spock's a day of action by human rights groups is r.t. speaks to the lawyer of an inmate tried to commit suicide. coin a digital currency free from government control is rapidly establishing itself in the financial arena we speak then to the people who turn to the novelty after seeing the value of savings in traditional banks tumble. play with fire as north korea prepares to test launch a ballistic missile during national celebrations we asked whether the united nations could have done more to ease the military standoff right now in the peninsula. if you just joined us just past eight pm here in moscow is kevin owen here at the new center with you tonight well following mounting media coverage on public discontent human rights groups led by amnesty international holding

a day of action against the guantanamo bay detention center it comes as the mass hunger strike at the u.s. facilities now entering a third month and a lawyer for the detainees is informed that one of his protesting clients tried to kill himself that lawyer clive stafford smith spoke to me earlier and slammed the american military for denying knowledge of the suicide attempt and holding his client in appalling conditions. they took him back to camp fire back which is the worst place and grant time of day you know what do you do with someone who's suicidal you put him in the very worst cell in the entire prison and afraid that illustrates the really terrible lassitude the camel said he knows how to deal with my clients because he's got children the chav 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 is a real problem but they do with some of the person is they force feed them in a most surrender suerte 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 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 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 the taps which says this is not drinking water and it's foul stuff the yellow orange color so do one or two minor minor 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 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. for as a bus you spent several years ago and tell them oh two of them in solitary confinement before being released without charge he took part in the previous mass hunger strike that the city and shared with his experience of what he went through i was taken in and forced into that time to 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 not and he decided he was joking about which he needed to use were 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 a needle into me they took a long time and i mean i don't know how many stops they took a mom but you know they missed in the midst of

a in until they actually found it so either you know the medical past 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 have them by the right to life in some cases so this is a lost rights of people who don't have rights and protesting against the situation but primarily because their religion is being abused. well we're bringing you calm pensive coverage of events of the detention turns ritual know if you can watch us with testimonies from lawyers as well as commentary from officials experts and activists a complete timeline of events is waiting for a website. called. in times of global financial uncertainty many people turn to alternatives to traditional banks and safe havens this indeed now was sparked a wave of interest towards the international cyber currency called because in its topped two hundred sixty dollars a unit following the e.u.

seizure of cypriot bank controls it made a fell sharply after the rise in hacker attacks on community sites on a slowdown on the exchange and i hope it all over spoke to some of those back in this virtual currency that's decentralised of course and free from government control. these germans are sold on the idea that 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 you know 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 in bitcoin following growing mistrust of a stop 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 has been the root of it con craze going 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 come to digital currency exchange a group beat once

a month to trade their electronic cash and 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 cash turns into something very real indeed. now more than ever people want to make sure . good day 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 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 or

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 because it was 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 big business peter older r.t. berlin. well a seiko close look at what makes big coding so fundamentally different show of course the currencies you and i know of two main features number one they've got a real value but buy stocks of gold or silver and number two there's an institution that controls it the central banks but what bitcoin does is completely overturn those principles it has an encrypted computer code as its main currency unit not mine from gold or silver just created with the help of extremely complex calculations like solving a puzzle i guess and it's free from government oversight that's the second thing

instead it's monitored by a peer to peer protocol where internet users interact directly no middleman's involved now it's worth as much as the online users make it through supply and demand that so it works and that's what makes it self regulating one of bitcoins developers believes his own experience proves that it's reliable currency let's see what he's got to say. i was traveling like for europe the whole of south america i don't have any bank accounts. i was just using exchanging with people in the in the street i was in 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 or europe and not pay any fees you know so it's international currency of proper international currency that works globally you know pay power alone blocks access from over sixty different countries so you know sites like what press 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 started accepting because recently the countries like. kenya or even iran for 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 pick one and that was well save them for that time it's something of a science fiction the first time in in history you can buy encrypted file storage on the internet using virtual digital currency no one ever for that was possible. this fear is on the peninsula as the world waits for north korea's next move with its ballistic missiles now in firing position we asked what the international community could have done bring the situation more to control just ahead.

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foreign ministers of the g eight countries have condemned north korea's threats of 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 south says the communist state already has five medium range missiles on its coast that could fire off at any moment the water coming from pyongyang over the past months prompted seoul and the u.s. to put their forces on increased military alert now with japan 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 the south but also american bases on the island of guam in the west pacific now while many analysts have played down the threat posed by a new missile test united nations as well that any slight misstep on the peninsula could escalate into all out confrontation north korea expert dogs out of iran saw from the russian academy of sciences thinks the u.n. should have acted earlier to resolve the situation. i think everybody really agrees

that any country. feels himself insecure in situations renders a strategic boma exercise test in. nuclear striking near borders and of course. god sees my new as a direct threat as a security disaster god that gives the united states will decide to attack us not to do not but it can protect us besides ourselves nor have the good news ation lead them they're still coming in too much and i'm not russia and laws not part of your issue to gnostic only by ourselves the international community and the whole and united nation did not play. possible role decisively they did not interfere to situations that did not directly pealed to all participants in the world to will decrease is it their engine and then deliverables the whole style or

authority from both sides and does the level of the units or exercises as accurate and as a military actions and i'll come back in the. discuss the diplomatic side of the issue not his i have a cross 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. just the other day warning of it spiraling out of control the danger of the 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 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 those channels we can say for sure that china is upset with north korea i think there's a why 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 his south

korean partners that may be seen as an inflammatory meeting by the north koreans it may not. the u.s. and several european states say they're ready to step up aid to rebels in syria to help the fight against president a sad knotty sophie shevardnadze spoke to a syrian presidential advisor who says that western powers have no real interest in putting a stop to the two year long violence. the syrian crisis has a regional and international level and less 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 played and are financed by both regional and international

forces there was an inside does not really live are to what it says so even if this is only leave the weapons you know all the all the terrorist attacks that are happening in syria all the killing all the kidnapping all the problems that our children our women are facing a horrible humiliating conditions and refugee camps in turkey and during all this they consider it you know non-lethal why would they be interested in creating couse 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 those who are creating chaos and syria 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 that is the syrian people who are standing again this region and i will put an end to. the brink of speed or more international news no brief for saturday's 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 there it's said to be used by the taliban and its allies as a base for raids in the region. more than one hundred thirty people have died in the fierce fighting since the government sent troops to the area last week 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 protested over the sluggish pace of reform the bill will also tighten border security and require employers to

check their workers' immigration status. in paris human rights activists staged a mass demonstration against homophobia and did support of its victims it follows sunday's brutal attack of a gay man in the french capital after which a picture of the shocking injuries went viral on the internet the protesters claim that homophobic assaults of increased opposition to grow into an imminent law to allow same sex marriage and adoption for its. cost of. small use for the cost of the cypriot bailouts risen to twenty three million euros from the original seventeen and a half billion this 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 president did term slashing the savings of wealthy deposited the country's two main banks the government to also do installs a strict capital controls to prevent

a massive run of the banks but reports say millions of euros were transferred from cyprus anyway before the restrictions. afghan forces backed by foreign troops have raided a large drug lab in the country's helmand province several tons of opiates for the street value over a nine million dollars were found and destroyed despite desperate international efforts to curb narcotics production in afghanistan industries flourished in the decade since the nato led invasion and this global headache shows no sign of easing either as artie's maria for national found for us. around the world due to. 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 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 can count on 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 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 mean comes to that one point four billion dollars the lion's share of these money obviously goes to district officials insurgents

warlords and drug traffickers while they have camp people get instability and poor pertains 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 do are. our team. checker we've got lined up you dirty dot com right now vladimir putin's neighbors appeared on a crude old blacklist in finland which could theoretically that mean the russian president would be subject to tension if he crossed the country's northwest border learn how his connection with a major russian scored that into ending up on the database also to our website will scott pro independence leader says his nation would be an active nato player if it breaks away from london gives no such guarantees to.

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i am asked as are welcome to the kaiser reporting down the witch is dead this song is sort to the top of the charts in the u.k. now is this just the odd manner in which the druids that is to say the british people mourn the passing of their former prime minister. or do they just agree with what david cameron and the media claim that margaret thatcher see britain not to me i see that margaret thatcher what she did is because to the population a dream much more honest then the american one she gave them the british dream a dream that you can all strong live to mature before your debts do i guess my maturity mean die stacey yeah you want to die before your debts catch up to you

that's the only thing is like extend and pretend this is the entire global economy this is what she bequeath to the world and that's what we're seeing we're trying to out run these debts and for this i wore this financial apocalypse t. shirt in honor of her death and but i want to look at this other notion that says she saved britain this is what we hear over and over she saved britain from those workers the strikers those troublemakers and look at this chart here this is north sea oil production this is what i think saved britain if you could see from the chart oil production from the north sea oil came online as she became prime minister and started it will continue to climb up through her prime ministership right well one chart can really show in context the underlying economic forces that shape the prime ministerial ship so the prime ministerial the ship of maggie thatcher because as you're pointing out here the economy was

driven. well for now what very important i think are going to get into this a little bit is that ok what happened to that wealth well first of all the fact is the media never talks about it they act as if she delivered some sort of miracle that somehow out of nowhere a druid ritual perhaps that they became magically wealthy by her deregulating the financial markets here at the same time that all this oil came on even during this crisis as we saw in that chart oil production was plunging nobody talks about that has any relationship at all to the fact that the u.k. economy is crumbling it's never mentioned very seldom maybe in a obscure newspaper like the guardian on the back page so i want to look back to another article from two thousand and eight u.k. missed chance to build up four hundred fifty billion pound sovereign wealth fund this is from february two thousand and eight and it's based on

a pricewaterhouse coopers report they looked at what if the u.k. had saved some of the money from their north sea oil and they found that oil money allowed taxes to be kept lower than would have been possible without either rising national debt or sharp cuts in public spending as a share of the economy quote since oil revenues were greatest in the first half of the nineteen eighties this was also when this potential effect was greatest that was a quote from john hawksworth the chief economist at pricewaterhouse coopers so he's saying it was the during the prime ministership of margaret thatcher that there was the greatest opportunity to save for the future of the british population and i say the area of the queen which she steals most blessed be honest about as scottish oil to begin with it's not even english oil it's scottish oil so she's taking scottish oil.