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the prize privacy of swiss spying soon fall victim to the tax fraud as finance ministers attempt to impose the data sharing rules on nonmembers states. the diplomatic marathon over syria continues all of it concerned it may be hampered by some countries unstinting backing for the rebels i despise to to suggesting that support directly leads to more deaths. the crumbling infrastructure services and the tangled web of the longer sea and corruption despite that country's vast oil riches millions of iraqis still suffer every day from four living conditions in a place a lack of overall necessities. but
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from moscow this is r.t. it's just after ten am here in the russian capital. and a very good morning to you. switzerland cherished banking secrecy is under threat in the ongoing battle against tax evasion e.u. finance ministers have agreed to put pressure on the nonmember nation to share its banking data with the union and swiss banks on the only ones which may have to sacrifice the privacy of some of the world's wealthiest people. offers some insight . so what do we know about switzerland then while the mountainous country sells tasty chocolate it's home to some of the finest watches and it's a great place to ski but when it comes its banking sector well that's when it also is getting a little bit secretive avenue the one hundred years this secrecy attracted some of
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the world's mega rich to the country now to qualify for the flat rate tax deal or not for the rich are not actually allowed to work in the country but must have a net wealth of at least two million dollars and this is them has attracted more than five thousand affluent x. patches to this nation of only eight million people including. twain now well they are foreigners collectively gave seven hundred million dollars in federal and local taxes mitt is that could be going into their home treasuries bar this cozy arrangement may soon be a thing of the passes the e.u. caps down as such juicy tax incentives the e.u. is also piling pressure on members luxembourg and austria as well as san marino and dora and monaco which are actually not members of the union now luxembourg recently changed its chain just last month that actually agreeing to lift the secrecy rules
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for european union citizens who have savings that. so what all these times haven countries actually expected to do that well quite simply exposed the e.u. won't be able to check out by tea towels of any individual whenever they want without requesting permission fust and considering in cyprus the banks were worth seven times as much as the country's g.d.p. other luxemburg for example that was twenty two times more the situation could be catastrophic than if you put it in that way so in a walled bank his secrets on no longer kept these havens may have to find another why to seduce the rates. where the latest figures suggest the eurozone is sliding deeper into recession but while the hunt for tax evaders has done little to save the economy so far it has on earth several scandals involving top politicians and business men could be many more to come if indeed the veil of secrecy is lifted
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test for our city over points. because of this increased efforts from e.u. leaders and the pressure being piled on them there have been a couple of scandals that are derisive over here one of them in france which involves general he's a former budget minister who had had to step down from his position because he had lied about having an offshore account and is also under investigation for possible tax fraud now over in germany another prominent figure who was the boss of one of the world's biggest football clubs by in munich also admitted to being involved in tax fraud and is under investigation so as efforts to increase among leaders we can possibly expect some more big names to come out as such now also recently we know that there has been a massive leak of data to the international consortium for investigative journalists now this data includes and they will some of the world's wealthiest people the politicians all the guards very public figures which reveal
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a lot of their wealth parked in the various offshore accounts in the world no journalists have been sifting through this information but so have governments including the british and the american governments leading to some sort of a global effort which is precisely what the e.u. wants to lead to they really want to make this a global exchange of relevant banking data as they say so as we have seen them really impose strongly on cyprus we can expect some political pressure to be piled on the likes of switzerland and liechtenstein as they start these talks and as leaders try to find ways to bring back some of that money to deal with the crisis that they're in. now investor jim rogers he told my colleague bill thought that instead of trying to crack the tax havens perhaps leaders should address the real problems for example by checking their own unchecked spending habits. it's a shame that the politicians don't say gosh we made mistakes why don't we solve the
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problems ourselves what they're doing is they're trying to grab more money from their own citizens some of them may not be innocent citizens i certainly agree and they should be paying their taxes but there is a heightened awareness now because all of these countries have huge deficits but instead of cutting their spending and cutting the deficit what they're now doing is spending all this money trying to order other people around to help them collect more money and i'll ask you about tax evasion though is it really the cause of europe's financial problems no it's not the problem with with europe europe's got a gigantic spending problem and you think all of these countries are going down the tubes because of tax evasion no is going down the tubes because politicians keep spending money they don't have making promises to spend money to people that need money or that as for money no it's massive deficit spending that's where they should be addressing things that's the brill problem in europe and that's what they should be trying to do something about well some politicians might be sneaking that
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money away but they still want to know about it everybody else is so later in the program here and we look at how the prospering and independent online currency bitcoin is now worried the u.s. government and building a wall in europe that's going to rock or see that's coming up not to be missed. but all the recent flurry of diplomatic efforts to end the violence in syria seems the u.n. chief meet the russian president on friday about a mean person has already held talks with the u.s. secretary of state and the british and israeli leaders following it all in the russian resort city of sochi is all too easy to go to school. the u.n. secretary general is already in sochi and like you said he's ready to meet with both russia's foreign minister and the president continuing this diplomatic marathon with been witnessing since earlier russia was visited by u.s. secretary of state and british and israeli prime ministers and other officials with
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syria dominating the talks and perhaps we're now witnessing a shift in the approach by many nations to the situation since they're now talking about putting together this joint conference which would include both of the syrian rebels and the authorities however several stumbling blocks still remain and uploading to russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov the syrian opposition is still a very divided and it's unclear right now who can represent it as a whole at this conference and also secondly the rebels are still voicing preconditions as it's. played in contrast to the syrian government which has responded quite positively to the russian american initiative the opposition's on that was quite they they said that they welcome any initiatives that will help stop the violence but before that assad must go. stones which has been the cause of the deadlock for many months. now there's also another problem with the united states and when the u.s. secretary of state john kerry was in russia it seemed that they were on the same
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page with moscow but as soon as he left he again called for president assad to step down and promise to increase the support of the rebels something which was recently backed by president obama so there are definitely things to talk about before the u.n. secretary general here in sochi and of course we'll be keeping you updated throughout the day. well plans for a peace conference on syria backed by moscow and washington are rather serious contrasts the latest u.n. resolution sponsored by arab states the document clearly favors the opposition despite recent evidence of atrocities committed by rebel groups it also ignores statistics suggesting that when anti regime supporters get international help the death toll skyrockets argues andrew farmer explains this week russia criticised the un general assembly resolution on syria saying it was a one sided text which condemned president assad's regime without leveling blame on opposition forces who are also being accused of atrocities verifying evidence is
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difficult but there's been a surge in videos posted online that appear to show brutality by both sides this is among the latest members of the syrian opposition executing eleven government troops it took place in the city of they all saw in the northeast of the country and a few days earlier these shocking images were released a syrian rebel fighter seemingly cuts out the heart and lung of a dead uniformed soldier an act that was even condemned by the syrian opposition but fail to draw strong criticism from the un general assembly some analysts say it demonstrates the un selective stance on the conflict the u.n. resolution also expressed outrage at the rapidly increasing death toll it is estimated eighty thousand people have been killed so far in syria but let's look at the statistics in more detail provided by activists creech they argue the death toll peak when gold states and the u.s. sent more weapons to the region then fell when arms were limited before increasing
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once again when more weapons were supplied it may be a simple correlation but nonetheless suggests arming the syrian opposition may be causing more bloodshed. well u.s. authorities have frozen the account of the world's largest bitcoin exchange it ultimately helps to move the customers cash online now the booming digital currency because it bureaucratic blocks ever since its rapid growth came to the attention of the government the explanation a very well needed one as well as marine a fortnight of reports the u.s. government has made no secret of the fact that it is keeping a close eye on that point but now it appears that the close eye includes a crackdown on the decentralized digital currency the department of homeland security sees the company known as to wallop which allows customers to transfer their u.s. dollars into the points on tuesday washington shut down while his ability to process point payments now the u.s.
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warrant alleges that my old bass company was operating as an on the license money transmitting business because to wallow wasn't registered with the with the department of treasury's financial crimes enforcement network now some economists believe the timing of this case is no planes at sea the popularity and press surrounding that point is skyrocketing and the use of electronic currency is growing more appealing to investors and customers around the world this of course threatens the long held grip that governments and banks have had on currency regulation and interest rate manipulation this new york city farce last restaurant behind to be known as ever began its sceptic point last month so far the midtown business has reportedly processed more than twenty thousand dollars worth of transactions in the morning now while wall street remains less than eight kilometers away from here the financial industry to its disappointment is far
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removed from the way in which the business of that point is operating according to new york very important r.t. or let's have a quick look now. bitcoins background to see why the u.s. government is so worried about the independent currency of the concept was for us floated in two thousand and eight the idea basically being for users to avoid buying when transferring cash directly between each other customers worldwide can spend a bit of coins on all sorts of things ultimately without having to pay the normal high fees it's no wonder the u.s. government wants to get its hands on your money is it not possible to spend money and make money without the government taking a punch for itself. now the currency value here is you can see there is a spike in the value here but it absolutely shot down when the u.s. government got involved there all blaming it on bureaucratic red tape in the u.s. government trying to steal and penny pincher we spoke to a journalist we believe the u.s. doesn't want financial control to slip out of its hands since in the one nine
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hundred seventy one when the u.s. came off the gold standard the dollar hasn't been linked to gold it hasn't been linked to anything if you have a piece of paper you know it says in god we trust on it that actually is in the government we trust that piece of paper isn't absolutely meaningless you're putting your trust into banks and central authority is a big point is a whole new idea of money where the money is basically regulated by network and by people and i think that with people kind of losing trusting governments the idea of something like that coin is really gaining in popularity and people are beginning to realize what they are actually all these dollars in my pocket and then they're no more real as a currency than something like they call it. or and we're back with more news here on r.t. including the world hope you can stay with us for just a moment. stream
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a free media. thank you very much for joining us here on this friday i'm in a moscow as iraq is in the grip of violence the latest suicide bombing claimed at least twenty five lives in the city of kirkuk that's to the north of the country the suffering that made worse by crippled infrastructure and shortages of electricity and drinking water. so why one of the world's most oil rich nations still lacks basic services ten years after saddam hussein. it is the land between twin rivers ancient day mesopotamia modern day iraq and in baghdad there's no shortage of ways in which water is used to wash cars to clean shop fronts to store freshly caught fish before their gutted for sale everything it seems except
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drinking it personally nobody drinks the city will try because i know it's not clean since my wife had to lie on the books on what comes out of it happens contaminated it makes us sick how can we drink. water is just one of the many services that still lagging and post-war iraq despite years of promises and billions of dollars spent on reconstruction many neighborhoods lack sewage systems there's no trash collection in some settlements there are barely any streets iraq's central power is sometimes on for as little as two hours a day this mess of wires is a common scene all across iraq it connects homes to private generators people have to buy electricity to cope with the hours of daily blackouts ten years after the war it's a symbol for much of what's wrong with a rock a crumbling infrastructure a libel services and a tangled web of bill walker sea and corruption. the energy crisis has meant more work for all who mariya and electrician who says he
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now earns about four times as much as he did before the war the grid is in shambles and breakdowns are frequent but he says the government is simply not serious about fixing it. it's the citizens who suffer in the end not the government the services are so bad the power system has really deteriorated there were billions spent on fixing the grid but there's little to show for it. the government has promised improvements in public services but officials say it's a monumental task the infrastructure has been put to the neglected end of the previous regimes and the damage is enormous there is a need to rebuild everything and that's requires tens of billions of dollars but the dollars are flowing along with and largely because of the oil that's what accounts for most of the revenue in iraq's one hundred nineteen billion dollar budget here at the college we're flying reproduction of more than doubled in the past year alone and that to grow even higher growth while industry has been touted
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as one of the few bright spots in a country that has been playing by violence and the rampant corruption transparency international ranks iraq as the eighth most corrupt country in the world which in part helps to explain why services are still lagging most of the reconstruction money was squandered through fraud and abuse just one example the government awarded one point seven billion dollars worth of fake electricity contracts it's a paradox that frustrates many iraqis theirs is one of the wealthiest pieces of land on earth but its people are some of the forest. nowhere is that contrast more stark when here the landfill on the edge of baghdad many of the families living here have been displaced by the war but now they're waging a daily battle just to survive services are simply nonexistent conditions a horrible there are no schools for the kids who have no electricity no real houses get a drink also we have to travel for columbus's it's very difficult to live here for
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now they must remain among the refuse uncertain like the rest of iraq as to what will come on the winds of change lucy catherine of r.t.e. baghdad iraq. well there are many more stories and videos for you online of course including a medical breakthrough a new technology. from cloned human embryos opening completely new horizons and treating red diseases but to be expected it's not without controversy it's tell you why on the web site. also there for you from background checks on internet to tattoo to u.k. consulates around the world. from citizens abroad and what else is on the request list if you want to that is on our web site.
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more news today. these are the images. from the streets of canada. day. now starting with. one of the boston marathon bombing suspects he reportedly left a note claiming responsibility for the attacks he wrote while on the run from police saying the blasts were for the u.s. wars in iraq and afghanistan three people were killed more than two hundred injured in two explosions near the finish line of the boston right. and to bolivia where mine is teachers and health service workers have again clashed with police during a general strike now union members from the police force itself are threatening to join the protesters as part of their actions the strikers have decimated dynamite in the capital block the streets of the biggest union pensions valued at one
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hundred percent of a worker's salary. now a new crackdown on illegal song downloads in the u.k. set to begin leading body representing the national record industry is now deciding if it will take legal action to block citizens from accessing dozens of file sharing sites and salty surface explains there are doubts over how effective any new measures could be. well record labels could be about to launch the biggest battle yet against pirate sites and what's alleged will be the main blocking blitz in the ongoing fight against websites that files and infringe on music copyright the british internet service providers all. ready in the recent past been asked to look at websites certain websites that are illegally file sharing music now it's thought that the british industry trade body. he launched the previous successful
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legal action is set to take a third wave of action now bt i haven't yet responded to this latest edition but it's food that would be targeting sites such is the us based file sharing site greaves what would that mean well for british consumers of the music industry they won't be able to access these sites any more this action is aimed at targeting the casual illegal download or of course for the hardcore pirates they'll simply move on it's thought to the vast away of websites that you have out there at the moment so already questions being raised as to just how effective any legal action would be certainly is seems that these fire sharing sites are the previous ever more popular are next for the chopping board is this music industry attempts to continue this crackdown on other legal file sharing. and also a contributor afshin rattansi he says that by threatening to take on file sharing sites that the british phonographic industry is just trying to maintain its
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position in the music market. what the b.p.i. is actually doing is not for artists or the public it's a grotesque maneuver in trying to maintain control over not only their control of the within corporate music and popular culture but also to retain their control over distribution and let's not forget these big majors universal e.m.i. that are fighting all the time they are doing backdoor deals with the big people that control the internet more obligated google amazon the same people that are in parliament in london for voiding taxes on a spectacular scale they are the people doing the backroom deals of the big corporate music providers to this b.b. i maneuver seemingly would stop the small independent doing a deal with a small internet company what we need is a very different way to benefit artists and people love music and the leader of the
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u.k.'s pirate party lots k he told us the record industry's heavy handed approach is just doomed to failure. if recent reports are rolling it it looks like we could be facing an on floor to where blackouts here in the united kingdom what we've seen is that the tactic is first to go after high profile sites like pirate bay. but what we've seen is from twenty to twelve that hasn't helped music sales are told that actually albin cell phone ten percent so we've seen how useless this approach is essentially what we're seeing this is about the record labels trying to keep trying to remain gatekeepers and actually push companies out but this approach will not work it's going to alienate a generation of music lovers and only it's going to perhaps end up radicalizing internet users this is not we want. it's good to have you with us here
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today still to come for you off to a very quick break in the guantanamo bay hunger strike goes on pause the one hundred day mark the daily dose of torture continues to look far more likely than a fair trial or reneges. is it turning into an overblown scandal or a reflection of a foreign policy poorly thought out and executed the terrorist attack on the american diplomatic outpost in benghazi last september has become a political football to attack the obama administration and hillary clinton mistakes were made but is the proper focus on the most the breaches ones. more news today violence is once again flared up. in these are the images the world
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has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule today. choose your language. of holy week over the influential going to say still some not . choose good news but consensus you can. choose the opinions that you think great to. choose the stories that in high life choose me access to often. thanks for much for joining us here on out c i'm real research i live in moscow the prisoners at guantanamo majority of them are on hunger strike they've been
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protesting for over one hundred days now in their bid to get either a fair trial or to secure their release is gone h. to can file this report. after years of the inaction injustice and indifference and after more than three months of starvation autonomy detainees have finally got the president's attention i'm going to go back at this they've heard these words before as president i will close guantanamo reject the military commissions act and if you go to the geneva conventions and now again it needs to be closed now congress and again as many times before the white house if it were sponsibility to congress there's much you can do administrative leave without congress without having legislative act even under current restrictions the administration has the power to use national security waivers to release many of these men which it hasn't used it's the charge that well the fear that if you release some of these prisoners that have been accused of
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being terrorist in the past and and they do something else or you find them going into terrorist organizations you pay a heavy political price for that so many of these men have fallen victim not just to their wrongful capture but also to u.s. politicians assumptions of what they may or may not do in the future but you can or you can or will people want to maybe you know this is a we're not future police here so far the administration's only response to the question is of course carnival has been to force feeding troops down detainees nostrils the fact of the matter is that when an individual makes a decision of sound mind makes a decision to refuse food as a political protest then as we said in a joint statement it is not open to the states in a second chance to force them to do each. and the full speeding here involves the insertion of a tube of some significant on the diameter through the nasal passages and into the
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stomach in the most horrible of circumstances the un special rapporteur on human rights also told me that he was encouraged to. here the president once again expressed commitment to close the infamous prison president of united states has kuantan a moser problem and yet on the ground for some reason the administration continues to treat these men in humanely and to deny their basic dignity for years the administration has engaged in verbal and legal acrobatics to justify its inaction on guantanamo and still not clear how long before people there start dying but one thing is clear the elephant in the room just got too big to ignore in washington i'm going to shut down. and detainees are saying that the conditions are being made worse by water deprivation and isolation in cold cells here at r.t. we spoke to beg he was detained at the prison for a while he believes years of isolation and much more torture than the abuse itself
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you have to remember that these people have gone through these people going through a whole series of different types of prisons from being in a in a prison massacre. from being in kandahar where people tortured to death to guantanamo is camp x. ray where they were in chicken wire friend tenses to camp delta to now comes five six and seven so it has changed it's been a progression and the and the steady and rapid. eating away the erosion of the personal psyche has taken its toll so if at the end of this process now they put them into a decent prison with some decent living standards it doesn't take away from the fact of the past eleven years the torture the use and everything else because peripheral of that and it's a strange situation where torture is peripheral which force feeding is peripheral where the fact that you cannot not have meaningful communication with your family is peripheral the fact that you are sexually. and when you are searched every time your lawyer comes and nothing can be more exaggerated than hearing that your child who you've never seen in your life is now going to be eleven years old that's not
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exaggerated that's the truth that nobody wants to face up to. and attorney participatory who's in regular contact with the eight detainees that she represents and she says the military is brutal waves to serve only to strengthen her client's resolve. i think what we're seeing as a deliberate tactic. to break the strike i think is these toxic tactics of solitary confinement whose body searches among other things and used to pressure the man to break the strike i think that camp ministrations response since that in terms of conditions at the camps denying what's happening defending their actions entirely have actually just deep into the minds result to continue and one on one point i want to correct as a factual matter is transitions that guantanamo right now are not the same they are not you have most of them now and they are protesting for over three months in conditions of solitary confinement so there is not only
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a problem. and it's illegal detention without charge at one time right now but a question of serious serious questions about the united states is compliance with the geneva conventions in terms of humane treatment that they are in twenty to twenty four hour solitary confinement right now. for the hunger for justice has seen little reaction from washington so far put her do you think the inmates will eventually get what they demand and that's the question we're asking right now what are you taught to come of course roy is inviting you to get involved with those stories we love your input from our t. dot com here we go so the vote is with us our. saying is going to result in a tightening of those screws it will only lead to further methods of torture and isolation of guantanamo bay prison camp over a third saying well next it's going to be fatalities that deaths are inevitable down to about eight percent are perhaps a bit optimistic but very few people think and perhaps it will end up with a closure or get most to five percent well perhaps the american military get most will make major concessions not
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a terribly hopeful set of data there from dot com you can still get involved and cost your vote now the tactic of force feeding the protesting inmates has caused an avalanche of criticism from human rights activists around the world especially after a leaked report about how exactly it's all being done. what i'm about to describe to you is not torture these are the details of force feeding by prison guards in guantanamo which were made public in the leaked report first of all the feeding process itself involves handcuffs and mask and belong to the inmates are cuffed to a chair then a guard covers their head with a mask officially to prevent speeding and biting and insert a tube into their nose prisoners have reported several cases when they nearly suffocated because the tube was pushed too deep into their nostril once this is over inmates are taken to their cell where they are forbidden from drinking water or vomiting the nutritional liquid there is even a special guard who oversees that the inmate keeps it all inside if they do for up
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they are punished by being placed in a restraint chair to break this hunger strike prison authorities have attempted to separate the protesting inmates over one hundred men have been thrown into solitary cells to as it was put by prison officials prevent them from achieving solidarity it seems this move did not bear fruit despite the core of the protesters being isolated from other prisoners the number of hunger strikers has only increased the medical condition of some of them has seriously deteriorated but they complain that they are not receiving proper medical assistance reports from within the walls of guantanamo suggest that prison doctors blindly follow the orders of the military rather than acting according to their medical oath something that violates international acknowledged rights of a prisoner but those fortunate enough to have had the doctor's attention hardly feel in safe hands according to the experts the choice of medication is somewhat bewildering as if to not cure the various health conditions caused by a lengthy hunger strike but rather to facilitate force feeding one of the drugs
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used is fairly grand which deals with north sea of vomiting and it can also act as a sleep aid another one is reglan which treats heartburn and known for neurological side effects so long term use and all of that is added to the prison guards acting without the consent of inmates who legally have the right to refuse medical treatment but in the case of guantanamo there is a special rule which puts force feeding on the same level as forced medical aid. the lecture to shift the reporting that the prison spokesman however has repeatedly argued that force feeding is legal and necessary dr stevens and the retired brigadier general and the medical officer he disagrees says that ultimately even force feeding won't prevent the deaths of nine mates i think we're going to sadly tragically we're going to see some deaths the main these men have you know been in detention now eleven years or so a number of got medical conditions they've aged they have you know they're not they're not all that healthy and when you've got over
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a hundred at least of the hundred sixty six. got some medical problems i think it's going to be sad but i think we're going to see that some of them are going to die is a medical officer in the united states military is one obligated to follow orders in terms of things that they may find that may might find morally questionable no i mean they're not and i think it's a tough choice and it may mean that the military physician risks his career or risks you know any advancement but they're not they are clearly in fact expected not to in any way defy or violate what they feel are their professional principles and ethics or in fact to abandon order that they consider illegal and hear it on t.v. also talk to the tenant conal barry when god military attorney he's out of the guantanamo bay he ultimately says there is a full scale campaign organized in the jail to try and discredit the hunger strike
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. well i tell you there's a strategy going on here in guantanamo bay it's a two fold strategy one is a public relations effort by the camp officials to invite anybody. willing to tell me their story and has done a real fine job misspeaking not interviewing a single prisoner regurgitating exactly what the capitals here want you to take here the second part of the strategy seems to be the kind that seems cracked where we have the mass majority of prison prisoners in lockdown where we see these new id searches for speeding that are being more and more aggressive it's weak you know under the national defense authorization act the president can the ability through the secretary to sign a waiver to get some of these women out of here he can do it without congress one. bombing administration we need to do more than top if they're we're clearly talking
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about helping the other opposition parties it's going to be some bureaucratic layer down from the white house but no it's not going to work we don't need another divisional free we need at the white house level on the way to get things done beyond the bureaucracy of the department at the department. now if you continue to follow the hunger strike on air and online a full account of the situation available on our web site on t.v. dot com that's including comments from a prison officials detainees attorneys the activists of course all the latest updates as well as you can see right here in the graphics the numbers of hunger strike has continued to rise and rise. well it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today still to come daniel bushell pulls no punches as he examines the big stories outside the mainstream media in just a second but truth seeker. a
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fairly dickinson university study has been revealed to twenty nine percent of americans think that a revolution won't just happen in america but needs to be done in order to protect individual liberty if respondents consider themselves conservative than that number is bumped up to forty four percent that's nearly half also fox news found out that since nine eleven the percent of americans willing to sacrifice their personal freedom to reduce the threat of terrorism is at an all time low this number might sound trivial but it only takes a tiny percent of the population actually start a revolution i mean how many communists were in russia at the start of nine hundred seventeen and how many were there at the end revolution may sound like a nice thing to a growing number of people but the media wrongly portrays revolution as some fun
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video game battle where freedom fighters toppled a statue of the dictator and then democracy just instantly comes about and life is good and happy i ask you to ignore movies like v. for vendetta and look at history revolutions cause horrible destruction that could take decades to repair i guess what when your economy collapses because a revolt infrastructure breaks down and the shelves go bare also professional revolutionaries get their supplies from somebody and a foreign powers were to say fundamental can revolutionaries they would want something in return aloha and goodbye alaska if you look at history then you'll see that revolution is brutal and ugly and it's truly the last resort but still is a resort but that's just my opinion. real damage and complexity of this oil spill was not something you can grasp just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this
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directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil this is a huge step backwards for the marker c. it's a step forward for oligarchy carex it is toxic is a look a lot like spraying in vietnam it was it was not a picture that either the government or b.p. really wanted to have out there i don't want dispersants to be the agent. of this boils.
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more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images cobol has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are old today. one of the new bush will the chickens come home to roost for america's global that cloister coming up washington makes the states take wall street's kiss of death. president assassinated. how nations fall into to kill or trap.
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one cup to this convo russia turned to washington for help the white house met to destroy the worst possible advice. we have to smash them into the ground we want to feed them bad economic advice so they will fall apart shock therapy they decided the worst was ready to go in the oil it wall street mess that destruction of the nation's industry over lloyd's pensions and savings wiped out the i missed of all speculators a lead team will st jude the stoles joint raids filtering the market and still current state congress was informed it worked like a dream. the i.m.f. has a presided over a catastrophe worse than our own great depression russia opened itself to dependence on money it had been creating itself before the wolf got in the door and i.

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