to move them to solitary cells to break the ongoing hunger strike. to list a major thaw in relations as washington releases the names of russians it labeled as human rights miley is sparking a symmetrical backlash from moscow. also this hour starting afresh and that is a while as the nation heads to the polls on sunday the new president after the death of the country's karisma time leader but. the u.s. says it may scale down its forces in asia if north korea abandons its nuclear weapons program in apparent attempts to encourage china to good pressure on pyongyang. cyprus extends a financial quarantine that's and wiped out billions and save us money as your grass rushed through an emergency bailout to rescue it's teetering economy.

the latest news and the week's top stories you're watching the weekly one hour she welcome to the program. first inmates at the gun tunnel bay prison have clashed with guns during an attempt to end a two month long hunger strike that officers try to forcibly remove detainees from communal living quarters and isolate them in individual cells only so rounds were fired at the prisoners as they resisted with improvised weapons. brings as 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 one tunnel 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 and. there's a lot of the one of the detainees of hunger strike and she says measures like so to treat confinement could only aggravates the problem that could be at least partially solved by simply respecting the prison this returns. michael counsel who

represents obeidallah derek poteat visited him just two days ago at guantanamo and obeidallah described camp six as looking like a village which had been decimated by some sort of attack with men just walking around very feebly very weak barely unable to have any energy to even communicate with each other it's a very very sad difficult situation and the reaction of the u.s. is the opposite of what it should be this strike the protests as could have been resolved with not violence but by simply agree to allow the men to return the qur'an says the u.s. government to surrender them so that they did not have to watch them continue to be desecrated and searched. and it's commanders from count delta who appeared on the radar screens of russian authorities which filed a list of american human rights violators on saturday a man named fall and

a travel and economic sanctions it comes in direct response to washington's publication of a list of russians it's banned from entering the united states again due to what it claims to be human rights of breaches moen those from going off now. what we're witnessing now is really game of political pingpong first washington published a part of its so-called magnitsky a list eighteen russian official suspected there of being connected to human rights violations they have been subjected to various economic and travel sanctions including the ban for them to enter the united states and shortly after this list was published a symmetric reaction came from moscow which published a part of its blacklist of eighteen american officials linked to human rights violations at the guantanamo bay detention center and the violations of the rights of russian citizens outside the center but since both lists have been published only partially we may expect mourning to be put on them while the magnes character was by american lawmakers at the end of last year and was named after city

magnitsky an employee of the hermitage capital investment fund he was suspected of fraud he got himself a claim that he had uncovered a massive corruption scheme but he died in prison in two thousand and nine before a court could make a decision on his case moscow has been accusing washington of using his unfortunate death as a political tool to apply pressure on russia the foreign ministry's called the mike needs an unfriendly use of four week a law we've heard from prime minister dmitry medvedev saying that u.s. authorities have the full right to deny entry visas to anyone without even having to explain why not to mention passing a need controversial laws or black lists and many or most russian lawmakers believe that the magnitsky act harms america's own interests is like shooting oneself in the leg so i don't really see the rational for this from the point of your bum administration which claims to be an administrator that is paying attention to

multilateralism to international partnerships it was definitely a blow to the relations between moscow and washington and now this is happening ahead of a visit by a senior u.s. foreign advisor to moscow on monday for talks and these lists are definitely not going to make his job any easier. and stephen f. cohen a professor of russian studies in history at new york university feels that president obama has become a hostage to his own lawmakers when it comes to this onto russian drive in the u.s. obama did not want the magnitsky act it was imposed on him by the american congress a congress that included is own political party the democratic party it's changed and poison the atmosphere it's going to make it harder for example. president obama to make concessions on let's say missile the french to president putin because there is this adage russia doesn't deserve any concessions and i'm guessing that

your president putin would like to modify his position on european missile defense and i mention that because it's on the table moment it's an important issue that there will be forces in the russian political class the world owes this problem arises to the united states so it's not a sarge. and of course it's your opinion we're always interested in and today at aussie dot com we ask about the fallout of this war between moscow and washington and less now have a look at how online chants so far the majority view of those who have taken part in this site about saying these spots will lead to more mind that take photons measures on both sides around a fifth of the twenty two percent of you believe it will not affect the country's cooperation atoll and other people have split between other opinions between two less optimistic options some say the relations will be severely hit while others think the ra is the death knell for the u.s.

russia reset so you can go and submit your vote online or use our comments section if you have more thoughts on this story and still ahead for you on every nation in turmoil a decade on since the fall of saddam hussein. iraq. convulses in the throes of terror and uncertainty while this cars left behind by years of occupation are passed on to a new generation. now the u.s. secretary of state john kerry is in china on the latest leg of his emergency tour to try and diffuse tension around north korea's nuclear threats and in a news conference he suggested america could remove its newly bolstered missile defense in the region is beyond young abandons its nuclear weapons program so it's believed that other might encourage china to put pressure on north korea something it's been reluctant to do so far and earlier this week a pentagon report released by mistake claims the north already had the capability

to launch a nuclear missile the white house however quickly dismissed those findings as premature nevertheless america japan and south korea have continued to build up defenses with seoul saying it's braced for the north's missile test any time russia in the meantime has warned against the escalation of the crisis as aussies alexy get a sharp ski reports now. the city with a population of around seven hundred thousand people is the closest russian big city to the border with north korea literally two hundred kilometers is the place where the russian the chinese and the north koreans meet at the same place of course the escalation of tensions on the korean peninsula has led to some serious only in the far east in moscow as well because should anything happen between the two koreas especially if nuclear weapons would be involved russia would be one of the first countries affected. by the possible consequences of a nuclear war if we remember the. traces of radiation were felt.

away from here so all the latest developments in the north korean conflict in. syria. from the russian president. and for the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. because we are neighbors and if something happens there it will make the. children. but of course not only russia is concerned with the current situation on the korean peninsula the u.s. . if it decides to hold. it no longer wants to listen to the international community the most interesting day here clearly will be monday when.

north korea. some reports are suggesting that it's. actually conduct. japan has warned as a whole should down any missile heading it's a wreck sure people go responded by saying should that happen japan will become its first started it has said it is began. its brownback i believe the tension is playing into washington's plans to separate north korea from its historic ally china the obama administration is taking the bush administration policy of provocation escalation increased tension to a whole new level they want to create pressure on china to break china away from its historic relationship with north korea by creating a military confrontation or in your confrontation the united states is saying to the chinese look the stakes are very high time for you to change time for you to abandon your your ally in north korea and i think they think that there could be

the the prescription the precursor to regime change in north korea if they could break china away china doesn't want to do that although you can see the debate going on right now within the chinese establishment and of course in all of the weeks and the day's news stories coming up after this break. wolf. technology innovation all the developments 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 that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry was a big. news

today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. this is the work you're welcome bok venezuela is bracing itself for the first election fourteen years without a slum boy chobits whose death last month that the country at a crossroads and although his nicolas maduro appears to be a frontrunner the gap between him and the opposition is slim. is following

developments for us in caracas. the polls are about to open here in fifteen million citizens are expected to cast their ballots and choose their next president. about a month ago that was expected really the legacy. part in these elections it's as much about the past as it is about the future of this country are there to remain a top candidates are running for the top position you have on the one hand. he is running on a continuing everything. in this country especially when it comes to social missions really the cornerstone of his popularity among the masses and the poor people are also says that he wants to tackle crime and government inefficiencies and be wrong and that basically though he wants to keep in place everything that's already set this country on the other hand you have. one who is running on a platform of change and innovation he says he wants to introduce a more free market economy in the country more pro-business policies at the same

time maintaining those social spending programs two men have very different views on where they want to take this difference really can also be felt on the ground when you talk to the citizens on who they're going to vote for in these elections. crime and violence the biggest challenge is to convince the population of venezuela that everyone has the opportunity to succeed. but we need to continue pursuing his policies. and we will see the difference. the venezuelans i've been speaking to tell me that one of their main concerns is crime they want to see whatever is empowered to tackle this to bring the crime that level of the country they want more security they also mention problems of inflation of the economy and of job security but at the end of the day it really boils down to two things for those who are supporting it is out of loyalty to us is the so-called socialist revolution they want to see this continue for the. it's all

about change they're just part of the current state of the country and they want to see something different will very soon the world is going to see that new face who is going to be at the helm of been is after fourteen years of this. cold front of the news well analysis dot com says that change might not be something this south african american nation is an urgent need of. well i would challenge the notion that there are these are massive amounts of problems i mean if you go to the us well actually you know our infrastructure is doing quite well in my opinion i go there almost every year are sometimes twice a year and if you're in the comparison really the relevant comparison is to our premier preach of his era it has an enormous amount of reserves and it has actually made tremendous achievements in terms of reducing poverty by more than house during which i was president here and to reducing inequality i'm going to still going from of one of the most income in equal countries in latin 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. campaign and again venezuela chooses a new president chavez choice runs against a free market poster boy for possible that is where the jews after coming down face down self-styled socialism or free market model venezuela votes april fourteenth on r.t.e. . a decade on says the u.s. led overthrow of saddam hussein bombings blondet power struggles and uncertainty now hold every day iraq in life from a resurgent al qaeda to sectarian rivalries even in the highest halls of government it's all taking a tribal told the people with more than a thousand casualties last month alone and this a couple of reports now for many who feel the late dictator has been replaced by the horror of the unknown. but.

the iraq war is supposed to be over but these pictures tell a different story chaos and confusion the aftermath of yet another deadly blast here in kirkuk. this oil rich city has been described as a spotlight a symbol of the country's most intractable woes escalating violence the conflict among ethnic and religious groups. and the fight over iraq's resources roadblocks and concrete barriers define the new iraq checkpoints like this one are a dominant feature of life and they are everywhere aside from the house they're also frequent target of attacks for us it was a blatant visual reminder of a country still very much at war. but kirkuk has been a flashpoint for years now and in the city center it's clear that life doesn't stop just because of the threats we were expecting empty streets but people continue to go about their business as normal vendors seemed busy families did their shopping

beneath the surface there are scars today kirkuk continues to be an incredibly dangerous place. after the city without the help of a military escort residents here say that attacks could happen at any time in any place in fact it's not really safe to stay here for too long so let's get inside. we need car want to his family there kurds who say they're happy that saddam is gone but their fear of political repression has been replaced by fear of the unknown. we don't know who the enemy is or women next bomb will go off but it's a daily fears we've got used to it you know i do small things to feel safer like driving the car windows down that way if there's a blast at least the glass was heard. such precautions didn't help sixty year old mood who says that a decade of war has ruined iraq he happened to be in the wrong place at the long time a bomb blast went off injuring his leg for him daily life has become

a painful struggle if so by the end of the movie like this what benefit did the york bring democracy can only explosions shootings and kidnap people should feel free to go out and come back safely where is that a job where i can leave but there's no guarantee i'll come back that are but sergeant you. know it's not about the sectarian differences unfortunately it's both the black. you oil in behind us or oil is the hidden interest of politicians pawns in the political game playing with their livelihoods and lives for conflicts not of their own making the iraqis we met didn't heed their neighbors or care about who controls the oil just like they simply want the peace of mind of knowing they can go out and return to their loved ones alive. r.t. your group. the war may be over the destruction and who is now reaping

havoc on the country's most vulnerable and literally its future but as defects in iraq today standard higher levels that in the world were to atomically bombed cities of hiroshima and nagasaki and the blame is being put squarely on the us which leveled depleted uranium and chemical arsenals to temper an actual insurgency shells laden with spent nuclear fuel white phosphorous bombs and internationally condemned cluster bomb munitions all dropped on some of iraq's most populous cities so horrifying birth defects are now commonplace in cities like fallujah and according to dr omar. they will last long into the future and you may find some of the following images disturbing. it's clear that though the us of oak of their help provided to iraq after the invasion notably reconstruction of education in investments their so-called help resulted in the use of weapons banned by article fifty three of the geneva convention that prohibits any kind of weapon which if

used where there is war in effect here is environment climate and water resources the things that occurred in one thousand nine hundred one and then in two thousand and three are true catastrophe and all types of munitions were used in the brain dispenser weapons vosper is a munitions depleted uranium and chemical weapons all these types of weapons were used intentionally and on a mass scale in iraq this testing out of weapons had disastrous of facts in terms of environmental contamination not to be compared even with hiroshima. this is by no means an exaggeration this is not my opinion you can look up human rights watch when world health organization reports on the internet real logical monitoring held on the international level you are going to radioactive contamination of southern central in the northern areas of iraq and despite repeated calls and all the reports published by iraqi scientists the us turned

a blind eye on the issue. it's been a week of intense fire fighting for the eurozone with the single currency blocs ministers approving it and not the bailouts to keep this secret economy from collapse but the flames. well that now emerging nicosia is going to need a lot more money than they originally thought a ten billion euro lifeline has now been greenlighted has cyprus because relax and for even a request for even more money it was rejected in a casino needs to come up with thirteen billing euro's more wish it will try to amass by a draining accounts of say visit six bread banks so the. very idea of raising deposits is still sending tremors through the euro zone despite your current assurances that bank accounts are safe but professor of political economy track crossness thinks out of wife. what you're going to see is a severe depression in cyprus as government raises taxes cut spending sells off

assets but are even on the private side you're going to see it and we're already seeing major money hoarding demand for cash balances money lost and he's absolutely and as they get their money out there you're going to see capital flight so the situation in cyprus is going to get much worse you're going to have to do a bail and even more people of those over one hundred hundred thousand euros will have to pay more or maybe now they're going to have to start going after those with less than one hundred thousand that's not only happening in europe there was a leaking a report last december and it showed that both the u.s. and the u.k. are now considering maybe making depositors pay so this thing is a reflection of the growing banking instability. scuffles of broken out between police and protesters showing their anger at the legacy of former british tory prime minister margaret thatcher who died this week aged eighty seven. has more now

on the demonstrations in trafalgar square in the heart of the capital. and demonstrators that been gathering there to try and reenact the poll tax riots of one thousand nine hundred ninety 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 is become sort of the unofficial anthem among the tractors so much so that it's just it 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 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 the patron to lady thatcher. a controversial polarizing figure. in death exactly

as we saw in life creating these pensions that we've seen certainly it's going to look like this will play out now into next week ahead of that. to some other international news stories in brief at least five people have been reported dead in a bus crash near the belgian city of the vehicle is said to have been traveling at one hundred kilometers an hour before smashing through the guardrails on an elevated highway if that plunged below coming to rest on its side the bus is believed to have been carrying dozens of russian and ukrainian is on a european tour. also some two thousand people have marched through the sun to glasgow scotland second city calling for money spent on britain's nuclear defense arsenal to be spent on public services the so-called squab trident coalition joined a big rally by politicians and trade unions says the funding should be diverted to

health welfare and education submarines that hold the nuclear weapons are kept in a naval base just outside glasgow. and so we turn and journalists have been held captive in syria have been released and flown home the group working for italy's state television network were abducted one filming in northern syria in a town serving as a base for al nusra front a rebel force links to al-qaeda the journalist said it turned out to be a misunderstanding give nothings whether to demand ransom or for religious or political reasons have become increasingly common in the chaos of the syrian conflict. this is on c.n.n. up next our special report on the death of one of the most controversial russian figures tycoon an exiled baris berezovsky.

with oil pipes bursting in arkansas people cost you were so you start to realize that they are moving towards what the atlanta calls the interest. cliff in short america's infrastructure is starting 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 like bridges and drinking water in schools cetera some pretty bad great 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 starts getting spent a well planned infrastructure then the infrastructure will start paying for itself rock'n infrastructure creates wealth so don't fear the infrastructure cliff just stop wasting money or allowed politicians to waste money and everything will turn out to be just fine but that's just my opinion. they called him the face of business and government. he was a gambler so money came seconds.