and it will just slip into a new new dictatorship i think most people here would say they do say the revolution never ended but it's called the continuous or the ongoing revolution really since january even after mubarak stepped down this time last year they've been continuous sit ins and protests and violent clashes with egypt's security forces pushing for protestors pushing for change they haven't seen yet. with r.t. still to come this hour despite mounting civilian deaths and planned early withdrawal the number of nato airstrikes in afghanistan could actually be increasing we explain why in a few moments. and here over some veteran for others the u.s. army private accused by washington of treason received a nomination for the nobel peace prize. but first fair and transparent that's how people in russia want to see the upcoming presidential election in march polling stations across the country are being equipped with web

cams to avoid any wrongdoing but a group of proactive citizens as decided using technology alone is not enough even to this kind of explains how they're planning to secure honest voting. 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 the words 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 street demanding fair elections with marches presidential votes just around the corner events are unfolding quickly where. people want to vote responsibly and to know where their votes go they want political competition independent courts in media forming the voters league is not meant the idea was floating in the air the voters league was officially founded in january by a group of journalists bloggers activists orders reuters and other public figures.

g.d.s. clegg t.v. host and now activists. or the head of a charity fund and blogger elizabeth the also known as dr. other school math ordinator 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 and willing to authorize one hundred fifty thousand league observers we've also arranged to put together a unified database to keep track of the election protocols 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 critically important not to cross the line and observers not only are a position it is serious so if limitations not to take sides in the political process . the leagues founders say they'll shut the organization down if it ever starts turning into a political movement claiming they were 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. afghan president hamid karzai cuse nato of killing eight children in an airstrike on wednesday officials launched an investigation later claiming foreign forces wrongly targeted civilians after receiving an incorrect report that armed men were preparing an attack in the area the bombing came just a week after the united states announced it might stop combat operations in afghanistan earlier than expected but this strike could stoke already strained relations between karzai is western back it's over a mounting death toll in this kind of porter thinks that foreign actions are to blame for the growing number of casualties this is the price that afghanistan pays for having foreign troops on its soil troops which carry out operations that are based on at best imperfect intelligence and at worst simply

lack of fundamental knowledge of local situations and mistakes that are made which will result in innocent people being killed completely unnecessarily the numbers are growing clearly because the tele band has continued to expand its operations in response to the growth of u.s. nato troops part of the taliban response and i would say the single biggest part of that response has been to lay more and more i d's this is the primary way that the taliban has been able to find to kill u.s. nato troops and even more so to wound seriously u.s. and nato troops. more expert opinion on u.s. actions in afghanistan is on our web site at the moment dot com also there you can find out about america's massive defense costs the u.s. congress has approved eighty million dollars to build a new bunker busting super bomb with the order from the pentagon marked urgent. and

the year of rebuilding is pulled japan from the rubble these pictures show the streets immediately after last year's earthquake and tsunami and what may look like today personal stories of survivors and more of these images for you but r.t. dot com. time now for some other international news in brief for you this hour israeli air strikes on the gaza strip and left one civilian dead and four others injured the man killed was a guard at the farm the israeli army confirmed the bombings say they were aimed at sites belonging to terror groups and were a response to a short range rocket attack from gaza. later supported the young saudi blogger who is wanted in his home country for his remarks on twitter the journalist sparked outrage in the kingdom last week after he tweeted that he would not pray for the prophet mohammed clerics condemned his thoughts as blasphemous twenty three year

old could now face execution. pop legend and actress whitney houston has died at the age of forty eight the performer was found in the beverly hills hotel room on the eve of the grammy awards in los angeles her career was marred by turbulent marriage and drug abuse sources have yet to determine the exact cause. the u.s. army private bradley manning accused of passing secret documents and evidence of war crimes to wiki leaks has been nominated for the nobel peace prize he's been put forward by a peace research center in the u.s. and an icelandic parliamentary group the twenty four year old is awaiting a court martial in the u.s. and faces life in prison activists called stukeley believes that manning would be a much with the recipient of the prize than the current u.s. president what he is accused of 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 receives this nobel peace prize if obama gets the ball why should he has done very little for peace even though he promised it and obama has also taken credit for ending the iraq war when actually that's not the truth the truth is the iraqi government did not want to allow legal immunity for u.s. troops after january first and the reason that they didn't want immunity is because of what they saw in the cables in the videos showing civilian deaths that were being covered up in the corruption by the u.s. government. to bring jobs at the moment a recap of our top stories for you in just a few moments with me stay with us life in moscow this is a team. from

los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand severe problem is not enough inpatient 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 do your house and i started out going to just do fire fighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the florida problem is medical but we had a rescue couple weeks ago waited four hours for bit i've waited sometimes three hours but i was it's a safe francis and we went for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with a patient 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.

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. here moscow time talk to you and i'm a news stories this is r t the arab league is expected to call on the un to create a joint peacekeeping force for syria as a group aims to mount pressure on president assad the free syrian army says it expects official recognition from arab gulf states. police and grease fire tear gas into crowds of protesters who are once again running outside the parliament lawmakers a set for a tough choice of more public cuts to secure a one hundred thirty billion euro bailout. and iran's president promises to reveal

major advances in his nuclear program saying to iran would never stop enriching uranium iran insists it's only pursuing atomic energy for peaceful purposes despite the list of western sanctions imposed against it. about with more news stories more developments in full in less than half an hour from now in the meantime it's part two of a special report on how los angeles fire fighters have had to adapt their skill set to become paramedics as well that's next week. 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 a new os force because there are no new hospitals constructed in this area. if you look at this area from a health planning standpoint. the medical desert is from. the

day i came across to get from medical records. security that is closed i couldn't believe it was close there when i went in the security guard told me that. they basically will movies no. 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 to when i got shot. it was a sunday afternoon around twelve o'clock in just two cars came in it was a big shot out and i just happened to roll by and i caught a bullet in my spine i came to 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 they can't help nobody else you know and somebody might not get that opportunity i got were right this keeps the chief mccurdy the middle said that we're luther king is going to be a complete closure to capacity he's going to change from one hundred forty some beds to actually forty two beds siegfried's to be around pretty quickly so we're going to be doing two of the schools. in the hospital to be challenging so don't be fooled it was you know just because we're going to be around. the professionals don't you gauge don't get angry when i hear that you do need you to do it. and your question. the community had a nickname for ok and everybody knows it's called killer king we would get. in first thing people would ask is where my would be transported and if we said mark was u.k.

you know often the response was please don't take medicaid. they're understaffed 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 will 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 promise. you anything like you have to suggest i.

used to be a very simple system that would have you took the every patient in the closest facility but you close ten hospitals with eight beds a to me just 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 our all of our yard beds are for and of these lines waiting in the hallway and we're. basically closed 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 on it was not what you call it let them do it because you're going to tell yourself easy. frank harbor u.c.l.a. . say fast is a sad i know you're going to kaiser bellflower be this done up on the work place or hospital or it's about a ten mile from our ride however we are in l.a. and there's a lot of traffic so. you know.

very very. very very that. they're getting. better and. for the average american who has insurance they don't realize the impact of what's going on. let's call it on the obviously they think it's a problem of the uninsured of someone else he's got a worse an issue and there are injured 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 in his bone infection the worst so he can you know usually armed it's really bad we're going to prevent that it's really going to feel good but none of us here have been

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 finally have insurance ok maginnis to be standing us i mean we did say we were 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 as soon as 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 to and actually did all the team itself are going you know 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 but the lady in the hospital that's that's normal i've had a rescue a couple weeks and i waited four hours for being i've waited sometimes three hours

i was it's a same francis and we went for four hours and fifty minutes standing as well as a patient if there have been as 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 and don't transfer care to a bed it's negligence or even the county to say you know what there goes your paramedic license and you're gone. the river here if we don't have a paramedic i said we go back to the firefighter only. so how many calls to get last night four calls after midnight three out of the four calls we had were people just basic cold and flu symptoms sniffle. sniffles and nausea vomiting diarrhea and been sick for three four days. and just said uncle. smoke anything at all

that you do. when the fire broke for twenty eight years and i came on as a single function firefighter when i came on the job. and back then we actually respond by four or five different types of v.m.s. calls responded on chest pains heart attacks car accidents and drowned it was if you called with a spring 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 life be on you for what's going on today take things out of the government plan it was not hard to do now. yes you're right going on to say you know what happened. in our brothers sisters. oh ok. tough being anime. is easy and you've been here before you have been here a few times you asked me five or six times over the last year found the mom to be a mother the grandmother the son and the twins and her when she was pregnant with

their material 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 can say he would skip security interests and yet six total ridden sisters oh yeah hey jose everything's looking ok all right you can relax ok well so do i make it or 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 going to get a couple band-aids and i mean. look at the way it's called one hundred thirty. some of the programs that we do send to we have things such as boils can't sleep they're

hungry constipation to think but if somebody says they're hungry would you tell me what are we have to do if i'm given five dollars cable local calls. we've been called to you know broken sprinkler system the lawn to a dog and you 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 room sort of had to deal like 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 of the expense of the individual who wants to write at

the expense of the ripple effect of filling the spittal 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 they can start small.

perhaps a five dollar 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. burger kings they contribute to the high blood pressure diabetes and everything else in the sense i mean if you're going to tax cigarettes . and we searched. that's what restaurants pay for some of the stuff. i would like. to talk about it will help you. we've got

a boat now how can we help if he's a diabetic or whatever it takes it's like two days of whatever he had to say no. he never wants to. take off and let me have a look at them for sure if he says no we can't force him out and talk to him and you know 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 that if he doesn't want to. be he's agree we're going to take them in the back. ok then you're welcome. i know you do you know what the best for him and i'm going to check and started searching teary. all that's right no he has no complaints feels

fine he's answering all our forces questions appropriately. please let me finish and it should. as 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 but unfortunate just 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 and 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's. mostly human spirit seeking attachments in a six nine three. it's time to get to a lot of. personnel 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 you 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 and the guy from new york. paramedic paramedic. for greatness. in the field with the shield the shield is it still doesn't 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 but that's one that one i. want you to know. we just take a patient to martin luther king with vomiting which history i watched in the emergency room.