take drum or bucket to the point and come back it will be strenuous and many times will they use these to convey a good quantity of the product like that show with the crew. so many so many so many so these boys sometimes they go there instead of. terminator contaminated water they put it into the can no this is called can you put it to the canoe and process it here refine it here and after where do the refined oil ok. is the black market the local market the local market there are people who comes here to buy from other places people that are not even. i to do it has a new truck this business has a network so people come from far and wide to get this productive for themselves

and of course there's been a day when using the supplement the d.d.d. didn't national. product because is not sufficient nigeria is about one hundred fifty million population and about a friend of his are working as you are aware and these people guys are doing these too not for the. ever way yes yes yes. here and there across the forests smoke rises to indicate a refinery apparently there are dozens we go a little further into the mangroves. but where does the crude oil that these men refine come from how do they get it. on the way christmas trees abandoned like old but some economy.

scorched earth that once served as a refinery patches of oil everywhere. the menace courting us have taken a risk the village chiefs people in high places get dividends from illegal refineries but the feeling of a dead end the point of no return is drowning them in indignation. after a moment we stop in the middle of an expanse of blacks do you nothing on the surface but the end of a plastic pipe half emerging the well is here it is the here others work there's a button on the ground here b.s. there is that transfer. by connecting the flow stations to born and tell me there's a dummy not a but a word is gloat export cuckoo dog from day and the pipes i've been lead on diagram

from here to bony erase what is the technique people from here use it for collecting liquid or melt when they see that one to see that they they leak and be good to disport it because it looks from the ground up they want to get to the points on the chrome when they get did he put tool it's on the self is of the back i'm pretty good. as well you can feel good. i think. he's too used to oil too much and we're too much too much water here. thanks for the leaks never stopped. yet dick closes wonderfully to close it indeed not going to come they open it to use it all media day time to close it because they obviously don't want people to see the far right thing everyone will do if you want to know how the oil markets. they use pumping mostly

mission to machine connect to the host yeah on bono's balls. around the makeshift drilling a mango is dead eaten away by the oil it's this type of leak more or less assisted that is the source of the black swamps we pass through. and we learn that retired engineers and technicians from the companies do the jobs themselves. because the operation require skill. for two thousand dollars they come with their equipment they pierce the pipeline and they put in a tap. the commissioner of this act of piracy then becomes owner of his own oil well. and sells the raw material to the buyers in the canoes to refine it further on. so all along the road you find tiny independent service stations consisting of three or four cans who supply the motorist. a flourishing black market based on chaos and man's inventiveness. out at sea

it's a final stage in the process. a giant boy will serve as a morning of supply point for supertankers from all over the world. two hundred kilometers off the coast the d.i.y. man and backyard refiners won't be piercing the pipelines pilots are responsible for that operation by hand and by hook. what spy to see going tugs the maneuver seems almost traditional. thought it would be but i would trust a lot of no no to that would shut up and i would push that's what will split up with that to be dug up that we did about it was. just kind of way it's good to see a guy that. was asking us to do it without going all the way out it without.

you know how to do better i going through that old every day. with some guys one we don't. want to go. you study going to do one you don't want close it's like got some by nine hundred. you'll. probably have. these. big sell off you go on the local. god given the big one three. because the guy got. filling the tank it would take three days and it will be immediately replaced by another. you can almost hear the oil slipping through the pipes. going to.

put out. like. i say i was like. oh shit i see festool. but i spend yeah i think i will yeah. you know. twenty four hours a day off the coast petrol is pumped treated then delivered the world needs energy and we haven't found anything better. in the future they envisage turning to depths of more than five thousand or six thousand meters. from land and watching ice at night the f.p.s. i was like a magnificent motionless firework display and i am one last question to ask. you. i thought i would. on board we mean.

we maintain a principle that everyone is equal and some of the common rules that we've got a source where you come from long whether you're male female and so on and. with sure that's as much as possible no problems come from and so far so far we haven't had any and it's applies to most of all the other sites that have talked to a. person workers some workers the best saying that. each of nigeria. nigeria was feeling the. measure of was here companies to make more. but i was saying. it's. it's sad and can see it's one thing. probably not

probable but. life life is not.

culture is that so much of the moment and there's a huge music history of american trying to hide from the mark when egypt's unfinished business a year on the revolution that you have to dispirited appears to install the military rulers who replaced with. me he he. used. to. see. a model on.

the. guitar sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harvey welcome to the big picture.

all right. the video you just saw are revealed unsettling truths about the war in iraq and now the man who helped leak it to the world is under fire once again along with our teeth will tell you all about julian assange just the latest venture and why it has the press all worked up. anyone who tells you whether once. they want to tells you that america is in decline or that our influence has waned doesn't know what they're talking about. well that's one way of putting it but i have a feeling that millions of unemployed americans would disagree as president obama

preaches progress we'll bring you the real state of the union. and caviar champagne and a few economic problems and that's what's on the menu this year at the world economic forum it's an exclusive invite only gathering of the world's political and economic elites but don't worry we've got a pair of eyes and ears on the ground at davos. welcome back this wednesday evening january twenty fifth eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm lucy caffein of and washing our t. . so before we move on to the state of the union i want to take a moment to discuss the gloomy state of the mainstream press now network evening news continues to lose influence when it comes to viewers the so-called big three networks a.b.c. n.b.c. and c.b.s.

lost nearly twenty million viewers since one nine hundred eighty that's more than half of the audience they once enjoyed the cable news networks have picked up the slack but despite lofty mottos like fair and balanced partisan and divisive seems to be the name of the game news takes a backseat to spin and opinion and you can barely hear the real issues over the shouting by the talking heads now since one thousand nine hundred three ninety percent of the american media was owned by fifty companies last year that number shrank to six think about that six megacorporations like g.e. and disney owning ninety percent of the media that you consume now print journalism is also struggling to stay relevant at a time when tweets blogs and online media floods through the gates that the newspapers once kept it seems that there's been a transformation from washed up journalism to laptop journalism corporate officials more generals lobby a senior administration officials are all taken at their word treated with respect

meanwhile those who lack the good standing with the establishment are marginalized ridiculed just think of occupy wall street one paul julian a sun church which of course brings me to wiki leaks. but of all of the troops to. iraq and the release of the collateral damage video showing an apache helicopter attack in baghdad ended the era when journalists decided which weeks would see the light of day the establishment have balked we here at r.t. covered the story the day that it broke we even put julianna songe on the air at first the other outlets stayed away after all a songe was described as a terrorist by our own government but market interest seemed to take over and everything soon changed before long a songe became a media darling gracing the screens of the cable news networks major publications even partnered up with wiki leaks to catalog and help release countless previously secret documents now it's not a stretch to say that julian assange is

a controversial figure he's been driven off the internet deprived of funding placed under house arrest all as he fights extradition attempts over sexual allegations but whether or not you love the man or hate them in it's difficult to deny that his actions and wiki leaks for ever change the face of the media as we know it now two years ago we invited mr songe to speak on air and in two months we're going to bring him back starting in march a songe will host a ten part series of interview programs on this network you can love it you can hate it and you can skip it the decision is yours and the show and its content are of his own choosing now i found it hard it will be difficult to understand the headlines when i woke up this morning the kremlin's mouthpiece selling out to the russian government kremlin pawn. the cold war part two perhaps now funny i didn't see those headlines when the major papers worked with wiki leaks to release information nor do i recall the allegations of a songe as a general electric stooge after he did interviews on imus and b c does the same

goes also fair in love and war and i suppose when you're bleeding dollars viewers and ratings it's easier to throw mud at others than to clean it up at home. now last night the president delivered his annual state of the union address it was a chance to reflect on the current state of america by speaking directly to both congress the country and the world so how did the rhetoric stack up to reality well arty's christie infers out explorer sequestration in her port. for president obama america is back renewing american leadership can be felt across the thing that leadership though is not strong enough to win over china or even traditional allies like india south korea and japan who won't follow americans lead when it comes to cutting iranian oil out of the market as we've built our enemies. to the enduring power of our moral example america is back one question who exactly looks to

america as a moral example internationally and many are actually outraged at america especially after a decision made about the us marine who led his men on a shooting rampage and had in two thousand and five that killed twenty four civilians his punishment a lowering of his rank a cut in pay and no jail time i was expecting that the american judiciary would sentence this person to life in prison so that america could show itself as democratic and fair meanwhile bradley manning remains in custody and may for the rest of his life he's accused of leaking classified documents to the web site wiki leaks illustrating abuses to the world in this showdown between murder and truth it appears this land of high morals lays down a heavy hand on truth world outrage also over the u.s. his failure to close guantanamo bay prison for one hundred seventy one prisoners still languish ten years on one of the most powerful that were democracies as

behaving with hypocrisy in promoting you know illegal practices and abusing human rights that undermines the cause of human rights everywhere on the planet we bet on american workers we bet on american ingenuity much of the state of the union focused on how to quote win the future to create more jobs. we have a huge opportunity at this moment to bring manufacturing back it's a great goal though on his watch several manufacturing plants have shut down this whirlpool plant in benton harbor michigan has scaled back with more than five thousand people losing their jobs a small fraction of what this country has seen as a whole well rock obama doesn't understand that the reason the jobs are leaving is because politicians like him have pursued policies that have chased them out so this is a comparison between the u.s. and china this is part. think our parity and the g.d.p. and it shows that the chinese economy will expand from eleven point two trillion in

two thousand and eleven to nineteen trillion in two thousand and sixteen meanwhile the size of the us economy will rise from fifteen point two trillion to eighteen point eight trillion i would take america's share of the world output down to under eighteen percent the lowest in modern times china's would reach eighteen percent and will most likely continue to grow optimism and strength must be at the forefront for the president for any president really it is after all an election year anyone who tells you that america is in decline or that our influence has waned doesn't know what they're talking about. sixteen percent. now one of the things missing from the speech last night was any hint of candidate obama the one who in two thousand and eight campaign against america's wars and acknowledged what conflict torture secrecy and the disregard for the rule of law did to this country's reputation abroad instead we heard this this

generation of heroes has made the united states safer and more respected around the world for the first time in nine years there are no american spiting in iraq you are the first time in two decades osama bin laden is not a threat to this country. most of all kind of top lieutenants have been defeated the taliban's momentum has been broken and some troops in afghanistan have begun to come home. forget about the fact that fifteen thousand u.s. diplomats federal employees and contractors still remain in iraq war that it took the new york times to fact check his incorrect claims a victory against the taliban there was no mention of the drone strikes to continue as part of the never ending war on terror where the slow but steady erosion of freedoms and civil liberties here at home and on domestic issues the rhetoric was

dripping with optimism president obama's third state of the union address laid out a vision of america in which everybody gets a fair shot at economic success and everybody including the wealthy plays by the same rules as the average citizen so was the president on point out of touch well for the answer turned to activist and daily coast writer jesse like record here says take i think there were good things and there were things that were not so good i think is the rhetoric matches the tone of the country because working class people need an answer and the president certainly can't go out and tell us that things are going terrible and that there's no recovery in sight so he tries to trump up what the wonderful recovery we're undergoing and how america is coming back but the reality is that that hasn't reached the average person on the street people in their neighborhoods don't see that taking effect and what we need is more not just nice words in the speech well it's interesting you bring up the issue of more more presume sort of action by the government and you know one of the themes

of this speech was fairness the of the idea that everyone has a fair shot i want to play you a quick sound bite that i think we have from president obama yesterday millions of americans who work hard and play by the leaves every day this is a government and a financial system to do the same it's time to apply the same from top to bottom you know bailouts no handouts and no compounds in america built to last insists on responsibility from everybody. i just. don't see anything potentially i don't know hypocritical about what he just said i mean it sounds great but any indication that there's actual action to back up that kind of rhetoric. well that's the tough part you know they mentioned yesterday the president during his speech that he was going to launch an investigative panel looking at the wall street crimes and a lot of people like me say that's three years too late i mean just look at what m.f. global did under john kors sign they was truly billions of dollars and when you ask him where the money went they said i don't know to people like me on the street it

comes off a little hypocritical and it's very hard to take a president who is so closely aligned with goldman sachs bankers in his cabinet sears when it comes to holding wall street accountable i think is best covers the fact that the other party in america is even worse than the democrats are i mean mitt romney raise more money between the top five banks than every other presidential candidate combined in two thousand and eleven and that includes president obama so what are our choices when i say i want more i mean more action defending consumers from predatory lenders more protecting worker protecting workers be giving them the right to earn a decent wage by fighting these ludicrous right to work laws the average person needs to see that happening faster if this president's going to get reelected jesse whether we're talking about you know the president the democrats or the republicans do you think the problem is that there aren't the right laws or the right best again if panels in place or do you think that we're missing the willpower and on

the part of the politicians. i don't think it's a matter willpower nor is it a matter of the right panels we can have a million panels if we don't have the right people in charge of them and you know there's a perfect example of corporate capture of these regulatory agencies the as he sees a great example that they don't do their basic job it's malfeasance so to someone like myself who cares a great deal about accountability i would like to see the people in power who are put there in order to change the system not get along and go along with everything you want to press me that you're going after wall street fire tim geithner get some real regulators and as you see we're going to force those laws instead of slapping financial institutions on the west with an easily affordable fine i think the rhetoric needs to match the action and the rhetoric sounds great right now i'm waiting for the actually taken well i wouldn't hold your breath if the past few years have been any indication and my question i guess as someone like you what do you do i mean do you stop voting and completely remove yourself from the political

system do you go for the lesser of two evils when it comes to whether it's the president or a local candidates i mean what do you do when the system is as it is and you want change and you don't want to completely tune out. well to me i think the worst thing individuals can do is not vote i think by not voting we empower the special interests that want to dominate our democracy and at the same time i tell people local politics matters a lot and those elections are often decided by you know maybe a hundred votes or so so if you really want to change your neighborhood i'd say get involved in your local politics you know be a voter maybe even be a candidate if you think that the candidates in the field aren't suitable but in the long haul one of the nice things about this president has a positive message as compared to the other guys i mean if you look at john mccain's face last night looked like there were a bunch of teenagers you threw their friends be on as well along yesterday it's a positive message and that's all well and good but we need action behind it and i tell people you know you need to be that action don't like these politicians and hope that they're going to do the right thing just because they do it out of the

kindness of their hearts make them do it you know politics is a game of sticks and carrots i think we need lots of sticks nowadays and very briefly just i mean you said it was a positive message but what about truth telling i mean isn't it do we need a positive message to make us feel better do we need someone that levels of the american people and spelled out that anomalous situation as it actually is. i think we need a little bit of both because what happens is when we're very depressive it turns people off and that generates the same load of road or low voter turnout and benefits to special interest want to game the system so i think it takes a little bit of both you need to be honest and you need to come from the heart speak frankly of people but at the same time you need to give them a reason to aspire to more not just vote against the lesser of two evils well i guess if the politicians don't step up to the platform at least citizens are in the form of occupy wall street just integrate that thank you so much that was just activist and writer for daily coast. well the rest of us may be left out in the cold economically speaking but the so-called one percent are flocking straight to

it several thousand of the world's political and economic elites have gathered in a swiss town of davos for the annual world economic forum and between the champagne the caviar informal discussions aimed at resolving some of the world's biggest issues of which there are of course many now the eurozone crisis is raising fears of a return to recession developing countries are losing momentum and the forms own a global risks report warned of a downward spiral of the global economy and the years ahead now the problems head at the very core of capitalism which is probably why we think in capitalism was this year's theme well how is it all working out so far our very own lorne lister explains on the ground from davos. well you see there is an official agenda at davos and then there is an unofficial agenda at davos which is one that you also hear about and also that you see when you're on the sidelines and not in all of these sessions that are kind of the official program as far as the official program

yes it did open up today with a debate over capitalism but as you mentioned this is a gathering of capital as this is the place where business leaders come to advance their corporate interests and become known as kind of a premier opportunity for networking for c.e.o.'s of some of the biggest multinational corporations wall street banks to network amongst each other also with political leaders central bankers and all of these big wigs so back to debating capitalism yes we heard on the stage some concerns about capitalism some criticism about capitalism also we heard some defenses because of course at davos there are plenty of people who defend the current system of capitalism which they have benefited from brian moynihan the c.e.o. of bank of america of america is one who was saying you know the western capitalism is subject to boom and bust this is part of it but come on there are so many people that we talk to and interview on our show that talk about how long and how painful the costs are a vis bust that is it here by accident and has a lot to do with maybe some of the bad.