tv [untitled] April 2, 2013 8:00am-8:30am EDT
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riots break out in the israeli prisons over the death of a palestinian inmate who was allegedly refused lifesaving cancer treatment. environmentalists us on the alarm over america's outlay to the oil pipeline network and the industry's future project the can for town recovers from tons of crude spilled onto the streets. and from standing up all for free speech to running for office we could exist in a song said his eyes on joining australia's parliament his campaign director tells our team what the whistles blowups got in mind.
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it's four pm here in moscow you live with us on r.t. for international news a commentary analysis and reports ryans have broken out in several israeli prisons are over the death of a palestinian in main. media was serving a life sentence i had throat cancer palestinian officials say israel refused to give them valuable treatment but israel in says it did osborne early release but it was already too late to go has the story. he started feeling ill last summer and he has asked the authorities for check ups but they basically have done those check ups but never told him exactly what was happening and even though the man was obviously lost more than fifteen kilos in less than two months they still kept him in the dark as well as his family until they've told him just in march of this year that he had terminal cancer and literally had to live so the minister for prison affairs of the palestinian authority has already said that israeli actions in this
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instance are heinous because. the prisoner did not receive timely medical help and he also called for an international investigation into the death of a home india now of course this is something that left a lot of palestinians incredibly angry in fact we are we can expect protests throughout several cities of palestinian authority but we do know at this point that in several israeli jails palestinian prisoners already staging. actions of protests there are throwing things around in varying on their cell doors because this is not the first time that something like this has happened just in february another problem in just thirty years old died of an apparent heart attack was in jail since two thousand and two he was imprisoned on charges of conspiring with hamas terrorists he was sentenced to ninety nine years in prison and i was really fishel say that they have sent an appeal for the for the early release of a due to his ailing health but unfortunately he died before that appeal could be
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processed by the israeli officials the cleanup efforts and continuing. that was all swarmed with thousands of barrels of crude oil when a pipeline burst last friday dozens of homes have been evacuated and the incident has sponsored environmental concerns more details now from dan she can. exxon mobil is naturally trying to downplay environmental concerns they're not saying exactly how much oil spilled onto the streets of that neighborhood in arkansas put the company says it has already collected more than twelve thousand barrels of oil mixed with water from the affected area not clear how much of it was water though twenty two homes were evacuated there as they're still cleaning up the pipeline that was carrying canadian heavy crude to the south of the u.s. this is the country's gulf coast refineries this latest spill response from critics of the proposed keystone x.l. pipeline the keystone x.l. pipeline would carry eight hundred thousand barrels per day just to compare the
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pipe that leaked in arkansas can carry around ninety thousand barrels a day so the consequences of a leak could be devastating the keystone pipeline would also carry canadian heavy crudes to us with finally seeing the self the project doesn't have the final green light from the administration just yet but the oil giants involved are pushing the administration very hard to go ahead with that saying it will bring down fuel costs in the u.s. trans canada is first keystone line in the deal was spilled the a dozen times just in its first year of operation the company of course says the new keystone x.l. will be so much better but people know from experience how devastating consequences of an oil spill can be and how hard it is to clean up this is certainly not the first incident of course everyone remembers the disaster in the gulf of mexico in twenty ten when after an explosion and he had been leaking oil on the ocean floor for several months before the well was capped an estimated four point nine million
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barrels of oil had leaked into the gulf that three years later the call is still not free in july two thousand and ten the pipeline brought the church school more than twenty thousand barrels of canadian tar sands crude oil into the michigan waterway so this happens all the time just last week the government suggested axe. mobil paid a fine of one point seven million dollars over pipeline safety violations and that was for an oil spill two years ago in the yellowstone river in montana exxon has a month to contest the violations many believe that world giants get away with violations like that all too often in the west and all it takes is a team of really good lawyers to do that which the company certainly have and at the end of the day it's the people of turkey who pick up the slack in washington i'm going to check. the accident has reignited the debate over the use of decades old pipelines to transport increasingly large amounts of crude oil across north
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america let's not take a look at the continent's oil transit infrastructure now more than a houseful of america's oil rigs would build through the one thousand fifty's and sixty's this is according to the u.s. department of transportation some including the pegasus pipeline which called a lot of trouble in the constructed even before that this was during world war two billions of dollars worth of oil flows through these pipelines. now in twenty eleven flyable all of the industries giants x. long mobil royal dutch shell b.p. can all conoco phillips and chevron had a combined revenue of nearly two trillion dollars congress says with turnover is equal to more than ten percent of the u.s. g.d.p. but at this point of the huge profits the government and corporations are cutting concerns when it comes to repairing and renewing infrastructure environmental consultant richard steiner's says the actions of pipeline has long past its use by
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date. there's no excuse whatsoever for oil pipelines to be anything over thirty years old their general design life is maybe twenty to thirty years there's been several skills about six or seven of this heavy diluted bit timid it's called dil bit which is the tar sand the oil which is so thick it can't be transported through a pipeline unless it's cut with condensate and benzene exxon has shown time and time again that they are not willing to accept responsibility legitimate financial responsibility for their actions however negligent they are they got out of the alaska spill with you know about a billion dollars paid to private thirty thousand private litigants that should have been by many of their estimations much much more than that so they have a history of short changing responses at some level in says that no problems way detected to join the last inspection of the almost sixty five year old pipeline the
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company with find in two thousand and ten for not inspecting another portion of the same route frequently enough they will transpose desa lend to predict the more accidents say washington could care less about the nation's aging infrastructure. one after another there's atrocity after atrocity whether it's all i will big oil or banks too big to fail the word justice in america is being misspelled it's j u.s.t. a us just us not them look what happened with the gulf of mexico it's been destroyed to how many probably you know how many hundreds of years the stuff as it's us evaporate look at the united states infrastructure according to the american society of civil engineers it's going to take an estimated three trillion dollars just to bring the american infrastructure system up to par that's not improving it that's just keeping it from breaking down further the united states
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has more important things to do than worry about the infrastructure worry about spilled oil it has wars to fight overseas so we're going to see more and more of this because you have to understand who regulates this it's not being regulated these are very low level regulatory agencies that control or oil and of course there is that revolving door all things are connected and the connection is corporations are running the show. so what should be done now in the wake of the console pipeline rapture at archie dot com we're getting you to tell us what you think and i want what you've said so far in terms of your views. but to six percent of you say that you hold the u.s. government should be held accountable for the incident of course i believe that it's a key proposed keystone x.l. pipeline project and it should be scrapped altogether likely if you would think
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compensation should be offered to those who have suffered from the spill and only two percent of you think that the project should be halted repaired the pipeline before anything goes on ride do you should go to calm to cost your way because we do want to know what you think. we can make cell phone julia messenger may be holed up in the london embassy but that's not stopping him from running for election in his home country australia alliance has appointed a high profile political campaign ad to be
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a head is beautiful a seat in the australian senate a son who has spent the last nine months confined to the ecuadorian embassy in britain the way he's avoiding extradition to sweden for questioning of a sex crime allegations if it is that sente lection bit is successful he would be sworn in as a senator in july twenty four team but it would have to return to canberra to do that his campaign is being led by greg bond's a form a barrister and the head of the australian republican movement he says as long as we can exert party aims to bring to inspire inseam to the government and insists that it has a realistic chance of being voted in. they certainly stand for any strike in syria which is effectively the house of review in the australian parliamentary system using that more effectively to keep government honest about what it's doing and so not simply rubber stamping government policy using the senate as a house review to ensure that all of audible documentation in relation to policies
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tie between the parliament not that we see when point when so my jockey appointments are government appointments mike but they scrutinize perfectly but also ensuring that we start to roll back some of the security measures that have been boarding minister idea in a post nine eleven environment where you've seen major inversions by the security services the newest industry into the lives of ordinary australians there are six senators who were elected out of the curia one of the strikes destroyed he's got to get fourteen point two nine percent of the vote in order to get elected now with a preferential system which is of the party's preference in julian assange. if he gets six to seven percent of the rules but he says going to get elected at the moment he's polling around about twenty five to twenty seven percent that he's twenty five to twenty seven. a strange shade i would vote for julia surgery starting from a very high price which is going to come down a bit in context of the campaign but it's a very good place to start. over half
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a million britons worse off families about to have their belts a time to even more a new un president a set of conflicts coming into force including the much maligned bedroom tax which will see social housing tenants have their benefits slashed if they have a spare room let's take a closer look now it's just one room for each adult or couple now it doesn't matter if you have to sleep separately due to illness children under ten that should a bedroom whatever the gender age all sixteen years are expected to share if they of the same gender adults with disabilities and people with foster children have to plead the case to justify the different rooms gibson from sheffield council says the government is hitting those who are already struggling to get by. two million households across the u.k. are going to be directly affected by these taxes they're the poorest people in this country and this government this tory government is attacking the poorest people on
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the people who can't afford to pay and they're not people are not working they're up to most of these people affected are people who are working but in very low paid jobs and they need these benefits to help them survive and get by where i am in sheffield we have hundreds of disabled people who are going to be directly affected by this sees people can't work they're physically disabled through no fault of their own they survive on benefits of very low benefits another are expected to have to pay for an extra room in their house that they need for their carers to stay in or they need to because they've got children that don't live with them or for whatever reason they're the people most affected seventy five percent of the people affected by this are working people i think is the most devastating thing this government has ever done anything the week that they're giving me one hundred thousand pounds back to millionaires changing the national health service or imposing taxes on the poorest people in the country is going to have a devastating effect to most people in this country and while ordinary braved the
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internationally i'm in the very heart of moscow. thanks for staying with us you're watching our team some of britain's multi-millionaire m.p.'s have done themselves no favors this week telling the unemployed and the low paid that seventy one pounds a week is quote generous and quote and that it's easy to live on fifty three pounds a week others who are telling people how to live their lives have never even
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a tried working outside politics and even brits and little doubt that their government's out of touch for it now reports. young polish and in politics meet britain's me political elite an assortment of multi-millionaires he studied at exclusive universities a recent study by the house of commons library revealed that one in seven m.p.'s had never held a job outside of politics and that's left many wondering whether they're really up to the job. i'm not defensive about it i'm there to do a drop i do the job the best my booty but somebody the government's best is not good enough. like they're making all these attacks and they you know they've never been a person like one in five people living on fifty six pound weeks they've no idea what that's like also no idea what it's like to be
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a hard working person really want to do your job well you've been given target having a pay cut you're always attacked you know under-staffed all the time they have no idea what it's like to like that well laden might have been accused of scoring political points by waiting class warfare they don't escape criticism either ed miliband and his wealthy counterparts the champagne socialists but this is not just the tories and lib dems and some of this labor as well like they're also rich so let's take a look at who's on the political rich list according to recent estimate the man with his hands on the nation's purse strings chancellor george osborne has easter his pockets weighing him down with an estimated four point five million pounds to his name to impart to shares in a prosperous family business david cameron's not far off with assets estimated at three point eight million pounds but even the prime minister and chancellor fall short of the one time leader of the house of lords thomas galbraith aka lord
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strathclyde he's worth almost ten million pounds london. very taylor's way out of the price range for most people but not for this government many of. them not afraid to flaunt their wealth the prime minister david cameron is known to be partial to richard james see the price of which is likely to set you back more than the average monthly household income and we're having to live with another austerity tailored budget come this politically really understand what those cuts mean for ordinary. you close according to your clothes as the old saying goes perhaps members of government should take note from their tailors unemployment in britain. is down and ordinary british people feel. he usually.
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can always come up with things that. have gone wrong with the bad economic situation that we inherited it was almost inevitable that we're going to lose our aaa rating well the push jobs might come easily the resurgence of the top the top to some is an indicator of the much greater malays there is a problem with the political class in general and it is out of touch with the general population they don't really understand how a lot of families are suffering now with rising basic costs and of course it's very much a top down elitist policy driving these costs we are all in this together has been the prime minister's rallying cry with the growing public skepticism the government's been left looking for ways to try to connect whether it's george osborne joining twitter or david cameron starring in a pop music video just what will the government do next to try to convince that they can get down with the best of what. doc but i can't actually tell you one hundred percent but that's for. you to try and i'm
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with you. the hunger strike a guantanamo bay is gaining momentum with the u.s. military now admitting that thirty nine detainees are refusing all food lawyers and rights activists say over one hundred prisoners have now joined the nearly two month protest meanwhile in yemen where almost half of the prisoners are from the u.s. embassy has been picketed by demonstrators demanding the detention camps closure most went on a military means were cleared for release years ago but the remainder they remain in their legal limbo with no indication of when they could be freed lawyers say the hunger strikers are ready to go all the way having decided that death is preferable to indefinite detention but the u.s. military says it won't let anyone die and is force feeding eleven of the captives. in other news making headlines around the world the head of the taliban well our
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mohammed omar could run for the presidency of afghanistan next year that's according to the country's current leader hamid karzai over the weekend karzai approve the opening of a taliban office in qatar on the condition that the group renounce terrorism this comes as afghanistan prepares for the pullout of nato forces next year. maybe a concerted push in the u.s. for more gun control to december's deadly school shooting but a tone in the state of georgia is going against the tide and noodle says the head of every household in nelson is now required to own a gun and the bullets local officials insist is to deter criminals while in texas and leaders are holding back from commenting on an organization that is handing out shotguns and training people to use them. the gun control debate is focus on what type of arms americans are allowed to obtain and bear and thanks to a groundbreaking technology entire gun pods can be manufactured with
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a license one to use students working to make sure everyone can make a gun at home as marina port my experience. from the state of the union in youngstown a while we're no workers are mastering the three d. printing but has the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything to a store in soho new york three d. printing technology has officially gone mainstream the demand is much greater than our supply right now and we're actually ramping up and expanding rapidly to meet that demand this three d. printing company maker bot opened its first retail store last year it is selling its newly released replicator to desktop for just under twenty two hundred dollars using a plastic material the machine deposits ultra thin layers to form any object that can be molded in software welcome to the world of independent manufacturing so this stretch bracelet took about sixteen minutes to make but other objects that are
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a bit bigger like this cupcake gift box took about fifteen hours of printing now while the time a very anyone with a three d. desktop printer can essentially make anything that they want at our website thing occurs that is a repository for three d. printed items we have more than forty thousand items i'm going over that are free and downloadable and one of our terms of service is that you cannot upload anything that is to the weapon. this is where twenty five year old cody wilson enters the picture a group of friends and i started a project called difference distributed. we want to use a three d. printer to print a gun to release the files open source the texas law student has already printed a thirty round magazine and lower receiver that houses the bolt for an a r fifteen and he's reportedly working on completing a rifle with a three d. printer his blueprints for guns and gun parts are distributed for free on his
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website but i'm doing is showing people ok this is something that can be done right now. right now the self described. market after kissed has thrown a major red shift into america's gun control debate as a national conversation go on it was a debate that started in december after twenty children and six adults were shot dead at a connecticut elementary school overwhelming majorities of americans. americans who believe in the second amendment have come together around common sense reform. background checks that will make it harder for criminals to get their hands on a gun meanwhile just last month wilson became a federally licensed gun manufacturer and dealer there bypassing the debate there rendering the debate irrelevant whatever laws can make about of this discussion the sort of ability to manufacture objectivity of firearms on a localized centralized basis means of the law really won't matter the law may say
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that something is illegal but if you can turn to a device that's on your desktop and manufacture that at will with nobody knowing that you've done so then the law doesn't matter at all with a reported three hundred million guns in circulation the u.s. has the highest rate of gun ownership in the world and the second highest rate of deaths by firearms among industrialized nations. and just as lawmakers are finalizing new legislation that would tighten the nation's all too easy access to firearms. experts claim that technology will ultimately outpace their meager efforts at gun control. r.t. new york. i banks and stacey is going gunning for the financial world shady dados and the kaiser report in a couple of minutes here on r.t.e. .
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because in case you haven't noticed the system around us has collapsed the banks have got the runs currencies fricken crazy the equity markets are high as a kite. that out couch for doing it outside while capital markets. killed over policymakers are so stuck on stupid they need to be objective. they need to walk the plank not to not too quick as far as i'm concerned by barbel phones and bank stirs now about which is it reset or let's talk to the smartest woman in london today stacy herbert and max everybody is denying that they are like cyprus malta's denying they're like cyprus luxembourg denying they're like cyprus italy spain portugal is fred says everybody saying we're not like cyprus.
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