and i mean really. the latest news and the week's top stories are on our t.v. the hunger strike it went on i'm obey pass' the one hundred day mark morris inmates are still starving themselves over their indefinite detention without charge. the us government seizes the food records of over one hundred journalists from the associated press spotty media outrage but the white house insists it was unaware of the probe. syria's president maintains he'll stay until he's voted out and ones that foreign backed rebels will keep fighting despite international efforts to mediate planes. and more spies in disguise so a russian security exposes a cia chief in moscow as u.s. intelligence is left the red faced off again getting caught red handed trying to recruit a russian agent. however

well welcome to you if you've just joined us here on our t.v. it's the weekly with me tom would say more than one hundred days as since the mass hunger strike in guantanamo bay began there's still no sign that any of the protestors are willing to back down well over half of the people detained there without charges protesting their indefinite plied with the no hope of release some inmates to say they're seeking freedom through death but the u.s. military is force feeding them to make sure that doesn't happen as damaging can reports. after years of a natural 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 apis 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 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 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 have gone 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 our joint statement it is not open to the states in a second stance to force them to do each. and the force feeding here involves the insertion of a tube of some significant dynamic 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 kuantan was a 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 is engaged in verbal and legal acrobatics to justify it in action on guantanamo and still not clear how long before people there start dying but one thing is clear the elephant in the room just got too big to ignore in washington i'm going to shut down. the u.s. military recently requested tens of millions of dollars to renovate the prison saying congress has decided to keep it open indefinitely maintaining that atory is chems already costing america a considerable sum let's take a look at those numbers nine hundred thousand dollars that's the price of keeping just one detainee there for a year and there is one hundred sixty six detainees at guantanamo many of whom have been held without charge for more than a decade it cost much less some twenty five thousand to pay you to house a convicted prisoner u.s.

artie's a bill dodd told to guantanamo spokesman and navy captain dravid durand who denied abuse at the facility. they get a what we call a full frisk which is the pat down search not unlike you'd experience going to 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 force feeding all those prisoners who are on hunger strike do you deny that the policy of the united states that it's to reserve life for lawful means we have currently thirty who are doing and carolyn 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 it 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 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 policies our courts of up held 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 of good things that were

transparent facility. lawyers for the detainees are strongly disagree with catherine droughns assessment they claim the captives are being held on bearable conditions and as a subjected to daily harassment now clive stafford smith the represents several of the hunger strikers and says they're keeping and being force are to keep silent about the truth. let's face it when my clients are coming to have a telephone call that me last i heard you can smuggle anything in in out on the telephone. and so the idea that they threaten the prisoners with a 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 your thirty's 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 for 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 and most of the people i represent there's only one way and this strikes fairly and that's to take the prisoners who have been cleared for release and set them free. and that's all things are right now all of that went on a bay hunger strike to get yourself up to speed on the events of the boss the one hundred days that r.t. dot com there you'll find complete and comprehensive coverage with comments and analysis from u.s. officials lawyers and even some former detainees it's all online for you. there was justice department god embroiled in another surveillance scandal this

week sees a two month cell phone records of editors and journalists and the country's biggest news gathering the associated press is 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. the a.p. believes this story prompted the secret investigation. uncovered a plot to bomb a u.s. bound airliner plot originated in yemen and was carried out by. their 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.

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 nine hundred 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 he was recusing himself from this a.p. investigation a 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 a nickel a nation 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's a balance between transparency and national security has been a delicate one since nine eleven the obama administration has a history of aggressively going out to fight information than any other

administration come by and washington was wall artsy. investigative journalist tony gasoline said that this probe or birds or the whole craft of journalism in danger. 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 phone conversations they are not no longer guaranteed those journalists can keep those conversations secret because the justice department is coming in on a massive trawl only hold two months 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 fishing operation and it is an appalling attack really on the freedom of the press in america by a government in the u.s. which is out of control and ultimately this is the rise of 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 well calderón taking away our own governments or taking them away. the greek people have more than economic recovery to contend with at the moment. health bad risks too when we come back we report on how people are struggling to get basic health care as medicine cost wise even their lenders and says the country's worst symptoms all right.

speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks about six of the i p interviews intriguing story to tell you. in trying. to find out more visit our big. dog called. welcome back to watching our team. now in syria government forces have reportedly ford their way into the heart of a key rebel stronghold with these fifty eight people said to have been killed in

the ongoing battle the town of qusayr near the lebanese border is allegedly of vital hub for the smuggling of arms into syria meanwhile the president reiterated his commitment to stay at the helm until next is elections saying only the people can decide his future. says he want to buckle to western pressure he also expressed doubts in the upcoming international conference on syria say the fractured before him bad 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 the u.n. has also endorsed the international. peace as you've heard 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 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 where is 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 visit continues this diplomatic merrill hall which will then witnessing for the past few weeks a lot of officials have been coming to russia does. crossing 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 over 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 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 a video of a rebel cutting the cord 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 humiliated and expelled cia spy ryan fogle has now left to russia off to being busted offering a million dollars to a russian security agent in return for assistance this week sell red faces at the american embassy in moscow as the a dead sea was also revealed of the cia bureau chief working under the guise of a diplomat but in a caution about 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 technical equipment and some other items that were found when he was

detained including 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 to have the story to give us more of the talk of the war than you know what goes through the book you're scared of more than just about the road though of a million little old you and yes. i do. the. 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 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 anteater 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 benjamin he tried to convince an employee of the russian national counterterrorism community to hand over classified documents of this department to the cia like mr food he was deported from russia we hoped the cia would listen 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 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 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 less three member of the previous spice candles 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 rocks weeks compresses and maps james bond doesn't exactly have much competition right now and you ought to visit brian baca has been closely following the spy scandal and says the u.s. is running a continuous coverage operation in russia. the russian government is calling

attention to the fact that the us is doing something of a full court press on russia a shadow war so to speak they have the using the n.g.o.s and the penetration of russian society by us soft power through the n.g.o.s at one level trying to carry out many many intelligence operations to get russians to defect penetrating russian society i think also you watch the u.s. media very favorable coverage to the russian opposition any protest that takes place in russia even if it's small gets enormous front page coverage while here protest movements in the united states get almost no coverage you see the general scenario being played out of hostility to the russian government even if there is still a magic overtures at another level. twenty three years apart and finally reunited we've got an amazing story for you on our website the only tool that helped the chinese man locate his home and family two decades after being kidnapped was google

maps check that out on our web site. both while you're there the pentagon's pulled the plug on an ambitious space project just by blowing over two hundred million dollars on it already we tell you all of that online. greece has a plan b. is the name of a new political party that's all for quitting the euro and bringing back the draft mark claims it's the only way to get the country out of the recession that's now into its sixth year but greece's international lenders insisted the tide will turn next year let's take a look at how the country is faring right now right now in the greek g.d.p. has shared almost first two billion euros the since two thousand and nine government debt expanded by forty five percent with the state leaning heavily on international financial aid and i don't ploy and however in two thousand and nine was

a record high of twenty seven per cent and it's forecast to stay above twenty percent for another three years now tom watson reports the recession has put many of the country's vital public sectors at risk. busy at the counter but pharmacists in greece these days are facing serious sort of jesus of medicine and they're worried. that this young. what's going to be the. next day price controls and tight cash flows mean many drug companies won't supply them greasers health industry is denied profits and patients their medicines so for example if you came into the pharmacy with high blood pressure many doctors like to prescribe this medication but dealy says doesn't have enough of it so he has to give this instead and this issue ation is replicated with hundreds of medicines in hundreds of pharmacies across the country . but the charity doctors of the world in thessaloniki patients are in an even more

desperate situation some of the facts are all working on what i'm really afraid about the future because i have two small children no insurance and i just lost my job to manage the squad as you know i came here because i don't have insurance and the money to pay for my parents some force to come and the situation will only get worse yes. i went to the pharmacy to buy injections for my baby but i couldn't find any so now that i am unemployed i came here. forty five volunteer doctors a week battle with as many as two thousand monthly visits in this crowded space they rely on donations of medicine donations that are running. people who are very . very serious health problems such as they don't logical problems they have to get their medicine. every month every day it's very serious for them not have their

medicine if they do not they could die greeks aren't surprised at any of this anymore they've seen crisis and austerity reach throughout society this new think and make things even here even more difficult than to put two and even more strain on me known because to me the strain on greece's economy on greek workers and now on greeks help worsening scars of a crisis that seems to cut have a deeper thomason party. by going up negs the why of the spill the oil in the gulf of mexico wasn't the only toxic topped up in the b.p. spill saga stay with us.

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the story be beaming ins in iran. the british geologists discovered iran was sitting on an ocean of oil 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.

shortly after that 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 of the projected british power all over the world were now run one hundred percent wrong. and that in one thousand fifteen to ronnie and decided to take their oil. the democratically elected government of prime minister mohammad most attack nationalized the anglo iranian oil company. he banished all the british diplomats and along with them the secret agents who were plotting his overthrow so prime minister churchill asked president eisenhower to overthrow most and act on their behalf the cia and the british helped stage the.