but the most go date as many as one hundred guantanamo inmates reportedly good night in anger strike after abuse by guards with some prisoners now so sick that reported to be coughing up blood we investigate. also add to this hour the bond between the falkland islands and the u.k. prove strong is the territories overwhelmingly vote to remain british while london comes with a five a big hypocritical in its overseas policies. may become the next target of u.s. economic sanctions for building a joint pipeline with a run in order to stave off an energy crisis washington says it won't tolerate the deal though despite its heralded alliance with islam about.

if you just joined us for a good evening it's kevin owen here at r.t. tonight our top story that as you just heard protesting against abuse most of them a bay prisoners or on hunger strike according to lawyers for some inmates there several prisoners is said to be so sick indeed that coughing up blood while others are being hospitalized and force fed through chews in this stomachs authorities are downplaying the strike however saying no incidents of abuse have been recorded but jip political analyst ryan dawson who's written extensively on the guantanamo says these are the first strikes of this type they really have very little other recourse other than i wonder strike is not the first hunger strike they had it before in two thousand and five when the u.s. is denying that this strike is as large as it is in downplaying the strike saying it's only a few inmates by they've had at least five are being force fed through tubes in their stomachs it could be far worse than that however the irrational way they're.

we're going to just force feed these people and deny the hunger strike for as long as possible as 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 secrecy and you have this level of secrecy you're 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 enemy 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 another scandal abuse rocking guantanamo or them or else who you think do you think this might be the final straw the caesium from this facility shut down as a voting stand at the moment on the web site this is what you're telling us the majority sixty one percent believe guantanamo is going to stay open none the less just but a fifty there still twenty percent believe it will only close with america runs out

of money to maintain it slightly fewer sixteen percent say guantanamo will only be shut down when another prison takes its place a mere three percent this out is going to todd from last believe it will be closed only when worldwide terror is defeated still play tonight to change that graph let us know what you think about all the big stories of the day that votes on our web site now on t. dot com. there's a voted overwhelmingly to remain a british territory with only three votes going against the idea of

a two day referendum the u.k. problem is to david cameron's call them argentina now to respect the landslide result but what is are is maintains britain stole the islands from it two centuries ago the continuing dispute there will see some critics questioning britain's overseas policies as r.t. sarah firth explains. protecting people's right to self determine their own future and britons made a huge amount of memories and fuss over this when it comes to the full connivance referendum so you got to read a lot about today it's going to be in all 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 take of iron snout the fact that you would have heard of it doesn't make it any less shocking take us idence possibly british indian i did see territory and though grouping of violence 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 folk in guidance around two thousand indigenous people there and the u.k. struck a deal with the us which two of them get a discount on arms and some of 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 with me have to move rishis where they've looked out their dave in object poverty ever since and now we will say 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's been for white up till today the government of today is still fighting the takeoff's islanders rights to return home it's very shameful on confidence in britain. because britain is great itself around the world and supporting the rights of self-determination of those the four gardens

and what about the rights to try to solve this now i think what side this 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 filter and guidance right now on the one hand you had pointed fighting. many huge amounts of money sending troops to defend. that everything has actually this colony against argentina is claiming on the other hand you have been sending equal amounts of money to stop to take a fight and it from returning to their home to the contrast really is a very dark apparently lied into and how. we've seen the take off island of crete it to the folk and islanders so furthur will international business consultant told me argentina could find itself out of his depth if the dispute is militarized it's like asking the old far right wing israeli settlers on the west bank whether they want to continue being is really really want to be composted me and maybe they should open up immigration of twenty to thirty thousand argentinian settle there

there we can have another referendum and see what happens as far as argentina's concern 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 the. babies are seek out against it and exploit this while those sixty six or sixty some odd billion barrels are just a rough estimate but the whole continental shelf which is very shallow or on the floor been mild venus seems to have really huge oil reserves and on top of that it is in an area which is not a hot spot for the united states and britain as the middle east is. u.s. troops serving abroad might finally see home sweet home the future of washington's extensive overseas military presence is in doubt with experts believing recent reshuffles in obama's cabinet will see many soldiers heading home or examining that

soon however in contrast in germany publicly being thrown out all sorts of weird wonderful projects that the taxpayers are asking if they're really getting value for money that sort of over the shortly to. the next pakistan could soon become a victim of american sanctions end of iran's energy sector of the u.s. is threatening penalties following the launch of a joy to reign in pakistani gas pipeline it could be a fresh blow than to already fragile relations between washington and islamabad we should be deteriorating over mass civilian casualties caused by u.s. drone strikes are to do it explains why the risk of sanctions isn't preventing pakistan from pushing ahead with the pipeline plans i understand are very. big troubles and very short a big shortage and you know. there have been a lot of meetings between the americans and the stands on this issue but steady side has really been managed by the americans to help them out on your feet to

solve the energy crisis that they're facing since you years have you know only a promise from the american side but they have said that we want to solve the problems even if we are with you running as an aspirant the sanctions so there is a determination by these either should be invited start to call for this after our own long debate between the pakistanis and the u.s. which lead to nowhere. president of the lobbying group nationalists for him told us the u.s. will proceed with its threats as long as it needs pakistan's assistance of the region. the united states does not have much options when it comes to pakistan they need to box down for the withdrawal of american troops and other nato troops from afghanistan and pakistan is the only way out 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 bucks but they would still it makes sense for them to make these the 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. so. the jackpot again russia's. new york stock exchange for second time. showing two years ago. after the break. the british. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy

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a russian innovation success story i'll talk about online matters online for you from us nothing to the clear most treasure trove of diamonds as well as two hundred fifty i phones other gadgets retrieved by russian customs this. is just doing a friend a favor by carrying his luggage. plus a simple facebook like can reveal more than you'd realized a recent u.s. study has shown a skilled psychologist can tell your personality political sexual and religious preferences and even your race just by looking at what you're giving a thumbs up to in social networks. and war activists have long been opposed to america's apparent desire to continue to expand its international military presence but after chuck hagel often described as a pacifist was appointed as he defense secretary two weeks ago many americans readiness

to deploy the military could become a thing of the past is going to change you can spring 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 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 name chuck hagel and a surgery of 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 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 tree 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 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 require troops on the ground to operate them recently president obama announced the deployment of one hundred troops in share so even this pivot to drones doesn't mean no troops in washington i'm going to check out. palestinian bedouins having to put up with garbage on my doorstep israeli authorities set of a landfill site next to a village an occupied land they're saying it's completely legal for the health and comfort of locals a rapidly going downhill we talk about that shortly tonight. as many you know struggle to continue an economic crisis sweeping the block germany remains europe's biggest and most stable economy still but some rather eccentric government investments are calling this reputation into question refreshing to take

a look at where the money's going. 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 expos 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 a 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 ira and 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 a project bicycles germans are known as a cycling nation twenty five thousand euros to fund bike 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 the injuries neglect. germany. a couple more of big stories of the day i wondered fifteen cardinals now event on klav in assisting where they're set to elect the new pope they'll vote for times a day until there's a two thirds majority for a single candidate earlier they attended a final mass at some peter's basilica it comes just two weeks of course of the former pope benedict the sixteenth retired from his position as head of the catholic church. the strange neighbors sudan and south sudan have come to an agreement to resume oil production the deal also includes troop withdrawals from

contested border areas and the reopening of vital border crossings both nations are highly dependent on oil export revenues but were unable to agree on fees which saw all production shut down a year ago. having a front door open to a landfill waste site isn't exactly the image of an ideal home however some have no choice but to put up with garbage right next to where they live hundreds of palestinian bedouins in a village on israeli occupied land say jewish authorities are trashing their rights and damaging their health to fall asleep it's got the story the remote hills of the west bank are fast becoming an eyesore by the hour where 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 ultimate 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 eat 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 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 sim you know 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 her 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 reaching the aquifers where we have the water of 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 but 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 stored step potentially a ticking bomb for people who live on the fringes of society. village in the west bank a twenty four moscow time now stay with us if you come off the break the kaiser report takes attention tonight to supermarket giant war will see again the city for . 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 awards show what protests they are askers 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 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 cal take 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 with that every president of the it is a very high return on investment. but i've been working in this area for thirty years and i've always had to pay the armed groups that they needed that i knew the managers of change their name and strategy but just to the same birders. 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 a dead. says. stop your bullshit and keep quiet or else you'll suffer the consequences. you know tell your bodyguards to watch themselves because the same goes for the. troops from. never heard of such a case is ours or so much money. for gold in colombia. free. pretty free. free. free free. free stews free. free books videos for your media project a free media. kaiser

this is the kaiser report not only are there men eating seeing calls but did you know that there's a season for it and we're in the man eating sinkhole season stacy. well max i wish you were in the man eating sinkhole season up here in new york so we could suck us away into the heat instead of all this snow and rain and cold but i want to look at the ripple effects of supply chains around the world in this globalization system falling apart and as represented by wal-mart but i also want to look at the sinkholes that are the the very fabric of the markets around us as capital is thrown into these sink holes of ever increasing cost of extracting oil and natural gas of providing clean water to these booming cities around the

world the first headline max is ripple effect of wal-mart sales could hit suppliers wal-mart's warning that store. are starting to experience a slowdown reeses questions on its impact on this vast network of suppliers the nation's largest retailer said the payroll tax hike and delayed income tax refunds had hair sales in the last two weeks of january february sales were also impacted yeah well that's absolutely correct the wal-mart model which has been to destroy the supplier by squeezing them and by essentially offering slave made goods to americans have brought their margins down to razor thin so wal-mart is a business model that's a say a mile wide but an inch deep and now that steve proffitt that they were able to extract by exploiting.