to act. divided and sliding into crisis venezuela's government and opposition blame each other for deadly post electoral violence with president nicolas maduro saying his rivals planning a coup. protested guantanamo u.s. military officials admit to hunger strikers try to commit suicide as part of a desperate act of defiance which has dragged on for over two months. and britain says farewell to the controversial on lady margaret thatcher a figure who continues to divide the nation even in death our top stories. online on screen around the world twenty four hours a day this is live from moscow activists and families of palestinian detainees kept

in israeli jails are running across the palestinian territories to mark prisoners day they're calling on the international community to intervene to release some inmates especially those on hunger strike let's get more details now from middle east correspondent paula paula just how big are these protests. well we did witness a large scale protests across the palestinian territories palestinian prisoner day is an annual commemoration and it marks the almost five thousand palestinian prisoners who are currently in israeli jails off that number of the five thousand some two hundred and fifteen are children now the day consolidate efforts to support palestinian prisoners in israeli jails and also support their right to freedom on wednesday some three thousand palestinian prisoners refused to eat their meals now this action coincides with a hunger strike by a palestinian president some near a single week now he has been conducting an on off force that has lasted more than

two hundred and fifty days that has stoked weeks of protests from also street protests the palestinian government is calling on the european union to take immediate action concrete steps to secure his release at the same time at the beginning of april there was the death of a rather high profile palestinian prisoners being held in an israeli jail him via how he died from cancer but his death sparked massive protests because palestinians claim that these raids delayed bringing him treatment the palestinian minister of prisoners affairs says that israel is mistreating its detainees and preventing families of those palestinians who are currently in israeli jails from visiting them he had this to say. we carry a political message to the world reflecting the israeli government's inhumane dealing with prisoners we want to tell you israelis that it's an important national

issue israel is mistreating its detainees and preventing families of those palestinians behind bars from visiting them they keep children in jails it's all inhumane and violates international law. since nine hundred sixty seven around eight hundred thousand palestinians have been detained in israel at some point and the point needs to be made that hundreds of palestinians are held in israeli prisons without trial. artie's middle east correspondent paula slip thank you very much indeed for that live update. but as well as opposition leaders called off a protest march and blame the government for post-election violence that has left seven people dead the country's on the edge of political chaos after a tiny majority in sunday's presidential vote showed the nation is essentially split down the middle let's get more now from artie's tessa cilia she joins us live from caracas so why did the opposition call off this rally.

the opposition leader he basically said that he doesn't want to see any more violence and that he calls on just supporters to peacefully protest basically asking them to stay home and just banging pots and pans it was a very noisy evening tuesday night well initially they had planned to hold a protest in front of the electoral council in the city center but. he had banned any protests to take place in. stating a security reasons and so because google has been blaming the opposition for the violence seven deaths as you mentioned earlier but the us is saying that any violence that has happened it's the government who is behind it so they've been exchanging accusations now despite the ban in the city center we've seen reports that there are some people gathering in other parts of town to support herself. and some reports say that they're out to gathering now and wreaking havoc there maybe

also some other small small groups of supporters of us who may be out in other parts of town not. in a press conference given by the two men on tuesday they really exchanged very strong words from accusations mughal basically saying. is that. it is backed by the united states everything that they are doing while the complete aside this insisting that the government had committed electoral fraud is evidence of all of these and say that they will not stop until there is a complete recount post-election tension continuing the result of the presidential election. has not stopped the fight continues here in venezuela. says it is time to get tough. well first of all we go back to that accusation that the opposition is planning a coup against his government and he also says that there are a lot of the violence in another way of looking at this perhaps he's also trying to

start to show himself you know he had run a campaign based on who said there are some. even if his supporters saying that we don't really know who he is and what he's capable of so these are one of the few steps that we're seeing that's coming from him accusing him already of being authoritarian now as far as mother was concerned going on into this presidency we know that it's already starting off very weakly that we need that small margin at the results of the elections and has to fill in the shoes of the courts office without the congress now to fix the problems that people get the military the government and a very divided population in line. with these tests were sitting in caracas thank you very much indeed for that. almost half the population in venezuela backed complainants seen as a rich kid looking to improve relations with the u.s. and many experts believe that the media has been key to his success state t.v. controlled by the vista government has an audience of only around six percent the vast majority watch privately owned t.v. channels which generally support the opposition and that makes it hard for those loyal to the families of the late hugo chavez to maintain influence as activists

don't explains except for the state media channel the government has no access to the public over the year waves the remaining media are in the hands of private concerns which backed the right wing governments that were in venezuela up until go chavez the back to kuwait actually participated in the coup in two thousand and two and have been trying to find a way to unseat the ball of government since it took power so the government can either stand idly by and watch falls on the streets in front of it or can that this election is not as contested as the two thousand or two thousand and four presidential elections in the united states venezuela is the nexus point for the standing up of the global south you know you see u.s. behavior elsewhere where minor interests are threatened this is an existential threat to the global or germany of u.s. capital and they're going to try this to squash it if they can.

u.s. military officials and admitted two detainees on hunger strike at guantanamo bay have recently tried to commit suicide but they defended a prison guard raid on cells over the weekend which resulted in violent clashes with several inmates i spoke to a former guantanamo prison beg who was released from the detention center without charge after two years and he doesn't believe president obama is prepared to deliver on his pledge to close the facility. there has to be a will and i don't think that the will exists certainly if you've still got people in guantanamo eleven years since the invasion of afghanistan and there's no practical will to send them these individuals to places where they're supposed to have a basic normal life and i don't know where the will is going to come when still problems that were instituted at the time of bush have not been cleared at the time of the hunger strike is a. is an action of desperation they had an old very well in one tunnel that the

only way you can get your rights is by taking extreme measures and of course the hunger strike is something something that's been going on and off for the past eleven years this time around i think the numbers that i heard from the lawyers and so forth is it's close to three quarters of the prisoners that are there because they've been there for such a long time almost none of them have been charged with any any recognizable crime and had they been convicted of a crime of terrorism they would have surface sentences by now most of them and i think that's what the the prisoners there are protesting about the process about the conditions they're protesting about the water and i remember the water that used to come from the taps at the time when i was there it used to be yellow and undrinkable and not much has changed in that regard because the abuse says that the religious abuses are still taking place the prisons are still complaining about those things through the lawyers and even one of the most recently written something through his lawyer in the in one the american papers and when he talks

about that you people are slowly killing us without establishing any evidence against us at all. well for most senior politicians and members of the u.s. military of join the chorus accusing officials of contributing to the spread of torture and independent american think tank released a report pointing to abuses at guantanamo the constitution project concluded it was beyond dispute that torture had been carried out or that the practice has damaged america's moral standing and its ability to criticize others also it suggests u.s. personnel have actually been put greater risk should they be taken captive and the panel concluded the the door remains open to more torture while no one is brought to account for what has all ready happened but one of the critics former ambassador james jones says most guantanamo detainees have completely lost hope. you have the majority of these prisoners for whom our government has said there's no reason to

hold them anymore we don't want them they're not there they're not accused of anything and yet they have not taken the actions that are necessary to remove these these prisoners from guantanamo and send them back to their home countries or to a neutral country where they will not be tortured force feeding under the circumstances we've found is tantamount to torture what is inhumane is a treatment for some prisoners in solitary confinement for many many hours at a time sometimes many days the separation from other prisoners so that you don't have that social contact that that is a form of torture that should be stopped i think the biggest torture however for the majority of the prisoners in guantanamo is the lack of hope the fact that they thought that after they were judged. by our government as not necessary not

terrorists not needed for information that they should be released and now their concern in many of these that are on the starvation diet many of these i understand just last hope they think they'll never be able to leave guantanamo and that's the reason for their action. crowds turned out to say a last goodbye to former prime minister margaret thatcher who's been laid to rest in london however alongside the thousands paying their last respects where protesters gathered for what they called maggie's good riddance policy the news of such as death at the age of eighty seven last week was met with both mournful comment and cheerful celebration she's famous for winning before claims conflict against argentina and helping end the cold war however a number of a hardline policies did not sit well with parts of the public including a stand off with coal mine is charlie kimber from the socialist workers party says the funeral ceremony is aimed at covering up the tough reality of policies which

are being continued by the current government. this is an orchestrated political event ten million pounds spent on it at a time when the british people are being told that they must cut back on vital welfare services and most accept job losses they must accept parks disabled people are being told that they're no longer in times of the benefits of a formally received and instead money is largish not on the funeral of an individual but on a political event which is designed to bolster the conservative party under david cameron and that tradition which regrettably tony blair and new labor continued as well of putting the market first in everything and people's interests right at the back of the queue it's quite significant that in britain itself and internationally there's a growing sense that what this funeral was about holtz was a political stunt that was orchestrated in order to cover up the reality

about what her policies meant and to canonize thatcherism the idea that working people must pay for the crisis that presently is engulfing the world. r.t. live here in moscow still to come a search for suspects u.s. authorities are still hunting for clues as to who might be behind the deadly boston marathon bombings we examine the issues facing the country's domestic security. and russia's top opposition activists is facing a decade in prison for alleged embezzled and a case he claims is politically motivated all the details for you after a short break stay with us. science technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've.

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news continues here in r.t. a u.k. foreign minister as question the effectiveness of the magnitsky law passed by the u.s. david living tonight said sanctioning individual russians does nothing to help the own going investigation into the death of the lawyer russia responded by releasing a list of eighteen current or former u.s. officials who were allegedly responsible for human rights abuses well most mccauley he's an author who's been covering russia for over forty years now let's get more on this issue for him now so what do you make of this statement by the foreign minister. i think it's important from the british point of view that the uphold human rights britain is akin to to the human rights convention and so on and defense human rights in britain and europe and the rest of the world so therefore

if other countries in fact don't measure up to those standards then they criticised and the british government is obviously taking the position that you don't need it act such as magnitsky act passed into law states you don't need that naming russian officials to blacklist them and so on in an attempt to improve relations between the united states and russia because it's a quid pro quo to what the russian what the americans do the russians will will respond in kind and they will not improve human rights because from the british point of view the way to improve human rights is through quiet to diplomacy not megaphone diplomacy not by talking to the press and accusing the russians of a b. and c. but by talking behind the scenes and saw it in your best interest in our best interest that he would rights are observed another happens then our relations would be better how would america feel about having a british politician criticize its actions. well the united states

goes along its own trajectory. and if you look over the last fifty years they've passed many acts which discriminate which in fact name and shame said individuals and so on and they've taken the took a lot of action against the soviet union because of certain policies the british government didn't respond in kind because it was an ally and so on didn't pass legislation but he went along with it but the the foreign office would take cognizance of the list of individuals blocked black market by the americans and when they apply for a british reserve a future they may in fact be rejected so therefore they if you like they are in cage and quiet diplomacy behind the scenes. and they don't publish a list of those who are blacklisted blackballed. the individual applies and then is

refused a visa but clearly this is got a lot of media coverage what could it do though for the so called of resetting of diplomatic relations between moscow and washington which was much trumpeted wasn't it serious for years ago. yes president obama has been vetted bordered by. his failure to prove relations with russia. and one can say the relations of frosted president. basically don't see eye to eye in many many countries such as syria. syria's come along as a problem which divides the two countries the americans america is in a deep economic recession. they can't actually pass a budget that has a normal domestic problems so therefore the obama administration is mainly concerned with domestic issues solving the problem of how do you get americans back

to work how do you balance the budget with the boston bombing how do you make america safe and from policy that was put in the back but if you look at syria through push of the back. to look for relations with russia would be allowed to take over. but of course arms negotiations underway but not very much effort is put into improving those relations at present. martin mccauley really interesting here thoughts thank you very much indeed author and russia analyst joining us live in london. police still have no suspects in monday's boston bombings which killed three and injured over one hundred eighty explosives placed in pressure cookers packed with nails ball bearings and other bits of metal ripped through competitors and spectators the city's marathon it was the worst domestic attack since nine eleven happening despite the u.s. investing billions in security for over a decade. is in boston. the picture perfect city of boston brings back

memories and fears that americans have not dealt with since september eleventh. it really hasn't hit me yet. like i had i couldn't sleep last night i'm constantly like anxious nervous i can't focus on my studies because i'm a graduate student a block from where it happens. really the investigation is yet to determine whether the attack was carried out domestically by warner and whether or not individuals were behind this and even though the official say there's no longer an immediate threat security has been beefed up here in boston and throughout the united states the obama administration has already referred to what happened as a terror act but exactly what kind of consequences this will have for america's foreign and domestic policy remains to be seen a media frenzy surrounding the bombings the united states has not seen a similar in years officials are saying the investigation is still very fluid but

the majority of questions yet to be answered who and why was behind the attack and how secure really is the united states of today over the last decade the u.s. has pumped enormous resources into security and steps often criticised for breaching the rights of u.s. citizens and foreigners alike but what are the results and have all these efforts created anything more than an illusion of safety in. boston massachusetts. containing a poisonous substance and sent to president obama has reportedly been intercepted that's less than the day police found a envelope addressed to a mississippi senator both appear to have been sent by the same person we'll bring you more on this developing story as soon as we get it. for you to receive tips photos and videos as they continue. focusing on people carrying heavy bags or backpacks to try and find who may have planted explosives social media users have

contributed by searching through images and sharing information. activist he believes that america's reliance on its military to keep it safe has affected its domestic security. since september eleventh the united states government has sent spent hundreds of billions of dollars for government security agencies right now i'm sure as out happened after september eleventh private security companies are salivating over the new contracts that are are soon to come of course that is the business there there's there's profits and even mega profits made by this kind of security apparatus but you can see in the case of boston they don't have any leads right now there was no indication that such an attack was coming so is it possible by the by by using military methods and security methods alone to stop terrorist attacks to protect society i don't think so we can see though that the u.s. policy at home and abroad as well is almost exclusively based on.

towards security towards militarization towards the abrogation of civil rights and civil liberties which i think ultimately don't defend protect and make people more secure. the trial of russia's top opposition activist and his calls demonstrates is to take to the streets as many as fifteen hundred people run it in support of the anti corruption blogger of all these trial was adjourned for a week. he's accused of taking half a million dollars from a state timber company had nearly four years ago anticorruption blogger insists however that the case against him is politically motivated but as you watch the court proceedings unfold in central russia. beat court hearing ended just around one hour after starting defense appealed to the judge to reschedule saying they

didn't have enough time to properly get ready and the judge agreed to reschedule for next week so i. exited the courthouse behind me surrounded by a crowd of journalists and supporters in fact we were told that some people had to camp out here throughout the night in front of the courthouse to get in since the room inside fits only around sixty people and there's a very heavy media presence and lots of supporters here as well earlier we saw two separate rallies taking place right across the street from one another one. and the other one i guess but both were conducted quite peaceful. well known and a controversial figure in russia first of all he's an opposition blogger who meet his name by conducting his online anti corruption project he's also a fierce critic of the kremlin and one of the most influential opposition activists and leaders especially during last year. but the controversial side of.

open connection to russian nationalists now about this particular case the authorities are accusing. criminal scheme to steal around a half a million dollars worth of timber from a state company this was back in two thousand and nine when he was the aide to the local governor here in cuba but. his supporters claim that this case is purely political. at the same time footage from a close government showing that russia's president putin calling weasel leaders lazy is leaked to the public you can head to our website and watch it there that's a. dot com right now. well it to brings up state for the moment about with a nice team of morphine just over half an hour from now in the meantime we continue our look at a gold rush fanning through the jungles of colombia that is a special report after the break.

victim's multiply here each day. it's very profitable to invest in colombia with the very profit on it is a very high return on investment. in your dalmiya i said but i've been working in this area for thirty years and i've always had to pay the armed groups and they have made it better than other managers have changed their name and strategy but just to the same murderous. high ranking suspects you know

comment where you have to say about that mr president soon. after president putin. both of you. i won't give an interview i'm sorry but no. investigation is. says the sick stuff your bullshit and keep quiet or else you'll suffer the consequences. even if they're your bodyguards to watch themselves because the same goes for them. from say i've never heard of such a case as ours where so much money stolen for so many years. for all the gold in colombia.