tim's mission to teach me the creation of why you should care about humans. this is why you should care only. buy from moscow president obama calls the u.s. budget crisis a self-inflicted blow to the economy after signing a deal that ended the government shutdown and a virtue to default but the problems unresolved. is the detainee hunger strike at guantanamo bay prison continues are rare access to the infamous u.s. detention center. you've heard about it. but you don't really think this is a place that people forget about like they don't ever think about. what it's really like to work there and do they have any regret interesting report coming up also to britain's prime minister the guardian newspaper over its reporting on whistleblower

edward snowden's n.s.a. leaks and calls for investigation. no and here very good to have you company our top story the president face the nation for the first time since that sixteen day long government shutdown admitting that the standoff has inflicted quote completely unnecessary damage on the u.s. economy and the nation's credibility. has the details from washington. u.s. president now having to face the fallout from this two week hold on capitol hill the u.s. government is now up and running after a sixteen day shutdown america just barely avoiding default on their almost seventeen trillion dollars in borrowings at the very last minute deal funds the government until january fifteenth allowing the u.s.

to continue borrowing until february seventh so we now have a new deadline but the same problem obama and other officials seemed confident a more long term solution to the budget crisis can be found by the end of the year the rest of the world not so confident the global economy was bracing for the worst here a chinese rating agency has downgraded the u.s. maintaining a negative outlook as revenue in g.d.p. failed to keep up with america's massive debts according to some estimates the debt limit would need to be increased another trillion dollars to get through two thousand and fourteen that's on top of the already seventeen trillion dollars in debt i don't know about you but that's hard number for me to even fathom but at least the u.s. has probably learned a lesson from this crisis right well when vice president joe biden was asked if there's any guarantee there won't be another government shutdown down the road he said there's no guarantee of anything. well a 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 build when 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. 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 foolishness 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 for the debt fiasco is also put the u.s. dollars position as the leading global reserve currency on the question but market analyst mike ingram says they've made alternatives to the greenback far from ideal either but it's no euphoria here at all there's a feeling that you know crisis has been

a very good but it's really. you know we're going to be revisiting this a few months up the road and heavens knows you know if you're a consumer in the us it is already looking quite fragile and if you're a business looking to invest in the u.s. longer term you 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 were thinking maybe the year i was going to fall completely japan has a policy effectively of of of deliberately weak yen and. left with the u.s. and also some currencies where a lot less less liquid. well it seems the emotional pressure from the government shutdown taking its toll on some on capitol hill particularly as lawmakers cast their votes to break the deadlock a clock in the house of representatives seized

a microphone has started a shot with what witnesses described as a quote crazed look on a face while tensions of different kind over here at r t two where our guests that we have in this. 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 frame them. 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 sorry are going to be. if you. but

a default and 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 the money itself is valueless and what america's done is the 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 been diminished we won't be able to see a repeat of what president nixon said in the nine hundred 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 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 on. or wait until february the seventh now when will the bubble eventually explode what will this mean for the rest of us why 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 and that's an unsustainable level and what needs to be to is to bring that down this whole question about refinancing that misses the point that the problem is how do we get rid of this 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. we close all

development on capitol hill to get all the updates along with expert analysis with head to our website so i was on the ball artie dot com. next painful force feeding in full body cavity searches that's what a handful of detainee's are still experiencing at america's notorious alamo bay military prison mass hunger strike that began in february but is since subsided to less than two dozen protesters against indefinite detention is what we're talking about artie's nogay rare access to the prison here is the first in a series of reports then for ministers. 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 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 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 going to see the logic area now it's about a twenty minute ferry ride one side of the area where the airport is. several

rebranded insisted to me part of an evil b. and the detention camp 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 feel that this is a place policy and a native state for us as 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 shot. when 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 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 long tunnel in our reports to follow and going to r.t. guantanamo bay cuba. coming up on the chunnel researches from the us canada on the rug suggest as many as half a million people died during the u.s. led occupation of iraq got reaction to that just a few minutes from now. the

interview. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images. from the streets of kandahar. operation.

this is our. top story again the end of the u.s. government shutdown in the global repercussions of that sixteen day long political stalemate in washington. and he's a senior analyst at green crest capital an economic research and advisory firm. where president obama earlier on. lead to get all saying that it's done damage to the u.s. and it seemed bold and its competitors in it at amaze abroad do you agree yeah absolutely i think it's a lot of self-inflicted damage unfortunately that's the story of the last few years although not always so profound and dramatic a tale as the one we watched unfold over the last two weeks or more than two weeks i mean i think the consensus coming out of standard and poor's and other places is about a twenty four to twenty five billion dollars loss to the g.d.p.

but i think the much bigger losses brand america took a beating here yeah it was to be predicted is what i think we're going to see more of it are we not in the early new year no. i'm not so sure we'll see quite this again this is a real low i certainly hope we don't see it again and i think what we're about to see is a real war for the soul of the republican party which historically is a party closest to big business here and has allowed a relatively small portion of the most ideologically motivated kind of out there folks hijack the party hijacked the government and run the entire country into a ditch. hopeful when the lessons have been learned both sides knew this deadline was coming up this what we've just. said the next one now is we think the february that's on the money runs out again have lessons really been learned though. i think the public has learned a lesson i think the public's pretty angry congress fell to

a five percent approval rating just you know i mean that is unheard of that's unbelievable it's the lowest rating we've seen since modern polling in the last twenty five years so i do think there's some fear there now who learned what lesson is a big issue we didn't really get a deal we got to kick the can down the road we'll revisit this later type of deal the risks are still huge they're still very much there but i do think however that this won't go on forever for two reasons one because i do think there we have reached our reaching the limit of public and corporate patients and the other one is you can only do this much damage to yourself publicly for so long before you're so damaged that the world doesn't care and your economy isn't strong enough to lose that much money so what is the option the pill to take to sort all this out is it. well the funny thing about this is the option is pretty easy the option is that if you don't like a piece of legislation that passes and then gets approved by the supreme court you lose you live to fight another day you let the government keep going and then the

other funny option here is that we've got a group of folks who decide every problem the world has ever known is actually the government and the funny thing happens when they shut down the government home the public of the united states which tends to be somewhat libertarian in its disposition and kind of exaggerate how much they don't need the government learns the hard way that they do need the government we do need the government it is important and nothing shows you the importance of a government's operation like having a bunch of people who are a little bit crazy shut it down for two weeks actually put on a practical side saying that they should be economic growth that should be invested in get easy to say but harder to do. sure look obviously this is a no brainer this is a little bit like telling people that you love your mother and you love the country you always get an applause line we do need economic growth we have not seen really robust economic growth of any sustained variety in many years now so it's all the more needed for its absence that being said i do think there is a possibility here that the more reasonable portions of the republican party and

there are a bunch of those and the more moderate portion of the democratic party can work together to cleave off the influence of some of the more destructive forces that we've seen come to the fore here in the last couple weeks if that's true that we suffered to get somewhere if that's not true then we just suffered to suffer more in the future and i certainly hope the second one is not how it works out you know what the what conversations you and i will be having here on out then come january february we shall see. thanks very much for that i will look forward to joining you thank you all right. folks so britain. has accused the guardian newspaper of damaging britain's national security by publishing materials provided by edward snowden a parliamentary committee is now looking into whether the paper breached the country's law or smith has the details from london. 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 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 is happening as damage national security and in many ways the guardian themselves admitted that greed asked politely by my national security adviser 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 further 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 disagree with 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 time edward snowden's father says his. secrets to share but after the long awaited family reunion here in moscow but his parental advice to his son was in russia to make sure the true story is told at r.t. dot com you can learn all about long journey to the russian capital last week. if you fancy the u.s. military could soon get an android app to allow it to call in airstrikes and pilot drones. watching the screen of a smartphone scary head to our website for more details on this latest innovation.

the u.s. led war in iraq has claimed over four hundred thousand lives with forced migration killing fifty five thousand more that's according to a survey of two thousand randomly selected households across iraq the study that took almost two years to complete been dubbed as the most rigorous to date and the implications behind that number stretch far beyond the number of casualties that's what we're hearing from someone rafi's director of the world health organization collaborating center in the u.k. this is the best survey we have about how we will never have a perfect segue figure maybe a little bit higher than this but the issue is not about the twenty percent or thirty percent higher or lower they should toss today this research proved to us the magnitude of the damage is huge it's not about only the five hundred. thousand lives lost there are four million for this one one million widows in all

four million people displaced inside iraq four million people actually live the country the damage to the health services the housing needs the damage to the infrastructure of this is all of the consequences of the invasion of two thousand and three. nobel prize peace recipients of cold of love him of putin to drop the charges against the greenpeace activists arrested for storming that all rig in russia's arctic later on and online from his world r.t. dot com you can see worlds of particles on a boy because latest program which goes head to head with the environmental groups executive director of the organization for protest and is a quick preview. one of the things about green peace is that the words green and peace you could be important yes we do take very strong peaceful action but we do not cross the line into. beyond any action that can be but 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 intact to push because guards awake 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 version of it because when that allegation was made our took it very seriously because if we did in fact do what you say we did that we can just try to ram the coast guard vessel instead of what i am 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. well there is a brief ten twenty two moscow time in

a march by hundreds of activists against the unlawful treatment refugees by german authorities and police several people were arrested during scuffles and protesters also called for support for african migrants on board two ships which recently sank in the mediterranean over four hundred people drowned those incidents almost one hundred wildfires. the raging no pulse astray as most populated state new south wales thirty four of which is said to be out of control so far there's been no reports of casualties but hundreds of homes and a belief is involved those fires sent huge amounts of smoke into the sky as well which even block the son of a downtown sydney for a while disasters been caused by unseasonably hot temperatures and strong winds. the german filmmaker has cameramen have claimed that there were arrested in qatar after filming the working conditions of migrants building values for the twenty twenty two world cup trade unions have been ringing the alarm of the conditions in the region for years but it's the prestigious football event of course has put the issue firmly in the spotlight well both in katter and the united arab emirates

about eight out of ten workers actually are foreigners is a similar picture in kuwait to the region's other leading all producer. meantime in a man in saudi arabia migrants make a bit less but a third of the population test has more on the conditions some of those workers have to endure when they get to these places do we know to organize. detour trended to fifth vote is coming. but the initial celebration of christie should be overshadowed by ford workers claims of treatment not getting paid and he did 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 to a job and if 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 desire bellew nyssa 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 up 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 chairman of qatar's national human rights committee responded to allegations there is no slavery or forced labor in qatar there have been some problems only to the fact that there are forty four thousand businesses in the country but i can assure you that the authorities are constantly making efforts to resolve the problems in the meantime he 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. . great programs lined up for you tonight up ahead info exam the ducks he could sort of the go for mexico oil disaster one of the worst spills in history programme for the next hour the next news update after that.

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 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 although they are usually trivial this celebrity case actually sets a dangerous legal precedent but that's just my opinion. after the b.b.s. bill dr ron came to louisiana we're in barrett's area which is forty miles from the gulf and about one hundred fifty miles from the. well. the oil and dispersants have come into here yesterday the wind blew really hard this table's got this cloudy gritty glaze on it you can bet that it'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 including to be a toxic after no axons chief medical advisor dr kind of cool it's a memo to x. on and at the very end here you see the intent we do not need a health hazard evaluation and should try and avoid it if possible. the health hazard evaluation is osha and nyasha coming in and saying sorry there's too many sick people here and you spiller are now labile for doing long term medical surveillance how exxon avoided it was by misrepresent.