a short 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's most fear is battle in recent history remain on addressed. as a detainee hunger strike a growing time of a prison continuous r.t. games rare access to the infamous u.s. detention center. you've heard about it like several movies but you don't really see it and this is a place that people forget about they don't ever think about it we ask those who make the facility tick what it's really like to work there and do they have any regrets. britain's prime minister slams the guardian newspaper over its reporting on whistleblower edward snowden's anas a week and calls for an investigation.

this is already coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program financial catastrophe has been averted in the united states but only for the time being president obama has signed a last minute deal and a two week government shutdown and avoiding it a fault but is there any explains the doubt clocks merely been restarted. after the vote some bloggers joked see you back here in three months now babs 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 can 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 and a recent poll found that almost three quarters of americans were on happy with their politicians handling of the situation the partial shutdown of the government cost the u.s. staggering twenty four billion dollars before the long way to build 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. 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. now as this crisis further with market commentator alistair mckay who is and london joins us live from there hello there alastair well as we see congressman i have admitted that the crisis hasn't been averted it's been merely delayed so what should we expect come the next deadline which is fabulous. evening yes it really is a bit disappointing i guess the action that we've seen the americans take it very much feels like they've just hit the snooze button and once again three months time we're going to have to face the same issues and i guess it's a number of issues as far as the financial markets are consent obviously we've seen

the u.s. dollar pretty much we can across the board against the certainly the major currencies as the your of sterling and over one hundred. thousand we see equity markets maybe a little bit calmer reaction negative reaction this morning but i guess that was really factored in by the fact that we saw u.k. and european equity markets remained relatively calm right up to the run up to this and i guess that comes from the fact that we've seen this a number of times before as far as the president obama's reign is concerned compromise i do feel obviously as well that this will affect the quantity of easing plans that they had me thirty two months ago we saw recently thoughts in the markets with factoring in that tapering would start before year's end and i think it seems considerably less likely that we'll see tapering in twenty thirty well of course you can see masters have been in financial suspend here and you know markets have been on a roller coaster but what can be learned from this i mean do you think the

governments the u.s. government will learn some well from this experience. well it's certainly hope so i think you're pretty much right to reputational damage has been done across the boards certainly no neither of the political parties will have come out of this with much credit in the bank as far as voting populace is concerned and i think the republicans are probably more inclined to get an agreement dealt with in a more timely fashion the next time ratchet. budget issue is before years and mid december and then the debt ceiling issue is in february straddling that sort of and a fourth quarter and once again you do feel that it's going to be the corporate news flow that's going to suffer on the back of this we're in the middle of the u.s. reporting season at the moment and hardly anyone is talking about that on anyone's mentioning the figures that the u.s. industry producing at the moment and i guess we run the risk of facing the same

issues in three months time at the end of that next quarter and it really is disappointing when you specially when you bear in mind that the debt ceiling limits that they have is a self-imposed limits it's one that the u.s. imposes upon themselves rather than an international one so they really have it within themselves to sort this out but why is it out there i mean like like you just said you know if some other countries did not have this debt ceiling so why does it make sense for the u.s. to have it what are they gaining from it. well i. well i guess the fact is that the u.s. dollar is the currency of default for so pretty much everybody globally speaking and as such they know whatever debts they issue within reason will quite frankly be taken up by the broader markets so in that regard there isn't the sort of international monetary pressure is put upon them that almost every other country in the world has some so they they are regulated they won't have pressures out with

the us it is obviously a situation they can't let's go on forever and i guess it is prudent that they have some sort of limits on what they do they fundamentally need to change their policies and they fundamentally needs to change the way with which they've been running their budget but i think that that's an argument that will take considerably longer than just three months to sorts out or else. think it's much for sharing your views with us here on r.t. . now the emotional pressure on the government shutdown seems to have taken its toll on capitol hill as lawmakers cast their votes to break the deadlock a saga of her in the house of representatives seized a microphone and started to shout was what witnesses described as a crazed look on her face meanwhile tensions of a different kind of we here at our tea were our gas have been having their say. 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 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 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 i'm glad beyond that. if you have. somebody but a default on the pins money which is money it's in 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 what america's done is it didn't fold in so much as it's going to pay its bills nevertheless is 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 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 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 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 and. february the seventh now will look bubble eventually exploded 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 and that's an unsustainable level and what needs to be used 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. 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 it's ongoing because it's become a political in the way that it never ever was before. and we're keeping a close watch on all the developments on capitol hill to get all the updates along with expert analysis had to our website r t v dot com.

so we have here in the program human rights groups raise the alarm over struggling migrants in qatar find out firsthand what it's like for workers and how it could affect the country's world cup ambitions and coupled with. painful force feeding and full body cavity searches that's what a handful of detainees are still experiencing at america's notorious going tama bay military prison a mass hunger strike began in february and has since subsided to less than two dozen protesters against indefinite detention r.t.d. has now gained rare access to the prison and here's a first in a series of reports. after a few months of people work to get cleared to visit the base the trip to get mohammad and escape from the big apple to fort lauderdale in florida and from there are short hour and a half flight one largely kept under wraps. 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 the 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 like 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. very right one side of the area where the airport.

several of the residence is but the main part of the people and the detention camp are over there. 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 think that this is a place policy on a native state towards 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 still . 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 for now remaining at a whopping eight hundred thousand taxpayer dollars for a 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 i'm going to r.t. guantanamo bay cuba. thousands of teachers across the u.k. going strike over long hours and low wages were made a union leader who tells us what needs to change and that's coming up very soon.

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a bit of a. welcome 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 adding snowden the parliamentary committee is now looking into whether the paper breached the country's law argues laura smith brings the details from london he launched what can only be described as a round of this hack in 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 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 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 it and greig. politely by my national security advisor to destroy the files they had to destroy those files so they know that what they're dealing with is dangerous for national security i think it is in this house if they want to examine this issue and make further recommendation 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 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. meanwhile edward snowden's father says his son has plenty more secrets to share and that after a long awaited family reunion in moscow his parental advice is stay in russia to make sure the true story still on a t. dot com you can learn all about law and snowden's journey to the russian capital. plus. the u.s. military could soon get an android app to allow to call in airstrikes and pilot drones by touching the screen on a smartphone pad to a website for more details on the innovation. the german filmmaker and his camera man have claimed they were arrested in guitar after filming that 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 a prestigious football event that's put the issue of firmly in the spotlight both

in qatar and the united arab emirates about eight out of ten 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 about make up about a third of the population for years in the gulf region as a whole make up almost a half of its total population of just forty two million people that's our silly has more. do we know to organize a 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 even 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 their job unless the employer agrees this means that the workers have no real power no real voice to. pick up very very bad working and living conditions zire blueness 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 on paid 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 deluded 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 desiree cilia r.t. . nobel peace prize recipients have called on weimer putin to drop the charges against greenpeace activists rest of storming in oil rig in russia's arctic and about two hours and world apart exxon avoided goes head to head with the environmental groups executive director over the organization's recent progress here's a quick preview. 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 i'm theirs 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 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 coast guard 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 but because when that allegation was made took it very seriously because if we did in fact do what you say we did that the consciously 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. the

olympic flame is supposed to be a symbol of unity but not everyone sees a ballet six thousand strong petition in georgia is calling for a boycott of the upcoming winter games in sochi and that's because one of the people carrying the flame around russia is a pilot who was involved in a military action that led to south a city its independence in two thousand and eight are investigate. six years ago when such he 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 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 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 torchbearers 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 did to 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 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 i'm here not because of politics i'm here because of my love for this life sport 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 really 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. now thousands of schools have shut down across england due to teacher strike the government's pushing for performance related pay and a bid to raise standards but teachers say the scale will merely increase workload and damage pageants jeff banner a senior vice president to add a major teachers' unions as an agreement must be reached to avoid a crisis we already know that 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 paper 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 we hope that michael gove will see the anger of the twelve thousand teachers that marched here in london today and of the many thousands more that marched in bristol and the northeastern will and he will 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. an axe it abby martin versus bottled water giant nestlé and breaking the set don't miss the show right after the break.

you know when 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 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. guys welcome to breaking the sides. if you watch the show you know how much of a fan i have him of nestle i kid i kid guys there's finally a victory to declare against a massive bottled water corporation and while it may still be a drop in the bucket it's something to celebrate after decades of wild west water destruction ontario the company has finally been reined in slightly in this canadian province the ministry of environment has granted nestle a permit to extract one point one three million liters of groundwater every day but

that access wasn't enough for nestle corp fought tooth and nail to remove a restriction that would permit that would limit their extraction during times of drought because hey why i conserve water during a drought of my right ridiculous as it sounds the ontario ministry caved it's time and time again never imposing restrictions it wasn't until activists stepped in and pressured their government to nestle back down and accepted the drought rule of course now they're clear namely that there are you know corporation in the province was any sort of limit during a dry season well sorry i can't shed a tear for you nestle because even though you can't turn ontario into a desert you can still turn british columbia into a barren wasteland along with any other province you have your greedy what little fingers in so quit with the crocodile tears and props to the activists who are standing up to the water profiteers.