at guantanamo bay sparks a day of action by human rights groups as already speaks to the lawyer of an inmate to try to commit suicide. because the digital currency free from government control is rapidly establishing itself in the financial remember we speak to people who turn to the novelty after seeing the value of savings in traditional banks a tumble. and playing with fire as north korea prepares to test launch a ballistic missile during national celebrations we also know whether the united nations could have done more to ease the military standoff on the peninsula. you're watching our da live all for moscow with me. following mounting media

coverage and public discontent human rights groups led by amnesty international holding a day of action against the guantanamo bay detention center this comes as the mess hunger strike at the u.s. facility enters a third month and a lawyer for the detainees is informed that one of his protesting clients tried to kill himself the lawyer cliver stuffer just smith spoke to us earlier and slammed the american military for deny knowledge of the suicide attempt while holding his client in appalling conditions. they took him back to camp fire back which is the worst place and grant i don't know if you know what do you do with someone who suicide but you put him in the very worst cell an entire prisoner of trade that illustrates the really terrible lassitude the colonel said he knows how to deal with my clients because he's got children that have will 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 has a real problem what they do with some of the person is they 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 groups support 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 with of the prisoners and some of the lawyers raise cain about that they did allow some of the prisoners to get work to back with stomach 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 yellowy are inch color so do one or two minor minor 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. spend several years at guantanamo two of them in solitary confinement before being released without charge you just punch in the previous message hunger strike at the facility and show details of his experience with not. always taken 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 or other there was one guy who was like doing a trainee medical course i don't know whether it's online or and he decided he was joking about which he needed to use with it use a big one and so forth so they were using me the guinea pig for for the for the

training so. the person who was putting the needle into me and it took a long time and we don't know how many steps they took a moment but you know they missed in the midst of anan to there she found it so that you know the medical care passed through 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 have them by right to life in some cases so this is the last rights of people who don't have rights and protesting against the situation but primarily because their religion is being abused. our team is bringing you comprehensive coverage of events at the detention center with testimonies from lawyers as well as commentary from officials experts and activists completed a timeline of events is waiting for you online at r.t. dot com. right in times of global financial uncertainty many people turn to

alternatives to traditional banks and save havens this has sparked a wave of interest towards bitcoin international cyber currency the top two hundred sixty dollars a unit following the e.u. seizure of separate bank accounts it later fell sharply following a rise in hack attacks on big community sites and a slowdown on the exchange but all of us spoke to the backing the virtual cash that decentralize and free from government control. 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's 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 and get horn following growing mistrust of a stoppage currency after the botched bailout of cyprus people want their money where governments can't touch it and i think the a you did a really good job to raise awareness when they seized the bank accounts in cyprus since then i mean there has been the rule of

a 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 on 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 as simple as point click and your electronic. turns into something very real indeed. now more than ever people want to make sure their 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 apprehensive about a currency you can't hold in your hand there's physical callings with an individual code on the back that can be punched into your online account but i think that it's a good dog 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 is 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 old. privates take a closer look at what makes a big coin so fundamentally different the current sees that you and i know have two main features number one a real value backed by stocks of gold all still up and number two there's an

institution that controls it the central banks but what beck and does is completely overturned those principles it has an encrypted computer code as its main currency unit not mind from gold or silver just created with the help of extremely complex calculations like solving a puzzle and it's free from government oversight instead it's monitored by let's call it a peer to peer protocol way into that uses the internet into ag directly with no middle men it's worth as much as the all mine uses make it through supply and demand that's what makes it self regulating one because the developers believe that his own experience proves that it is a reliable 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 in using an exchange company. nothing just trading because

of people i didn't pay any fees for that whatsoever you can travel now or europe and not pay any fees you know so it's international currency of proper international currency that works globally you know paper 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 ethiopia 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 of a 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. also coming up with this hour on the peninsula as the world waits for north korea's next move with a ballistic missile now an inspiring position we all saw what the international community could have done to bring the situation under control we've got more on that just ahead. lou.

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my. welcome back you're watching our team foreign ministers of the g eight countries have condemned north korea's threats a nuclear ambitions the country is preparing to mark the birthday of its founder kim il sung next week with a flamboyant show of military strength the neighboring selves as the communist state already has five medium range missiles on its east coast that it could fire off at any moment but war talk coming from pyongyang over the past month has prompted seoul and the u.s. to put their forces on increased military alert which upin deploy missile interceptors around its capital tokyo it's believed north korea is preparing to test launch several mid range ballistic missiles capable of hitting not only the south but also american bases on the island of guam in the west pacific while many analysts have played down the threat posed by a new missile test the united nations has warned that any slight misstep on the

peninsula could escalate into an all out confrontation with korea expert alexander of iran software from the russian russian academy of sciences things the u.n. should have acted earlier to resolve the situation. i think everybody really agrees that any country. feels himself in secure situation ran disaster. exercise test in the. nuclear strike near borders of course. gods is a maneuver as a direct threat as a security as it regards it gives the united states will decide to attack us not who did not but it can protect us besides ourselves nor have the good musician annoyed them there in too much and not russia on law bumper duration three to nothing really by ourselves the international community and the cole and united nations did not play

a possible role decisively vetted looked into freezing situations that did not directly pealed that all participants in the world will decrease is at their instruments a level those are hostile retorts from both sides and this is a level of miniature exercises as a villager actions a comeback in the. early hour it is kevin owen and i have a constant took upon the diplomatic side of the issue. on the one hand we've got a rogue state operating de facto 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 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 their favorite 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 close relationship is starting to disintegrate particularly because this. bria has brought very aggressive united states into china's front garden now it should also be mentioned

there whether this is a 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. to syria now where intense clashes continue on side damascus syrian government troops have launched a powerful counter offensive this comes as the u.s. considers stepping up aid to the rebels in their fight against president assad selfish of a nazi spoke to a syrian presidential advisor who says western powers have no real interest in putting a stop to the two year long while and. the syrian crisis has

a regional and international level land and lands these store lovers are sorted our day and the less there is a real intention to stop the crisis it's very difficult to stop 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 the one side does not really live are to what it says so even if this is. a leave the weapons you know all the on the terrorist attacks that are happening in syria over the killing or because nothing of the problems that our children our women are facing a horrible humiliating conditions and refugee camps and dirty and driven all this they considered 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 it is against their interest in the long run and unfortunately i don't think those who are creating chaos and city are right from the beginning have a totally independent will we 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 are standing against it using an important part of. now to some other international news at least fifteen militants and one soldier have been killed in pakistan's northwest the military is carrying out an operation to take control of a strategically important valley near the border with afghanistan it's out to be used by the taliban and its allies as

a base camp for raids in the region more than one hundred thirty people have died in the fierce fighting since the government sent troops the to the area last week. mass rallies outside congress in washington d.c. as cross parties senators are raised to finish an overdue immigration deal is expected to fast track eleven million illegal immigrants or to the path to gain citizenship and is through to be adopted in the coming days tens of thousands protested over the sluggish pace of reform the bill will also tighten border security and require employers to track their workers immigration status. in paris human rights activists stage a mass demonstration against homophobia and in support of its victims 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 the protesters claim that homophobic assault have increased as opposition has grown to an imminent law

to allow same sex marriage and adoption in france. the cost of cypriot the bailout has risen to twenty three billion euros from the original seventeen and a half billion that's according to a draft document put together by the country's creditors in march international lenders agreed to a ten billion euro rescue package for the debt stricken island on i'm president it turns slashing the savings of wealthy depositors in the country's two main banks the government has also had to install strict capital controls to prevent a less of run on the banks however reports say millions of euros were transferred from cyprus before the restrictions. afghan forces backed by foreign troops have raided a large drug lab in the country's helmand province several tons of with a street value of around one million dollars were found and destroyed this by

desperate international efforts to curb narcotics production in afghanistan the industry has flourished in the decade since the nato led invasion and this global heading shows no sign of easing as maria three national reports. and that's in just over a decade from when the u.s. 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 blueboy distributors the whole 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 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 or poor in farming 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 official 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 and 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 trash and dried fruits spices carpets for that same year the u.n. estimates the country's opium income student one point four billion dollars the lion's share of these mining 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 the u.s. led enduring freedom operation all those years ago has left the afghan people with

more than freedom to endure. r.t. moscow. right now on r t let me improve his name appears on a criminal blacklist in finland was good appeared to have meant the russian president would be subjected to automatic detention if you cross the country's border learn how his connection with the major russian baikal squad ending up on the dates and. also on our website while scotland pro independence leader says his nation would be an active nato play if it breaks away from london the alliance gives an only son guarantee to adam. breaking the set with a mountain. with

oil pipes bursting in arkansas people across the usa started to realize that they are moving towards what the atlantic calls the infrastructure cliff in short america's infrastructure started to get a bit old and according to infrastructure port org the us 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 and schools cetera some pretty bad grades except for solid waste removal for some reason in their opinion everything in the usa 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 start getting spent a well planned infrastructure then the infrastructure will start paying for itself a rocket infrastructure creates wealth so don't fear the infrastructure cliff just stop wasting money or a lot of politicians waste money and everything will turn out to be just fine but that's just my opinion.

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