says guards try to isolate detainees in solitary cell. diplomatic spat moscow blacklisting eighteen american officials for alleged human rights violations the move in response to washington banning a number of russians over the so-called magnitsky at. chevy's mo or capital use mobile as wayland's prepare to head to the polls for a new president with a vote opening later on sunday r.t. taking a look at whether people will go for more socialist revolution of what favor the free market. and really queues of mistreating palestinian youths held in their jails after a teenager with u.s. citizenship who was detained says he was abused. korea am in moscow i am at present good having you with us here on r t our top

story inmates at the guantanamo bay detention center clashed with guards during an attempt to end a two month long hunger strike they're trying to forcibly remove detainees from communal sleeping quarters and isolate them in individual cells non-lethal rounds were fired at the prisoners as they resisted using improvised weapons artie's guy has more. 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 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 moscow's drawn up a list of americans who is banned from entering russia with eighteen people

suspected of having links to torture illegal arrests and even the abduction of russian citizens the move a direct response to washington so-called magnitsky list venting some russians from entering the states my colleague spoke with coach you know 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 lish 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 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 know formerly 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 information 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 ample amount of scandals coming from that prison jeffrey harbison as well here's a man who was supposed to monitor human rights abuses one told him obey but all that was really triggered by the u.s. move and my colleague and this they see it in the new york now tells us what was really behind this whole situation and what glad 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 there were actually to the money 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 his 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 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 what 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 have links with human rights abuses but non the last washington still without proving any of their guilt labels human rights violators. under pressure from 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 in these lists are the shirt for a longer extended list 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 a 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 need 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 it's 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 over 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 to right two countries somalia and the united states somalia and the united states has been a question about thank you good relations with moscow important to washington but the obama administration is having trouble dealing with russell forbit lawmakers

the analysis of alexei pushkov head of the foreign affairs committee in russia's lower house of parliament. 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 u.s. congress because basically obama needs a cooperation with russia and is a cooperation on korea it is a collaboration on iran on so many other regional and global issues his cooperation if he wants to make progress in the cuts. nuclear armaments and so on but by having signed this law is like shooting oneself in the leg so i don't really see the russian oil for this from the point of view of obama administration which claims to be an administration 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 was russia. on our website we're asking where you think the dispute between moscow and washington in this case will lead click on r.t. dot com and take part in our online poll let's see how the vote has been stacking up so far almost half think this will lead to more tit for tat measures between the u.s. and russia twenty one percent think it won't affect key political issues though between the countries the end has now come for dialogue between moscow and washington according to sixteen percent of voters and a little bit more than that fear an escalation that could blow the situation out of proportion click on r.t. dot com and cast your vote. thank you.

israel under increased scrutiny from human rights groups over the ledge mistreatment of palestinian youths in its custody the issue has been brought to the fore after a palestinian american teenager claimed he was abused during interrogation fourteen year old mohammad halakhah already spent more than a week in a military jail accused of throwing stones at the i.d.f. the boy's lawyer randa wahabi tells r t that the case is representative of the country's abusive treatment of young prisoners. but how many is being held in all thought of military prison which is just outside of ramallah we have had limited access to mohammad since his 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's 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. the u.n.

said israel is violating the rights of palestinian monitors in detention as ortiz arena glue should go explains the issue of prisoners has long been a major sticking point in palestinian relations with israel. the issue of palestinian prisoners is a burning one in the relations between israel and palestine there is 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 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 jailed keeps being extended almost indefinitely and there's hundreds if not thousands of them and of course the palestinians are trying to get out of words with the palestinian prisoners have been trying to battle it with by their own means and that is a lot of them have actually gone 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 the in this very day from from cancer and 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 these early physicians do not seem to be taking that very important first step. or two more still to come here on r t including is the retrial of egypt's ex-president takes a surprising twist the current leader bob woodward she finds herself under mounting pressure over a sharp rise in sectarian violence that and more after

a short break stay with us. technology innovation. developments around russia. however. 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. i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. we can with. the consumer.

choose to get to. choose the stories that if you. choose. to. thanks for staying with us seventeen minutes past the hour now in venezuela voting in the country's presidential election is set to kick off later sunday a snap election triggered by the death of who go chavez last month and will determine the course of the world one of the world's most oil rich nations a short bitter presidential campaigns been marked by allegations of conspiracies assassination plots and even mysterious omens let's take a look at the two candidates and their chances with artie's tessera cilia reporting from caracas. important elections for the venezuelan people certainly snap elections after the death of this is about a month ago it has been a short campaign for everyone who has been involved in 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 that chavez's time and on the other hand you have to come to this as i have run i guess a good and auctions 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 talk to 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 a small as a government bureaucracy and inefficiencies in those staunchest supporters very loyal to everything that this is stood for the so-called socialist revolution they

want 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 a lot of which is why 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 with the country during the time of google chavez 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 google chavez. closely following the elections in venezuela bring you the latest developments in the fight between. plus analysis and expert opinion on the kind of future the country may be fixing. campaign and game.

chooses a new president chavez choice runs against a free market poster boy. choose after coming down to his death self-styled socialism or free market model venezuela votes fourteenth. we're a trial of former egyptian president hosni mubarak's taken a surprising twist the presiding judge in the case has withdrawn himself and will now be referred to a different court the walkout was met by angry shouts and demands for mubarak to be put to death will bark was earlier said and to life in prison for conspiring to kill protesters during the twenty a loving revolution that ousted him from power a retrial ordered after he appealed the verdict since then egypt's transition to democracy has proven to rocky though with a new president morsi facing public anger over a lock of promised reforms and a worsening economic situation years alone is led government is also under fire for a spike in sectarian violence as artie's bill true 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 . including tax cuts from every one of them even from the street next to the gas stations by the teachers the police told inside that's not what this is going to want to civilians bombarded us with. rocks rubber bullets and live ammunition and the police protected the whole market if they were bishops fainting and the. presence of them or the nation was shocked on sunday and bloody scenes of egypt's security post is firing tear gas and birdshot but it's directly at morn is gathered on st marks the beach or here behind me one of the main churches to coptic christians president mohamed morsi has promised to investigate and he's alleged comment saying an attack on this could be true was an attack on himself has done

little to satisfy the coptic christian community we division is deepening between the two religions many fear the worst has yet to come in the often matter the attack coptic pope to watch as the second criticize the president failing to protect the cathedral members of the clergy present at the scene also demanded on says. the cathedral has never been a time before who the people inside the cathedral and why did the police not even attempt to intervene why didn't they arrest one single person. had been a riot 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's 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 warring 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 the claims this state is not to blame the christian cause community has been suffering from the from the behavior of the previous three to find all the time people trying to ignite the situation trying to cause chaos trying to spread violence as part of the of the efforts to 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 it 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 until the government acts

this is true for our tea. and laundered hundreds of opponents of the late margaret thatcher have been celebrating her death chanting ding dong the witch is dead was a song said to enter even the national music charts it's become an anthem for the former prime minister his strongest critics is raising the question of whether b.b.c. radio should be allowed to play the song as many find it offensive and inappropriate r.t. sarraf earth has more from london. well a large police presence in the center of london today to try and discourage any violence at the protest of a taking place in trafalgar square as the anti thatcher demonstrators have been gathering there to try and remove reenact the poll tax riots of one thousand nine hundred ninety two there were some scuffles breaking out along the police lines and the protesters a few of the attention certainly getting a little bit whipped up some of the chanting the ding dong the witch is dead which

has become sort of the unofficial anthem among detractors so much so that it's twisted up into the charts and it's expected that it will make it into the top five if not even possibly number one as a lot of those people have been buying that and it's been pushed up into the charts 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 recalls to parliament a lot of control to see around that at the expense of that to pay tribute to lady thatcher. a controversial polarizing figure. in death exactly as we saw in life creating these tensions that we've seen and it certainly is going to look like this will play out now into next week ahead of that. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe thousands of people gathered in the portuguese cop of the lisbon to protest against the government's austerity

plans demonstrators blamed authorities from is handling the country's economic problems unemployment and low wages portugal's been pursuing a harsh austerity regime as part of this seventy eight billion euro bailout agreed with the e.u. . palestinian president mahmoud abbas has a sept of the resignation of prime minister fayyad the two politicians reportedly came head to head over the exact limits of the prime minister's powers according to local media asked the former premier to remain in his post until a successor could be named fayyad was appointed after hamas won the two thousand and seven elections in gaza. the first new strain of the case of a new strain of bird flu has been confirmed in the chinese capital beijing the virus has already killed eleven people nationwide with forty nine people in total affected this is government experts warn against mass panic in two thousand and nine an outbreak of swine flu caused governments to invest millions on vaccines

many of which were later thrown away. more news coming up in about half an hour in a few minutes keyser report stay with us here on r.t. . he became a symbol of the nine hundred ninety s. he personified the russian mafia in the kremlin. he was a twentieth century arrest buton. in just a few years he rose from junior was a multi billionaire and senior politician. is decline was as rapid as his

meteoric rise and ended in exile his death is now as mysterious as his life. better. on r.t. .

i am x. kaiser welcome to the kaiser report mt gox is down that means a big going bubble is over so everything cyprus is going to sell are gold now 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 stationer first i'm going to start with this tweet from bloomberg athens cyprus the central bank hasn't discussed any plan to sell gold reserves in the cosey a based institution spokeswoman. said max this was following on a headline earlier in the day it would 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 as they maraud around europe is to grab the gold remember greece had to give up their gold to the troika cyprus of course will give up their gold and it's funny because obviously the cypriot government was the last to know that the i.m.f. had taken their gold then they said wait a minute no that never happened then they got the phone call saying wait but we did take your gold then they came out that oh i think they did take our gold but of course that's what they want the gold price itself was down on the news that there's going to be a seller in the market meanwhile chinese gold buyers are frantically on the phone will take it will take it so it's a great day for china yeah it will go.