the latest news in the week's top stories here on r t the hunger strike at guantanamo bay passes the one hundred day mark with most inmates still starving themselves over the or indefinite detention without charge. the u.s. government seizes the phone records of over one hundred journalists from the associated press sparking media outrage but the white house insists it was unaware of the probe. syria's president maintains he'll stay on till he is voted out and warned the foreign backed rebels will keep fighting despite international efforts to mediate peace. and more spies in disguise russian security exposes a cia chief in moscow as u.s. intelligence has left red faced after again getting caught red handed trying to recruit a russian agent. this

is already coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina joshing welcome to the program and more than one hundred days since the mass hunger strike at guantanamo bay began and there's still no sign of any of the protesters are willing to back down well over half of the people detained there without charge are protesting their indefinite plight was no hope of release and some inmates say they're seeking freedom through death but the u.s. military is force feeding them to make sure that doesn't happen it's going to take on their reports. 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 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 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 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'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 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 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 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 expressed commitment to close the infamous prison president of united states has said point out it 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 for years the

administration is 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 are too big to ignore in washington i'm going to shut down. all the u.s. military recently requested tens of millions of dollars to renovate a prison saying congress has decided to keep it open indefinitely maintaining the notorious camps already costing america a considerable sum while nine hundred thousand dollars that's a prize of keeping just one detainee there for a year and there's one hundred sixty six inmates at guantanamo at the moment many of whom have been held without charge for more than a decade it costs much less some twenty five thousand dollars per year to house a convict a prisoner in the u.s. has bill dog talk to guantanamo spokesman navy captain robert drawn who did not have use of the facility. 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 to reserve life for lawful means we currently have a hundred hunger strikers today we have currently thirty who are doing and sheryl 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 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 cabin 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 policies are courts of up held that. sustaining life you lawful means is lawful we have a medical protocol where we evaluate detainees based on their weight loss and co-morbidity we allow them to hunger strikes 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 facility. your producers are walking

to calm. yourself. now lawyers for the detainees strongly disagree with captain drawings assessment they claim the captives are being held in unbearable conditions and they're subjected to daily harassment wife's efforts to misrepresent several of the hunger strikers and saying and says they are being forced to keep silent about the truth let's face it when my clients are coming to have a telephone call with me last i heard you can smuggle anything in the now 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 a cold 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 of men third in most of the people i represent there's only one way and this strike sadly and that's to take the prisoners who have been cleared for release and set them free. that's how things are right now where the guantanamo bay hunger strike so get yourself up to speed on the events of the past one hundred days and and there you'll find complete and comprehensive coverage with commented analysis from u.s. officials lawyers and even some former detainees it's all available online here at r.t. dot com. the u.s. justice department got embroiled in another surveillance scowl this week after it sees two months of phone records of editors and journalists from the country's

biggest news gathering service the associated press liz wall has the details. 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 one thousand 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 he was recusing himself from this a.p. investigation that prominent news agency condemned the government's actions in a letter to holder 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 worries 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 r.t. . all the white house insists it was in the dark over the surveillance of the a.p. alice beg to differ 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. now some countries also make sure other governments are in the loop when they need to snoop surveillance technology developed in the u.k.

was used against a bahraini activist is now taking legal action and she tells her story here in our t.v. in a couple of minutes. 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 you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. the world with. science technology innovation all the lives developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

download the official application if you so 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 your t.v. any time anyway. welcome back to watching our tina fight is escalating in syria with government forces reportedly stormie key rebel stronghold the c.e.o. of the say or near the lebanese border is said to be a viable hub for the smuggling of arms into syria meanwhile the president's reiterated his commitment to stay at the helm until next year's elections saying only the people can decide his future a shot of us that insists he won't buckle to western pressure he also expressed doubts of any breakthrough in the upcoming international conference on syria saying

the fractures foreign backed opposition will stay committed to violence the gathering expected in the coming weeks is being brokered by russia and the u.s. but it remains unclear who will speak for the rebels and the u.n. has also endorsed international efforts to mediate peace as a group is going on now reports. well after a 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 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 will be able to represent it as a. all 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 than 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 and 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 a weapons from abroad the violence just spikes. and fresh fears of serious conflict breaching its borders grew this week when protesters clashed with police

in neighboring turkey demonstrators are angry at and girl support for the rebels and say the turkish people are paying a price for the involvement after protests in stamboul and the capital tear gas was used on crowds in a target of war a town which was the scene of a deadly bombing a week ago turkey blames here for the attack which is strongly denied and pointed the finger at radical rebels reportedly in the town journalist manny el and writer who's covered the syria crisis extensively says turkey is aggravating accomplished by backing the insurgency. the turkish demonstrates the turkish people is upset because of what is happening on the turkish side it's their full right because it's like to let me say to invite a firestarter into your house because you want to send to me later to your neighbors and then you wonder that the fire starter starts putting fire on your own house we have to see that turkey has a nine hundred kilometer long border to syria and we have to see that turkey

doesn't do anything to prevent terrorists and. pressing the border from turkey to syria in contradiction turkey even supports those terrorists training camps. turkey is giving supplying a lot of means and turkey is right now being like a hostile power to boards the musters if it's a the so-called. more moderate rebels claimed a couple of times in the past that they considered the jihadists from the north suffer and. the troops as their comrades in the fight against them us this so if the winds tells us no or turkey says we support the moderate rebels it's not true because nobody can assure a gun comes from the head office so called moderate rebel in the hands office so called to extremist rebels i think we should start to distinguish finally because this is the big lie twenty three years apart and finally reunited we've got an

amazing story for you on our website he only told how a chinese man paid his home and family two decades after being kidnapped was a google map it's. also the pentagon spilled the plug on an ambitious space project despite blowing over two hundred million dollars on it already we'll tell you why online. washington crossed a red line and that was the call from russia secret service this week after they busted a cia spy offering a million dollars to a russian security agent and returned for assistance and there were red faces at the american embassy in moscow as the identity was also revealed of the cia bureau chief working under the guise of a diplomat. takes up the story. 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 of technical equipment and some other items that were found when he was

detained including 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 goal and the security agent he was trying to recruit made public by russia's federal security service you're going. to give us more of the talk of the war than you know what goes through a clerk yes because of mortgages on the bottom of the web of a million little old you and yes. i do the. full bill 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 and recent years since two thousand and eleven there

have been in fact four other similar cases one case involves another american embassy employee who was trying to recruit a russian employee of national committee the athens b. says that there is a striking resemblance to the focal skis and that the cia has gone too far with this spying operations. we will particular bridge for the actions of the american spy dillon benjamin he tried to convince an employee of the russian national counterterrorism u.-t. 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 crossed 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 it was

a mixture flat 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 let's remember 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. now britain is being taken to task for a failing to keep a close watch on how its spying technology is used bahraini a rights activist says the horror of repressive governments used u.k.

may equipment to keep tabs on her and she's now taking the issue to london's high court the manufacturers insist the devices are designed for criminal investigations but privacy campaigners say the system's abuse is rife and the program called fin spy can perform a wide range of surveillance operations it works by infecting your computer and recording your sky and and social media activity can also take screenshots without your knowledge and information on your hard drive. being who filed the cord stock humans 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. 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 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. and after the break here at r.t. the planet's most disastrous oil spill accident discovered a vast network of corruption behind the gulf of mexico tragedy.

a fairly dickinson university study has been revealed to 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 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 fundamental 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 story is me me me inside iran. the british geologists discovered iran was sitting on an emotional boil and they decided they would take and they formed the anglo persian oil company and made a corrupt deal with the iranian monarchy. they guaranteed itself all iran's oil. surely after bad the british government bought fifty one percent of the company and of the suggestion of winston churchill the british navy switched from coal to oil. the warships the project the british power all over the world were now running one hundred percent oil wrong. and that in one thousand fifteen to go ron eons decided to take their oil. the democratically elected government of prime minister mohammad most an act nationalize the anglo or.