pushing its way into financial mainstream boasting freedom from government control and safety from trimming but is it really risk free. north korea is expected to launch a ballistic missile test any moment with the u.n. warning that one wrong step could send the crisis spiraling out of control even though the world body is failing to resolve the deadlock. and sixty five days without food behind bars the guantanamo hunger strike desperately push on with their protests as activists across the u.s. prepare to rally in support. i welcome thanks for joining us you're watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow. now imagine having money that's free from government control safe from hackers and the centralized well there is such

a thing and it's called calling and despite being a target for hackers and criticized as an online bubble the cyber currencies value has increased ten fold this year when you move an entrepreneur who tracks big calling markets explains how it works. a bit quiet and is a prime number series of prime numbers basically just like you can break a piece and it's hard to put it back together there are certain things you can do with numbers that are easy to do but hard to undo and watching know the secret and those and the secrets and bobs special numbers and so i can watch something away send it to you and nobody else can unlock it except you and that's the basis of secret messages it's also the basis of things that you cannot counterfeit just like you find gold in a sea of rock and dirt you find these special numbers in a sea of very very big numbers and it takes a supercomputer like i have to mind and to look for them or you can get

a group of smaller computers working together and with those special numbers you can create a chain of events in a transactions that will be secure there's only two point one five trillion of those numbers that are special and you got to find them and then test them and so what you do is you look at each number and you say is this a special number you apply the test and if the test works then it's one of your special numbers and then you say oh i found one and you post it to the table of special numbers about one point one five billion of these numbers are eleven million bit points of already been found another ten million will be found over the rest of history and most of what we found within the next three years so i just hangs full is it in the real world well peter all of us being to have. to spend as a few big coing. these germans are sold on the idea big callings of the new gold and if you're not involved you'll be left behind every day you

decide not to use a free and decentralized currency like bitcoin you actually decide for supporting the existing financial system with its flaws for yet another day created four years ago by an anonymous computer these lines of letters and numbers can be traded to allow instantaneous global purchases without being tied to the rules of existing and discredited financial institutions there is no organization no institution who is able to control or manipulate the whole financial system of bitcoin no banks no central banks. no credit card corporation that means that nobody is charging you any fees nobody can stop you sending money from a to b. like if you would donate one would want to make donations to wiki leaks you can still do that in bitcoin following growing mistrust of a stop alicia currency after the botched bailout of cyprus people want their money

where governments can't touch it and i think the big huge did a really good job to raise awareness when they seized the bank accounts in cyprus since then i mean there's been a real big con craze going on but coins are secure nobody can seize it nobody can freeze an account to get involved you have to download an application called a wallet that you can start to buy them at this bar digital currency exchange a group once a month to trade their electronic cash and the establishment is happy to take coins as legal tender for any purchase but once you get all set up with the big calling software it becomes a simple as point click and your electronic. cash turns into something very real indeed. now more than ever people want to make sure they cash is cared for using an online wallet is still

a very new concept how safe is it some of them have been hacked some of them have turned out to be fraudulent but i think over time. the operators who survive providing these kind of services are going to be very diligent about about their security and they're going to have to be very diligent also about maintaining their reputation and if you're a little after a hence of currency you can't hold in your hand there's physical coins with an individual code on the back that can be punched into your online account or if you thought that it's a good dog for a good starter for people for people to know what we'd call you if you present them with one of those because people like to talk. if you would want to give your nephew or a relative a present for for the next ten years one big card with probably the best in a physical form however you buy them with increased skepticism over established currencies we can expect to see more of these sign showing people are open for

business peter older r.t. . coins into a record price of two hundred sixty six dollars per unit this week until a flash crash or at least half its value but it seemed clawed its way back up within a few hours the valuation roller coaster is earning the digital currency more and more attention in the financial headlines sarah ferguson met big khans developer none to find out whether it's still a good investment. we know you've heard what bitcoin is why is it proving a popular industry insiders are dismissing this as a bubble but right now they're having to dismiss bitcoin is even more of a bubble and that's because this week for the first time the controversial electronic currency past the two hundred dollar mark setting a new record so it is proving popular i don't think it will be of warrigal use for a while yet because until the interface becomes user friendly it's a bit like people think they have to understand it to be able to use it but i say to people look do you understand how your body works and how money works you can

use your body and use money. you don't have to understand how to use it but you do need into the interface and in order to understand money we have a nice interface to use money to use your body we have a nice interface called a called our body in terms of core and we haven't yet got that interface up to that level of of ease of use and understanding until the day comes it won't be so widely available or easily used by people it's a big queens well and truly burst on to the mainstream now trading up around the two hundred dollar mark up under just twenty dollars at the beginning of the year but is still a good investment now it is trading around that two hundred dollar mark well many people think yes it is and here's why let's take a look at the possible outcomes if you invested in but quinn right now the bubble could burst gavan trading around two hundred dollars to zero in which case you lose one hundred percent of your money not good but you do only one hundred percent when

it comes to bit coy but what if the big question raised to around two thousand dollars to start trading around but inconceivable maybe all the skeptics all the critics right now will tell you the bubble burst that won't happen but also this at the beginning is the year when bitcoin was trading around that twenty dollar mark did you really think that it could start trading around the two hundred dollars mark. on that basis things can and do you have. to start trading around two thousand dollars of the need invested now when it was around two hundred dollars you would get ten times your return so if you lose one hundred percent you win anyway the thousand percent now to anyone you can clearly see that that's quite a good bet and it's why right now along with all the global uncertainty with the big financial institutions many people consider that you could do worse than bet on

because being so arty london u.s. citizens will get fired up over guantanamo later on thursday nationwide protests are planned to get the job used to support the hunger strike in prison is reaching the breaking point as they enter a third month refusing food the details just ahead. and they were dusty a week examine how afghanistan's prospering drugs trade continues to be a massive worldwide killer more than a decade after the u.s. led operation the taliban. north korea could launch a ballistic missile test at any moment so you says south korea's foreign minister japan's echoed that worry adding that at least one ballistic missile arledge ready for blastoff from north korea's east coast it is feed young will conduct the launch to mark a series of national occasions the day is the first anniversary of leader kim jong becoming first secretary of the workers' party become true would also be

celebrating the birth of its founder kim il sung next monday a day which usually features a showcase of military strength south korean and u.s. forces have been on increased military alert while japan's deployed patriot missile interceptors in tokyo antiwar activist brian becker says the u.s. is trying to destroy historic political ties between pyongyang and china by creating a military confrontation. i personally believe it was very regrettable that the united nations security council adopted a resolution putting all of the blame in the onus on north korea in imposing economic sanctions and i believe the united nations has to be independent of the united states if it's going to be really a force for peace if it serves just as a fig leaf for the united states then the united states will use the u.n. as it did in one thousand fifty to launch its own aggression against korea the obama administration is taking the bush administration policy of provocation escalation increased tension to

a whole new level they want to create pressure on china to break china away from its historic relationship with north korea by creating a military confrontation or a near confrontation the united states is saying to the chinese look the stakes are very high time for you to change time for you to abandon your your ally in north korea and i think they think that they have that could be the the prescription the precursor to regime change in north korea if they could break china away china doesn't want to do that although you can see a debate going on right now within the chinese establishment the un's brewery did any wrong steps in the crisis could spin the situation on the korean peninsula and to control the organization has done little to try and bring the sides to negotiating table raising questions i would say influence or usefulness as and as an international peace broker. and i've across. the diplomatic side of the shia. on the one hand we've got a rogue state operating in

a defacto nuclear state operating with a bomb and on the other we've got a un which is either fails to reach out to north korea appropriately and bring it into the international community. and is conspicuous by its absence perhaps in a situation like banking just the other day warning of it spiraling out of control the danger of that but what is practically being done what we do know is that the international institutions the diplomatic institutions that would be normally be responsible for bringing north korea back into the fold have failed to do so north korea walked out of the. six plus one talks in two thousand and nine and the u.n. other than sanctioning north korea has failed to come up with any concrete diplomatic solution to reach in to the mysterious state and to bring it back into the fold so what is going on behind the scenes is there fever diplomacy or not well north korea famously enjoys bilateral relations with china and russia and there may

indeed be contacts going to be going through those channels we can say for sure that china is upset with north korea i think there's a general recognition that china north korea is close relationship is starting to disintegrate particularly because this saber rattling that we're seeing from north korea has brought very aggressive united states into china's front garden now it should also be mentioned now whether this is coincidence or not. live up to others to judge but nato secretary general rasmussen is also in seoul at the moment. conducting meetings with his south korean partners that may be seen as an inflammatory meeting by the north koreans it may not.

we're going to take a short break but when we come back the one thousand more u.s. protesting support to get my hunger strike and how eleven years of nato action in afghanistan has done the deadly drugs trite stay with us. he became a symbol of the nine hundred ninety s. he personified the russian mafia in the kremlin. he was a twentieth century arrest buton. in just a few years he rose from junior was a multibillion and senior politician. is decline was as rapid as his meteoric rise and ended in exile his death is now as mysterious as his life. better.

again welcome back thursday is expected to become a day of action against guantanamo of across the us the protests are to support the jailed hunger strikers and to push for the facilities permanent shutdown r.t. spoke to the photos abbassi he spent several years it went to them in solitary

confinement before being released without charge he took part in the previous mass under strike there and shared his experience i was taken in and forced and forcing intravenous from the fluids into you. do something stupid like put you i don't know how many parties when you only need maybe one or two an inopportune six or something there was one guy who was like doing a trainee medical course i don't know where those online or he decided he was he was joking about which he needed to use whether to use a big one and so forth so they were using me the guinea pig for for for the for the training so. the person who was putting the needle into me took a long time and i'm going to i don't know how many stars they took a moment but you know they missed in the midst of anan two there she found it so that you know the medical person of these people. you know is limited you know they're protesting and this is the last right in terms of all the rights have been taken away from them they don't have the right to remain silent in interrogations

or other invited right to life in some cases so this is a lost rights of people who don't have rights to protest against the situation but primarily because their religion is being abused now into its third month a lawyer for one hunger strike has received word that one of his clients try to take his own life the military denies there have been any recent suicide attempts but clive stafford smith is not convinced. we talked to him directly but also we talked throughout the prisoners he the united states said today in something that is typical unfortunately of the full suits that come out of that place that he didn't try to commit suicide but why did they taken to hospital for nine days which they did and then they took him back to campfire back home which is the worst place and growing time of day and they took him there you know what do you do with someone who suicidal you put him in the very worst cell in the entire prison and

afraid that illustrates the really terrible lassitude the colonel said he knows how to deal with my clients because he's got children a time where we'll check around and one of my clients said is we need to send the social services round to check on his house because if he's treating his children the way that these prisoners are being treated is a real problem what they do with some of the prisoners they force feed them in the most surrender this way you know but that doesn't solve the problem you know you can't take a piece of the true test like a hunger strike which is being done for perfectly valid reasons which i suspect ninety nine percent of the globe group supports that if you are cleared for release you should be released but you can't take that force feed people by stuffing tubes up their nose and putting them through even greater agony and think that that's going to solve the problem of they were catching up to the prisoners and some of the lawyers raise cain about that they did allow some of the prisoners to get back

with some of the prisoners reportedly is still being required to drink water out of the tap and i got a photograph just yesterday of something i have seen many times myself down in guantanamo which is the sign the taps which says this is not drinking water and it's foul stuff the yellow orange color so they wanted to mine and mine it concessions but i'm afraid that's not the attitude that taking mistaking a very very harsh attitude which is doomed to cause greater problems i don't want to say that this is bad for america it's not just bad for these prisoners is bad for america because we are losing our moral standing and when we behave this way. the nato led conflict in libya designed to instill a democratic peace is still left the post gadhafi country in turbulence even beyond its borders online we details of a new u.n. report that says the middle east and africa now being fed with are streaming from libya which are fueling warfare in syria marley and garza. and

in pictures posing with the car riding a horse bare chested and even flying with endangered birds no president putin has shown playing in the snow with his two dogs in moscow gallery. dot com. afghanistan's drugs trade is flourishing despite the eleven years that have passed since the u.s. kicked off its operation enduring freedom even with the taliban force from power the illicit industry still killing thousands of people around the world. examines the deadly multi-million dollar trend which shows no signs of slowing down. people around the world do to you and that's in just over a decade from when the us led its enduring freedom campaign to rid the country of the tyranny of the taliban while the regime came crashing down it was quite the

opposite for the drugs trade and with russia now ranked the highest consumer that's got the authorities worried distributors the heroin production in afghanistan has risen dramatically since our original enduring freedom was conducted in two thousand and one it's forty times higher now any impersonal observer would admit that the international community to this field to rectify the situation with drug production and in fact russia's drug control trip has described production in afghanistan as planetary and the figures prove it illegal often farming in afghanistan since two thousand and one has been on a constant rise increasing by twenty times in the last twelve years i've gone count in a call to officials say they spray an estimated one hundred fifty seven thousand hectares of land have been illegally used to grow opium poppies that's the size of a major european city like london in each of the nine growing seasons there has been more open poppy cultivation than during any single year of the taliban's rule

the fields have expanded everywhere throughout afghanistan in the south of the country the rise was not dramatic but that's only because these regions have remained the biggest drug growing areas so there is simply less room to expand and the country's east bordering pakistan the land suited by opium poppies is now ten times larger this is just one of the country's many gates from where afghan drags pass through on their way to every part of the globe to pakistan iran middle east turkey central asia russia europe central. eastern western europe africa and both americas interestedly in two thousand and eleven officially the country exported three hundred seventy six million dollars worth of trash and dried fruits spices carpets for that same year the u.n. estimates the country's operating mean comes to that one point four billion dollars

the lion's share of this money obviously goes to district officials insurgents warlords and drug traffickers while they have people get instability and poor teens to add a third of the country's thirty five million strong population is jobless and more than twelve million people live below poverty line it seems that you ask lead enduring freedom operation all those years ago has left the afghan people with more than freedom to endure. our team. in other news from around the world mass rallies outside congress in washington d.c. as cross party senators race to see you know we do immigration deal that is expected to fast track eleven million illegal immigrants on the path to gain citizenship and is due to be adopted in the coming days tens of thousands protested over the sluggish pace of reform the bill would also tighten border security and require employers to check their workers immigration status. u.s.

prosecutors must prove the soldier bradley manning knew his disclosure of state secrets would harm america and benefit hostile nations that was the ruling made at a pretrial hearing in mary land manning has been in custody since twenty ten and has pleaded guilty to ten of the twenty two charges against him a u.s. navy seal who was reportedly part of the squad that killed osama bin laden is to testify that he found the link data in the form of al qaeda is read his compound. in paris human rights activists staged a mass demonstration against homophobia and in support of its victims it follows sunday's. brutal attack of a gay man in the french capital after which a picture of his shocking injuries went viral on the internet the protestors claim that homophobic assaults have increased as opposition has grown to an imminent law to allow same sex marriage and adoption in france.

a rights groups warning that syria's air force is carrying out both civilian and indiscriminate attacks is a serious violation of international law both the government and the armed opposition have long been accused of violations during the two year conflict and us though is considering widening aid to the rebels in the fight against president assad r.t. spoke to a syrian presidential advisor who says western powers are only fueling the fire. the syrian crisis has a regional and international level and that unless these store lovers are sorted out and the less there is a real intention to stop the crisis it's very difficult to stop it inside syria because it's not a crisis that is only in syria but it is a crisis that's being threatened are financed by both regional and international forces there was no inside does not really live are what it says so even if they

say. leave the weapons you know all the letters that back that are happening in syria over the killing of not being or the problem that our children our women are facing a horrible humiliating conditions and refugee camps and did he endured all this they considered it you know not only that they say we support geneva agreement geneva communique the first item in geneva communique is to stop the violence by all sides and yet they feed violence. and that interview with president assad's advisor is on air in full at six forty five pm g.m.t. now just ahead a close look at the colorful life and mysterious death of potus better selves the fast rising russian oligarch who became a vocal critic of the kremlin. with

oil pipes bursting in arkansas people across the u.s. so you start to realize that they are moving towards what the atlanta calls the infrastructure cliff in short america's infrastructure start to get a bit old and according to infrastructure poor car dot org the u.s. cities about to. three point six trillion dollars of infrastructure spending by twenty twenty to turn things around the site sponsored by the american society of civil engineers gave all aspects of american infrastructure like bridges and drinking water and schools cetera some pretty bad great except for solid waste removal for some reason in their opinion everything in the us is going to crap except for america's ability to throw solid crap away i'm not trying to sit here and scare you there is nothing to fear this is a big challenge but is a very possible one to accomplish according to cost of war dot org the last ten years of war and cost about three point one trillion dollars just cutting wars in

half by fifty percent could put a huge dent in the infrastructure spending and what about all those billions in bailout that were spent you see the money is there it just gets wasted if the money stops getting thrown away and start getting spent or well planned infrastructure then the infrastructure will start paying for itself rock'n infrastructure creates wealth so don't fear the infrastructure cliff just stop wasting money or allowed politicians to waste money and everything will turn out to be just fine but that's just my opinion. they called him the face of business and government. he was a gambler so money came second to the russian mafia inside the kremlin it was enough for boris just raises eyebrows to make gangsters appear. he was the great cardinal of russian politics he was

a big time political adventurer some even called him a lot today arrest putin the embodiment of evil in boris yeltsin's presidential court. to put on a grieving face and talk about people across the country mourning his demise on the country the moderates that his death has attracted so much attention. learned mud figure in russian business exemplified nine hundred ninety s. russia he made millions while his country starved he was the subject of several books and the basis for many crime movie villains and i picked out some qualities of people i knew personally or was influenced by by knowing them is quite difficult to create entirely new persona always come up with a character somewhat. reminding you of someone and yes it was part of that image that have created but he said.