanistan and on the taliban followed america's offensive in the country and combating terrorism and i recently announced it's ready to enter politics and has opened an office in doha washington welcomed the move the taliban has so far refused to talk to president karzai

describing him as an american puppet security analyst deepak chopra i think the moves that the wrangling between the american and the afghan government is getting in the way of a solution informal contacts have been taking place in doha for the last couple of years but then those informal talks did break down for two reasons accuse the americans on being shaky and vague. they wanted an exchange of prisoners president obama didn't want to have anything to do with any exchange of prisoners because of mainly congressional pressure but also outside the congress from his opponents and secondly president karzai himself suspect that he was being sidelined because the americans were in direct touch. with. under president of the americans have openly accused president karzai of

being incompetent and corrupt so there's no love lost between president karzai and the americans and president karzai doesn't want to be undermined by external forces. just ahead for you we report from germany on the ground displeasure there it's coughing up cash to support others a room with a view russian scientists promise a moon base observatory in the very near future stay with us. dangerous experiments on prisoners they want to make money and they have to use healthy guinea pigs in the regular society they're not able to use prisoners anymore they wish they could. drug tests on human guinea pigs. paid to pop deadly pills he didn't pass away he was killed. he didn't pass away they let him die. is pharmacy really about

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with that europe's financial troubles dragging on germany is seen as the economic giant that's keeping the eurozone afloat as well as having to pay to help struggling countries it's also still carrying the burden of the solidarity tax introduced after reification with the country's east of this as he has put all the found out is making many germans feel far from one off. over the past twenty years

from the east of germany have received billions of neuro in taxpayer money to help with development after unification but now both paying the taxes here in the western part of germany say they're sick of paying too much for too long and it was it's time to finish this up we need this money more than them now. it's good enough is enough i know many of these that are doing very well get at it and it's time this test was scrapped has come of that's been twenty years too long now working people live here in worse conditions so we don't we can't continue to pay for the east we gave them a future now this must stop. formally the region was home to germany's now pretty much defunct coal mining industry now the main cities in the us area face mounting debts as they struggle to live up to their commitments as part of the solidarity pact which sends money to the east in a statement given to r.t. the lord mayor of dortmund says the practice of taking loans to pay their way could

have dire consequences those cities that have high debts will soon be unable to borrow in order to remain part of the solidarity pact either that or conditions imposed will be so severe as to propel them faster towards bankruptcy the solidarity pact will remain in force until twenty nineteen by which time the west will have contribution hundreds of billions of euro with the major cities in the region sinking further into the red those in the west of germany are suggesting that it's time for the east to help them out. right now we should be at the front of the line when it comes to financial help from the state. that will feel like this money needs to be spent in the best interest of the german people today there are cities that need aid. my generation can't be expected to pay for decisions made by the previous generation. of voters look now in the east it looks much better and

i just go and have a look at how bad it is around here it's like a pigsty as the east has been licked clean you don't have to go far to see the effect city debt is having on daily life here in the west local councils can't even afford to keep public swimming pools open while the continued use of taxpayer cash in the east is testing just how solid the germans feel the solidarity pact really is peter all other r.t. the region germany. well you'll find the latest news an update dot com including the world's top currency may soon have a rival on the block along the favorite reserve currency the u.s. dollar maybe falling from grace from the digital point goes up in value that story online feed. some states in america consider grabbing benefits from those on welfare if they test positive for illegal drugs we'll have to watch you don't come . some other news making headlines around the world

this hour the united states is sent f. twenty two stealth fighter jets to a military base in south korea it's a joint ongoing military drills between the two countries which korea blames for escalating stability in the region the same time south korean authorities warn they will not shy away from a preemptive strike if we believe korean attack is imminent on young announced a state of war between the two countries on saturday this week so going out. it was not only marks of princes off the ground to being on sunday three cases have been lodged against him for one constant by to criticism or someone who just leaves and t.v. before it is recently instigated a campaign to pack dining to center the country aren't have been issued for private . discussion of the interests of the news no police forces.

rebels who are around the central african republic try to bring green else for me to take the government. will head the new administration nine letters of the opposition will remain in place to elections and for twenty sixteen i think escalated in general to the collapse of a power sharing deal between ousted president receives a young leader. well you may soon be able to take a not so grounded look at what's going on in space russian scientists are planning to build a space observatory right on the moon surface beginning with a robot research lab in the new future. reports now from somewhere in the outer limits. almost half a century since neil armstrong's giant step ended the race between the u.s. and u.s.s.r. to put a man on the moon earth's only natural satellite is once again in the spotlight while america has directed its attention to mars russia's central research institute for machinery announced the launch or rather

a relaunch of the lunar program according to the ambitious plan a russian space ship will fly to and circle the moon by twenty thirty but this promises to be only the beginning and here is where it gets very interesting the next step as these are claims will be the construction of an observatory on the moon experts believe earth spur civil space rock is simply the perfect spot from which to research space so if this idea proves to be a success expect a laboratory there to the observatory and the lab may soon be followed by a helium mining shafts and if the moon really holds ice as scientists believe this could produce both the water and oxygen which would make the earth's satellite inhabitable by humans hotels with rooftop swimming pools grocery stores and a hospital all this could be possible this would not be easy of course expect some competition from the u.s. and china but in five six decades flying to the moon and back would not be just a line from a song but a real human holiday option. you have

it up next he explores the wonders of sochi is mountainous terrain and just three hundred twelve days to go to the twenty fourteen winter olympics think of that statement. you know when the history of any culture there are some dark chapters throughout human history there's been war on every. and religious strife and oppression every culture has some skeletons in their closet and in recent u.s. history the scandalous prison at guantanamo bay as making patriotic americans scurrying around a decade or so rather than slamming the door shut on get mall i hate that term condemning it as one of the greatest mistakes in american history and gloriously

declaring on t.v. channels and newspapers the country wide that it shall never be repeated again the pentagon instead wants to blow another forty nine million dollars expanding it even if you are one of the types of things that american gulags are super cool and awesome do you realize that it takes over one million dollars per year per prisoner to keep the place open are you sure you don't want that money to go towards something else like your children's education the thing that burns me up about this the most is that obama promised if elected to close guantanamo bay and as commander in chief of the armed forces he could do this whatever he wanted no amount of filibustering by the republicans could stop him obama you promised hundreds of millions of people to do something very simple start the paper work tomorrow buddy make the nation look better that's your job but that's just my opinion.

the international and world in the very heart of moscow. down on the black sea coast of russia the city of sochi is busy preparing for the twenty four team wins. that game's construction is booming transport infrastructure is being completely revamped and disabled access points of being installed across town. but aside from being russia's second lympics city sochi is also one of the country's most popular tourist destinations people flock here for the long hot summer as the spacious

beaches and the warm seas busk if you're looking for more than just a top it's also an area filled with some amazing natural highlights. so i've been spending a lot of so i'm in the city but off in the mountains there's the caucasus was a which is literally the size of finland so i've met up with one very experienced. and we are off on a bench. it's fair to say that if you're driving up here then you're in for a bumpy ride it's you might be lucky and find some tama but mostly it's just a trifle and rocks fortunately alexei's wonderfully named was it is up to to the.