animal based day of action by human rights groups as artie speaks to the lawyer of an inmate to try to commit suicide. coin a digital currency free from government control rapidly establishing himself in the financial arena we speak to people who were turned to the novelty of 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 ask whether the united nations could have done more to ease the military standoff right now on the peninsula. for good evening just after nine pm here in moscow now this is r.t. international with me kevin now in a first following mounting media coverage and public discontent human rights groups led by amnesty international holding a day of action against the town of

a bay detention center it comes as the mass hunger strike at the u.s. facilities into the third month and a lawyer if the detainees is informed that one of his protesting clients has tried to kill himself that lawyer clive stafford smith indeed told me earlier the american military's denying 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 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 or i'm afraid that illustrates the really terrible lassitude the colonel said he knows how to deal with my clients because he's got children that have well 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 has a real problem what they do with some of the person is they horse feed them in the most surrender. 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 but stumm 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 they wanted to mine mine to concessions but i'm afraid that's not the attitude that taking minutes taking 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. throws a bussy spent several years ago a ton of motu of them in solitary confinement before being released without charge he took part in the previous my son destroyed at the scylla to share details of his experience with this i was taken in and forced into that town to forcing intravenous 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 whether it's online or not and he decided he was joking about which he needed to use or that he used a big one and so forth so they were using me as 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 moment but you know they missed in the midst of a in until they actually 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 their 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. well we're bringing a comprehensive coverage of events at the detention center with testimonies from lawyers as well as commentary from officials experts and activists a complete tired lot of events indeed waiting for you on a website www dot com. next in times of global financial uncertainty many people turn to alternatives to traditional banks and safe havens this is sparked in a wave of interest towards bitcoin the international cyber currency that stopped two hundred sixty million dollars a unit following the e.u. seizure of that cypriot banks set of accounts and later fell sharply following

a rise in hacker attacks on big calling community sites and a slowdown on the exchange peter all of a spoke to the people backing the virtual cash that's decentralized 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 laws for yet another day created four years ago by an anonymous computer hacker these lines of letters and numbers can be traded to allow instantaneous global purchases without being tied to the rules of existing on 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 want to donate one would want to make donations to wiki leaks you can still do that and get high and following growing mistrust of a stop after the botched bailout of cyprus people want their money where governments can't touch it and i think the day you 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 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 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 to it into something very real indeed. now more than ever people want to make sure de 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 or if you thought that it's a good door or a good starter for people for people to know what record is 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 all of the r.t. . or other let's get more on this is total live to bitcoin expert dennis royo hi there dennis thanks sort of being with us now of course as we've been reporting here this is really surge in popularity since what happened cyprus but should we all be crying hoax or hallelujah i know you're for it but is it really the currency of the future. well i'm not sure about discovering and actually. i like this kind of uncertainty since i think the future is really not written these days and that's one of the exciting things that we are witnessing what i am sure is

that bit going is breaking a book of trying for trying to imagine and trying to build a reality like bitcoin a reality of currency that is actually out of the control of governments that are being. you know very very conformed to board both for those that don't like the state to be in control of everything and both for those that lie don't like corporations to be in control of everything because today we are witnessing actually a coincidence between the state power and corporate power more and more these kind of high. high. power structures at the top of the pie or meads are actually corporate to be them a state or a transnational corporation to actually make people more poor and to make it simple to make it to come back to the example of cyprus yeah i understand but i

understand the the broader problem of folks back home because you've got to. look for a night which if you had to sell what would you be investing all that money in because would you feel happy and safe. i i wouldn't do that actually what i would do is offer my services know what days for bitcoins it's the best idea that comes to me mind actually what people don't really realize so far is that besides being an asset and comparable to me now ari. do you mind goods a bit going also offers a very open entrance a very low threshold of entrance to the market if you want to start offering your services or what you do as an artist and you can do it immediately right away and i think this is one of the challenges also have to be going developers and community to actually develop more tools that make it easy to open shop would be going because so far in the market in all differential tools for open market all the load

of costs the marginal costs to open shop today were loaded on to producers on the content producers so more and more we have seen like propagation of aggregate orse as businesses and and they are taking more and more of the value that is being produced so i think what i would really start doing right away i would start selling my alpaca socks if i would be able to meet some. very nice they look as well sir what else is on the horizon there we heard there could be a bit coin cash machine introduced as somebody said they might bring it into cyprus you never know a.t.m. but because aside other innovations like this are on the rise and you think i think a cash machine is a very bad idea one of the things that beat going dollars is actually we don't need anymore an entry point on the street level that is what the banks have struggled

for long i argued it beat going is actually a change in the relationship of violence state and currency so far the state had to employ a lot of violence to actually protect the old indication of a currency banks have to be involved in to violence. their a.t.m. points would be going to what we will see is that people before shopping they will print out a cue or code on their printer and go to the shop where that would be going or similar technologies so i think well opening. a.t.m. on the street for beat going says it's just like a very bad interpretation of what he's doing a ration of other little of because to go around and it's all about supply and demand is near other enough to go around if this really took off. there are enough oh so you have to consider it there he said that goes with floating points up to eight cipher stuff that a coma so actually beat klein's can be fraction kase devalue goes up ending case there are many around twenty one medians indelible but the point is right now it's

another challenge for those that are having beat going is to make them sure clearly there are enough there would be enough but i'm not sure how much the people did to have the most of them which i don't minority it's kind of reproducing the same problem so their financial old ward right now they're willing to actually distribute damn and engage in the bank sure seem to invest the man's and into involving more people love to have in the program to keep those alpaca socks safe you never know you might even for your grandchildren thanks very much thanks gary i . forgot coming up i can tell you fear is. there is the world waits for north korea's next move with its ballistic missiles now in finding position we are just a couple minutes time while the international community could have brought the situation under control soon a big question we try to get some ounces just ahead. international

airport in the very heart of moscow. moscow foreign ministers of the g eight countries have condemned north korea's threats 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 east coast that could fire off at any moment the war talk coming from pyongyang over the last months prompted seoul and the u.s. to put their forces on increased military alert with japan deploying 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 to the united nations as well that any slight misstep or mishap on the peninsula could escalate into an all out confrontation north korea expert alexander all solved from the russian academy of sciences told us he thinks the u.n. should have acted earlier to resolve the situation. i think everybody really agrees that any country. feels himself secure in situation room and this is a strategic. exercise tested. nuclear strike. of course. when you are is a direct threat to the security that gives the united states will decide to attack us not would you not but can protect us besides ourselves nor are you in the good news aish annoyed them there's. a law. nothing only

by ourselves the international community and the whole united nations did not do a. possible role decisively vetted nothing to freeze the situation did not directly repealed the all participants in the war to decrease is that there is a little more style retorted from both sides and the level of military exercises and other military actions all come back to. the u.s. defense secretary hagel says he doesn't rule out pyongyang acquiring a long range missile capable of hitting america adding that washington isn't prepared to take any chances and is watching north korea's every move earlier discussed how things ended up where they are currently without ease of a crossing on the one hand we've got a rogue state operating 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 we had banki moon 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. phones have failed to do so north korea walked out of the. six plus one talks in two thousand and nine and the un 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 to be going through the 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 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 assad marty sophie shevardnadze spoke to

a syrian presidential advisor who says 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 two lovers are sorted our die unless 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 the one side does not really live are what it says so even if they say. leave the weapons you know all the on the terrorist attacks that are happening in syria or the killing or because of not being 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 cards 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 how they totally independent when we have the guard of syria under the syrian people it is a syrian people who are standing against terrorism it is the future and people who are standing against car bombs and car explosion that took the syrian people who are standing against that region and putting. its national headlines in brief early fifty. 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 is 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 center says race to finish an overdue immigration deal 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 will also tighten border security and require employers to check their workers' immigration status. in paris human rights activists have 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 protesters claim that homophobic ourselves have increased his opposition's growing to an eminent law to allow same sex marriage and adoption it for. the cost of the cypriot bailouts

was the twenty three billion euros from the original seventeen and a half that's according to a draft document put together by the country's creditors in march international lenders agreed with ten billion euro rescue package for the debt stricken island on unprecedented terms slashing the savings of wealthy depositors in the country's two main banks the government also had to install strict capital controls to prevent a massive one of the banks who have a report say millions of euros were transferred from cyprus before those restrictions. afghan forces backed by foreign troops of raided a large drug lab in the country's helmand province several tons of opiates for the street value of zero nine million dollars were found and destroyed despite desperate international efforts to curb narcotics production in afghanistan the industry has flourished in the decade since the nato led invasion and this global headache shows no sign of easing either is.

around. 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 destress the us 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 impartial observer would admit that the international community has failed 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 opium 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 the 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 endure. r.t. moscow. thanks re it right now r.t. dot com whatever putin's name appears on a criminal blacklist in finland which could theoretically that mean that the russian president could be subject to automatic detention if he crosses the

country's northwest border the connection with a major russian squad led to them ending up on said database dot com while you're there to watch scotland's for independence leader says his nation would be an active nato player if it breaks away from london reliance gives no such guarantees back to edinburgh so use that one up to r t dot com if you get a minute. just ahead a close look at the colorful life sudden death of borders spreaders of ski the fast rising former russian oligarch who became a vocal critic of the kremlin. with oil pipes bursting in arkansas people across the us so you start to realize that they are moving towards what the atlanta calls the infrastructure cliff. in short america's infrastructure starting 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 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 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 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. download the official publication. stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. they called him the face of business and government. he was a gambler so money came second to the russian mafia.