both or neither has decided to stay british while over twelve thousand kilometers away the u.k. seems keen only on the hunt for the vast oil reserves around its tiny overseas territory. europe set to vote on a far reaching ban on pornography including on the web but liberty experts fear a different cover up a chance to snoop on anything users are doing online. and the next door we report on the villagers forced to live next to a growing health hazard in israeli occupied land.

you're watching r t coming to live from the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program now full going on there as have voted overwhelmingly to remain and oversees british territory but the results not likely to help and the bitter dispute between the u.k. and argentina when desirous claims the islands were stolen from it by britain two centuries ago for more on what's really at stake over the small remote archipelago let's now cross live to our t. sara firth who is an london hello to you sara so we know that it's the full concern not to dance li populated with less than three thousand people living there so there's got to be more to this than just patriotic flag waving there right. well it's been an interesting day fifty day for paula one question for the folks indicted and of course the outcome of that a fluke own conclusion really no one thousand nine point eight percent of the folks

indicted to voting to remain part of the case. have another referendum followed the fierce war of words between argentina and brazil argentina has been researching it thanks to the audience that cools the mohini. now we see nothing it's more of west play out it is unlikely that argentina is going to accept the outcome. got referendum and they said that it is a. tree belongs to it of course we've really seen this escalation in the tensions between argentina and britain in the lead up to that referendum the lots of questions a bit why exactly that's happening is that the way that the really went way of course they feel that very thick back in the one nine hundred seventy the slow british kids' lives lost in a large amount of money spent in defending violence now as some people will point to the process that the vulcanized and it's about the bat would make it

economically viable the i didn't to be to take it in fact the argentine is entrenched could lie they think that's one of the reasons given but of course the main reason that britain gave is that it is protecting the folk and not it is right to self-determination and coffee seeing the debate to remain a part of the territory while you know the problems referendum also sparked renewed accusations over britain's overseas policy so what more can you tell us about that . well this is protecting people's right to self determine their own future and britons made a huge amount of movies and fuss over this when it comes to the folk and guidance referendum so you get to read a lot about today it's going to be in all of the papers it's going to be all most of the nice channels a story you won't have heard about many years indeed might never have heard of is that the takeoffs i didn't snout the fact that you would have heard of it doesn't make it any less shocking to take us idence a proper posit the british indian if you see how it's free and though

creeping abidance the largest of which is the a garcia not many people know that as the last u.s. military air base from which we seen the us launch attacks on iraq and afghanistan but back in the one nine hundred sixty s. and that was home to a population of roughly the same as the folks in guidance around two thousand indigenous people that and the u.k. struck a deal with the us which flew them get a discount on arms and saw the us get diego garcia for their military base and most of the population when they were forcibly evicted from their homes many of them were made to move rishis where they've looked out by dave in object poverty ever since and now we also have a number at the table side and is living here in the u.k. and i think what's even more shocking is that this isn't a partisan justice this is something that people white up till today the government of today is still fighting the takeoff's islanders rights to return home and i was speaking to one u.k.

politician the other day who told me it was like secrecy deception dishonesty and that went right to the heart of british government let's take a listen it's very shameful governance in britain. because britain is great itself around the world those supporting the rights of self-determination of those the four dogs what about the rights to trade good song . now i think one side of this about that story is that many of the two go see and say here in the a and now old spirited women he simply want the right to return home and live out the rest that they own their homeland and be continually then like that right as he said right up to the moment they government and he put that in stark contrast with what's happening in the filton guidance right now on the one hand you had to fight seeing as many huge amounts of money sending troops to defend this. colony against argentina claiming on the other hand you have been spending

equal amounts of money to stop the table for this from returning to the home to the contras really is a very fucking pedicure i don't see any and have. we seen the chaebol side of the cheated to the folks in the island is right sarah thanks very much indeed for bringing us the some date and correspondents are first reporting from london. now the referendum result is in but you can still vote in our poll on how using argentina will react well let's now take a look at how our viewers voted so far so as you can see almost half of the respondents say argentina will declare the vote as a legitimate about a third of the voters think focal nurse will be pressured by their south american neighbor to relocate to britain now about fifteen percent believe argentina will call for a future referendum on the issue while only a fraction saying desire is actually back off from its claim now which way do you

see this happening tell us on our t.v. dot com. well you watching the european parliament is set to vote on banning all forms of pernod graffiti in the media including the internet the aim is to help eliminate jantar stereotypes that debase women privacy campaigners fear it will go much further let's now cross to brussels to our correspondent tanser tsui who's got all the very latest for us so tessa tell us what exactly are the worries about this

proposal. well first of all the proposal is aiming to eliminate gender stereotypes and you'd be hard pressed to find an m.e.p. here who wouldn't agree that the this is a noble undertaking however the criticism is coming from the civil liberties fighters those campaigning for freedom of speech and expression as well as some politicians because they see it as a an infringement of sorts so one of the strongest voices coming from the founder of the swedish pirate party here's what he said on his blog he says this surrenders attack on our fundamental freedoms of speech and expression needs action now well basically what the critics are saying is that in this for polls it is quite lengthy there are a lot of words there that are quite vague and broad a such as the term media and therefore it could be abused to another. from the pirate party christian and strum said that this may eventually include all internet related activities such as private emails or even social networks and that's where

the world we live is really and there's also specific wording in the proposal but calls for the necessity of involving action in the digital field but the fact that these cannot be defined specifically is really what worries them as this may be open to abuse. and how binding would today's vote be if it's passed. well the thing is this is really just a first step it's an initiative there's still going to be a long process of debating it of are. approving so this is what to say that although this may not be legally binding at this point what happens is it could be shaping the thinking in the guards to matters of dealing with an issue versus infringing on certain freedoms not just within the e.u. but also in western europe in general you have iceland for example has already made headlines recently with some of its a radical debates going on trying to censor the internet now this is really

a sensitive topic because on the one hand they're saying that there is really a fundamental and justified need to address those challenges facing women's rights and role in society and. on the other hand the manner in which control may be imposed how broader and compassing these powers may be is really what's worrying those campaigning for freedom of the internet of speech and of expression. and it finally is known who will decide what to block well really what if you look at the proposal the wording is there are there's no specific name or a country given there but we do want to form sort of a sex sensor monitoring regulatory body which will be kind of a big institution this is what would be would like to do the calling for that and let me quote from the a statement it calls on the member states to establish independent regulation bodies with the aim of controlling the media and advertising industry in a mandate to impose effective sanctions on companies so essentially again what

critics would look at here is the fact that there is a control of the media that's not specified and not given details on what the powers to what extent those powers will extend and perhaps some worry that it would give policing powers to those companies when sanctions are imposed on them when there seems to be violating any laws were to say thanks very much indeed for bringing us the sponsors are cilia. fabia reinhart from the fire party in berlin state parliament sees the resolution 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 two years to what the internet and i think it's very important to define internet freedom and citizen ride every step of the legislative process and brussels and in is possible. 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 we 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. and the european union i think they are somehow threatened by the internet i think the. it's very easy to control the t.v. and some other channels but it's very difficult to control what's going on the internet protections on all levels of trying to find out if there's. different ways to to control what is going on the internet and control the public and free opinion there. pakistan could become a victim of american sanctions which are meant to target iran's energy sector washington threatening panel these following the launch of

a joint iranian pakistani gas pipeline project on monday the seven point five billion dollar construction was unveiled despite fresh air from the u.s. even though to ron stresses that natural gas has nothing to do with nuclear angie the deal will help to ease pakistan's crisis but washington's concern will also enable iran to sell more gas and undermine u.s. sanctions against it if pakistan is penalised now it could be a fresh blow to already fragile relations between washington and islamabad which have been deteriorating because of u.s. drone strikes and the massive civilian casualties they brought. that we've got extensive analysis of the deal com so you can have there to find out how exactly both countries will benefit from it and what broader geopolitical implications the project holds now no one wants to live next to the stench of a landfill way side by some have no choice hundreds of palestinian better winston

a village on israeli occupied land say their rights are literally being trashed by the jewish authorities policy or has a story from this to this remote hills of the west bank off becoming an eyesore by the 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 are met hussein is recovering from cancer he says he can prove the dumb caused it but suspects it did. our children play 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. there are a lot of people suffering from a lot of illnesses that we've never seen before some of them escape cases of cancer and people have died some of the garbage being dumped here has chemicals in gases. and for as long as these hills fall into palestinian territory they'll continue to fill up with israeli waste these bedwyn 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 of bed when living near the rotting waste water getting out of as an extra of these

damming sides these waters just goes into the ground leeching the aquifers where we have the water drinking water we have a well where were the people drinking water from these wells and we found during our research that there's some heavy metals inside these wells but land here is expensive and building a new waste site would cost money it's also not clear where these people in 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 your recent municipality says the site is legal but it has until the end of this month to respond to a court order to stop dumping each day more than a thousand tons of garbage is deposited on ahmed stored step potentially

a ticking bomb for people who live on the fringes of society. in the west bank. also i have for you this hour here on r.t. germany's famous thrift and efficiency takes an off from some oddball budget a fancy carrot all that's just one of the bizarre investments from the federal pot will show you more and tell you how taxpayers are reacting. to the over america's massive military budget putting its huge overseas presence in the spotlight of whether it's time to bring war of the troops home details after a short break here and stay with us. something extreme cold is the chilling threat of this it's a cooling if you look you can see that the water in my body feels really warm now

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welcome back you're watching r.t. going to be live from the russian capital germany's often been considered an example of efficient and responsible spending while countries all around flounder taxpayers they are why i disagree after he was recently revealed out lot of their money has gone some eyebrow raising project or even takes a look at where the money is going and here is biggest most stable economy do you know where tax money goes tax the tea in this country not really precisely not really. i know it's going to. 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. a text based rights group in germany has revealed a number of controversial projects some costing millions of euros a coming straight from the federal budget 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 the 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 go america personally is pushing other european nations towards the toff austerity since the start of the crisis the 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 one 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 with cattle may not could apply to europe's largest economy but it's an economy that 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 as neglect. germany. now cannell a vigil for brooklyn teenager shot times by. new york police saw officers weigh in and search without warrants if you dot com which tell you what's behind a boy's killing with eyewitness accounts and pictures from the rally held in his memory plus. the now developing the story of a kidnapped ukraine journalist who's incredibly scaped from her monthlong capture by rebel groups and war torn syria all the details online. and now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world over

a dozen detainees americas in toryism internal bay prison are reportedly on hunger strike their lawyers claim it's because they have have personal items confiscated such as books legal mail and even copies of the koran written spokesman robert durand insisted only nine inmates are denying food when time obey holds about one hundred sixty six prisoners including the mastermind of nine eleven. which obviously is hand-picked successor has launched an investigation into the death of the country's late leader duros announcement came just hours after he officially registered as a presidential candidate confirming he was in the running the door was cheered by thousands of supporters who held the posters of the late leader thomas opposition supporters have already denounced the election which they call a carefully stage managed event and affront basic voting fairness. the catholic conclave will begin the process of electing

a new pope later on tuesday vatican staff non-involved in a conclave earlier swore a solemn oath of secrecy the one hundred fifteen cardinals will be completely cut off from any communication with the outside world until they have chosen someone to succeed benedict the sixteenth he retired after struggling with the church's widespread sex abuse corruption scandal. now the u.s. defense budget is facing almost fifty billion dollars in cuts and it's causing mixed feelings in america some fear away in security but others say the reduction has long overdue but america's huge military presence abroad is one area many think could comfortably take the hit our washington correspondent got each 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 the u.s. has boots on the ground in one hundred fifty countries that's around two hundred thousand troops. serving in the from parts of the world largest contingency include of course of ghana's than six to 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 up front because all of these numbers that you've posted are about to change you have

a secretary of defense named chuck hagel and a surgery of st john kerry and both of these men are committed to conflict avoidant everything that you got posted 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 nine hundred eighty nine thousand 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 now and 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 laws 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 say no we can't afford it we have to economize we have problems in the united states we must address and oh by 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 irritate 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 to require troops on the ground to operate them recently president obama announced the deployment of one hundred troops in new

shares so even this pivot to drones doesn't mean no troops in washington i'm going to check out. why after the break here in our team meet the man or women who take being cool to the extreme. 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 part does the 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 rhythm and hues 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 and it's very bad for visual effects and videogame artists but that's just my opinion.