the international in the very heart of moscow. today's news and the stories of the week on r.t. the f.b.i. reportedly gets a russian wiretap one of the alleged boston terrorist talks jihad we look at why the u.s. might have dropped the ball on russia's warnings two years ago. the u.s. and britain cite evidence of the syrian government using chemical weapons and made accusations that the rhetoric sounds all too familiar of what preceded western intervention in iraq. no jobs no hope new grim figures from violence in spain while the e.u. why does it leave islip cool on joining the struggling union. and hundred guantanamo prisoners and no one hunger strike that's the official number more than doubling since the military tried to break the months long protest

by for some. fellow be watching the weekly from r.t.r. rather for the big news stories of the last seven days with me kevin our intern i and first russia has reportedly given the f.b.i. the tape of a phone call between one of the boston bombing suspects and his mother where they discussed jihad it's thought to have been secretly recorded in twenty eleven the year russia warned the u.s. about one of the brothers radical religious views the u.s. though found nothing suspicious after making checks is out is going to check on why the f.b.i. my failed to take proper action. in the wake of the boston bombings it's the f.b.i. now bombarded with questions how could they let the alleged boston bomber tamerlan and i have go off the radar after they've been warned about him multiple times over the last two years russia warrant not only the f.b.i.

about tamerlan sinai have did they drop the ball the f.b.i. . dropped the ball here is not for sure but they dropped the ball here there's no doubt about it she was on the radar and they want to go he's on the russians radar why wasn't he a flannery we don't want to know where the russians right and did the united states ignore their warnings disrespect repeated warnings tom our lawns are now i have someone you tube page full of radical content friends driving a car with a license plate that reads their audience the number one all of this was missed it's possible that they were too down by some preconception of who would be a possible jihadi that they were not able to see something in front of them maybe they work thinking well if these guys are chechen you know they hate the russians they don't hate us politics may have been the reason why u.s. authorities failed to connect the dots on tom along and i have another possibility is that poor relations. between moscow and warships devalued the russian

report something that the russian president says has to be fixed if we truly undertake a joint effort we will not suffer these blows and take such losses if one more possible the us authorities politicized the intelligence given the fact that russia's concerns had been ignored before you yes ahmad if the white head of the internationally recognized chechen terrorists science was given asylum and now lives in boston. if russia is accused of heinous crimes against innocent people is still seen in the us as a chechen freedom fighter the odd part of this if anything we've been i'm not going to say sympathetic with them but we've certainly been critical of and how far he's gone in dealing with. so if anything they should they shouldn't have this anger at the united states many ask whether tom or lon may have learned about bomb making on his trip to russia but the answer could be much closer to home according to a senior government official quote they got their instructions on how to make bombs

from the internet is newsworthy to know that nobody has travel anywhere or get any specific in person training from some expert somewhere in order to access instructions for making explosives when joe farts are not i if woke up this week he reportedly told the authorities that he and his brother were motivated by a desire to defend islam because of the wars in iraq and afghanistan many terrorists have tried to politicise their heinous acts but that doesn't change the fact that there are heartless killing when federal authorities look at any intel on a potential extremist problem or political rather than purely law enforcement point of view that could be a recipe for future disasters in washington i'm kind of stricken with joe because the knives alleged confession that the boston attacks the motivated by america's actions of the muslim world reignited debate about u.s. policies abroad the editor of us who believes that getting involved in foreign conflicts has increased the terrorist threat bucko. the fact that they cite us

foreign policy as a motivator in fact in their attack shouldn't really surprising any attack that wasn't an f.b.i. hatched sting operation since nine eleven has had that component all of these terrorists that want to attack the united states and commit heinous violence on us have in their mind some motivation of u.s. foreign policy u.s. aggression in the middle east you know in a rock and get us there in pakistan in yemen israel palestine conflict in on and on and on a lot of what obama has done in terms of trying to be less aggressive towards the muslim world to simply make his actions secret the bush administration is quite open obama has chosen to make all of this covert he's done the drone war which is a secret war that nobody will admit to in pakistan and yemen and somalia a lot of this is still going on and he's still generating fierce hatred from

a lot of people who resent u.s. aggression while the mother of the boston marathon bombing suspects was added to a federal terrorism database eighteen months before the attack american officials revealed that detail after she accused police of murdering her eldest son. only because he was alive why. on r.t. dot com find out how she bases their accusations of inconsistency in the authorities account in the manhunt for the brothers. britain and the u.s. said this week there's growing evidence that the syrian government used chemical weapons the u.s. had warned that the use of such arms crosses a red line israel's already called for intervention but the u.n. said the assertions did not meet it sounded of proof while arms experts say witness accounts don't tally with the effects of the weapons in storage or old kind of

retro before. it's deja vu all over again we will remember the disaster as an adventurous u.s. and british invasion of iraq in two thousand and three based on allegations really weapons of mass destruction that proved to be faulty of therefore we must ask some very difficult and searching questions for example what was the chain of custody with regard to the samples taken from the battlefield of syria to laboratories of london and in washington was there or was there the possibility of contamination or file play or hanky panky with the samples and how can you show that the regime rather than the rebels actually used these alleged chemical weapons and since we already know. divisions within the military is driving the conflict in both syria and iraq how do we know that some renegade soldier in the syrian military who is actually collaborating with the rebels watch these chemical weapons so as to

provide a rationale for intervention by london and washington these are difficult questions that must be answered. native syrians are not the only fight against president assad either the eaves anti terror of chief as well that your opinions traveling to syria could join the rebels and they could pose a threat back home after their return says a growing throughout europe indeed that it's young muslims he could get in touch with is the most factions among the opposition tester is said has got that side of the story. syria's two year old conflict is already seen spillover some neighboring countries but now it is extended far beyond that it's estimated that hundreds of europeans from fourteen countries mostly young men have joined the rebels in syria in fighting against bashar al assad a london based international center for the study vatican has ation put the tall figure at six hundred. we'll hear an outward belsher the media coverage of the

radicalization youngbloods recently focused on one specific story that of a father in search of the son of dimitri want to stop him short of radical islam is a group that had gone to syria to join the fight father had gone all the way they're hoping to bring this somebody. built planes are flying overhead all the time when we are on the streets or inside a building we have a bomb was dropped on us i haven't had a contact with a year and we shoot him he's here in aleppo we spoke with dimitris lawyer who's in constant contact with him and he says the father is hell bent on finding his eighteen year old son. we don't expect that he will send me to syria i think that's that's clear so that's what we're also why didn't he was most eager to go and see if he said i want to do something for myself a son who started changing about three years ago the problem with to us that at

a certain moment he was influenced by some radical list girlfriend and he didn't he didn't work out and there were some friends he say ok come with us and very slowly started it he was really influenced and really brave to us to grow beards and. started wearing the clothes. preaching for every five times a day this ruby you had come into contact with shari'a for belgium a radical islam is a group whose leader. followed belka some have been arrested for hate speech and calls justifying the use of violence over there is judgement day if you're if you're a muslim you are you will go to paradise if you're this believer or you will go to hell terrorism expert glowed many cases the rise of radicalized is alarming many of whom are easy prey the first. question is why they convert and usually don't convert because due to make they convert because of

a problem at one moment in the life most of the if not kill political ideas and they go to fight because the fact if they were they don't meet listen to convince them. they could be in a sect because the trapped in the net of people who have just talked writing them and for the convincing them that to give goodness seem they want to go to so you have to sign or to commit another terrorist attack. authorities are paying even closer attention with alert levels heightened while worried family members of summer youth fighting in syria have been calling for a clampdown on radical groups the best they could do short of going to syria themselves although that may not be completely out of the question does or sylvia r.t. antwerp in belgium. the eurozone has had another troubled week with protests taking place in several crisis eight countries in spain almost thirty people were injured

in clashes with police when over a thousand protesters voiced their anger of a new record high unemployment figures there did the jobless rates now at twenty seven percent and your steady protests were also held in greece and portugal the discontent comes as official polls show that trust in e.u. institutions has reached an all time low the leader of ukraine dependence party told us that anyone with money invested in the single currency zone is now at risk . big investors should be worried all over the euro zone particular southern europe i mean i i have been pondering for years you know what would happen when spain finally went back how would they possibly deal with the sheer scale of the bailout that would be needed which perhaps would be five or six hundred billion euros how could this happen without huge american support or global help because what cyprus has done is give us the template or what they will do in future is they won't be all countries out there bell the men and they'll do it by stealing investors' money

by taxing people on their properties and by forcing central banks into selling their holdings of gold i mean this is a truly assist dollar shing situation so my advice to people is if you own property and if you've got money in bank accounts in the eurozone get your money out before they come after you because it's perfectly clear that is their plan heading on from here it's quite extraordinary that that into all of these countries that are in trouble with the euro zone they would like to be given a parliamentary democracy and handed it over to a very arrogant troika ultimately of the euro zone is going to break up it may not be the economics that break it up it may be civil disobedience or violence on a very large scale that eventually get some of those mediterranean countries out and after that i think the big question then is well what is the european union for . well with the e.u. financial crisis still running hot iceland's getting cold feet over joining when you come by. when we go to report the other nation that votes but whose voters have

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them about international and world in the very heart of moscow. well again twenty fifty moscow time this is r t live now iceland's drifting away from the e.u. after you know skeptic opposition parties won most votes in a parliamentary election this last week snow expected them to form a ruling coalition the opposition's victories likely to put an end to to ice and succession talks with the european union it would be desperate to join in the aftermath of its financial collapse but in france he hasn't been swayed reykjavik widely seen as a textbook example of efficient recovery in state and the editor of popular

economics dot com told us that it's got nothing to get now from e.u. membership i believe it's because they are against joining the euro and i believe that's what the icelanders are voting for now it's not to get into the euro which was a socialist were doing they were to go shooting that with some sticking points but i think the icelanders just said they don't want to join the euro they're doing quite fine with their product right now they get almost all the benefits of belonging to the european union i think they belong to their trade already their their trade union so they have all those benefits and they keep their own currency i would say that the main problem is is that they need to keep their own currency to recover it just as all that is doing now in fact the last year. also reporting tonight canada's play of the coin with a new digital dollar details of how the government is considering topping up state

coffers by slapping a tax on big coins the renegade online currency we'll be talking about lately on this channel and also presidential perks former french leader nicolas sarkozy said barack obama lavish gifts with forty thousand dollars including a designer golf bag and crystal lamps we got the details of the other goodies as well that made it to the white. home. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images of the world from the streets of canada. showing operation to rule the day. the number of hunger strike imo prisoners acknowledged by jail officials jumped

suite two hundred the figure has doubled since the military conducted a violent raid at the facility using food being put in solitary confinement and guards imposed a lockdown two weeks ago but the numbers still far lower than some of the detainees attorneys claim they believe as many as one hundred thirty people are taking part in the protest against mistreatment and indefinite detention either way it's more than half of one hundred sixty six prisoners currently held at the detention center that so the figures are not there what's more twenty people are being force fed strapped to a chair with a chub down their nose and throat and five inmates been hospitalized at the prison authorities say they condition isn't life threatening clive stafford smith is a lawyer for several detainees he shared with us some examples of the mistreatment that could have prompted the hunger strike we've got his full interview coming up a little bit later this hour but here's a quick look now. when a prisoner doesn't do exactly what they're told the six being dressed up you notice if they're in darth vader outfits come in and basically beaten up to make him do it

the pen into the floor and shakin describes how this one guy who's three hundred pounds sits on some time. and i've seen the bruises on him from this process every time and there and this comes up i write to the admiral in charge of the general in charge i've never yet got a reply from them and the best i can do is complain loudly and tell the world when you get out what you see in the hopes that this shames them because unfortunately the federal judge who is in overall charge of the cases ruled just last week that he has no jurisdiction to order the military to behave better under the circumstances. now it is supreme allied commander in europe called members contributions to the alliance is defense spending unbalanced and accuse the e.

of quote getting a free ride at washington's expense now is not the first to sound the alarm either over europe's or inking military spending let's see how that trends affected nato so far take a look at a wall see what's happening there well together european nations have slashed at least forty five billion dollars as equivalent to germany's entire military budget in fact the cuts have led to military personnel in european nato states declining more than twenty five percent since the turn of the century and nato survival now depends almost entirely on u.s. spending in fact you might be surprised to know it makes up almost seventy five percent of the budget is the dollars but rick ross of an activist from stop nato international told us u.s. contributions to the alliance are a means of buying influence. the fact that the u.s. is paying seventy five percent or you know the expenses of nato is not so surprising considering what the u.s. gets out of the u.s. didn't purchase you know the political loyalties of countries and condition of economic destitution and i think particularly those in eastern europe after the

collapse of the socialist law let's recall twelve new members of nato in the post cold war period all incorporated into nato within one decade from one thousand nine hundred two thousand nine hundred thirty year and these are countries that have been forced to send troops that would act of war zone the individual armed forces of each nato nation are going to become less and less national more and more international more and more sort of subservient to brussels and ultimately to washington and more designed for expeditionary adventurous abroad such as those in libya afghanistan in the indian ocean on the mediterranean sea in the balkans and so forth they have to protect their own home. activists waiting for the british prime minister to decide on whether to grant asylum to afghan intemperate is to work with u.k. forces during military operations this week sixty thousand politician knowledge by one of the entire parties forced into hiding by the taliban who consider him to be collaborative as a direct. it was

a dangerous job that required courage many of these translators are working on the front line so they're working with soldiers risking their lives in exactly the same way soldiers do but while british forces withdraw the afghan interpreters who made their work possible are being left to fend for themselves is it your job or for. your all stand for those you have to be if i catch you then i would rafi worked at camp prince in the helmand province says he gets regular calls from the taliban some six hundred fifty interpreters just like rafi remain in afghanistan with no right to settle in the u.k. both times when you when you finish the job and you've done it very well there's a thank you at the end of that job in this case it's a death threat it's a risk to life but seen by this how about this having collaborated with the enemy and david the past year targeted killings of so-called international collaborators

by the taliban have doubled r.t. got in touch with the foreign and commonwealth office who are responsible for the interpreters asylum claims this is the response we got people who have put the life on the mine for the united kingdom will not be abandoned the government has put processes in place to ensure the service given by former interpreters with a term forces is taken fully into account if individuals apply for asylum in the u k. the keyword here is individual for the moment it's a case by case basis according to the foreign office to make sure the personal circumstances are recognized case by case the sign of planes can take months even years no accountability every other nato country that directly employed interpreters has offered them some kind of special program visa program britain is the only country that has an interest or drag space from the us we will be involved in events overseas in the future clearly will lead to our people helping them but

who is going to help our military if they realize that they're not going to help themselves senior military and political figure in the people who work here in the u.k. foreign office to rethink the policy and campaigns gain momentum over sixty thousand people have signed an online petition urging the british foreign secretary to offer a bulk resettlement program while the politicians think it over and here the men that risked their lives to help british forces say that the waiting game is getting deadlier by the day we were helping the people but all they see is that real war with the aggression forces in africa. which are so-called the no two forces or eyes of forces but to every other of the national. aggression forces and once they leave. the people who be endangered and will pay for the some wrongdoings of the americans who we did have going into and their families.

london. a wave of sectarian violence caused over two hundred deaths in iraq this last week bloodshed spreading the country so then tonight we look at the deepening division between the sunnis and shiites which is feared to be driving the state toward civil war also coming up to more bodies now identified about inferno at the russian mental facility where investigators suspect careless smoking to be done on the fire a couple of stories very soon. more

news today. these are the images. from the streets of canada. operations.

in iraq over two hundred deaths this last week it started with a deadly fire fight in the north where the military raided a sunni anti-government protest camp more than fifty civilians died and choose days of baghdad's nowthen block ten television channels operating in the region including al jazeera all accused of promoting violence with no side of peace than between the sunni and the ruling shia communities iraq's prime minister is warning the states dragging itself into a civil war political analyst and glazebrook says iraq's current violence is easily traced back to the western invasion. i think what we need to understand what we're seeing here in iraq is that we're seeing the fruits of this policy that was adopted about six years ago by u.s. and saudi arabia in particular if you look at the way that the occupying powers are behaved ever since two thousand and three since the start of the iraqi occupation they've done everything it seems possible to try and form an sectarianism the

constitution introduced was completely based on confessional identity not on national citizenship sunni militias were to be equipped financed and armed by saudi arabia and qatar in order to wage basically sectarian war against shia muslims and we know that these two powers say that saudi arabia and qatar on the forefront of representing imperial u.s. and british interests in the region so nothing gets done without the say so of these other powers we have are you to fully artie's that follow lucy catherine off on twitter for the latest developments on iraq's ongoing crisis to. if you. are you. in.

beijing spitting back over america's global audit of inequality high crime and human rights violations the annual report highlights shortcomings in china so it's issued one back in return and actually took a look. after years of swallowing accusations of violating human rights beijing is fighting back after last year the u.s. published its scolding human rights practices report now china held a mirror back to washington and its role of international human rights judge let's take a look at where the two clash the u.s. again accuse china of limiting internet freedoms the so-called great firewall of china where beijing has long being under scrutiny for blocking many western websites such as facebook google and you tube but those criticizing china are no saints the sounding people and cispa bills to control internet data have made waves across the atlantic lately and the u.s.

government approved interception of private text messages and e-mails for security needs are hardly contributing to online freedom china's single party political system and lack of democratic elections also came under fire the chinese report made its wife back at america's multi-party system saying that in what seems to be a democratic process it's really not the people but the amount of money spent on complaints which really decide the winner is the largest part of the us report was dedicated to human rights as they are today from harsh labor conditions to poor salaries indeed china's status of being the world's factory is nothing new and the cheap labor force concept has long been debated beijing hit back with a scathing claim that in the country where racism and discrimination fishley do not exist and hispanic employees earn forty percent less than the white population in the united states and that's through the glass ceiling for women who earn a twenty percent smaller salary than men the u.s. report also lashed out at the treatment of prisoners and members of opposition in china contrast that with

a country which runs notorious guantanamo prison and the allegations of multiple human rights abuses within its walls with china highlighting full statistics on all deaths in u.s. prisons and the use of brutal force against peaceful demonstrators in twenty two well it is no secret that china has a checkered human rights record but by countering the claims of those who it billy . should get its own house in order it is quite clear that beijing no longer wants to see a monopoly in the market of examining human rights one of russia's leading opposition activists the corruption campaign alexina valmy went on trial this week on embezzlement charges and accused of stealing half a million dollars worth of timber from a state owned company and serving as an aide to the local governor and he could get ten years prison if he's convicted of felony denies the charges calling them bogus and the case against him is purely political blogger incredibly critic was the spike in russia's wave of protests that started in december twentieth eleven while earlier often being associated with the nationalist movement recently he publicly

stated his willingness to eventually run for president. quick look at some stories making headlines now this sunday an apartment blocks collapsed in france has left at least two people dead nine others were injured after a suspected gas leak exploded at the four story building rescue teams have been deployed to try to retrieve two bodies monday the rubble of this destroyed complex will they keep you posted on how they get on in italy two policemen the been shot outside the tally in prime minister's office in rome one of the officers died while the others injured it happened. and his cabinet were being sworn in at the president's palace the interior minister called the instant quote a tragic criminal gesture by an unemployed man after the attack was arrested it's really picked democrat earlier this week which but an end to a two month political stalemate. at least two people have been killed and twenty five injured after two bombs exploded near a pakistan election office a child reported to be among the casualties there it's the latest violence that's

linked to the may eleventh general election earlier on sunday a series of explosions rocked a shiite politicians office in the northwest that killed six of his supporters at another five were killed in the city of side the headquarters of a local election candidate. thirty eight people died on friday when fire engulfed a psychiatric ward near moscow with officials saying negligence by the clinic staff could have caused the high number of deaths it's not the first such accident in russia sadly and experts are already sounding the alarm for the frequency of hospitals and nursing home fires which have killed over two hundred people in recent years has been offered more details from the scene of this latest terrible tragedy. it was around half past one in the morning when a nurse at that tiny psychiatric hospital in the millage located around eighty miles away from moscow noticed smoke in one of the hallways she trying putting out the fires self but the flames were spreading too quickly and of course we saw the

front entrance catch fire we dashed forward and broke the door we saw one man line and cautiously we try to help others but there was too much smoke and we had to run away one view local saw was happening some of them rushed to the hospital to try to help with the fire was already too powerful for them to handle only two patients and that nurse made it out alive while dozens of others didn't and this is a psychiatric hospital and patients are given drugs and investigators say you know that could be one of the reasons why so few people made it out alive they say that most of the others it's very likely simply were not able to wake up when the fire started due to the heavy medication another problem is that the nearest fire station is located around thirty miles away from here that combined with bad roads were the reasons why it took over an hour for the first rescue teams to arrive investigators say that some of the patients died from smoke inhalation but most simply burned to death in their beds. the nurse who worked that night is in stable

condition in hospital but she is obviously shocked by this terrible and painful experience experts were already able to investigate the building where the fire took place and they see it's most likely that it started in the sofa backing up rumors that one of the patients could have left a lit cigarette on it. it's not allowed to smoke there most probably someone lit is cigarette in bed and it all caught fire obviously right now many questions need answering there's lots of uncertain information and contradicting information as well but hopefully the ongoing investigation will help shed some light on the reasons behind one of the worst hospital fires in russia in years you've got this going off our moscow region. coming up next the lawyer of the last remaining british national held at guantanamo without charge speaks to us about that

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from the international airport in the very heart of moscow. the last remaining british resident at guantanamo bay says he says he will die there as a result of what he calls systematic torture forty seven year old sucker of the has been at guantanamo bay for more than eleven years now without trial or charge let's now speak to his lawyer clive stafford smith he's also the director of legal action charity reprieve thank you very much for joining us when was the last time you spoke to second on the i spoke to sack a last week on the telephone i was trying to get another i got

a message from one of my clients that one of my clients that he desperately needs to talk again but they're not letting me have another one till next week would you take in the last week well i'm in the heart of we went on for an hour and it was basically mainly about the hunger strike but i think he was more down he had lost a lot more weight in the days between that call and the one i had before. and he was really concerned that he was fading it's been more than two months now that that hunger strikes how's his health his health was terrible before he started the hunger strike and so. do you think when you stop eating for two months he's being horribly abused i mean the us unfortunately is taking a very vindictive attitude the colonel in charge of the camp seems to have an absurd position on how you treat people the colonel said to one of my other clients . we know how to deal with you because i've got children myself.

and this response which i thought was quite humorous was if he's treating his children like he treats us we need to send the social services around that to straighten out when prisoners talk about obesity yourselves seeing evidence of that shack is going through what they now call f c which is forcible cell extraction it's a euphemism that's gone through many transitions the last several years we used to call it the. emergency reaction force or shock you call the street repression force. and what that is is when a prisoner doesn't do exactly what they're told the six being dressed up you know if they're in darth vader outfits come in and basically beat him up to make him do it pen him to the floor and checking describes how this one guy who's hundred pounds to sits on and sometimes needs him in the stomach and i've seen the bruises on him from this process this is happening to move time right now because they have

a process where anything he asks for they won't just give it to and they send c. eighteen so if he wants a bottle of water they send the goods and if he wants his medicine they send against him and what he told me last i talked to him was it's just not asking for his medication anymore because he doesn't want to get beat not to get it that is if you haven't been to guantanamo bay has seen very little information about what goes on inside that what is it actually like inside the detention camp the scene the breezes what's the atmosphere in that place well i've spent my whole life representing people on death row so i've been to most of the death rows of the southern states of america. kuantan there for all the names of the military from south of god it is worse than any other. country different but first you go on the physical treatment of the prisoners there's no prisoner prison in the united states where you could beat

a prisoner up and not get sued into the next millennium say it's worse because no one controls the military. but on another level it's fog with and that psychologically. the military go to upset us way back when when we called it the guantanamo do that because they didn't like the echoes of the soviet union in the old days so to take that analogy a bit further which i think is totally fair i don't think it was a given that in soviet russia where fifty two percent of the prisoners had been told that they were cleared for release that they couldn't go i mean is that sort of torture that's within anything you hear in other places so eighty six out of one hundred sixty six prisoners have been told that cleared but they can't go shack was told he was treated in two thousand and seven by bush two thousand and nine by obama he's still there and there is no legitimate reason why he can't come back to london tomorrow or talk about him being cleared for release i understand there's

new information that's come to light recently and that the foreign secretary william hague well tell us what he said what the new information that just came to light is new dissent from nation which is william hague the british foreign secretary wrote to me saying that he had been told by the americans that shachar is the only kid to go to saudi arabia not to britain well that's total drivel there's no other person i know of out of one hundred sixty six people in guantanamo and they've been cleared to go to one place shaq has never been told he's only a kid to go to one place he's been given two notices neither of which say that now there's a reason for it and the reason is they want to gag him and the people who want to gag him is not just the united states the u.s. wants him to go to saudi arabia on the premise that the saudis will keep him banged up forever he won't be able to talk to the media and he won't talk to anyone so certainly the u.s. would like to keep shafiq watch because of everything he's seen and everything that's happened to him but i'm very much afraid that it's also the british

intelligence services who want to keep him quiet because they know that schacher is a witness against them going back to bag ram air force base in jail. in every two thousand and two shack it was the british saw him. legally complicit in his torture that but also the shakha saw it in shake up libby being tortured and this is the most embarrassing example of torture that americans had so the last thing that the british or americans want to come out of guantanamo bay shack karama who can shed some light on the torture that led to that catastrophic mistake what is it that sucker eliminates that other detainees dying i know exactly what he knows because he's told me he was in that ground he was one of the first five prisoners held by the americans and background and he was taken there just before new year two thousand and one and libby had just been taken in the americans at the

time thought he was a big time al-qaeda person which he was and he was never a member of al qaida so the americans were abusing him to try to get him to make statements shakar was taken from the cage where he was being held in background into the room where libby was being abused he saw the people who were there you can identify some of those people the british were present. at that time and he can tell you a whole lot about what was going on in terms of the abuse of libby now libby can't speak for himself because he was sent back to libya where he according to the libyans gadhafi died according to other people was murdered so one extraordinarily embarrassing witness has disappeared and shakhtar is one of the few people who remain i'd just like to be. in testimony that he rightly said they these adult cow is an adult yes i can see the light well over one hundred prisoners is striking in

solidarity we're not going to take it anymore and he does that. while it's recently begun with the koran being disrespected but it is now much more than that. they've been hunger strikes before which is this time is different this time is different for two reasons one is that there's many many more people on hunger strike and the thing they give shaka hope is he feels that the result of their city and the prisoners that he hasn't.