spanish find out more visit. don't break up with britain the charm offensive to keep scotland part of the u.k. is on the foreign secretary hague giving a keynote speech to the scots ahead of their independence referendum. protesters in brazil gear up for what they promise will be their biggest rally yet off the government fails to curb beyond by reversing a public transport hikes. and stop the force feeding of hunger strikers in guantanamo around the globe called on president obama told the other prisoners independent medical care.

international news twenty four hours a day without. u.k. government is campaigning to win hearts and minds in scotland head of its historic referendum on independence secretary william hague is now giving a speech in edinburgh to persuade the scots this say first stronger and better off with britain. firth reports he has his work cut out u.k. risking the loss of scottish oil assets if the us prevails. of course it's a stance of change that's exactly what they say within the yes campaign those who want to see an independent scotland want to bring about say he's westminster dominating economic policy dominating resources and they say they want to break that stranglehold now they're being political with both sides it's within the yes campaign for example has pointed to recent treasury reports in which independent

scotland was placed in the same category is iceland cyprus and ireland all of which of course have had economic crises and now those within the yes campaign say these sort of tactics are scaremongering to try and persuade more people to vote against independence of course no more physically this is the day to run independence get played out than in the discussion when it comes to oil now this we saw a senior member of government is missing that where scotland to become independent it would have a major resource on its hands another member of government would go as far as to say that possibly in the past the u.k. government had downplayed the value of that asset it's quite hard to get a gauge when you hear of exactly where school fish people are placed it's quite a divided mix well recent polls show almost

a third of scots would like to break up with britain with the yes vote support reaching its highest level in most two years around sixty percent would still vote no wave one in ten scots some decided my colleague kevin no one spoke to scottish m.p.'s. he says he's certain scotland would cope well without the u k. london should be well practiced in this the empire has gone the colonies have gone about fifty nations have become independent of london london's an old hand at this and ireland's moved on doesn't want to come back even the tiny island man of the coast of the u.k. doesn't want to be ruled from london either so you know they're going through a process and that may be good for a learning curve the find it difficult yet again but of course the practicalities to consider as well i think one how you going to fund yourself is the. balance the books the u.k. government releases at this paper warning scotland will suffer a banking collapse just like cyprus or ireland if it becomes independent what's that the united kingdom government should be well aware that they haven't funded themselves in two thousand and one is twelve years they haven't balance the books

scotland is actually eight point four percent of you keep operation paying nine point nine percent of the taxation of the u.k. we're very confident we can pay when we are but incidentally we also believe england can too one thing is certain this independence of scotland is going through like the other hundred forty two you know that went through in the past scotland is probably the best planned ever i can think of another nation that's gone through so much planning and so much cross-examination in the lead up to its independence so all bodes well for the future on the scare mongering story such as how could scotland pay for itself for goodness sakes it's absolute nonsense. and while the u.k. has been warning scotland it could suffer financial collapse if it goes it alone but its banks appear to be struggling to balance the books and raise billions of to cover their risks according to a warning from the u.k.'s financial regulator a report on that just a few minutes. i was on rest continues to rattle

brazil the country's authorities have reversed their decision to increase public transport fares but the u.-turn seems to have come too late to these demonstrators are angry over the government's high spending on hosting next year's football world cup health care patients remain severely underfunded the rallies are believed to be the most violent in a decade the biggest day of protests so far as promised for thursday county's ignacio we're now on the other arrest. brazil is still under pressure due to the unprecedented public protests which have been taking place all over the country for the past ten days conflicts more to support itself follow where there have been recent by human rights as the demonstrators tried to take over the local government's main building where they faced off with the police the brazilian government said it will deploy the national public security force in five cities hosting the fee for football tournament in an effort to contain the ongoing

protests in the city of at least two people have been injured nearest stadium were riot police attempted to prevent them from entering the site the demonstrators fled after being tear gassed the demonstrators main grievances the increase in public transport fees in several brazilian cities and also the extraordinary public back to it for the two thousand and fourteen world cup eight cities including sao paulo and rio de janeiro have been forced by the demonstrations to abandon the transport free rights however thousands of people that have been joining the protests. introduced new complaints towards president dilma rousseff government such as what day defined as the poor conditions of the education and heard your systems president rousseff started that she was impressed with the demonstrations which according to her are taken into account by her government says they represent the country has a working democracy however protesters have decided to remain on the streets and

organize your rallies until definitive solution to day concerns is found. don't forget you can always head to r.t. dot com for more pictures and videos of the protest in the first rally to the violent storm which is gathering now i saw just a click away. now one of the men who signed a letter to president obama has done today the mcallen academic at the university of london he says that letting prisoners have a traditional process is the only way to end hunger strike which has dragged on there for nearly six months there are. operating in guantanamo but those who are really operating on the instruction of military personnel and conducting procedure is really unlawful by

international law the force feeding of people who have chosen to undertake a hunger strike has been determined by. george bush's. council itself as a form of torture itself. so what we're asking for is independent external doctors from the outside able to assess the condition of these hunger strikers and toshi work hand in hand with the medical personnel in quite a number of this hunger strike is being undertaken by many of the business. with thought and consideration it's been expressed as openly and is about there are only real protesting what is really an illegal tension is not about their release right now it's really about providing them with recourse to judicial process. so that's all that these prisoners i really i really requesting that

amount. of press the banner should hold the force feeding of detainees at guantanamo or allow prisoners to receive in the pendant medical care is required by the un well as a message from an international group of doctors who are concerned over the hunger strike at the facility which is well into its fifth month going to church account has the details now. way and the world medical association demand access for independent doctors to guantanamo detainees more than one hundred fifty doctors including from the u.s. have signed an open letter to grok obama urging him to allow access to independent medical examinations and bodies here's what they write it is clear that the detainees do not trust their military doctors they have very good reason for this as you should know from the current protocols of the joint task force one tunnel which those doctors are ordered to follow the orders they receive or ultimately orders as their commander in chief without trust safe and acceptable medical care of mentally competent patients is impossible for the above mentioned protocols

described the procedure of force feeding that the doctors are obliged to administer at guantanamo it involves a tube inserted through the nose and down the throat of the detainees on hunger strike and those who are being force fed at guantanamo describe it as a very painful procedure to which they gave no consent actually it is the opinion of the u.n. commission on human rights that force feeding is a lawful and torture when it's clear that it's a protest and a last resort for the detainees because before the hunger strike became impossible to ignore one ton of the was out of sight out of mind and washington was happy to keep it that way the u.n. has repeatedly called on the obama administration to stop the practice of force feeding and fix the underlying issue of this hunger strike which is indefinite detention the entire international community has called on the us to either try these people or let them go shopping tubes down their noses doesn't fix the problem . we just had

a report on the risks of the u.k.'s financial health. well look. it's a technology innovation called the list of elements from around russia we've. covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything is all. i'm trying hard welcome to the big picture.

download the official publication. choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just. now with your mobile device you can watch your t.v. anytime anywhere. in the u.k. and financial health is at risk but it's top banks and you have billions of pounds to fill a hole in the balance sheets revelation by the country's financial regulator comes shortly after a report calling for criminal punishments for bank reckless misconduct. in london to look at the troubles of britain's banking sector. this twenty seven billion pounds that's about forty two billion u.s. dollars that banks need to find to fill in that gaping hole is what financial

regulators had found basing it on the new guidelines that was agreed upon by international central banks after the two thousand and eight financial crisis if we remember we saw then the collapse of some of the world's biggest financial institutions some of the media bailouts taxpayers' money getting involved there and this report that we know that the guideline says that now two percent previously two percent of the equity that banks should have has been raised to seven percent thereby creating this hole in the balance sheets of what concerns financial regulators most right now is the world bank of scotland r.b.s. having a thirteen point six billion pound a hole to plug and let's not forget r.b.s. is already eighty one percent old by the government after having received a bailout so this is certainly a sensitive topic when it comes to the bank banking or performance and how they actually manage their finances and this is again on the back of that report coming

from an independent commission set up to investigate behavior of reckless behavior as you pointed out called changing the banking of for good at this if it is passed into law could mean that some baxter's bankers that are accused of reckless behavior could be sent to jail it also questions puts accountability of governments and regulators to implement these laws so as not to render all of them but useless and trying to find a twenty seven billion a palace the question there is will the measures that the banks have already put forward r.b.s. and barclays saying they're confident they will be able to plug this hole will those measures be enough or will there be a need to go again to external funding and once taxpayers' money gets involved it will certainly a few hit a few nerves that once again the question is who is going to be footing the bill at the end of the day. well if you missed something on air you can always catch up on our headlines are much more online it's a quick look at what's lined up view there today on american mega founder kim

dotcom that reverses roles in accuses the u.s. government what he calls the largest massacre dater in the history of the internet find out what got him up in arms dot com. so there today the world's fastest growing economy goes to extremes for a cleaner future as china introduces the death penalty to break nations around mental protection rules. some other news making headlines around the world this hour for you now. starting with a turbulent afghanistan where at least thirty two hundred militants have been killed in a u.s. raid hours earlier the taliban claimed responsibility for the deadly assault on an american base tit for tat action comes at a time when the shaky peace process is under threat president karzai cutting off taught us from a new security deal move comes a reaction to washington's u.

turn decision to enter direct negotiations with the taliban. singapore is choking in huge amounts of smog levels of pollution in the air breaking all previous records in the city the skew in the haze and the smell of burning wood hangs in the air is believed to have come from indonesian forest fires and is now forecast to blanket the region for weeks and phenomena has become a point of contention between the two countries trading accusations with each other . the co-founder of file sharing website the pirate bay has been sentenced to two years in jail or home is accused of hacking and online money for twenty eight year old however denies all the allegations against him on tuesday a swedish court ruled that bird can be extradited to denmark where you face several extra charges that downloading a large number of files from

a danish police database. the recent comments from a senior israeli cabinet members expressing skepticism over a two state solution that prompted angry responses and a student president little bursts accuse israel of trying to avoid peace israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu tried to distance himself from the comments but this war of words means little to scores of suffering palestinians whose homes are being blocked off by walls of thick concrete bodies paula still reports. the walls might be coming down in the rest of the world but here in israel they're going up there's one along the country's border with egypt there's a fifty one kilometer one around gaza there's one in the pipeline next to jordan and the newest friend here is being fortified along the lebanese and syrian borders and then there's the most famous the controversial so-called separation wall that encircles the west bank of course it was the fact that israel is defending itself

and preparing itself for possible future attacks towards the borders of israel and assess it and also it seems from attacks even closer to home it's not only on the borders but also here inside israel twenty minutes away from tel aviv jews and arabs have lived side by side in the israeli city of lard for generations but in one part of the city they're now living on opposite sides of a concrete wall we met a time a horn on the jewish side he builds wars for a living but they usually the decorative type used for exhibitions and parties he and his jewish neighbors battled hard even dipping into their own pockets to build this wall our neighbors next door. they are making a lot of trouble to us the people here there are farmers and they have land growing . with or something else and they used to. burn everything.

drugs they come to our house. for inventing. drugs they want a lot has the highest homicide rate in israel police say it's because of infighting among arab families but the families say that's nonsense you know there is no reason to build this war besides racism they build it because we are arabs it bothers me they did not leave us any room and they do not even on this land. abdullah is one of those who now finds himself on the wrong side of the wall. of the jews fear arabs and always build a wall if there are no arabs they don't build a wall that israelis argue they was all meant to keep terrorism and illegal infiltration out both dropped ninety percent after the barriers went up but palestinians insist the wars keep them under siege and are used as an excuse for annexing palestinian land wars in the name of the game of his. virtual wars and

real wars the feeling is that it's. more and more getting into the ghetto there is terror would be the war there are immigrants from africa will be the war every single be sold by building a war and above all the world is against us let's win the war israel's physical isolation gets clearer by the day a country there could soon be completely enclosed by steel concrete and barbed wire policy are forty in large city israel. a crime of well business are in st petersburg looking for ways to boost economic growth to form the global financial system and strengthen trade. agreements that an economic forum where she's been speaking to maria vander hovan international energy agency about one of the most contentious areas of development optical. the arctic might now is seen as

a lifeline in these growing times of energy the montanists fragile economy that we're in at the moment so right now i've got maria found a hive in silk about this the head of the i.a.e.a. from a seed in sasso energy agency so tell me to think that the key arctic nations will work together to use these missiles is o.t.c. potential competition and complex coming as a result of everyone trying to get in on that well i hope to work together and i think it's important they work together because everybody's looking at the arctic so magnifying glasses so what ever happens there will be scrutinized immediately and will be seen immediately by the world so i think it's a vehicle supports and other countries engaged in the arctic and having be part of the arctic all working together and what about china them because we know that china wants to get a foothold into the arctic if it does manage to do that do you think that the balance of power will change the point is that whatever happens with always out

china there there will be there will be this need for cooperation and if there will be expertise gas and oil in the arctic with or without china you have to do with in an environmentally sustainable way otherwise it doesn't work and you've quite some specific technology for being. for for drilling in the arctic for piquancy now it's only in the ball field above on yankel and i've been there i would there we really see what's what's happening at the gas from east to is doing this so that kind of technology is has to be used but has also to be sold at the further because it's very very difficult it's difficult because those well the for else it's difficult because of the situation is such the other and for environmental concerns and it's difficult because the whole world is watching. now there are just a few hours left before the moscow international film festival kicks off with hollywood legend brad pitt expected to premiere his new movie in the russian

capital well our very own stocks have i must say is on the red carpet at the venue and joins us now are looking very sparkly there togs what's happening at a high expectations out there tell us all about it. you know i've carried before i think it was happening behind me i just wanted to bring a little bit of that the let's back to the glamour here on the red carpet at the end world. mostly international film festival the crowd though you celebrities already bracing the red carpet it's just been incredible up to you thank goodness it's not raining but i want to tell you a little bit about this film festival we have it's amazing three hundred over three hundred fourteen films in about ten days just incredible films from foreign films t.v. to russia and. you know the film festival has developed no it's just become such a big deal around the world that you have like brad pitt coming down you'd think

you know what i want to work that way comedy here in russia in my heart but let me show you that i'm not alone i'll go it alone with our very own i like to be the entertainment expert martin and martin nothing stop ever ready to see you tell everybody impossible actually say that i think my favorite dress i've seen so far to be the one in front of me i have a young guy the last box a young diver under a car but what i want to talk about the importance of this film festival started back in the soviet union i think ninety ninety five it's just the ballot into this annual amazing you know event that we have but i think the first question to trust is even though it's been a actually started in one nine hundred thirty five but it's actually the only the thirty fifth festival why is that last because it started in one thousand touched by that if i were the oldest in the world up but he didn't predict. it's a force until nine hundred fifty nine and then alternated every single year and then after the fall of the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred five it's then

now an annual event where as you said three hundred sixty five films will take place over ten days but more importantly it's the sixteen films that are battling it out for the main prize which is pooled the st george absolutely and that will be running from the twenty fourth all the time this month until the twenty second and away the final prize giving will happen and of course we'll be right there was talk about how hot it was. going wrong but i will say that actually i was told by one of the organizers here that it is actually coincidence that brad pitt is here tonight because he's obviously on his worldwide promotion for his sunday film called world war sands yet which also has looked you could try to see the budget with which he was thirty million dollars but they are really at it retakes reshuffling recrossing it's now going up to four hundred million but wasn't he the producer had an ad to show you the budget can go

a little bit of order yeah we'll see actually the critics said it's a good zombie film the first thirty minutes are meant to be great but some people said it may be the biggest possible time it didn't seem to be important all the people behind this here there are thousands of people around the pushkin sky square here in maybe not here for the moscow film week best of all that in fact here to see brad pitt in person not a celebrity life and not to hollywood hollywood's about final quick question for you martin we know that russian literature evidence of ballet is renowned worldwide actions like brad pitt actors will run you as an actor your style do you use some of the techniques that are russian i'm not sure you will know what about that about how about you to live in hollywood homos and really moral issues yes well obviously you got some stuff ski one of them believing that he was one of the leading method actors in fact there was an award as part of the film festival. the i believe the necessity would which helen mirren one recently i checked with the sin and the battling out there it's also it's not just leading actors but it's but i think

coming out of this well but yet you're absolutely right you've got things like playwrights like chuck hall it's a simple since as shakespeare as greek tragedy i think done up russian theatrical and the story culture even though it may be the same language it's my residency and the i sit around the world absolutely and they'll be the russian culture why did rosie if that was. what i have to mention yet it's all about film over the course of the plot in that poll that we break today obviously a great tony soprano was also known as the son of god of the old of the sea was met by where i know when you're low from of the international film festival you're lost it's back to you carrying in this great stuff we look forward to. welcome but this time is there well next hour what does it take to become a professional guinea pig find out after the break.

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