despair in guantanamo authorities there now admits a hundred three inmates are involved in the hunger strike that's past the one hundred day mark almost just a shot in the tourist. a.p. news agency discovers its journalists have been under surveillance for months the u.s. government secretly monitoring their calls. a deadly blast rocks damascus want to cross the border in turkey people vent anger at government support for the syrian rebels meanwhile the u.n. and russia agree on an international peace conference to tackle the deadly conflict . also this week a spy scandal rusher exposes the cia's chief in moscow u.s. intelligence is called red handed trying to an agent.

brokaw staying live from moscow you're watching artie's weekly news if you are characterized. more than one hundred days and counting on hunger strike up in a tourist gone town of a prison and showing no signs of ending prison officials admitted to one hundred three prisoners and now refusing food though is for the inmates say the number may be as high as one hundred thirty many are being force fed through the news an extremely painful procedure and detainees are seeking an end to their indefinite detention without charge meanwhile the u.s. president has repeatedly promised to close the facility so far no action has been taken can has more. after years of the national injustice

and indifference and after more than three months of starvation one tunnel detainees have finally got the president that i'm going to go back after this they perk 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 he can do administratively 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 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 be doing 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 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 full speeding 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. once again expressed

commitment to close the prison president of united states has said kuantan a moser 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. 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. where u.s. is running up quite a bill just to keep the tourist prison open each of the one hundred sixty six detainees housed on time costs american taxpayers nine hundred thousand dollars a year but compared to just twenty five thousand dollars spent on each inmate in a typical u.s. federal prison the costs of housing them on time and could rise due to the controversial force feeding procedures or prison spokesman navy captain robert

durand told artie's bill dod the abuse claims are exaggerated. 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 full clothing on and it's noninvasive 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 and let me ask you about the allegations about the unsafe and inhumane full speeding all those prisoners who are on hunger strike do you deny that the policy of the united states and its drugs or of life for lawful means we currently have a hundred hunger strikers today we have currently thirty who are doing and cherilyn lee said that's 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 cheating it's

a procedure that's down in hospitals and nursing homes every day 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 don't deserve accused of colluding in torture that at the camp and that's been agreed on by the world medical association and the u.n. the u.s. and we disagree with them it's a matter of national policy our courts have upheld that. sustaining life you lawful means lawful we have a medical protocol where we evaluate detainees based on their weight loss and co-morbidity we allow them to hunger strike that if they get below eighty five percent of body weight some damage could be down 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 they had satellite television and they had communal living

that all kinds of good things were trying to kind of. what your producers are walking through. many of the detainees have been cleared for release but still remain locked up this could have journalists and the worthington who's written extensively about guantanamo bay says the inmates are still behind bars because washington is involved in political games 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 teacher for them selves apart from staying in guantanamo forever and of course you know what 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 has stablish but he then imposed a ban on releasing. 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 the vote so you know the hunger strike it's taken the hunger strike for the prisoners to get noticed so you can keep up with the latest updates from the ongoing hunger strike on our website r.t. dot com we have the full timeline of events completely statements from prison officials lawyers for the inmates expert opinion and much more it's all just a click away. more news today. these are the images.

from the streets of canada. operation to rule the day. this week also saw the revelation of a major surveillance operation carried out on the associated press news agency around one hundred journalists and their editors had their phones tapped for months from the u.s. government meanwhile the white house insists it was in the dark regarding the spinal ration. wall has more on a case that has experts citing america's first amendment. it's being hauled an unprecedented government intrusion the justice department secretly collected two months of telephone records from the associated press and its reporters. a.p. believes this story prompted the secret investigation the cia uncovered a plot to bomb a u.s. bound airliner

a plot originated in yemen and was carried out by al qaeda there arabian peninsula by reporting this al qaeda was put on notice that the cia had an inside look at their activities be a piece as the justice department did not say why they needed the information but says among the nearly two dozen telephone records collected at least five of them were from reporters working on the story in question this was a very serious. a very serious leak and a very very serious leak. i've been a prosecutor since the one nine hundred seventy six and i have to say that this is among if not the most serious it is within the top two or three most serious leaks that never see it put the american people at risk and that is not hyperbole eric holder announced today that he was recusing himself from this a.p. investigation but a prominent news agency condemned the government's actions in a letter to holder yesterday associated press c.e.o. gary pruitt says quote these records potentially reveal communications with

confidential sources across all of the news gathering activities undertaken by the a.p. during a two month period provide a roadmap to news gathering operations and disclose information about a.p.'s activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know now the a.p. is asking for an explanation as to why the government pulled reporters' phone records without notifying them the worry now is the effect the news will have on the media and its sources i think the effect on the media has already been felt i mean you. sources that are being shut down doors just being shut in people's faces now that was probably the intention the intention was to scare. the turn off the faucet in other words from leaks in the wake of the controversy white house press secretary jay carney reiterated the obama administration's dedication to transparency he believes strongly in the need for the press to be unfettered in its

pursuit of investigative journalism he also believes strongly as a citizen and as president in the need to ensure that classified information is not leaked because it can endanger our national security interests there is a balance between transparency and national security has been a delicate one since nine eleven the obama administration has a history of aggressively going after whistleblowers prosecuting more people for leaking classified information than any other administration combined and washington was wall r.t. . one side effect of the action against a.p. is that whistle blows and sources will not think twice before quoting the newsdesk as according to investigative journalist and historian tony. individuals who whistleblowers etc people with stories cannot know can no longer trust the journalists so if they go with confidential information to those journalists and have confidential fun conversations they all know it no longer

guarantee those journalists can keep those conversations secret because the justice department is coming into a massive truly only hole two months pay one can understand it maybe if it's a small investigation over a couple of days or so particular phone line possibly but this is a phishing operation and it is an appalling attack really on the freedom of the press in america by a government in the us which is out of control and ultimately this is the wrong is effectively a kind of police state where the government thinks it can do what it wants what we're seeing is erosion of some of the basic civil liberties that we've said for the last thirty forty years this is what we hold dear we're saying that all these terrible al-qaeda etc trying to take those civil liberties away but i'll call it wrong taking away our own governments or taking them away. but journalists weren't the only ones who were part of targeted by authorities prominent bahraini activists and she's when it's installed in. the gulf in those authorities apparently used spy software on the track of every move all stored into the program.

and the cia crosses the line russian intelligence is furious after catching an american spy trying to recruit a russian agent wanted just a few minutes. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm target market is a big issue. live . science technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've. covered.

download the official application to yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch ati anytime anywhere. about the program. serious state television has reported that a powerful car bomb has rocked the capital damascus resulting in at least three deaths people have also been injured for an explosion which school another device has been defused in the same area no one has claimed responsibility for the attack

russia's efforts but useful resolution in the syrian conflict perceived the backing united nations week u.n. secretary general ban ki moon stressed that an international conference involving the syrian government and opposition should be held as soon as possible. has been following developments in sochi. well after meeting with russia's leadership the un secretary-general ban ki moon agreed that the conflict in syria could only be resolved in accordance with international law without any foreign military intervention and with the full respect of serious territorial integrity he also agreed to the idea of putting together this joint conference which would include both the syrian rebels and the authorities now they were also able to establish a list of current stumbling blocks concerning this idea and well first of all currently the opposition is still quite divided it's unclear who will be able to represent it as a whole at such a conference secondly moscow wants to see all the regional players taking part in

such a conference including iran which may. cause problems with washington and also if the syrian authorities are ready to take part in such a conference right now then the rebels are making or voicing preconditions which include president assad having to step down but in general ban ki moon's visit continues this diplomatic marathon which will been witnessing for the past few weeks a lot of officials have been coming to russia discussing syria including u.s. secretary of state the prime ministers of great britain and israel and in general it seems the approach of many nations two ways of resolving the conflict in the country is changing now however there are still many problems including the one with the washington since when john kerry was in moscow we've seen that they were completely on the scene beach with russia's leadership but as soon as you left he started calling again for president assad to step down and promised more support of the rebels and that was back just recently by president barack obama himself what's

widely being ignored is the fact that many of these rebels admit that they are receiving directions from international terror organizations including al qaida there are tons of videos in the web showing horrific acts conducted by rebels including public executions of captured syrian soldiers there is this just troubling in video of a rebel cutting the horde out of a dead syrian soldiers chest and eating it on camera calling on everybody else to do the same and promising to continue doing so in the future and also there is the statistic from various international activist groups which basically shows that every time the rebels receive a weapons from abroad the violence just spikes. on gitzo protesters were met with tear gas in the streets of

a turkish town bordering syria which is rocked by two deadly blasts last week demonstrators expressed our prime minister wants policies of supporting the syrian rebels which they say threatens to make you sick to see you in the clashes or the similar protests around princeton before it is also used you guys want to tell us disperse the crowds that he was quick to blame these three in the chief for the attack and it is that you want tens of thousands of refugees leaving on conflict. russia criticised us intelligence this week for crossing the red line and its operations the cia agent was uncovered in moscow trying to recruit a russian agent in the wake of the arrest russian intelligence made public the identity of the cia bureau chief must go to the question of investigates ryan fogle was caught in the act trying to recruit a russian special services agent to work for the americans now russia's federal

security service has released a photo technical equipment and some other items that were found when he was detained and closing a compress a map of moscow a large amount of cash and even two weeks to allegedly use as disguises now this is suspected cia agent was offering one million dollars a year for passing on classified information and that was revealed to you know why a taped telephone conversation between full girl and the security agent he was trying to recruit made public by russia's federal security service. you're going up a storm so wouldn't any of us more. talk of the war than you want us to attack us because of the mortgages on the bottom of a million little old you want to talk it's all some new. ideas. which are full has been handed over to the american authorities and now faces deportation the f.s.b. told r.t.

that was not the first case in recent years since two thousand and eleven there have been in fact four other similar cases one case involved and other american embassy employee who was trying to recruit a russian employee of national anti terror committee the answer is b. says that there is a striking resemblance to the focal scase and that the cia has gone too far with this spying operations. we will particularly outraged at the actions of the american spy dylan benjamin he tried to convince an employee of the russian national counter-terror committee to hand over classified documents of this department to the cia like mr fogle he was also deported from russia we hope the cia would learn their lesson and something like that would never happen again so we decided not to release the information about dylan to the public but apparently they didn't learn that lesson in fogel's case the cia crossed a red line so we had to react according to official instructions. and as average

with a juicy spy story at hand the exposure of a cia spy in moscow got the media animated with a mixture off laugh for and disbelief at their alleged spies quite clumsy recruiting techniques but that's quite a common reaction to the stories like this but still it doesn't make them a new last true less three member of the previous scandals for instance back in two thousand and six russian t.v. showed a documentary exposing several british and my six agents working in moscow and here is the high concept they used rocks at that time the media laughed at what was considered a conspiracy theory until a high ranking adviser to the prime minister admitted it's true so rog's weeks compresses and maps james bond doesn't exactly have much competition right now but you'll find that many more stories on our website has a quick taste of what we've gone and done good for you today it's nine times the

size of the ocean liner while you're watching it's getting close to worth it to go cold to try the mysterious a story. also this for you rough for arrival it's a moscow airport where the plane's landing gear collapses likely those on board escaped without a scratch it's what you don't come to see the footage in full. now the bahraini government is accused of using surveillance software from a u.k. based company to spy on the leading rights activist that's according to documents filed at the high court in london by one of the founders of the rights group bahrain watch manufacturers say the program is designed for use in crooned best a geisha for privacy activists claim the technology is being widely used in the program named fin spy can perform more wide range of surveillance operations it works by infecting your computer and then recording your skype conversations and

social media activity you can also take screen shots without your knowledge access information on your hard disk. harby who filed the court documents told r.t. that digital surveillance has been spreading in bahrain since former high ranking u.k. police officer john yates became security advisor there. the e-mails were disguised as if they were from journalists and were from other activists and then after we discovered after two months investigation of a technical analysis to try and. investigate what kind of information on what this software actually does we discovered there was a company called gamma international which sells this software to foreign governments so we assumed and we given the circumstances in which i received the e-mails and the nature of the e-mails this was a suspect this was sold to the bahraini government but we also know that the servers. received this information from the software is actually based in

bahrain so the servers are currently in bahrain and they're being updated in bahrain which means that this is further evidence over the past two years particularly british advisor john yates joined the bahrain security services we have noticed the increase in the use of surveillance in the use of c.c.t.v. and the use of digital surveillance and there are very targeted arrests and influence infiltration amongst protest activists happening using the latest technology technologies and this is all happened since following on from the hiring of the recruitment of john yates and most of these companies that provide all of this technology are british now we know of at least thirty six. be maintained worldwide so now that this is a global operation dam international has sold this software to at least twenty five governments and the use seems the use of the software seems to have no any type of

restriction so this is turning into a global phenomenon and it's run by the private sector so we're looking increasingly at the commercialisation of digital surveillance which is even scarier because it's very difficult to regulate. a couple of other international headlines for you now a prominent female politician from cricket star imran khan's been justice has been shot dead in the pakistani cities. so our scientists say it was assassinated on the eve of a controversial rerun recent to lexan those polls were on the bloodiest in the country's history one hundred people killed in the run up to the folks. in ukraine and thousands of opposition supporters of rather the capital kiev demanding of release of former prime minister mr school reforms passes broke out between protesters and riot police with at least injured during the standoff organizers say tens of thousands turned out for the demonstration. well up next we explore the

murky secrets of some of the world's biggest man a catastrophe that's coming up here. the illusion of safety trumping your right seems to be the main political theme of post nine eleven america i notice pushing the keep you safe in any cost more than new york billionaire mayor michael bloomberg who originally had to defend his stop and frisk strategy after giving a speech to police brass stop and frisk is the practice of just being able to search anyone in new york at any time for any reason with your hands this gestapo style practice has been in place since two thousand and two but thankfully was finally recently found to be unconstitutional by

a federal judge you know the fourth amendment all the talk about no unlawful search and seizure seems pretty clear to me why did this take so long to figure out bloomberg despite that silly constitution thing stands firm with this policy declaring if you and st stops looking for guns they will be more guns. the streak i mean more people will be killed it's just that sample well to that i would say if you stop nazi style first gangs of random innocent people there will be more freedom on the streets it's just that simple but that's just my opinion.

the story ends in a wrong. british geologists discovered iran was sitting on an emotional boil and they decided they would take and they formed the an anglo persian oil company and made a deal with the iranian monarchy. then guaranteed itself all neurons oil. shortly after that the british government bought fifty one percent of the company and of the suggestion of winston churchill the british navy switched tree coal to oil. the worship of the projected british tower all of the world were now running one hundred percent wrong. and then in one nine hundred fifty two. decided to take their oil. the democratically elected government of prime minister mohammad most and nationalize the anglo run.