olympic torch relay. are. a short term fix president obama signs a last minute deal to restart the government and raise the debt ceiling but the root causes of congress's most fears battle in recent history remain on addressed. as a detainee hunger strike and one time of a prison r t gains rare access to the infamous u.s. detention center. you've heard about it like several movies but you don't really it is just a place that people forget about why they don't ever think about it we ask those who make the facility take what it's really like to work there and do they have any regrets. britain's prime minister slams a guardian newspaper over its reporting on whistleblower edward snowden's annecy

leaks and calls for an investigation. this is r.t. coming to you live from moscow i'm marina josh welcome. financial catastrophe has been averted in the united states but only for the time being president obama signed a last minute deal ending a two week government shutdown and avoiding a fault but as our tease me so now explains the debt clocks merely been restarted. after the vote some bloggers joked see you back here in three months now bass referring to the fact that this is really not a long term solution to the budget crisis the us government is now funded through january fifteenth and keyboard borrowing 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 sub down 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. during the bush years negotiations and brinkmanship within the seeing over the past few weeks in congress it's the american people who have warned the cost a recent poll of says almost three quarters of americans were unhappy with their politicians' handling of the situation before the long awaited bill was passed gauged the mood 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. the so was my job for a little bit i. 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. billions of dollars went down the drain in the united states due to the sixteen day political impasse which also left international lenders questioning the country's fiscal reliability pepe escobar is a roving correspondent for the asia times and line says the recent events have uncovered alarming flaws in the u.s. economic model. varick is dead it's sixteen trillion dollars and up and up and up their business model is unsustainable the united states would have to reveal he's the home economy financial policy in fact which is still casino

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 will capitalism and then we're going to get some sequel police are different they're still don't know what it is the most important part of this story is what happened this past week and it's all real at this see why a 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 won all over the world and basket of currencies instead of the u.s. dollar as an international reserve currency the chinese has been at it for the past three or four years big time and now. here. the emotional pressure from the

government shutdown seems to have taken its toll on capitol hill as lawmakers cast their votes to break the deadlock and to not go further in the house of representatives seized a microphone and started to yell with what witnesses described as a crazed look on her face meanwhile tensions of a different kind over here at our team are our guests have been voicing some strong opinions. america did default it defaulted on these obligations to its own people it defaulted on obligations it had made in law when it set up laws and set up certain programs that needed to be funded and the seaquest gratian actually didn't fund those rules so that was a default a problem for the rest. of the world that we have to create other structures we have to create them we can't look for them we have to train them. that's the that's 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 is not i'm sorry i

got behind it. but the default and the pins money is money it's in it's a promise it's a promise that i will exchange this for goods and services of equivalent worth but the money itself is valueless and what america's done is didn't fold in so much as it's going to pay its bills nevertheless it's undermined trust that promise that they will pay and this is damaging i mean in the short term it costs nothing because they're going to pay up they should do but in the longer they're undermining their reputation yes the power of the us is diminished its power of been diminished we won't be able 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 problem for the united states but we should keep a sense of perspective here that time frame 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 now the debt ceiling has been raised beyond its seventeen trillion dollars the deal reopens the government until generate fifteenth and allows it to continue borrowing until february the seventh now will the bubble eventually explode what will this mean for the rest of us. it was so disappointing is because everybody's focused on the wrong problem america's to g.d.p. is now one hundred four percent slightly more and that's an unsustainable level and what needs to be to do is to bring. that this whole question about refinancing that 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 focus is 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 it never was before now so i have for you in the program human rights groups raising alarm over struggling migrants in kentucky find out firsthand what it's like for workers and how it could affect the country's world cup ambitions in a couple of minutes here an hour to. the mean time painful force feeding in full body cavity searches that's what a handful of detainees are still experiencing at america's notorious gone tama bay military prison a mass hunger strike began in february and has since subsided to less than two dozen protesters against indefinite detention argy has now gained rare access to the prison and here is the first in a series of reports by necessity turkana. after a few months of people work to get cleared to visit the base the trip to get mobile

hop and from the big apple to fort lauderdale in florida and from there are short i don't have 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 a military resume the people i work with every day they 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 ton a most her second deployment you've heard about it like several movies but you don't really and this is 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 thirty minute ferry ride one side of the bay area where the airport is. several lovely residences but the main part of the evil b. and the detention camp are over there at a given its reputation guantanamo isn't quite what we anticipated as we approach the meeting area it's interesting to note that to be unsuspecting this place looks just like another tropical island with an american flag you would never feel that this is a place housing one of the native states torrijos as the lodging area were taken to is like any typical hotel with palm trees and a marina right out the window first impressions this can't be the place that has been casting a long shot. in america's 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 the cost what it cost to do it right we're 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 suit you're going to guantanamo bay cuba. well we have been closely covering the hunger strike it went on basins it began in february so more obviates analysis and full timeline of events it's all available

for you only click away at our t.v. dot com. the plight of migrant workers and guitar and other olympic boycott call and plenty more stories coming your way after this break. well told you my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports like the players to know i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point to say. the security at a car is on the docket no. thank you no more weasel words. when you made a direct question be prepared for a change when you should be ready for a. printout of speech and little down the freedom to.

dramatize the truth be ignored. stories others the few still notice. the faces change the world light snack. food picture of the taste you. want to hear from around the globe. look to. welcome back to watching r.t. prime minister david cameron has accused the guardian newspaper of damaging britain's national security by publishing materials provided by adverts snowden parliamentary committee is now looking into whether the paper breached the country's law or smith brings the details from london. he launched what can only be

described as a rounded attack on the guardian newspaper really he essentially called them hypocrite 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 grieg when asked politely by my national security adviser in 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 sure the

recommendation asked politely by my national security adviser that's my favorite that the guardian of course we asked them for a statement and they strenuously disagreed of what david cameron said they issued 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 u.s. . meanwhile edward snowden's father sas he's son has plenty more secrets to share. and that after a long awaited family reading in moscow his paralysis by iss stay in russia to make sure the true story still on our t. dot com you can learn all about lone snowden's journey to the russian capital. plus the u.s. military could soon get it on hand draw it out to allow it to call in airstrikes

and pilot drones by touching the screen on a smartphone head to our website article for more details on the innovation. the german filmmaker and his camera man have claimed they were arrested in qatar after filming the working conditions of migrants building venues for the twenty twenty two world cup trade unions have been ringing the alarm over conditions in the region for years but it's the prestigious football event that's put the issue firmly in the spotlight and both in qatar and the united arab emirates about eight out of ten workers are foreigners and there's a similar picture in kuwait the region's other leading oil producer and while in amman and saudi arabia migrants make it only about a third of the population foreigners in the gulf region as a whole make up almost half of its total population of just forty two million people as are syria has more. do we know to organize

a detour trended to fifth vote cop is covered. but the initial celebration and christie should be overshadowed by ford workers claims of men not getting paid i needed that not being allowed to leave the country the international trade union confederation claims that about four thousand migrants could die before it was 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 the job and left 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 designer balloonists knows this all too well a french football player who arrived in qatar in two thousand and seven he says he

has been paid for more than two years he filed a lawsuit to claim unpaid wages and says his club but 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 lock 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 hunger strike would only hurt my wife and kids enough is enough. blew this is high profile story isn't the first either. doesn't change its ways 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 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 it and then i'll have to see what to do with my life. r.t. now belle peace prize pursue. the ins have called on by

a republican to drop the charges against greenpeace activists arrested for storming in oil rig in russia's arctic later today and world apart it's on a boycott goes had to had with environmental groups executive director over the organization's recent progress but here's a quick preview. one of the things about greenpeace is that the words green and peace and equally important yes we do take very strong peaceful action but we do not cross the line into. beyond any action that can be but the times and i think that's precisely the case in point here i know that you've been arguing all along that the protest was entirely peaceful and yet from the footage that we got there is an intense and there is an act of aggression you can see that you can argue whether it was violence or not but there is an intent to push because guards away well let me tell you that i have seen i'm not seeing your version that you are showing on television i have seen exactly what the coast guard put out seen

a slow time diversion off it because when that allegation was made took it very seriously because if we did in fact do what you say we did that because i just tried to ram the coast guard vessel instead of what i'm saying from what i look at it it was control of the boat that's brought about by by swells. then i would take a very negative view of it. now the olympic flame is a sporting symbol of unity but not everyone sees it that way six thousand strong petition in georgia is calling for a boycott of the games as because one of the torch bearers taking a flame around russia is a pilot involved in the military action that led to south of city is independence in two thousand and eight well we have in a studio who's got more on this let's talk about how angry people in georgia are over this what's happening well six years ago in sochi was chill. other than to

host the twenty fourteen games i was there and i covered the story i remember two days after the event georgians were first talking about boycotting the olympic games and that was even before the two thousand and eight war which resulted in the independence of south of setia and across the us to certainly this subject has been making waves in georgia ever since but let's ask ourselves the question do georgians really mean it now of course some of them have been infuriated with the fact that one of the first torch bearers of the olympic flame in russia it was the pilot of the war back in two thousand a the russian pilot some of them have even been infuriated that accreditation is to join us from south of here were giving out given out for the olympic games as two people from the independent countries they even signed a petition more than six thousand people did boycott the games but we spoke to the olympic committee of georgia which all but ruled out any chance of a boycott. there are many examples in the world when politics interferes with sport and the results are never good it shouldn't happen in my opinion because these are

two absolutely different spheres i do not think georgia would in any way benefit from a boycott of the olympic games not only officials and police say that but we also spoke to one of the torchbearers here in russia a very famous georgian singer who shares practically the same opinion. well it's not because of politics i'm here because of my love for this life for this world politicians should decide themselves what to do and how they don't go into my business and don't tell me what i should sing about neither do i to them sport plus the happiness that god has given us and everybody should take part in it these two things bring people closer but some don't want people to connect with each other each to their own. it's also worth mentioning that the country's prime minister begin even to st it was a bit more vague about the prospect of a boy quote he was first he said that georgia would not benefit from it and it's not a really sporting issue then if you refuse to completely rule out the possibility

over boy court but seriously the country which puts only four athletes to compete in the games boycotting it's hardly a statement of intent and that's the opinion i've heard from many many georgians i know absolutely well let's hope the common sense prevails because lympics the secret chance for a country to make a positive p.r. and for its athletes thank you so much for bringing us this update. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and a suicide bomber detonated a truck loaded with explosives in northern iraq killing at least fifteen people the assault occurred in a village inhabited mostly by the shia shock minority it had previously been targeted by sunni insurgents who are waging a bloody campaign to undermine the rule of iraq's shia led government last monday a suicide bombing at a funeral procession in the same area claimed the lives of twenty one people. in berlin a march by hundreds of active as it can see a legend on lawful treatment of refugees by german authorities has ended in

a standoff with police several people were arrested during scuffles brick house was also called for support for african migrants onboard the two ships which recently sank in the mediterranean over four hundred people drowned in those incidents. the scale of a fire at the largest shopping center on thailand's tourist island of cat has prevented rescue teams from searching for survivors over matty of a thousand or so people inside managed to escape unharmed authorities say they still expect to find bodies in the complex many local residents were evacuated from their homes due to exploding gas tanks as well as the proximity of a nearby filling station. the official date for the long awaited geneva two peace conference on syria will be said by the u.n. secretary general that's according to russia's foreign ministry following a statement from damascus and noun saying a preliminary date at the end of november moscow has repeatedly claimed that geneva

two is the only way out of the deadlock conflict however it's still unclear whether both the syrian government and the western backed opposition would commit to the talks. on next tough talking with executive director of greenpeace it's worlds apart in just a few moments here and. you know as i look more and more into it i find that there were a lot of myths of 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 like. the way 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 who 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 hill but 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 is more paranoid types like me like to call it reprogramming oh they are usually trivial this celebrity case actually sets a dangerous legal precedent but that's just my opinion.

hello and welcome to all the part a peaceful protest interrupted by a despotic state or an act of environmental extremism that put lives at risk the description of greenpeace this recent action in the bering sea depends on where one stands politically but regardless of how you call it can it actually achieve its proclaimed goal that he's putting in than to oil and gas drilling in the arctic well to discuss that i'm now joined by cooney neither are they executive director of greenpeace international mr knight i thank you very much for your time thank you for having me in the media all the twenty eight greenpeace activists plus the two freelancers who are company of them were sort of lumped together on to the hash tag arctic thirty but if you look at. actions in legal terms i think they require a different side of the war on board though the arctic sunrise auditors were trying

to scale the platform and he had some others were actually trying to ram the boat all calls guards do you personally a different shade between that actions do you think they should be treated differently in legal terms and in terms of be charges that were leveled against them firstly if you look at a slow motion picture of what the russian coast guard at least off the incident. if you look at it properly is absolutely no basis to say that our activists tried to ram the coast guard boats we were unarmed the coast guard said knives and shot. weapons at us we had our hands up in there there was absolutely no effort on our part to that and both but i went on your question about should there be cheated separately different the the two journalists

should be treated separately separately because they are not greenpeace employees or activists and so on they were there to do their job as journalists and that's why i said those two should be released immediately in the interests of media freedom and so on with regard to the activists and yes you're right people played a different roles at the moment you know as the president of the human rights council in russia suggested medvedev that charging greenpeace of piracy that russian authorities should just as well if charged in piece of trying to gang rape the oil platform because it's such a dickless charge and president putin agrees that we are not pirates mr knight of president putin did express his opinion but he's a private citizen and i don't think that his opinion should be apparent mount to everything else in this country but coming back to that issue off ramming the boats we actually showing that video at the moment and he can see.