the american rebel or u.s. army veterans charged with fighting alongside syrian terrorists even as washington continues to support the uprising the. tip dog to be the tax man it's claimed well the account holders and five group managed to avoid street capital controls and grab the cash before the plan to flood sixty percent of the mine. and the united states rushes up tensions on the korean peninsula by sending f. twenty two fighter jets to be used in more drills the school while the north it's boredom itself up to declaring a state of war. it's five pm here in the russian capital you live with us on r.t.

with me to on with day it's good to have your company this easter monday. of all my u.s. soldier faces life in prison for fighting alongside islamic extremists in syria the f.b.i. has charged eric karuna with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction but although the u.s. considers the group of the four for the front to be terrorist washington continues to beef up its support for the syrian insurgency as archie's granted she can reports. a u.s. army veteran eric karun posted the speed online while fighting with the rebels in syria she shot a. just so much of the south america room has joined the kind of linked group gentleness for the only rebel group in syria that the u.s. has that ignited this terrorists while in syria eric actively posted photos and videos of himself holding various weapons bragging about the rebels latest attacks and calling himself a freedom fighter who shows 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 every karun 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 specker a leading expert on terror psychology on why westerners end up in the ranks of terrorists you know 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 and they really believe that they're fighting for freedom but they get there and it's a chaotic situation. may be looking affected and once you're in a chaotic war torn environment your emotions are heightened here scared and you may just affiliate with a group that you might not otherwise have. the official message that these are freedom fighters and they need to be helped in some way it just confuses them even more 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 wants to go and how. are we to blame them. but then when they get over there if they 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 us media has found freedom fund featuring stories with the likes of mass event 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 syrians to have freedom as 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 a terrorist and 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. lawyers representing gun time obey detainees as they several of their clients as lives are now in danger as them as hunger strike at the camp the two month mark that the u.s. military continues to deny reports that more than one hundred captives. starving themselves officials claim only thirty seven detainees are refusing all suit and their eleven are being force fed inmates along with a hunger strike to draw attention to their prolonged to tame and without trial and inhumane treatment including intrusive searches what also says that it's committed to shutting down the prison but the military says congress has decided to keep guantanamo open indefinitely my colleague and i wouldn't speak with lawyer cindy put newco who recently visited her client at the notorious facility. i met with him

for 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 when our viewers are hearing i was told where there's a media when we're talking about some of these guys being close to death this is what you've actually seen with your. 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 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 and this is pretty good ship 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 strikers might begin to back off is the government going to do anything what's going to merck's. well you know the 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 prepared 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 and two 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 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 are 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. here are to you we're bringing you the full story of the hunger strike a gun and it's you that the mainstream media prefers to ignore when god intervenes and that is isn't the up to date reports on our web site at out dot com.

not everyone in cyprus is having their money held in threats of its claimed wealthy clients a way to often for the announcement that up to sixty percent of their cash would be tapped millions of euros not believed to have been transferred from the country while the shuttles came down for everyone else. full of the savers in order to prevent a run of the banks the government's a limited. among other things day because withdrawals and money transfers outside cyprus massive amounts of capital have still reportedly found their way out though the official investigation into the cycles will now be widened to look at who may have. the political economy with us and that he has said the fondness says that people from us in the eurozone has awakened and undermine. it is true the we have seen the reports about the. copy that allowed flows that would be food investigation but in addition to the economy crises already cyprus is having major political crises as well the credibility of the system is

a very low level at this point some political parties are trying to take advantage at the same time it is true that there have been acts that have made people very suspicious kids have shadows of the universal in diffuser view of the troika and these policies certainly we make good recession into depression was not a bailout it was a collective punishment deal the amount of money that cyprus required to come out loud a more gradual approach to addressing the economic structural problems we did what we did these policies not only disapprove financial system has suffered a serious blow but the economy as well and i have no doubt that these we have all shown to follow the fact all day you do not see gold already you know people outside cyprus out of india gauging confidence in the euro and the universe has

declined and i don't think that this will be the end of it. later today you can watch archie's interview with former all strain chancellor wolfgang he believes the cyprus could have avoided its quizes but failed to take. any country see a real point in the one voice europe point two percent of the g.d.p. of the eurozone but the problem was his eight times more turnover were by him to be a balances of pain compared to be cheated peace or eight times more of this 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 such a huge financial sector as a jew which banks. and you can see the full interview here on r t s six forty five this evening chianti right to the temperatures are rising on the east in france i had a way of god the mall and how subquery a threatening to strike the north if the day is to a tad while the u.s. rushes up tensions why sending f. twenty two fighter jets to take part in the ongoing war games. and rumor on the moon of the deal the russians ambitious plans to make a habitable space observatory on its findings satellite that's in the couple of minutes. i mean sort should be the only city in europe on the hosts of the twenty four g.

in which are the pictures. thank you. so much. thank you. doug these. days it. comes. to the sun so.

the book about international and world in the very heart of moscow. thanks for staying with us here watching our team the military standoff on the korean peninsula is intensifying the united states has sent several f. twenty two still fighter jets to south korea to join military exercises the aim that's infuriated the northern which says it's now in a state of war with seoul along with the military drills over the border the regime in pyongyang has been angered by the latest round of u.n. sanctions over its nuclear test carried out in february the communist regime has put its missiles and is on standby and says it's ready to bombard the u.s. bases in the region south korea has warned it will retaliate quickly if the north lunches any attack on its territory journalists or independent journalist james

covered things that washington is trying to benefit financially from the volatile situation but is playing a dangerous game i think that the most likely scenario here would be some sort of the wonder or misinterpretation on one side or the other because everything is on the knife edge as as i've said before i think that really the all of the players here have a vested interest in keeping the tension up but not allowing it to spill your leverage and i think that obviously works for north korea which could be easily wiped out in a military confrontation but it also works for south korea and america and all of the allies here in this region that are that also serve to benefit from this and we've seen this directly for example with the announcement of more missile defense on the western coast of the united states that there are now going to be fourteen new ground based interceptors deployed at fort greely alaska at a cost u.s. taxpayers a one billion dollars by two thousand and seventeen so this is this is doing a fantastic business for the defense contractors who serve to to to feed into this

tension and play off of it so i don't i think that honestly there isn't a lot of plans for preemptive strikes at this moment i think it's more a question of if this will accidentally spill over into something more. and if you want to tell us what you think is behind the korean standoff head to our g dot com where we're looking at what you think so well most hope of those who voted blame the situation on the u.s. plane being it's trying to destabilize the region just longer a quarter of you believe it's down to kim jong all know who is trying to build a power base at home it's like if you think all this is just pyongyang's way up to managing aides and the minority expect the tension to spill over into an armed conflict or to dot com is where you can tell us what do you think.

it's april fool's day but attacks of the service come into force in the u.k. is no law offing met the so-called bedroom tax the social housing tenants have their benefits lead to it so they have a spare room at some other raft of welfare changes expected to affect tens of thousands of no income households discusses further we're joined by neil gibson from the show council to give said how many people could actually lose their homes with this new tax. well it's not a matter of how many people can lose their homes is the fact that two million households across the u.k. are going to be directly affected by these taxes they're the poorest people in this

country this government this tory government is attacking the poorest people on the people who can't afford to pay. so in other words to say that this tax will just continue to drive people into poverty absolutely it's unbelievable in a week the that this document is giving millionaires tens of thousands of pounds back intox they're imposing tax on the people who are the poorest in the society and the people who are paid most and they're not people are not working they're up most of these people affected are people who are working but in very low paid jobs and they need these benefits to help them survive and get by but some are saying that this could perhaps become a positive effect in some other way if you look at those who are not working this could make them it could give them that push to say stop taking advantage of the welfare system go out and find a job so you can help the country and help the economy. where i am in sheffield we

have hundreds of disabled people who are going to be directly affected by this sees people can't work they're physically disabled through no fault of their own they survive on benefits of very low benefits and not they're expected to have to pay for an extra room in their house that they need for their carers to stay in or they need to because they've got children that don't live with them or for whatever reason they're the people most affected seventy five percent of the people affected by this are working people there's a small number of people who aren't but most people affected by this are working families who don't earn enough money could those along the social you know could these cuts in the long term be fall more damaging then in this sort of time again for the national budget do you think i think is the most devastating thing this government has ever done in a scene the week that they're giving one hundred thousand pound. to millionaires they're changing the national health service or imposing taxes on the poorest people in the country is going to have a devastating effect to most people in this country we've seen that laws scale

protests across the u.k. in reaction to this as a sign of depots social unrest to come i think the country's coming to the realisation of what's going on in london that we have the most right wing vicious. poor government we've ever had in this country if we don't. it's nothing to cameron and clegg are there destroying the poorest people in this country they are so crushing the people who can least afford. to live are being crushed day after day after day by this government what do you think should be the next step for your country do you think you should go into new elections i mean you've said a pretty strong rhetoric there saying that this government is hard if inconsiderate it's worse than the moderates that a lot what do you want to see how and i personally hold nick clegg entirely to blame for this he misled the country he lied to the people of the country he told

them he would be restraining force on the tories instead of which he's gone along with every right wing nasty evil policy that they're imposing on the poorest people in this country the lib dems need to pull out of government they need to pull away from the tories then they need to call a general election but that can't happen because the government to fix it so they can't call a general expert for twenty fifth saying the best thing could happen is the liberal democrats pull of government and call a vote of no confidence in the tory party and bring that this government on and let the people of the country again decide which can't which government they want to govern them. neil gibson the consulate in sheffield council we feel your pain and we can only say good luck thank you very much. right in germany it looks like people are getting tired of handing out cash to help others only this time it's not about foreign bailouts it's over helping fellow germans two decades since reunification divisions remain when it comes to the prosperous where it's all been the once a struggling east spit all of our founder. over the past twenty years they have

germany have received billions in taxpayer money to help with development after reunification 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 let'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 connected and it's time this test was scrapped this has been twenty years too long now working people live in worse conditions so 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 contributed hundreds of billions of euros 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 float this money needs to be spent in the best interest of the german people today there are cities that need aid so. my generation can't be expected to pay for decisions made by the previous generation. voters look now in these statistics much better or just

go and have a look at how bad it is around here it's like a big star with the east has gone literally and 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 of the r.t. the region germany. what's the point of a defense system that condit defend red faces in israel as commanders of the fabled i cannot protect civilians we've got more on that on line. and what's next for we keep the condoms on to discover the whistleblowing sites next move we consider what they might be at our dot com. if you're bored with the bahamas so are tired of the tropics new holiday

destination could be on the horizon the moon russian scientists are planning a lunar space observatory in a robot research lab and that's just for starters it takes a trip into the potential future. 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 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

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know when the history of any culture there are some dark chapters throughout human history there's been war on every continent 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 supercool 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. more news today violence has once again flared up. and these are the images cold world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are all today.

down on the black sea coast of russia the city of sochi is busy preparing for the twenty fourteen winter olympic games construction is booming transport infrastructure is being completely revamped and disabled on such 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 on the warm seas busk if you're looking for more than just a time 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 off in the mountains.