to forcibly move prisoners into one man cells trying to end of two month hunger strike. tatts russia releases a blacklist of americans banned from entering the country over alleged abuse of human rights the right response to america's so-called magnitsky in this. picture by choosing between the. revolution or a free market champion polls open in the us and twenty four in the top stories. for money center here in moscow this is a team with international news and comment twenty four hours a day there have been clashes between hunger striking prisoners and guards at guantanamo bay prison camp erupted 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 brings 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 too 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 there 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 . cruise 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 as a response to washington russians we should fish was

a most dismissed as rest of the. culture never 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 it well it is really an exchange of a list of people that both countries suspect of violating human rights now fast the u.s. came up with the so-called some of these key listed that was supposed list late on friday and then it was russia's turn ready and it responded with a similar measure here but if we take a closer look at russia's list then it consist 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 while you talk about these

two lists 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 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 for most let's go to geoffrey miller here this man oversaw one ton of obeying cuba but also the infamous abu ghraib prison in iraq of course that had all amounts of scandals coming from that prison geoffrey robinson as well here's a man who was supposed to monitor human rights abuses one taught him obey but all that was really triggered by the u.s. move and my colleague and this they see 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 directly to the mother needs case these individuals will be forbidden from getting a u.s. visa as well as have their assets frozen so good magnitsky 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 one washington that its handling of the case was a domestic issue for russia and russia alone and that the americans must not interfere responding to the so-called magnitsky list russia's prime minister dmitry of 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 document 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 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 that we had to respond and react to the proportionality. in their 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 longer

and standardless that both countries presides now there are reports that the. u.s. secret list that has not been published yet even includes the name of the chechen leader runs on could there of 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 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 anon the last russia was still highly criticized for the adoption ban the you asked if it's russia does not give a chance for a better life 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 her 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 somalia and the united states has been a culture of thank you there are voices within russia claiming the magnitsky list as sunk the chills from moscow and washington to reset diplomatic ties and actually push pull 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 n.t. russian elements in the u.s. congress because basically obama needs a corporation was russia 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 but by having signed this law it's like shooting oneself in the leg so i don't really see the rational for this from the point of your bomb of the ministration which claims to be. this ration that is paying attention to multilateralism to international partnerships well i can say that 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 road between moscow and washington will lead log on to r.t. dot com and vote on our online poll you'll find it on our home page at r.t. dot com well we've the results so far and most of you believe this will lead to even more tit for tat measures between moscow and washington forty six percent of you twenty one percent think this really won't affect the key political issues between the countries a slightly smaller number believe the end is actually now come for any dialogue between the two and perhaps scuppering those so-called resetting of political ties and the same number seventeen percent believe that this shouldn't really escalate or i should say could actually escalate and be blown out of all proportion so those the results so far r.t. dot com.

in london hundreds of opponents of the late margaret thatcher have been celebrating her death chanting dong the witch is dead the words of all song is set to enter the national music charts as it's become an anthem for the former prime minister strongest critics this raises the question of whether b.b.c. radio should be allowed to play the song as many find it offensive and inappropriate we'll talk more about the divisions that she left behind i'm now joined live by ortiz sarah ferguson. so right now you were at the protests tell us what you saw there earlier in london. well a large police presence in the center of london today to try and discourage any violence the protest of a taking place in trafalgar square and he thought should demonstrators have been

gathering there to try and reenact the poll tax riots of one thousand nine hundred ninety now fairly large crowd at one point hundreds possibly. thousands some point with that with their banners they were chanting they were conga lines now is speaking to the demonstrators and they. a little been said to us that they weren't there to celebrate lady touches death but to celebrate their resistance to a lot of ideology that's a point slightly undermined by some of its own thing that did go on to make the ding dong the witch is dead which has become sort of the unofficial amongst detractors so much so that it's pushed it up into the charts that the police doing a fairly good job of keeping things reasonably calm until the weather played a part there to focus not particularly nice that might have kept a few people away but there were some scuffles breaking out along the police lines and the protesters a few of the tensions certainly getting

a little bit whipped up movement so i think that's possibly going to cause a little bit of concern ahead of the funeral that's going to be taking place on wednesday and obviously there's a massive security operation underway so that it follows that though allow the peaceful protests to go ahead and there are plans from the way for the detractors to line the ceremonial return to turn their back on the funeral procession but certainly i think police are going to be looking at what happened tonight head of wednesday very closely to ensure that they make sure that when state will say days ahead and manages to stay reasonably calm and sir you talk about that song earlier it's causing a lot of controversy in particular predicament for the b.b.c. tell us more about. it absolutely is what is going to and we're going to find out the top position of that some or all media one's time and it's expected that that

song thing going which is dead which is from the wizard of oz that as i said is being sort of taken as an unofficial amongst relating to tracks is and it's expected that it will make it into the top five if not even possibly number one as a lot of these people have been buying not and it's been pushed up into the charts actually as a sort of protest the vatican council for that we've had supporters of lady thatcher downloading a song called i'm in love with lady thatcher which is also thought will make it into the charts ironically that song for the region in a sarcastic dig at the former prime minister by a punk slightly unusual countermeasure by his supporters but of course it puts the b.b.c. in a slightly awkward position because they don't want to play the entire song a lot of the supporters of lady thatcher find it incredibly offensive and it's actually thought they were you going to play a very short clip of it if indeed it does heidi as it's expected to i think

a lot of criticism as well that because obviously we saw the huge response from the politicians this week we had the m.p.'s we call to parliament a lot of control for see around that at the expense of that to pay tribute to lady thatcher and certainly some feeling amongst the protestors that it was being forced today that the media perhaps not giving as much attention to the best item of the argument say a controversial polarizing figure lady such is in death exactly as we saw in life creating these tensions that we've seen and certainly it's going to look like this will play out now into next week ahead of that. or to sort of live in london thanks very much indeed for that update well pretty more good for you. here in our teacup you live from moscow including a retrial of egypt's ex-president while the current leader faces mounting pressure we look at mohamed morsi is failing to address the rising sectarian violence that

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the music can sense to. choose the opinions that invigorating to. choose the stories could impact the life choose me access to. less than twenty four hours from now venezuelan stop voting for a new leader the presidential election was triggered by the death of his last month will determine the course of one of the most oil rich nations in the world a short bit of presidential campaign has been marked 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. a month ago it has been a short campaign for everyone who has been involved and there are two top contenders

in these elections on the one hand. he's the acting interim president of the country. and on the. run. up to over two thousand and he's a rival he was talking about bringing change to the country now there's been a lot of name calling during this campaign period you have. the prince of the bush representing the poor calling him some of the other hand. they are using this as a body. political campaign now however they did both of them tough on. crime in the country. citizens here they want to see the crime level addressed and brought down the smallest government bureaucracy and inefficiencies. staunchest supporters very loyal to. this system for the social socialist revolution to

continue this and some of them out of this loyalty. on the other hand you have those people who have been blaming the government for a lot of the problems of the country. which is why you want to see 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 us so many are watching these elections closely not least of which is the united states and strained relations with the country during the time of this but for everyone else who is observing and want to know what happens next the question they want to answer really is what stuff is that is really going to take in the hands of somebody other than this. more on the approaching election we're now joined by gregory will put he's a co-founder of venezuela none of this. who do you think is going to win this. well i think it's going to be a time to election but i think ultimately nicolas maduro will. be riding

a wave of sympathy in the wake of president chavez's death and numerous polls have shown that the venezuelans in general believe that the boulevard in revolution was project was known as mean good for venezuela and i think that's why they will tend to vote for a minute or so you don't think we'll see any big changes in domestic policies pursued by chavez if madeira gets in. no i don't think so my daughter has been very clear that he intends to follow in chavez's footsteps very closely and has basically taken up childlessness a program for his reelection campaign last october and said basically that he wants to implement everything that had originally been proposed so and there's a knowing that he's a loyal follower of chavez's there's no reason to believe that he would do anything differently really but he is left chavez's left a legacy of nessie of problems hasn't the corruption crime crumbling infrastructure isn't there i really going to have the leadership qualities and the charisma to

follow those policies well i would challenge the notion that there are massive amounts of problems i mean if you go to the next well actually you know our infrastructure is doing quite well in my opinion i go there almost every year sometimes twice a year and if you're out in the comparison really the relevant comparison is to. preach of his era of course isn't to say that there aren't problems remaining one of the main problems is crime and that's what the focus of this campaign has to a large extent about and that's really also the big question whether munro if you went would be able to resolve that question and the success of his presidency would depend on that to the extent to which you can resolve the crime problem but it's one of the only other but i think it's one of the richest it's one of the richest oil nations in the world while enjoying the standard of living that we see people in the gulf states enjoying. well for one thing venezuela doesn't export as much per capita as the gulf states they tend to be have a smaller population or much higher levels of production if you compared to saudi arabia or qatar or someplace like that so the comparison isn't really fair i'm not

going to build our exports only about three million barrels per day it has enormous amounts of reserves and it has actually made tremendous achievements in terms of reducing poverty by more than half during which i was presidency and reducing inequality and going to sort of going from one of the most income in equal countries and that in america to one of the most equal ones in the past fourteen years and that's something that you certainly can't say about any of the other oil producing countries gregory what about foreign policy now what's in the relations we see between washington and caracas. well i think menounos very interested in improving relations with the united states and he started negotiations last october however goes you go shish and turned sour in the wake of evidence that the us government is trying to undermine his interim presidency by establishing contacts with the military and so we'll have to see whether that can be repaired again i

think so and the terms of other issues though my daughter will probably place less of an emphasis on foreign policy french i was there too i think because he's going to have to focus a lot more on domestic issues and gregory really interesting to hear what you say and you're predicting a close call here but madeira winning eventually thank you very much indeed for your thoughts thank you a pleasure well that will be bring you more expert opinion on venezuela's future over the next twenty four hours and don't miss live coverage of the election would bring bring it right here on ati. the retrial of egypt's to posed 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 others but was met with angry shelton gere's but it was earlier sentenced to life for conspiring to kill protesters during the unrest that toppled him but a retrial was ordered after he appealed against the verdict the proceedings are taking place against the backdrop of growing discontent with the current president's policies now of morsy and his ruling islamist party are facing mounting

pressure over a lack of democratic reforms and a worsening economic situation. turn out to turn to some other news making headlines around the world at this stage of the day hundreds of people turned out in berlin last against the eviction of a sick sixty seven year old woman who later died in a homeless shelter mourners laid flowers and candles in a memory rapidly rising rents in the capital of forced a number of long term residents from their homes to the outskirts of the city where costs are cheaper. the first case of bird flu has been confirmed in the chinese capital beijing the h seven n nine virus has already killed eleven nationwide with more than thirty having been infected but critics are warning against mass panic as seen in the case of swine flu in two thousand and nine when pharmaceutical companies benefited after government splashed out millions on vaccines many of which were later thrown away.

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 have been physically abused during arrest and interrogation run that would be an advocacy officer at a prison a supporting human rights association representing the detained palestinian child share the details with r.t. . but how much is being held in all thought of military prison which is just outside of ramallah we have had limited access to mohammad senses a rest 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's being mistreated while under interrogation and in the prison we have other children as

well forced confession a 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 and just because he was told he would be able to go home after this. was actually extended for a further two days because he is a dual citizen 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. well that's all for me he'll

be here with the latest international headlines in about thirty minutes from now with a news team taking up to the next and stacy take a look at what wall street would rather you didn't know that sold the car as a report after the break. he became a symbol of the nine hundred ninety s. he personified the russian mafia in the kremlin. it was a twentieth century arrest. in just a few years he rose from junior was

a multi-billion and senior politician. is declining was as rapid as his meteoric rise and ended in exile his death is now as mysterious as his life. better. i am max guys are welcome to the kaiser report mt gox is down that means a bit going bubble is over so everything. cyprus is going to sell their gold no they're not yes they are no they're not yes they are no they're not yes they are

hoops the fed just released their minutes a day early to a few wall street banks sell everything now wait by everything no way so everything buy sell sell bought station or first i'm going to start with this tweet from bloomberg athens cyprus a central bank hasn't discussed any plan to sell gold reserves in the cozy a based institution spokeswoman. said max this was following on a headline earlier in the day and it became big news everywhere which was cyprus to dive into its gold reserves a draft bailout document seen by the financial times said the cypriot thordis have committed to sell the excess amount of gold reserves owned by the republic the excess amount was ten tons of their thirteen point nine tons which was worth four hundred million euros right well on this show we have said that the i.m.f. the e.u. the e.c.b. the so-called troika there their goal.