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a pleasure to have you with us here on our t.v. today. live in moscow with your world wide twenty four hour news let's get straight to our top story for you right now it has been exactly one hundred days since detainees at guantanamo bay prison camp started their hunger strike. now the official number of inmates refusing food has been increasing on an almost daily basis and now has reached at least one hundred around the thirty hunger strikers are being subjected to force feeding a controversial tactic condemned by the united nations and the international medical community as in humane and all these numbers are only likely to keep on

growing 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 of. nature can explain its. after years of a natural injustice and indifference and after more than three months of starvation one tunnel detainees have finally got the president at home i'm going to go back out but 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 we're dead it needs to be closed now congress and again as many times before the white house if it was a possibility to congress there's much you can do administrative leave without congress without having 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 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 want 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 the decision to refuse food as a political protest then as we said in a joint statement it is not open to the states in a second chance to force them to do each. and the force feeding here involves the

insertion of a tube of some significant down on the diameter through the nasal 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. here the president once again expressed commitment to close the infamous prison president of united states has kuantan a moser problem and yet on the ground for some reason the camp administration continues to treat these men in humanely and to deny them basic dignity three years the administration is in 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 too big to ignore in washington i'm going to shut down. and hear it out to you we've been following the hunger strike from the very beginning well before us or thirty's even admitted that it was taking place and we've been gathering

a comments from prison officials detainees attorneys and activists to give you the full picture and account of the situation all that plus the timeline of the protest all of those available for you just a click away right now this hour available for you at c dot com now one of the many reasons for shutting down guantanamo bay prison is the simple fact that it is the most expensive prison on the planet to operate and maintain for example each of the one hundred sixty six inmates cost american taxpayers at least nine hundred thousand dollars per year much much higher than the cost of keeping prisoners on u.s. soil some of the things though that pays for that according to those held at guantanamo is a regime of force feeding denying water isolation and low temperatures some detainees claim a simple telephone call to lawyers and resulting in a degrading body search my colleague bill dog talked to a spokesman from the u.s. military authority overseeing guantanamo bay he denies there's any abuse at the

facility. when a detainee leave the camp they 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 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 unsafe and inhumane force feeding all those prisoners who are on hunger strike do you deny that well there is the policy of the united states and its drudgery of life for lawful means we currently have a hundred hunger strikers today we have currently thirty who are. doing and 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 sustain 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 at 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 will have a medical protocol where we evaluate detainees based on their weight loss income or deadbeat. we allow them to hunger strikes that if they get to about eighty five

percent below that below eighty five percent of body weight that some damage could be done you know we will do the involuntary feeding all of those allegations are false they're not they're not being subject to extreme temperatures are not being denied food and water and the conditions are good or very can possibly be you know they had satellite television they had communal weather and you had all kinds of good paying your your producers your welcome to come carol rosenberg of the night here who think you're more than sixty town and we're trying to kind of facility you can see for yourself. but the picture drawn by that guantanamo bay spokesman contradicts what detainee's lawyers are saying a federal public defender carlos warner he represents one of the hunger striking prisoners told my colleague that the situation is far more drastic than the authorities 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 force feeding goes against what what everybody says is correct it's 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 a little earlier they are not saying 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 drive in the wrong direction remember this is the same military that the night of strike was going on for a long time same military they said if you're force extracted from your cell a tube shoved 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 it 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 only 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. and force feeding is one of the issues most concerning detainees lawyers so hear it out so we decided to explore why exactly this procedure is causing outrage among human rights organizations and his alexy go to ships before you. what i'm about to describe to you is not torture these are the details of force feeding by prison guards in guantanamo which were made public in the leaked report first of all the feeding process itself involves handcuffs and mask and the long tube the inmates are cuffed to a chair then a guard covers their head with a mask officially to prevent speeding and biting and insert

a tube into their nose prisoners have reported several cases when they nearly suffocated because the tube was pushed too deep into their nostril once this is over inmates are taken to their cell where they are forbidden from drinking water or vomiting the nutritional liquid there's even a special guard who oversees that the inmate keeps it all inside if they do for up they are punished by being placed in a restraint chair to break this hunger strike prison authorities have attempted to separate the protesting inmates over one hundred men have been thrown into solitary cells to as it was put by prison officials prevent them from achieving solidarity it seems this move did not bear fruit despite the core of the protesters being isolated from other prisoners the number of hunger strikers has only increased the medical condition of some of them has seriously deteriorated but they complain that they are not receiving proper medical assistance reports from within the walls of guantanamo suggest that prison doctors blindly follow the orders of the military rather than acting according to their medical oath something that violates

international acknowledged rights of a prisoner but those fortunate enough to have had the doctor's attention hardly feel in safe hands according to the experts the choice of medication is somewhat bewildering as the queue of the various health conditions caused by a lengthy hunger strike but rather to facilitate force feeding one of the drugs used is fairly grand which deals with north sea of vomiting and it can also act as a sleep aid another one is reglan which treats heartburn and known for neurological side effects after long term use and all of that is added to the prison guards acting without the consent of inmates who legally have the right to refuse medical treatment but in the case of guantanamo there is a special rule which puts force feeding on the same level as forced medical aid. and we will continue our coverage of this milestone one hundred days of the hunger strike a more expert analysis and opinion coming up on our throughout the day hope you can stay with us. hunger strike despair pushed to the limit.

this is really one hundred one time the detainees are screaming for justice. where is the end for. thank you for joining us here on our own rule researcher in the russian capital of the alleged cia agent caught in moscow was offering one million dollars a year for passing on classified information and that evidence comes from wiretapped phone conversations between him and the security officer he was trying to recruit the recordings were made public by russia's federal security service now the alleged agent has been handed over to american or thora he's now waiting to go to the u.s. washington has issued no official replies so far at the u.s. media's reaction to the new spy scandal was a mixture of laughter and disbelief at the alleged agent's clumsy recruiting techniques now ridicule is a common reaction to stories like this that previous cases show it doesn't make

them less true a british intelligence analyst to glenmore trinny a hobby he says is just another 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 finally fail to do is follow a set of rules which the cia have always had it's called the moscow rules it requires that you vary 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 wrinkles at the moment and before we know relations through back to normal and as i say. the cia will replace with another intelligence.

on the a full interview with glenmore trail that british intelligence analyst it's available for you right now on our website com also online we've collected a selection of the top spy scandal to twenty first century involving the u.s. and russia. dot com for the background of this story. and download it for free while you still can the record industry in the u.k. i'm on a crusade to prevent online music sharers from stealing that tracks on their profits as interest a couple of minutes. wealthy british style sun it's time to.

market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into. com is a report on r g.

twelve minutes on breaking the set for. recession for the second time in five years the numbers come as president francois hollande marks one year in office which some have labeled as a disaster as reports there are doubts 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 the first anniversary as president there seeing him as not having done enough for the economy or those and 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 were found swollen to 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 pull out of the speciation. stream a bad policy which are used now going cooking experiences cutting labor costs cutting the politician a worker of course we have a show shown in part and you are not going to spend your afternoon in nice coffee 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 there 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 lackluster numbers the harder it will be for a recovery to take place reporting from paris i'm tests or sylvia. in the meantime a financial analyst alex caldwell he believes there's no saving france until complete structural reforms are implemented. what we saw in france was not austerity but what we call in france. they would force the stereotype forces of force thirty if your higher taxes higher public during and by your public spending the average french worker who stacks up fifty seven percent the. proportion of public debt on the. on the g.d.p. is at ninety eight percent so clearly we should look the other way and consider structural reforms lower taxes lower public spending and lower. and coming up next hour here on out c max keiser and stacy her book again delving into the global

financial headlines are all coming up with a rather surprising theory on how the markets truly operate. 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 the 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 of 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 but that'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 indexes.

before we get into the aussie will drop that let's head to the u.k. now where downloading free music may soon be a thing of the past a british record labels have come up with a list of twenty five services they're willing to take to court to stop online bootlegging and try to save the shrinking profits of the explanation now to watch the correspondence are of. well record labels could be about to launch the biggest battle yet against pirate sites and what's alleged to be the main blocking blitz in the ongoing fight against websites that files and infringe on music copyright the british internet service providers all. ready in the recent past been asked to look at 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 bt i haven't yet responded to this latest information

but it's food that would be targeting sites such as the us based file sharing site . 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 college 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 as to just how effective any legal action would be certainly is seems that these are file sharing sites or 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. and the leader of the pirate party lost you told us here at r t that the record industry is using an outdated approach that could return to haunt us. to raleigh it looks like we could be facing an only flaw to where

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 is 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 keep 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 breathalyzers internet users this is not we want. for you right now what are to dot com human rights watch demands an investigation into claims of torture this during april's formula one grand prix in bahrain that's all of the crackdown on the protest

movement continues unabated if you had a would want to dot com you can learn more on how buck brains officials are keeping a very tight 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 over an active seismic falls to find out where the time is running out for officials to close down the site. for now 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 that could endanger the safety but norman solomon from the fair media watch group 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 isn't ministration which has already weighs data larger war against more whistleblowers than any other in u.s. history has continued to push the envelope and try to have a chilling effect on not only journalists but the sources within the administration . into the aussie world update now starting with several tornadoes that have ripped through the u.s. state of texas in one area up to seventy five homes were destroyed and six people killed but that number looks likely to rise many others have been injured and rescue teams are continuing to search for survivors on the rubble the storm warnings of all should also been issued in neighboring of club home. to spain where hundreds of basques clashed with over three hundred policemen in the city of.

thirteen officers were injured two people arrested on charges of assault the crowd was trying to prevent security forces from arresting an alleged member of the radical proboscis independence group. she's linked to a two thousand and eight attack on a police station and on the road and faces five years in prison. and to syria where pro assad refugees including women and children came under fire from the rebels as they returned to the homes in the southeast town of you ought to move and government soldiers accompany the refugees return fire and claim to have killed ten rebels at the incident happened just hours after the un general assembly decided to back the opposition in a new resolution. i just a moment on abby martin and breaking the settle.

a fairly dickinson university study has revealed the twenty nine percent of americans think that a revolution will just happen in america but needs to be done in order to protect individual liberty if respondents consider themselves conservative and 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 an all. 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 is 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 i 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 have say funded barrack and 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 still is a resort but that's just my opinion. the world with. its technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future are covered. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck i got so

many i mean. i know that i'm still the same really messed up. in the old story so personally apologize and. worse you are going to see the white house of a. radio guy in fort lauderdale minestrone something. close were about to do because you've never seen anything like this i'm told. it. was up guys i'm having martin break in the set so it's no surprise it is corporations profit the american people continue to suffer through downtrodden economy some corporations even profit directly our demise but it hurts a little bit more when.