the force feeding of end mates and fresh claims of sexual abuse by guards groups one tonne of a bay prison where a mass hunger strike as anger that seven months. two years after a violent riots what the cross the u.k. britain's you'd say the lag government's support with one of five young people out of work. and unlocking the tycoon one so russia's richest man the hotter kosky could be freed in a year's time after the country's supreme court cuts his prison term by two months .

is there a t coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina joshua welcome to the program now lawyers for several inmates guantanamo bay prison who are on hunger strike have filed a fresh appeal for u.s. judges to intervene and stop force feeding out of. slammed internationally a store tour has continued throughout drama down with a mass hunger strike now at its seventh month meanwhile the un's chief robert turner on torture has told r.t. he's being denied full access to the detainees. unfortunately i was not allowed to visit. the town of obey at least not in the terms that i have to apply under the rules that i am subject to i did get invited by the pentagon but on conditions that i couldn't accept because conditions was that i would see only the parts of the prison that they wanted to show me and specifically that i could not have individual meetings with within me they claim that they can only

give me the same terms that they give united states legislators for example or that they give giorno this or other visitors but i am to speak the united nations special rapporteur on torture and the terms of visits to the detention centers but i apply have been approved by the human rights council so i'm not asking the united states to give me any preferential treatment but i also cannot give the united states preferential treatment i while the u.s. economy is taking a hit in the face of widespread budget cuts money still flowing towards keeping the guantanamo bay facility open the chair of the u.s. senate's intelligence committee has already slammed its continued operation as a massive waste of money. the pentagon estimates the total cost of the notorious prison will top five billion dollars by the end of next year keeping one hundred sixty six inmates housed there means u.s. taxpayers are picking up a tab of over

a million dollars every single day because the u.s. military facilities located in cuba the pentagon has to spend plenty of cash shipping food materials and flying in personnel well here's how the total tab breaks down for this year with a big share of the spending being allocated to prison staff and security guards former guantanamo detainee was a bad believes the hunger strike will flare up with fresh force after the holy muslim month of ramadan and on wednesday. this isn't about. this is about a concept for justice that these people have been fighting for which they have no choice but to hunger strike to the point which they're ready i believe to even die clearly they've lasted for twelve years almost there are nine people who didn't last nine people have died in one tunnel. and you know there are several people who have literally lost their mental faculties there are several countries where the individuals can and should be returned to most of them in fact the overwhelming majority of them know being charged they're not going to be designated for trolled

by a military commission or anything else they should be returned home if they had been convicted they would have served now the equivalent almost of a twenty five year sentence a life sentence and so the answer is that there's simply not enough will in the united states of america not in the amongst the american people sadly and certainly not among american politicians to do the right thing which is to release these men return them back home and let them live the rest of their lives with their families like the most like like all of us have like the former guantanamo prisoners the six hundred of us who've returned to try to build up normal lives some of the detainees maintain the u.s. military stepping up efforts to try and break the hunger strike the latest revelations point to the alleged sexual abuse of prisoners as it is granted she can now report. every day in guantanamo it's groundhog day whether you're a guard or a prisoner that's how one officer described life and get mail every day's the same

as the last then there is no escape for many inmates it's a painful routine routine that includes regular searches and force feeding twice a day for those who are on hunger strike the latest account from the prison comes from a british resident named shakur aamer has been held for eleven years of good will never charged with any crime shuckers been on hunger strike since january has also refused to leave his cell he writes i have said what i want to do just sit there for a week doing nothing just sitting it's about as nonviolent non-problematic protest as you could imagine but they won't let me do it so the forcible cell extraction teen carries him out of the cell his hands and feet in shackles to a special place where they perform a search a pet down which shakur armor and other inmates call the good moments sarge they flip me over for the surge mostly it's just an assault sometimes a sexual assault we call it the get my message they carry me like

a second for teachers which is really painful for me. guantanamo officials actually responded to our inquiry about allegations by saying we don't comment on any detainee allegations made through their defense attorneys regardless of how ridiculous and absurd the allegations might be by saying this guantanamo officials may be suggesting the trucker's allegations are ridiculous and absurd could be but nonetheless has a history of torture and abuse which washington has tried to cover up by hiding behind state secrets privilege if you listen to the officials here are led to believe life would get more was not so bad the inmates can watch cable t.v. they are well fed and force feeding is not as bad as it sounds no matter what the u.n. says after all they use a lubricant to shove the feeding tube down the detainees nostrils to make sure the detainees don't resist of course they struck them to a chair on the receiving end that is on the detainees and it's of course a completely different story they report pain humiliation and despair that's their

routine in washington i'm going to take them well we've been closely tracking the guantanamo bay hunger strike since it began of you know was had our website r.t. dot com for a full timeline of events avodah torrijos facility well there we have the latest updates including firsthand accounts from detainees and their lawyers plus statements from u.s. officials and reaction from observers it's all just a click away at r.t. dot com. now it's been two years since a wave of riots and looting swept across the u.k. with fears rising that conditions are ripe for a repeat of the violence and with the government on in the steerage drive thousands of young people have fallen into long term joblessness and the seeds were sown long before the unrest in two thousand and eleven as youth unemployment has been rising steadily since two thousand and two with the recent figures standing at almost

a million it means that one of five brits aged sixteen to twenty four. work and the number of those not study is also on the rise according to the universities and colleges admissions service applications from english students are their lowest in four years this as a choice in fees tripled in two thousand and twelve r.t. sara first no matter how young brit who took part in the riots two years ago to find out a fan of things changed. everyone. wanted to one up on the police just what it was i mean charlie at his council house it's been almost two years since his arrest and imprisonment as a result of his participation in the london riots he received a six month sentence pathetic to charlie the impact of his actions have lost it follow along. with what. you know what about. those things.

how does it make you feel knowing you were both in. the home of you know about six big no one. would move the. stuff you know these one of those he would have been dumped in the altima that the rioting with the ten barrel you also play courtney met with many young people he got caught up in the violence and her new book seeks to do what she says is an isolating and stigmatising tight so i tell you start where you have to talk to deliberately because i knew it was the phrase that gets used by politicians by the media to describe well often to describe young people in general which is just complete myth very unfair and i'm just i mean accurate almost one hundred percent of the time the motivations behind the riots were complex the basic economics play

a key part in the rear. four divided over a three minute moment and the poor are kind of being and the thing that you know that being left behind that was a phrase i heard in my research a lot you know we're being left behind and so i think it might be the start of something more i don't think the problem is gone away they haven't gone away then we're going to see more more trouble until the things start to get results the spark that started the riots largely attributed to the sheeting and killing by police of a man named mark duggan here in the london borough of tottenham and two years on and friends and family is still awaiting an inquest expected in mid september because they wait but on thursday many questions still remain over the ensuing violence some putting it down to mindless criminality others to deep rooted social problems that many feel will have not been dealt with indeed youth unemployment in the cave remains that crisis levels are never going to join in because i was so

drunk i think for me i didn't. stay in a concert on top so i'm still looking for work. so i often i'm in the same sort of pose i was before going into. a criminal record. at the time of the riots the prime minister described the behavior of people like charlie as mindless criminality pure and simple you often need to. listen to us more because we live in the last basically in the slums we haven't got enough and so. they need to sort of listen to us and. of course and maybe what we need or what we want not necessarily what we want what we need and what might help us if they become in front of you right now what would you say to him that you think people need right now to help you serve more you've crops and more maybe more funding to do things he says he's

going to do this and that i hope people. are going to be given. just as i threw up some wins i hope you know you've given his oldest talk about this and there's no. semen on the heart of the surf i see london now the m.p. for told them where the unrest was sparked in two thousand and eleven has accused the government of burying the report on the riots more than a half of the perilous recommendations haven't been addressed at all in its final response which was supposed to outline the efforts to tackle the causes of protest one former senior policy adviser on equality says westminster has learned no lessons from the end rest a years ago. the government is one of those competent polk's world governments we've seen in british political history all the initiatives tend to run into the ending glorious ineffective fadia don't meet the needs of the community all the

conditions that give rise to the two thousand two thousand and eleven. disturbances have been simply exacerbate seed made more acute and there is a bigger group of people now expected so i think the likelihood of a repetition of the kind of sees we saw two thousand and eleven is almost inevitable given the government's role to failure to respond to the needs and issues. the calls reason to leave the two thousand and eleven disturbances coming out for you we've got cars making stars videos from vehicles in russia get scores of hits online as dashboard cameras capture some of the most bizarre and hilarious highway aska pate we explore how the country's become the world authority on the so-called dash cam very shortly here in r.t. .

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be. welcome back this is our russia's jailed former oil tycoon meal how to kosky could get out of prison sooner than expected and that's after the country's supreme court partially upheld an appeal by his lawyers all the details now from artie's medina caution about who's been following the proceedings. russia's supreme court has reduced by two months the prison terms for jail to me that of course he and his business partner plucked only because of now the rule of the court was to rule whether they are a second conviction for money laundering and embezzle and should be a left it now the defense team often called had a cost he demanded their leave thing that they were convicted on charges that were

invalid right from the start and while leaving the court building the lawyer said that they would appeal this decision now because that i suppose he was not present at this point here he spoke boy video link from the prison colony and he was due to be released in the cobra two thousand and fourteen but now he will walk free a year from now and his business partner just several months earlier in may two thousand and fourteen and also earlier this month the european court off human rights which has criticised the trials the held against both businessman for a number of times now still reject their claims that there are cases where politically lots of ages we have a political speech was a rest of back in two thousand and three two years later he was convicted to tax evasion and while still serving his sentence he was convicted down for the second time and last year the courts reduce his sentence to eleven years. and for more perspective on this let's now go to dmitry babich was

a political analyst for the voice of russia radio station meter thank you for joining us now give us your thoughts as to how important you think this two month cut is after a decade in jail he would sing doubt isn't significant as it. were i don't think it's significant that i don't think that the whole story is significant because you want to respect other poster walks free you know you have from now you know a ghost i don't think he's going to play in the important political role. he is not strong in terms of your support your letter to the. if you have some powerful friends in the executive for that call and show him fumin right side of the president he has a lot of powerful powerful friends of the government but they are already extra without him so that he himself if he walks out of jail i would nor do you hear him as a person who can get elected but somewhere for the position of who can attract the

media and so volte us that's the impression that the western press is trying to create and i think it's a wrong impression well. the lawyers are planning to appeal today's decision so why do you think this is an issue of principle for them. because he is a very reach man he still has a lot of money stashed away somewhere abroad or maybe even in russia so he has some good lawyers who get a good money so they're supposed to walk for that money they aim is to keep a lot of noise around this case and probably indeed to try to get him out of jail before he storm expires next year but i think it's more a ball of p.r. it's not about serious political business i think that it's now clear that despite the fact that mr for the most you spent in jail about ten years now steel he didn't

become popular in russia he doesn't have the same honor to emerge which. when he had problems with the authority has always checkered emission software refused to have when he was in gorky that we live in a very different society and sort of in the midst of another post is a very different man from those two or that was political analyst for the voice of a russian when he stationed me to be talking to me. and the holocaust his multi-million dollar embezzlement trial sparked debate about how tough russian laws in a tackle in on a crime really are well earlier i talked to our business present occasion pilbeam and she explained the recent trend to relax legislation and what effect it could have on the investment climate. the business community to get a positive it was seen as reducing red tape making russia more transparent a more friendly place to come and want to do business on the ombudsman for entrepreneurs boris toss off he said at the time it's great for morale is great for

the ethics in that it would lead us into more prosperity more development so it's seen as modernizing roughs in a business platform and certainly a great sign for investors you know because of your efforts have been cautious when it comes to worship so if i get a good design one as well i would say this is what the g. twenty coming up in exactly a month's time now we know that russia is going to say case itself investment opportunities because the economy is so winning at the moment so i would say it's clever timing as well for a much they take a look at some other stories from around the world iran's new president hassan rouhani says iran to hold direct talks with the u.s. on its nuclear program but if the country's rights won't be infringed the president is for me a cabinet and has already appointed a prominent reformist as he is deputy or harney was elected on a platform promising dialogue with the west hoping to and the country's isolation he says he is number one priority is to loosen the grip of sanctions which dealt

a severe blow to the ranch trade medicine and the banking sector. down taliban doesn't plan to take part in next year's presidential elections and will wage war until foreign troops leave the country that's according to a statement from the movement's elusive leader more or more it follows last week's deadly clashes between taliban militants and security forces that left over one hundred people dead are also claims that to the taliban will try to reach an understanding with all factions in afghanistan if it comes to power after nato troops withdraw next year. five soldiers have been killed in an ambush attack in india administered kashmir near its disputed border with pakistan. india's military claim the attack was carried out by pakistani troops but islam abad denies any involvement the incident has sparked public outrage in india and threatens the government's plans to resume peace negotiations between the two nuclear armed

states. epic ridiculous and downright bizarre those are the comments you'll most likely find under you tube clips from dashboard mounted cameras in russia they've been catching everything from driving offenses to me to yours and could now service top content for hours of comedy lives in france takes a look at what's become the online hallmarks of today's russia. if it wasn't for this we would never have seen this the eleven thousand ton meteor that impacted chelyabinsk in february the video was breathtaking the world asked when did russia become the authority on the so called dash cam george fetch macof says we have russian roads to thank there so bad that proving he isn't negligent in a crash can be tough without one two weeks ago i. didn't it wasn't my fault it was just

a problem with their old. record. it's not my fault it's not just the roads it's also scams like this one people throwing themselves at cars to collect injury money it's a known fact that while driving down the road in rush hour you never know what might sail past you it could be a boat a tank. a fighter jet. or even a passenger plane crashing into a highway it's never dull. and it's very often hilarious mostly because it's happening to someone else like this really i don't like what they want to deal with . yeah when the guy said oh ok. people love russia nonchalance when faced with calamity all seriousness aside just think of all of the comedy missing from the internet oppression dash cams are made

illegal because what makes it so uniquely russian isn't just what's happening on this side of the dashboard but the reaction inside the car but yet when we are very concerned with the sound oh i want to learn the russian word for. the. end. fact the russian reaction seemed so laid back it's beyond parodies on russian television according to automotive journalist alexander people think oh these little cameras are now a part of the culture judging by the survey that we conducted of the forty million drivers in this country every ninth one thousand video recorder cording to legal expert from slang cannot have any lawmaker wants to pass legislation preventing provocative video from being posted online whether for privacy or decency he is going to have a tough pill to climb legally but you can almost get with. issue of privacy is

a relevant because the document events and public areas so if you find a dash cam video of yourself being laughed at on the news after an epic evening out you may just have to turn the other cheek because at this point you are collateral damage in moscow lindsey france r t and more stories for you to check out r.t. dot com including in free dataflow we trust russian activist are kicking off a campaign to register their own church in an attempt to make copy and sharing files online a sacred right plus. by recycling electronic waste properly you can get a hold of precious metals even gold but instead of turning it healthy profit british firms are flooding in developing countries with millions of tons of outdated electronics which tell you why online. while the scope of u.s. snooping operations revealed by the fugitive whistleblower edward snowden are no

surprise to venezuela and that's what the country's foreign minister is how why exclusively told r.t. spanish channel. when. we had always strongly suspected the us was carrying out surveillance across the world america excuses its nuclear activities by saying it's based on legislation and congress gave its approval along with the supreme court of the government to simply put it into effect but there are a lot of ethical questions as to how this program is being implemented in regard to society in this case the rights of u.s. citizens or being a b. under cites we also see that the program involves other nations who are not obliged to abide by american laws and this is what makes it all very serious. and up next the billion dollar business that's boosted by simple drinking water bottle life is on our team after a short break. wow

revolutions in the middle east sure get a great deal of coverage what you don't mix a lot of sense revolutions or exciting t.v. peaceful protests or nice but footage of molotov cocktails flying and crazed crowds of local middle easterners really grab attention so there's a logical natural reason why some protest movements get a lot of coverage in the mainstream media well others kind of adult please forgive me for being conspiratorial but there is one revolution going down which does have all the exciting visuals of the arab spring but just doesn't get any of the mainstream coverage in fact unarmed people in this country recently stormed the parliament trapping ministers and lawmakers with that they held them down for eight hours demanding the government resign until police with shields smash their way through creating a narrow corridor through which the officials could escape now that sounds like

exciting and visual news but why did you hear about it all over the mainstream press that's because it didn't happen in libya or egypt or any other exotic country but in good old boag area right in the e.u. where u.s. and e.u. interests are best served by the status quo being maintained there is no need to hype up an intervention or kinetic action in bulgaria the only time you ever hear about the need for a crackdown in bulgaria is when a government there actually started working in bulgaria own interests and not the us use desires but that's just my opinion. the population of pakistan totals one hundred eighty million and it's still growing in the horror there are ten million people clean drinking water is in short supply

. for nestle introduced pure lies bottled water was a rare sight in pakistan. now nestle dominates a vast market that it created itself i grew up in a city where you could go just about anyone else but you also water and you would get a glass of water for free without any fear of its quality or it sounds and what's happened over the last ten to fifteen years i mean in my own consciousness is that i have seen and witnessed a replacement of drinking water a commodification of drinking water. i would say that it's nestle that's done it it's been a confluence of factors nestle appeared on the scene it started providing your life drinking water and all of a sudden coca-cola shows up that's the shows out and then a whole bunch of private local manufactured water school shows up as well all producing clean water clean water because of the terribly old and creaky infrastructure of the sanitation authority and then before you know it.