by human rights group says r t speaks to the lawyer of an inmate that tried to commit suicide. because in a digital currency free from government controlled rapidly establishing itself in the financial arena we speak to people who turn to the novelty of seeing the value of their savings in traditional banks tumble. and playing with fire as north korea prepares to test launch a ballistic missile during national celebrations we are whether the united nations could have done more to ease the military standoff on the peninsula. just after eleven pm they are moscow this is r.t. thanks for being with us this hour following mounting media coverage and public discontent human rights groups led by amnesty international are holding a day of action against the guantanamo bay detention center it comes as the mass

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 that lawyer clive stafford smith told me earlier the american military is 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 i don't know if you know what do you do with someone who suicide but 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 is a real problem what they do with some of the person is they who are speed them in the most surrender. you know but that doesn't solve the problem you know you can't take a piece of the whole truth that's 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 were 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'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 it stomach the prisoners reportedly are still being required to drink the water out of the tap and i got a photograph just yesterday of something i've seen many times myself down in guantanamo which is the sign that the taps which says this is not drinking water and it's foul stuff the a yellow or orange color so they wanted to mine and mine it concessions for them a trade that's not the attitude that taking minutes taking 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. far as a bessie spend several years ago and tell him oh two of them in solitary confinement before being released without charge he took part in the previous mass hunger strike at a facility and shared details of his experience with us. i was taken in and forced into that thunder forcing intravenous for fluids into you. and do something silly like put you i 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 training medical course i don't know whether it's online or when he decided he was joking about which he needed to use or that he was a big one and so forth so they were using me as the guinea pig for for for the for the training for. the person who was putting a needle into me and it took a long time and i mean i don't know how many stars they took him home but you know they missed in the midst of a in until they actually found it so that 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 loss right of people who don't have rights and protesting against the situation but primarily because their religion is being abused. a comprehensive coverage of events of the detention center with testimonies from lawyers as well as commentary from officials experts and activists got a complete timeline of events waiting for you on our website r.t. dot com. in terms of global financial uncertainty many people turn to alternatives to traditional banks and safe havens this sparked a wave of interest then towards bitcoin international cyber currency the top two hundred sixty billion dollars a unit after the e.u. seizure of cypriot bank accounts later fall sharply after a rise in accurate tax on coin community sites and

a slowdown on the exchange rate all over the spoke to the people back it was 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 flaws for yet another day created four years ago by an anonymous computer these lines of letters and numbers can be traded to allow instantaneous global purchases without being tied to the rules of existing and discredited financial institutions there is no organization no institution who is able to control or manipulate the whole financial system of bitcoin no banks no

central banks. no credit card corporation that means that nobody is charging you any fees nobody can stop you sending money from a to b. like if you would donate one would want to make donations to wiki leaks you can still do that in bitcoin following growing mistrust of a stop after the botched bailout of cyprus people want their money where governments can't touch it and i think the big huge did a really good job to raise awareness when they seized the bank accounts in cyprus since then i mean there has been the root of it con craze going on but coins are secure nobody can seize it nobody can freeze an account to get involved you have to download an application called a wallet that you can start to buy them at this bar digital currency exchange a group once a month to trade their electronic cash and the establishment is happy to take big coins as legal tender for any purchase but once you get all set up with the big

calling software it becomes a simple as point click and your electronic. cash turns into something very real indeed. now more than ever people want to make sure 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 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 pete 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. so the let's take a closer look at what makes bitcoin so fundamentally different the currencies you and i know normally have got two main features the first one of real value once anyway linked to precious metals but now backed only by government and law and secondly there's an institute to control it the central banks but what bitcoin does is completely overturn those principles it has a cryptic computer code as its main currency unit 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 main thing instead it's monitored by what's called peer to peer protocol that's where internet users interact directly with no middleman involved it's worth as much as

the arm on users make it it's a supply and demand thing that's what makes it self regulating and i spoke to bitcoin expert dennis rio earlier on who said that it could right the wrongs made by the global financial system. bitcoin is breaking at a book that they're both 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 uncomfortable 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 power structures that the top occupier meets are actually corporate to be them a state or or

a. transnational corporation to actually make people more poor coming up the fears of the put in as the world waits for north korea's next to move with the police to missiles now in firing position we are stunned what the international community could have done to bring the situation under control before this just off the breakup you can stay with me. pretty three. three. three. three stooges free. food free volunteer video for your media project c.e.o. don carty dot com.

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more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are all. of america international airport in the very heart of moscow.

foreign ministers of the g eight countries have condemned north korea's threats of nuclear ambitions the countries preparing to mother birthday has found their communal song 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 it could fire off at any moment the fiery rhetoric coming from pyongyang over the past months prompted seoul on the u.s. to put their forces on increased military alert 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 not only the south but also american bases on the island of guam in the west pacific while many analysts are played down the threat posed by the new missile test the united nations has warned that any slight misstep on the peninsula could escalate into all out confrontation r.t. contributor russian returns he says the reply state has good reason to beef up security. john kerry the united states government. is spreading all this fear

now and we must remember that it was that it states who sought to bring still fighters in guam just destroying the six party talks and also just remember the context of the united states in the fifty's killed twenty percent of korea's population twenty first century has proven time and time again that nuclear weapons perhaps the ones only to tear it against the united states and nato cost ring nature war of course iraq afghanistan because libya and libya are will hang in the imaginations of many developing world leaders because it proved because it was good after he got rid of his nuclear weapon program that. people are going to want w m d the united states is ramping up its military facilities in southeast asia and obviously still seeing the triangle will become a super power and all the time kim jong un has repeatedly said and he said one month ago we don't want war we want. to talk just think of it the other way around

north korea was pretty neat it was nuclear capable still planes just beside the united states and had previously killed twenty percent of united states population . we can see why i keep drawing and north korea is afraid of united states. barbarism as it has been historically against that country. u.s. defense secretary hagel says he doesn't rule out pyongyang acquiring a long range missile capable of hitting america adding washington isn't prepared to take any chances and is watching north korea's every move discussed how things ended up where they are today with parties of a cross. 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. 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 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. see. 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 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 learned and less 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 threatened 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. a leave the weapons you know all the on the terrorists attacks that are happening in syria or the killing or the kidnapping or the problems that our children our women are facing a horrible humiliating conditions and refugee camps and dirty and driven oil 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 syria are right from the beginning how they've totally independent will we have the card of syria and of 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 the syrian people who are standing against it are usually putting in. in more international news tonight 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 there near the border with afghanistan is said to be used by the taliban and its allies as a base camp for raids in the region more than a hundred thirty people have died in the fierce fighting says 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 is expected to fast track eleven million illegal immigrants on the path to getting to this and ship 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 civil rights activists have staged a mass demonstration against homophobia and in support of its victims if follows sunday's brutal attack of a gay man in the french capital after which a picture of the shocking injuries were viral on the internet the protesters claim that homophobic assaults have increased as oppositions grow into an imminent law to allow same sex marriage adoption in france. the cost of the cypriot bailouts risen to twenty three billion euros from the original seventeen and a half billion that's according to a draft document now 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 unprecedented

terms slashing the savings of wealthy depositors in the country's two main banks the government's also had to install strict capital controls to revenge a massive run on the banks and other reports say millions of euros were transferred from cyprus before those 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 of around nine million dollars for found and destroyed despite desperate international efforts to curb narcotics production in afghanistan the industry's flourished in the decade since the nato led invasion and this global headache shows no sign of easing either is refreshing of found. around. 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 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 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 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. 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 income student one point four billion dollars the

lion's share of these money obviously goes to district officials insurgents warlords and drug traffickers while the people get instability and poor teen stad 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. our t.v. moscow. right now i don't call them saying a last goodbye. they wouldn't have missed environmental activist who passed away in hospital on monday five years off to be crippled in a brutal attack had online to find the respect of the people whose life touched. also that while scott was probably dependents latest says his nation would be an active nato player if it breaks away from london he lives gives no such guarantees

anyway back to edinburgh. surely much kaiser weighs up the gains of the losses left by the. economic reforms as the next program after the break. with oil pipes bursting in arkansas people across the usa start 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 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 grades 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 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. it starts getting spent a well planned infrastructure then the infrastructure will start paying for itself rocket 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 so choose your language 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. i am ask eyes or welcome to the kaiser reporting down the way it 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 queen or do they disagree with what david cameron and the media claim that margaret thatcher saved 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 strive to mature before your debts do i guess by maturity mean die stacey. 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 she saved britain this is what we hear over and over she saved britain from those workers those 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 and so to the prime ministerial the ship of maggie thatcher because as you're pointing out here the economy was driven by oil wealth now we're in a very important i think we're 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 market.