russian officials aventure behind the barbed wire at america's notorious guantanamo bay prison where more than a dozen detainees are reportedly being force fed i made an ongoing hunger strike. the chaos of war is turning syria into an emerging drugs hey then we report on how the country has become a major production inside one potent stimulants in the space of just a few years. the massive data collection on americans and for those around the globe will be kept in place indefinitely as president obama is criticized for lack of action following his speech on the n.s.a.'s practices.

it's just gone ten am here in of the russian capital you live with us on our t.v. international to be on with the. then base of data a delegation from moscow is trying to secure the release of a russian citizen who's been held without charge at guantanamo bay for more than a decade the russian officials are also looking into the ongoing hunger strike and the force feeding of detainees at the u.s. military facility archies on associates have been out of force. for the first time in twelve years a russian delegation spearheaded by the foreign ministry special representative for human rights got access to visit the guantanamo detention camp the goal meeting with the sole russian prisoner in gaza of held there without charge for a decade and taking steps to push for the detainees returned to his homeland we spoke to the top diplomat of the visiting delegation to get the details if you will government is looking for a new significant church it's a gay soldier the loop you can reduce it to google it works for you you look you

basic rate because. they are so good little break you know. you prove you know there is no proper litigation. the exits to where we have been given to to repeat cuckoo or a little bit different but we've got to look beautiful most likely all the details putting extra pressure on the u.s. to shut down the scandalous campus also on the agenda of the foreign ministry the prison has been staining america's human rights and legal record both at home and abroad for years leaving the detainees staring really into the abyss of indefinite detention and just last week the world saw the twelfth anniversary of the first detainees of the world of the war on terror being brought to the scandalous prison camp which obama made a promise to close on day one at the white house last year the world's attention was returned to one tunnel as the majority of the prisoner population was on

a hunger strike for over six months making world headlines and really forcing the obama administration to refocus his attention at least on words for now to the detention camp although plenty of bureaucratic and political reasons continue to be used as an excuse instead of just shutting the place down when we visited guantanamo three months ago we found out that at least fifteen detainees work continuously being force fed before it's passed on the news we lubricate it and we give the. a choice do they want to have. which is an agent who will numb the area or if they want of will to lubricate the tube. most of our patients have been using olive oil you seem to like it in fact some of our patients are so used to this they will describe which nostril they want about other aspects of personal life however there was a lot of secrecy we were taken on

a largely staged and prepared to or around the prison facilities without being able to see much of the real conditions that the prisoners live in and speaking to any of them was of course out of the question let alone seeing them one or two of them actually for more than a minute a lot of secrecy and a routine tour around the premises also turned out to be the experience of the russian delegation as well and as they said you're going to r.t. new york lawyers for the guantanamo detainees claim the number of hunger strikers at the prison has gone up in the past month and now stands at thirty three but the u.s. military which runs the facility has refused to release any updates the official excuse is that the figures are no longer relevant to quote more important issues like the well being of the president as well as the security of the the american personnel now we spoke with clive stafford smith who advocates for several of the detainees he claims the u.s. military is using some painful tactics to try and break up the hunger strike. this

prisoner are from camp six which is the least bad camp goes on hunger strike they automatically get transferred not just count five but you can't fight back which really has been the most abusive place in all of our town of bay prisoners are held in an all steel cell and denied the most basic human rights just as a punishment for going on strike that force feeding techniques are very much an action unfortunately again it's the very abusive force feeding techniques i mean casting aside the question of whether it's that the culture coarsely to tourne the world medical association says it's not you know unfortunately the techniques they using ground tunnel aren't group to assisting or so for example and i've witnessed some of this that they used to leave but use up the prisoners noses to hurt so much still pulling those tubes out every single time twice a day forcing them back up each time they're still forcing far too much food too

quickly into the prisoner making prisoners that if you're sick they just carry on doing it it really is horrendous what's not. after nearly three years of bloody conflict a syria is becoming a center of drug production with most economic activity practically nonexistent coupled with the proliferation of armed groups the business is running quickly let's take a look at that according to a reason reuters reports syria has become a major drug export and consumer in the last few years and outlawed stimulant known as captain dan is now produce there in huge amounts it's so profitable that the countries replace lebannon as the main producer we saw a ninety percent fall in production in the last two years lebanese officials also seized over twelve million pills of the drug last year and the trends affecting other states turkish authorities are sees around seven million pills made in syria which were hundred to saudi arabia artie's maria fanaa has more details. with syria

about to entering its fourth devastating year of war the lack of law and structure has allowed one dark industry to flourish the country has become the number one producer of a drug known as captain gone it's aston's synthetic stimulant was first manufactured in the one nine hundred sixty s. and it was at that time used as a medicine to treat hyperactivity and depression but it's too addictive and this is why it was banned in most countries so here in the middle east it's still very popular it's cheap and it's easier to get but today syria not only produces more than any other country in the region but it's also catacombs main consumers believe that fight terrorists are taking these pills to maintain bigger energy levels your lead to battles because it helps you keep away twenty four hours and hours but there are also reports that ordinary citizens those fulfill livin in

depression and in this war and pay you for almost three years now are also toting to the drugs for these cases before we're in them and it's lucrative it's between fifteen and twenty doors it's killed and the right hundreds of millions of them been taking all traffic and we saw it evidence that the revenue raised is buying weapons from both sides of the syrian conflict the un office on drugs and crime. has been reporting that syria which is located at the crossroads here in the region has for a long time been a transit point for the drug going from europe to turkey and lebanon but since the war began kept the guns trades gone the mastic and factories are appearing these they all the cross syria and production has increased and sales of boom here in

lebanon the authorities seized around two hundred million dollars. worth of tablets lost here mostly hidden in the tracks going through a syrian lebanese border from syria to that many sports from weather and sheep to its final destination including the gulf countries some of the most ardent supporters of the syrian opposition and saudi arabia where around a billion dollars worth of a drug was seized just last year with authorities saying this is nothing but just ten percent of the real turnover of the drought in the kingdom. and editor of the pan african news why a biomass wave believes the drugs trade will only fuel the cold texted syrian conflict even more. i think it should be investigated we've seen the relationship between illicit drugs very addictive substances and imperialist war as the rebels lose more and more ground as the syrian government and the syrian military gains

more territory the degree to which they stabilize the country even further the resources that are coming into syria from the western countries and from the countries that allied with the west in the middle east this is going to of course make the rebels even more desperate and their supporters even more desperate to raise funds in order to finance them so i think this is a reflection of the failure over the last three years of this u.s. and nato finance to rubble wark all that's been leveled against the people of syria it's caused a tremendous amount of deaths injuries dislocation and now of course drug distribution and addiction as well. in the meantime there's still no unity in the ranks of the syrian opposition as the geneva two peace conference of fosse approaches the divided ranks of the syrian national coalition have been convening in turkey but it's spined of president assad's proposal of a series fire in the second largest city of aleppo when

a prisoner exchange coupled with extensive pressure from the west there's been no decision on whether the opposition will attend the peace talks the coalition's main bloc had previously threatened to boycott geneva two and many of the members have already pulled out. of thousands of skilled professionals have been feeling the euro zone's of newest member latvia we look at what's driving the exodus and whether the government is capable of ending the mass population decrease that's just ahead here on our to international. the race of data collection by the n.s.a. the exposure of which sent shock waves around the great will continue indefinitely the move was outlined during barack obama's speech on the operations of the intelligence agency which introduced a number of reforms yet as many say it failed to tackle major privacy issues are to some sex reports after nearly seven months of n.s.a.

disclosures president obama finally came forward with reforms to the spy agency acknowledging that the current capabilities of mere say do leave open the possibility of abuse given the unique power of the state it is not enough for leaders to say trust us we want to be use the data we collect for history has too many examples when that trust has been breached. our such a system of government is built on the premise that our liberty cannot depend on the good intentions of those in power the president addressed the n.s.a.'s most controversial program section two fifteen bulk telephone metadata collection basically the president no longer wants the government to be in control of these massive metadata databases but that doesn't mean the president wants to get rid of bulk collection in fact the bulk collection of virtually every american is metadata will continue indefinitely and the new restrictions announced by the president requiring the n.s.a. to obtain pfizer court approval before searching all that metadata doesn't satisfy

privacy advocates who argue the pfizer court has acted and will continue to act as a rubber stamp nothing in obama's speech put any rain rain dan this collected all approach and yesterday that there was a big revelation of god called this fire program that just fire program was collecting all tax calls literally hundreds of thousands of text calls every day are going into the n.s.a.'s vacuum it's gigantic gani coover regarding spying on foreign leaders the president said he's put an end to surveillance on friends and allies but did not say the n.s.a. will stop spying on diplomats nothing about the n.s.a. breaking encryption standards and ports that the n.s.a. has been breaking into the data links on google and yahoo servers while some specific reforms were introduced how exactly they will be implemented moving forward remains to be seen especially since the same government agencies that have overseen the massive growth of the surveillance state are now the ones tasked with

reigning into it washington d.c. same sex are to. michael kahn president and general counsel for the national whistleblower center says major issues overlooked in the president's speech the real thing that the american people are looking for is what are you going to do when you have a whistleblower like mr snowden who has critical information that the american people have a right to know he did not address that issue it's being swept under the rug instead i think in a fair view of what's going on it is merely window dressing covering up the abuses that have been identified who's to say there are a lot more abuses occurred that haven't been identified because there's no channel for the n.s.a. whistleblower to make their allegations public or known in any way so. at best it's window dressing it's punch a lock to congress to try to fix the problem and it addresses in no way how the

american people have a right to understand the abuses of our government. for you on line a u.n. humanitarian affairs mission reports israeli attacks on the west bank palestinians increased false fold in less than a decade two thousand one hundred attacks on palestinians were carried out by israel in the past a.t.'s read more about the threats of local settlers experience daily on our website. also on line any tell you in that sunni member of the international olympic committee calls america's decision to send openly gay athletes to the winter games in sochi political extortion at the full story on i t v dot com.

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solidarity with demonstrators in the northern city of course the unrest there erupted over plans to revamp a street in which locals tamers only seven whichever sources it's always actually riots have been reported across the country forcing the mayor to post. a suicide attack in the afghan capital has killed fifteen people including three u.n. workers and a representative from the international monetary fund one bomber blew himself up at a restaurant popular with afghan officials and diplomats the interior ministry says a gaza killed two other gunmen and the who tried to storm the venue the taliban's claimed responsibility for the attack. nature has but another chunk of the iconic statue of lies the way to me a overlooking rio de janeiro it's a lifetime has been chipped by a powerful lightning strike floridians have assured the damage will soon be

repaired the thirty eight metre tall monument is a frequent thunderbolt target and underwent a multi-million dollar renovation in twenty ten the euro zone's new west and poorest member led via maybe the maybe europe sponsors growing economy but its population has been falling leaves and bounds and those leaving the country are blaming government negligence all scott caught up with one of them service is one of thousands of workers who will leave latvia this year but his destination is perhaps surprising to be leaving this e.u. state to work in azerbaijan. life is always hard but in this country it's harder as the government is much more concerned by politics not economics and the life of the common man so he isn't the only one the world bank says a lot because population is shrinking by almost sixty thousand people per year. i

feel i'm not alone the government are squeezing everybody wants and more and more from us for less money between two thousand and nine and two thousand and twelve not because population fell by around ten percent in a country of only two million people this decline is sharply felt especially since those leaving a mostly of working age. the major work force males from twenty to forty go in find jobs abroad and then move their families over this leave just older people this demographic shift poses significant economic challenges which the government says it's keen to try and tackle because there is a government program to return people to mad for you but it doesn't work they pay for people to return but there's still no work for them the only way out is to create new jobs and a suitable atmosphere for investment but it isn't happening and over the next twenty years the population will decrease another third so as leaders desperately try to arrest the worrying trend the message from at least one of those with bags

packed for a better life elsewhere is simple. the government has to stop its aggressive social policies and lower taxes so that people can live where not simply survive. got out a lot via. this is in bahrain saw hundreds of royalists oppressed and many campaigners arrested and response the opposition has now released a report looking into the government's reaction to the mass demonstrations and calling for greater freedom many quality in the sunni led candombe a second closer look right out of more than seven hundred protesters last month of four hundred were violently dispersed by security forces almost two hundred people were detained by the authorities many of them children police raids were often carried out at night and without officers providing arrest warrants the report also reveals cases of vandalism torture and other heavy handed treatment by the authorities and in almost four hundred cases the crackdown on dissent took the form

of collective punishment human rights advocates say it. says there's little hope of achieving a true constitutional one. the violation. remain lots of people are arrested and detained vandalism and torture still ongoing while the authority are denying that they are torturing people in the investigation rooms but actually it is ongoing practice the constitutional monarchy is our aim and our goal we are going to work is the our thirty respect the opposition demands and consider what's going on in the region it will be achieved but not recently let's say it will take years unfortunately in today's exclusive u.k. share going underground in real time he speaks to an aspiring film director turned

politician about his emerging political party that aims to support the interest of the little people of us and the u.k. can watch it later today on our t.v. and everyone else can see it on our website at r t v dot com. for the democratic process isn't functioning because you have one large group of society here who are not represented i mean if if if if the democratic institutions doesn't include the the interests of a large proportion of the population then the democratic process isn't functioning people will pretend to speak for them but they're not here representing those interests the interest being a job care when you're sick. a good pension security of somewhere to live your life and that security that that prospect of a dignified life it is not being is not being represented.

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wrong the other aaa credit america's not aaa anymore a mostly euro zone is junk big oil has aaa credit it think about that with open transparent security creation and the ability to wipe out wall street with actual securities tribute to egalitarianism. it troubles of two point you know this is fantastic. for the. happy friday people i'm having martin and this is very good so we all know that the intelligence community would love nothing more than apprehend n.s.a. leaker edward snowden and per raid him around in front of the world as an example of what happens to whistleblowers in this country what i didn't know is that some n.s.a. employees want to take it a step further you know to american psycho levels according to buzz feed several pentagon and n.s.a. officials have anonymously expressed their desire to murder snowden a current n.s.a.

analyst told the website that quote in a world where i would not be restricted from killing an american i personally would go and kill him myself a lot of people share the sentiment wait a minute we do live in a world where drones kill american citizens what i waited for another non of us pentagon official told buzz feed that he or she would love to put a bullet in snowden's head and an army official offered a detailed fantasy of how the murder would go down valving injecting him with poison you know just so nice to know that jack the ripper and freddy krueger are the ones in charge of responsibility mining all of our personal data now let's go break the set. the police or the police they are looking very hard to take that out early on that he ever had sex with her that there are

those. that believe. the. little. little. little sleep. that. i'm sure that most of us who are lost someone to drug addiction or at least known someone who has drug addiction is a complicated issue can destroy not only individual lives but it can break apart entire families and disrupt communities and despite america's declared war going to listen and drugs such as heroin cocaine and marijuana little stands in the way of average people taking the legal markets many of which are for.