finding a horse that i'm a feel we appreciate time so rights activists from the cage prisoners groups of thank you. well we've got another big scandal rocking guantanamo then that's the question that we're asking you what you think about all this going to be the final straw do you think this infamous facility is going to shut down this is what you've been telling us throughout the day thanks if you have been voting as well as you can see the sixty three percent of you this. is going to stay open the next figure nineteen percent just under fifty they think it's only going to close what america runs out of money to maintain it sixteen percent per se guantanamo will only shut down one another prison takes its place no change. minority. think that it'll be closed when worldwide terror is defeated always good to hear fear let us know what you think r.t. dot com is the place to cast your vote right now. if you can stay with us more news continues just over a couple of minutes time i'll be back after this short break. choose your language. if we can we know if you're going to. choose the con

prisoners. said they denied justice and caged like animals and definitely. the last time that i saw my clients was between twenty the twenty fifth of february and the eighth of march i visited with them multiple times i was shocked at the condition that they're in in fact we were the first people that broke the story that the hunger strike could be again february the sixth or seventh around that time frame and it continued on my client at that time had lost twenty six pounds and at this point it's official that he has lost almost forty forty pounds one third of his body weight from one hundred forty seven pounds the administration down in guantanamo bay initially denied the report that the hunger strike was occurring they then said it was seven then fourteen then twenty one then they said that it wasn't the largest hunger strike in history then they came out and said it's twenty four twenty five and today twenty six so the story is getting more and more accurate as we go but we're running out of time after eleven and a half years these men that live in anima

we're running out of time after eleven and a half years these men that live in animal cages in america's offshore prison in guantanamo bay they ask for justice they've been there eleven and a half years ninety percent of them have no charges i can tell you having looked at my clients cases they will never get a trial based upon the evidence that's against them so if their home countries are not willing to intervene to do something i don't see it coming from washington washington seems to take the position that we don't have the time to deal with these hundred sixty six condemned men and our offshore prison this is not about soccer fields or food or anything else this is about justice and freedom this is a bigger concept this is what the united states stands for not more servings of food and not more of soccer fields to play on this is a matter of getting these men home or giving them trials and that's the answer china stepping up it's an interesting curious he would help of russia has agreed to increase oil supplies to beijing by three times the current level along with other multi-billion dollar deals

well here to tell you that after eleven and a half years these men that live in animal cages in america's offshore prison in guantanamo bay they ask for justice they've been there eleven and a half years ninety percent of them have no charges i can tell you having looked at my clients cases they will never get a trial based upon the evidence that's against them so if their home countries are not willing to intervene to do something i don't see it coming from washington washington seems to take the position that we don't have the time to deal with these hundred sixty six condemned men and our offshore prison. if you like if somebody does. well i mean you're going to have to answer that is as far as a political question i'm a lawyer i'm here to look at the facts and to tell you that i've reviewed these cases and i'm here to tell you that these guys will never get trials if they're never getting trials and we have to go by what the president has said in march of two thousand and eleven when he said indefinite detention will be implemented in guantanamo bay and will be the law of the united states forty eigh

. >> we met frederico when we were filming what we call "b" roll in the outside exercise cages at the prisonriking impression on me because when we start ed talking, he was extremely articulate. and when he talked about his crimes, he was very self-aware and very honest about the consequences of his actions. >> i was brought up into a culture where they teach you to be violent. they teach you to outsmart the enemy. they teach to you regard law enforcement and up society and your government with contempt. once you have that lifestyle, that philosophy, it's not a matter of right and wrong anymore. it becomes a matter of this is my life. the life that i'm living. >> to what end? >> to this end. which is nothing. >> when we met him, munoz was in the level 6 maximum security yard serving two life sentences for two murders. >> i shot one, and i strangled the other in this county jail. both of them i'm doing life sentences for, as i should. you can't go in a civil society, go around killing people and not expect to be punished for it. >> you must have known that while you were strangling the guy in

from the prison to the cage comedy's all don't get pregnant kane the street is fucked the particularattraction really pressure coming from cairo in. cairo continent to continent are going on than staying at the got a good. action against the former minister of interior and the current minister of interior a similar sentiment to being said here on the street. and they are being treated extensively from the country and what we really are. going to be expected to bind and to continue under human to think on. things very much and do it for the love of truth on the line. security council stepped up sanctions. against north korea in response to pyongyang's defiant nuclear test last month the resolution for more penalties was unanimously approved by all fifteen member states while the us has threatened even more harsh measures if north korea carries out yet another atomic test what is going to china has more. well north korea is definitely paying the price for that nuclear test last month the un security council has unanimously condemned the test and now they also unanimously voted on a res

if i don't get any justice through the penal system, then i will die right here in this prison, probably in this cagehe is not exercising, hardin spends his time writing poetry. >> poetry is one of the things that helps me cope with my confinement. it's like you can escape through your words, maybe no one hears them but you have them. i used to be a banger but now i talk to the enemy in isolation, where walls become memories, memories become pain. pain becomes thunder soaked in the grief let it rain. life is death yet livable and continual. i was resenting, photographic reflections of lost times and psyche and imagination, ejaculating with passions of all kind. bound by concrete and steel. totally detached, i lost my -- that's called "concrete and steel." >> in an effort to give inmates a chance to restore faith in themselves, and atone for their crimes, the prison started a unique program called s.a.v.e., seriously acknowledging victims' emotions. >> not enough attention is paid towards the victim. >> this group here, you know, it gives guys chance enough to come and sit down and understand and find

cage. that's all it is. >>> utah state prison is one of the only penal institutions in the country that housesoth male and female offenders. usp's 430 women are housed here, at the timpanogos facility. >> they come from every social, economic class that there is. they come in and say, i didn't think that this would ever happen to me. and here i am. >> the timpanogos facility is split into four buildings or stars. lieutenant whitney supervises star-4, a home of the excel program, a therapeutic community for substance abusers. >> i'm in here for zero to five. >> possession with intent to distribute. >> possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute. >> two counts of distribution methamphetamine and illegal sale of a gun. >> while only 50% of usp female inmates are here specifically on drug charges, a large majority of these offenders are doing time for crimes committed in order to support a drug habit. >> it numbs you up and you don't feel. you become somebody you would never expect to be. >> cheryl megarry is serving five years for forging a credit card application, a crime she

cage. >> in addition to showing them the realities of prison, the inmates challenge these youths assumptions >> this is why i connect with you. i love the same thing you love. it was fun to put hands on somebody and show my home boy i'm the man. and you don't want nothing either. respect, right? what's your name. >> marco. >> what do they say in the hood? marco throw down. don't mess with marco, right? that's what they tell you. that's what they told me because they knew i was willing to fight for nothing. on site, let's go. you think you can whip me, then let's whip. this is why i tell you this. that fighting, eventually it got tiring. because i was literally fighting every day, every single day of my life i was fighting. the homies already knew, romeo, he throw down. i say, okay. i got a one-up now. then you start carrying this knife. then you start carrying this pistol. and it took one day and all of about three or four seconds for me to pull my pistol out on somebody that could have easily just fought, whooped them and been done with it, and i pulled a gun on this man and shot him six ti

prison if they could get out? you tried to escape? of course i did, not for the first time either. if you leave the door of the cage open, the bird will fly out. that is a confession of heresy. i call the attention of the court to it. heresy, he calls it. am i a heretic because i tried to escape from prison? assuredly, if you're in the hands of the church and you willfully take yourself out of its hand, you are deserting the church and that is heresy. it is a great nonsense. nobody could be such a fool as to think that. you hear, my lord, how i am reviled in the execution of my duty by this woman? let us not be moved by the rough side of a shepherd lass's tongue. nay, i am no shepherd lass, though i have helped with the sheep like anyone else. i would do a lady's work in the house, spin or weave against any woman in rouen. if you are so clever at woman's work, why do you not stay at home and do it? there are plenty of other women to do it, there is nobody to do my work. come, we are wasting time over trifles. joan, i am going to put a most solemn question to you. now take care how you answer for your life and salva

prisons. that is interesting to me. looking at the communication level, the rise of frustration of being caged, wondering, where does redemption fit into the equation here? [singing] i think both of us really believe the death penalty is wrong, and is flawed for many reasons. the list is as long as my arm -- about several others. we feel this is important for both of us, personally, to participate in the debate of this issue in a way that we can help people frame it for a conversation. >> it's so great to see a full house like this. it means the world to us and to the whole cause of anti-trafficking. we are waiting for mayor lee. my name is nancy goldberg, cochair of the seven cisco collaborative against human trafficking. i wanted to introduce my past chair, and my new cochair. when i tell people of my involvement their shock to hear that san francisco is in major definition of human trafficking. they think it is people from other parts of the world. there are also so many right here, from our own bay area communities. in the city that is out of human trafficking we are also committed to being an agent of change. i want to gi

prisons. that is interesting to me. looking at the communication level, the rise of frustration of being caged, wondering, where does redemptionnto the equation here? [singing] i think both of us really believe the death penalty is wrong, and is flawed for many reasons. the list is as long as my arm -- about several others. we feel this is important for both of us, personally, to participate in the debate of this issue in a way that we can help people frame it for a conversation. >> just a few steps away from union square is a quiet corner stone of san francisco's our community to the meridian gallery has a 20-year history of supporting visual arts. experimental music concert, and also readings. >> give us this day our daily bread at least three times a day. and lead us not into temptation to often on weekdays. [laughter] >> meridians' stands apart from the commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core mission, to increase social, philosophical, and spiritual change my isolated individuals and communities. >> it gives a statement, the idea that a significant art of any kind, in any discipline, creat

prison's most brutal violence. ♪ >> i can see why fights went on in that exercise yard. because it was literally like a cage.as the place to do it. it's literally -- like the most extreme ultimate fighting thing you would see. >> correctional officers showed our cameras how they quell the violence with an arsenal of their own. one that includes nonlethal and lethal weaponry. >> get down! get down! >> the first rounds we fire are wood blocks. hopefully the hurt will make them stop. if we really have to escalate with our nonlethal options, we use what's called a scat round. which is really irritating. see those are a little bit louder, the smoke you see there, that's cn gas. it's no fun. it messes up your sight, makes you, you know, makes your snot roll. and of course, we have a lethal option. we have a mini-14 here, 223 round. we use that as a last resort. >> today, california state prison corcoran no longer has to resort to drastic measures to control violence in the shu yard. they closed the yards down and now inmates exercise in walk-alone areas called the cages. but even when officers are able to quell vi

we have a facility which provides support to this prison and the prison next door, as far as a workforce. >> the yard is free of any cagesare no cells and more activities. >> get up about 6:00 in the morning, go eat, get your lunch. come back, go to class until 3:00. you guys want to see my new home? come on in. welcome. right here, this is my new home. this is me right here. don't mind the mess. this is me. i gotta take this every day to chow or you don't get to eat. you gotta take your i.d. there's my clothes down there. yeah, this is it. basically waiting for laundry, you hang out here until they call your number. >> thank you, now i'll grab all in. as you can see, with laundry, it's kind of a pain. when we get here, we try to grab it all and bring it over here for these guys. >> many of these inmates are serving shorter sentences for nonviolent crimes and parole violations. corcoran's gang population has grown so large that even a level one yard isn't free of politics. >> we received the information off an inmate on our northern image on here, how to behave and not cooperate with staff. in conjunction with my staff.

starving to death versus languishing in cages the choice for guantanamo inmates is a detainee's lawyer exclusively tells r t the weeks long hunger strike is fueled by prisoners having been robbed of legal process and the right to defend themselves. biggest ever cyber attack of its kind disrupting internet access across the planet with a clash between a spam filtering company and a hosting firm rippling across the web. banks finally open their doors in cyprus but little relief for citizens with empty wallets with strict cash limits set to avoid a run on savings. noon in moscow i matter as a good having you with us here on r t our top story the hunger strike in guantanamo prison going from bad to worse detainees who've been refusing water check that refusing. sorry refusing food over mistreatment for weeks now claim they're being denied drinking water by the guards amid growing concerns the strike may turn deadly with several inmates already hospitalized already spoke with u.s. air force lieutenant colonel barry when garda military attorney in guantanamo now he told us about his client's desperate condition. i've never seen anything in all my five years coming

prisoners from escaping. >>> well, firefighters raced to save ten english bull dogs in a house that caught fire. the dogs had been locked up in cages inside the home on hillsboro drive. investigators say the smoke was so heavy the dogs could have died if they hadn't been rescued in time. they all made it out, are doing just fine, and no one was injured. >>> a million dollar gold heiss caught on tape. the bay area men wanted in connection with this high profile robbery. >>> plus, they took a break for fighting crime for a haircut today. the cause that inspired several police officers to shave their heads. >>> also, you're up against these people that are champions in what they're doing, and at some point singing even i was like, i'm not going to get into it. >> getting into college is tough, but these kids are not letting the competition get them down. the innovative and risky ways they're trying to get into the school of their dreams. >> announcer: closed captioning brought to you by mancini's sleep world. >>> new video tonight of a gold heiss at a courthouse in northern california. investigators believe two men from the bay area a

or languishing in cages the choice for guantanamo inmates has the detainees detainees a lawyer exclusively tells our teeth weeks long the hunger strike is fueled by the fact prisoners have been robbed of any legal process and the right to defend themselves. the biggest ever cyber attack of its kind of strutting internet access globally after clashes between a spam filtering company and a hosting fern ripples across the web. banks open their doors in cyprus but little relief for citizens with them do you wallet with strict limits set to avoid a run for saving. the neighboring greece a crisis takes an extreme form with a bomb explosion near the country's main tourist hot spot. eleven am in moscow i match reza good having you with us here on r t our top story the hunger strike in guantanamo detention center going from bad to worse detainees who've been refusing food over mistreatment for weeks now say their beings and i drinking water by guards this amid growing concerns a strike may turn deadly with several inmates already in the hospital spoke with u.s. air force lieutenant colonel barry ween guard a military attorney in guantanamo now who told us about his client's

prison back. >> i think the staff are doing an excellent job dealing with inmates we v care is constitutional. >> showing pictures of cages and questionable conditions, inmate attorneys say no way that must continue since suicide rate is still not acceptable its not time to end this litigation. >> the jus -- judge is expected to rule within weeks and needs to win the lawsuit because that will help him in another case. he wants to end a court orderer to redus the prison pop laichlgts -- population. >> turns out actress ashley judd isn't going run for office. they had been considering a run and made her decision today saying quote i'm unable to consider a campaign for senate and will continue to ensure needs of kentucky families. >> the next big thing in computer gaming. >> some of the things you can do without lifting a finger, do without lifting a finger, ys of walking to give a breast cancer survivor a lifetime-- that's definitely a fair trade. it was such a beautiful experience. (jessica lee) ♪ and it's beautiful (woman) why walk 60 miles in the boldest breast cancer event in history? because your efforts help komen ser

to death or languishing in cages that's the choice for guantanamo inmates as detainees lawyers exclusively tell r t the week's long hunger strike is fueled by the fact prisoners say they've been robbed of legal process and the right to defend themselves. biggest ever cyber attack of its kind disrupt internet access globally after a clash between a spam filtering company and a hosting the firm ripples across the way. banks open doors in cyprus but little relief for people with and wallets the strict cash limits set to avoid a run for safety. in neighboring greece the crisis takes an extreme form with a bomb blast near the country's main tourist hot spot. ten am in moscow i match reza good having you with us here on r t our top story the hunger strike in guantanamo prison going from bad to worse detainees who've been refusing food over mistreatment for weeks now claim they're being denied drinking water by guards this image growing concerns the strike may turn deadly with several inmates already hospitalized arche spoke to u.s. air force lieutenant colonel barry when guarded military lawyer in guantanamo now and he told us about his client's desperate condition

apassing new laws to keep prisoners behind bars longer but those touched by violence of men like stanworth say a sentence is a sentence. >> when they're that bad put nem a cagerget about them, because they don't -- they're animals. >> dennis stanworth is awaiting trial for the murder of his mother, if conviktd he could receive the death penalty. >> let's talk about the weather. >> roo right now, clear skies no, hint after approaching storm but it is coming our way. pulling back to give you a wider image you see the cold front bringing not only rainfall but a drop in temperatures. in lake tahoe area a warning is in effect from 7:00 to 10:00 wednesday night we expect 10-20 inches of snow whiteout conditions are a possibility. bay area, cloudy skies ahead of the rainfall. high temperatures in the low 60s aand 50s on the coast. here is the accu-weather forecast. we're going to have two chilly days, periods of rain, showers, showers lingering into thursday morning. it will be chilly highs into 50s wednesday and thursday but will dry out ask warm up over the weekend. we spring forward to daylight savings time this weekend. high temperatures around 70 degrees, be s

cage later and nothing has happened in fact nearly shutting down that's taken place recently is the closure of the government office that's charged with transferring the detainees and closing down the prison so just to recap in case that sounds in any way peculiar they've closed down the office that's meant to close down guantanamo bay and the british foreign office supports this continuing. shutting down the facility shack i am a has been languishing at guantanamo bay for over eleven years now and quite astonishingly this is a man who's never been charged with any wrongdoing he's never been put on trial he's been cleared for release twice yet he's still there the british government's efforts to negotiate his release have been few they've been feeble and most importantly they've been completely and utterly fruitless so the red cross human rights watch amnesty international they've all expressed frustration that they haven't been allowed to visit detainees they condemn was been taking place at the facility for over a decade now but at the same time over here in the u.k. there's been a little more than a peep from the mainstream media both about shakar amma and about guantanamo bay in gener

cage like this, man. >> marcus young and philip mixon have just had another 15 days added to their time in confinement for violating the prison'ss a call forwarding? what did you do? >> put another phone number on my number. call told them put this like this and whenever you call my number it went to his number and you know, they got us for that. >> so is that a way to call somebody who's not on your call list? is that what you're doing that? >> yeah. >> yes, ma'am. i'm trying to talk to my mom and they write you d.r.s for stuff like that. that don't make no sense. >> why isn't she on your approved call list? >> she don't have a phone. if you don't have a house phone, then you can't put -- you can't put cell phones on there. >> inmates have to send in a list of ten people on their call list, it has to be approved. that way we verify these people are not a threat to security. if they use a cell phone, a cell phone is mobile so that means the cell phone can talk to whoever they want to talk to. it's just a situation with security where there's certain measures we've got to follow. that is a sad fact about it today, cell phones ar

cage, stripped down, humiliated. i'll be able to touch people again, to make decisions. to be honest, what's ahead scares me. >> hard to imagine being in prison for 23 years for a crime you didn't commit. mary snow joins me now. you were in the courtroom. what was the emotion like there? i can only imagine. >> reporter: yeah, anderson, you know, it was so emotional that the judge started crying at one point, as soon as david ranta walked into that courtroom, his family members were just overcome with emotion. in particular, his daughter, priscilla, was 2 years old when her father was arrested. these family members have had their hopes dashed before so they were very nervous going into this hearing. >> if david ranta didn't kill the rabbi, who did? >> reporter: well, a woman had come forward in the 1990s to say that her husband had admitted to killing the rabbi, but her husband had been killed in a car accident not long after the murder. now, ranta's initial attorney said that he used that information to try and get the conviction overturned in the mid-'90s and that didn't work. he said that there were questions about credibility that were rai

cage, technically. it is. this is where dogs be at. >> katherine mcmillan has been in segregation for almost two years. >> i have an 11 to 14-year sentence as a habitual felon and i am in prison for making checks on the computer and cashing checks. i got into a fight. i beat a girl up down in the seg quad and she had two black eyes and she had to go to the hospital and i ended up coming up here. >> there are two classifications of inmates in the segregation unit, intensive control or icon, and maximum control, also known as mcon. both require isolation, but mcon inmates pose the most serious threat. >> why i do have this on? because i'm an mcon inmate. mcon inmates have to where this right here. technically, i'm supposed to have on leg irons, but because i have a medical from the doctor, i can't wear those for six months. once i become an icon inmate, i go in handcuffs. nd when i come outside, we put our hands through there and they take them off. and they put our hands through there and they take it off. yeah, the fresh air feels good, because you got people that stink and they don't like to take baths and you are shut up in a building all day and it's kind of cloggy in ther