the prisoner's hunger strike could go on tunnel day and has its sad month a look at how the mass protest has put the infamous come back in the headlines and lead to question of america's alleged commitment to detainees rights. also the sour retreat vs reality despite north korea ramping up its war talk and washington building up its military in the pacific actually it's a while could benefit from mutual threats military confrontation is unlikely. and while the british prime minister is using the korean crisis to push to be renewal of a costly nuclear deterrent despite evidence that the u.k. is well out of pyongyang to reach. that turn a tragic old console demands documents from the oil giant responsible for the ruptured pipeline spill while the u.s. federal source has district access and implement

a no fly zone over the disaster area. this is r.c. coming to you live from moscow hello and welcome to the program the prisoner's hunger strike a gone time obey has been continuing for two months now despite no sign of the conclusion the inmates protest has managed to bring the gun timer issue back into the spotlight and after interest in the camp appeared to fall by the wayside mainstream journalists are once again asking the us authorities uncomfortable questions about the prison they see your show skin looks now at the latest verbal exchange at the u.s. state department present. when victoria nuland was asked the question about a russian citizen of one thousand or more. of the man who spent eleven years in the

prison for his alleged links to al qaeda and russia haven't been concerned with the situation right now in the prison with the hunger strike has asked a delegation to visit this detainee when a journalist asked if they're new and about how things were with a friend the state of situation there was a very interesting exchange between the state department spokesperson and the journalist let's have a listen mr mingles of has refused through his own legal counsel to meet with any russian delegation we've conveyed that to the russians so we're not able to facilitate the interview that they requested because we have a longstanding policy of not forcing such interviews if they're not voluntary so ok so off the battlefield i'm incarcerated to make one trial but we're certainly going to respect his right not to see the russian. not to see the russian delegation we

have when work is interesting which wrote to you we have been we have been working hard as you know to. meet international humanitarian law standards at guantanamo victoria nuland went on to say that the invitation for the russian delegation to visit guantanamo still stands but the russian foreign minister says he knows nothing about this invitation rational decision that. it's been ten years since we started trying to get access to the russian citizen to be honest i see no such invitation as i've been traveling but if it's true we would certainly like to make sure the russian citizen is held in acceptable conditions and how exactly does the u.s. commitment to prisoners' rights correlate with the kind of strike that is actually entering its third month while victory. and you and says that rights of the inmates are being respected in every way but let's have a look at the daunting reality of how things are inside guantanamo now the majority

of the one hundred sixty six detainees at guantanamo have been held without any charges for nearly eleven years more than half of those eighty nine have actually been cleared for release but the authorities failed to either send them home or close the facility altogether has led to the current act of ultimate desperation with one hundred thirty inmates now on the hunger strike according to lawyers at least three people have already been hospitalized and almost a dozen are being forced fed through a tube but the authorities who worry about inmates right to accept or reject a meeting with the country's delegation seem to be taking no action at all to bring this protest that could turn fatal to an end instead camp officials have been already pressuring detainees to end their hunger strike by methods criticized by human rights watch dogs worldwide hunger strikers have complained of being denied drinking water and being forced to drink from the tap lawyers say that they further exacerbated their conditions and lead to health problems with their kidneys their nervous systems and stomachs in addition the prisoners claim to temperatures in

their cells were being kept extremely cold so you can see for yourself whether these facts actually correspond with what the state department spokesperson said at the press conference about respecting inmates rights. reports say there are more yemeni prisoners inside the jail than from any other country and he has spoken exclusively to the president of yemen who says it's hypocritical for the u.s. to keep the facility open while still promoting the idea of democracy so the full interview later today but here's a quick preview. we believe that keeping someone in detention for over ten years without due process is a clear cut tyranny and he will be difficult to rehabilitate someone who's been through such an excruciating experience ten years of imprisonment without due process the united states is fond of talking democracy and human rights when we were discussing the prisoner issue with the american justice secretary he had nothing to say.

during our now britain's prime minister has responded to the unveiling crises around north korea's nuclear war a trick citing the potential threat could pose to europe david cameron is calling for a renewal of the submarine base nuclear deterrent system but it will come at a cost as are his staff after a pause. well the prime minister was in scotland today on board the hague victorious which is one of the four vanguard submarines that make up the tried and twenty four hour around the clock nuclear deterrent that always sees one submarine out now he made the case in a newspaper for renewing britain's nuclear deterrent saying it was underlined by what's happening in north korea at the moment and the escalating tensions and he said it would be foolish for anyone to think of scrapping that meet a deterrent right now at a time of such global uncertainty now tried and quite an old system is being for

vanguard submarines being phased out by twenty twenty and the conservative government the prime minister arguing for like for like replacement where these submarines in the trident system will be replaced out of the city is going to be made in just a couple of years' time and it's thought it's going to cost the british taxpayer tens of billions of pounds going up to hundreds of billions over the lifetime of that new project the liberal democrats have argued that they want to see a cheaper alternative there's a review ongoing at the moment so quite surprising that he came out with these very strong comments today many would fill perhaps a step too far he said he questioned in the article how anyone could now at this time talk of surrendering the nuclear deterrent huge amounts of money that we're talking about him for something that many people say could never be used is certainly something to ponder as

a british taxpayer could well in the not too distant future be being asked to stump up the vast amounts of cash. so despite david cameron's concerns that north korea's missile technology could reach the u.k. axler say there's no chance of that happening and let's now take a look at how far the communist states most sophisticated missile systems can reach and you see the range covers japan and south korea of course but not bryson in a while a new system in development will also be wide of the mark when it comes to the u.k. so the distance between london and pyongyang is nearly nine thousand kilometers and the missiles potential range is less than seven thousand so contributor afshin rattansi says that even david cameron's supporters of the credibility of his recent statements. even a newspaper here that supports the ruling conservative party questioned what cameron was saying whether there was some extra intelligence here the noise all seems to know about or whether he had just misspoke and in any case the tritone

missile system because of. its agreement means it's not under the control of the british government the united states controls this system eighty five percent of people in scotland don't want anywhere near that area what we have here is david cameron maybe even going. to be saying that we need trident desperately to protect ourselves from north korea at the same time he visits a city where at one point there was a debate about where the areas of the city of gas go had the same a similar life expectancy to that of people in afghanistan one in four more than one in four of children in this country living in poverty and yet this hundred fifty billion dollars is required to fend off threats from iran and north korea. while the hype around north korea's nuclear threats was fueled further by reports that pyongyang has moved a mid range missile to its east coast closer to the u.s. and u.n. secretary general ban ki moon believes the north has gone too far and has to change

course while washington says it's taking all necessary precautions but as fears of an impending war seem to grow so does the chorus of those saying is the last thing both countries want and is a co-director of foreign policy in focus. north korea basically is trying to get the united states back to the negotiating table and its missile range is frankly not reliable nor long enough to make it to u.s. positions and if these were to rational actors i would say they would have already made that decision to back down and unfortunately in a situation like this it's really not rationality which governs the actions of players there were sponsoring to sometimes unconscious cues sometimes to non-rational factors but you know north korea is not a suicidal regime and of course the united states is not particularly interested in any kind of conflict at this point especially with cuts going through and military

sector well north korea unfortunately has been alienated from its allies for some time china has never been enthusiastic about north korea's nuclear program nor is it been enthusiastic about north korea's decision not to follow chinese economic reform so the alienation is set in. the real question is at what point does china say hey it's not worth it any longer and we're going to pull the plug the plug in this case is considerable back anomic assistance to north korea up until now china has made a calculation that it's much better to have an unreliable ally as opposed to chaos collapse which is unpredictable and could have dramatically bad impact on chinese economic development and danny shocks a independent filmmaker and media critic believes fears of the north korea stem from stereotypes and a lack of understanding. what they're actually saying and what we're reading may be

very very different p.b.s. newshour recently interviewed a member of the cia who specializes in north korea releasing actually developments there a positive from an american point of view the korean military is less involved less engaged with the new government and there's a promise and a possibility of a breakthrough there i don't think we'll see a world we will see more of a war of words and that's pretty intense we saw a best football war with dennis rodman you know meeting the head of north korea and the harlem globetrotters playing the north korean basketball team and only tying them which is amazing because they're that's a team that could beat most american professional basketball teams and this other stuff happening in north korea that we don't know but perhaps we don't want to know because they're more convenient as a faceless brutal enemy than as a possible partner in the region and in today's breaking besets abby martin among

other things off have asked will be u.s. gains from keeping north korean limbo between a peaceful solution and full long war. the rhetoric from high level north korean officials is not letting up and as a result the u.s. announced that in a precautionary move they'll be speeding up the deployment of advanced missile system defense to the region in the next few weeks this following a series of u.s. training exercises in south korea as a show of military straight including sending b. two stealth bombers each of which cost taxpayers more than three billion dollars but wait before you run for your bunkers supported understand the legitimacy of these threats and the context of why they're happening in the first place you know i just read today that north korea is actually proposed continued efforts for a peace treaty in the past kind of flies in the face of everything that we're told that north korea is this hostile nation if this is true why isn't this proposed peace treaty come to fruition well because the united states is interested in peace i mean as we know many people in america do not know one of the key negotiating

points for the north koreans has always been the side of peace treaty only an armistice has been signed the united states refuses to sign a peace treaty because they feel they have no interest in a peaceful resolution of north korea the north korean issue because their north korea would be free to not spend all their money on the military not have to be consistently concerned with being invaded by the united states and so by keeping up the pressure on north korea militarily and by sanctions it sort of forces them into a fortress like mentality which makes it look like the least desirable place in the world to live and that's very valuable to us propaganda in terms of saying to other countries you should do what we. want. to do their job or she or anything like. it's almost fifteen minutes past the hour still to come on the program. of the chinese economic powerhouse grows ever larger

a look at what i think sperm trans africa will need for the continent beyond. wilding that means the raging debt crisis a small minority have making quite a fortune but will doesn't mean for those details on this for a few. goods a meteorite. trade. coach told through space towards russia you. with the pro. of a nuclear. should be open sky full autopsy.

the international at the very heart of moscow. welcome back this is r.c. was no end to europe's economic woes in science the majority of the population crisis had countries find themselves in dire straits but for some it's smooth sailing the number of super rich is on the up despite the economic turmoil that has

put millions out of work and casey people be able to explain the growing gap between rich and poor during these times of economic uncertainty is comforting to know that the filthy rich are getting even a filthy or richer i should say the pace so i'm not disrespecting these privileged folks but i'm talking about the euro zone's poorest economies portugal italy ireland greece and spain otherwise known as the paix according to forbes magazine there are now seventeen more billionaires than they were back in twenty eleven with an increase in net worth of more than ninety billion dollars but the reality is the poor are not improving their situation at all three of these countries have the highest unemployment rates in europe with rates even was then the year a guy. with unemployment rates increasing and nineteen member states and four laying in just eight so while the poor struggle to make ends meet the rich remain

whole in a world where corrupt bank is get belle's owls and big corporations move a label operations to third world countries to take advantage of cheap labor which means the task of getting a job even tougher oh well the debt crisis have hit millions of europeans hard but as we report online some have even managed to profit from their financial. one enterprise driven art has just literally making money from failing at creating so-called blue bags and selling them on curious as to what they are and how they work i had thought it out called. also online the ill fated to figure shim a nuclear plant is experiencing and another failure could exist in four spent atomic fuel has stopped while kate got the latest on line. stunning photos of russia's actually volcano boiling lava and forks of lightning it's all

that had to alter a constant no i caching. and the uars the consort turn to drano is demanding exxon mobil provide documents about the oil spill which led to an environmental disaster in the city of mayflower and earlier a no fly zone was imposed by the federal aviation administration in a move some believe how the musea way out is more important i are sitting israel's . the federal aviation administration they say that the indefinite no fly zone which they're calling a temporary flight restrictions was put in place as

a hazard warning officials say this is so emergency support are able to respond to the disaster immediately now the f.a.a. zz on line posting noted that only relief aircraft operations on operated under the direction of mr tom sawyer all are permitted in the area now according to his linked in profile mr serrano lists himself as an aviation adviser for exxon mobil he is not an emergency expert or a safety officials this of course has caused many critics to speculate that the real reason behind this indefinite no fly zone is to minimize news coverage that can further damage the reputation of exxon mobil r.t. recently spoke with him a fellow mayflower resident chris harrell now mr howard told us that he has not received any indication of any kind of compensation or settling settlement offers from exxon mobil mr harrell said that on sunday when he went home briefly for easter here in the states he received a letter on his front door from exxon mobil that apologized quote apologized for

the inconvenience mr howell said that those have that have been evacuated are being provided the hotel rooms paid for by exxon mobil but at a community peak a meeting that took place over the weekend with some exxon officials mr howell says that very few answers were given and all those in attendance were very frustrated very angry exxon mobil has not indicated how long cleanup will take mr harrell told r.t. that the major concern for many people in the neighborhood is the longer term ing impact from the spill both environmentally and financially what will this circumstance do to property values in that area of course this oil spill to police in arkansas is not as big as the one that took place in the gulf of mexico a few years back but the concern for many people especially residents the that. are directly affected by this oil spill is that it's not going to receive the coverage that it needs to receive to find those responsible for the spoil spill accountable

this is still a very disastrous spoil spill that's going to harm the community harm the environment and if the media does not and is not given access to cover this oil spill to cover the extent and the damage and the circumstances of it then there may be less accountability that is the major concern and at the end of the day those that are affected by this and i think citizens all throughout the united states want to know why it took place what could have prevented it and if someone's responsible for this they should be held accountable. on to some other international news and briefing now in india think you know that people have been killed and scores injured after him begin to construct a building collapse the first four floors more occupied with residents and businesses at the time of the accident with the rest of the building under construction the exact cause for the collapses and rescuers continue to search for more casualties in the debris. in mexico it sounds of teachers

have taken to the streets across the country angry at education reforms they claim the trend is a limited union power to hide teachers causing fears over job security in mexico city and in the state of growth demonstrators reach for the cameras and block traffic to separate those broke that. would spanish trying shares plummeting and people savings big wiped out one man has created a novel twist to the idea of keeping your money under the pillow parco santos has developed a new safe inside a mattress which keeps your hard earned money away from dubious finds so the first batch sold out in less than twenty four hours and although it may not open a line of credit or dollars cash on overdraft it's punny it's can rest assured they won't lose any sleep over the fate of their. less. alright china's economy has recently become the second largest in the world with the

country now aiming to maintain rapid growth and its africa's vast natural resources that beijing hopes will satisfy these needs asian trials growing investment has been met strictly with african nations apparently eager to welcome non western backing and as you can off report chinese success in the region is due to its special approach to doing business. for centuries it was the continent that everyone in the west felt they were in title to the slice of today most of africa's vast natural resources still go to europe and america but for the last few decades a new ambitious players also managed to secure itself a place under that hot sun where china greats very much everywhere china and those asking questions china doesn't get involved in local politics china doesn't get involved in local leadership on like the united states on the western allies oil gas diamonds gold to uranium copper iron ore and more you name it africa's got

it but china isn't only looking for resources it's investing in new infrastructure projects and not only gas plants roads schools hospitals and more all under it's win win policy for loans allow african politicians to use the new infrastructure projects to promote their image among the locals while the locals are more than happy with the opportunity to make some extra cash of course chinese companies are often criticized for being overly demanding compared to the rest of the world but the figures speak for themselves with thirty two bilateral investment agreements and some fifty billion dollars worth of direct investment china is ready to work almost with any government in any state unlike its rivals and certainly in terms of trade china has passed the united states it is africa's largest trading partner today but there's more china is also taking part in the creation of special economic zones in africa for example in more issues beijing wants to create

a trading hub which would give it more access to the indian ocean and southeast asian markets taking competitors by surprise with the west and former colonial powers that had such a monopoly over trade with africa for so long that i think there is simply been a complacency see. some to be. because they haven't be in any other major how is coming in south africa and so now that china's come along and shouldn and interest and also a new strategy of investing in africa. the west i think is suddenly very a lot of beijing and washington already have a complicated relationship with economic rules cyber attack accusations and the u.s. is increasing military presence in the pacific region and with the hunger for energy only set to increase in the future africa me very well become the next stage for confrontation you go to school of south africa. and coming up in

a few moments breaking effect without acknowledging. what if one third of the population of a capital city of a small arab country took to the streets in protest while the mainstream media would scream the people of nation x. are crying out for democracy we have to intervene and take their oil i mean help them but the earth shaking a large protest is in arab countries it's in paris france and for traditional marriage yes protesters in paris claim that they had eight hundred thousand people on the streets of france's capital and even though the police said that half those numbers for a city of worse than two point five million people this was

a huge protest for a card list the european union loves to educate the world about democracy and show the liberal values around and yet that doesn't really seem to listen to the citizens very much who want to stop the madness of waves of illegal immigrants bailing out members on the dimes of other nations and for focusing the union's national attention on. social issues like gay marriage instead of creating jobs to the e.u. officials out there who claim to believe in democracy maybe it's about time you actually try you know listening to a few who disagree with you before you keep promoting policies against possibly the will of the majority but that's just my opinion.

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