corey on a collision course of the u.n. says the crisis has gone too far as an old fired up an old nuclear site while america's military edges closer to the peninsula. riots break out in israeli prisons over the death of a palestinian inmate who was allegedly refuse lifesaving cancer treatment. environmental is a sound the alarm over america's outdated oil pipeline network and the industry's future projects and or town are recovered from the tons of food spilled onto its street. and all from standing up for free speech to running for office so we could exert a julian assange says his eyes on joining australia's parliament his campaign director tells r t what the whistleblower once got in washington.

thank you oh international news a commentary analysis and reports of this is r.t. the un says north korea is on a collision course with the world community with its a recurrence threats against washington and seoul pyongyang declared a state of war with the south and vowed to restart its main nuclear reactor in response to you and sanctions meanwhile soaring tensions led to you was said to position military hardware off the north northeast coast including a warship and a sea base rate a platform south korea says it will retaliate if it's attacked earlier i spoke to seal based correspondent joe's of cambridge says america's do politics in the region is what's behind pyongyang's fiery rhetoric. in terms of people in the capital in seoul there's not much reaction and much alarm as these threats and the rhetoric from north korea has been continuous throughout the years we've seen an

annual drills with south korea and the us that north korea has continuously condemned and denounced them but the u.s. and south korea continually do these drills so we can see that a lot of these rhetoric these harsh rhetoric that are coming out of north korea in pyongyang are in response to these these military exercises as we mentioned a warship has come on the korean coast and now north korea has said that it will restart its granite nuclear reactor so we see that a lot of what the threats that are coming out of kenya are in reaction to the actions of the u.s. and south korea does have x. i just want to quickly just ask you this pyongyang has made similar threats many times in the past and analysts tend to question the seriousness of these warnings why is that such a media hype for them this time around there is

a lot of media hype in terms of western media with what north korea is currently doing right now and we have to actually see this as something that the u.s. perhaps is maybe thinking about in terms of their rebalancing to east asia they are technically trying to get back into east asia to be able to counter china and its growing powers in terms of the economy and why not use north korea north korea is a threat in what it says is a threat and so they are using this opportunity to be able to rebalance his military as well as his presence here to be able to continuously monitor and gain more influence in the region. now for more insight into this developing story i'm joined here in the studio by a correspondent. he is one of the few foreign journalists is actually been able to report from north korea and i see there's been plenty of empty south korean rhetoric coming from pyongyang you know in your experience you've been there do you

think ordinary people in north korea share the same sentiments and hostility to this out there in the neighborhood when i was there six years ago but i don't think the situation has changed in any way there were absolutely no anti south korean sentiments coming from the ordinary people i don't have so much chance talk to the ordinary people it was forbidden for foreigners to talk to ordinary people but the officials i spoke with there were more inclined negatively towards the western countries the u.s. rather than the south the neighbors moreover when i was there the two countries were involved in a serious economic project the case of industrial park an industrial zone which was built in north korea just an hour drive from seoul and south koreans were working inside the north korean territory which was unprecedented it still operates by the way so i think this whole rhetoric right now has nothing to do with the reality on the ground the people do not hate each other as everyone wants us to believe and let's talk about these new leaders is just emerging right now both south and the north have young leaders who come from generation of old leaders what's your

take on on kim jong easy what everybody expected him to be will he be the man who brings change i think he is bringing change already we can see internet appearing in north korea something unprecedented mobile phones are not being confiscated at the passport control of foreigners like it used to be before he has brought google officials into the country dennis rodman the basketball player was there as well something unthinkable with his dad when he was a power but i think he will not bring the change in terms of going a full out war with a neighbor or anyone else he is more like a younger generation he likes can. he recently said he likes mac computers would you imagine somebody before north korea some of the leaders before saying we like to use american computers he seems to be very young and in touch with what's happening right exactly world he's in his mid thirty's i mean he has all the right to be interested in things happening we are interested in technologies and for us

right let's talk about this harsh rhetoric that has been going back and forth in the in the last couple of days and sometimes in the last couple of months how serious is this i mean do we is there a likelihood of war actually happening you know this thing i thought when i was there and six years ago that this is nothing to do between the people the internal conflicts more being coming from abroad i stand by this position at this moment i think this is this whole conflict between north and the south is more inspired from from anywhere else i don't think there will be a serious war there as long as china is there because china is actually the country who will do it which will decide whether there will be a war at the korean peninsula it's quite strange to see that the u.s. doesn't lead china to be the sole and the main negotiator between the two koreas because china would not want this war it would damage its infrastructure it's already deeply in touch with the south korean economic project so chinese not interested and as long as china says no there will be no war there that's my belief do you think that's what america is positioning itself militarily around the

peninsula so if that in case china does say well we're not going to let that happen they have their own stand back it's really hard to understand what what the u.s. is doing in the region to positioning their forces there are probably there waiting for something to happen because rather the asian mentality is quite unpredictable it could spark it in a minute you know we've seen it in history many times but i don't think this will be the case because north koreans and south koreans they're much closer even than let's say the english and the irish there used to be one country that used to be one empire centuries ago so they want the one go at war killing each other there is more unification yes and i think that will happen all right we have got one more not live to see it but it will happen so have to leave it right there let's run out of time but it's good to have you in the studio with us sharing your experience the . riots have broken out in several israeli prisons over the death of a palestinian inmate. was serving a life sentence and he had throat cancer and i've seen it officials say israel

refused to give him vital treatment but israel insists it did offer an early release but it was already too late. the story he started feeling ill last summer and he has asked the authorities for checkups but they basically have done those checkups but never told him exactly what was happening and even though the man was obviously massive he lost more than fifteen kilos in less than two months but 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 instance are heinous because. the prisoner did not receive timely medical help and he also called for an international investigation into the death of up to him via now of course this is something that left a lot of palestinians incredibly angry in fact 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 mass actions of protests there are throwing things around and varying on their cell doors because this is not the first time that something like this has happened just in february another probably seen in just thirty years old died of an apparent heart attack or was in jail since two thousand and two he was in prison on charges of conspiring with hamas terrorists if you sentenced to ninety nine years in prison now is really vicious even though you have sent in the people for the for the early release of up to him via due to his ailing health but unfortunately he died before that appeal could be processed by the israeli officials. they environmental damage from a massive all oil spill in and console town is becoming clearer cleanup efforts they continue a residential area were swamped with thousands of barrels of crude when a pipeline brous last friday dozens of homes had been evacuated more details now

from damage again. 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 but 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 three 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 he's down x.l. pipeline would carry eight hundred thousand barrels per day just to compare the 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 u.s. refineries in the south the project doesn't have the final green light from the administration just yet but the oil giant's 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 barrels of oil had leaked into the gulf that three years later the gulf is still not free in july two thousand and ten a pipeline brought church speed 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 suggests that exxon. 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 the world trying to 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 companies certainly have and at the end of the day it's the people of good will pick up the slack in washington i'm going to check. that accident has reignited the debate over the use of decades long pipelines to transport increasingly large amounts of crude oil across north america that's not a good look at the continent's oil transit infrastructure right more than the heart of america's oil routes we're building during the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's now this is according to the u.s. department of transportation some including the pegasus pipeline which caused the

trouble in a console way constructed even before that now billions of dollars worth of oil flows through these pipelines every in twenty eleven five all have been five largest industry giants x. and mobil royal dutch shell b.p. conoco phillips and chevron had a combined revenue of nearly two trillion dollars now congress says that that turnover is equal to more than ten percent of you with g.d.p. but despite the huge profits the government and corporations are cutting corners when it comes to repairing and renu ing infrastructure environmental consultant richard steiner says the console pipeline has long passed its use by date. there's no excuse whatsoever for oil pipelines to be anything over thirty years old or general design life is maybe twenty to thirty years there's been several spills about six or seven of this heavy deluded bitumen it's called dil bit which is the

tar sand 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 let against them that should have been by many of their estimations much much more than that so they had a history of short changing responses. so what should be done now in the wake of the i console pipeline rapture at archie dot com where all skin you what you think on all poll there let's just take a look at what you've said so far in terms of your forbes ride fifty six percent of you believe this mall the hobs us say the u.s. government has should or should be accountable for the incident while

a quarter believe that proposed the keystone x.l. pipeline project should be scrapped all together slide through fear well of you at seventeen percent there is things that the compensation should be given altitude affected and suffered from the spill but that the keystone project should remain untouched and only a small minority at two percent say that the keystone should be temporarily halted stopped completely have your vote at all teeth.

with a new set of spending cuts forcing ordinary brits to stretch their pound us wise they can one say go look at the u.k.'s penny pinching leadership rich list and a few minutes. of politicians are in any way in touch with the people the good. old. technology innovation all the developments around russia. the future.

the international at the very heart of moscow. welcome back you're watching r.t. we could weeks added to julian assange may be holed up in an embassy in london but that's not stopping him from running from election in his home country australia a sun she has appointed a high profile political campaigning to spearhead his bid for seat to him else

really in senate as on just spend the last nine months confined to the ecuadorian embassy in britain the way he's avoiding extradition to sweden for questioning over sex crime allegations if his absentee election bid is a successful only he would be sworn in as senator in july twenty fourth team a would have to return to canberra to do that his campaign is being led by greg barnes a former barrister and head of the australian republican movement he says as long as we can exe partying soon bring transparency to the government and insist that it has a realistic chance of victory. the ship may stand. in your strength which is effectively the house of review when you strike in parliament. system using that more effectively to keep government honest about what it's doing and so not simply rubber stamping government policies using the senate as a house review to ensure that all of our little documentation in relation to policies tiber when the parliament that we see when whitman so my appointment set

of government appointments mike that they scrutinize perfectly but also ensuring that we start to roll back some of the security measures that have been boarding in astronomy in a post nine eleven environment where you've seen major inversions by the security services into a spin a strike 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 is twenty five to twenty seven percent of australians say they would vote for julian assange cherie starting from a very high price which is going to come down a bit in the context of the campaign but it's a very good place to stop. enough is enough for the cypriot finance minister amazon as cyrus says handed in his notice up with securing the ten billion euro bailout

that will see savers in two major banks pay the bill the finger pointing is far from over though as the island tries to establish who is to blame for the country's economic meltdown reports claim millions of euros have been pulled out of the country in recent weeks suggesting some would tipped off by the approaching places over one hundred thirty people and for those under scrutiny for suspicious my mentions actually isn't among them of firm code by the president son in law. some of britain's multi-millionaire have done themselves no favors this week telling the unemployed and the low paid that seventy one pounds a week is generous and that it's easy to live on fifty three pounds a week others who aren't telling people how to live their lives have never even tried working outside of politics even brought in little doubt that the government's out of touch surface now reports. young polish and in politics britain's need political elite an assortment of

multi-millionaires 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 intriguing whether they're really up to the job and posh are not defensive about it i'm there to do a drug i do the job the best my billet but somebody the government's best is not good enough. no idea what it's like they're making all these attacks and they you know they've never been a person like one of my people living on fifty six lb weeks they've no idea what that's like a lady 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 he's on the political rich list according to recent estimate the man with his hands on the nation's purse strings chancellor george osborne is east to 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 strathclyde he's worth almost ten million pounds london's famous are already taylor's way out of the price range for most people but not for this government many of famous suited bases and not afraid to flaunt their wealth the prime minister david cameron is known to be partial to liver. jane see the price at which is likely to set you back more than the average monthly household income and with

george osborne having delivered another austerity tailored budget can this politically really understand what those cuts mean for ordinary. cut your clothes according to your cloth as the old saying goes perhaps members of government should take note from their tailors unemployment in britain. is down and ordinary british people still resent it we've frozen duty we've increased pension hugely. and then losing the aaa rating is a big deal you 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 resurgence of the tough that the top to some is an indicator of a much greater malays there is a problem with the political class in general and that's it is out of touch with the general population they don't really understand a lot of families are suffering now with right in basic costs and of course it's

very much a top down elitist policy that's driving these costs up with the growing public skepticism the government's being left looking for ways to try to connect and 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 should take a while i guess at some form but i can't actually tell you one hundred percent but that's would be my guess and i'm happy to try that with you. r.t. london. the hunger strike at guantanamo bay is gaining momentum with the u.s. military now admitting there thirty nine detainees are refusing all food lawyers and rights activists say over one hundred prisoners have now joined in the nearly two months of protest meanwhile in yemen where almost half of the prisoners are from the. u.s. embassy has been picked picketed by demonstrators demanding the detention camps closure raised going ton of the detainees were cleared for release years ago but

they remain in 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 indefinite detention but the u.s. military says it won't let anyone die and is force feeding eleven of the captives. the bodies of thirteen civilians mostly women and children have been discovered in syria's western province of homs syrian state media blames rebel forces saying the victims had been robbed but that's not been independently verified this comes after alleged chemical attack in aleppo it two weeks ago closing followed closely followed by a bombing in damascus that killed forty two people including a prominent cleric syrian reform campaign. says anyone who doesn't share the rebels' ideology is now a target you might find some of the images will show in the next few minutes upsetting. the conflict is really intensifying week after week as we can notice

that there is no doubt at the moment that this has turned very much into a war to bring down the syrian state space has started probably. you know from the arabs or muslims point of view to support their pressed brothers and sisters in syria and the theory was that once they go into a certain place they should be viewed as liberators from the operation of the regime or the government what turned out is that they were interviewed as liberators but as a no person force themselves so if there is a huge intimidation practice that's it's that is taking place at the cornerstone for the philosophy of the rebels at the moment is in extreme exam ikhwan and there is no formulas for such. you know ideologies and those who do not take the view of the these armed groups they are immediately punished so that everyone else obeys in a sense. on the way our t.

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the work of an international airport in the very heart of moscow. down in the black sea coast of russia the city of sochi is busy preparing for the twenty fourteen winter olympic games construction is booming transport infrastructure is being completely revamp its and disabled access points are being installed across town. but aside from being russia's second lympics city sochi is also one of the

country's most popular tourist destinations people flock here for the long hot summers the spacious beaches and the warm seas busk if you're looking for more than just a town it's also an area filled with some amazing natural highlights. so i've been spending a lot of so i'm in the city but up in the mountains there's the caucasus reserve which is literally the size of finland so i've met up with mine very experienced guide alexei. and when you are off on an adventure. it's fair to say that if you're driving up here then you're in for a bumpy ride so you might be lucky and find some tonic but mostly it's just dirt tracks and rocks fortunately alexei's one of lean.