olympic torch relay. are. default averted but only just president obama signs the congress building and the u.s. government shutdown but only kicks the debt can down the road to february. a long awaited deal comes just in time for america to catch its breath but leaves the country back on the verge of collapse in just a few months more from washington in just a moment. the guitar controversy the plight of migrant workers getting the nation's world cup together shines a light on the suffering of other foreign and louise and wealthy gulf states. and a look behind the barbed wire our team gets rare access inside the jury is going tunnel prison. we've heard about it like several movies but we don't really know

if this is a place that people will forget about like they don't ever think about it. we talk to those working in the guantanamo detention camp who say they actually love their jobs. just to be in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina josh welcome to the program and the united states has avoided a potentially catastrophic economic default by the spin of its t's president obama has signed a long awaited deal that puts the government back on track and raises america's borrowing limit but is just a temporary fix and he's now reports from washington d.c. . well just hours before the deadline the so-called eleventh hour really coming down to the wire here the house of representatives passed the senate bill to raise the debt ceiling and restore government funding after

a sixteen day shutdown barely avoiding a default on their almost seventeen trillion dollars in borrowings after the vote some bloggers joked see you back here in three months now bats referring to the fact that this is really not a long term solution to the budget crisis the u.s. government is now funded through january fifteenth and keyboards are entering until february seventh but really they just kick the can down the wrote something congress couldn't agree on a budget for the last two years which makes it unlikely three months will be enough for a solution not to mention the damage that's already been done by letting it go this far this shutdown didn't save money it cost money according to standard and poor's twenty four billion dollars the world of course watched washington very closely this week as senator harry reid mentioned wednesday but many might disagree overseas that this last minute agreement shows how responsible america is quite the contrary china already announced the need to de americanised the dollar is not the

currency the world wants to bet on anymore the i.m.f. the world bank the global economy can't afford to come this close to recession due to internal politics in washington now another interesting point is that republican leaders probably could have mustered this support we've song shutdown day sixteen back on september thirtieth and the self-inflicted halt on capitol hill would have been avoided altogether. and the razor thin escape from the fall led manny to his side i was relieved at least for some time but joining a long journey too and a shutdown if the american people have suffered the win or lose game between the two political heavyweight parties a recent poll says almost three quarters of americans have been on a happy with a government standstill before the wrong way to bill was passed we gauge reaction from some of those on the other side of capitol hill. it's really frustrating for the american people and for myself to see you know our government be so inefficient

it was pretty bad. have the shutdown was my job for a little bit. don't even want to go into the patheticness of. our government i think it's very sad we are the people this is for the people people are going to remember all this idiocy and food business during the shutdown i believe president obama had a plan that he was going to take and punish the american people but he went a little too far and the budget brinksmanship has cost the world's largest economy around twenty four billion dollars as well as the trust of investors around the globe pepe escobar who is a roving correspondent for the asia times online says the fiasco clearly shows that the american to go on a model as malfunctioning. varick is dead it's six thing trillion dollars and up and up and up their business small though is unsustainable the united states would have to reveal he's the whole economy financial policy fact

which is still a single capitalism driven by wall street there was a crisis in two thousand and eight and the next crisis according to the best independent economists all over the world maybe could be the last the crisis of two of will capitalism and then we're going to get something completely different there is to the know what it is the most important part of this story is what happened this past week and with that it's all real at this see why news agency calling for a d. americanized world of course this is not going to happen to morrow or the next few years it's going to happen by two thousand and twenty two thousand and twenty two which means the decline of the us dollar yes century of the you won a convertible you were in all over the world and the best currency is the stead of the us dollar is an international reserve currency the chinese have been at it for the past three or four years big time and now we are in fifty years. in the

meantime the timbers are running high in washington as well as lawmakers cast their votes to break the government's standstill and extraordinary reforms played out in the house of representatives as to not vote for began shouting as the house approved the number of votes needed to pass the bill was what witnesses described as a crazed look on her face the incident prompted a moment of chaos before the woman was removed from the chamber aisle and we've also been discussing america's narrow escape from a fault with a panel of guests. but america did not default doesn't default to believe that even if it is a law i'm sorry i'm going to be on the side of. the few places that will go much effort to do something you don't know anybody but to default. as just

a taste and you can catch more debates and opinions from hong kong and london in just a few minutes here on r t. also coming up a rare glimpse inside guantanamo as our correspondent gets unique access to the infamous facility that's caused decade of fear and fury. so everyone may know the name of america's most notorious prison but few know what really happens behind barbed wire and guantanamo r.t.d. has been given rare access to the facility that's been indefinitely detaining terrorist suspects without charge for more than a decade. after a few months of people work to get cleared to visit the base the trip to get mobile hop from the big apple to fort lauderdale in florida and from there are short hour and a half flight one largely kept under wraps with no indications of it on departure boards. the minute we land were greeted by escorts who stay with us every step of

our trip the special guantanamo joint task force media team. one of them sergeant rebecca wood far from the stereotypical face you might imagine working at a place like this controversial military base as we soon learned the first of many surprises this is a really big break for me in my career from my military resume the people i work with every day day they share the same idea like they're all very proud to be here she joined the u.s. military a decade ago with no money for college a twenty eight one time to most her second deployment you've heard about it like several movies but you don't really it is just a place that people forget about only they don't ever think about it getting to the main part of the base is a slow pace trip we have to wait for a ferry to take us across the bay and are taken to visit a beach first one of a handful of scenic locations you wouldn't really expect here we're going to see the logic area now it's about a twenty minute ferry ride one side of the bay area where the airport is. several

replies and says but the main part of the evil b. and the detention camp are over their head and given its reputation guantanamo isn't quite what we anticipated as we approach the meeting area it's interesting to know that to be unsuspecting this place looks just like another tropical island with an american flag you would never think that this is a place housing one of the native states torrijos is a village in the area were taken to is like any typical hotel with palm trees and a marina right out the window first impression this can't be the place that has been casting a long shadow in the. because human rights image for over a decade where torture allegations hunger strikes and force feeding have been making headlines i remember when i moved here i thought i would just see like people in orange jumpsuits and fences everywhere but i mean the families all stay on one side and the rest kind of happens on another the other side as where total of seven hundred seventy nine detainees of america's war on terror have been kept

since two thousand and two a total of one hundred sixty four now remaining at a whopping eight hundred thousand taxpayer dollars per detainee per year even though more than half of them have been cleared for release but we are in a remote location that factors into the cost it costs what it cost to do it right what doing it right on means to those running america's most infamous detention facility and what lays beyond the picture perfect scenery all the realities of guantanamo in our reports to follow i said you're going to party guantanamo bay cuba. and the plight of migrant workers in qatar and plenty more stories after this break don't go away.

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welcome back you're watching our timeline for moscow now the data set for a long delayed syrian peace conference is expected to take place in just over a month from now let's get all the details now from our correspondent. has got all the very latest that is so it looks like there is finally lot of the end of the tunnel in the syrian war do tell us more. you know we finally have today for geneva two talks according to syria's deputy prime ministers november twenty third twenty fourth russian the u.s. pledged to bring together the syrian government and the syrian opposition in order for them to map out a political solution peaceful way out of the crisis now for a while as you know opposition fighters would say they would not sit down with quote those who have blood on their hands and washington kind of supported such an adamant position and at the same time pledged that it would bring the opposition to

the negotiation table in geneva so such a dubious stance made one doubt that the talks would ever take place there have been many roadblocks on the way to the talks not not the least of which was sponsor states like saudi arabia which made it clear they did not favor peace talks but those who are working for geneva talks to to work know say the pandora's box of radicalism has already been opened in syria and the only chance of ever closing it would be through an agreement between the syrian government and those groups who alleged. who called themselves moderates are going to thanks very much for bringing us this up the gun they're. trapped and terrified migrants in qatar have been speaking about the desperation they're enduring and there are more than eighty million in the country many of whom are working flat out to get the prestigious world cup event ready guitar is now the only gulf state where the migrant population is large in proportion to the locals both qatar and the united

arab emirates have migrant populations that go beyond eighty percent and away the region's other leading oil producer about seven out of ten workers are foreigners while in amman and saudi arabia migrants make up almost thirty percent of their population and if we take a glimpse at the whole region the number of migrant workers there is about eighteen million out of a total population of just forty two million tests are still yet wasn't guitar and has more on how the world cup focus is drawing the world's eyes to mind when suffering. the reno to organize. detour trended to fifth vote car is cut. but the initial celebration and prestige have been overshadowed by ford workers claims of maltreatment not getting paid and needed that not being allowed to leave the country the international trade union confederation claims that about four thousand

migrants could die before a football is kicked in twenty twenty two the worker becomes the property of the employer they are not allowed to leave the country they're not even allowed to leave trying that job unless the employer agrees this means that the workers have no real power no real voice to. fix up very very bad working and living conditions zire balloonists knows this all too well a french football player who arrived in qatar in two thousand and seven he says he hadn't been paid for more than two years he filed a lawsuit to claim unpaid wages and says his club then we fused to give him an exit visa unless he dropped the case. when i went to the tribunals i never imagined that i wouldn't be able to leave the country i didn't think they would block me my wife is depressed and she can't work i thought of going on hunger strike but my lawyers

told me not to they already hurt me and a hunger strike would only hurt my wife and kids enough is enough. blueness is high profile story isn't the first either. doesn't change its ways i have the courage to say that in two thousand and twenty two we will have the world cup of shame the world cup of slavery bellew this in the meantime continues to hope his problems will soon be resolved i'll have to stop playing football they ended my career mentally i don't see myself playing and then i'll have to see what to do with my life. r.t. . now more of the world may news for you right now. fire fires in tyler are still trying to battle a massive column of fire at a shopping center in cat although manny of the thousand or so people and side managed to escape unharmed rescue workers expect to find bodies in the complex once the flames are put out locals were forced to leave their homes due to exploding gas tanks inside the building as well as at a nearby

a petrol station. suicide bomber in pakistan a shot his way into the residence of a provincial government minister killing the official and at least nine guests who were celebrating the muslim holy day the blast also one of more than thirty others and as a most high profile political assassination by the islamist insurgency there this year no one has admitted to the massacre but suspicion is likely fall on the taliban. these spanish activists are on hunger strike calling for the government to quit for allowing the economy to deteriorate they have set up camp in the square in central madrid and have been refusing food for five days among them a twenty five year old civil engineering graduate from bilbao whose fruitless search for any work led him to raise awareness for spain's four point seven million unemployed. iran and the world powers are hailing this week's nuclear talks as

progressive and have agreed to continue even of amber the details of the deal are being secret political commentator and iran experts a rise of or overage says it's too early to celebrate the end of a stalemate let's hope that that can translate into something substantial but at this point. again from what we hear there's nothing much out there yet. i don't see them lifting the sanctions and it's time soon unless they see iran completely give up its rights to all the demands it has and basically subjugate its. iran's foreign minister said the results of the negotiations will hopefully begin a new phase in relations between iran and the six powers sariah told us that iran is willing to make concessions but won't be bullet by the west i think iran would be more than happy to cooperate under the right circumstances i don't believe that it would allow itself to be bullied into taking actions that are frankly

not six dollars nothing has changed very much from the way i see it i did. a display of optimism dramatic video has emerged from deadly earthquake that struck the philippines. a church crumbles as a seven point two magnitude quake hit the country the disaster has claimed over one hundred forty lives so far we have eyewitness images of the tragedy on our you tube channel. and from deep space to deep water and this half ton chunk of meteorite has been recovered from a russian lake bed now we've been. sailors rescue comes in motion section. now back to our top story the u.s.

has a verdict default today raising the debt ceiling just hours before the deadline and we've talked to a number of experts today the majority of them are all but relaxed over the u.s. deal only delaying another risk of default as the c.e.o. of universal credit group explains america hasn't actually averted catastrophe. obviously the american dollar is the largest quantity of currency in the world the american economy still remains the largest in the world. the problem is the reality that the americans can't be trusted anymore whereas over the last fifty years or so the americans have been predictable they have kept to their laws they have. paid for all of their obligations this time around in reality america did default it defaulted on its obligations to its own people it defaulted on obligations it had made in law when it set up laws and. certain programs that needed to be funded and

the sequester ation actually didn't fund those laws so there was a default the problem for the rest of the world is that we have to create other structures we have to create them we can't look for them we have to frame them and that's that's the last the problem for today and what do you make of what richard just said america did not default it hasn't defaulted and i believe that even if it did not i'm sorry aguilar beyond that i think. if you. back to default and the pins money which is money it's and it's a promise it's a promise that i will exchange this for goods or services of equivalent worth but that money is of its value this is what america's didn't fold in so much as it's going to pay its bills nevertheless it's undermined trust that promise that they will say this is damaging i mean in the short term it costs nothing because they're going to pay up like they should do but in the longer they're undermining their

reputation yes the power of the u.s. is diminished its power of sonia edges been diminished we won't be able to i think to see a repeat of what president nixon said in the ninety's sixty's but it's our dollar and your problem i think over time it will be increasingly a pro. for the united states but we should keep a sense of perspective here that timeframe is more likely twenty years it's certainly not twenty minutes or twenty hours it is taking place it will continue to take place ok let's all recall what the deal actually is now and now the debt ceiling has been raised beyond its seventeen trillion dollars the deal reopens the government until january fifteenth and allows it to continue borrowing until february the seventh now will. eventually explode what will this mean for the rest of us are this whole fight was so disappointing is because everybody's focused on

the wrong problem america's to its g.d.p. is now one hundred four percent slightly more that's an unsustainable level and what needs to be to do is to bring that this whole question about refining since the day misses the point that the problem is how do we get rid of this day in the first place and then this whole question of raising the debt ceiling will go away i don't you know the government in the states focuses on the problem and does something about it which is growing the economy is the easiest way to solve it until they do that then we're going to have repeats of this fights ongoing because it's become a political so in the way that it never never was before british prime minister david cameron has called for an investigation whether the guardian newspaper has broken the law by publishing edward snowden leaks that send shock waves about america's surveillance program worldwide a parliamentary committee is now looking into it alive to our london correspondent laura smith our very latest for us. good to have you with us laura so for most people the revelations are freedom of speech but cameron doesn't think so does the

. certainly not according to what he said in prime minister's questions questions this week he launched what can only be described as a rounded attack on the guardian newspaper really he essentially called them hippel hypocrites or at least guilty of double standards he says that the guardian on the one hand exposed a scandal that was phone hacking and then on the other hand then themselves went ahead and published secrets themselves which had been stolen in turn from the national security agency he also said that the guardian publishing the leaks that came from edward snowden had damaged national security and what's more that the guardian itself admitted that they had let's hear what he said about that. what has happened has damaged national security and in many ways the guardian themselves admitted that greed. politely by my national security advisor

a cabinet secretary to destroy the files they had they went ahead and destroyed those files so they know that what they're dealing with is dangerous for national security i think it's ridiculous how should they want to examine this issue and make for the recommendation. asked politely by my national security adviser that's my favorite bit of the guardian of course we asked them for a statement and they strenuously disagreed with what david cameron said they issued just a statement they said that they agreed to destroy the files because they came under immense pressure from the government they were threatened with the full force of the law with this thing that's called prior restraint which is very very rarely used here in the u.k. and according to them unthinkable in the us. now what i am packed publishing of snowden leaks have on the guardian from its powerful media peers.

kind of throws the national press here into a bit of confusion they seem a bit discombobulated by the whole thing papers that have traditionally been against the powers of the state in the extension of the powers of the state have done this sort of about and they've come out in favor of the government and in favor of m i five and attack the guardian for publishing these leaks basically so if you look at what the daily mail has been saying about all this it's in this sort of weird position where it is supports the state carrying out blanket surveillance almost calls for the states to be able to monitor individual e-mails as it carries on publishing its stories so there's been some quite ugly divisions exposed in the press here. some people suggest that it's because they're basically pursuing a grudge against the guardian for having exposed them all during the phone hacking scandal this is their kind of way of getting back at the guardian for that which of course is not really in the national interest not really useful in terms of

a national press. papa had thank you so much laura for this and do stay with us here on our two years i had salmon the dark secret surrounding the gulf of mexico all disaster one of the worst spills in history. you know as i look more and more into it i find that there were a lot of myths and exaggerations about what happened in russia during the soviet era however one really bad rumor seems to be true if you were an outspoken advocate against the soviet status quo then you could be considered insane and be locked

away until the psychiatrist convinced you that khrushchev was brilliant scary stuff but sadly famous grammy award winning singer lauryn hill might be living the life of a soviet does that right now she was convicted of failing to pay five hundred thousand dollars in taxes but strangely according to the international business times she was ordered to undergo psychiatric counseling because she believes in conspiracy theories related to the music industry hill wrote in her own tumblr account that the music industry is manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex. this is a strong accusation from hell but it is actually irrelevant if it is true or not you see punishments are supposed to fit the crime and the crime of tax evasion should not have a punishment of mandatory counseling or as more paranoid types like me like to call it reprogramming although they are usually trivial this celebrity case actually sets a dangerous legal precedent but that's just my opinion. after

the b.p. spill dr ronn came to the museum and were in bury teria which is forty miles from the gulf and about one hundred fifty miles from the wellhead the oil and dispersants have come into here yesterday the wind blew really hard these tables got this cloudy gritty glaze on look at that that's just what's on the table before we even start the interview. was b.p. about to repeat the same strategy that exxon used with the valve these oil spill this pack of confidential documents were uncovered as part of the toxic tort lawsuits that followed with some of the workers who realized that their sicknesses lingered lingered lingered these documents are very incriminating and they show that thousands of workers actually did in fact get sick from exposure to a number of chemicals include.