i. as many as one hundred one town and i when mates reportedly unite in a hunger strike after abuse by guards with some prisoners now so sick that coughing up blood. to form between the falkland islands and the u.k. prove strong is the territories overwhelmingly remain british while london comes under fire for being hypocritical in its overseas policy. pakistan may become the next target of u.s. economic sanctions for building a joint pipeline with iran in order to stave off an energy crisis washington says it won't tolerate the deal despite its heralded alliance with islamabad.

and i welcome you watching r.t. coming to life from moscow. protesting against abuse most of my base prisoners are on hunger strike according to lawyers for some inmates several prisoners the said to be so sick that coughing up blood while others are being hospitalized and force fed three chooks in their stomachs authorities are damn playing the strike saying the saying no incidents of abuse were recorded but geo political analyst ryan dawson who's written extensively on guantanamo say these aren't the first strikes of this type. they really have very little other recourse other than a hunger strike it's not the first hunger strike they had it before in two thousand and five and the u.s. is denying that this strike is as large as it is and downplaying the strike saying it's only a few inmates by they've had to admit that at least five are being force fed food through tubes in their stomachs you could be far worse than that however the usually don't act in a rational way they're probably going to just force feed these people and denied

anger strike for as long as possible happened before and they waited until eighteen were hospitalized a lot of these men are detained without trial some without even charges it doesn't mean they're innocent but it doesn't mean they're guilty either and the problem is secret so you just creating a environment for abuse because they are basically human beings with no rights and they can defer stronger strike was over beatings from the i.r.s. which is the end made response force this one again confiscating their items this is the little freedom they have and so this is a really a low point but i don't know if it's a new low point because it's continually low well with yet another abuse scandal rocking grand time and i we are ski whether this might be the final straw that sees the infamous facility shut down and as the voting stands the moment more than half of you that's around sixty percent believe that guantanamo will stay open a fifth of you believe it will only close when america runs out of money to

maintain it slightly fewer say guantanamo will only be shut down when there is another prison to replace it in just three percent say it will happen when the u.s. defeat terrorism all over the world so you can cost you a vote all you have to do is go to our take dot com. the falkland islanders have. to remain a british territory with only three votes against the idea in a two day referendum the u.k. prime minister david cameron has called on argentina to respect the landslide

result. britain stole the islands from it two centuries ago the continuing dispute see some critics questioning britain's overseas policies as r.t. sarah firth expects. this issue of protecting people's rights to self determined 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 of that today it's going to be in all of the papers it's going to be on most of the nice channels a story you won't have heard about many years indeed might never have heard of is that of the takeoff's iron snout the fact that you would have heard of it doesn't make it any less shocking take us idence possibly a british indian i did see poetry and though grouping of violence the largest of which is diego garcia now many people know that as the last u.s. military air base from which we see in the u.s. 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 folk in guidance around two thousand indigenous people there 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 were they were forcibly evicted from their homes many of whom would need to move rishis where they've looked out their dave in object poverty ever since and now we also have a number of the table scientists 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's been for white up till today the government of today is still fighting the takeoffs islanders rights to return home it's very shameful governments in britain. because britain is great itself around the world supporting the rights of self-determination of those of the four gods and what about the rights to try to solve this now i think what scientists about that

story is that many of the to go see and say here in the u.k. now all spirited women he simply want the right to return home and he put that in stark contrast with what's happening in the folk and violence right now on the one hand you had pointed fighting. spending huge amounts of money sending troops to defend this that if this is how actually this colony against argentina is claiming on the other hand you have been spending equal amounts of money to stop the take of scientists from returning to their homes for the contrast really is very stark a tale of two islands really and how different we see in the chaebol side is treated to the folks in the island is well international business consultant. things argentina could find itself out of its depth if the dispute is militarized. it's like asking the alter right wing israeli settlers on the west bank whether they want to continue being is really really want to become palestinian maybe they should open up immigration of twenty to thirty thousand argentinian so we're there

we can have another referendum and see what happens as far as argentine is concerned just as argentina made a serious serious mistake in one thousand nine hundred two to take on britain and the united states it is also making a rather a ridiculous of making a fool of itself with its claims now because argentina has no military prowess or credibility whatsoever so britain in a way are laughing their way as they. seek out against an exploit this while those sixty six or sixty some odd billion barrels are just a rough estimate but the small continental shelf which is very shallow or on the forbidden mildness seems to have really huge oil reserves and on top of that it is in an area which is not the hot spot for the united states and britain as the middle east is. now u.s. troops serving abroad might sing finally say home sweet home the future of washington's extensive overseas military presence is in down with experts believing recent reshuffles in the bahamas cabinet will see many soldiers heading home.

pakistan could soon become a victim of american sanctions aimed at iran's energy sector the u.s. is threatening penalties following the launch of a joint iranian pakistani gas pipeline it could be a fresh blow to already fragile relations between washington and islamabad which have been deteriorating over mass civilian casualties caused by u.s. drone strikes artie's take my whole eugene explains why the risk of sanctions isn't preventing pakistan from pushing ahead with the pipeline plans. by this time he's are facing a very big troubles and very short a big shortage and you know deep six are there have been a lot of meetings between the americans and by the spanish when this issue will be back stateside has already been managed by the americans to help them out on the no g. eight to solve the energy crisis that they're facing since a few years they have been only

a promise from the american side but they have said that we want to solve the problems even if we go with the iranians in spite of the sentence so there is a determination as baby these are the leadership in pakistan to call for this after all debate between the pakistanis and the u.s. which lead to where well after the president of the lobbying group pak nationalists for him says the u.s. won't proceed with its threats as long as it needs pakistan's assistance in the region. the united states does not have much options when it comes to stuff they need to pakistan for the withdrawal of american troops and other nato troops from afghanistan and the box then is the only way and as long as they need this route it is not expected that washington will really force the head with the with the imposition of sanctions and box but they would still it makes sense

for them to make these statements right now in order to maintain and sustain the pressure on the iranian government and of course for the for the overall purpose of meeting their policy guidelines with regards to iran. for the jackpot again russia's prime minister it's the new york stock exchange for a second time hoping to repeat it stella showing two years ago on that after the break. something extreme cold is the chilling threat to life for women of this it's a cooling if you look you can see that the water in the words in my body feels really warm now this is good for you. they plunge into icy water to make themselves stronger you can't get used to the cold if you can tolerate it and you

can struggle with. people of snow and ice picks as a frost. surviving the goal. i welcome back now the european parliament has voted in favor of a proposal to you and hans gender equality but rejected crucial sections banning

pornography critics were concerned the motion could be used to attack online privacy well i mean paid with sweden's pirate party christian angstrom is with us now from bird thanks for joining us firstly the european parliament has just rejected the parts of the proposal that sought to ban pornography what's your reaction to that. well i'm very happy the result was a little bit unclear the european parliament said no to turning the internet service providers into well police. and they. said no to setting up with or at least to regulate media etc it was a little bit unclear the european parliament still expresses support for an old resolution that wants to ban. it but wants to do other things as well so it's a little bit unclear but mostly a victory i would say so when you in your view i mean have we missed an opportunity

to clamp down on pornography would you believe or you just sort of touched on there that actually there is a way forward in and things will be in place so you. well i personally and the pirate party i mean we we don't see pornography as a problem it's a popular form of entertainment and it shouldn't be banned the opposition i mean other people may disagree but we think that it should be up to everybody for him or herself to decide if they want to. ban wouldn't work anyway so i'm mostly happy that. most of the bad parts disappeared from this resolution ok what are what are your major concerns at the moment the future of internet previous to these proposals part of the bigger picture for example. in general we see this trend the minutemen many different actors one to censor the

internet want to control the internet to i mean it could be the copyright industry of the big film or record companies it could be people who don't like. it could be other other other forces. what we're doing is trying to defend the freedom of the internet because we believe it's absolutely essential in the in a free and open society. to have the free internet without censorship and without a lot of surveillance. i can with the main part of today's vote was really to improve gender equality across the you think that has happened can you explain how that might happen as a result of this. well. this was a big resolution contained lots of different things many other thing things were very good i mean getting away from old fashioned gender stereotypes is a very good thing because. it's better to be in the modern world where everybody where it whether it's a man or a woman can decide for him or herself what to do and i argue leader life.

lots of the other the other things really in resolution were good i was concerned that in the original draft it's pacifically said that it truly included a ban on all forms of pornography media that would have been a bad idea i think. i just finally before you go there mr complain hundreds of e-mails sent to any page about this blog why do you think that happened. i'm trying to sort that out this morning i wrote wrote a letter to the president of the european parliament complaining and saying that i find it completely unacceptable if the parliament's. support apartment suddenly decide to block the communications from my voters i mean my job as an elected parliament tyrion is to be in contact with citizens and voters i find it

unacceptable the parliament blocks that so we'll see what happens with that but but i did get quite upset when it when i learned about this blocking ok well look thank you for that insight we will have to leave it there that is the emmy paisley sweden's part party christian stroebel. the fourth largest and one of the fastest growing search engines in the world is hitting the new york stock exchange again russia's yandex plans to reap more than half a billion dollars this time around selling seven percent of a. piece can offer pours from the web giant's headquarters in moscow. russia's leading search engine and the fourth most commonly use in the world and this is its second public offering and this time its chief technical officer into investment funds are selling their shares that's around seven and a half percent of the company are planning to earn up to six hundred million u.s. dollars on during its first public offering of the initial public offering dollars

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social networks. and she more activists have long been opposed to america's apparent desire to continually expand its international military presence but after chuck hagel often described as a pacifist was appointed as new defense secretary two weeks ago many hoped americans america's readiness to deploy the military could become a thing of the past. and 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 to include of course of ghana's that's sixty six thousand troops well 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 name chuck hagel and a surgery of st john kerry 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 in the soviet armed forces withdrew from eastern europe there were people in washington who set out to find new enemies 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 in for for so long it has worked out it hasn't worked out has it it's cost us trillions of dollars tens of thousands of was it's cultivated do it abuse it 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 require troops on the ground to operate them recently president obama announced the deployment of one hundred troops in the share so we have in this paper to drones doesn't mean no troops in washington i'm going to check out as many nations continue to struggle in the economic crisis sweeping the belt germany remains europe's biggest and most stable economy but smile the eccentric government investments are calling this reputation into

question reef an ocean and i takes a look at where the money is gatty. do you know where tax money goes tax the tea pay in this country not really precisely now really. well i know it's going in projects i would hope that they will invest money into schools and that 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 as 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 this 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 iran chancellor has been travelling from one hundred country to the next urging savings and sacrifice 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 bike courses including practise 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 though there is one but in this programme you must be a woman and an immigrant to qualify. germany has remained relatively unharmed by the crisis and the expression gad's may do with cattle may not 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 is neglect. germany. some international news in brief now with the one hundred and fifteen cardinals selected to choose the next pope have gathered to celebrate a final mass before voting begins were tied to the sistine chapel later on the changed day where they will vote. four times a day until there is a two thirds majority for a single candidate this comes two weeks after the former pope benedict the

sixteenth retired from the position of becoming the first head of the catholic church to give up the post in six hundred years. a strange neighbor sudan and south sudan have come to an agreement to resume oil production but they also include troop withdrawals from contested boarded areas border areas and the reacting of vital border crossings both nations are highly dependent on oil export revenues but were unable to agree on things which saw oil production shut down a year ago. but having your front door open up to a land filled white site isn't exactly an image of an ideal home is it however some have no choice but soon put up with garbage right next to where they live hundreds of palestinian bed wins in a village on israeli occupied lands say jewish authorities are trashing their rights and damaging their health paula slayer reports. 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 my belief that 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 paid 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 really 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 when 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 are well aware with the drinking water from these wells

and we found during our research the 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 one 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 homage doorstep potentially a ticking bomb for people who live on the fringes of society. or r t l jabal village in the west bank. you watching a enough to the bright you can meet the men and women being cool to the extreme in

our documentary surviving the cult. the month before the oscars and what annoys you with their predictions and the most after everyone complains about the results but it isn't being talked about much as the few hundred people who gathered to protest the glamour filled award show why protest the asker's 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 the men 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.