in the very heart of moscow. terrorist twist a former u.s. soldier is charged with fighting alongside al qaida syrian rebels posing with known militants in a video. montage of the hunger strikers going today fifty five facing a growing risk of serious health problems meeting as one of the lawyers claims for the conditions to make them stop. one small step towards inhabiting the moon in less than two decades russian scientists say don't be a research that observatory that's closest neighbor. international news and comment twenty four seven this is. 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 has appeared in numerous videos with members of the al newser front designated by the u.s. as a terrorist organization his father claims his son was working for the cia and would never join the militant group once he's gone a chicken examines now where the u.s. draws the line 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 a. full measure of eric karun has joined the al qaeda linked group gentleness for the only rebel group in syria that the u.s. has that ignited this terrorists while in syria erik actively posted photos and videos of himself holding various weapons bragging about the rebels latest attacks and calling himself a freedom fighter sharla saad 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 in syria by saying quote the us plays both sides to end of quote every karun had never served overseas during his brief time with the u.s. military before heading for syria he had acquired 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 and in canada i was just up in canada talking about are going over to syria to be to join freedom fighters son they really

believe that they're fighting for freedom but they get there and it's a chaotic situation. may be looking affective and once you're in a chaotic war torn environment your emotions are on heightened here scared and you may just affiliate with a group that you might not otherwise. the official message that freedom fighters may need to help you in some way it just confuses them even more about some 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. but then when they get over there if they join the 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 us media has already freedom fighter featuring stories with the likes of. an american who first fought with libyan rebels and then switched to syria i fought in the war in libya in two thousand and eleven and i saw the effects of what we accomplished and i want syrian stafford was 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 welcomed the efforts of radical groups like on the street. while politicians argue about who is the terrorist then who is

a freedom fighter or who is a terrorist that can be useful now and dealt with later young westerners like eric may find 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 ton of bay detainees shows no signs of ending as it nears the eight week mark lawyers representing some of the inmates say their clients are ready to die. ahmed the 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 are taking part u.s. military initially denied reports of the protest now says that only thirty seven prisoners are involved most of the inmates there have been cleared for release but the government is still keeping them behind bars one tasa state is committed to shutting down the prison the pentagon says it's also set for fifty million dollars renovation and some depend on the oil for one of the hunger strikers told artie's kevin knowing what she saw. 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 pain and he also said that he had not eaten since february sixth so he was one of the initial hunger strikers and he was in a terribly bad state when i saw you so you can confirm one of you is a hearing i was told where there is a media when we're talking about some of these guys being close to death this is what you've actually seen with your own. 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 may be by the time they come to 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 of 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're 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

a sense 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 the 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. for the hunger strike caused hundreds to stage a sit in in front of the u.s. embassy in kuwait but this is expressed outrage at the lack of action by kuwait's government to condemn the treatment of two of its nationals who've been housed at the notorious prison for more than a decade one of the inmates has been charged with war crimes but his attorneys say

the vote it was mostly based on his say we want another kuwaiti prisoner times one held without charge. or pushing for talks with the taliban in kabul looks to negotiate with insurgents and the terror in afghanistan by militants to refuse to talk to present cause i'm not sure place. also. ahead ready to take your seats in the space observatory on the surface of the moon to tell you more about russia's plans for earth's closest neighbor.

the group of international airport in the very heart of moscow. about the program. cyprus comes to terms with severe e.u.

bailout cash controls millions of euros are alleged to have been spirited out of the country just days before the u.s. group proposed a punishing levy on bank deposits well that's what a local newspaper is claiming a point to the finger at a company they took to present this firm by the separately to sunny's or reportedly transferred twenty one million euros to banks in the u.k. . ok over the company criticize the article as a malicious attempt to politicize the just economic activities while the president says the claims should be investigated brought comes a separate struggle to get their money out of the banks and unprecedented restrictions these restrictions include daily cash withdrawals limited to three hundred euros per person per bank no checks can be passed cashed by anyone i should say and payments in transfers outside cyprus are limited to five thousand euros a month per person and those traveling abroad can take more than one thousand euros with them when r.t.

spoke to wolfgang former chancellor of austria he says there are serious troubles were looming large but nothing was done to avert. any countries here a point 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 to balances of pain compared to the cheap piece of eight times more that is absolutely unsustainable and ever but if you would within the european union people where were the the mass media newspapers where all the time complaining 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 the size of the financial sector i mean this is you cannot have a huge financial sectors or judy banks. and there you can watch the full interview

with wolf later today at eight hundred forty five g.m.t. . on the chaotic situation surrounding the cyprus bailout is once again on the flaws in europe's financial system and it's not the first hole the e.u. is trying to patch struggling to find the way out of a cash crisis later today people are burned his panel of guests debate how western finances of managed to fall into an abyss. this is capitalism there's been around for a while i mean the the bailouts of two thousand and eight follow on from the earlier bailout in one thousand nine hundred five of the goldman sachs. that was of those 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 have the same situation which is that the bankers they 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 where's 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 back or 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 if 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 be very interesting nearly right on the way around what is the other way around for even if you know there's one round isn't it the other way around these banks these people

could not pay. and you can watch people of those debates show in full hearing r.t. next hour. the afghan government says it will push for peace talks with the taliban for foreign troops withdraw at the end of twenty fourteen the statement came during president karzai trip to qatar but earlier the afghan leader said the greatest threat to the country is not the taliban but interference by foreign state years of stalled discussions with the us afghanistan and the taliban one of america's offensive in the country and combating terrorism taliban recently announced it's ready to enter politics as open office and washington welcome the move of the taliban has so far refused to talk to president karzai describing him as an american puppet security analyst that you can think reeves that the wrangling between america 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. i mean cities with. under president tend to 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. well just ahead for you we report from germany on the growing displeasure there coughing up cash to support others also a room with a view russian scientists promise a moon base observatory in the very near future stay with us.

today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. corp through. the europe's financial troubles dragging on that germany is seen as the economic john that's keeping the eurozone afloat and having to pay to help struggling countries so so still can the burden of the sort of diety tax introduced after reunification with the country's east. found out is making many germans feel far from well off. over the past twenty years they have germany have received billions in taxpayer money to help with development after unification but now both paying the taxes here in the western part of germany say they think of paying

pretty much for too long. 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 better than here it's time this test was scrapped. it's been twenty years too long now working people live here in worse conditions so that we can 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 both 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 contributed 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 flow 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. voters look now in the east it looks much better 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. what are you find the latest news and updates r.t. dot com including the world's top currency may soon have a rival in the book on the reserve currency the dollar may be falling from grace and little known digital bit coy goes up by that story online plus. some states in america consider grabbing benefits from those on welfare if they test positive for illegal drugs or had to watch the dot com. now to some other news making headlines around the world. at least five people are reported to have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in the north eastern iraqi town of tikrit no group has yet claimed responsibility for the bombing which targeted local police headquarters it

is the former home town of saddam hussein has been the focus of the attacks since the beginning of the u.s. invasion in two thousand and three. united states sent f. twenty two stealth fighter jets to military base in south korea as a joint ongoing military drills between the two countries which north korea claims are escalating the students in the region at the same time south korean authorities warn that they will not shy away from a preemptive strike if they believe in north korea attack is imminent. the state of war between the two countries on saturday just weeks of carrying out underground nuclear tests. political satirists. was met by mobs of supporters of being granted playing on sunday three cases have been lodged against him for broadcasting writing criticism or present musi on just moves on to be egyptian authorities recently instigated

a campaign to crackdown on dissent in the country have been issued for five prominent members of the opposition after protests in front of the muslim brotherhood headquarters in march. and rebels who overran the central african republic capital of benghazi. last about name the caretaker government leader michel djotodia will head the new administration while nine members of the former opposition remain in place rejections for twenty sixteen fighting escalated in january after the collapse of a power sharing deal between ousted president was a m rebel group. we 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 near future. reports now from somewhere in the outer limits. almost half a century since neil armstrong's giant steps 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 announce the launch or rather 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 claims will be the construction of an observatory on the moon experts believe earth 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 observe it henri and the lab may soon be followed by a helium mining shaft 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 the song but a real human holiday option. top stories stories stay with us. live. play live.

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hello welcome to the r t sports show with me kate partridge and here's a taste of what's coming up. on the raw is defending champions a need we tell extreme male to go second in the russian premier li. while finding their form fabio capello makes it eight games on the beat and in charge of russia for a one one draw with brazil. and all russian courts to scout bees round madrid to say top of their group but could face neighbors him in the euro league playoffs. but let's kick off with the russian premier league and the currently unassailable at the top the focus is on the chasing pack as defending champions an eight one three military to go second with eight games to go because of time but off reports. side terek were banned from playing at home.