multiple protests across the u.s. attempts to shed light on the desperate hunger strike among guantanamo detainees takes on a wider scope. so i fear it is predicted to tumble down the path of greece is its price tag doubled in just weeks and this is flight of money despite the island's financial warranting. cattle are it splashing the cash abroad buying billions of dollars in government bonds and investing in new real estate what's being seen as a bid to buy international influence. and from a brand new spaceport from scratch the hotels on the moon we tell you about russia's space agenda as the country marks fifty two years since your first manned flight and all the.

welcome you watching are saying with me andrey far. from east coast to west more than two dozen u.s. citizens have seen protests against america's infamous jail for terror suspects activists demanded the closure of guantanamo and try to draw attention to the mass hunger strike against far reaching mistreatment their artie's marie and marina portnoy is in new york where one of the rallies has been taking place. times square is considered one of the best places in the us to advertise a product or message or operands and that is why civil rights attorneys human rights groups and many activists and protesters are out in the streets of times square right now to raise awareness about the hunger strike taking place at the guantanamo bay detention center and it is clearly garnering a lot of attention to what those are saying that have been turning out on the streets as they're calling on the obama didn't administration to immediately address the ongoing hunger strike that began in early february at the island prison

according to attorneys representing the detainees there they say more than a hundred men are participating in this hunger strike they say it began when when the detainees there say that the u.s. officials mishandled that their plans during a cell search and not say what sparked this ongoing hunger strike according to a u.s. u.s. military officials they say only forty one men have been on a hunger strike and at least a lead that are being force that they say nobody's lives are in danger but that is not what lawyers are telling our take a listen i saw men who have dramatically lost weight the people that i met with had lost over thirty and forty pounds what they told me is about men who are too weak to come out of the prison they told me of men who are skeletal that's the word they used who are near death who are so weak they can't move they told me about pressure

tactics right now within the camp by the authorities to try to break the strike things like withholding the delivery of clean drinking water these are people who have been refusing food for over sixty days they need water to survive or they will die and they talked about tactics like the withholding of bottled water to drink and being. forced to drink from the sinks in their cells which are attached to trial it's now this new york rally is part of a nationwide day of action to close guantanamo and end indefinite detention protests are also taking place in over twenty six cities including chicago l.a. and washington d.c. i think that anything to show mamma or the government that this is wrong and that people don't support it is a good thing i don't think is a legitimate. vehicle for for for trying these people i mean because

it is a problem last week organizations including the center for constitutional rights amnesty international and the united nations called on washington to immediately shut down the guantanamo detention center the u.n. secu minorites chief released a statement saying that america's failure to close the controversial prison and release detainees is a violation of international law currently there are one hundred sixty six prisoners being held at the island prison and at least eighty six have been cleared for release reporting from new york marina r.t. cindy who's a lawyer for one of the guantanamo detainees told us that her attempts to get the u.s. government more involved in solving the crisis at the prison. it's interesting we wrote a letter to secretary hazel. regarding hunger strike in our. molitor

about the health of the team and we got a response from william leads our secretary hagel which indicated to us that the. u.s. is going to continue to do the humane thing it seems alive and it seems that with a humane or somewhere. and the fact the international red cross also here is condemning or. this could be a turning point or see the men. you either take other measures keep them alive then you have to at this point provide them the respect the process or respect their religion respect the qur'an searches talk to them about what it is that is going to end the strike keep them alive. he has been keeping a close eye on the hunger strike at guantanamo since the day it began we've been

gathering opinion from lawyers on human rights activists in iowa lined up for you in a special section still cold. i. i . i. i i i i i i i i. averting default and rescuing cyprus is back on top of the to do list and will be tackled at a meeting of the blocks finance ministers on friday the mood is grim that would revelations nicosia will need billions more than originally thought still part and partly under financial quarantine it's now up to the island's authorities to come up with thirteen billion euros which is twice as much as just a few weeks ago officially rises juge delays in getting

a bailout deal but the speculation that billions leaked out from shattered banks both illegally and through loopholes that may be the least of the worries though in comparison to the president it's been said is artie's tessa's. it dominated headlines for much of two weeks a year reserved nation on the brink of bankruptcy the banks were closed cash rationed and capital controls put in place cyphers of those heavy losses which could rise to up to sixty percent on wealthier depositors in order to clinch a ten billion euro e.u. i.m.f. bailout last month it had however initially planned to would reduce a levy on deposits of less than one hundred thousand euros supposedly protected by state guarantees before backtracking in the face of widespread protests this has been a meeting that was protesters for the past few days it's just

a few meters from parliament which is just over there but people's added voices did little to change the inevitable painful outcome for the country the general. view being communicated from here in brussels is that the cyprus is unique and the measures imposed on the country as part of that bailout package will not be used as a template for other troubled euro zone nations but not everyone is convinced the president has been set up and unless you've been hiding under a rock if you're in a country like savina for example or any of the other one of those countries that might get into a crisis you know might repeat a crisis of going to see what happened in cyprus and going to pull their money and that could cause a vicious circle in fact a new e.u. law is already being drawn up where first shareholders would take a hit if a bank fails and then possibly unprotected investments and deposits case in point is cyprus officials insist that the posits below one hundred thousand euros are sacred but

a separate example has already sown seeds of fear i would be trying to single cent i have from europe because the president has been sent here to limit the good works and i'm afraid that this will happen in greece afraid not for my future but for my children's. hope it will not use me but with you authorities we have it's absolutely possible but some argue that the final decision on cyprus may not have been all that letting banks fail which by the way was fundamentally a good decision if you have losses i think it's fair to the people on the thousands who have opposed to their money who have gained a lot more than people who send their money to other banks in other places of europe. that these people who have taken the risk also know taking the losses and after all that said and done some say what's more problematic is the inevitability

of another cyprus debacle if the underlying problem of unsustainable public and trade deficits are not tackled at the core europe and america a bleeding. to death and they're not doing anything about it they must go bust so unless they turn around there's no sign they're going to then the dominoes must form for cypriots they now know all too well how hard it is when it's your dominoes turn to fall does our sylvia our tea brussels well five years on from virtual bankruptcy iceland is quickly becoming the northern hemisphere come back again the island nation's banking sector collapse spectacularly in two thousand and eight with tax pays making it clear they weren't about to pick up the tab hugo piece kind of looks where that's left the country half a decade on. though not a member of the eurozone or the european union for years iceland was considered the most effective from the liberal free market economy in europe that was until its

bankruptcy in two thousand and eight foreign debt spiked banks closed down and the national currency plummeted the walled bank european union and the international monetary fund also known as the troika demanded that iceland be up at the time it meant every citizen would have to pay one hundred euros per month for the next fifteen years to cover the debt of private bankers nationwide protests erupted sounds familiar except unlike in cyprus greece portugal and others these protests made iceland's president reject the troika's demands and the trio went while threatening isolation and sanctions even raising comparisons with cuba which rekick stood its ground at a nationwide referendum and around ninety percent voted not to be the debt in fact they went even further starting criminal investigations into why so much money was old even jailed some of the country's top bankers and while they were added ordinary citizens rewrote the constitution which now obliges the government to keep all work in the public eye unless it's

a matter of national security of course now for more earlier i spoke to a professor of political science and one of the people who took part in the revision of iceland. the european union was shouldn't. be icelandic state the icelandic taxpayers were responsible for that of private banks in the end that case went to an international court now the after court found that iceland was in the right not iceland was not responsible for this immense and refused the claims of the standard but its roots they hard initially forced about the current relations between iceland and the rest of europe are you guys still friends they claim that iceland basically be flushed down the toilet and would not be able to. sort of. equal in europe but that group falls relationship if you don't. normalize.

international investors are coming back to that country. thanks i've stabilized quite a lot the only thing to add here is sure there's lots of information on this story in blogs and social networks what you want to find it in mainstream media why perhaps to avoid giving ideas to anyone else under pressure as a warning that an increasing number of brits can i long to take the basics in their life for granted surely we here have expected charity believes one in three people are just a paycheck away from losing the roof over their heads. and the american warships thing towards the korean peninsula president obama calls for an end to north korea's bellicosity we hear about what is driving the standoff in a few minutes time.

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welcome back is expanding its financial presence abroad buying up foreign assets with tens of billions of dollars struggling euro pain and arab economies may welcome the investment but some experts question whether it's good business building up global influence is bell true where the money is guy. as egypt's president mohamed morsi is struggling to mend the egyptian economy it's on i can't tell one of the richest countries in the world has said that it will buy three billion dollars worth of education government bonds much needed help at a critical time egypt is also suffering from a natural gas shortage at the moment causing blackouts across the capital the khatami foreign minister said last week they would also consider becoming one of the major suppliers to egypt that sickly as they have the third largest natural gas

resin reserves in the world as the battle rages in syria the qatari government is also saying they will support the rebels they have given one hundred million dollars to the notch then the syrian national coalition is saying they want the rebels to be armed however they extend that and their interests outside of egypt and the arab world building a global empire they have reportedly been invested in many countries including the u.k. the u.s. france singapore malaysia iraq just to name a few in dition qatar has been diversifying its areas of interest investing in many sectors including the media fashion petrochemicals and india and indeed financial institutions however the real push off for the super wealthy but tiny emirates appears to be front surprisingly they have a favored real estate in the french riviera as well as paris buying up several

casinos now it is not just luxury property that they are investing in they have apparently a gifted three hundred million euro a fund to underdeveloped areas of fronts including the notorious suburbs which house key french muslim communities this guitar officials say is all part of a global strategy to ensure that investment revenues exceed that of oil and gas by twenty thirty particularly as their reserves are looking to run out in the next hundred years however many fear this aggressive expansion of its economic presence abroad is in fact consuls a deliberate move to. increase their political influence abroad in addition to possibly exporting its own particular conservative brand of islam as its investments are increasing year on year it is yet to be seen what power this tiny yet super wealthy emirates will wield in the future but international affairs journalist neil clark believes qatar is trying to shield the lack of democracy within its own borders by claiming to support it abroad. what qatar is doing is

it's using its vast wealth actually to pursue a political agenda and this is the warring state it because in the middle east. played a leading role in trying to undermine and bring down regimes in the region. which claimed to be a great support of the arab spring a lot of democracy and there's a real disconnect here because qatar itself is only a democracy people criticise syria and say well you have the same ruling family for forty years we have the same hooting family guitar hero but hundred fifty years and what qatar is trying to pursue is a critical agenda which is put a sort of form of islam around the region its own sort of agenda and this is the worrying thing because there's no democratic mandate for this and i think we see this quite clearly in syria where qatar has been one of the most prominent countries in offering support to the rebels and the islamist groups there. the u.s. government's been left red faced over a black flood admitting that the all spill that target store town is much bigger

than they originally said it was the photo and all the details are online also there's a big point in the road online currency out of regulators reach is taking a big hit in value to find out why investors are sticking with the financial phenomenon that are taking dot com. washington's trying to downplay a classified but mistakenly publicized report which states that north korea already has nuclear capable missiles but the report sanctioned by the pentagon brings into question the reliability of any such weapons north korea's missile forces have also been observed to be increasingly active these past few weeks u.s. south korean and japanese warships in and have surrounded the north the north territorial waters president obama i did earlier personally call on pyongyang to end its bellicosity but r.t. contributor afshin rattansi says the reclusive state has good reason to beef up its security. john kerry the united states government. spreading all this fear

now and we must remember that it was the united states who sought to bring stealth fighters in guam just destroying the six party talks and also just remember the context of the united states in the fifty's killed twenty percent of korea's population twenty first century has proven time and time again that nuclear weapons perhaps are ones only deterrent against united states and nato posturing nature war of course iraq afghanistan because libya and libya will hang in the imaginations of many developing world leaders because it proved because it was good after he got rid of his nuclear weapon program people are going to want w m d the united states is ramping up its military facilities in southeast asia and obviously it's foreseen that china will become a super power and all the time kim jong un has repeatedly said i mean he said one month ago we don't want war we want to talk we just think of it the other way

around if north korea with putting new nuclear capable still planes just beside the united states in a previously killed twenty percent of united states population. we can see what i can draw in north korea is afraid of united states. barbarism as it has been historically against our country. one in three britons are in serious danger of losing their roof over their heads the u.k.'s leading homelessness charity shelter says that's the number of people who don't have enough money to keep their highnesses for more than a month if they lose their job and families with children are most at risk explains . the statistics laid out here. a worrying picture about so many britons who have either little or absolutely no savings for a rainy day and of course the very worrying and dangerous implication here is the potential increase in homelessness that this could result in we've seen over

rosters mean welfare cuts come in this april they're slowly being rolled out the controversial bedroom tax is among them but very sadly the number of homeless people was rising in britain even before the cuts came in we travelled up to birmingham recently in order to film a story about homelessness there and what really struck me was the number of very ordinary hard working people that had ended up on the streets after having a roof over their heads so joining me to talk about this today is andrew sarris from a charity called regiment of life international is it really that they're in the line between having a varies over your head and winding up homeless on the streets. i think your most about two to three months away from losing your house the mortgage companies want their house back if you new release there's a lot of people know coming to our charity rhythms of life food banks we know going to be homeless for it shortly. hardly any money in their banks little bit of food

that's very expensive now the food is going to expensive i found myself in a similar situation many years ago that particular time there weren't many people help in this either. having business expanding the business and having maybe said modestly large property. and myself the interests were rising through the roof you do talk about eighteen percent interest at the time if one thing goes everything goes there's nothing held back there's no difference yet you can different if the council homeowner or private homeowner if you can pay the money that if you lose it you end up on the street and a lot of people nowadays or at the moment are raising concerns. over this raft of new welfare cuts that are coming in saying that this could lead to a potential increase in homelessness do you anticipate such an increase over the course of the year we don't just anticipate it we see it every day we see it at the moment people are coming in and they've lost their homes already because of the cuts because they lost even the flats they were renting the. women are pregnant we

have kids who are the single mothers with the children who come to us for food at the moment and put vice to say that look we've lost is what do we where do we go from here and what do you do what do you tell a young mother would you tell a young couple with children to say look i'm sorry but this is the best we can do for you we can only refer them to somebody else there you have it as we've just heard where the welfare cuts are really just being rolled out a lot of campaigners and charities anticipate a very sad increase in the number of homeless people in the u.k. now russia is celebrating cosmonaut it stated a marking the first manned flight into orbit by europe guarin nine hundred sixty one and fifty two years later the country still has a big space agenda from building a spaceport from scratch to reviving the moon program the details now from. this now only looks like

a pit dug in the middle of nowhere but in just two years time this will become one of russia's top priority facilities tucked away deep in the tiger forest in the russian far east this is the construction site of russia's brand new spaceport the an ambitious project worth ten billion dollars it will become the main and the sole launching pad of all russia's manned space ships starting from the year twenty eighteen but the first test launches are expected to start in just two years time and will replace in many ways the baikonur cosmodrome which certainly belongs to kazakhstan and the geographic location of the drum is much more convenient. baikonur it's understood that when a space ships to take off some parts disconnect from the vessels and fall into the ground in this case they will not be falling into the ground or more likely be falling into the ocean of course there will be some disadvantages when the cost of a drawn is finished is completed but for instance the transportation off rockets

from the more school region to the far east will take twice as longer than it was to the baikonur in many ways even the construction even the idea of building this in the russian far east is already a major breakthrough for the russian space industry but probably the most crucial significance of this brand new cosmodrome is that it will take an integral part in russia's lunar program almost half a century since soviet union lost its race to conquer the moon russia's real willing to relaunch the lunar program we understand that by the year twenty thirty a manned space ship will fly to the moon circle its orbit and possibly even choose a site for building an observatory on the lunar surface which may soon be followed by other facilities like helium five mining shafts and even possibly possibly hotels if the scientists find the lunar surface. inhabitable by humans so

definitely an interesting spin to that story but of course we have to wait until the year twenty thirty to see whether russia's lunar program can be successful but we know for sure that the these space ships will be launched from here from the russian far east and if you want to track russia's space history check out the gallery on our website pioneering moments caught on camera there at dot com. more space adventures to come as we visit the russian community stunned by a massive meteor that crashed near the city challenge bins in february that's coming up in a couple of me. with oil pipes bursting in arkansas people across the usa start to realize that they are moving towards what the atlantic calls the infrastructure cliff in short america's infrastructure starting to get

a bit old and according to infrastructure port org the u.s. needs about three point six trillion dollars of infrastructure spending by twenty twenty to turn things around the site sponsored by the american society of civil engineers gave all aspects of american infrastructure like bridges and drinking water in schools cetera some pretty bad grades except for solid waste removal for some reason in their opinion everything in the us is going to crap except for america's ability to throw solid crap away i'm not trying to sit here and scare you there is nothing to fear this is a big challenge but it is a very possible one to accomplish according to cost of war dot org the last ten years of war of cost about three point one trillion dollars just cutting wars in half by fifty percent could put a huge dent in the infrastructure spending and what about all those billions in bail us that were spent you see the money is there it just gets wasted if the money stops getting thrown away and start getting spent a well planned infrastructure then the infrastructure will start paying for itself rock'n infrastructure creates wealth so don't fear the infrastructure cliff just

stop wasting money or allowed politicians to waste money and everything will turn out to be just fine but that's just my opinion. wealthy british style it's time to. go. margetts why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports. you.