when islanders decide to stay british while over twelve thousand kilometers away the u.k. seems only on the hunt for the vast oil reserves around its tiny overseas territory . b.x. hangs over america's massive military budget putting its huge overseas presence in the spotlight on whether it's time to bring more of the troops and ships home. and europe set to vote on a far reaching balance for a number of feet and clothing on the web with liberty experts fear a different cover up a chance to snoop on and if we users are doing online. at

seven am and the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina josh welcome to the program fall down there or is have voted overwhelmingly to remain an overseas british territory but the results not likely to help and the bitter dispute between the u.k. and argentina as arias claims the islands were still won from ed by britain two centuries ago a boy who reports on what's really at stake over the small remote archipelago. these are some very far flung islands from britain a tiny territory but this isn't just a question of national identity we know that the argentinian government's already dismissed the vote as a propaganda exercise cooked up in london but there's the prospect of all oil that a lot of people are talking about now they're speculating surrounding how much oil there is an estimated sixty billion barrels of oil potentially to be found in the

fall cleanse base and compare that with britain's oil reserves well they seem scant in comparison the u.k. has an estimated two point eight five billion barrels of oil so if this estimation proves to be correct if the falkland islands do indeed have these sixty billion barrels then we're talking about more oil than the reserves of the usa could tar or even libya to talk about this i'm joined in the studio by ken hurst he's a journalist came to what extent is this dispute a question of resources for both the british and the argentinean government well it could be argued that it's always been questionable whether it's morally or logistically sustainable to try to protect. a colony that eight thousand miles away i suppose the argument one could have added to that is economically sustainable said he wore ships and so on and so forth but of course the oil rather changes all that but it only changes if you believe it's morally justifiable to go on what we

call it you know a colonial plundering mission something we did in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries and personally i don't happen to believe it is why i don't actual business consultant explain to us why you think the referendum is a pointless and a long running dispute between britain and argentina. it's like asking the old to right wing israeli settlers on the west bank whether they want to continue being israeli or they want to be comparison to me and maybe they should open up immigration and give twenty to thirty thousand argentinian settle there then we can have another referendum and see what happens it is a question of double standards because the guardian newspaper from the u.k. only in february of last year ran an article reminding everybody that in one thousand nine hundred sixty six britain forced the eighteen hundred inhabitants of diego garcia island in the indian ocean they just threw them right out because britain had decided to go to howard wilson actions prime minister had decided to

lease those islands to view the us for a military base which is now even a covert cia prison so it is a question of double standards i have no qualms of throwing out eight hundred people from the go up because see above now they want to protect the. well the referendum results then but you can still vote in our poll when how you think argentina will react let's now take a look at how the viewers voted so far so at this point almost half of you say that argentina will declare the vote is illegitimate about a third think folk when there is will be pressure by their south american neighbor to relocate to britain fifteen percent of the viewers believe that argentina will call for a future referendum on the issue and while only a fraction think linus ayers will actually back off from its claim now which way do you see this heading tell us at r.t. dot com.

the european parliament set a vote on banning all forms of hernando feeding the media including the internet is claiming it will help eliminate gender stereotypes that debase women by their privacy fears that will mean a wow ing web users to be policed in social networks personal emails or even their own photos fabio reinhard from the pirate party in berlin state parliament sees sees it as another excuse for politicians to try and control the web. the initiative undertaking right now is not legally binding but it's shaping the

position of the european union for the next years two of the internet and i think it's very important to define internet freedom and citizen ride every step of the legislative process and brussels sprouts book. right now it's maybe just an initiative and the next step may be a different kind of proposal and i think it's very important that we take from step and say that the don't want to have any internet censorship even if the idea behind it is very noble idea and i think that. especially from the from the executive branch. and the european union i think the somehow threatened by the internet i think the. it's very easy to control of the t.v. and some of the channels but it's very difficult to control what's going on the internet

petitions on all levels of trying to find all of the there's. different ways to to control what is going on the internet and control of the public and free opinion there while iceland could soon become the first european democracy to tammie internet sansar ship the government there is debating radical internet filters to block online pornography but who should choose what gets blocked more nat at r t dot com. meantime the us a fan's budget is facing almost fifty billion dollars in cuts and it's causing mixed feelings in america some fear it will weaken security but others say the reduction is long overdue but america's huge military presence abroad is one area many think confortable take the hit our washington correspondent guided account has been going over the numbers. there's a lot of talk in washington about the need to make some cuts to the humongous military budget in light of this conversation which checked out the latest pentagon

numbers on troop deployment around the world that you want to says boots on the ground in one hundred fifty countries that's around two hundred thousand troops. serving in there from parts of the world largest contingency include of course of getting the sensex the six thousand troops while that number is supposed to be half by the end of this year there you see vast presence in asia pacific japan south korea where the announced pivot to asia those numbers may actually grow in the gulf nations while you see kuwait bahrain the presence there has been growing since the withdrawal from iraq huge presence all across the globe so why all this this is more than fighting terror more than fighting anything colonel douglas macgregor is with me today to discuss all those wise colonel macgregor let's take germany almost forty thousand troops why so many in germany before we run through the regions let me tell your viewers something that's very important for us because all of these numbers that you've posted are about to change you have

a secretary of defense named chuck hagel and assertive st john kerry both of these men are committed to conflict avoidant everything that you've got post is going to change starting in germany where we've had soldiers for sixty years and we don't need them and haven't needed them certainly since one thousand nine hundred ninety nine hundred ninety but for various reasons when the soviet state system collapsed and the soviet armed forces withdrew from eastern europe there were people in washington who set out to find new enemies a new new justification or rationale for our global below troop presence and actually succeeded somewhat in expanding it as you pointed out with the global war on terrorism that period is no indeed what about this idea of policing the world something that. that washington has been engaged and for for so long it has that worked out it hasn't worked out has it it's cost us trillions of dollars tens

of thousands of lawyers it's cultivated do it i mean he's alienated hundreds of millions of people in key regions of the world so why would we continue to do that so these numbers are going to come down very very rapidly over the next thirty six to forty eight months and there are no forces in washington that would want to keep it the way it is of course but those are being drowned out by voices that saying do we can't afford it we have to economize we have problems in the united states we must address and obeidi the way as i just pointed out this hasn't worked out well for us thank you sir thank you the new chief of the cia john brennan when making a case for drones last year said boots on the ground would not always be america's best defense because they were take the local population create a lot of backlash as if drones don't but nevertheless even the new drone base is that the u.s. is setting up in different countries require troops on the ground to operate them recently president obama announced the deployment of one hundred troops there so

even this pivot to drones doesn't mean no troops in washington i'm going to check out. any watching r.t. coming to live from moscow still ahead this hour germany's famous thrift inefficiency takes the knock from some oddball budgeting and see a horrible carrot that's just one of the bizarre investments from the federal pot we'll show you more and tell you how taxpayers are reacting. and the dung next door in a few minutes we report on the villagers forced to live next to a growing health hazard in israeli occupied land now much more coming up after this short break do stay tuned. these are decency they say is

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talk about you watching r.t. live from moscow now germany has often been considered an example of the session and responsible spending while countries all around flounder but taxpayers there might disagree after it was recently revealed that a lot of their money has gone on some eyebrow raising projects where if it takes a look at where the money is going into europe's biggest and most stable economy. do you know where tax money goes tax the tea pay in this country not really precisely not really. i know it's going in projects i would hope that they will invest money into schools and they will give it to disadvantaged families would you be willing to sponsor a study on the educational benefits of comics or invest in virtual reality three d. software for yachts or how about buying into the production of purple carrots most

wouldn't but these people are and most of them don't even know it at taxpayer's rights group in germany has revealed a number of controversial projects some costing millions of euros a coming straight from the federal budget because the biggest problem we have is clearly our national debt we have to pay twenty three billion euros per year just on the interest the government should be wise with its money does not sponsor these bizarre projects the bundestag affection for cinema has cost the country some ten million euros with a state backed three d. adaptation of the famous tarzan story come into the world screens these summer german drama cloud atlas was also partially funded from federal reserves the irony is that this questionable state spending is exposed at a time when germany and angela merkel personally is pushing other european nations towards the toff austerity since the start of the crisis the ira and chancellor has

been travelling from one hundred country to the next urging savings and sekret fice but it seems what was preached abroad isn't being practiced at home this is another one to start project bicycles germans are known as a cycling nation twenty five thousand euros to fund my courses including practice and theory on how to keep your balance how to speed up and slow down how to use hand signals and not to use your cell phone while cycling so great isn't it so there is. and but in this program you must be a woman and an immigrant to qualify. germany has remained relatively unharmed by the crisis and the expression god's may do would castle may not apply to europe's largest economy but it's an economy that's contracted by point six percent of the fourth quarter of last year which might once have been a case of innocent squandering by the continent's powerhouse could actually now be

one of danger is neglect. germany. or a candlelit vigil for a brooklyn teenager shot eleven times by new york police officers weigh in and search without warrants or to haul would tell you what's behind the boy's killing with eyewitness accounts and pictures from the rally held in his memory. plus a dramatic development in the story of a kidnapped ukrainian journalist whose incredibly skate from a month long capture by a rebel groups in a war torn syria all the details online. well no one wants to live next to the stench of

a landfill waste side by at some have no choice hundreds of palestinian bedouins in a village on israeli occupied land say their rights are literally being trashed by the jewish authorities obviously your has a story. from this to this the remote hills of the west bank are fast becoming an eyesore by the hour noisy garbage trucks dump waste from jerusalem and its surrounding areas here far enough to keep the stench of garbage away from city dwellers but close enough for some to conclude it's making the bed when tribes who inhabit these hills sick of not hussein is recovering from cancer he says he can prove the dumb cost it but suspects it did well mad money there are children playing next to the dump our animals in the nails in the garbage and later die we always smell garbage day by day the dump is getting closer to ahmed and his family because these radio authorities don't want it spreading to the expanding settlements on the other side israeli law says

a land full should be two kilometers from where people live this one's a stone's throw away libelous but there are a lot of people suffering from a lot of illnesses that we've never seen before some of them are skin illnesses there have been cases of cancer and people have died some of the garbage being dumped here has chemicals and gases. and for as long as these hills fall into palestinian territory they'll continue to fill up with israeli waste these bed when tribes were forcibly moved here a decade ago the one similar magic herders were compensated with cash electricity and water supplies this is a mountain of waste that's been building for seventeen years it's convenient for the israelis to dump their garbage here because it's not too far from jerusalem and this is after all contested occupied land. these reedy health ministry has found that the dump is producing methane gas amongst others with long term health risks for the last few years talk to his son has been researching the health effects on

bed with living near the rotting waste water getting out of of being sides these waters just goes into the ground reaching the aquifers where we have the water drinking water we have a well where would that be drinking water from these wells and we found. some heavy metals inside the wells but land here is expensive and building a new waste site would cost money it's also not clear where these big when communities could move to the lack of building space means they forced to put up tents closer to the landfill site. it is not normal that we live in a dump it's supposed to be far away from people who all the time it's getting closer it's very hard to live here the only solution is to move this dump away from here in its defense that you recently municipality says the site is legal but it has until the end of this month to respond to

a court order to stop dumping here each day more than a thousand tons of garbage is deposited on ahmed store step potentially a ticking bomb for people who live on the fringes of society. village in the west bank now take a look at some other stories from around the world and the cattle account claim will began the process of electing a new pope later on tuesday vatican staff not involved in the conclave earlier swore a solemn oath of secrecy one hundred fifteen cardinals will be completely cut off from any communication with the outside world until they have chosen someone to succeed benatar the sixteenth he retired after struggling with the church's widespread sex abuse and corruption scandals. which obvious is hand-picked successor nicolas maduro has officially registered as a candidate for the presidency in the duro was cheered by sounds of supporters outside the national election commission also held up posters of the late leader

chavez opposition supporters have already denounced what they call a carefully stage manage event as an affront to basic electoral fairness. new york's plants of ban the large size sugary drinks has turned sour just hours before was due to take effect a judge ruled it arbitrary and capricious at the state supreme court it's a blow for mayor michael bloomberg as fact several laws to try and curb new york's obesity problems bloomberg refuses to be bitten is office has already said it will appeal. and next to washington where abby martin takes her no holds barred look at what's happening stateside and around the globe after a short break stay with.

the month before the oscars and what annoys you with their predictions and the most after everyone complains about the results but it is a big talked about much as the few hundred people who gathered to protest the glamour filled awards show what protests they are oscars you ask. well although the film life of pi won the oscar for best visual effects effects to you that made the movie look so amazing were them and hughes has filed for bankruptcy quickly after the film's release you know that seems like a bit of a discrepancy i mean the group that made the best visual effects in the world in two thousand and thirteen is flat broke how can that be this reminds me of how the lead creators of call of duty modern warfare two were let go directly after the release of the game which to date is the eighth highest grossing video game of all time this was done supposedly to dodge paying them the royalties that they you know earned through hard work the problem is that we live in a world where only the bottom line count making as much profit as you possibly can

damn the consequences it's just good business practice they say well it might be profitable but it's bad for society as very bad for visual effects and videogame artists but that's just my opinion. victims multiply here each day. it's very profitable to invest in colombia we did a very profitable the it is a very high return on investment. yes it but i think working in this area for thirty years and i've always had to play the armed groups by meeting i knew the managers of change their name and strategy but just to the same budrus. high ranking suspects you know coming. pretty upset on that mr president. the president.

i would give an interview i'm sorry but no. investigation is it. says sick stop your bullshit and keep quiet or else you'll suffer the consequences. leave notes on your body guards to watch themselves because the same goes for them. returns from synch i've never heard of such a case as ours were so much money and gold has been stolen from so many here. and for all the gold in colombia on our t.v. . it. looks like.

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a free medio don carty dot com. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i had lunch i got so many i mean. i know that i'm slightly really messed up. in the all very sort of sleepless in seattle worst superglue going to lie down to the. radio guy for a minute. i want. to give you never seen anything like this i'm telling. you. what's going on guys i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set so as we know john brennan has just been sworn in as the new director of the cia like every other

presidential appointee running out to decide what documents he would use for his own car into the white house brennan shows the first draft of the constitution in all of it all the way back to seventeen eighteen seven which still contained handwritten notes missions by george washington himself that sounds pretty cool right well here's an interesting tidbit this version of the constitution is so archaic that it even predates the bill of rights you know all those amendments that guarantee your rights and freedom of speech press due process and a trial by jury it's funny you would think that this would have gotten better thought out given the controversy surrounding brennan's and torrijos careers the drone assassin. nations are now hold on while the symbolism here is bleak and i'm sure this is all just a coincidence here's the sad truth though all of this doesn't even matter because the systematic assault against our rights and liberties will curb regardless of this minuscule formality and that's why i'm breaking a set. a little more of you are going to be like

oh. oh . today marks two years since four nuclear reactors at japan's fukushima daiichi nuclear site were struck and nearly destroyed by a massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami event tragically transform the area into one of the most contaminated places on earth two years after the fact radiation levels at the site remain dangerously high and ongoing environmental disaster that will continue for decades and it's far from contained according to a study by the woods hole oceanographic institution the radiation from the nuclear plant that was directly released into the ocean represents the largest accidental release of radiation to the ocean and history the effects of which are vastly unknown to discuss fukushima as well as the continued use of nuclear energy around the world i was joined earlier by jim nuclear policy analyst at greenpeace i first

asked jim about the complicity of tepco japan's main power company in the disaster and here's what he had to say. you know of the problems with g.e. reactors for quite some time you know in the one nine hundred seventy s. it came out that our own regulators knew that if there were an accident a meltdown that containment was ninety percent likely to fail if you see what's actually happened in japan their failure rate is actually one hundred percent and we've known that and we tried to make fixes and the industry has stopped us as the industry was stopped in japan as well and again we knew that if the last line of defense if it came down to that the public wouldn't be protected and that's exactly what happened in japan and talk about the reports that just came out from greenpeace talking about this fukushima well you know the people that made the reactor board hold accountable the way the walls were set up to protect corporations rather than people so.