protests across the us at times to shed light on the desperate hunger strike among one time would you do you need to take on a wider scale. cyprus is predicted to tumble down the path of greece as the bailout price tag of doubles in just two weeks that spurred by elizabeth why did money that's why but i'm in the financial parenti. could tell is splashing with cash abroad to find billions of dollars in egyptian government bonds and investing in europe's real estate and what's been seen as a bid to buy international influence. and from a brand new space all from scratch to hotels on the moon we will tell you about russia's space agendum as a country malta fifty two years since you regarding the first manned flight into orbit.

where when you are in the world are you watching r t with me on with a it's good to have you with us from east coast to west to more than two dozen u.s. cities have been protests against america's infamous jail for terror suspects activists demanded the closure of guantanamo and try to draw attention to the mess hunger strike against far reaching mistreatment theme parties marina blood night 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 our brands 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 they're calling on the obama to 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 they detainees there say that the u.s. officials mishandled that their korans during a cell search and that's what sparked this ongoing hunger strike according to the u.s. u.s. military officials they say only forty one men have been on a hunger strike and at least alleged that are being force fed they say nobody's lives are in danger but that is not what lawyers are telling our team 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 officer where he is 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 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 they're not being tried as a problem last week organizations including the center for constitutional rights advocacy 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 but ngukurr who's a lawyer for one of the guantanamo detainees told us that had tempted to get the u.s. government more involved in solving the crisis at the prison have got no way. it's

interesting we wrote a letter to the secretary people. regarding hunger strike and are concerned as more you're about home. and we got a response from william weitz our secretary of legal which indicated to us that. u.s. is going to do the main thing it means alive and it seems that what we know has to mean for someone. and. the international red cross now is also yours for see this could be a turning point he is the man and. do other measures to keep them alive then see you at this point provide them the respect the process respect their religion and respect the qur'an searching talk to them about what it is that it's

to me and the right to them alive. has been keeping a close eye on the hunger strike at one time the most since the day it began we've been gathering opinion from lawyers and human rights activists and they were lined up for you in a special section at our teens dot com. averting default and rescuing slime prince is back on top of the e.u. to do list and will be tackled at a meeting of the blocks finance ministers on friday the ruth graham with revelation that nickel c.l. will need billions more than a really thought still partly under financial quarantine it's now up to the islands of fourteen's to come up with thirteen billion euros which is twice as much as just a few weeks ago officially the rise is due to delays in getting a bailout deal but there's speculation that billions leaked out of from shot to banks are both illegally and through loopholes that may be the least of the eans

worries them in comparison to the president of that incentives artie's tassel syria . 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 cyprus of blows 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 of minds from protesters for the past few days it's just a few meters from parliament which is just over here but people's argue voices did little to change the inevitable painful outcome for the country the general view

being communicated from here in brussels is that a 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 hard under a rock if you're in a country like savina for example or any other up. one of those countries that might get into a crisis you know might repeat a crisis they're going to see what happened in cyprus they're 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 deposits below one hundred thousand euros are sacred but a separate example has already sewn seeds of fear i would be trying to single cent i have from europe because the president has been sent on mars and i'm afraid that

this will happen in greece afraid not for my future but for my children's future of my i don't know i hope it won't happen here but with your authorities we have it's absolutely possible but some argue that the final decision on cyprus may not have been all bad letting banks fail which by the way was fundamentally a good decision if you have losses i think it's fair to the people of all 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 are also now 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 fall for cypriots they now know all too well how hard it is when it's your dominoes turn to fall does our sylvia our t. brussels. five years on from virtual bankruptcy icelandic is quickly becoming the northern hemisphere has come back king the island nations the banking sector collapse spectacularly in two thousand and eight with taxpayers making it clear they weren't about to pick up the tab is going to look said where that leaves the country house and take a hit on though not a member of the eurozone or the european union for years iceland was considered the most effective now liberal free market economy in europe that was until its bankruptcy in two thousand and eight foreign debt spiked banks closed down the national currency plummeted the world bank european union and the international

monetary fund also known as the troika demanded that iceland pay 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 around ninety percent. 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 health or more earlier i spoke to a professor of political science and one of the people who took part in the

revision of iceland skies dusun the european union was insisting to the icelandic state the icelandic taxpayers were responsible for the debt of private banks in the end the case went to an international court now the after court found that iceland was in the right not iceland was not responsible for this payments and refused the claims of the sun to put its roots they hard initially forced about the current relations between iceland and the rest of europe are you guys still friends they claim but iceland would basically be thrust down the toilet and would not be able to sort of a young murder son equal partner in europe but that tires will force us iceland's relationship to you if you don't burn the outside world not of my life stunt international investors are coming back to that count three and i think so

have stabilized quite a lot the only thing to add here is sure there is lots of information on this story in blogs and social networks but you want to find it in mainstream media why perhaps to avoid giving ideas to anyone else under pressure. alone bells ringing at the white house as the pentagon the warns of north korea may have nuclear missiles meanwhile poing yang is now threatening and you can tack on tokyo if it carries out its warnings to intercept a potential north korean missile test when we come back we hear about what's driving this standoff. i would like. to know the silence. invisible. every day is

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thank you for staying with us you're watching our team is expanding its financial presence abroad buying up for a mass is worth tens of billions of dollars the struggling european and arab economies may welcome the investment but some experts question whether it's about good business or building up global influence his belt on the way qatar as money is going. 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 and 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 but they are investing in they have apparently a gifted three hundred million euro a fund to underdeveloped areas all fronts including in the tourist 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 the tickler 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 constanza deliberate move. we've increased our political influence abroad in addition to possibly exporting its own particular conservative brand of islam and his investment to increase year on year it is yet to be seen what power this tiny yet super wealthy emirates will wield in the future. international affairs journalist neil clark believes qatar is trying to shield the leg of democracy within its own borders by claiming to supported a broad. what the charge is it's using its vast wealth actually to pursue a political agenda and this is the boring state because in the middle east. a

leading role in trying to undermine and bring down regimes in the region each claiming to be a great supporter of the arab spring a bit of democracy with israel disconnected because qatar itself is only a democracy people criticise syria and say well you have the same coming to us we have the same hoody family guitar for one 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 that. washington is trying to downplay a classified bad mistakingly publicized report you are saying is that north korea already has nuclear capable miss south but the report is 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 and i was wearing a nuclear attack on terms here in the event of war you know as though south korean and japanese warships in turn have surrounded the north and territorial waters president obama had earlier personally called on pyongyang to end its a belly constantine but r.t. contributor actions are tons and 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 warfare 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 wm d. the united states is ramping up its military facilities in southeast asia and obviously for seeing that china will become a superpower and all the time kim jong un has repeatedly said and he said one month ago we don't want war we want to talk we just think of it the other way around north korea was putting me it was nuclear capable still planes just beside the united states we had previously killed twenty percent of united states population. and the north korea is afraid of united states. but barbarism as it has been historically against that country. there's more coverage and analysis of what's happening in the region that are. not well you know there wasn't you know going to

our website at all to dot com and tell us what you think is actually driving the koreas tension here's what you're saying already on the poll why did five percent of you say fall believe that the u. was planning to keep the age on the stories that it's just making sure the data is just alive and well and it's taking a load nineteen percent of you think that the brinksmanship that will lead to conflict that this is on the brink of conflict seventy percent of you thinking jones attempt to bruce paul is on pala base while fourteen percent of you believe that north korea is absolutes to secure more aid hence the tension so why don't you go to our tea dot com and cost you a vote on the poll and tell us what you think. russia

is celebrating cosmonaut takes day marking before as men fly into orbit by you to go guerin in one thousand nine hundred sixty one and fifty two years later the country still has a big space agenda from building a space port from scratch to reviving the moon program the details from alexia to shift ski. this snow 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 give us 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 draw me is much more convenient than 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 there will not be falling into the ground or more likely be falling into the ocean of course there will be some disadvantages when the cosmodrome is finished it's completed for instance the transportation off of 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 cosmodrome 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 the soviet union lost its race to conquer the moon russia's really

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. and habitable 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 would know for sure that these space ships will be launched from here from the russian far east. well those who are add to the forefront of today's a space missions have been getting some top level congratulations from president vladimir putin while others in the of us trust me cosmodrome and russians why easy promise the new spaceport will make the job of the i assess crazy easier.

and i see you want to try crushers a space history check out the gallery on our website to pioneering moments of caught on camera and our team dot com. why not nice every month in that scrutinises the overwhelming power and reach of america's media and political establishment in making this that. 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 started to get a bit old and according to infrastructure port org the us 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 bridges and drinking water and 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 bailout 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 rocket 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. choose your language kelly make of it oh if you're going to say sell some of the. treatments to the consensus you can. choose the opinions that you think great to. choose the stories that entire life choose to access to often. simply. to see. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month so food i should try it because you know how fabulous and lucky i got so

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