i. 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 lure the scots out of their independence referendum. the test is in brazil gear up for they promise will be their biggest rally yet after the government fails to curb the unrest by reversing public transport fare hikes. and stop the force feeding of hunger strikers in guantanamo doctors from around the globe called on president obama to allow the prisoners independent medical care.

even just past nine pm here in moscow you're watching r t with me kevin when i first steve u.k. government is campaigning to win hearts and minds in scotland ahead of its historic referendum on independence foreign secretary william hague has given a speech in edinburgh to trouble space to persuade the scots that they have safer stronger and better off with britain and as r.t. sarah firth reports he's only added fuel though to the debates about scottish independence. will it take to things that will today it will in the century that inbred to around a hundred and fifty delegates the more wolves and stuff is it like that in it he said that he tried the scottish independence is met around the world he said buckle in the pool says he's laying out some of the negative implications a vote for independence could have used in the yes campaign we want to see if those independents approved this relentless campaign of negativity and they say they want to break the economic strangle the rest of the economic resources of course if

you will coming up time and again experts easily divided on how these resources would be worse still lend to become independent you're going to see this debate forcing up there as the twenty fourteenth a week ever nearer but what do the people of scotland think will continually in the polls say well you see the yes campaign is calling a fair bit lower because they still say that everything's the playful what is interesting a lot of the people we were speaking to saying that the debate on face life needs takes a little less on the stroke rhetoric a little more on fox it's still a bit of confusion over exactly what a big independents let me down for this i hate the foreign secretary with kids today to try to d.j. out in very clear terms why he feels scotland will be safer as part of the u.k. we've been speaking to some of the people in scotland to find out what they think

i'm against it you're against it yes and i don't think it's going to be any benefit to us whatsoever do you think the debate has been to the well laid out the people know no more money you know i think it needs to show more benefits of. what it would bring to us if we came into painted the economy go their unionist party and i think the freeing of ignored scotland for a long time man william hague says that when he travels the world people there but will goodbye. the fact that scotland wants to leave such a successful union would you say to them well i can imagine we had william hague travel stephen he travels the world at the raffle said tail in singapore and polices later on when i travel the world people ask me how come an independent country lease go and is ruled by a government and ever elected to after city on the heels of the seven the choice next year to do it again when i know i'm dependent and i think to do with. recent polls show most a third of scots would like to break up with britain with the yes vote support

reaching its highest level in almost two years though around sixty percent would still say no with one in ten scots still undecided or spoke to scottish m.p.'s mcneil who says he certain scotland could cope well enough 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. you know they're going through a process and it may be good for a learning curve the find it difficult yet again but of course the practicalities to consider as well one how you going to fund yourself is the. balance the books the u.k. government's releases 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 as two thousand and one is twelve years they haven't balance the books scotland is actually eight point four percent of you people pleasing 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 certainly this independence that scotland is going to like the other hundred forty two though that went through in the past scotland is probably the best planned ever i can think of another nation that's going through so much planning it's a much closer examination in the lead up to its independence so all bodes well for the future on the skin mongering story such as who could scotland pay for itself for going to six its absolute nonsense. and while the u.k.'s been warning scotland because of a financial collapse if it goes alone british banks appear to be struggling to balance their books too they'd need to raise billions of pounds to cover their risks according to a warning now from the u.k.'s financial regulator reported them out very shortly. as unrest continues to rattle brazil the country of origin have reversed their decision to increase public transport things but the term seems to have come too late to appease demonstrators they're angry of the government's high spending on

hosting next year's football world cup while at the same time health care education among civilians are funded the rallies are believed to be the most violent ones in a decade witnessed but the biggest protest so far is a promise for first has got some insight now from carlos del close he's a sociologist and a blogger on the line from barcelona carlos brazilian authorities are back down and agreed to say to make some concessions they're going to be enough. it's not likely to be you know no i mean the questions that are being put on the table are very broad questions not just in brazil but in turkey and in most of the places where we're seeing. things that actually have a lot more in common than just the fact that there are uprisings and that there is the occasional bout or instance of police violence what we're seeing is actually uprisings that. in the case of turkey and brazil in particular take single issues. that are sort of the straw that breaks the camel's back if you will and or the glass that sort of the drop of water that kind of breaks the surface to surface

tension and overflows the glass and kind of turn into a broader indictment of global capitalism and the people have straight their own happy the escalating costs the persistent poor quality of public services committees skyrocketing inflation reporting on although we're different countries it's a big world in some ways it's a small world as well and some of this is well an echo from the european financial crisis. well economically is that an echo of the european financial crisis i mean it's all a crisis of the global financial capitalistic system and of global finance capital what global global finance capital is capable of doing is sabotaging the democratic rights of local populations due to the sort of i guess the dynamics of the flows of global capital what global capital seeks to do in cities and brazil and turkey are actually textbook examples of what geographers like david harvey call the right to

the city struggles for the right to the city where global finance capital tries to homogenize public space it tries to. make cities very very similar to smooth capital flows and overriding and in most instances the local populations rights to decide everything so something for instance like the world cup bid in brazil or the feeling is that they're going through is actually quite similar to something that happened for instance in barcelona in two thousand and four with the with the forum project which is which is an effort to attract global finance capital bring it to a large event which is a large event that's meaningless it's not quite like the world cup but they tried to make a meaningless you know global event that would attract tourists and all these sort of things and you know you know you know what are they going to. what i'm trying to

get as well not just the hog capital of it but how people behave i guess you know people are not part of the world but looking at the spring they've been looking at the discontent the has been happening in europe we're seeing some saying we come from facebook some of the social media is some of it that people feel emboldened off to look at the arab spring after looking at. europe and they're using that as a template if you like to take their i go into the streets and vent their feelings . well i think i think that's actually a pretty interesting sociological question and i think we have to think about that in terms of what social networks are are they looking to europe necessarily well sure i mean if there's no it's no secret that this is that this is largely a generational change right these are people that are that are of similar ages right people and we're not talking especially young we're talking people under thirty five years old but these are people that are active on the social networks and that have a way of sharing experiences of dialoguing with one another and really seeing the

generation of meaning in other places and appropriating those sort of tools and using them to generate meaning in their in their own local context so in that sense social media is the catalyst or it's a means through which people realize that they share these feelings and these are feelings that are generated by the social networks but they're i guess catalyzed by by the fact that people share over them carlos that forty seven has just made me feel extremely old. thank you for your thoughts on the program good to see you blogger and going through as you often boss and i thank you. the taliban say they're ready to release a captured u.s. soldier in exchange for five of its members locked up in guantanamo bay the announcement puts them the u.s. in a precarious position as it tries to get the afghan government to join peace talks with the militant group meanwhile the recalls for president obama to hope the force feeding of detainees at the prison allowed them to receive independent medical care

as required by the u.n. . the new way and the world medical association demand access for independent doctors to guantanamo detainees more than one hundred fifty doctors including from the us have signed an open letter to grok obama urging him to allow detainees 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 is you should know from the current protocols of the joint task force guantanamo which those doctors are ordered to follow the orders they receive or alternately your orders as their commander in chief without trust safe and acceptable medical care of mentally competent patients is impossible the above mentioned protocols describe 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 un 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 tunnel was out of sight out of mind and washington was happy to keep it that way the un 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. in washington those who are on this until it's a clinical psychologist dr brody he was among those who wrote about thanks for being with us what made you decide that open letter to the u.s. president. i could tell you that. the reason little green gage comes topic is that you know i'm disappointed in americans to. and of the health care

professional my government has been keeping these men in cages for so many years without charge or trial and on top of it now have been violating their bodies in a way that once counter to all international at the core standards and medical norms so what are independent doctors going to bring to the party one of a better way of putting it is they going to show this better treatment or they somehow got to help and the ongoing hunger strike there but i think it's crucial that independent doctors get in there because the medical profession and the military have clashing interests on the one hand medical professionals first do no harm we want to actually improve people's health the military wants to keep these people in. their cells and their in their in their cages so in order for people to trust their doctors in order for them to get better health care whether

it's around this hunger strike or other medical issues they need to trust their doctors and so that's why we need to get independent doctors and as a clinical as a medical professional what are your thoughts about the u.s. policy that doesn't allow detainees to starve themselves to death is that a good or a bad policy in principle well i don't think anybody wants anybody to die from obama. people want. safe and alive the issue comes in the hunger striking is not a medical problem these men as far as we know are not suicidal. at their last resort. doing what they can no other options and the last option really is to decide what you can and put into your body or not and so that's what they're choosing to do with the risk we can certainly say. they're doing the

end result would be death wouldn't it so at some point i guess is there the question is is there a case for somebody to step in or not. it's a step in how is the question. yeah i mean they can be force fed which we can say amounts to punishment or even torture with medical devices. and there are different ways to force feed as well in the way that it's being done in guantanamo is not the way that it's being done in all other american prisons but without being too graphic what is the difference we hear that being fed through pipes through the nose what what's the other way of doing it well what's happening one time oh is that twice a day or regular interval intervals at random times. these men are being. taken and tubes being put through their nose down their throat into their stomach which is a very painful process of it's quite cruel and abusive and. the

the other ways that it is done in prisons in hospitals in america and elsewhere when it needs to be done which is very rare is that there are more humanity put into it and people are not necessarily restrained it's not happening quite as often as happening twice a day so what we hear coming out of guantanamo is that this is being used as a way to break the hunger strike rather than to help these people and keep them alive you know if i'm sitting in the program so grateful you made the time a clinical psychologist josefa brody there remind thank you. but you say with a stick to top it off to sixty minutes past nine am oscar time coming up we report on the risks facing the u.k. one of the stories amongst many more ahead after the break.

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to eye. live from. the u.k. financial health is at risk with its top banks in need of billions of pounds to fill a hole in their balance sheets that revelation comes from the country's financial regulator and it comes shortly after report to calling for a criminal punishment for bankers reckless misconduct tester said as in london to look at the troubles of britain's banking sector. 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 put to belittle and governments

and regulators to implement these laws so as not to render all of the useless when trying to find a twenty seven billion pounds 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 have a few nerves that once again the question is who is going to be footing the bill at the end of the day. will be across that story for you know the crumbs of the credit of world business. looking for ways to boost economic growth reform the global financial system strengthen trade. for him to which he called it with russia's deputy prime minister because the record which. here this in pieces international economic forum we are talking about international prices on the domestic market here in russia and because we have the g eight summit taking place this week

a lot of those topics that domino in that way here to st petersburg so right now i'm joined by the deputy head of the russian government talk about to talk about the g. eight and the topics it was spoken about there and as far as the economic agenda was concerned what did you take away from it as usual when they look in the short before winter to ensure broad leaders have discussed in detail how the global economy stations the challenges of all the major countries are facing and one of the challenges is. transparency or for global finance this money being used by institutional investors by banks by large companies are they paying taxes so how this affects the station to forgive particular countries in need of school are going to take some primacy requirements and i seems it's where it's important development clamping down on offshore as was a huge topic calking rush to do this and is it possible to get this money back to

the home economy major. changes to improve the station in that are saying that the key instrument to bring money back so you're not going to use law enforcement most or something like that it just requires that we. make influence on the investor so committed to lose and in reality how much money are we talking about the real dozens of billions of dollars of new investments in the create new more than jobs in the rushing all the surplus are starting from the traditional and the very. nature resource development. in the right of sector strike aircraft ship building. communications space middest mythic. i sort of system pharmaceuticals more than agriculture. was culture with it as well as the headlines online r.t. dot com is quoting some of the stories lined up for you right now hunted by america

at maker upload to kim dot com so reversing roles now is accusing the u.s. government of what it calls quote the largest massacre of data in the history of the internet it's a big accusation find out more about it online r.t. dot com from us we've got the story also the two the world's fastest growing economy goes to extremes for a cleaner future is china now has introduced the death penalty be correct for those who dared to break the nation's environmental protection laws. the moscow international film festival kicked off with hollywood legend brad pitt still in the show on the red carpet and expected to premiere his new movie here in the russian capital tab i must say varieties that of course. what bring the bullets the back and see the glad my hero added the break up it for the thirty fifth that i knew old must the international film festival way spectate around a five hundred four and gets a hero walking that's when the cop it with all the fans behind is obviously sorry

for whoever it is yet if it's one of their favorite actors or actresses on the hood oh i brought the man of the out today i was brad pitt who made his up saddling up gary's with the saw me as i have a whole lot on the run up with a woman only him we also had kisses later and i was able to catch up with him early on and this is what he had to say it's great to come out and get the opportunity to say hello to some people and they're all great just they're beautiful so i'm thrilled and this is a great film festival so i'm thrilled to be here well you know what what's the one thing that you looking forward to in terms of being year in moscow we just want to get you to pump up a little bit more wow you know i got to go to the underground that's that they said the underground is really beautiful and i know that's something i have to go do so before i leave on going to take a nice metro ride with a run of three hundred sixty four old films a day three in the next ten days and i want to the we have to bring it all into television ads for margin and receive thank you done for us on how this is going to

work out monson we've been seeing a glamour and glitz on the red carpet you're making so obvious out there see everything all the crowd a little bit how important is it this film festival first of all i have to say that russian knows how to do a glamorous occasion don't they i mean the russian women tonight's of just being sensational of course we've seen brad pitt himself in all his glory and it's quite interesting to see how he took so much time with the fans as well when it comes to your question the answer to that is will obvious the film festival began all the way back in one nine hundred ninety five in fact these were the oldest film festivals in the world bridget was into its prominence until nine hundred fifty nine when it alternated every year until nine hundred ninety five when it became an annual. annual events i know we know the importance of law a russian ballet around the world but there's also quite a significant ah ah ah importance in school and of how you relate to the i mean you just have to mention the names of course the famous method actor and director and

of course cecafa two names and indeed you've got russian classic stories like anna karenina was recently on the big screen and it's also important to note that the awards which is given out every year which is will be i believe that is just you would hire me helen mirren when of course the acclaimed british actress jack nicholson is also given to up and coming acts as well so really even though the russian theatre scene and sit in a scene is a separate language assessment is very important to world wide disability and says that indeed the acting industry. now the glamour of this next prime interest breakstone ben bernanke he speaks following the u.s. federal reserve meeting of some next program off to the brink.

i know they track you poor ratings of the presidents of various countries by did know they still research the approval ratings of former presidents twice like gallup poll that says that george w. bush has been slowly growing in his approval numbers since leaving office in fact his numbers have increased by seventeen percent amongst independents and even his in three rival democratic voters have given him fourteen percentage points of popularity i think this may be due to the fact that obama's magic has worn off and people are getting fed up with things belonging for the bush days is insane if you are one of the people who has recently decided that bush is awesome and please tell me how he differs from obama true obama can pronounce ninety nine percent of the words on a teleprompter in front of him but both presidents have let expensive wars with qwest. objectives bush was the patriot act and obama could do that with the n.b.a. both of them seem like they're drones and massive government spending and expansion i don't know i don't think that just because obama's rules flawed that somehow makes bush's brain into some sort of triumph but that's just my opinion.

good afternoon and welcome to prime interest and perry and boring and washington d.c. to a get to today's headlines. the silicon valley is heating up in the wake of the national security agency whistleblower scandal the american civil liberties union is now involved attempting to rein in the n.s.a. celeb's snooping but several tech giants are being proactive as well do no evil google is seeking permission from the u.s. to disclose the volume and scope of

a federal request for customer information which twitter officially why but facebook won't join the fray asserting the disclosures would be vague and the meaning us and facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg a face he had from shareholders yesterday investors angry at the forty percent drop in facebook's i.p.o. price a grilled him for thirty minutes and when asked about the company's a future profitability the chief financial officer threw his hands up to saying i wish i had a crystal ball. and the subject of government surveillance did come up and suckered reiterated earlier statements that i will sam and doesn't plug into facebook servers he really. promises. and finally the new york fed published a paper on its website that calls for the us to see underwater mortgage is under the premise of eminent domain they would then be refinanced with government.