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scenario that we have to consider is that bitcoin become something of a financial black hole and all cash that's currently invested in stocks and bonds is moved over incipit going and we have a stock market or bond market crash or both as we see the price of bitcoin move into the twenty five thousand dollar range and that's something that no central bank or or country will be able to stop and it's becoming a real a real scenario a real threat to the energy required to mine bitcoin is quite significant and that gives you the underlying value a bit going to cost about two thousand dollars to mine a bit going that has real intrinsic value that gives you an indication that we're not talking about something that has no intrinsic value it does at the energy cost being part of the intrinsic value scenario and as the demand for bitcoin rises the energy will be there to meet that demand that's the way capitalism works. on the
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latest surge in bitcoin i'm here in thirty minutes time with more global world news but no more r.t. programs. i'm afshin rattansi we're going underground as today in london disgraced former u.k. international development secretary pretty big tell us what the future of the tory party is coming up on the show so watch her representatives hundred thousand workers tells this program about plans for unions to unite in strike action against the policies of u.k. minority government leaders to raise in may and ahead of tomorrow's berlin security conference addressed by e.u. bricks and negotiator. what about the personal security of british m.p.'s we speak
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to the u.k. just a select committee john howell about death threats plus the art of war on terror with this month marking nine years since a u.s. airstrike on a wedding in afghanistan killed thirty seven civilians. from all around the world to reflect major nation atrocities in their work. coming up on today's going underground but first reverberations from the budget of the chancellor continue to resonate around the united kingdom more than fifty thousand children will reportedly have no money from juries amaze new universal credit welfare scheme before christmas and thousands of poor mothers have been denied three pound or four dollar milk vouchers amidst the austerity we caught up with mark so what representing hundreds of thousands of u.k. workers as leader of the p.c.'s public and commercial services trade union on the green outside the palace of westminster. representing one hundred eighty thousand
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workers around the country now is mark so walk of the p.c.s. union mark thanks so much for coming out on the green before we get to the main points of the budget driverless cars and some p.c.'s are involved in the actual disputes of the paying good dish the driving instructors your members yes we have industrial action backed by eighty four percent of our members who are driving instructors examiners and that's because the new driving test is being introduced in a way that we think a reduces our members terms and conditions and b. raises serious health and safety questions so currently on the day the new test is due to be launched our members will be taking industrial action unless the government instructs its officials to recommence negotiations in the next few days now already the childs of of how and it signals of this public paying sector cap was over anyway so what are you complaining about while i think this has to be the most underwhelming disappointing budget in many many years the burning issue for
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everyone before this budget what everyone is talking about was public sector pay would he wouldn't he told the ministers openly saying the cap are to go and that money out to people in an incredibly the chancellor didn't even mention public sector pay he didn't do anything to say he was putting extra money into the public sector doing anything about the eight year cutting living standards of public sector workers have hired under this government and that is completely unacceptable and from his own staff's point of view p.c.s. members who work for the government ninety nine percent of them in a ballot last month voted to say they wanted to decent pay rise and eight out of ten of them said they'd go on strike if they didn't get it so this budget completely and utterly let all of those people down and we now intend to plan a campaign of action with other unions to challenge what the government's doing cermak colvin's labor party going very big on the paradise papers and tax judging the tories keep on making the point that. tax collection is up just by the numbers
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of your members going down in the sea revenue collection how do you explain that disparity. when i think what i think i said in the budget is this is here today gone tomorrow chancellor seems to me he may well be sacked that this budget did not talk about the huge questions whether it's about the tax gap of over one hundred twenty billion whether it's about public sector pay whether it's about the future of our public services and i think the reason is talk about the public services it means and the n.h.s. was a great institution he's looking investigations into we have homelessness he's not doing anything about it he's not putting in the money to our local authorities for example under the cosh make in huge job cuts closing libraries cutting back on frontline services you mentioned the tax offices we have had a reduction in staff in tax offices from one hundred and one thousand down to fifty eight thousand have the amount of staff at a time where there are people who are void of aid or we don't collect tax because
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we are going after staff to do anything about it and i think therefore what has told me about this budget is that all the chances done today is what he could get agreement on amongst his cabinet the real big questions of people cared about totally is dr m. and that's because the government i think is unstable is in chaos and for the people i represent and the millions and millions who are the majority of this country whether they benefit claimants they use the health service or send their kids to school has not answered the questions and been prepared to reverse the years of a stair it's easy and actually stop pumping money and investment into our economy which is the only way to deal with these problems while the government made some concessions at least reviewing the numbers of cuts of your members in revenue collection tax revenue collection and you know me having any relations with home about that or to the government say that they are committed to the spending plans they made in twenty fifteen which means that they are on course currently to reduce further staff an intimacy by another eight. thousand over the next couple of years
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they're currently closing ninety percent of all of britain's tax office is taking tax offices out of whole swathes of the country and just having thirteen centers in the whole of great britain so it's a government that may say things in parliament but the actions they take tell us a very different story and they're soft on tax dodging they're soft on tax evasion but they like to be very hard on the poorest people who use our benefits system hence he has to think it with universal credit when what he really needed to do was to suspend the rollout of universal credit listen to all the experts and give us a decent social security system not one that forces people into debt and sees many people affected from the housing small to walker thank you once a much well while mark's a walker leader of one of britain's biggest trade unions may not have appreciated the latest u.k. government budget others were more sanguine those such as u.k. justice committee tory m.p. john howard who was also a trade envoy for prime minister to resume john thanks for being on going
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underground again what do you say to people this is just media is threatening the lives even of those the wonderful new aunts position and bricks that i think that the case that was put forward by a superior for example for the threats against her are to be deprecated and would you think of them all you want to position they did vote for article fifty of course but now they say that there are big differences as well you know i i look touched the bell i looked at the detail of the amendments that were being made and quite honestly i can see that this was actually a real fight to the death over something that was actually quite inch of santa why do you think they say that the arbitrary date could be detrimental to our negotiations what class attention issues that we we still need to discuss i don't have a firm view on that i've heard the argument situation based being a zero zero point. with that date that date is set in stone what i did i agree that
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she said that in instead but nevertheless we still have to have a discussion about it and i can see the difficulties that might occur for example if we were down to the while often negotiations go on at the last minute and beyond the last minute and if you've got a drop dead date then it is not helpful to the course that would you think of the announcement of the moving these european agencies the banking or the mets the one in the midst of our to go sheeting group says well i think you've got to look at the impact of that could have in the u.k. and the impact that could have in the u.k. is to make our our ability to bring forward new drugs much easier is the european med's it's a absolutely like to amsterdam absolutely because hundreds of jobs are going to be lost to the banking authority to paris and the let's see what we do excellent but as you've heard in today's budget for example we are creating huge numbers of high value jobs across this country and the success of this government since since two
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thousand and ten has been to create an enormous number of jobs over three million jobs for people in this country so i you know i'm i'm i'm not going to get like a man out by a few agencies taking their business away now i know that you are out of nigeria making friends i was there in order to have discussions to make sure that we try to change the perception of nigeria and to its enormous credit it has gone up twenty five points in the world bank table of countries which is good to do business and took because we did see that if a tragedy there were in the past few days as islam is movements. gather force that's what we hear only it's true we hear headlines but i don't think that the islamist forces in nigeria are gathering forces this is not going to be settled by military action it has to be settled by making. all of the country engages in
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growth but that growth is a spread across the country and that you offer the people that the poor people particularly in the northeast you offer them something that the islamists cannot offer them and that is a share in the potential growth of the future of the country that you are for believing david cameron and the british bombardment of a northern africa libya do you think african union countries are going to look good kindly to british investment and trade opportunities what i can tell you that is that britain and british opportunities are absolutely loved in in guy jerry it's a great place to to to go into and to do business the flights are always crowded you probably want to get a seat on one if you want to go there this week and it shows the enormous amount of mutual activity that there is between britain and nigeria how confident are you that the government is putting these feelers out to emerging economies given that britain presumably it's vital for britain to make deals be above and beyond w.t.
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a rules with other nations give you one good example of why i think the government is moving in the right direction when the trade envoy program was set up in the beginning there were only eight during that period i was there and i and i'm i say i'm one of the prime ministers trade him for years and there are only eight of us there are now twenty eight of us because we have increased the number of countries to look at where we can most get the value out of out of these sorts of discussions and presumably countries that are like they cheer the for a long time look poorly on european union trade restrictions because of e.u. tariffs on the trade for the countries the that the nigerians have looked askance at by what's been happening in the in the e.u. and you know i think that of one point that i think that we need to need to bring out and that is the enormous additional disruption. that not getting sub-saharan
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africa right would cause to europe if if we want to see millions go up to the coast and trust themselves to unscrupulous traffickers then we don't get the sub-saharan africa right we have to get this right for all our sakes for all the humanitarian talk coming out of brussels and strasburg this early decades getting the m.v.p.'s of the people who are officials in bosses would just go and have a really appreciated how their policy actually holds africa well i've not been looking at what european policy has been doing i've been looking at what british policy has been has been doing and i think both was but but the way in which british aids tonight here is tied in with all the other activities that britain need to and it is a fantastic statement of how seriously with god's this sort of issue so we'll be using the aid budget for these new trade deals but what we will be using the aid budget for is to do things like making the economy come right like making sure that
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we have conversed ability of the colors because that is not only good for us it's good for mind here as well and that's what i say you know there is tremendous amount of mutual activity that can be conducted in places starting in nigeria which we should be making the most of thank you after the break. sixteen years on from nine eleven with millions killed wounded or displaced in the name of the war on terror to speak to for artists about how those explosions continue to reverberate around the world all visible doing going underground. doublecross you would think so if you're a kurd also just how many u.s. troops are in syria and why and the living hell that is yemen.
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welcome back nine years ago this month the u.s. air strikes has a wedding in afghanistan killing thirty seven civilians mostly women and children nearly ten years on fourteen thousand u.s. troops hundreds of british troops remain in afghanistan arguably just continuing the nato legacy of bombs and displacement in the name of the war on terror the continuing wars in the middle east state surveillance government sanctioned torture are examined in a new exhibition at the imperial war museum in london seventy editors about impact went to speak to some of the artists featured at the exhibition. on september eleventh two thousand and one for coordinated attacks in the united states killed nearly ten thousand people but sixteen years on with millions killed displaced
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or wounded in the name of the war on terror how else of these explosions continue to reverberate around the world age of terror since nine eleven as a new exhibition at the imperial war museum it brings together forty international artists to examine increased government surveillance modern killing machines and the fact that nato was invasions of hide in the middle east the first part the exhibition nine eleven examines artis reactions to the attack i spoke to an artist if i'm the far only your about how his piece the twin towers was partly inspired by growing up in the cia back to take the ship of general pinochet right when i finished. i realized that. it would be interesting to make a real connection there were. there were swear when before the terrorist attack . so i decided to to to install it on the floor in india
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exact same orientation that the real twin towers were so that way it will be a. connection to the actual towers basically when i when i installed the pieces on the floor they'd be in something else they became i i j gun big holes on the ground and something more going at the two like a masquerade especially because i have this in the memory and experience i grew up in this dictatorship in chile i have that image in my mind you know so the first time i see something like that i kind of connect it is a clear connection to my my memories when i was out a child seeing the new ones and when they did they would form. ten seven fifteen disappeared you know people that were disappeared during dictatorship in these mass graves and he was
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a gigantic call on the ground so when i saw the pieces on the floor i said wow this is this is this is like that this is is is more like a connection to the people who died in the twin towers rather rather than just a connection to the to the footprint of the piece when might be to have a political comment is because by connecting different objects and different context or different pieces of history you create a narrative and the narrative is socially connected to political issues i think is important to we political and it's important to protest and it's important to think art can change the world but it is a slow process you know that's what i always think and that and i think a spirit for you not to think that it might take two hundred years for your piece to be part of our history our historical change but it will be but
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little by little the next thought the exhibition looks not only intense because each new government surveillance post nine eleven but you should talk to a potential human rights abuses the cane with ever growing stake control i want to cap phillips cannot phillip's the studio to oscar about their peaks head of state by two thousand and seven. a lot of the legislation was intense very rapidly like the legislation. by blair's government. and a lot of it. containing civil rights the right pointer. was not included in police surveillance of civil groups. and we were very much as citizens as artists are not very much the general public so all these issues were.
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very big on our sort of list of inspirations of what might work so the piece is very much about china and join actually the disaster that had unfolded in iraq from the invasion and the ongoing up occupation and how it also impacted on british domestic public the words made of newspaper printed on print and newspapers. and all imagery and all of the figurative imagery is all from prescott saga faith so we were trolling through. endless. image files that were coming out of the news agencies which is what we've been doing in the previous years but many folks were going to rock and this time we were looking a lot at what was happening domestically the same time and we were looking at imagery of prisons because the prison services were being rapidly privatized as
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well gee for us military contractors and private security sector was on the rise massively. and we were looking at those a lot of. development. surveillance technology at that time as well. which we were trying to look at but it's quite is quite hidden thing is well there's a big c.c.t.v. camera that was sprung in the middle of the work of three metres by three metres and this huge. mast with c.c.t.v. cameras coming up there's also individuals in the john charles de menezes. he was murdered. by the british police without any apology and his staff follows straight after the what they call the seven seven bombings in london that was in two thousand and five. and his death is kind of like evidence of the the
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disaster of intelligence being built as of i mean in a panicked way yes so this was the pieces were representing the destructive nature of reactionary reactive behavior by the authorities and you could say the same thing about the u.s. response to nine eleven as well reactive. it is and in such a huge monumental the ongoing unfolding disaster that with so little. the long terror came evermore to valid killing machine with a reported fifteen thousand civilians killed by american drones around the world i spoke to jim bricks in mexico about why he depicted a drone on an afghan rug to category four eight years ago i was interested. in a comment. kind of really distancing the experience of war is something
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that struck me initially when i was a kid watching the gulf war and it was kind of this televised made for t.v. war footage of just these crosshairs and targets and so i began investigating how to make how to make it into a carpet because i saw the carpet as being something that were. representative of. social history and the culture of. the middle east and specifically iran and afghanistan so i began researching how to make these carpets but in two dozen thirteen i had a chance actually traveled to afghanistan and i made contact was in garbage makers you know this is years later so drones it now i'm sure it's the scene and i decided to work with that as a theme i came across a chart that depicted all the drones currently in use by the militaries across the world and i began discussing with the car the makers as to how to how to transform
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that into from a graphic that's on computer screen into something that's actually had made how do the people of afghanistan feel about the drones the your pick thing well when we did interviews in two thousand and thirteen and when i returned to their teen. i don't speak dari which i like to persia and they speak they're working with translators and looking to the videos i mean people war is is unfortunate part of their their daily lives. you know so i think what was surprising to me. was the opinions about americans about the u.s. you know in in the united states like the kind of liberal position is that it's an invasion in afghanistan it's not seen that way certainly in the south in the pashtun areas that it's there's a lot of just like towards towards united states but also i think you know your people are trying to make a meeting might have a very different opinion you know people who are farming the land people who're. making these cards you are making other crafts they would they're just trying to
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survive and you know if they're religious suddenly invaded by or turned into a training camp for the taliban you know the drones are actually a good thing so i think it's important to kind of realize the complexity of the place and. yet at thirty the u.s. senate runs that have come in our innocence in this but i think in general ward singers that you know some people don't like the imagery because it reminds them of the constant conflict their countries don't and since the late seventy's the final theme of the exhibition not only looks at destruction of thousands of homes by nato was in the middle east but the mental and physical damage done to the soldiers who are returning home after fighting for tony blair and george bush jamal penn twenty is an iraqi kurdish artist whose piece looks at the legacy of saddam hussein i did this project get to show the war gun show the people there are not in by killing
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only forgot because the system and the ideology of saddam was inside the people and also in the psychology of the people by saying after said there is money as there saddam's you can do same project in around the all the middle east which is a really big and syria and other countries you cannot make a change a county by just take all the leader might project it into. because one of. the project because. the other side will be busily i visit here house in when i was a fail all sitting. around that and myra and she was only alone in the very be little and all but destroyed. and used to it by all the water. now she told me one days this house last fall was
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a lie as a hole. full of that mutual stories but the one this is the only here for a long still in this house. and i imagined how you can like change by even a tie the right picture you can change is like a change one seeing it as i want to trim i bring my all hair i'm really around here dancin there's aleck up alive she have a distant past you've. lived in types of homes you see hawke and. julie many things joining in after nine eleven in the middle east especially in iraq and libya even in on another country there's the many problems came and even for the future when something has happened would. we have got the action for example all the cheer or people was not to or all that but people was not that
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all the good people were not good by every action and by acting change the minds of people even i said even al qaida came from the. reaction of the people destroying the minds of people and wishing the mind of people to become a minute of this people called. twice part of this is that politics is all the united state part of the politics of the. country is who was supported by the. war is a part of the mystery when you live in this war and you can see the reality is media only can show that very that one side of the line. media cannot cover like in live on the people. and always show darkness but behind all the war behind all the problem is there are many many others. you
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can't see the light. you can't see the hole inside the war. devastated is about the impact of their speaking to iraqi kurdish artist jamal joined the band that said for the show will be back on wednesday when we are told morris the former attorney general to tony blair about britain's international irrelevance it's losing its seat at the international court of justice for the past few days till then people just write first the media will feel wednesday seventy two years to the day of the establishment of the republic of yugoslavia before nato nations bombed and destroyed the country in the making arguably then rewriting history to play with the vigils at un courts instead of rapacious neo con humanitarian intervention some.
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