one man trying to end a two month hunger strike. tit for tat russia releases a blacklist of americans banned from entering the country of alleged abuse of human rights the right response to america's so-called magnitsky list. that has weighed up picks its future by choosing between the. revolution or a free market champion polls open in less than twenty four hours. israel is accused of mistreating palestinian children held in jails after a teenager with u.s. citizenship was detained allegations of abuse all top stories this. hour from our new center here in this is r.t. with international news and comment twenty four hours

a day. have been that clashes between hunger striking prisoners and guards at guantanamo bay prison camp they were up to when officers started to forcibly move detainees from communal to single cells in an attempt to end the months long hunger protest over mistreatment and indefinite detention or he's going to bring us the details. this was apparently a pre-dawn operation that took place hours after the delegates of the international committee of the red cross left the island left guantanamo a statement released by the u.s. military says the guards at guantanamo have fired four rounds at prisoners from non-lethal weapons they say the detainees covered surveillance cameras windows and partitions to prevent the guards from observing them during the ongoing hunger strike the guards allegedly clashed with the detainees which military officials say led them to move the captives from communal to single cells the military says the detainees used improvised weapons to resist the transfer they say that's when the guards started shooting at the captives as if now we have one side of the story

that of the u.s. military very soon we'll hear from the lawyers of the detainees and what they have to say that is of course if they have by now managed to get in touch with their clients it's not clear if having moved them to single cells prison officials have also not imposed other restrictions on the prisoners so we don't know that guantanamo prisoners have been starving for more than two months now trying to bring public attention to their plight because they sense the administration would rather forget about them the state department closed the office that was working to transfer the remaining captives half of them have been cleared for release their attorneys are saying that the president has been doing all possible to stop the hunger strike they've been force feeding the strikers they were claims that they brought down the temperature in the cells to make it harder to endure the strike and now we hear that they put them in solitary confinement and shots of being fired . has drawn up a list of american suspected of having links to torture illegal wrists and the

abduction of russian citizens and banned them from entering its territory the move is a response to washington blocking russians which officials have dismissed as resolutely . about the standoff. russia has fired back but ultimately who's on the list and why did russia feel the need to publish it the first place right well and well it is really an exchange of a list of people that both countries suspected of violating human rights now fast the u.s. came up with the so-called magnitsky list about was a published late on friday and that it was russia's turn really and it responded with a similar measure here but if we take a closer look at russia's list and it consists of two parts here the fast one is devoted to those people responsible for human rights violations at one time a detention facility and then there is a second part and there it is devoted to those people responsible for numerous

human rights violations of those russian citizens abroad well you talk about these two lists here let's address a slightly smaller one is now being known as the guantanamo bay lift it's got four officials on it here we are here's one of them here david addington no formally of the george w. bush administration he was supposed to oversee various methods of torture going on in guantanamo bay join you also of the george w. bush administration he actually wrote some memos on methods of torture including sleep deprivation and of course the in from of waterboarding and using the word in from us let's go to geoffrey miller here this man oversaw one totem obeying cuba but also infamous abu ghraib prison in iraq of course that had amounts of scandals coming from that prison geoffrey robinson as well here's a man who was supposed to monitor human rights abuses them obey but all that was really triggered by the u.s. move and my colleague and as they see it in the new york now tells us what was really behind this whole situation and what law to these contra measures the obama

administration has released a list of russians to be blacklisted under the so-called magnitsky act despite moscow's calls not to put such a list together in the first place let alone publish it the list includes eighty nine. including sixteen judges and investigators in the united states accused of human rights abuses going to direct leak to the magnitsky case these individuals will be forbidden from getting a u.s. visa as well as have their assets frozen so they might need to keep was a russian lawyer who was arrested for tax evasion in two thousand and eight he died a year later while still in pretrial detention at the age of thirty seven since then the u.s. has eagerly been exploiting the circumstances of my death which president putin said was a tragedy moscow warned washington that its handling of the case was a domestic issue for russia and russia alone and that the americans must not interfere in responding to the so-called magnitsky list russia's prime minister dmitry in the fears of so the u.s. has the right to bar anyone from entering its territory by simply denying them

a visa so the purpose of this additional ban is unclear except for its symbolism russia's concerns that the release of the documents comes at a bad time apart from putting out a strain on u.s. russian relations it comes ahead of the visit of the u.s. national security advisor to moscow on monday well moscow is really mostly for a straight about is that all these russians on the list had never been under any investigation and it was never prove that they had links with human rights abuses but not on the last washington still without proving any of their guilt labels human rights violators. under pressure from the members of the united states going there's been a serious blow to relations and mutual trust between russia and the united states and we had to respond and react to the proportionality to interfere in our internal affairs but you know one of the points i find very curious is the fact that all

these lists there are no high ranking officials but from what i understand that could all change you're absolutely right here and now these lists are the shirt for a longer extended list both countries presides now there are reports that the. the u.s. secret list that has not been published yet even includes the name of the chechen leader thereof and russia in response says that it has its own extended version of the list so as you can see well a lot of a symmetrical moves here a lot of tit for tat as some might say but apart from just the the law being that these so-called black lists between moscow and washington and washington and moscow the two biggest boys on the block have also been trying to create laws that ultimately compound each other exactly well fast the u.s. introduced the new skill law and than it was followed by russia introducing a law that among other things banned u.s. citizens from adopting russian children and that adoption ban came after

a string of child abuse this cases by u.s. foster parents however non the less russia was still highly criticized for the adoption ban the you asked if russia does not give a chance for a better live to so many children but what's so interesting here is that rory do you know which are the countries that never ratified the most important document pro-tax children rice across the globe the u.n. convention on the rights of the child or what i understand why do you know the almost the entire united nations signed off and ratified this document but there were two left of the right to countries somalia and the united states some of the united states and in a culture about thank you there are voices within russia claiming the magnitsky list has sunk the children's from moscow and washington to reset diplomatic ties

and like to push coffees the head of the foreign affairs committee in the russian lower house of parliament believes president the bomber is trapped by an anti russian mood among american lawmakers. the irony of all of this is that to my mind president obama has become hostage to this list has become hostage to the anti russian elements in the us congress because basically obama needs a corporation was russia and is a corporation in korea it is a corporation on iran on so many other regional and global issues corp if he wants to make progress in the cuts. nuclear armaments and so on birds by having signed this law is like shooting oneself in the leg so i don't really see the rational for this from the point of your bomb administration which claims to be an administration that is paying attention to multilateralism to international partnerships well i can see by having enlarged the list the obama administration is

definitely narrowing very much the possibilities for such a partnership with russia. well on our website at the moment we're asking you where the rub between moscow and washington could possibly lead log on to r.t. dot com and vote on our on line poll it's there on our home page we'll let some of the results on the screen so far most of you forty six percent believe this will lead to even more tit for tat measures between moscow and washington twenty percent think this really won't affect the key political issues between the countries slightly smaller number believe the end is now come for any dialogue between the two seriously jeopardizing any resetting of diplomatic relations and we can also see that seventy percent believe that these measures will possibly escalate and be blown out of proportion that's how it's looking at the moment this hour r.t. dot com.

israel is under fire from human rights organizations over alleged mistreatment of palestinian children in israeli custody the issue was brought to light by the detention of a fourteen year old palestinian who also happens to be a u.s. citizen and claims to being physically abused during arrest and interrogation run to be an advocacy officer and a prisoner support and human rights association representing the detained palestinian child share the details with r.t. . but how many has been held in all thought of military prison which is just outside of ramallah we have had limited access to mohammad senses arrest his father has not seen him except in the few minutes during his court proceedings but we do know from what he has told us in the court that he has been. potentially abused in

the prison he has told us that he has been slapped in the prison his braces are broken off and we are very concerned that he is being mistreated while under interrogation and in the prison we have heard several cases from other children as well forced confession. very harsh interrogation where they are denied access to their families and lawyers and they are coerced into confessing under harsh conditions for example we've had children who have told us that they've been threatened with sexual abuse with not being allowed to go back to school and so forth in the case of mohammad specifically. his father was at the police station and he heard his father's voice and interrogators told him just confess now and we will let you go home with their father and so this poor child who has no idea what's going on ended up confessing to something just because he was told he would be able to go home after this his terra geisha was actually extended for

a further two days because he is a dual citizen and he has much more attention for this case but the fact of the matter is that seven hundred palestinian children are arrested every year and they face the same conditions that mohamed faces as well there are more than just allegations of children being abused in custody the issue of palestinian prisoners has long been a major sticking point in volatile relations with israel as the good explains. the issue of palestinian prisoners is a burning one in the relations between israel and palestine there's almost five thousand palestinian prisoners some of them have been in israeli jails for decades a lot of them have been there in the so-called preliminary detention which means that they're arrested with no charges pressed against them they're not told exactly what they're being arrested for and they're held in confinement with absolutely no legal substance to their confinement but the. time period from which they're being

extended almost indefinitely and there is hundreds if not thousands of them and of course the palestinians are trying to battle it with the prisoners have been trying to battle it with by their own means and that is a lot of them have actually got on hunger strikes and in fact all of the forty five roughly forty five hundred palestinian prisoners forty two hundred of them have been on a hunger strike just recently but another probably died while in jail from from cancer or his relatives as well as lawyers are saying that he was not treated properly by the israeli jail officials and unfortunately again this is not an isolated case they're saying that a lot of palestinian prisoners who are in israeli jails are not being given the proper treatment by the authorities and this is an issue that has been on the surface for a very long time and even the israeli side of the israeli knesset members are saying that this is perhaps the easiest issue to solve you know to kind of settle the dispute between israel and palestine or at least take a first step but unfortunately the israeli physicians do not seem to be taking that

very important first step. plenty more ahead for you this hour naughty including a retrial of egypt's president while the current leader faces mounting pressure with the mohamed morsi is failing to address the rising sectarian violence that included all the stores offer a short break all to live in moscow stay with us. the world with. science technology innovation all the least i'm elements from around russia we've got the future covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

please. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations are all today. he continues here in r.t. in less than twenty four hours from now venezuelan start voting for a new leader the snap presidential election was triggered by the death of his last month and will determine the course of one of the most oil rich nations in the world a short bitter presidential campaign has been marred by allegations of conspiracies

and assassination plots let's take a look at the two candidates and their chances with. in the venezuelan capital. important elections for the venezuelan people certainly snap elections after the death of this or so about a month ago it has been a short campaign for everyone who has been unfolding their two top contenders in these elections on the one hand you have a nicolas maduro he's the acting interim president of the country he was the vice president during this time and on the other hand you pick up you this. i guess a good chance in october two thousand and twelve and he's a rival was talking about bringing change to the country now there's been a lot of name calling during this campaign period you have a model accusing us of being at the prince of the bourgeoisie not representing the poor calling him capricious some of the other hand he's accusing me of being a liar or using this as a body to run a political campaign now however they did touch both of them tough on the issue of

tackling crime in the country this is a top concern of the citizens here they want to see the crime level addressed and brought down the smallest government bureaucracy and inefficiencies in the work staunchest supporters very loyal to everything this is stood for the so-called socialist revolution to continue this and some of them out of this loyalty vote for nicolas maduro on the other hand you have those people who have been blaming the government for a lot of the problems of the country not least of which is prime bureaucracy and what they say is a bit of stagnation in terms of the way business is going in the country and they say they will vote for the best so many are watching these elections closely not least of which is the united states and has had strained relations so with the country during that time. for everyone else who is observing and want to know what happens next the question they want to answer really is what step is that is really going to take in the hands of somebody other than this. well earlier we spoke to

georgia. and the system professor at drexel university in philadelphia and he believes that venezuela's use of cheap oil to fuel its foreign policy is likely to remain unchanged. well the reality is that wasn't so much the giveaway that someone like a previous would like to describe it as but it was in exchange for example a non-market exchange with for example cuba for medical technicians to to work in the barrio clinics and so that sort of thing needs to continue to central part of the foreign policy with regard to creating a lie and to secondly generate much of it we call it multi-polar world alliance with russia aligned with china but most importantly alliance with in latin america the album the ball the bar and also in the americas in free trade agreements that is explicitly the united states question of a foreign policy the question of relations present the united states is one that is determined largely by the obama administration now this is an administration that

continues to fund the venezuelan opposition continues to express its suspicions about democratic elections which are everyone knows are perfectly democratic support of the carter center and so the reality is if the obama administration wants to change the relationship with venezuela that need to start at home and we will be bringing you more expert opinion on venezuela's future over the next twenty four hands and one coverage of the nation here on alt. the retrial of egypt's deposed president hosni mubarak has opened with a surprising move on the part of the judge who has withdrawn from the case referring it to another court in the us but was met with angry shelves in june is now but it was earlier sentenced to life for conspiring to kill protesters journey unrest toppled him at a retrial was ordered after he appealed the verdict the proceedings are taking place against the backdrop of growing discontent with the current president's policies morsi and his ruling party are facing mounting pressure over a lack of democratic reforms and the worsening economic situation in addition the

current government is also blamed for a rise in sectarian violence as bold troop now reports. days after a brutal assault on egypt's main coptic cathedral activists and opposition leaders meet to discuss a response many of them like tony sabri a christian protester who was trapped inside the church say they're still in shock . tactics from everywhere even from the street next to the gas stations by the. police called insults after this one of the civilians bombarded us with molotov cocktails rocks rubber bullets and live ammunition and the police protected the whole michael they were painting and. the nation was shocked on sunday and bloody scenes of egypt's security forces firing tear gas and birdshot bullets directly at mourners gathered at st marks the beach or here behind me one

of the main churches to coptic christians president mohamed morsi promises to investigate and his alleged comments saying an attack on this cathedral was an attack on himself has done little to satisfy the coptic christian community with divisions deepening between the two religions many fear the worst has yet to come in the aftermath of the attack coptic pope to watch as the second criticize the president for failing to protect the cathedral members of the clergy. the present at the scene also demanded answers. the cathedral has never been attacked before who were the people outside the cathedral and why did the police not even attempt to intervene and why didn't they arrest one single person. heaven mariah of egypt director of human rights watch agrees government neglect is contributing to rising sectarian turmoil part of the problem is the way the authorities respond to incidents where there is violence between muslim and christian communities there's a long history of purity for sectarian violence and

a fairly it's really acknowledge that there is a serious problem the reason funday is such a worrying precedent is that we saw the police we saw images of the police finding with people who are throwing stones or sometimes shooting at cathedral grounds leading member of the ruling freedom and justice party dr amr darrag admits the police behaved unprofessionally but claims the state is not to blame the christian community has been suffering from the from the behavior of the previous regime you find all the time people trying to ignite the situation trying to cause chaos trying to spread violence as part of the of the air force to. bring down the revolution so it is very likely that these forces are behind this and we would like to know who is behind this and bring him to justice despite these assurances with only two prosecutions for sectarian violence since the revolution many believe the new muslim brotherhood government is continuing mubarak's culture of impunity in

the meantime thousands continue to demand justice for the cathedral victims and christians like tony say they will continue to protest in till the government acts this is true for our tea kyra. turning to other news now making headlines around the world in london's trafalgar square hundreds of opponents of the late margaret thatcher of been celebrating her death the former prime minister's strongest critics a long band together in the british capital after she died but remains deeply divided over french legacy and her death for monday at the age of eighty seven renewed the debate over her time in power which ended over two. decades ago are you sort of following the story so you can check of twitter latest developments we have to go to live to her in london in the next ninety. or so i want update this hour hundreds of people turned out in berlin to protest against the eviction of a sick sixty seven year old woman who later died in

a homeless shelter mourners laid flowers and candles in her memory at the rising rents in the capital of force a number of long term residents from their homes to the outskirts of the city where costs are cheaper. first case of bird flu has been confirmed in the chinese capital beijing seven and nine viruses already killed eleven nationwide with more than thirty having been infected but critics are warning against mass panic seen in the case of swine flu in two thousand and one two thousand and nine i should say when pharmaceutical companies benefited after government splashed out millions on vaccines many of which were later thrown away. well that's it for the moment i'll be back with a news team with morphine to stave off an hour from the mean time we find out what rip van winkle has to do with modern day america breaking the set itself so short break here one other thing.

you know i always try to stay clear of falling into the trap of fake outrage on this program people love to come on t.v. and be angry over this and angry over that just to fill air time but trust me saying obama signing into law with that wacky lobster like way he has of writing the bill marked the month santo protection act well it does not put a smile on my face that's for sure not only does this bill effectively bar federal courts from being able to halt the sale or planting of g.m.o. seeds and crops no matter what the health concerns are according to ib times but the bill was also written by senator roy blunt who's gotten sixty four thousand dollars for his political campaign pain from the g o giant monsanto itself so that's what it costs to allow companies to possibly poison millions if not all americans with risky and unproven g.m.o. technology sixty four thousand dollars that's not even enough to buy a decent house sixty four thousand dollars is chump change well citizens of america

now you know how much your lives are worth in washington but that's just my opinion . if you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i'd like. to eat i mean and i believe that i'm still really messed up. and we're all for it so actually. it's. worse cheaper to live through the white house or to the. radio guy for a minute. because you never seen anything like this

i'm told. what's good folks welcome to breaking the set i man well rob lowe filling in for abby martin you know these days it seems that everything in this country boils down to budget cuts thanks to the a steady measures that we call sequestration one of the victims of these cuts is the department of energy's nuclear nonproliferation program you know the folks trying to limit the spread of nuclear weapons well according to foreign policy magazine under the white house's twenty four thousand federal budget the program would be cut by twenty percent seems like an odd move considering the u.s. has been working tirelessly to try to keep other countries from acquiring acquiring nuclear weapons namely north korea and iran but that's not all the obama administration is on board with new spending to the sum of five hundred million dollars to upgrade the already existing nuclear weapons stockpile what

a great idea let's cut money from nonproliferation and spend more to upgrade nukes aren't enough of this crap let's break this up. all right folks you probably realized by now that the show is very much rooted in activism we talk about revolution social justice and progressive change quite a bit. to that end i've been thinking a lot about the story of rip van winkle by washington irving the story of a man who lived in a small village at the foot of the castle mountains while america was still a british colony under the rule of king george the third one day when we went for a long walk through the woods rifle in hand and his dog by his side he climbed to the high point in the mountains where he met a group of elderly men drinking from a keg after a few drinks van winkle falls asleep when he wakes up he finds that his dog is gone his rifle is rusted and withered away and his.