as the president of belarus alexander lukashenko answering those who love to hate him and in that exclusive interview saying his ambition for his country is to live as a normal european state. eleven am in moscow why matter has a good to have you with us here on r t our top story the u.s. is downplaying a mass hunger strike at the guantanamo bay detention center of more than one hundred detainees reportedly fasting for more than forty days now in an act of defiance sparked by the confiscation they say of personal items and desecration of their qur'an prison officials though insist the reports are outright falsehoods saying there's only a handful of prisoners refusing food here's how the camp spokesman captain robert duran described the situation in one town a row in response to a request from r.t. he said their mission provide safe. if legal humane and transparent care and custody of the detainees adding that joint task force one time zero seems to ensure it stays true to the highest standards my colleague bill dodd spoke with a former guantanamo guard brandon neely earlier and asked him ho

speaks exclusively with the president of valorous alexander lukashenko who says all he wants for his country is a normal life as a european state. eight am in moscow i met très a good to have you with us here on r t our top story the u.s. is downplaying them as hunger strike at guantanamo bay detention center more than one hundred detainees reportedly fasting for more than forty days now in an act of defiance sparked by the confiscation of personal items and the desecration they say of their qur'an the prison officials though insist the reports are an outright falsehood saying there is only a handful of prisoners refusing food here's how the camp spokesperson captain robert duran described the situation in good mo in response to our eighty eight reads their mission is their mission providing safe legal humane and transparent care and custody of detainees adding that the joint task force guantanamo takes its

a one week low against the euro on friday the belorussian president alexander lukashenko arrived in russia's northern capital of st petersburg on friday to ask for a two billion dollar credit line beller reuss needs the cash to modernize five of its biggest enterprises some of which may be of interest to russia during the meeting russia's president vladimir putin said the vile our bilateral trade between the countries has a lot of potential he sees it reaching fifty billion dollars russia's minsk largest economic partner while bella reuss is russia's second largest after ukraine unless minsk convinces russia to give out a new loan it faces a devastating devaluation of its national currency in the coming months it already saw its currency drop two hundred percent in twenty eleven. norway's six hundred fifty billion dollars sovereign wealth fund the world's biggest by the way is bullish on russia or rather on its bonnes norges vanka

in the sun and wanting to live as a normal civilized european state now the goals president alexander lukashenko has for the future of belarus as he told r.t. in an exclusive interview dubbed as europe's last act a to look at freely admits he won't give up power lightly or deny speculation his youngest son would succeed him as president the president of the former soviet republic has been repeatedly criticized by western states for violating human rights in oppressing the opposition has hit back saying his democracy is just as good as that found in europe or the us. i can prove it right here right now that there is no dictatorship in belarus shall i very simply in just a few words this is the argument i used to convince my western partners in order to be a dictator like starlin one has to have the resources resources of paramount you need to understand that i have any nuclear weapons exactly i do not do i have as much oil as hugo chavez did in venezuela no do i have as much natural gas as russia

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or you can see the full exclusive interview with the better russian president alexander lukashenko at thirteen thirty g.m.t. or on our website r.t. dot com it's there right now. now coming up we take a look into the secluded lives of a group of all believers who left latin america to start a new life in russia stay with us you're naughty. there was a time in america when buses were officially segregated and today if they tried to resegregate the wall next to it there would be outrage throughout the usa every t.v. channel and newspaper so segregation in america was wrong but no america funding segregation no for via foreign aid seems to be a ok and jim dandy arab language leaflets have been spread around west bank in palestinian areas asking residents to

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follow exclusive interview with valerie's president alexander lukashenko seven thirty g.m.t.ere on our website any time that's r t dot com. in the south anniversary of the start of the iraq war two car bomb attacks hit the country killing at least ten people or the war claimed thousands of lives from cost billions of dollars still a decade later arguments continue over one of the most controversial u.s. policy decisions are. reports. i know. there's no greater cost to more than shatter human lives the u.s. invasion into iraq resulted in the deaths of almost two hundred thousand iraqis according to various estimates the deadly metals released by bombs and bullets continue to kill. in fallujah more than half of all babies who were conceived after the start of the war were born with birth defects the infant mortality rate there is disturbing. on the u.s. side the war took the lives of four thousand four hundred eighty six soldiers when you talk a country the size of iraq everyone knows someone that was killed. in the states when you're here less than one percent of people partic

again that's what the president of belarus alexander lukashenko answers to the media which loves to hate him in an exclusive interview with r t he says his ambition for his country is to live life as a normal european state. nine am in moscow i met tries a good to have you with us here on our t.v. our top story the u.s. is continuing to downplay a mass hunger strike at the guantanamo bay detention center more than one hundred detainees reportedly fasting for more than forty days in a desperate act of defiance they say is sparked by the confiscation of personal items and the desecration of their qur'an prison officials though insist the reports are quote outright falsehood saying there is only a handful of prisoners who were refusing food here's how the camp spokesman captain robert duran described the situation in guantanamo in response to our team's request for information he said their mission provide safe legal humane and transparent care and custody of the detainees adding that joint task force guantanamo takes its role very seriously and it seeks to ensure that it stays true to the

of next and i'll say it's our exclusive interview with the president of better or worse alexander lukashenko. there was a time in america when buses were officially segregated and today if they tried to resegregate the wall next to it there would be outrage throughout the usa every t.v. channel and newspaper so segregation in america was wrong but now america funding segregation elsewhere via foreign aid seems to be a ok and jim dandy arab language leaflets have been spread around west bank in palestinian areas asking residents to start using special bus lines place to put palestinians on separate bus lines were first announced in november of two thousand and twelve after some complaints by jewish settlers of trouble on the buses between passengers of different ethnicities in regards to the special bus lines it's really human rights groups but selim said the attempt at is appalling and the current arguments about security needs an overcrowding must not be allowed to camouflage blatant racism you know when south africa had apartheid they were slammed with sanctions including from the us but i

well you can see the full exclusive interview with the better russian president alexander lukashenko at thirteen thirty g.m.t. or it's on our website right now it's r.t. dot com. inhabitants of a rural bedouin village say they're not going to back down in the face of israeli bulldozers it's already been razed to the ground forty seven times with official saying the better ones have no proof of ownership this community claims they've been there for more than a century and have no plans to surrender it now. reports there's not much here but what there is within now was destroyed. part of an israeli plan to rid the negev desert of its bed when residents. had if they even demolished of the thousand times i will rebuild them as long as i'm alive i will keep struggling i will not give up my living in fear all the time whenever somebody calls us and says there bulldozers in the main street they take all. that and take it to the cemetery and now they are threatening to demolish the cemetery. village has become the focal point of tel aviv's plans it started with the first demolition more than