humans in the world this is why you should care only on the dot com. tonight the force feeding of inmates and fresh claims of sexual abuse by guards grips talum a bay prison for a mass hunger strike has ended its seventh month. two years after violent riots swept across the u.k. britain's youth say they lack government support with one in five young people out of work. and unlocking the tycoon once russia's richest man mikhail khodorkovsky could be freed of eight years of time up to the country's supreme court says prison term by two months.

even broadcasting around the world twenty four seven from moscow this is r t it's kevin with me this hour just after nine pm here in moscow now and first and lawyers for several inmates are going tandem obey prison who are on hunger strike or file their fresh appeal for u.s. judges to intervene and stop force feeding at the facility the painful practice slammed internationally as torture has continued throughout ramadan with the mass hunger strike now into its seventh month meanwhile the un's chief reporter on torches told r.t. he's being denied full access to the detainees. unfortunately i was not allowed to visit. the town of bay 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 me they claim that they can only give me the same terms that they give the united states legislators for example or that they give giorno lists or other visitors but i am disputing the united nations special rapporteur 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 i. am indeed while the u.s. economy is taking a hit in the face of widespread budget cuts money still flowing towards keeping guantanamo bay facility open the chair of the u.s. senate intelligence committee already slammed its continued operation is a massive waste of public money there's more to the pentagon estimates the total cost of the natori for the tories 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 and because the u.s. military facilities located in cuba just exhibit the pentagon's how to spend play the a cash shipping food shipping materials and flying in personnel as well here's how the total tab breaks down for this year with a big share especially being allocated to prison staff and security as you can see there former guantanamo detainee muslim begg believes the hunger strike will flare up again with fresh force after the holy muslim month of ramadan ends 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 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 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. in the u.s. military stepping up efforts to try and break the hunger strike the bleaters revelations point to the alleged sexual abuse of prisoners artie's going to can 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 amr has been held for eleven years at 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 expression teeing 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 to 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 you're 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 un 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 on. well i should be watching us lately we've been closely tracking the ground tell it will be a hunger strike since it began back in february can always head to our website for a full timeline of events at the notorious facility it will remind us of what's going on there we go all the latest updates including first hand accounts of the they need and their lawyers plus statements two from u.s. officials that lots of reaction from observers all just a click away r.t. dot com. it's speaking to a years now since a wave of riots and looting swept across the u.k. with fears rising that conditions are ripe for a repeat of violence again may be with the government on a sturdy drive thousands of young people fall into long term joblessness of the seeds were sown long before the unrest we witnessed back in two thousand and eleven as youth unemployment actually been rising steadily since two thousand and two well

with the recent figures standing at almost a million it means that one in five brits aged sixteen to twenty four are now out of work and the number of those not studying is also on the rise as well so they're not doing that according to data the universities and colleges admissions service applications from english students are at their lowest in four years this is the she we shouldn't feast tripled just last year sarah first met a young brit who took part in those riots two years ago to find out if anything has 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 received a six month sentence for theft to charlie the impact of his actions have lost it far longer you would think that.

you know well. the thing. doesn't make it. grow. it's big. i would never. kill these one of those who would have been dumped in the aftermath of the rioting that with the turn feral you also probably courtney met with many young people he got caught up in the violence and her new book seeks to debunk what she says is an isolating and stigmatising title i have a tie to deliberately because i knew it was a 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

unjust so we almost one hundred percent of the time the motivations behind the riots were complex but the basic economics play a key part of the rich poor divide stream at the 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 problems are thrown away so if they haven't gone away then we're going to see more more trouble until these things start to get results but 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. two years on and friends and family is still awaiting an inquest expected in mid september but as they wait for answers 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 u.k.

remains that crisis levels are never going to join in because. i think for me i didn't want. to live in a constant close to home troops i'm still looking for. so i'm going off and i'm in the same sort of boat as i was before i went into apart from with 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 i think no 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 let us just put our world across and maybe what we need or what we want not necessarily what we want but what we need and what might help us if they came in front of you right now what would you say to him that you think people need right now to help you save

more you've clubs and more maybe more funding to do things he says that he's going to do this and that i hope people. are going to be given. us after all so i hope there's all this talk about this and there's no action. seen on the. surface i see london let's go to david bowden is a social commentator joining us on the line from london either david will more than a few warnings there from officials and basically for the street as well that there's a potential inflammatory situation building here do you share that view as well. i think we have to avoid being too deterministic about the economic underpinnings of the rights there's been recessions before they didn't necessary lead to those riots and if you look if you hear a lot of the participants take there was a kind of deep sense of regret so it was very much a spontaneous reaction to a number of forces or of i think the main thing about it was that it was

predominately anti or for a tear it was about lashing out at the state and the police with a perceived lack of the authority and i think very much those online forces are still there i don't think the police managed to reclaim much of a good australia you say was pretty seriously are you saying we could see a repeat of what we witnessed two years ago any time soon or not. i think it's always possible that those things were current when there's been a breakdown of social solidarity and community relations however i think we have to be also mindful of people who are lobbying to intervene ever more heavily in people's lives and we can social solidarity further so i think we have to be mindful both the people who say that you know these were completely spontaneous have nothing to do with the context of war so we have to be ready for not encouraging for the interventions within the community from from the state and from the authority unemployment is a big issue we know it did have a fair chunk of what was to do with this it's tough if you haven't got a job the good news i guess is that the latest figures show employment down by

twenty thousand so things are moving in the right direction as far as that's concerned no yes certainly that i mean there are. some signs of recovery i mean there are deep underlying problems with the british economy which i think would be much more important and more useful for the authorities trying trying to actually maintain a longer term growth try and find longer term job prospects within sight and i think that's the important thing we should focus on rather than trying to simply go off man each relations on the street to a number of you know on the on the street interventions i mean but you know autumn of you would be enormous boon for both young people and for all of society that's looking to the future let's look back for a second how do you think that the authorities handled the investigation did they do it right are they still doing it right. no i mean we saw first of all we're very serious mismanagement of the mark duggan situation of which we're still seeing the ramifications we saw you know an extraordinary clampdown in you know some

incredibly excessive sentencing handed down to participants in the rise many of whom had been simply caught up in it many of whom clearly deeply regret. up their own communities i don't know that much of a sense that there was anything productive done with these with these riots ultimately there is a strong voice there is no we saw so many businesses smashed up you know and a lot of these people are saying hey we've been forgotten about there was a lot of press coverage at the time but now you know the talks go on there's no money we lot of people still love the compensation should that be handled differently. yeah i mean there are serious questions to be asked about how the the manage the compensation side of it i think we also have to be careful when we talk about this in the media i think to give in to what is your attention seeking behavior actually i mean there was a sort of real sense of. entitlement from your all too many which were teenagers and young people lashing out partly because they could because there was no sense of successful policing or community activity which allowed them to do so so i think

we have to be mindful not giving too much motivation towards the protesters and to understand that we can we better focus in on border social and economic questions i think rather than focusing on the finish of how we how we go forward a lot still to be addressed as you say and david thanks very much for your thoughts thank you for being on the program live from london and thank you for being with us too we're back with more news after this very quick break. i would rather as questions for people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.t.

question more. missions. critique ations three. four judges just free. range means three. three stooges free. old free broadcast quality video for your media projects free medio don carty dot com. i got news today about russia's jailed for well oiled tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky

who could get out of prison sooner than expected itself the country's supreme court partially upheld an appeal by his lawyers. russia's supreme court has reduced by two months the prison terms for that of course he and his business partner plugged only now the rule of the court was to rule whether they are a second conviction for money laundering and basil and should be a left it now the defense team often called had a coffee demanded their leaves 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 of a post he was not present at this court hearing the school boy video link from the prison colony and he was due to be released in october two thousand and fourteen but now he will walk free a year from now and he has 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 mots of ages. was a rest of back in two thousand and three two years later he was convicted soft 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. to retreat but which is a privilege for the voice of russia radio station who told us quote it is now out of luck cloaked with the russian people. if mr tyler post who walks free in a year from now in august i don't think he is going to play an important political role. as he is not strong in terms of your popularity in the population he came south if he walks out of jail i would not do you hear him as a person who can get elected somewhere for the position of who can attract the

media and solve old us that's the impression that there western press is trying to create and i think it's a wrong impression despite the fact that mr that post you spend in jail about ten years now steele he didn't become popular in russia he doesn't have the same are to emerge which boris yeltsin used to when he had problems with the authority has always academician suffered a few strokes when he was in gorky that we live in a very different society and certainly mr khodorkovsky is a very different man from those two should know some stories online from a city twenty one twenty moscow time r.t. dot com there you'll find free day to flow we trust russian activists kicking off a campaign to register their own church now an attempt to try to make copying and sharing files online a sacred right but more of that online and an irony here by recycling electronic waste properly you can even get hold of precious metals and gold but instead of

turning a healthy profit british firms it seems are flooding developing countries with millions of tons of outdated electronics why well we'll tell you online. iran's new president hassan rouhani says iran could hold direct talks with the u.s. about its nuclear program but only if the country's rights are not infringed. as the president of this country i know that these slum in the republic of iran has serious political will to resolve this nuclear issue while preserving the rights of the arena a nation at the same time will consider removing the concerns of the other side we hope that the other side has the same political will if this is indeed the case then the desired result will be achieved not in the long run but in fact in the short term president rouhani he's forming a cabinet now and has already appointed

a prominent reformist as his deputy he was elected on a platform promising dialogue with the west hoping to end the country's isolation but just days before his inauguration u.s. lawmakers approved a new round of tough sanctions on iran middle east analyst matthew metallic ski says america will be a tough nut to crack large if we now see that the cabinet is mostly a technocratic comment but having said openly and have not yet heard about the choice of nuclear negotiator on the part of fair our president hassan rouhani is still to. aim for the negotiator that will be obviously a very good sign if that person is someone to us is willing to negotiate with a bit further how much the obama administration can do with the senate and the house being a constraint if they're constraining parts now in the u.s. administration we now know obviously that the u.s.

senate and the house are going to willing to impose new sanctions on iran that is not quite something obama would want to see out the moment so it is rather a question of how much independency can the obama administration have. these of the house and senate. because u.s. embassies and some consulates across nineteen countries of the middle east and africa will remain shut for another few days at least they've suspended work because of what's been described by some lawmakers in washington as the biggest terrorist threat since nine eleven report suggested an intercepted phone message between senior al qaeda operatives could raise the alarm however no specific details of the threat of surface starts he's contributed afshin rattansi thinks washington's been using the alert for motives other than protecting americans 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 between al qaeda leaders our here and the al qaeda in yemen leader mr. 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. personnel the media in the united states and across europe so quick to report exactly what the u.s. state department announce without question it is merely this is the what the united states say it must be true regardless of the fact that come so soon after edward snowden got asylum in russia was also remember it wasn't minimize the threat of terrorism against u.s. installations because it was president obama is really great because sergeant for al qaeda whether it be the drone strikes and of course the continued support for syrian al-qaeda in syria. potentially

a big story developing now in syria four hundred fifty kurdish civilians apparently been murdered by now qaeda linked rebel groups it's prompted russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov to work for a fast track to peace talks on syria's ongoing civil war is out he's a really good. four hundred fifty people are said to be killed by a nose or front at least a hundred twenty of them are said to be children the rest are elderly and women but at this point we can not get any confirmed reports that these indeed are true reports the situation in the northeastern part of syria is a battleground it is a bitter one that we do have reports that murders of kurds are happening for example we have heard it from one of the men that we have spoken to his name is yes seemed to bush and he said he described the situation of what happened in the village where his relatives live. another room surrounded by these started going from door to door and every house if there were any men. and took women and

children hostage the rebels came into the house of my cousin she was at the murder took the women and children and. at the same time there are also reports that at least two hundred people have been taken hostage again from kurdish villages and again this was a job done by al-qaeda affiliated groups which are operating in northeast syria and the reason for it since you're bitter standoff between the kurds and these armed extremist groups is is because the kurds essentially have been really good at pushing out the extremists from this region that a lot of those in the opposition are saying the kurds there by have to show their appreciation to the president also by the kurds and says that they're simply trying to clear their this land which they have been historically living for ages they're trying to clear it off the president of extremist groups particularly off the al qaida and considering the fact that al qaeda has already expressed that they are thinking obvious stablish in their own state in this very part of the region you have to understand why the kurds are so bitterly involved in this fight. from

washington studios prime interest on the next program right after the break also you with more news in half an hour. 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 next reason why some protest movements get a lot of coverage in the mainstream media well others kind of don't 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 desires but that's just my opinion. good afternoon and welcome to prime interest i'm harry and boring and i above is

good let's get to today's headlines. h.s.b.c. have fired the pope one of the world's largest british banks was actually founded in hong kong and shanghai that's where the h.s. and aids has come from but now it may. decided to cancel the accounts that belong to forty consulates and embassies and cluing at that of the vatican now this has thrown the diplomatic arena into disarray as they are no forced to find another too big to fail bank and bridge the questions as always are why no remember that four to four point two billion dollars fine for the legit be facilitating money laundering to let drug drug cartels perhaps h.s.b.c. is just getting ahead of the next proverbial dropping shoe so we will be connecting the dots of the story in the days to come and obama wykes apple the i phone and i have had many factures i had been barred from importing some of the berry devices after a dispute with samsung before the first time.