despairing gone town american authorities there now admits one hundred three inmates are involved in the hunger strike that's past the one hundred day mark promises to shut the notorious jail still on cat. a.p. news agency discovers its journalists have been under surveillance for months with the u.s. government secretly monitoring their calls. deadly car blast rocks damascus across 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 on u.s. intelligence is caught red handed trying to recruit a russian agent. live

from moscow this is our weekly news review with me carrie johnston. more than one hundred days and counting a hunger strike on a tourist guantanamo bay prison is showing no signs of ending prison officials admitted to r.t. that one hundred three prisoners are now refusing food the lawyers for the inmates say the number may be as high as one hundred thirty where many are being force fed through the nose an extremely painful procedure the detainees are seeking an end to their indefinite detention without charge him on the us president has repeatedly promised to close the facility so far no action has been taken and each account has more. after years of inaction injustice and indifference and after more than three months of starvation one tunnel detainees have finally got the president's

attention i'm going to go back out 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 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 invoke people into maybe you know this is a we're not future police here so far the administration's only response to the question is it going carnival has been to force feeding troops down detainees nostrils the fact of the matter is that when an individual makes a decision of sound mind makes a decision to refuse food as a political protest then as we said in a joint statement it is not open to the states in a second chance to force them to do each. and the full speeding 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 express commitment to close the infamous 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 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. for us is running up quite a bill just to keep the notorious prison open each of the one hundred sixty six detainees housed. cost american taxpayers nine hundred thousand dollars a year and that compares to just twenty five thousand dollars spent on each inmate at a typical u.s. federal prison and the cost of housing them could rise due to the controversial force feeding procedures the prison spokesman navy captain a robot to run to told bill don't let 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 on the safe and inhumane force feeding all those prisoners who are on hunger strike do you deny that the policy of the united states and its drugs are of life or 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 done 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 net wets who is saying that don't deserve accused of colluding in port said that at the camp and that's been agreed on by the world medical association and the un the us 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 transparent. what your producers you're welcome

to use your term future yourself. those statements spotted on top of a spokesman contradicts what the detainees lawyers are saying stuff that smith represents several inmates and says the trainees have to go through invasive and degrading body searches let's face it when my clients are coming to have a telephone call that me last i heard you can smuggle anything in and out on the telephone. and so the idea that they threaten the prisoners with full body and i won't go into the really graphic but it's basically a sexual assault is just a threat to try to get them not to talk to us and frankly the reason for this is fairly obvious that there's been an awful lot of information coming out of guantanamo bay that doesn't suit the authorities last friday two of my clients refused to have called with me for the simple reason that they didn't want to go through that process i had one of the other lawyers from reprieve was at the base last week and twice prisoners didn't want to come out for

a visit because of what they've been threatened with well of course in order to negotiate an end to the strike we have to give justice to these prisoners and we're talking about as you well know eighty six of one hundred sixty six prisoners have been cleared for release that's fifty two percent augmented in most of the people i represent there's only one way and this strike fairly and that's to take the prisoners who have been cleared for release and set them free. and 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 complete and statements from prison officials lawyers for the inmates expert opinions and much more. just a click away. well this week also saw the revelation of a major surveillance operation carried out on the associated press news agency run a hundred journalists and editors had their phones tapped for months on the u.s. government while the white house insists it was in the dark regarding the spy

operations artie's wall has more on a case that has experts citing america's first amendment. it's being called 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 they 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 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 the 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 peace 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 have. 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 and 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. i mean while the white house insists it was in the dark regarding the surveillance of a.p. analysts say the move fits into the general trend of current government policies since nine eleven particularly we've seen the rapid expansion of a police state in this country it is the infrastructure of the police state is already in place so the restricting of the flow of information by the government and its various mouthpieces this is part of this creeping police state and what i what i want to stress is that the effectiveness of the obama administration in persecuting whistleblowers shows not only the fact that obama himself is no different from any candidate that our president that came before him but also the fact that this is a comprehensive plan to shut out dissent in the united states. maybe journalists when the only ones who are apparently targeted by authorities prominent

has been a civilian installed in the country to meet. those authorities that apparently use spy software from the u.k. to track every move the full story later in the program. on the cia crosses the line russian intelligence is furious off to catch an american spy trying to recruit a russian agent off this break. well . it's technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've. covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything. i'm target market is a big issue. 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 on t.v. anytime anywhere. about the program syria state television has reported that a powerful car bomb has rocked the capital damascus resulting in at least three deaths five people have also been injured for an explosion which happened there or school another device has been diffused in the same area known as responsibility

for the attack while russia's efforts for a peaceful resolution to the syrian conflict see the backing of the united nations and even the weak 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 such a. 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 syria's 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 the list of current stumbling blocks concerning this idea and well first of all currently the opposition is still quite divided it's unclear who would 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 are voicing preconditions which include president assad having to step down but in general ban ki moon's visit continues this diplomatic marathon which will have 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 it seemed that they were completely on the scene page with russia's leadership but as soon as he 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 horrific 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 weapons from abroad the violence just spikes. hundreds of protesters were met sort of in syria which was rocked by two

deadly blasts last week demonstrators expressed anger at the minister long distance of supporting the syrian rebels they say for instance so you see the clashes for that some of the protests none of this time but the focus seems to be dispersed. if you was to blame the syrian military for the. tens of thousands of refugees fleeing for income. criticised u.s. intelligence this week for crossing a red loyd its operations after cia spy was on covert in moscow trying to recruit to russian agents in the wake of the arrests russian intelligence public identity of the cia bureau chief in moscow and the culture 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 savak nickel 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 does the guy says 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 goal and the security agent he was trying to recruit made public by russia's federal security service. you're going up a storm subordinate to give us more. talk a subordinate you want us to attack us because of more than just about the right to have a million dollars all told you want us to talk it's all some. 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 employees who was trying to recruit a russian employee of the national anti terror committee the ass's 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 were 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 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 for and does believe that 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 agents working in moscow and here is the high columns that 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 rocks weeks compresses and maps. von doesn't exactly have much competition right now. we will find many more stories on our web site here's a quick taste of what we've lined up for you there today it's nine times the size of an ocean liner and while you're watching it's getting closer to worth it to r.t.

dot com to track the mysterious asteroid. also online for you today a rough arrival at a moscow airport one of planes landing collapses luckily all those on board escaped without a scratch had to r.t. dot com to see the footage and fool. the bahraini government is accused of using surveillance software from a u.k. based company to spy on a leading rights activist that's according to documents filed at the high court in london and one of the founders of the right school for rain watch a lot of factors say the program is designed for use in criminal investigations and privacy activists claim that technology is being widely abused in the program named fins by ken for 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 and access information on your hard disk or a large harby who file 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. disguised as if they were from journalists and were from other activists and then. 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 in for infiltration amongst protests activists that are 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 the this is a global operation gam international has sold this software to at least twenty five governments and the us seems the use of this 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. well some other news making headlines now the south a prominent supporter from pakistan's movement for justice has been shot dead in the southern town of rancho auntie's leader and former forget the iran card has accused its providers of. summer shot he'd misandrist cessnock last night hours before today's russia rerun the recent election. people were killed in the run up last week. in ukraine the thousands of opposition supporters of rally going to capital kiev for the mobbing the release of former prime minister lute machine and political reforms clashes broke out between protesters and riot police with at least ten people injured during the struggle going on as to say tens of thousands turned out for them instruction. from a cost of policing during a son's hold up in the ecuadorian embassy in london has risen to three point three million pounds leading whistleblower has been this since june twenty twelve out of

time of his own a verse or costs are expected to exceed one million pounds a court say there are eight offices and two calls on duty at the embassy. is facing sexual assault charges in sweden is he could be extradited to the us where he's on trial for espionage. well next we explore the murky secrets of some of the world's biggest manmade catastrophes that's coming up here announcing. a fairly dickinson university study has been revealed that twenty nine percent of americans think that a revolution won't just happen in america but needs to be done in order to protect

individual liberty if respondents consider themselves conservative than that number is bumped up to forty four percent that's nearly half also fox news found out that since nine eleven the percent of americans willing to sacrifice their personal freedom to reduce the threat of terrorism is at an all time low this number might sound trivial but it only takes a tiny percent of the population actually start a revolution i mean how many communists were in russia at the start of nine hundred seventeen and how many were there at the end revolution may sound like a nice thing to a growing number of people but the media wrongly portrays revolution as some fun video game battle where freedom fighters topple the statue of the dictator and then democracy just instantly comes about and life is good and happy i don't 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 fundamentally 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 after the b.p. spill doctor on change who can we see and we're in barrett teria which is forty miles from the gulf and about one hundred fifty miles from the wellhead the oil and dispersants have come into here yesterday the wind blew really hard these tables got this cloudy gritty glaze on look at that that's just what's on the table before we even start the interview. was b.p.

about to repeat the same strategy that exxon used with the valve these oil spill this pack of confidential documents were uncovered as part of the toxic lawsuits that followed with some of the workers who realized that their sicknesses lingered lingered lingard these documents are very incriminating and they show that thousands of workers actually did in fact get sick from exposure to a number of chemicals including to be toxic after no axons chief medical advisor dr kind of cool it's a memo to acts on and at the very end here you see the intent we do not need a health hazard evaluation and should try and avoid it if possible. the health hazard evaluate.