world's attention to the place that. raises alarm on america's drone campaign which has taken hundreds of innocent lives despite u.s. claims that very few civilians come under fire. when i was with my grandma everything became. a pakistani girl who survived a u.s. drone attack travels to washington to tell congress how her home was destroyed to end her grandmother kill. you isn't satisfied with washington's explanation of n.s.a. surveillance allegations germany wants edward snowden himself to shed some light on reports of its chancellor's phone being. brazil germany. and of course in the united states

is going to repeat it's a. video agency speaks to n.s.a. leaks reporter glenn greenwald who is skeptical that america will stop its surveillance anytime soon. and behind the barbed wire our team travels to the notorious detention camp where the military staff. facilities dark reputation by alleged torture and suicides is anywhere close to reality. casting live from our studios in moscow with our weekly report this is r t i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us. a pakistani family that witnessed a cia drone strike which killed their grandmother headed to washington this week to

testify before congress is going to touch a can was at the emotional briefing where family members asked u.s. lawmakers why their home was targeted in the deadly attack this was the first time actual victims of u.s. drone strikes were in congress and apart from the congressman who initiated this briefing. other members of congress it's no secret the u.s. congress generally approves of gross strikes so it's very difficult to expect a sudden change of heart even though hard was what these drone victims were appealing through on a covert twenty fourth of last year a u.s. drone strike left this pakistani family devastated a nine year old girl and her thirteen year old brother nearly escaped death that day their sixty seven year old grandmother was killed that's the building pardon. no longer love blue skies i prefer the gray skies the drones do not fly when this kinds agree and for a short period of time the mental time and fear eases but when this kind of the

drones return and so does the fear you know this family has never been abroad out of their home in north waziristan and the father of this family said he looked at the life around here. he wished his children to be able to walk the streets not afraid of being bombed at any moment. my mother was killed my children were injured i'm so glad that people are going to hear our story that's why we came to america they have no idea why our village in my house to talk to. the family came to washington of course hoping to get answers for why they have to live in fear every day i have no idea why my grandmother. when the drone hit i was outside with my grandmother everything became dark i was scared so i started to run then i noticed my hand was bleeding so i tried to clean my hand but large kept coming out but i was very scared so i just kept running. we also learned that the u.s. government did not grant to the lawyer of this family prominent practice any

warrior who has sued the cia in the past on behalf of the victims of drone strikes in pakistan four hundred fifty thousand population of. concentration. being picked up on the issue of what kind of. if someone has long be forced. the ones driving the s.u.v. and this is how they're being targeted and at the same time they're not really in a position to leave the area the purpose of this briefing was to put a human face to drone strikes there's a chance that in congress the tragedy of this family will fall on deaf ears but there is hope that the public notice in washington i'm going to check out. according to the u.s.o. the three hundred seventy six drone attacks which have been carried out over the past decade have claimed few civilian lives but local reports indicate at least nine hundred innocent people including two hundred children have been killed in

pakistan documentary filmmaker robert greenwald took the story of the raymond family as inspiration for his latest movie and says the public just doesn't understand the consequences of drones people want to believe in santa claus and they also want to believe that there's a simple solution to these incredibly complicated problems when we started reading that the drones were killing only high value targets represented in imminent threat it doesn't make sense it's just not possible so i think there was a kind of hopefulness yes finally we found a magic pill which was part of it some of it is the fact that american soldiers warren fair so people said it doesn't matter as important is that you know the family is speaking to all kinds of americans people who have a mother will have a father and who look at them and can't justify the killing that we've done and then you have this extraordinary militarily industrial electoral complex bipartisan

that agrees that the way to solve problems is by invading occupying and droning we have to change all of our. this week of the u.s. drone program has also dealt a blow to the peace process in the country a strike killed the country's taliban leader just a day before a government delegation was said to start negotiations with the group the nation is now on high security alert over fears militants could retaliate pakistan's interior minister accused washington of sabotaging efforts to end the violence and local expert told us he believes it's the pakistani people who will pay the price the prime minister of pakistan was in washington d.c. only a week back and he had spoken to president obama taken him into confidence regarding the dialogue process and it also made a request for the drone attacks to stop because it. made it a precondition but the drone attacks must come to an end before they come to the dialogue table but instead of the drone attacks being stop big continued so i need

body who is going to suffer it is going to be the people of pakistan and not the us the united states does not have the right to be judge jury and executors all rolled into one without any i taught it to. and the e.u. delegation and a separate group from germany were in washington this week to try and find out more about the n.s.a.'s alleged spying activities but the diplomats and i mean did not get the answers they were looking for the e.u. group failed to get any clarification on reports that world leaders were spied on and whether or not the white house knew about it it remains to be seen what actions europe will now take after relations with washington took a serious hit germany has been fuming over allegations that angle of merkel's phone could have been tapped since as early as two thousand and two three years before she became chancellor one of the country's m.p.'s wants edward snowden to testify himself on the matter because he doesn't trust u.s.

intelligence officials. believe he would be don i think it's important to work together with mr snowden rather than putting him in prison we'd like more clarity on these allegations and we want to make sure something like this doesn't happen again snowden worked for many years for the cia and n.s.a. so i'm sure he can tell us everything we need to know about the leaked documents because as we've seen the n.s.a. has been very scarce with providing information and i also think that the organization including n.s.a. chief keith alexander aren't always being truthful they once claimed they'll never break german laws on their surveillance operations but tapping the chancellor's phone is not legal that's why i have trouble trusting u.s. intelligence officials. american security officials and policymakers have been placing the blame on each other over just who is responsible for organized global surveillance here is u.s. secretary of state john kerry explaining why the white house didn't know what

exactly the n.s.a. was doing. it is. saying all is there it is there over the course. that statement doesn't match up with the explanation given by the n.s.a. chief though keith alexander says his agency was being told who to spy on by policy makers including u.s. ambassadors despite the ongoing surveillance scandal and what seems like a rift between u.s. intelligence and the state department nothing will change that's what the man who has been releasing these n.s.a. leaks when greenwald told our video agency. brazil germany. and now speaking of course the united states is going to repeat it continuously for the next several weeks or months almost every country around the world to be very clear objective of you say is to not just go but to

keep it for as long as they can so the big time. if you're citizen you want also already begun doing terms of we've been hearing edward snowden meanwhile explain why he gave these n.s.a. documents in the first place let's take a look at his manifesto of truth published in germany's magazine as the name implies the n.s.a. whistleblower insisted that people who tell the truth are not committing any crime but some governments don't feel that way according to snowden he blames them for unprecedented campaigns of persecution in response to the leaks the manifesto says society has a moral obligation to ensure that there are laws which limit surveillance and protect human rights ultimately snowden is glad his leaks led to a debate over surveillance which could create reforms and he must sean who is a whistleblower with my five and thinks the problem is that the current legislation

isn't keeping up with advanced spying technology. who is actually breaking the law here because all the grounds that each spy agency say valid legally allowed to spy on the appear to be very legally. what we seeing in the last decade has been here technological scale over the spying. and the new technology has allowed this to happen and the laws which is supposed to be democratically and how we are spied on are just not keeping up the twentieth century north and now we're getting the twenty first century check. coming up later in the program a state of denial. you ask them how do you feel right now and they'll be able to point to that we have not had a patient in this area thank heavens in just a few minutes we report from the notorious one tunnel mowbray detention center where over a dozen inmates are undergoing a daily torturous force feeding procedure described by the staff there as merely

uncomfortable plus. syria takes one more step towards being free of chemical weapons with the successful destruction of all its production facilities after the break we take a look at the disarmament challenges that still lie ahead for the war torn country . technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've. covered. british. find out what's really happening to the global economy. headlines.

and welcome back you're watching the weekly here. now eight months over a dozen guantanamo bay inmates still remain on hunger strike protesting their indefinite detention and the alleged use of torture camps. force feeding those

refusing to eat and procedure that has been described as brutal and extremely painful. traveled to the notorious prison to investigate what is really happening there. every morning at eight am the u.s. national anthem erupts across the base that holds america's most scandalous prison no one likes to be spit on no one wants to have their own on torture hunger strikes and suicides have marred this place since two thousand and two and they're human beings after all they're there's no reason to expect that they enjoy being here you know we pretend otherwise prisoners held indefinitely in the name of the never ending war on terror whether they're innocent or guilty is not our job right here j t f you know we have the court system determine that in just over a decade a total of seven hundred seventy nine prisoners the majority released without charges today one hundred sixty four remain over half of them cleared for release but still kept locked up. on the other side of the barbed wire.

life is a blast. there is water and it's nice there's nothing really bad about here just like any common american town now is awfully scared to come here but i mean it's absolutely beautiful place when you get around all the other stuff getting around the other stuff is not hard a lot of what goes on here is kept under a thick veil of denial and secrecy candle to house as a hospital and library and this is also the place where patients are force fed and even though the hunger strike is largely and officially said to be over we know that at least fifteen people are continually being force fed here today a tube is passed down through a person's nostril and pushed all the way down to their stomach before it's passed down the nose we lubricate it in we give the patient a choice do they want to have the key which is the agent who will numb the area or if they want olive oil to lubricate the tube.

most of our patients have been using all of the will. in fact some of our patients are so used to this they will. described which nostril they want this while major world medical bodies are in agreement that force feeding is not ethical and should not be practiced the force feeding them i've got my clients of experience to guantanamo they've certainly described the storage or the restraint chair that they're strapped into they actually call the torture chair an arabic force feeding takes up to forty five minutes and is performed twice a day the patients that had the civilian world have said it feel strange i've never heard this is going on. i have not heard that good move fishes are beyond nonchalant about the highly criticized practice you might feel differently from the way i might feel uncomfortable has been the most of it i have heard but they don't even believe in what this thing anymore because they know it sounds stupid i

volunteer that the procedure be demonstrated on me request declined the prisoners who've not met one another and speak different languages keep saying the same thing that we were tortured used. tied. to the chair legs to the ground. strap across and they forced in a tube into our noses never in thirteen years have detainees been allowed to speak directly to a journalist while remaining at get most only leaking statements through lawyers they would love nothing more than to sit down with journalists and just tell them you know about their daily lives but communicating seems to only occur here if someone was it a point where maybe they had been verbalizing a lot of hopelessness we were immediately intervening and trying to assist that person to make sure that there wasn't any thoughts of maybe wanting to harm themselves or in their lives with charts like these often used to pinpoint patients despair you asked them how do you feel right now and they'll be able to

point to it we have not had a patient in this area. thank heavens meanwhile six suicides and dozens of suicide attempts have taken place at the detention facility we haven't seen any autopsies the u.s. government hasn't released any formal reports or findings we're now inside two active camps at guantanamo camp five fold single cells where the so-called less compliant detainees are held camp number six is one filled with communal cells when officials deem that detainees have behaved better there will be warded by being allowed to live in groups while detainees are kept away from what we witness are clean empty prison cells with cozy pajamas colgate toothpaste and maximum security shampoos paraded in front of journalists as proof everything is so much better here than any silly horror stories we all have heard. from tony mowbray cuba. now of course we always have more news for you waiting on our web site including

a story where britain has scrapped a plan to force people from india pakistan and to some african countries to make a cash deposit of over three thousand pounds for visas on our website you can read more on that policy that has caused outrage at home and abroad. plus a new name a new line for airline proposed for some swedish citizens to change their name to klaus heidi and in return would help set up a new life in berlin you can head to our dot com to learn why this wacky ad campaign failed. this week syria passed a milestone in its chemical disarmament successfully destroying on time all of the production facilities you know elation of all its existing stockpiles is now scheduled to be completed by the end of june but as our policy or reports from damascus meeting that deadline could be a major challenge. dangerous and dirty that's how the nobel prize committee

described the work of chemical weapons inspectors inside syria not to mention a brutally tight deadline october twenty five damascus provides a detailed plan of its chemical weapons stockpiles done october twenty seven foreign inspectors visited all declared sites missed. syria finishes destroying all equipment used in the production and mixing of poison gas and nerve agents done we should eliminate i mean what are we but you know this is a very complicated process complications filled by so called security concerns and that's the reason why one deadline already has been missed one of the biggest problems the team faces is how to access sites in rebel controlled areas so far the rebels have been unwilling to cooperate and inspectors have managed to visit twenty one of twenty three sites and although they haven't furby blame the rebels damascus

insists it's doing its share until. both. sides being visited are under government control and we hope those who are controlling the. groups to leave them to implement what they are expected to implement it's the most difficult mission if undertaken by the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons destroying a country's chemical weapon stockpiles in the midst of a civil war surely women are syria actually stop producing chemical weapons in one thousand nine hundred eight as a possessed alternatives that can be a strategic substitution and are not in conflict with international law but none of this answers the reason why foreign inspectors are in damascus in the first place a chemical attack on august twenty first in which hundreds of people were killed up to rockets with sarin gas fired at damascus as suburbs those responsible hostility large the next deadline in the destruction of syria's chemical weapons program is

the middle of next year by then damascus must have destroyed or removed its entire stockpile and ambitious timeline in very difficult circumstances policy r t damascus. the head of the syrian opposition coalition says they will all be attended the geneva peace a card front if there is a set time frame for bashar al assad to step down and if iran is not present at the talks rebel groups have been accused of hampering the disarmament efforts middle east analyst sharmeen explains why they might be against a damascus is a prayer the will to cooperate on the chemical weapons issue. there is that evidence that rebels have some their hands on some chemical weapons we've certainly seen in iraq and turkey rebels being apprehended with chemical agents components of chemical weapons in their possession. really important point and this is something i heard from a syrian government official earlier this year the syrian government has first some

time now viewed chemical weapons as a liability and a burden precisely for these reasons because potentially rebels could get their hands on small amounts of these chemical agents and use them across the border in israel or turkey to then justify a military attack against the syrian government so they have been quite pleased that the international community has come together to in fact to rid them of these weapons so that excuse no longer exists. more headlines from around the world this hour at least nine people have been killed by a string of insurgent attacks targeting security forces across iraq in the central city of baquba three police officers died and scores were injured after three suicide bombers blew themselves up one after another the surge in violence over recent months has claimed thousands of victims with authorities struggling to contain the bloodshed despite wide ranging operations and tightened security. at least six people including one child have died after

a ferry capsized off the coast of thailand near the popular resort city of tire twenty people remain unaccounted for there are reports that up to two hundred were on board even though the maximum capacity of the vessel was one hundred fifty fifty the accident is being blamed on an engine problem which forced passengers to rush to one side of the vessel causing it to fling. leaders of a self rule movement in eastern libya have declared the formation of an autonomous regional government the move is a symbolic blow to efforts by libyan authorities to reopen eastern oil ports and fields blocked the summer by rebels tripoli has rejected the declaration it comes several months after the movement of declared the country's eastern half to be an independent state claiming broad of self rule powers and control over resources. israel has issued tenders to build over eight hundred new settler homes in the west

bank and east jerusalem construction is expected to start within a few months after the wedding bids are chosen palestinians have reacted angrily on the move threatening to go to the united nations security council over the issue that comes ahead of us secretary of state john kerry's separate meetings with the leaders of both sides aimed to push them towards peace talks. in nigeria gunmen attacked a wedding convoy killing at least thirty people the group came under fire on a highway when they were returning to the nation's capital after the ceremony in a nearby state authorities say islamic islamic extremists are suspected of carrying out the assault violent attacks are frequent in the country's northeast where the government has launched an all fences to end the insurgency by the militant group of boko haram. and coming up we take a closer look at illegal fishing off the coast of west africa but before that we go

to some of the week's best images from the olympic flames record breaking journey across russia with the less than one hundred days before the winter games in sochi . the olympic flame is continuing its ambitious relay it's already been to the north pole and in just a few days of a blast off to the international space station the torch is passing through towns and cities of the world's biggest country currently touring russia's north don't forget it r.t. dot com there's a full selection of videos and photos from the olympic flames.

remember way back when we first talked about the first downloadable guns that could be printed out on a three d. printer at home while technology moves pretty quickly because british police have already busted in legal armory pretty out firearm parts and special three d. printers this technology may make gun control literally impossible in the same way that banning and burning books has become futile and the past they used to be able to just burn books or forbid them from being printed but in the age of the internet all you need is a scanner and an internet connection and the information that's found in a book cannot be destroyed because it is out there on the magical ether of the internet so basically the near future any person with even half a brain and some patients can start making guns in their basement which means the gun control laws will basically become pointless because they'll never be able to catch all the people doing it no will be able to take the guns not even obama or the hardest of hardcore liberals this techno. it could be the best thing to happen to the second amendment ever but i shushed my opinion.

when it has to do with illegal immigration. mediately send frontex to us see below to us today they control us in our waters as if a new colonization were taking place there experiencing a military occupation of the oceans when they want to combat drugs in america or asia they find the means to do it and. if they really want to combat illegal fishing they have the means to do read you they have the airplanes to photograph but they have the patrols to stop them from fishing in our seas.

because they are shrinking our country and what is more serious. they are destroying our fishing resources and marine wealth. regulation. which is slowly acquiring a global day bench and a worldwide effect has been implemented for a year now to be the regulations the source of the profit if we manage to put a stop to profit making then the legal fishing will stop and the only way to do that is to seize all. imports to europe. also deposits and marine life deposits.