sure term fix president obama signs a last minute deal to restart the u.s. government and raise the debt ceiling but the root causes of congress' most fierce battle in recent history remain on addressed. as the detainee hunger strike again time of a prison continues our t.v. gains rare access to the infamous u.s. detention center. you've heard about it like several movies but you don't really need it and this is a place that people will forget about why they don't ever think about it. and we ask those who make the facility tick what it's really like to work there and do they have any regrets. plus britain's prime minister slams

the guardian newspaper over its reporting on whistleblower edward snowden's anas a leaks and calls for an investigation. this is r.t. coming to live from moscow with me marina joshing a financial catastrophe has been averted in the united states but only for the time being president obama has signed a last minute deal and ending it to we government shutdown and avoiding a default but as our disney's now explains the dad cloggs merely been restarted. 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 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 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 our recent poll found that almost three quarters of americans were unhappy with their politicians handling of the situation the partial shutdown of the government cost the u.s. a staggering twenty four billion dollars before the long awaited ability and the stalemate was passed by congress we gauge 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. this it 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 now the debt fiasco has also put the u.s. dollars position as a leading global reserve currency under question but market alice mike ingram says the immediate alternatives to the greenback are far from ideal. there's no euphoria here at all there's a feeling that you know crisis has been averted but it's really. you know we're going to be revisiting this a few months up the road but consumer in the us is already looking quite fragile and if you're a business looking to invest in the u.s. longer term you've got to wonder where you are whether you should be putting cash

on the table right choices for you know treasuries and central banks globally is like trying to identify you know the most attractive horse in the glue factory because you can point to each of the major currency blocks and say there are major problems obviously we're only about twelve months in the eurozone for when we think it may be the year i was going to fall completely japan has a policy effectively of deliberately weak yen and. left with the us also some currencies were less less liquid. emotional pressure from the government shutdown seems to have taken its toll on capitol hill as lawmakers cast their votes to break the deadlock a stenographer in the house of representative c. is there microphone and started to yell with what witnesses described as a crazed look on her face meanwhile tangents of a different kind over here at r t were our guests have been voicing some strong opinions 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 seaquest gratian 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 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 they did not i'm sorry i can't be like that. if you have. somebody but to default on the pins money which is money it's a it's a promise it's a promise that i will exchange this for goods or 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 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 said been diminished we won't be able 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 problem for the united states but we should keep a sense of perspective here that time frame. it's 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 generate fifteenth and allows it to continue borrowing until february the seventh now will not 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 its 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 refining since 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 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 fight ongoing because it's become a political tool in the way that it never never was before. and we're keeping a close watch on all the developments on capitol hill and to get all the long with expert analysis had to our website r.t. dot com. well still ahead for you in the program today human rights groups raising

alarm over struggling minder and in qatar 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. painful force feeding and full body cavity searches that's what a handful of detainees are still experiencing at america's atory as guantanamo bay military prison a mass hunger strike began family and has since subsided to less than two dozen protesters against indefinite detention r.t. has now gained rare access to the prison and here's the first in a series of reports by necessity churkin up. after a few months of people work to get cleared to visit the base the trip to get mobile hop and a skip from the big apple to fort lauderdale in florida and from there were short hour and a half flight one largely kept under wraps with no indications of it on departure boards. the minute we landed 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 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 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 headed to the logic area now it's about a minute. area right one side of an area where the airport is. several

repressive but the main part of the people and the detention camp over there have given its reputation guantanamo isn't quite what we anticipated as we approach the meeting area it's sad interesting to know that to be unsuspecting this place looks just like another tropical island with the american flag i would never feel that this is the place policy going to native state or us the lodging 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 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 for 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 cost what it cost to do it right what doing it right 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. and still had for you this hour iran's nuclear program proposals being hailed by the west bought will this amount to more than just dog warned out in just a few minutes. the interview.

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back this is r.t. prime minister david cameron has accused the guardian newspaper of damaging britain's national security by publishing materials provided by edward snowden a problem and her committee is now looking into whether the paper breached the country's law article 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 the 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 have 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 grieg. politely by my national security advisory cabalistic to destroy the files they had been destroyed should they know that what they're dealing with is dangerous to national security i think . they want to examine this issue and make further recommendations asked politely by my national security adviser that's my favorite bit of 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 us british investigative journalist.

incident only demonstrates the pressure on freedom of speech in the country. well i think he's almost declaring war on investigative journalism if that's the case attack on the guardian is absolutely despicable and he should make sure that he's making sure that the british public are being protected by these people by focusing on the guardian by trying to make you know make them account for what they're doing i think that that will be absolutely no problem for the guardian to do but what it does is it actually reduces the amount of investigative journalism that's going on the coverage and it has a has a sort of self-censorship effect a lot of journalists think well maybe i shouldn't do that story because there may be legal problems they may be the government leaning on me and that's an appalling state of affairs we've also got government regulation of the press coming along. the same time as all this so it does seem that the press is being squeezed particularly the left wing press by the government. meanwhile toward snowden's

father says he's son asked plenty more secrets to share and that after a long awaited family reunion in moscow his brand of advise is stay in russia to make sure the true story is told on r.t. dot com you can learn all about once known as journey to the russian capital. plus the u.s. military could soon get an android app to allow it to call in airstrikes and pile of drones by touching the screen on a smartphone had to our website for more details on the innovation. 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 puts the issue firmly in the spotlight. both in guitar and in the united arab emirates about eight out of

ten the workers are foreigners and there is a similar picture in kuwait the region's other leading oil producer and while in amman and saudi arabia migrants make up only about a third of the population foreigners and the gulf region as a whole make up almost a half of its total population of just forty two million people that's our city has more. the reno to organize. trended to fifth vote car is covered. but the initial celebration of christie should be overshadowed by ford workers claims of weak men 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 the 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 designer 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 squad 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 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 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. . nobel peace prize recipients have called a lot of reporting to drop the charges against greenpeace activists arrested for storming oil rig in russia's arctic later today and worlds apart exxon avoided goes had to have with environmental groups executive director over the organization's recent progress and here's a quick preview of the things about greenpeace is that the words green and pisa equally important yes we do take very strong peaceful actions but we do not cross the line into. beyond any action that can be but i'm that's precisely the case in point here i know that you've been arguing all along that the

protests was entirely peaceful and yet from the footage that we got there is an intention 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 the cause guards away well let me tell you that i have seen i'm not seeing your version that you're showing on television i've 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 the conscious to try 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. the olympic flame is supposed to be a symbol of unity but not everyone sees it that way six thousand strong petition in

georgia is calling for a boycott of the upcoming winter games in sochi that's because one of the people carrying the flame around russia is a pilot who was involved in the military action that led to sell the city is in the pan it's in two thousand and eight are just like here ships investigate. six years ago when such she was chosen to host the twenty fourteen games i was there in sochi and i covered the story i remember two days after the event georgia's were first talking about boycotting the olympic games and that was even before the two thousand and one which resulted in the independence of south a city and a process 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 who took part in the in the war back then in two thousand a the russian pilot some of them even signed a petition more than six thousand people a big boy called the guy that 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 george wouldn't 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 here not because of politics i'm here because of my love for this life plus art is 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 the country's prime minister be diminished it was a bit more vague about the prospect of a bit of a boycott he was first he said that georgia would not benefit from it and it's not a really sporting issue then he refused to completely rule out the possibility of a boycott but seriously the country which puts only four athletes to compete in the games boycotting it hardly it's a statement of intent and that's the opinion i've heard from many many georgians i

know. and in the world these day a suicide bomber detonated a truck loaded with explosives in northern iraq killing at least fifteen people in berlin. a march by hundreds of activist against the alleged unlawful treatment of refugees by german authorities as an it in a standoff with police several people were arrested during scuffles protesters also called for support for african migrants and board ships which recently sank in the midst of rain over four hundred people drowned in those incidents. dozens of wildfires are raging across australia is most popular state new south wales eighteen of which are said to be out of control but so far they have no way short of casualties or injuries but so holes in the worst hit areas are believed to have been lost the fires sent huge amounts of smoke into the sky which even block the sun over downtown sydney the disaster has been caused by unseasonably hot

temperatures and strong winds. schools across much of england have closed with thousands of teachers protesting against low pay and increased workload and while the government is saying it's raising education standards teachers claim the main problem is performance related pay jeff brown or as a senior vice president of the largest teachers' union in the u.k. and he says a crisis is looming if no agreement can be found. there are thirteen thousand fewer teachers in training this year than the previous year if that continues we're going to have a major crisis in teacher supply they now will be put on a point and they may never move from it even if you meet your targets now there's no guarantee that you will actually get the pay that in the past you were promised a better performance we've also had only one percent pay rise in the last three years so we've taken our fair share in fact if you take the pension increases

alongside the one percent we're actually worse off now than we were before this government came in and we hope that michael go will see the anger of the twelve thousand teachers that marched here in london today of the many thousands more that marched in bristol in the north east and were actually sit down with us and have meaningful talks there is some indication that the government may be prepared to do that but i'm not going to hold my breath because michael gove has. a history of ignoring the genuine concerns of teachers and two days of talks between iran and six world powers appear to have and art an optimistic note with more meetings planned for next month at the meeting in geneva iranian ago she put forward a proposal to diffuse the international standoff over its nuclear program the specifics of the deal are being kept under wraps and political commentator and iran experts rise up we're all rich says the stalemate is far from over 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 anytime soon unless they see iran completely give up its right if all the demands it has and basically subjugate it stop. and iran foreign minister said the results of the negotiations will hopefully begin a new phase mezzo were told so thinks that tehran is ready to make concessions but anti significant easing of sanctions from the west will be hard won how can two caught under the right circumstances i don't believe that it would allow itself to be bullied into taking actions that that. frankly not to acknowledge nothing has changed very much from the way i see it either through a display of optimism i had we examine the dark secrets surrounding the gulf of

mexico oil 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 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 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 all they are usually trivial this celebrity case actually sets a dangerous legal precedent but that's just my opinion. the story be beaming ins in iran. the.

british geologists discovered iran was sitting on an emotional boil and they decided they would take in they formed the an anglo persian oil company and made a deal with the iranian monarchy. then guaranteed itself mona runs on oil. shortly after that the british government bought fifty one percent of the company and of the suggestion of winston churchill the british navy switched from coal to oil. the word ships the projected british cower all of the world were now run one hundred percent wrong. and then in one thousand fifty two iranians decided to take their oil back. the democratically elected government of prime minister mohammad most an act nationalize the anglo iranian oil company. he banished all the british diplomats and along with them the secret agents who were plotting to overthrow.