this is r.t. tonight the force feeding of it makes and fresh claims of sexual abuse by guards grip school and taliban a prison or a mass hunger strike sent its seventh month. two years after violent riots swept across the u.k. britain's youth say they lack government support and with one in five people out of work too. also as a rams new president hassan rouhani says he's open to talks on the country's nuclear program we ask just how willing washington is to play ball. just after ten pm here in moscow my name is kevin and our top story lawyers for

several inmates are going to break prison who are on hunger strike or filed a fresh appeal for u.s. judges to intervene and stop force feeding at the facility the painful practice slammed internationally as torches continue throughout ramadan with the most hunger strike now into its seventh month meantime the un's chief reporter on torture told r.t. he's been 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 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 united states legislators for example or that

they give giorno this 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. while the u.s. economy is taking a hit in the face widespread budget cuts one is still flowing towards keeping the grandson of a bay facility open the chair of the u.s. cell its intelligence committees already slammed its continued operation is quote massive waste of money the pentagon estimates indeed the total cost of the notorious prison will top five billion dollars by the end of next year in fact keeping one hundred sixty six inmates housed 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 the pentagon's they've got there just exists

you have having to send plenty of cash that way shipping food materials and flying in personnel in and out here's how the total tab breaks down for you for this year with a big share of the spending as you can see being allocated to prison staff and security there let's get the latest details on a hunger strike from u.s. military attorney barry wingard is joining us on the line now barry high. what are you hearing from your clients have been coming back to you for various updates over the last couple of months are we going to expect after ramadan an increase again or is this tail off the number of people taking part of this august right going to continue where do you think it's going to go. well me first start by saying i was in guantanamo bay last week and in that sense of desperation that's going on in guantanamo bay has an abated in any way shape or form i find it kind of odd that we score how one ton of obey is doing by the number of prisoners willing to starve themselves to death let us first look at the fact that only twenty men of the hundred sixty six that remain will ever be charged with

a crime according to the united states government the sense of desperation is overwhelming as far as ramadan goes the men were given a choice in that choice was you can spend your religious holiday by yourself without any of your personal effects or hygiene items such as soap in water or in towels and things of that nature or you can break the hunger strike and spend it in a communal setting with the rest of your brothers the way ramadan is supposed to be spent so i think after ramadan you may see a resumption of the hunger strike against a lot of these guys have also dropped because they couldn't face any longer having to go through this force feeding the surrenders process i guess is the authorities are looking at it though it's a double edged sword yes they were giving the force feed to keep these guys alive which they have to do a duty of care for the other side it's a kind of punishment that would these guys have dropped out. well let me say i mean you and i broke the story back in february of the hunger strike now was when

camp officials were denying that in fact there was a hunger strike in fact it took them weeks to come to the reality that in fact we were right and that there was a camp wide hunger strike now the hunger strike was a peaceful demonstration to show how desperate these men are imagine eighty six men who have been completely cleared by review task force are still being held in maximum security prisons i mean what is the criterion for keeping these men in maximum security prisons so we all know that they're cleared to go home but yet yet so how well i'm going to baghdad to be you just can't keep doing this surely well you know recently we saw the president take a good step and that a good step was to clear to algerian prisoners who will be released we hope in the near future he put congress on thirty days notice now this isn't something that is all that out of the ordinary the president has the power to release the men in

guantanamo bay if he so chose is not an idle sibly there are many in washington exactly correct and i mean unfortunately there's many people in washington here who are willing to say we don't care if you've committed a crime we don't care if you've done anything right or wrong we're going to hold you in guantanamo bay for the rest of your natural life because it's good for me politically i can go home and tell my constituents that i'm tough on the emotion of terror in the war continues and i'm going to keep those men in guantanamo bay no matter whether they did anything or not so let's that's an outrageous so why isn't about me using this national security waiver as the afraid to set a president who will briefly. well we hope that it is something for the future and we hope that the president is starting to find his leadership role in guantanamo bay like you said guantanamo bay is amazingly underwhelming and really efficient i mean there is nothing less efficient than guantanamo bay housing innocent men in an

offshore prison colony ok thanks ever so much barry that so u.s. military attorney barry will go there representing of course as we know at length been talking to us for the last couple months some of the inmates are guantanamo thank you for your time sir. or some of the detainees maintain the u.s. military is stepping up efforts to try and break the hunger strike the latest revelations point to the alleged sexual abuse of prisoners covering that side of the story tonight what he's going to camp every day in guantanamo it's groundhog day whether you're a guard or a prisoner that's how one officer described life would get more 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 trucker armor he's been held for eleven years at good will never charged with any crime trucker's 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 team carries him out of the cell or his hands and feet in shackles to a special place where they perform a search a pat down which armor and other inmates call the moment sarge they flip me over for the search mostly it's just an assault sometimes a sexual assault we call it the get. they carry me like you suck of 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 quantum officials may be suggesting that truckers allegations are ridiculous and absurd could be but nonetheless ignore 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 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 is of course a completely different story they report pain humiliation and despair that's their routine in washington i'm going to check on what we've been closely tracking the guantanamo bay hunger strike as you know if you've been watching this since it began in february can always head to our website for a recap and i get to speed on the bit more full timeline of events of his notorious facility from us also the latest updates also first time the country detainee's

their lawyers plus statements from u.s. officials reaction from observers plenty of it just a click away to talk calm. yet another shocking massacre by al qaeda linked rebel groups has been reported in syria it is believed government attacked villages in a kurdish dominated region in the country's north killing up to four hundred fifty civilians so far these are the government nor the rebels have confirmed this report so you you telling you what we know is not a really good. four hundred fifty people are said to be killed by a newser front at least hundred twenty of them are said to be children the rest are elderly and women but at this point we cannot get any confirmed reports that these indeed are true records the situation in the northeastern part of syria is a battleground it is a bitter one that we do have reports that murders of chords are happening for example we have heard 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 in every house if there were any men. and took women and children hostage the rebels came into the house of my cousin she was so they murdered 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 north is syria the reason for 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 in for ages

they're trying to clear it off a president of extremist groups particularly off the old guy that considering the fact that al qaeda has already expressed that they are thinking their own state in this very part of the region you have to understand why the kurds are so bitterly involved in this fight. we follow that story up over the coming hours and days for you i'm sure now it's been two years since a wave of riots and looting swept across the united kingdom with fears rising that conditions are ripe for a repeat of the violence now too with a government on a sturdy drive thousands of young people fall into long term joblessness in the seeds for so long before the unrest in twenty eleven as youth unemployment's been rising steadily in fact since two thousand and two with the recent figures starting at almost a million it means therefore that one in five brits aged between sixteen and twenty four are now out of work and the number of those not studying is not on the rise either the surge not in colleges and university in fact according to the universe in college admissions service applications from english students are at their

lowest in four years this is the same time as those chewie should fees triple back in twenty twelve r.t. sara firth met one young brit who did indeed take part of those riots two years ago to find out if anything's changed. everyone. there wanted to get one up on the police that's what it was i meet charlie at his council house it's been almost three years since his arrest and imprisonment as a result of his participation in the london riots he was the thinks month sentence for theft but to charlie the impact of his actions have lasted far longer. than that that. you know where. those things. are you know how does it make you feel knowing your.

uncle was one of the other people to go on. i would live with them. for you know these one of those days he would have been dumped in the aftermath of 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 debunk what she says is an isolating and stigmatising title i have a tie to deliberately because i knew it was there is 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 i'm just so inaccurate 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 so it's 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 of going away so far haven't gone away then we're going to see more more trouble until these things start to get results with 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 all of them friends and family is still awaiting an inquest expected in mid september but as they wait but many questions still remain over the ensuing violence some putting it down to mindless criminality others to deep rooted social problem 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 think for me i didn't think. still in a constant close to home school. as i was

performing in jail. and 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 often they 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 pour our world across and maybe what we need or what we want not necessarily what we want what we need and what might help us if they can use in front of you right now what would you say to him that you think young people need right now to help you save 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. winds of hope you know there's all this talk about this and there's no action.

seen on the. surface i see london. go for the program so with me kevin i win tonight on looking the tycoon once russia's richest man could be freed now in just a year's time of the country's supreme court says prison. but after this quick break. the interview. good.

morning used today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations. russia's jailed for more oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky could get out of prison sooner than expected the start of the country's supreme court partially have held an appeal by his lawyers to talk about this sort of an. russia's supreme court has

reduced by two months the prison terms for jail to me how high that of course he and his business partner pledged only because of now the rule of the court was to rule whether they are a second conviction for money laundering and basle and should be a left it now the defense team often called had a cost he demanded their release thing that they were convicted on charges that were in valid 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 useful 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 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 are 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 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. or to. come to alexander the cross of his joining us with one. macross so high that i don't often as we're hearing that my own sort of years in jail just two months my could be very different to that which way. well it sort of is a gesture of i don't know if you mean you terry and just to program it all it was an appeal so the court had to react but i think you know that in general terms i think that political aspect of this whole court case and all of the sentence i think it's been kind englund done all those years ago by the p.r.

machine that was the cause of course you could create that for himself and i think that is what it's always leading us astray from the fact that there was a lot of money disappearing. so i think that of course he's always most say they plan to appeal this playing more appeal so you talk about a p.r. game that is just more of a p.r. game than an issue of principles along the way. no the p.r. game was not on the quote of the court it's i think it has always been on the part of mr could of course his lawyers because you see from the word go or when it all happened initially i was actually advising the fine and so finance minister in the rusher on certain matters and i told them expect this expect that this poll process will be politicized and that's what happened and i think that was the big mistake of the prosecutors then they should have stamped on that bill and said look this political side of things has nothing to do with what is going on this is your money

laundering embezzlement and tax of asians and that's what was not done and i think that's what still carries this luggage on and on and on and on and when we talk about what of course there's always a sort of a you know a feeling that we're talking about the political prisoner rather than a businessman call broke the law and i think that is important to be understood in this case that this is a criminal case if it's interesting point you raise there is could a kosky i'm losing the fight and not in not getting to train myself as a victim if you like of his face very last month the european court of human rights rejected suggestions the case against him was brought by political motivation. yes well that is correct and i think that mr kadar course he himself is in denial because he still believes that he can spin this game you know use this victim card in the sense that he's a political prisoner and i think that he created quite a powerful machine a p.r. machine for himself at the time and he also thought that maybe certain politicians

at the time you know members of the who whom day he'd be friend that he thought that he was probably indestructible and that didn't happen and i think that the scale of this case generally was so enormous that it was very difficult for the prosecutors of the fighting to grasp the situation and that is why i think additional charges will broke late and not because they were not just missed or they didn't use them but because they just started to unravel this whole huge scandal and came to see more and more can make their conclusions alexander just briefly final thirty seconds if you cannot somebody does get out there what sort of future will he face will it be here in russia indeed will more charges even be brought against him or is that off the cards now well i think it's very difficult to predict what the future holds for him because we don't know about the situation general about this case you know it's just like russian and they're all basically

alike within their own it's continues to cover some folks have come up but i think generally that if he comes out next year i think his best bet would be to go away. will come here and examine across all think you have a smart should be on the program tonight could we should thoughts on the thank you . iran's new president hassan rouhani says that rand could hold direct talks with the u.s. on its nuclear program but only if the country's rights are not infringed. as the president of this country i announce that these slummy republic of iran has serious political will to resolve this nuclear issue while preserving the rights of the reigning nation at the same time we 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 is forming a cabinet now and has already appointed a prominent reformist as the deputy the president was elected on a platform of 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 mcallester he says the american establishment some likely to fall though for the charms of iran's new man at the helm. and have not yet heard about the choice of need to negotiate. on the part of fair our president hassan rouhani are still to each. name 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 that 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 these at the house and the senate. in a few minutes it was more very topical conversation a break in the set on what president obama still hasn't closed guantanamo suffer a break. while revolutions in the middle east should 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 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 reside 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. if you live on one hundred thirty three. some months of food i should try it because you know how bad the left side but. i mean. i know that i was really messed up. in the all very. worst we're going to go right out to the. radio for a minute. because you've never seen anything like.

this what's good folks welcome to breaking the set if you're wondering where abby martin is today don't worry she'll be right back here on monday she's just away on assignment but for now i want to talk about an interesting trend in several states across the country places like north carolina wisconsin and minnesota that have been revamping and introducing new legislation that largely largely caters to a single political party what we're seeing is a growing trend of a single party that controls the executive and legislative offices in any given state in fact there are currently thirty seven states where one party controls the majority vote and that's up from one thousand nine hundred steps just a decade ago according to the milwaukee journal sentinel and you know this could explain why we're seeing a growing number of protests against extreme legislation on a state level in take for instance the recent abortion bill in texas or the voter laws in other states but.