behind bars the guantanamo hunger strikers that desperately pushed on with their protests as activists across the u.s. prepared to rally in support. big going great through the digital currency pushing its way into the financial mainstream both in freedom from government control and safety from trimming but isn't really risk free . north korea is expected to launch a ballistic missile tests any moment with the u.n. warning that one wrong stab could send the crisis spiraling out of control even though the world body is failing to resolve the deadlock. am. wherever you're watching from around the world of this is already coming live from moscow thursday is expected to become

a day of action against one time a moment cross the u.s. the protests are still support the jail's hunger strikers and pushes for the facilities permanent shut down obvious way to store also a bus seem to spend several years at guantanamo two of them in solitary confinement before being released without charge heechul pod in the previous measure hunger strike theme and shared his experience. i was taken in and forced into forcing intravenous for fluids into you. and do something silly like put you don't know how many pouches when you only need maybe one or two an inopportune six or something other there was one guy who was like doing a trainee medical course i don't know where those online don't know and he decided 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 that for the training so. the person who was putting the needle into me took

a long way to i don't know how many stops they took a moment but you know they missed in the midst of a in until they actually found it so either you know the medical cost of these people. you know is limited you know they're protesting and this is the last right in terms of or 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 the last rights of people who don't have rights to protesting against the situation but primarily because their religion is being abused now into its third month the lawyer for one hunger strike to has received word that his client trying to take his own life the military denies that have been any recent suicide attempts but last dreadful smith it's 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 camp fire back home which is the worst place and grown time of day now 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 prisoner 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 chav will check around and one of my clients said is we need to send the social services around 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 is that horse feed them in the most surrender this way you know but that doesn't solve the problem you know you can't take a peaceable true test like a hunger strike which is being done for perfectly valid reasons which i suspect ninety nine percent of the globe print 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 work to back with some of the prisoners reportedly is still being required to drink the 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 of the taps which says this is not drinking water and it's foul stuff the a yellow orange color so they wanted to mine or mine it concessions for them 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 in the world when we behave this way. still to come here on r.g.p. asia's on the edge of the continent keeping

a close eye on north korea's widely anticipated missile launch with more is mounting at the defined really what take place during the plan young celebration season. and the audacity of don't we examine how afghanistan's prosperous prospering drugs trade rather continues to be a massive worldwide killer what a decade after the u.s. led operation are certain the taliban. imagine having money that's free from government control say from haircuts and decentralised there is such a thing and it's called a big point the cyber currency is value has increased ten fold of this year at one point a struggling surging pasta two hundred dollars a unit of this week before dropping back its use is seen as a sign of growing skepticism about the existing global financial system entrepreneur william ugo who tracks the big con market explains how it works.

why 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 on do unless you know the secret and those and those secrets involve 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 the sea of rock and dirt are you finding 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 them in a transactions that that will be secure it's only two point one quadrillion 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 fly the test and if the test works then it's one of your special numbers and then you say oh i found a lot and you post it to the table for special numbers about one point one five billion of these numbers are a lot of million bitcoins have 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. but design useful is it's in the real world speed to all of us been to lead in berlin and to spend fifteen bitcoins. 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 to 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 stock currency after the botched bailout of cyprus people want their money where governments can't touch it but 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. 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 on the establishment is happy to take big coins as legal tender for any purchase but once you get all set up with the big calling software it becomes as simple as point click and your electronic. turns into something very real indeed. now more than ever people want to make sure they cash is cared for using it 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 apprehensive about a currency you can't hold in your hand there's physical callings with an individual code on the bank that can be punched into your online account but i think that's that it's a good door for a good starter for people for people to know what bitcoin is if you present them with one of those because people like to talk. if you would want to give your nephew already 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 this sign showing people are open for business peter all of a r.t. . because a record prize of a two hundred sixty six dollars pay unit this week a flash crash or so it lose half its value but it got its way back up within a few valuation roller coaster earning the digital currency more and more attention

in the financial headlines one become developer believes in his own eggs perience previews it's a reliable international currency. i was traveling like for europe the whole of south america i don't have any bank accounts. i was just using because exchanging with people in the in the street i was using an exchange company in most banks nothing just trading because of people i didn't pay any fees for that whatsoever you can travel now all throughout europe and not pay any fees you know so it's international currency of proper international currency that works globally you know alone blocks access from over sixty different countries so you know sites like wordpress which is a platform for people to blog about their free speech to say about the political situation in their company you know that a lot of people get shut off from that that's why they slightly except in big point recently the countries like. kenya or even iran or anybody now is able to participate that's what bitcoin is about freedom of financial speech wiki leaks

they had a case where a year and a half ago the u.s. the part of justice shut down their payment options because these are master card and pay pal they love monopoly on the payment system so anybody so they control it and when they deny service to wiki leaks you know their only hope their only option was because and that was what saved them through that time is something a lot of science fiction for first time in in history you can buy encrypted file storage on the internet using virtual digital currency no one ever for those possible when we come back a war examiner why international diplomacy has lost its luster when dealing with north korea and how eleven years of nato action in afghanistan has done little to dent the deadly drugs trade stay with us. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's

all here on. the team for the well talking to feel at peace interview intriguing story. arabic to find out more visit our big. mission. critical patients free. free. free. free. free. free blogging videos for your media projects free media r t v dot com.

thanks for staying with us here on r t north korea could launch a ballistic missile test at any moment just so ses assault korea's foreign minister . to that war really adding that at least to one the ballistic missile is ready full blast all from north korea's east coast it's feared pyongyang will conduct of the launch to mark a series of national occasions thursday is the first anniversary of leader kim jong un becoming first secretary of the workers' party the country will also be celebrating the birth of its fonda kim il sung next monday a day which is getting features a show. pace of military strength south korea and then u.s. forces have been on increased military a little while japan's deployed patriot missile interceptors in tokyo antiwar activist brian baucus says the u.s.

is trying to destroy historic political ties between peeling yang 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 nine hundred 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 there 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 the debate going on right now within the chinese establishment the un's worry that any wrong steps in the crisis could spin the situation on the korean peninsula out of control but the organization is failing to bring the sides to the negotiating table raising questions over its influence all usefulness as an international peace broke up kevin i went and i've across the broke down of the diplomatic side of the insane. 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 what we heard 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 stage 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 going through the 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 a 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 with his south korean partners that may be seen as an inflammatory meeting by the north koreans it may not. the nato led conflict in libya designed to instill a democratic peace has still left opposed gadhafi country in turbulence even before beyond its borders online we've got the details of a new u.n. report that says the middle east and africa now being battle with fire on streaming

from libya which are fueling warfare in syria and gaza. and making the most of moscow's record snow this winter present bridges have been pictured giving history talks a playful exercise the gallery is that r.t. to. afghanistan's or drugs or trade is flourishing despite the eleven years that have constance the us they kicked off its operation enduring freedom even with the taliban forces from the illicit industries still killing thousands of people around the world riff in austin 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 region enduring freedom was conducted in two thousand and one it's forty times higher now any impartial observer would admit that the international community has failed to rectify the situation with drug production and the fact russia's drug control trip has described production in afghanistan as planetary and the figures prove it illegal operating farm in afghanistan since two thousand and one has been on a constant rise increasing by twenty times in the last twelve years afghan 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. western europe africa and both americas interestedly in two thousand and eleven officially the country exported three hundred seventy six million dollars worth of fresh and dried fruits spices carpets for that same year the u.n.

estimates the country's all premium 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 the afghan people get instability and poorer 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 enduring freedom operation all those years ago has left the afghan people with more than freedom to. moscow more of the world the main news and now two separate roadside explosions in afghanistan have killed at least four people including a local police chief one of the bombs went off when the victims were patrolling areas in the province the other in them a jar district took life of one civilian and wounded two more such attacks have been rising in recent months or with residents of them caught in the crossfire.

mass rallies outside congress in washington d.c. as cross party senators race to finish an overdue immigration deal it's 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 of protesters over the sluggish pace of the reform the bill will also tighten border security and require . their workers immigration status. u.s. prosecutors must prove that soldier bradley manning knew his disclosure of state secrets would harm america and benefit hostile nations but was a ruling made at a pretrial hearing in maryland manning's i've been in custody since twenty dannon 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 it's a testified that he found the meta data in the form our kind of readers.

in paris human rise activists are staging a massive demonstration against homophobia and in support of its victims it follows a 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 protesters claimed the homophobic assaults have increased as opposition has grown to an eminent law to allow same sex marriage and adoption in france. iran's group's warning that syria is the air force is carrying out both civilian and in discriminate attacks as a serious violation of international law both the government and the armed opposition have long been accused of violations during the two year conflict the us though is considering widening aid to the rebels in the fight against president assad archies association of announcers spoke to a syrian presidential adviser who says while some calls are only fueling the fire.

the syrian crisis has a regional and international level and that unless these store levels 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 played and are financed by both regional and international forces there was one side does not really live up to what it says so even if this is. a leave the weapons you know all be on the terrorist attacks that are happening in syria over the killing because nothing or the problem that our children our women are facing a horrible humiliating conditions and refugee camps and dirty and driven all this they consider it you know non-lethal why would they be interested in creating chaos in syria and you know president assad keeps pointing fingers to turkey's role

jordan the arab league for making the situation in syria worse do you have any other carts left to play because again is there any interest in the longer run and unfortunately i don't think that those who are creating chaos and city are right from the beginning how they have totally independent will would have the card of syria under the syrian people it is the syrian people who are standing against terrorism it is the sudan people who are standing against car bombs and car explosion the syrian people who are standing against it are usually put in. up next the breaking the set on how one american celebrities couples vacationing cuba could cut the made it back home and then that's coming up.

with oil pipes bursting in arkansas people across the usa are starting to realize that they are moving towards what the atlantic calls the infrastructure cliff in short america's infrastructure start to get a bit old and according to infrastructure port org the u.s. needs about 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 in schools cetera some pretty bad grades except for solid waste from a well for some reason in their opinion everything in the u.s. 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 it is a very possible one to accomplish according to cost of war dot org the last ten

years of war of 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 starts getting spent a 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 a lot of politicians to waste money and everything will turn out to be just fine but that's just my opinion. download the official publication to your cell phone choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's if you're away from your

television only just doesn't mess with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food. you know how. many i mean the town i know that i'm sitting in the same thing really messed up. and they're all very so i personally apologized and said i have. the worst you're going to fly down sort of a radio guy and for the tail minestrone click off that i want you to watch quote for a particular because you've never seen anything like this i'm cold.