on iran over its nuclear program european union has announced a series of financial sanctions including plans to stop already raining oil from july meanwhile iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad announced that the islamic republic what soon revealed major advances in its nuclear program he also warned that europe was playing a risky game by cutting off trade with tehran because e.u. consumers account for around twenty percent of iran's oil output the spanish ambassador to iran said that sanctions will hurt his country more than any other european state based journalist make yani morocco says the e.u. embargo serves only the interest of the u.s. . that would we're seeing here is not this comes actually from the european countries to spain never want to do some bar go to to prove to be put in place this is something that comes externally from the united states pressure on the european union and he's not just displaying the need to also greece imports

lots of oil from iran it could be hard hit in a way that would bring them bankrupt in the coming future that would be a complete disaster for the european union and for the euro and that's going to happen because of the. political move it's now become an economic issue and can have even more. destructive effects if the iranians decide to say the strait of hormuz or even if they now decide to beat europe to it by. by by cutting off their oil now because we need this time to find alternative suppliers if they cut the supply now we want to be able to find them there will be a huge recession in europe. and a man u.s. official has said israel's intelligence agency mossad trained and finance a terrorist group that carried out a series of assassinations of iranian nuclear scientists four have been killed in bomb attacks over the past two years and the islamic republic has blamed israel and

the u.s. for their deaths international relations expert vagina parishad says the murderers are part of a secret war being waged against iran. over what war is rather striking because very few people are talking about the assassinations of you know any and scientists this is tracking because the un did release a very definite statement the nonaligned movement has released a statement condemning the assassination and from scientists there's been no word from the atlantic followers condemning this act of terrorism in the streets of their own and according to my sources scientists in iran are now few of whom of going out say conducting the every day of business after one of the scientists was shot sitting in his we didn't do because his daughter from a daycare center that means ordinary activities have become dirty fighting to scientists. consider society stepping into the front line of russian politics with

the aim of keeping the upcoming presidential election fair and transparent leading figures and members of the public are joining forces and most importantly they seem to have the support of all five candidates as well as the voters are going off has the details. it doesn't take long to find videos of alleged violations during the recent parliamentary vote in russia just a couple of clicks is enough since scores of these files have flooded the internet and even though most of the allegations are still to be proven in court tens of thousands of people have been taking to the streets demanding fair elections but marches presidential vote is just around the corner events are unfolding quickly where. people want to vote responsibly and to know where their villages go their own political competition independent courts and media forming the voters' league is not our achievement the idea was floating in the air the voters league was officially founded in january by

a group of journalists bloggers activists artists writers and other public figures and statements made tedious like t.v. host and now activist but one of the ladies asked for the head of a charity fund and blogger he does any of the bianca also known as dr lisa. cordon a tour of the blue buckets movement fighting for equal rights on roads for everyone . our league is an opportunity to gather people who are not indifferent to what's happening the more people with a civil position there are the better the league's main goal is to ensure fair elections is published a list of initiatives on the web divided into groups that everyone can be a part of public discussions and online votes are the key instruments and letters have been sent to all presidential candidates asking them to cooperate with the league and even though the project is less than a month old everyone has so far agreed including pledging middleton another

candidate businessman mikhail prokhorov has already struck a deal with the leak you have to go i'm willing to authorize one hundred fifty thousand league observers we've also arranged to pay. together unified database to keep track of the election through two cols according to its founders around ten thousand observers are needed to ensure a fair election in moscow alone. it's great that the civil society wants to be more active but it's really important not to cross the line and observers not only are positioned it is serious so if the mutations not to take sides in the political process. it is the league's founders say they'll shut the organisation down if it ever starts turning into a political movement claiming they are keen to work with all candidates equally there's no doubt society has changed more people want to have more influence on russia's political life perhaps that's why it took less than one month for the vote

was leaked to establish ties with both the authorities and the opposition and with the help promise from candidates the league just may secure enough access to effectively monitor the vote in march as long as it avoids taking sides and protects its neutrality is going off r t moscow. let's not take a look at some other stories from around the world israeli airstrikes on the gaza strip left one person dead and four others wounded warplanes fired missiles at three different areas just after midnight on saturday the first field east of gaza city with another landing near the israeli border and a third near the city of hama you nice the israeli army confirmed the strike saying they had targeted sites belonging to terrorist organizations. police in bahrain have fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse hundreds of anti-government protesters in the capital manama no injuries were reported but witnesses say at least one protester was detained violence has been on the rise over the past few weeks as the country has towards the first anniversary of

a brutally crushed protest against king mobs rule. in britain five newspaper journalists have been arrested over alleged payments made to police and public officials rupert murdoch the owner of news international says he is committed to keeping the tabloid newspaper the sun running investigation as part of the country's phone hacking scandal came to light last year it revealed that for some journalists it was common practice to monitor the private voicemail messages of celebrities. legendary pop singer whitney houston has died at the age of forty eight the six time grammy award winner was found in a beverly hills hotel room on saturday the performer struggled with drugs and alcohol problems later in her career and heard rehab last year authorities have yet to determine the exact cause of houston's death. now a u.s. army private bradley manning accused of passing government secrets to weeklies has been nominated for the nobel peace prize has been put forward by an icelandic

parliamentary group which said he should be recognized for exposing the war crimes the twenty four year old to spend more than a year behind bars awaiting trial in the us clark stokley an activist for manning's cause thinks the accused deserves a prize no less than the current u.s. president did. bradley manning is accused of the greatest act of civil disobedience least in my lifetime. and what he is accused of is leaking documents and video. that has led to the end of the iraq war has led to pro-democracy rallies and uprisings all over the world and i think it's much deserved that he he receives this nobel peace prize if obama gets at the why should he obama has done very little for peace even though he promised it and obama is also taking credit for ending the iraqi war when actually that's not the truth the iraqi government did

not want to allow legal immunity for u.s. troops after january first and the reason that they did the last immunity is because of what they saw in the cables and the videos showing civilian deaths that were being covered up in the corruption by the u.s. government. and that brings us up to date here on r t for moral going to our website r.t. dot com i do actually without data our top stories. from

los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand severe problem is not enough in-patient beds not enough urgency department beds and not enough nurses commandoes that to take care of all the people who are here the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture is a firefighter i didn't want to be a mass and i started out going to just do fire fighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the for the problem it's medical but we had a rescue couple weeks ago waited four hours for i've waited sometimes three hours but i was it's a same francis in lynnwood for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with patients and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care in an emergency room.

we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least. but i do but i still struggle with that idea possibly i do know that there's been no we're going to see the film on screen if you want to have sex go and have sex.

welcome are you watching r t coming to you live from moscow these are the top stories of the week now the arab league is set to decide its future efforts on serious violence escalate and the u.s. gathers a coalition of the willing against damascus hundreds of people have reportedly been killed across syria over the past week. the spirit of revolution returns to egypt on the first anniversary of mubarak's al staying with thousands of protesters calling for an immediate step down by the military council but the generals are clinging on to power which they refused to give up until at least june. the people

of greece have marched on the streets in anger over a new set of cuts as the government struggles to keep the country's economy afloat parliament is now due debated drab bill on the spirit of measures demanded by the and the i.m.f. . and russian civil society take center stage in politics as a group of public figure steps up to monitor the upcoming presidential vote back from all of the candidates the goal of the so-called voters week is to ensure a fair and transparent election. but now it's time for part two of our special report american paramedics known as doctors in a box who treat everything from strains and pains to broken bones and heart attacks . the orange dots show hospitals that are no longer here in the green dots represent those hospitals that are still in existence here what you don't see is any new hospitals because there

are no new hospitals constructed in this area. if you look at this area from a health planning standpoint. that medical desert is the. day i came to try to get some medical records in and security said it's close i couldn't believe it was closed down well when i went in the security guards told me that so for sale and all they basically doing here is fill movies now and i was shocked can believe that this is what's going on now you know it was a great hospital this is the last house but i was in in two thousand and two when i got shot. it was a sunday afternoon around twelve o'clock in just two cars came in and it was a big shoot out and i just happened to roll by and i caught a bulletin yeah hit my spine i came with my legs i'm paralyzed you know if it

wasn't for the people that were here i don't think i would have made it the way i made it because that was a little kid i was seventeen years old when this happened to me i go to school and i go to college you know and if it wasn't for them i went forward i even drive now i do everything i'm independent and it's for these people and look they can help nobody else you know and somebody might not get that opportunity i got the right to keep and cheat mccurdy the middle said yeah that's. martin luther king it's not going to be a complete closure but the capacity is going to change from one hundred forty some beds to actually forty two beds so france will be overwhelmed pretty quickly so we're going to keep going to love the outlines of those. that it has been is when the hospitals the challenge you built don't fall they're going to challenge you because they're going to be overwhelmed at times be professional don't gauge don't get angry when i hear judge adumim aren't there at least here to do with the shame . around it and it questions i. the community had

a big name from ok and everybody knows it's called killer king we would get. in first thing people would ask is where am i going to be transported and if we said martin luther king you know often the response was please don't take medicaid. they're understaffed and underfunded and they had too many patients that didn't have private physicians and with four or five hundred patients in an emergency room it's very difficult to treat those into the hospital through medical center is in critical condition and the cantor was in the bottom two and a half percent of all hospitals in the state of california health officials a patient there had been put in quote and media jeopardy patients and martin luther king medical center to get ready for fewer services and a new day we cannot assure that patients would be saved or that fundamental hospital standards can be met the proposed closure of the trauma center will have an impact the l.a. county fire department i'm begging of you don't ignore this. don't marginalize this

. warrant i'm thomas and that. kind of might be for him to suggest i. used to be a very simple system that would have took the every patient in the closest facility but you close ten hospitals with eight beds in a major that's eighty patients out of our system in the city she didn't look well let's just say the sat scores we close our doors here we are close to saturation when our waiting room is for when all of our in our beds are for those caught and of these lines waiting in the hallway and we're. basically closing to saturation

for safety purposes you know the sort of suppress right so diversion is a huge thing for some of our hospitals down here they're on diversion about ninety percent of the time so ninety percent of the time we're looking for another hospital and we could be across the street from that hospital thinking a payment was not what you feel it and let them do it because you're going to tell yourself easy said. grant harbor u.c.l.a. by saturday space a fast as a set and they're going to kaiser bellflower because the on the work place for hospital work it's about a ten mile twelve all right however we are in l.a. and there's a lot of traffic so. you

know. they're giving everybody. a bit of a. they're getting. better and. for the average american who has insurance they don't realize the impact of what's going on. with scorn on the obviously think it's a problem of the uninsured of someone else he's got a worst national liquor injury actually just put it in there and spread all this way under here and you see something is interfering with the not ok ok so when you do this you can tell that it's not in attendance which is

a really really bad infection. if it gets really good intended going to bone to bone infection the worst sin or you can you know usually armed it's really bad we're going to prevent that that's really going to feel good but none of us are going to. be in the hospital since two o'clock and not just what is it six o'clock right now six fifteen. if you have insurance just a good thing you know if i may have insurance ok magister we standing aside we did say we're waiting six hours is not uncommon and if you go to surrounding hospitals people coming here tell me they're waiting twelve hours sometimes to get back however u.c.l.a. right now at this moment it's a twenty four hours meaning it seems you walk in the door and they try and figure out you're not critical basically you're someone and they could definitely live for another couple of days before being credited they'll keep you in the waiting room and you have to sit there and wait to be seen. it has happened at certain hospitals i've gone and actually did all the team itself again and we just waited so we're

missing calls in our district because our he's tied up at the hospital because they don't have a bed to put that patient in the lady in the hospital that's that's normal i've had to rescue a couple weeks and waited four hours for being i've waited sometimes three hours i was it's a same francis only way for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with a patient if they don't have bad you're going to wait and because even though we're inside there you know we're still on scene with that patient if we if we leave the hospital don't transfer care to a bed is negligence or even the county can say you know what it was your paramedic license you're gone the river here if we don't have a paramedic i said we do a back to the firefighter only. so how many balls did you get last night four calls after midnight three out of the four calls we had were. people are just basic cold and flu symptoms civil the snow sniffles and nazia vomiting

diarrhea and been sick for three four days. and just said uncle. smoke anything at all that you do. when the fire burned for twenty eight years and i came on as a single folksy firefighter when i came on the job. and back then we actually respond by four or five different types of the m s calls responded on chest pain as heart attacks car accidents and drowned days if you called with a sprained thumb or a broken finger the dispatcher back then told you to get the car to go to the hospital so a lot has changed. take grow your own be on you for what's going on today they think that if you don't find it will not cause you know. your i'd like one very you know what happened to get in are you ready for this. oh ok. tough one anime. season you've been here before you

have been here a few times the past week five or six times over the last year found a mom to be a mother a grandmother the son and the twins and her when she was pregnant with their with their youngest and they have two houses this one another one down because. young hickory never done that oh you know i don't remember the one time. i think every time i guess. you could say he would feel secure of entering since yes six total ridden sisters oh yeah hey ho that everything's looking ok all right you can relax in the ok else we can do i make it it could be good then. i will see going to have a good day. a good station i think huge part i mean everybody's understanding what emergency is different but i mean people been called out for a bandaid thinking that all we are is you know a system that they can call and literally can to get

a couple band-aids and i mean. get the where is called you want to show you that. these are some of the protocols that we do send to you we have things such as boyle's can't sleep they're hungry constipation to think but if somebody says they're hungry what do you tell what are we have to do is i've given five dollars cable local calls. we've been called to you know broken sprinklers on the lawn to a dog and need the chimney you know second of all and what is old and had to cause it always makes it all fun at the same time it's like. where do you draw the line yeah you're always going to have the percentage of people who actually know the system and it was a jury of people that's not with him right now they're down i want because we truly need somebody to tell him what to do because this is their first murder city have had to deal one time we have a transportation policy on the farm and we offer transportation to everybody on

this it's a minor extremity injury since we've had that system which has been about the last five years because lawsuits down to nothing it's paid for itself. at the expense. to the taxpayers is the expense of the individual who wants to write the expense of the ripple effect of filling the spittle beds. with non-critical patients. i know gas prices are high but. i know i can get to the local emergency room for a lot cheaper in my own personal vehicle if i have the flu and the insurance company will look at that and say wow we're paramedics really warranted on this and then they will pay and then the citizens get stuck with a bill. i really do believe that every patient should pay something for

their care because one of the problems we also have in this country is that health care is not valued we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least people are going to have to begin to take responsibility for their health care. pay something it can start small. perhaps a five dollars co-pay for an emergency visit. i think it will change behavior as well something happen be done the question is what. here we've closed hospitals in the last ten years and over a thousand donal's harvey burger king they contribute to the high blood pressure diabetes and everything else in the sense i mean if you could tax cigarettes. and we searched. for restaurants pay for some of the stuff.

you would like. to talk about it will help you. just gotta go now. he's a diabetic or whatever it takes it's like two days or whatever he has said no. he never wants to. take off time and let me have a look at him every for sure if he says no we can't force him to talk to him and not then we can then yes that he did i know. we need someone who is this is all is that we need his permission to let my medics. know he's agreed to let. you know he doesn't want to force her out of the you know. he's a great weren't taken aback. ok thank you you're welcome. i know you do you

know what event for him he'll have to go get a check and start searching teary. all that stuff right you know he has no complaints you feel fine he's answering all our forces questions appropriately. please let me finish and it should. there's well three it's within normal limits right there where you take his blood pressure after after that if there's nothing that he wants from us right unfortunately there's nothing else that we can do for him by law ok i'm yeah we do get frustrated and it's only us but it's the nurses in the hospitals it's also the doctors i've seen them just you know like why i see this person every day for a last ten days why are they here again you know when you see a patient i got a response going up there are you know hospice it. mostly human spirit seeking attachments in a six nine three. it's time to get to

a lot of. personal down here and i'm pretty sure it's. seven california is not. the only area where it's happening now firefighters coming from different states who want to apply to have a city and the paramedics are experiencing the same thing i had a guy from houston you know last week you know paramedic burnout talked about in his area. a guy from new york. paramedic paramedic burnouts no training for greatness. in the field with the seal the shield is it still does mean the other rescue at our station is available so they get the next cough which means we get the chance to take a shower and pressure teeth so we don't get our showers interrupted jimmy page. and you know all these rescues here we're probably going to be waiting for a while because i think we just got the last available that that's i got that.