the force feeding of inmates and fresh claims of sexual abuse by guards and grips one time a bay prison where a mass hunger strike is android its seventh month. two years after violent riots swept across the u.k. britain's youth say they a lab government support was one of five young people out of work. unlocking the tycoon and once russia's richest man made a lot of cops he could be freed in a year's time after the country's supreme court cut his prison term by two months. this is already coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program now lawyers for several inmates had one tunnel

a bay prison who are on hunger strike have filed a fresh appeal for u.s. jarvis to intervene and stop force feeding at the facility the painful practice slammed internationally of storage or as continuous robbed from a down with a mass hunger strike now in its seventh month meanwhile the un's chief robert turner on torture has told r.t. is being denied full access to the detainees. unfortunately i was not allowed to visit. but i will be 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 the 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 maids they claim that they can only give me this. same terms of the united states they just dados for example or

that they gave giorno this or other visitors but i am disputing the united nations special reports on torture and the terms of visits to detention centers but they 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. while the u.s. economy is taking a hit in the face of widespread budget cuts money still flowing towards keeping the going tanabe facility open the chair of the u.s. senate intelligence committee has already slammed its continued operation as a massive waste of money while 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 paying out 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 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 on bag it 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 but 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 lost it 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 no been charged they're not going to be designated for trial by 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 now some of the detainees maintain the u.s. military stepping up efforts to try and break the hunger strike the latest revelations point of the alleged sexual abuse of prisoners. are reports. 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 and 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 king 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 moma 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 potatoes 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. their welfare 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 check them. while we've been closely tracking the gun tom abate hunger strike since it began in february so you can always head to our website for a full timeline of events evidence or use facilities and we have all the latest updates including first hand accounts from detainees and their lawyers plus statements from u.s. officials and reaction from all over from observers it's all just a click away at r.t. dot com. well 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's 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 is used 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 are out of

work and the. number of those not studying is also on the rise according to the universities and colleges admissions service applications from english students are at their lowest in four years this as the tuition fees tripled in two thousand and twelve r.t. sarah ferguson met a young brit who took part in the riots two years ago to find out if anything's changed. everyone. i want to. i meet 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 receives a six month sentence for theft but to charlie the impact of his actions have lost it far longer you would think that. you know what about. those things.

how does it make you feel knowing you are the. world often of you know about this big no one. i would never. tell these one of these he would have been dumped in the altima the rioting with the barrel you also pretty cool he met with many young people he called stopping the violence and her new book speaks to what she says is an isolating and stigmatising tight so i try to spare we 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 misnomer 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 of the rich poor divide freeman moment and the poor kind of thing and i

think 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 problems of going away they haven't gone away then we're going to see more more trouble until the things start to get results but the spark that started the riots largely. tributed to the she thing i'm telling 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 other to deep rooted social problems that many feel they will have not been dealt with if indeed youth unemployment in the cave remains that crisis levels are never going to join in because i was so drunk i think that nothing good for me i did and. still in

a country place two hundred troops are still looking for work. so often i'm in the same sorbo as i was before going into. we've 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 nothing 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 preserve more you've crops and more maybe more funding to do things he says he's going to do this and that to help people. when we're going to be given buses are through and so i

hope you know there's all this talk about this and there's no. semen on the heart of. so let's see in london now the m p four told now i'm aware of the young breast will spark in two thousand and eleven has accused the government of burying the report on the riots more than half of the panel's recommendations haven't been addressed at all in its final response which was supposed to outline the efforts to tackle the causes of protests london's former senior policy adviser on equality says westminster has learnt no weston's from the unrest two years ago the government is one of those that competent pokes will governments we've seen in british political history all the initiatives tend to run into this and being glorious ineffective fadia i 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 exacerbated 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 it is almost inevitable given the government's role to failure to respond to the needs and issues. the calls these are. all but the two thousand and eleven disturbances. in just a few minutes we investigate what's behind the unprecedented security precautions at u.s. diplomatic missions around the world that's just ahead for here in r.t. . this is the media leave us so we leave the baby. by the sea oceans to the. way your party is in the. issues that no one is this game with to get that you

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welcome back this is r.t.d. now russia's jailed former oil tycoon how hard kosky could get out of prison sooner than expected and that's after the country's supreme court partially upheld on 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 that of course he and his business partner plucked only because of now the rule of the court was to rule whether their second conviction for money laundering and the basle men should be a left it now the defense team often called had a coffee demanded their thing that they were convicted on charges that were in valid right from the start and while leaving the court building the lawyers said that they would appeal this decision now because of what i post he was not present at this court hearing useful boy video link from the prison colony and he was due

to be released in the cold war in 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 that held against both businessman for a number of times now still reject their claims that there are cases where politically mots of ages. was a rest of back in two thousand and three two years later he was convicted tax evasion and while still serving his sentence he was convicted down for the second time and last year the courts reduced his sentence to eleven years. and how to remove his multi-million dollar embezzlement trial sparked debate about how tough russian laws that tackle economic crime really are and earlier talk to business presenter katie 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 bad ten making russia more transparent a more friendly place to come and want to do business and the almost none 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 in a business platform and certainly a great sign for investors you know because i have been cautious when it comes to worship so if i get good this time goes well i would say the g. twenty coming up in exactly a month's time now we know that russia is going to take case itself investment opportunities because the economy is so willing at the moment so i would say it's kind of a timing as well for a much say now nearly three hundred people have been convicted of plotting to overthrow the turkish government the verdict in a five year long landmark trial saw the head of the army lawyers academics and

journalists get long prison terms some of them jailed for life activists and the media have criticized the trial as a witch hunt so lot now let's bring in god dar he is a research assistant in turkish politics for the set a foundation thank you so much mr de wine for joining us here in r.t. to discuss this so what is your take on this verdict where you make of it. i mean first of all not everyone is calling it which hung like a spice and one who's not i do always you go to the people right now who has been on the trial it is in the witch hunt there has been some criticism regarding the priests usually these thieves some of them probably are actually the other is not but overall this person like you know that a significant part of the people in turkey and significant part of commentator. yes . they agree with a sense of this trial they might disagree with some of the precision right now what we're discussing in terms of like the fall of the the fault of the. trial is more

about the precision not about the sensible to trial well don't you think that the sentences are too harsh will the sentence and i mean first of all i'm not a lawyer therefore i cannot for opinion on whether the son the son says that some of these defendants has received substantial is deserved or not so therefore. on that but right now we still have to see we still have to see what we still have to see a detailed explanation from the core as to why i would like each person has received a sentence that they have received so as far as so far that the court hasn't offered the explanation once we saw with then we can talk whether some of the sentences there is on that evidence as well or not well let's now talk about the broader implications of this in the country as this comes shortly after the latest wave of discontent and a with the government and the gezi park of course protests

so in your opinion how might it affect the mood in the country. can you repeat the question i couldn't hear the last part of how can this latest developments affect the mood in the country given that it almost happens hot on the heels of the discontent with the government's handling of the gezi park protests. well let's separate this issue from each other the gives it part was like a spontaneous event and it was like no and event that happened in the two months able but right now what we are discussing with this are going to trial it is a trial that has been going on almost for six years and it has received a wide spore and liberal conservative democratic section of the society i mean let's not forget in two thousand and eleven the european court of human rights also ruled that the based on the evidence and that the court has great that it seems to be like you know that the european court of unrest also rule. this case on the song

evidence and so it's not like it's not it has nothing to do with the recent events ok well let me sorry let me just jump in here using you said that i guess the park is a different matter in some ways it is but yes it revealed you know much deeper problems that the turkish society is facing at the moment and you know turkey is a secular state so why then push towards a more islamic country but how do you see a push towards a more islamic state you do see true do most of you we saw it through the regulations what is the evidence is that you have seen that suggested turkey is going twice and more as one state and as long as i am still waiting for someone to provide me with evidence is that suggest that turkey is one towards a more just one state so i mean right now i think the question you know most of the people on the street really does it probably does not suggest that turkey is going to us and islam said whether they said that they were some of them they said that

they would like to be heard or the government on some of their you know god in the decision that is for their choices well certainly these are the issues that people may agree or disagree on that was going to die as a research assistant in turkish politics for the set up foundation. now the doors and u.s. embassies and some consulates across the nineteen countries in the middle east and africa will remain shot for another few days they have suspended work due to what's been described by some lawmakers in washington as the biggest terrorist threat since nine eleven reports have suggested an intercepted phone message between senior al qaeda operatives could have raised the alarm however no further details of the threat have surfaced you know discuss this with our contributor from london . so if you think so much for joining us here now does the seriousness of the measure show that actually washington has learned from

the previous attacks on u.s. diplomatic missions what's your take so i got zuzu here you know where is there i repeat the question. yes well we see the seriousness of measures that washington is now taking in some of the embassies so do what does that mean and does it mean that u.s. has a learned a lesson from the previous attacks on its embassies. well i think i may have got the gist of the question i think one could be forgiven business ism skepticism the rush are often temporary asylum to edward snowden along came a terror threat based on presumably national security agency u.s. national security agency bugging of a phone call but. our hearing. room in yemen lead a. better time to explain to the american people that edward snowden must be a traitor because what the n.s.a.

is doing is monitoring phone calls that protect u.s. service personnel. minimize the threat of terrorism against u.s. installations because of course president obama has been a great because sergeant for al qaeda whether it be this morning's drone strikes which killed four people. the mainstream press already saying they were militants no trial needed they just killed outright immediately. continued support for syrian syria so this terror threat very suspicious coming so soon afterwards so far the only terrorist action one could make out was in the past hour or so it's been reported that yemeni tribes people have brought down presumably a u.s. backed yemeni military helicopter killing one person the pilot ok well let's now take a look add multiple intelligence sources on which the u.s. reacted and include some phone calls interceptions and web postings there in your

opinion does that justify the spying on private data by the u.s. . obviously you know what i think thomas jefferson the people that framed the u.s. constitution in the declaration of independence would have said there's no point in defending liberty at home if you're going to break the freedoms that you're supposed to be defending and one interesting aspect of this is that the british should be very quick and of course the british g c h q here it would snowden revealed are involved in this morning of web postings and monitoring of conversations the british ambassador they're going to be in their month tweeted this morning as the american drones were murdering four people extra judicially. and she tweeted what a beautiful sunrise she as i understand it is either on the way back or is arrived back here in london and the american ambassador as arrived back in washington so

britain america no representation in yemen not a great success for al qaeda policy since nine eleven that the americans basically dropping drone strikes and running as fast as they can with their personnel and this is not the sign of a superpower now what do you think is behind the timing of the alleged terrorist threat and the closure of the embassies. as i said i think definitely people are starting to doubt this this announcement so soon after what happened with edward snowden so soon after the bradley manning verdict was deliberating his sentencing we must remember that the american population in polls support edward snowden and the obama administration must be very aware of that they desperately sending congressmen into the u.s. t.v. talk show circuit political talk show good to talk about how this terror threat as you said the worst since nine eleven is affecting the united states and was wholly

dependent seemingly on this bugged phone call. i think most sensible people who i presume would be wondering how on earth. ten years on more than ten years on since nine eleven still using phone calls that can be traced by the national security agency completely on encrypted not using different means of communicating and walked as the obama administration forms as is the greatest threat since nine eleven was also remember there being these prison escapes in iraq in pakistan and afghanistan and the obama policy of supporting al-qaeda linked terrorists militants in syria presumably has an effect here as well and their support for saudi arabia yemen of course has a big border with solar and iranian if these weapons get in there in the hands of them while the protests continue in eastern saudi arabia it could even affect the oil more we have to leave it there unfortunately we're running out of time that was

our contributor talking to us from london and in just a few minutes so we're breaking the sad why president obama still hasn't closed guantanamo. 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 are nice but footage of moloch tough 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 smashed 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. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous.