the guantanamo bay hunger strike enters its one hundredth day the number of inmates refusing food is increasing and the use of force feeding has been condemned here at r.t. we have extensive coverage of a situation ongoing at the camp. a million dollars a year plus bonuses russia's security service releases phone conversations the alleged cia agent arrested in moscow was offering his potential recruit. a recession for a second time since two thousand and eight with some economists dubbing it the euro zone's ticking time bomb it's the latest blow to president after a tough first year in office.

a very good morning to you from all of us here at moscow where it's now just after nine am here in the russian capital. with the worldwide news let's get straight to our top story for you today here on. being exactly one hundred days since detainees at guantanamo bay camp started their hunger strike. now the official number of inmates refusing food has been increasing on an almost daily basis and has now reached at least one hundred around thirty hunger strikers are being subjected to force feeding a controversial tactic condemned by the un and the international medical community as inhumane and all of these numbers are only likely to grow because what started

as a strike against mistreatment has turned into a battle against indefinite detention and washington's broken promises to close the prison at the center of america's war on terror. nature can explains. after years of inaction injustice and indifference and after more than three months of starvation one tunnel detainees have finally got the president's attention i'm going to go back after they've heard these words before as president i will close guantanamo reject the military commissions act and if you go to the geneva conventions and now again it needs to be closed now congress and again as many times before the white house if it were sponsibility to congress there's much you can do administrative leave without congress without having a legislative act even under current restrictions the administration has the power to use national security waivers to release many of these men which it hasn't used it's the charge that well the fear that if you

release some of these prisoners that have been accused of being terrorist in the past and and they do something else or you find them going into terrorist organizations you will pay a heavy political price for that so many of these men have fallen victim not just to their wrongful capture but also to u.s. politicians assumptions of what they may or may not do in the future but you can't you can't will people to maybe you know this is a we're not future police here so far the administration's only response to the crisis of course carnival has been to force feeding troops down detainees nostrils the fact of the matter is that when an individual makes a decision of sound mind makes a decision to refuse food as a political protest then as we said in our joint statement it is not open to the states in a second chance to force them to do each. and the full speeding here involves the

insertion of a tube of some significant down on the diameter through the naval passages and into the stomach in the most horrible of circumstances the un special rapporteur on human rights also told me that he was encouraged to hear the. once again express commitment to close the infamous prison president of united states has pointed out it was a problem and yet on the ground for some reason the camp administration continues to treat these men and humanely and to deny them basic dignity for years the administration has been gauged in verbal and legal acrobatics to justify its inaction on guantanamo and still not clear how long before people there start dying but one thing is clear the elephant in the room just got into a big nor in washington i'm going to shut down. now here at r.t. we've been following the hunger strike from the very beginning well before the u.s. the authorities you would have missed it that it was taking place we've been

gathering comments from prison officials detainees attorneys and activists to give you a full account of the situation all of that also a timeline of the protest all available on our web site c dot com now one of the many reasons given for the i suppose advised closure of guantanamo bay is simply the fact that it is the most expensive prison on the planet to maintain for example each of the inmates costs american taxpayers at least nine hundred thousand dollars per year a much much higher than the cost of keeping prisoners on u.s. soil now some of the things that pays for according to those held at guantanamo is a regime of force feeding a dying water isolation and low temperatures some detainees claim a simple telephone call to lawyers results in a degrading bodies earlier my colleague bill dog talked with a spokesman from the u.s. military authority that oversees guantanamo he denies there is widespread abuse at the facility. when a detainee will even get a what we call a full frisk which is

a pat down search not unlike you'd experience going through airport security if you are selected for secondary screening in the united states it's quick it's with full clothing on hand and it's noninvasive so the lawyers it's not the detainees job to tell the truth the lawyers just repeat what the detainees say that all of those allegations are false what about the allegations of the many years i want to let me ask you about the allegations about the on the safe and inhumane force feeding all of those prisoners who are on hunger strike do you deny that well there is the policy of the united states and its troops there and life for lawful means we currently have a hundred hunger strikers today we have currently thirty who are. doing terribly sad deaths using a liquid nutrition supplement. most of them when they're ordered to do that go compliantly and take it a percentage about

a third need to be taken to their their cheating but it's not a it's a procedure that's done in hospitals and nursing homes every day. it's not it's not done to harass them but it's done to constrain life to sustain life but we've been hearing from the medical justice network who is saying that doctors are accused of colluding in torture that at the camp and that's been agreed on by the world medical association and the u.n. . yes and we disagree with them it's a matter of national policy our courts have upheld that. sustaining life she lawful means lawful and. we. have a medical protocol with. detainees based on their weight loss and co-morbidity. we allow them to hunger strike if they get to about eighty five percent below that

below eighty five percent of body weight some damage can be done we will do the involuntary feeding all of those allegations are false they're not they're not being subject to extreme temperatures they're not being denied food and water the conditions are as good as they can possibly be you know they had satellite television they had communal living they had all kinds of good things. your producers are welcome to come carol rosenberg of the miami herald today here more than sixty town and we are trying to connect with somebody you can see for yourself . however the picture drawn by that guantanamo bay spokesman contradicts what detainees lawyers are saying federal public defender carlos want to represents one of the hunger strike in prison as he told my colleague that the situation is far more drastic than the authorities ever want made public arbitrary detention it goes against everything that every international law every human rights organization the u.n.

says that's completely wrong for speeding goes against what what everybody says is is correct is defined by the those groups as torture so on this issue unfortunately the president is on the wrong side you've been there i was talking to the spokesman of the detention center in italy here naughty and he said the conditions were perfectly normal satellite t.v. communal areas is that true. now the military is all wrong and they're doing all the things to dry. in the wrong direction remember this is the same military that the night of strike was going on for a long time same military that said if your force extracted from your cell a tube down your nose and you're fed that that's not force feeding the president frames it this way we've got two bad choices either they die or if we force feed them well there's a third choice and the third choice is releasing the innocent men which he has the power to do that would end the strike the military has another choice too they could negotiate with the men and with people like myself they did that we could end

the strike in a week and we could we could roll this backwards but instead of deescalating they ask relate over and over again it makes you wonder whether or not the military wants this to continue because they're certainly doing exactly the opposite of what they should be doing to end the strike here and we will continue our coverage of this milestone one hundred days over the hunger strike a more expert analysis and opinion coming up on throughout the day. hunger strike despair pushed to the limit i. nearly one hundred one time the detainees are screaming for justice. where is the end for good. it's good to have you with us here on our to live from moscow it's now or ten past nine in the morning the alleged cia agent caught in moscow was offering his would

be recruit one million dollars a year for passing on classified information and the evidence comes from wiretapped phone conversations between the two now made public by russia's federal security service you've got it was going off has the latest details on this developing spy story as more details offer the latest spying scandal between moscow and washington continue to emerge we've managed to obtain audio recordings of what the federal security service claims were phone conversations between the undercover cia officer and the person he was hoping to recruit. more to the process talk a subordinate you want to store attack us because of more just at the bottom of a million dollars of course you want us. some. ideas at home a. picture it all happened late on monday night in one of moscow's city parks where another cover cia officer officially working in moscow as an american

diplomat was hoping to meet an officer of one of russia's security services who he was working to recruit and here is where the classic spy story begins the man brought to the meeting several wigs including one on him tens of thousands of the euro in cash map of the city and the cheapest and most simplest form you can possibly find and pretty much throw away right after using resume with the one. used in these phone conversations but despite all the calm of large and the spy tricks obviously he didn't know that he was under surveillance by the f.s.b. for the past few years and that the man he was hoping to recruit would be the same one to detain him but just before that happened here's a piece of what seems to be the last phone conversation he had. of the park. where you have a seizure was after he was temporarily detained the man was passed over back to

american authorities has been announced persona non grata in russia and as we boarded now to be getting ready to return to the united states nor fishel reaction from washington but we do know that u.s. ambassador in russia michael mcfaul did make a visit to the foreign ministry but no details have been released of that russian officials have been voicing outrage with what happened saying that the leaders of the two countries have been working to develop and improve relations that there's been progress around the syria issue and how to deal with that and now the scandal here in sochi where the russian president currently is one of his advisors told us that it's really surprising that it happened now despite orders from the leaders of both countries to their security services to work together on one side rather than against each other. the u.s. media's reaction to this new spy scandal was well

a mixture of laughter and disbelief citing the alleged agent's clumsy recruiting techniques ridicule is a fairly common reaction to stories like this but previous cases show it doesn't make them less true of british intelligence analysts glenmore trinny or harvey he says it's just a point scored in the everlasting russian american spy game. it is a great success for the f.s.b. the russian domestic security service what fairly fail to do is follow a set of rules which the cia have always had it's called the moscow rules it requires . very the pattern of your behavior your constantly told what is happening espionage is the great game well in this particular instance russia has called america has lost but make no bones about it there will be a few recalls at the moment and before we know relations through back to normal and

as i say. the cia will replace really with another intelligence officer and the game will continue. and the full interview with glenmore trail harvey seen right the british intelligence analyst available for you on our website right now also online we've collected a selection of the top spy scandals of the twenty first century involving the u.s. and russia r.t. dot com has the background on that story well still here on the download for free while you still can the record industry in the united kingdom a box on a crusade to prevent online music sharers from stealing their tracks and their profits that's coming your way in just a couple of. old . technology innovations all these developments around

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live from moscow this is on t.v. with me role research to show you france has entered it recession for the second time in five years the numbers come as president francois hollande marks one year in office which some have already labeled as a disaster as ati's tester australia reports are adults over the whole euro zone's ability to manage its crisis economy i we're looking at a cafe culture here in paris still continuing looking calmer wherever this is a far cry a contrast to the other images that we've seen across the country such as protests against president francois launched a first set of versa really as president has there seeing him as not having done enough for the economy or those add to your story a steady protest now the a french finance minister had come out saying that this contraction that we're seeing now is a result of the overall depressed environment that france finds itself at its

neighbors in the euro zone area however it is still a blow to afonso all along. what dan has been seeing a lot of criticism for the policies that are in place and also there have been a lot of economists who have been calling france for some time now as a ticking time bomb in europe it's one of the core countries now that we're seeing in recession no longer the so-called periphery of the euro zone such as countries like greece or portugal but a core euro zone nation so what do these numbers really mean for france being in a recession it would be extremely difficult to get out of the speciation. really bad policy which are used now going a sprint she's cutting labor cost cutting the party show no work of course we will show shrill. and you're not going to spend the afternoon in nice garfield like this one because you know it becoming too expensive for you well as these the small numbers hit europe and france finds itself officially in a recession the question really bear is how long is it going to take before economy

starts growing and growing again and stop being in the red and also the concern is the longer it is that we see the sustained the lock loss the numbers the harder it will be for a recovery to take place reporting from paris i'm tess or so yeah. still to come here on our team at seven thirty g.m.t. max kaiser and stacey delving into the global financial headlines well coming up with a surprising theory on how the markets truly forward. scientists used to believe that the earth was the center of the universe today economists who call themselves scientists claim that the economy revolves around these central banks and this is the fractal reserve system behold the sacred dow as you know of course we have this secret dow if the dow jones and the nikkei or the footsie if they rise if they continue to rise then all will be ok in the economy so we sacrifice our wealth

our economy jobs everything to rising a rising dow well it's not what we have not predicted in other words we said that after the two thousand a crisis that there would be massive money printing and one of the likely outcomes would be hyperinflation in the stock index. ok you know twenty minutes past the hour moscow time this is artsy downloading free music in the united kingdom may soon be a thing of the past british record labels have come up with a list of twenty five services they are willing to take to court to stop online bootlegging and perhaps save their profits on the surface reports. well record labels could be about to launch the biggest battle yet against pirate sites and what's alleged will be at the main blocking blitz in the ongoing fight against websites that file share and infringe on music copyrights now british internet service providers all i ask piece of already in the recent past being asked to

block websites certain websites that are illegally file sharing music now it's thought that the british industry trade body. he launched the previous successful legal action is set to take a third wave of action now b.v. i haven't yet responded to this latest information but it student that that would be targeting sites such is the us space file sharing site greaves and what would that mean well for british consumers of the music industry they won't be able to access these sites any more this action is aimed at targeting the casual illegal download or of course for the hardcore pirates the simply move on is thought to the vast array of websites that you have out there at the moment so already questions being raised are suggest how effective any legal action would be certainly is seems that these are fire sharing sites where the previous ever more popular are next for

the chopping board is this music industry attempts to continue this crackdown on other legal file sharing. surface reporting that the leader of the pirate party. he told us here at r t that the record industry is using an outdated approach that could rebound on it. if recent reports are wrongly it looks likely that we could be facing an onslaught of web blackouts here in the united kingdom what we've seen is that the tactic is first to go after high profile sites like pirate bay but actually what we've seen is from twenty twelve this that that hasn't helped music sales at all that actually album sales fell ten percent so we've seen how useless this approach is essentially what we're seeing this is about the record labels trying to cater trying to remain gate keepers and actually push companies out but this approach will not work it's going to alienate

a generation of music lovers and only it's going to perhaps enter radicalising internet users this is not what we want. and online for you this hour dot com human rights watch demands an investigation into claims of torture during april's formula one grand prix in range of us as the crackdown on the protest movement continues unabated dot com has all the information where you can learn more about buck rains and how the officials there any officials are keeping a grip on the opposition. and more atomic trouble in japan a nuclear reactor is in danger of being permanently shut down because it's located right over an active seismic fault or not whether time is running out for officials to close the site.

i. thanks for joining us here on our world update in just a moment the finale the u.s. justice department has defended its surveillance operation on the associated press news agency attorney general eric holder says wiretapping the phones of one hundred journalists was necessary to protect americans from leaks could endanger the safety of norman solomon from the fed media watch group he thinks it's aimed at making an example of a.p. in order to scare off any would be whistleblowers that is really one of the last refuge of scoundrels when it comes to top leaders who want to turn off the tap of information reaching their own public that those leaders would rather the public be kept in the dark about and i think what we've seen with these revelations about the

phone records of a.p. reporters is that this is an ministration which has already weighs data larger war against more whistleblowers than any other in u.s. history has continued to push the envoy and tried to have a chilling effect on not only journalists but the sources within the administration and to new orleans not to open up the world update is where u.s. police are both rested the nineteen year old suspect they've been hunting in connection with the mother's day shooting there in the big easy scott who has a criminal record for possessing firearms on drugs has been on the run for three days now and nineteen people were wounded during the gun rampage at sunday's parade children as young as ten among them. in syria pro assad refugees including women intruder came under fire from the rebels as they returned to their homes in the south east town of yarmouk government soldiers

accompanying the refugees returned fire with a report saying three of them were injured by the syrian military claims it killed ten rebels the incident happened just hours after the un general assembly condemned the forces of president assad and back to the opposition in the bright lights of. and to spain where hundreds of box clashed with over three hundred policemen in the city of. officers were injured and two people arrested on charges of assault people were trying to prevent security forces from arresting an alleged member of the radical proboscis independence group. he's linked to a two thousand and eight attack on a police station. and faces five years in prison. at least six people have been killed dozens injured by a shoe factory collapse in cambodia is that as many as fifty people could still be trapped inside the single storey building of the incident follows last month's collapse of a garment factory in bangladesh that killed more than a thousand. well it is

a pleasure to have you with us here at our team today just around the bend now a report on the b.p. oil spill in the gulf of mexico live from moscow it's artsy. a fairly dickinson university study has been revealed to twenty nine percent of americans think that a revolution won't just happen in america but needs to be done in order to protect individual liberty if respondents consider themselves conservative than that number is bumped up to forty four percent that's nearly half also fox news found out that since nine eleven the percent of americans willing to sacrifice their personal freedom to reduce the threat of terrorism is at an all time low this number might sound trivial but it only takes a tiny percent of the population actually start

a revolution i mean how many communists were in russia at the start of nine hundred seventeen and how many were there at the end revolution may sound like a nice thing to a growing number of people but the media wrongly portrays revolution as some fun video game battle where freedom fighters topple the statue of the dictator and then democracy just instantly comes about and life is good and happy and ask you to ignore movies like v. for vendetta and look at history revolutions cause horrible destruction that could take decades to repair i guess what when your economy collapses because a revolt infrastructure breaks down and the shelves go bare also professional revolutionaries get their supplies from somebody and a foreign powers would say fundamental can revolutionaries they would want something in return aloha and goodbye alaska if you look at history then you'll see that revolution is brutal and ugly and it's truly the last resort but it still is a resort but that's just my opinion.

i think if. anything if. the nafta the b.p. spill and dr ron came to louisiana we're in very teria which is forty miles from the gulf and about one hundred fifty miles from the wellhead and the oil and dispersants have come into here yesterday the wind blew really hard these tables got this cloudy gritty glaze on it look at that that's just what's on the table before we even start the interview. was b.p. about to repeat the same strategy that exxon had used with the valve these oil spill this pack of confidential documents were uncovered as per.