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one hundred days of hunger at guantanamo bay mass protest by inmates at the u.s. detention center shows no signs of abating the forces resorting to force feeding and isolation to stamp out the revolt we poured extensively on the hunger strike and where it's heading. also this hour the day the music died u.k. citizens could feel the full brunt of the british record industry as it looks to clamp down on file sharing websites we get expert opinion from london. the french president calls for greater political integration in the e.u.

despite his country floundering in the blocks financial slump and falling into a second recession in five years our top stories this hour. on line on screen international news and comments live from our studio center here in moscow today marks a dark milestone in the history of the world's most maligned prism one hundred days of a mass hunger strike at guantanamo bay. out of the one hundred sixty six inmates one hundred thirty are on strike according to prisoners while the military only admits to one hundred two at least a third of them are being force fed a procedure recognized by various medical organizations as painful enough to

constitute torture and by all accounts there's no insight to this protest prisoners say this is the only way for them to be heard having been forgotten in the halls of washington hunger strikers are seeking an end to indefinite detention and for president obama to keep his promises and shut down the facility that he's going to come on explains. after years of a national 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 this 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 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 or you can of all people want to maybe you know this is a we're not future police here so far the administration's only response to the crises of carnival has been to force feeding tubes 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 circumstance 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 hear the president once again express commitment to close the prison president of the united states has said kuantan was a problem and yet on the ground for some reason the camp ministration continues to treat these men and humanely and to deny them basic dignity. acrobatics to justify it on guantanamo still not clear how long before people there start dying but one thing is clear the elephant in the room. in washington. we also spoke to the authorities overseeing one ton of my bay to hear

their side of the story maybe captain robert duran he's a spokesman for the camp denied any widespread abuse at the facility the policy being that states it's triggered life for lawful means we have currently thirty two bar. it's not a procedure that stand in the hospital every day constraining life she lawful means lawful if they get to about eighty percent. below eighty five percent of body weight can damage could be done you know we will do the involuntary seating it's not the job to tell the truth the lawyers just refuse. they're not they're not being subject to extreme temperatures are not being denied food and water their conditions are good or vacant possible would be you know they had satellite television they had communal living they had all kinds of good going. to find out

how the inmates assess the way they're being treated we have david remes he's an american lawyer representing seventeen guantanamo prisoners most of them on hunger strike they we just heard from that spokesman there of the camp saying the prisoners aren't telling the truth about what's going on there. well do you think that your clients are not telling the truth. i have compassion for every man at guantanamo their indefinite detention is on justifiable and it's a scandal and in the last three months they've taken matters into their own hands and exercise the only power that they have and that is to have a mass hunger strike some to the point where they are close enough to death that the military sees a need to force feed them none of them enjoy being force fed i can tell you that and they have described being force fed in such terms as having a knife run down their throat but the military is saying they need to keep these

prisoners alive it's in the city and they're doing the right thing others are saying it amounts to torture collusion with. the fact is that for speeding is prohibited by international law the world medical association the american medical association all sorts of human rights groups are against for speeding on the ground that the military or any prison facility is obliged to respect the autonomy of the individual and this is how the individual chooses to express a protest that should be for him to decide not for the military or anyone else what do you know about the conditions all of you will clients now some are saying the conditions you got will since they involved in this hunger strike. well that's true they have all been moved to isolation cells and they've been separated from one

another in order to make it more difficult for them to communicate they've had such basic personal items as toothpaste toothbrushes and towels confiscated along with family papers and legal papers and imagine what it is like to lose your towel or have it taken away rather when you have to pray five times a day and wash your arms and legs each time before you pray so shirt gets pretty wet all day being punished for protesting and from your point of view as a lawyer is this inhumane treatment illegal high i think it's torture at a minimum it's a new humane whether or not it's punishment is a very fine point i think they're trying to break the hunger strike they're trying to make it as miserable as possible for the detainees to go on with their hunger strike but so far everything they've done has made the detainees determination even

stronger why is it that eighty six of these have been cleared for release and yet it seems the u.s. authorities a very good reason to keep them still behind bars why are the likes of you lawyers failing then to get them out. well we are failing i have to admit i've considered a success right now getting even one man out the fact is that president obama is not texas or sizing the political courage he needs to to release the man that his own administration has clear he's an obstacle because he has refused to transfer yemeni's he's also an obstacle because he keeps blaming congress but as one of the reporters said he can use national security findings to release anyone that he wants he just has to get political guts to do so just finally how do you see this situation ending now do you fear the worst for your clients

i believe it's inevitable that there will be deaths i think that the military will try to force feed anybody that they find in need of it but sooner or later somebody is body is going to give out and that'll be a disaster for the military and a disaster for the united states. american lawyer representing seventeen guantanamo prisoners david remes thank you very much indeed for your thoughts your comments live here on r.t. . well so far there's been very little official reaction from washington over this crisis at guantanamo but we're getting plenty of reaction from you and we're ask you on our web site of the moment on our home page on our online poll where you think this hunger strike is leading what it could perhaps achieve while the majority at the moment fifty five percent believe that it will actually make the conditions worse for the detainees thirty two percent just over a third believe there is a chance as we just heard in that live interview that deaths could be imminent and

the minority slightly more optimistic saying that the protests could lead to perhaps the closure of guantanamo itself or perhaps lead to concessions or at least the release of those prisoners who are held without charge so that's how it's looking at the moment on our site vote dot com. well andy worthington he's an investigative journalist who's written extensively on prison and he says the inmates became the victim of political games in washington he spoke to me a little earlier. well the conditions for them are terrible in the sense that they have literally been abandoned by all three branches of the united states government so since president obama failed to keep his promise to close the prison within a year that was in january two thousand and ten they have been unable to to see any future for them selves apart from staying in guantanamo forever and of course you know what underpins the horror of this is that half of these men over half of these

men were cleared for release by an interagency task force that the president himself stablish but he then imposed a ban on releasing two thirds of them because they yemenis after a failed bomb plot and christmas two thousand and nine and the rest of them and for all of them and in general they have had their release blocked or made extremely difficult by congress so it's become a game of political football cynically i think lawmakers are preventing prisoners from being released and the president himself has been unwilling to expend political capital on an issue that isn't popular enough with a vote so you know the hunger strike it's taken the hunger strike for the prisoners to get noticed. because the quantum however are soaring keeping the prisoners halle's isolated and under total control doesn't come cheap u.s. taxpayers are shelling out nine hundred thousand dollars a year for every inmate in guantanamo and there are one hundred sixty six of them and what's worse that cost is likely to grow given new bills presented by force

feeding doctors and medication of want to his rescue with an explanation of the practice. 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 spitting and biting and inserts into their nose prisoners have reported several cases where 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 is 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 at 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 nor see a 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. let's take a look now at the timeline of the guantanamo standoff according to inmates the hunger strike began on the sixth of february for the next month the military denied any protests was going on lawyers there described their clients as lethargic and delirious with more and more joining in it was only mid march that the military admitted to the strike detainees began to tell of a harsh force feeding technique water deprivation isolation in cold cells in mid april there was a military raid on a public cell block with gunfire being reported for the first time in guantanamo as history the prisoners were split up in an apparent effort to force an end to the protest and towards the end of april the military dispatched a further fourteen more medics to guantanamo and at the end of april barack obama

finally a knowledge of the strike describing the situation as problematic and bearing again to try to close the camp and we'll continue our coverage of this milestone one hundred days of the hunger strike with more expert analysis and opinion coming up on r.t. throughout the day. hunger strike despair pushed to the limit. nearly one hundred guantanamo detainees are screaming for justice. where is the evidence for good. modern russia was built on coal. fields for its factories and coke for its steel. gold as it bought and heat for its people. join me james brown to meet them and spend their lives underground and work in one

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these continues here in new crackdown on illegal downloads in the u.k. looks set to begin leading body representing the national record industry is not a saudi it will take legal action to block citizens from accessing dozens of fallen sharing sides but all too sarah further explained their belts over how effective any new measures could be. well record labels could be about to launch the biggest battle yet against pirate sites and what's alleged will be the main blocking blitz in the ongoing fight against websites that file share and infringe on music copyright the british internet service providers all i ask piece of already in the recent past been asked to block websites certain websites that are illegally file sharing music now it's thought that the british industry trade body beef 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's food that would be

targeting sites such as the us based file sharing site grieve what would that mean well for british consumers of the music industry they won't be able to access these sites anymore this action is aimed at targeting the casual illegal download or of course for the hardcore pirates they'll simply move on it's 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 fire sharing sites or the previous ever more popular are next for the chopping board if this music industry attempts to continue this crackdown on other legal file sharing. surface reporting their naughty contributor afshin rattansi he's with me now from london to speak more about steps to illegal downloading action for sharing websites they're widely used to get access to pirated content

music and movies so isn't it fair that artists are rewarded for that work. music a very powerful things which is of course why to tell a terran governments try to control them what the b.p.i. is actually doing is not for artists or the public it's a grotesque maneuver in trying to maintain control over not only their head your monic control of ahmadinejad he within corporate music and popular culture but also to retain their control over distribution and let's not forget these big majors universe or e.m.i. that are fighting all the time they are doing backdoor deals with the big people that control the internet one up against google amazon the same people that are in parliament in london for avoiding taxes on a spectacular scale then the people doing the backroom deals are the big corporate music providers to this b.p.i. maneuver seemingly would stop the small independent doing a deal with

a small internet company what we need is a very different way to benefit artists and people love music but those corporate music companies don't they depend on those individual artists those with talent to simply downloading copyrighted material for free is a clear violation of law and those artists lose out so many may say that the government should actually help protect rights here and introduce legislation. i think some would argue that the way corporate music works as a whole is much more sinister than that in its entirety whether it be promotion distribution payola to radio stations that serve or that's to be a whole overhaul of the whole system whereas of course small bands often say no actually prior to the single then people come to the gig then people go to that then they do buy songs and of course it creates more live music all sorts of different levels of complexity here but as to the idea that the b.p.i. is trying to protect the public and the artists and the variety of artists in terms of cultural. diversity that is absurd after all is you tube owned by google

producing pirate music because of lots of music there that doesn't seem to be it's just be uploaded by people and is always be copyrighted no that's because universal e.m.i. the big majors are doing deals with the big sites so they can look up the power over music signing up new bands and a whole plethora of ideas and culture and we've got to remember the internet was started for free by tim berners lee and people like that it was expanded because of pornography i think more productive use more slowly even that catch on you tube and the idea behind it was not to have it under control of the kind that the major record companies and the major monopolise of the internet are trying to do it's doomed to fail them and i think presumably they should all begin to realize a dream to fail because users could go to any number of international sites that are free music downloads and if you bought one just an i one pops up. absolutely

and even internet service providers are in britain currently virgin for instance virgin media richard branson's organization already bans certain sites from the british public but there are ways to get around even within the internet service provider agreement so they're all doomed to fail which is why for the artists and for the music lovers something needs to be done and the commission needs to be set up rather than this bizarre locking up of both talent artists new signings and culture at its heart because that's a serious it is in backroom deals of this action thank you very much indeed afshin rattansi live here on r.t. from london good to talk to you. president for orlando strengthened his rhetoric against austerity saying the policy is preventing recovery in the euro zone that's as france's again found itself in recession laying another blow to the reputation of its own popular leader cilia reports now on how the financial woes in

europe second largest economy have raised fears over the whole block. i we're looking at a cafe culture here in paris still continuing looking call 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 launce the first son of verse or a as president has there seeing him as not having done enough for the economy or those add to your sister a sturdy 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 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 it would be extremely difficult to get out of the

speciation so the strain i stream a bad policy which i use is now going to experience he's cutting labor cost cutting the politician a worker of course we. are and you are not going to spend your afternoon in nice cafes 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 so yeah. about with the news team with more for you in just a half an hour from now with a special coverage of guantanamo bay and the hunger strike that next it's the financial program prime interest.

a fairly dickinson university study has revealed a 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 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 toppled

a 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. speak to the language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's cool here i'm. reporting from the world talks about six of p.r.p. interviews interesting story so you. see.

arabic for me visit arabic don't call me. good afternoon and welcome to prime interest i'm perry and boring here and washington d.c. and here's the story that i'm tracking today. remember john paul's no i'm not hank paulson bush's treasury secretary who pushed hard i'm talking about john paulson who shorted subprime and made a millions or as a hedge fund now he's long fannie and freddie along with some other hedge funds who bought preferred shares to match uncle sam's investment senator bob corker characterized the stock as a lottery ticket but that hasn't stopped a run up in price of over one hundred seventy percent in the last two months just last week of fannie mae announced it will bring.