is resisting attempts to move them. to break the. list a list a major relations with washington releases the names of. rights violators ultimately sparking a symmetrical right here. starting afresh in venezuela the nation is heading to the polls to elect a new president of the death of the country's longtime leader. the u.s. says it may. force if north korea a nuclear weapons program possibly an apparent attempt to encourage china to put pressure on pyongyang. quarantines. billions and save us money krauts rushed through an emergency bailout to rescue his teetering economy.

with the top stories over the weekend of today this is the weekly with me thank you for joining us today inmates of the guantanamo bay prison have clashed with attempt to end a two month long hunger strike that offices trying to forcibly remove detainees from communal living quarters and isolate them in individual cells. of the prisoners as they resisted with improvised weapons. the latest. 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 by the u.s. military. of fired four rounds of prisoners the weapons they say the detainees 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 on total prisoners have been starving for more than two months now trying to bring public attention to their plight because they sense did mr 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 conti's ago nature kind of right there cindy put newco a lawyer for one of the detainees on the hunger strike she says measures like

solitary confinement only aggravate the problem that could be at least partially solved by simply perspective the person is religion's michael counsel who represents a bio i dared to cheat visited just two days ago at once upon a mo and described six as looking like a village which had been decimated by some sort of attack with men just walking around very feebly very weak very unequal to have any energy to even communicate with each other it's a very very sad difficult situation and the reaction of the us is the opposite of what it should be this strike approach 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 been searched. it's commandos from camp delta who have appeared on the

radar screens of russian or thora to switch the list of american rights violators on saturday the men named it now fall under travel and economic sanctions and comes in direct response to washington's publication of a list of russians it is banned from entering the u.s. again due to what it claims to be a human rights breaches or more of this now it's a wild seas you go to preschool off what we're witnessing now is really a game of political pingpong first washington published a part of its so-called kill 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 more ninas to be put on them while the magnes character was by american lawmakers at the end of last year and was named after city my good ski and employee of the hermitage capital investment fund he was suspected of fraud he got himself claimed 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 or the foreign ministry's called the mike needs to act in 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 they might need. the 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 administration 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 in the meantime steven cohen a professor of russian studies and history at new york university it feels that president obama has become a hostage to his own lawmakers when it comes to this and the russian drive in america. obama did not want the magnitsky act it was imposed on him by the american congress a congress that included is our 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 concession to let's say. the president. because there is this added to russia doesn't deserve any concessions and i'm guessing president putin would like to modify his position on european missile defense and i mention that because it's on the table a moment it's an issue that there will be forces in the russian political class. just. so it's not a sideshow. and it is your opinion we are always interested in today. where about the fallout from the host so-called war of lists between moscow and washington and let's bring up the numbers here from ati dot com and see how you guys are voting for this and every hour hour to hour the numbers change us still though in first position the numbers are down to forty three percent of the voters saying this will lead to more mine a tit for tat measures on both sides a distant second saying well it won't affect the relationship on key issues

position oh it's going to escalate severely affecting ties between moscow and washington now the well what came in last what continues to come at last but now joint fourth up to eighteen percent this will be the death knell for the u.s. russia reset in relations you can vote online or use our comment section if you have more thoughts on the story dot com it's where you get involved. well still ahead for you this hour here on our nation in turmoil a decade since the fall of saddam hussein iraq convulses the throes of terror and the scars left behind years of occupation to a new generation. are now the u.s. secretary of state john kerry he's in japan on the latest leg of his emergency to try and diffuse tension around north korea's nuclear threats while visiting china he suggested america could remove its newly bolstered missile defense in the region

if that is pyongyang abandons its nuclear weapons program it's believed that offer might actually encouraged china to put pressure on north korea something it's been rather reluctant to do so earlier this week a pentagon report released by mistake claim the north already had the capability to launch a nuclear missile and the white house however quickly dismissed those findings as quote premature nevertheless america japan and south korea continue to build up defenses at seoul saying it's braced for the north's missile test any time russia has warned against the escalation of the crisis and. now reports 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 away is the place where the russian the chinese and the north korean borders 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 of course in most schools as well should anything

happen between the two koreas especially nuclear weapons would be involved russia would be one of the first affected. by the possible consequences over nuclear war if we remember the fukushima several years ago traces of radiation were felt. which is also just a stone's throw away. so all the latest developments in the north korean conflict in the escalating tensions has led to some serious. from the russian president mr president we are against you. on for the denuclearization of the peninsula. there because we are neighbors and if something happens there it will make the catastrophe a true noble seem like the children. but of course not only russia is concerned with the current situation on the korean peninsula the u.s. state secretary john kerry said. if

it decides to hold. this would signify that it no longer wants to listen to the international community the most interesting day here clearly will be monday when. its biggest holiday the. korean leader. north korea kim il sung some reports are suggesting that it's. actually conduct a missile test launch. more news to come in just about. the. science technology innovation all the least i'm elements from around russia we. covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lang 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. more news today violence is once again flared up. in these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. thank you for joining us here on r t polling stations have now opened in venezuela

and the first election in fourteen years without its influential leader. it was his death last month that left the country in a state of a crossroads and nicolas maduro appears to be a frontrunner of the gap between him and the opposition means he'll need to keep looking over his shoulder. reports from caracas. while the polls have opened here in venezuela where fifteen million citizens are expected to cast their votes to choose their president in the. us is about a month ago no one expected really belong to see a. future party in these elections it's as much about the past as it is about the future of this country whether to remain a top candidates are running for the opposition you have on the one hand that nicolas maduro he is running on a platform of continuing everything chavez has put in place in this country especially when it comes to social missions really the cornerstone of thomas's popularity among the masses and the poor people are also says that he wants to

topple crime government inefficiency zombie rocker scene and the basically goal he wants to keep in place everything that's already set in this country on the other hand you have indicate to me this is 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 venezuela and 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. given along with crime and violence the biggest challenge is to convince the population of venezuela that everyone has the opportunity to succeed. and no one. but we need to continue pursuing his policies are strong if we follow each other's policies to the end we will see the difference but 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 climate level down 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 mother or it is out of loyalty to this policy is the so-called socialist revolution they want to see this continued now for those supporting 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 venezuela after fourteen years of war tavis. now police are bracing themselves for protests at the funeral of former prime minister margaret thatcher held this wednesday at some polls cathedral in london organizers of the demonstrations say they are standing against the legacy of the controversial leader who during her time with a top of british politics took on the unions and privatized state services and her

detractors are finding creative provocative ways to show their anger at the mark she left on british society an online campaign has rocketed that song from the wizard of oz ding dong the witch is dead back into the music charts but a b.b.c. radio show that plays out the weekly hit list has said it will only have five seconds of the song as part of a new story for fear of offending people author and journalist toby young believes the full song should be played out of principle. i think it is very cool but i don't think that's a reason not to play it i think is that we should hold people's rights to free speech and that includes the right to offend people as a conservative and as someone who greet lee at night margaret thatcher. i absolutely stand fast to the principle that something shouldn't be banned a song shouldn't be not played because some people find it offensive and if

conservatives want this song banned on grounds of taste and decency on the grounds that they're offended it will be a hostage to fortune because there are plenty of things which conservatives will want to say in future which the b.b.c. may ban decide that she actually always took some satisfaction when her opponents attacked her personally and stooped to low vulgar tactics like this because it meant that they had no other or comments left they were reduced to this because she had a actively beaten them in open debate but i have to say that those of us who are and love to moderate that have made a counterattack and we're borrowing a song called i'm in love with margaret thatcher by the not sensible and we're hoping that will pick up on which he said to no one spoke so we're going to wait and see this afternoon six we've been successful. this is a decade on since the u.s. led overthrow of saddam hussein. bloody power struggles and uncertainty now hold

every day iraqi life from a resurgent al qaida sectarian rivalries even in the highest tolls of government still taking a tough toll on the people more than eight thousand casualties in just the last month alone. reports for many the fear of the late dictator has been replaced by the horror of the on. 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 into your kook. this oil rich city has been described as a. symbol for 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 to find 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 it 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 shortly after the city without the help of a military escort residents here say that attacks the problem at any time 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 when the next bomb will go off but it's

a daily fear so we've gotten used to it i do small things to feel safer like driving with all the car windows down that way if there's a blast at least the glass won't hurt us. such precautions didn't help sixty year old mahmoud who says that a decade of war has ruined iraq he happened to be in the wrong place at the long time in a bomb blast went off injuring his leg for him daily life has become a painful struggle for somebody i'm with you probably i see what benefit did the your bring democracy only explosions shootings and kidnap people should feel free to go out and come back safely where is that a job i can leave but there's no guarantee i'll come back alive but sergeant. no it's not about the sectarian differences unfortunately it's book the black the oil and behind this oil is the hidden interests of politicians pawns in

a political game playing with their livelihoods and lives for conflicts not of their own making the iraqis we met didn't hate their neighbors or care about who controls the oil just like for law they simply want the peace of mind of knowing they can go out and return to their loved ones alive to seek out an r.t.a. . this is our duty now the famous online whistleblower wiki leaks has launched a new website releasing the largest amount of documents ever at the project k. archive includes more than one point seven million diplomatic cables from the kissinger era and is a weekly said it's a julian assange says himself it shows the u.s. cannot be trusted with maintaining its own history the period of the one nine hundred seventy s. in diplomacy is referred to as the big bang this is when the modern international

order came to be who controls the present controls past and he controls the past controls the future and that is because of the vital role that history plays in deciding our interpretation of what is happening in the world alan else's shows that the. u.s. administration cannot be trusted weave its control of the past. now some documents reveal the u.s. got itself dirty backing some regimes known to have committed brutal crimes including franco's spain and junta ruled greece but also wiki leaks says the vatican and washington supported the nine hundred seventy chill a coup that saw the bloody pinochet regime come to power the documents also reveal the late indian prime minister rajiv gandhi could have been a middleman for a swedish company selling arms to the country two big scandals threaten to blacken

sweden's name as its secret police were reported to be spying on leftist citizens under a orders and that's amid reports the current swedish foreign minister could be our cia informa and we could weeks spokesperson christian hunston says the u.s. should thank asuncion for his efforts because he is dedicated to bringing historical records to the public attention when there is an attempt to keep them hidden although these documents have been declassified to be extremely difficult to approach them and assess them in their current form of the only year in the national archives so what we did was to gather together with help and and publish them in a searchable database a very robust database the authorities here in washington of course they should be very pleased that we are doing the job that they should be doing themselves so maybe you should apply for some funds and continue to work for the u.s. government and they should actually you focus so much attention this reporting over a concert of continuing of this unprecedented relents is an attempt to prosecute

julian assigns and all the members of that we can use team. it's been a week of intense fire fighting for the eurozone with the single currency blocks ministers approving yet another bailout to keep the cypriot economy from collapse but the flames are not out yet that now emerging because c. is going to need a lot more money than i originally thought a ten billion euros or lifeline is now being greenlighted for cyprus and it's a request for even more money was flatly rejected because see it now needs to come up with the teen billion euros more which it will try to amass by draining the bank accounts of savers that cypriot banks a professor of political economic side jack russell most thinks old european accounts and now would throw out. what you're going to see is a severe depression in cyprus as government raises taxes cut spending sells all facets but all even on the private side you're going to see and we're already

seeing major money hort demand for cash balances money cost of these absolutely and as they get their money out there you're going to see cottle flight so the situation in cyprus is going to get much worse you're going to have to will 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 this thing is a reflection of the growing banking instability. well anti euro sentiment is growing big in germany with a new party officially launched today intent on pulling the plug on the struggling currency the group called alternative for germany also wants the e.u. to give certain powers back to member states established parties are already

ringing alarm bells citing concerns that the new comer could attract millions of disenchanted voters are all of a with the party's first official convention. germany's political new kids on the block alternative to deutschland claim to be able to provide the german people with just not an alternative to the current political status quo the main item on their agenda though regards the euro something which they say is being kept alive artificially for too long it's coming time to pull the plug the euro is dead actually the euro is dead what we do right now is we put. special surgery we give them drugs if you touch cigs but actually it's already dead but our politicians have directed nights that yet despite current personal popularity here in germany alternative to say that mrs merkel isn't handling the european financial crisis the right way that what she's trying to do is trying to tell people in greece and in

italy and in spain that they should act more like germans we find it ridiculous that our federal chance to try is to turn the lovely people of greece italy and french into prussians she will never manage to do that it will not work i need to bring disunity instead of unity in europe alternative for germany is certainly a small party but they will be hoping to try and push the political big guns when it comes to the general election here on the twenty second of september they may also be facing a few challenges from other established political parties that want to pull. germany out of the euro two want to see the euro go by the wayside at the end have said that they are the real. policy and that they going to challenge alternative for germany so they're going to have a lot of work on their hands but they'll be hoping to try and pick up a few votes for people disillusioned with the way things are going when germans go

to the polls on the twenty second of september are to after the break here on our special report white night he's looking at the lives of palestinian women who work nearly any job in israel so they can afford to feed their families this is obscene . 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 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 proven 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 . download the official application to your cell phone choose your language stream.