one hundred days of hunger at guantanamo bay a mass protest by inmates at the u.s. detention center shows no signs of abating with authorities resorting to force feeding and isolation to stamp out the revolt we report extensively on the hunger strike and where it's heading. the day the music died u.k. citizens could feel the full brunt of the british record industry has it looks to clamp down on file sharing websites. and 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 minutes.

online on screen international news and comments live from our studio center here in moscow. today marks a milestone in the history of the world's most maligned prison one hundred days of a mass hunger strike at guantanamo bay. out of one hundred sixty six inmates one hundred thirty are on strike according to prisoners while the military only admits to one hundred two of these to third of them are being force fed the procedure recognized by various medical organizations as painful enough to constitute torture and by all accounts there's no end in sight to the protest prisoners say this is the only way for them to be heard having been forgotten in the alls of washington hunger strikers are seeking an end to indefinite detention and for president obama to keep his promises and shut down the

facility what is going to church can explains. after years of the 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 at 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 we're dead 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 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 or you can or 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 done 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. from this prison president. tom has a problem on the ground for some reason ministration continues to treat these men in humane way and to deny their basic dignity for years the administration has engaged 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. all speaking to be a little earlier former guantanamo detainees beg told me that for prisoners the abuse and suffering has become secondary to getting else you have to remember that these people have gone through that these people are going through a whole series of different types of prisons from being in a in a prison massacre and from being kandahar by ground where people tortured to death

to guantanamo camp x.-ray where they were in chicken wire friend tenses to camp delta to now comes five six and seven so it has changed it's been a progression in the and the steady and rapid. eating away the erosion of the personal psyche has taken its toll so if at the end of this process now they put them into a decent prison with some decent living standards it doesn't take away from the fact of the past eleven years the torture the use and everything else because peripheral of that and it's a strange situation where torture is peripheral which force feeding is peripheral where the fact that you've not had a meaningful communication with your family is perfect the fact that you're sexually. when you search every time your lawyer comes and nothing can be more exaggerated than hearing that your child who you've never seen in your life is now going to be eleven years old that's not exaggerated that's the truth that nobody wants to face up to. and attorney parties kimberly i spoke to her she's in regular contact with eight quantum of detainees she represents she says the military's

brutal ways only strengthen her client's resolve. i think what we're seeing as a deliberate tactic. to break the strike i think is these toxic tactics of solitary confinement whose body searches among other things. used to pressure the man to break the strike i think that camp administration's response since that in terms of conditions at the camps denying what's happening defending their actions entirely have actually just deep into the minds result to continue and one on one point i want to correct as a factual matter is conditions at guantanamo right now are not the same they are not you have most of them and they are protesting for over three months in conditions of solitary confinement so there is not only a problem. and it's illegal detention without charge at guantanamo right now but a question of serious serious questions about the united states is compliance with the geneva conventions in terms of humane treatment of these men and they are in

twenty to twenty four hour solitary confinement right now well so far there's been very little action or indeed reaction from washington over this crisis developing in guantanamo it's in its one hundredth day now but we're getting reaction from you where it could now be heading well this is our online poll of our two dot com the majority fifty five percent believe this is actually only going to make conditions worse for the prisoners as the authorities there clamp down and make the conditions even more difficult thirty two percent just over a third believe that perhaps fatalities could occur now that some of those hunger strikers could die and the minority think that this could maybe be a positive ending whereby guantanamo bay itself could be closed down all four percent saying that major concessions could be granted to those detainees or indeed those who are detained without charge perhaps released those your thought so fall off dot com well managed to turn to lieutenant colonel berry we got i spoke to him

a little earlier here on r.t. and he's actually there to guantanamo bay i spoke to on the phone and he says there is a full scale campaign organized in the jail to discredit the hunger strikers. well i tell you there's a strategy going on here in guantanamo bay i think it's a twofold strategy and one is a public relations effort by the campus chilled to invite anyone. willing to tell me their story c.n.n. has done a real fine job misspeak of not interviewing a single prisoner and regurgitating exactly what the camp officials here want you to take here the second part of the strategy seems to be the kind that seems cracked where we have the mass majority of president prisoners in lockdown where we see. the searches for speeding tickets that are being more and more aggressive it's rico under the national defense authorization act the president can the ability through the secretary to sign

a waiver to get some of these women out of here he can be with without congress that's one. time administration we believe needs to do more than pop if there we're clearly talking about opening the other opposition party it's going to be some bureaucratic layer down from the white house but no it's not going to work we don't need another divisional free what we need is a white house level envoy who can get things done beyond the bureaucracy of the department of defense and the department. well the course the guantanamo have a soaring keeping the prisoners held isolated and on the total control doesn't come cheap u.s. taxpayers a carny shelling out nine hundred thousand dollars a year for every inmate there and there are one hundred sixty six of them colonel morris davis he's a former chief prosecutor for the terrorism trials at guantanamo bay he told me earlier that the money has been spent in vain. well guantanamo has been nothing but

a black eye for the us i mean if you recall back in two thousand and one when the decision was made to to use guantanamo's a detention facility it was selected because there were people that thought it was outside the reach of the law and it would be the perfect law free zone to exploit people for intelligence it was supposed to be a temporary facility in two thousand and six when i was there we had a proposal to build a complex for about one hundred twelve million dollars that we intended to use for five years so until two thousand and eleven we thought everything would be finished and it would be closed and here we are in two thousand and thirteen it just keeps going on and on so it's just been a you know an embarrassment to the country it's drained our credibility is wasted our money and it's time for it to close its taken out now the timeline of the guantanamo standoff according to him makes the hunger strike began on the sixth of february for the next month the military denied any protests was going on lawyers though describe their clients as the third you can delirious with more and more

joining in is only mid march that the military admitted to a strike detainees began to tell of harsh force feeding techniques water deprivation isolation in cold cells by mid april there was a military raid on a public cell block with gun fobbing reported for the first time in guantanamo history the prisoners were split up in an apparent effort to force and to the protest or towards the end of april the minute treat dispatched a further forty more medics to guantanamo and the end of april barack obama finally knowledge of the strike describing the situation as problematic and vowing again to try to close the camp while the tactic of force feeding the protesting in mates is cause an avalanche of criticism from human rights activists worldwide especially after a leaked report about exactly how it's done. 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 belong to the inmates are cuffed to a chair then a guard covers their head with a mask officially to prevent spitting and biting and insert its you 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 as if to not cure 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. authorities overseeing going to my bay deny allegations of widespread abuse and

mistreatment the spokesman for the prison navy captain robert duran he told me yesterday he says the highly criticized force feeding procedure is legal and necessary to keep the inmates alive policy of being i'd say it's preserve life for lawful means we have currently thirty who are. doing them terribly said it's not a procedure that can in hospitals and nursing homes every day constraining life she lawful means lawful if they get to about eighty five percent below below eighty five percent of body weight from 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 conditions are good or very can possibly be you know they had

satellite television they had communal living they had all kinds of good going. but the picture drawn by the guantanamo bay spokesman contradicts what detainees lawyers is saying federal public defender colace warner has told me that and he represents a hunger striking prisoner he's pointed out that the military hasn't always been forthcoming with the truth. the military's 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 so the military has no credibility on the issue you have innocent men in solitary confinement and the military now has began new procedures like searching the men's genital areas before they come to talk to lawyers there they've never done this before baby employed this as a tactic to try to keep the men away from the lawyers and it's so transparent that they have no credibility on the issue i choose to ignore them i am focused on the president because the president needs to step in here to not only have and the

hunger strike but more importantly to close guantanamo and he can still do it. before the hunger strike from the very beginning before the u.s. authorities even admit it was taking place we've been gathering comments from prison officials to take a nice attorneys and activist to give you a full account of the situation all that plus the timeline on the protest available for you right now on a website. called. hunger strike despair pushed to the limit i. believe one hundred guantanamo detainees are screaming for justice. where is the evidence for. i. wealthy british style.

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he's continues now naughty a new crackdown on illegal song downloads in the u.k. said to begin a leading body representing the national record industry is now deciding if it will take legal and to block citizens from accessing dozens of falls sharing sites. explains the adults 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 to be the main blocking blitz in the ongoing fight against web sites the file share and infringe on music copyright the british internet service providers all i s p's have 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. 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 good that would be targeting sites such is the us based file sharing sites . 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 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 precisely is seems that these are file sharing sites at a previous ever more popular are next for the chopping board is this music industry attempts to continue this crackdown on other legal file sharing. r.t. contributor afshin rise just trying to maintain its position in the market. 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 hedger 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 of because google amazon the same people that are in parliament in london for avoiding taxes on a spectacular scale they're the people doing the backroom deals with the big corporate music providers 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 president ford so on and has strengthened his rhetoric against austerity saying the policy is preventing

recovery in the eurozone that is france's again found itself in recession a another blow to the reputation of its unpopular leader as recently 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 however 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 anniversary as president has 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 our fund 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 it would be extremely difficult to get out of the speciation. really bad policy which are use now going. labor cost cutting. of course we. are and you're not going to spend the afternoon in nice coffee like this one because you know it becoming too expensive for you well as these the small numbers had 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 a lackluster numbers the harder it will be for a recovery to take place reporting from paris on tests or sylvia. and honest and

exclude bell believes that the french need to overhaul the financial policies to get the economy back on track. which we saw in france first it was thirty but what we call the first. day with. the stereotype forces first thirty if your higher taxes paid during and public spending the average british worker is taxed at fifty seven percent the. proportion of public debt. in the g.d.p. is a ninety eight percent so clearly we should look the other way and consider structural reforms lower taxes lower big spending and lower worth his weight one billion dollars has been put forward to develop a gold mine in the wilds of northwest russia and the only officials who know who's funneling so much money into the massive project keeping the mystery benefactor to

themselves more on that on line. deadly twisters whip across the us state of texas sending rescue workers into a spin we got photos footage of more at r.t. dot com. u.s. president barack obama has rejected calls to launch a probe into the government while tapping of journalists with the associated press news service this comes as the u.s. justice department came up with a new reason for watching the phones of one hundred journalists claiming it was necessary to protect americans from dangerous information leaks but norman solomon from the firm media watch group says it was all about teaching a lesson to 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 of doubt 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 envoy and try to have a chilling effect on not only journalists but the sources within the administration . one of some other news making headlines around the world at this stage of the day and please be aware the following footage contains some graphic content this grisly video allegedly shows fighters for the all nusra front a rebel group linked to al qaida executing eleven government soldiers is known as can be heard shouting gold is great enough that each shot is fun this comes a day off to the u.n. general assembly condemn the forces of syrian president bashar assad in a new resolution a motion brought by qatar and other arab nations was adopted by a knowledge majority. powerful car bombs ripped through a convoy in the afghan capital kabul killing fifteen people two u.s.

soldiers and four civilian contractors are among the dead eight afghan civilians including two children also died in the blast that struck during the morning rush hour a group with ties to the afghan taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack. dzhokhar said i have one of the boston marathon bombing suspects has reportedly left a note claiming responsibility for the attack he wrote it with a pen on the boat on the run from police saying the blast from revenge for the u.s. war of muslims and that he hoped to meet his brother in paradise at least three people were killed and over two hundred fifty injured in two explosions near the finish line of the city's annual marathon is older brother was killed in a gunfight with police. so that brings up today for the moment if you go with a news team with more for you in just over half enough money meantime it is the late edition the all my money show because the report itself in the short break.

a fairly dickinson university study has been revealed to 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 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 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. technology innovation all the list of elements around russia. the future

covered. i am max keiser welcome to the kaiser report 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 stacey max to set this episode up we need to look at this william bonzai art here.