the north korean army says a nuclear attack on b u r c is imminent and that they've officially been authorized to strike. the warning comes as the pentagon deploys defense systems in the asia pacific amid claims its military sponsored beyond young a retrograde disproportionate. fresh tensions between israel and palestine sparked by the death of a former high ranking palestinian security officer in israeli jail are stoked for further by the killing of a protester in the west vine. international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. with me thanks for joining us north korea's military says it's now officially also

rise to wage a nuclear attack against the u.s. to counter what it calls all washington's aggression young ones an explosion is imminent and war could break out today or tomorrow south korean based journalist drawers of came has mourned the latest in a series of threats. we see that they use words like the attack has been clear the attack has been authorized as well as the beginning of the warning they say we formally inform washington so we see that this rhetoric has actually been repeated by north korea and north korea has used this in a way to actually say we want to start dialogue it's and lag period which can use this into getting washington to come and perhaps get on the dialogue table we keep hearing from other people such as secretary general honeymoon or secretary u.s.

secretary of state john kerry that dialogue is the next step while both north korea and the united states seem to be interested in dialogue it doesn't seem that either side are wanting to back down now with april fifteenth in in april fifteenth it is going to be north korea's founding father cutie's hong kong is earth day and we've seen last year that they did their first satellite launch attempt so i can i predict and i think as well as many experts they say that something might happen in mid april whether that will be an attack or whether that will be a celebration an easing of the tensions we aren't quite sure yet but it can be seen that historically they've done celebrations to mark to mark certain things to happen whether it was the anniversary of can each other's death that was the third nuclear test so we can see that something will probably happen in the next week or so so beyond gangs latest warning came after the plan to that allows the deployment

of a missile defense system and go on to prepare against a possible target that's a while any assault is deemed highly unlikely in the u.s. many are questioning whether washington's actions a proportionate to north korea's war rhetoric now he's going to check on explain. to north korea's bellicose threats washington responds with an even more intense buildup of military power in the region to that north korea responds with even more threats even though defense secretary chuck hagel called north korea real and clear danger the white house says they had a large scale movements from north korean military forces suggesting that it may be just rhetoric but while north korea talks washington acts apart from f. twenty two fighter jets and other bombers that it sent to the region for the ongoing military exercises with south korea the pentagon is now deploying an advanced missile defense system to guam a major u.s. military base in asia north korea the north korean army has announced that it has the final approval for a nuclear attack on the u.s.

as they tell us north korean rockets can't really reach mainland but they can potentially attack u.s. bases in the region there are twenty thousand u.s. troops just across the border in south korea so could we see the worst nuclear standoff since the cuban missile crisis between the soviet union and the u.s. even though the rhetoric is probably as hostile as it's ever been no one really believes that north korea is actually going to carry out an attack as young as the north korean leader is he does understand that he would be suicidal of him to do that north korea itself knows that if it did it for the attack the united states it would be committing national suicide the united states would retaliate in a tremendous fashion north korea does not want to commit suicide i believe north korea is doing all this sure it can get to a point to actually negotiate some kind of peace agreement with the united states in the us media to you have all pundits basically saying the same thing that north korea is not going to strike because they know it's a suicide that they want to reach some kind of

a deal with washington but they're not going to get it you have former officials experts all saying that but with all this war talk from north korea and with u.s. military buildup in the region some say all it may take is for one of the sides to snap. or some kind of a mistake before everything spirals out of control in washington i'm going to check out. under you can also logon to r.t. dot com and have your say on all the reasons behind the rising tensions on the korean peninsula are so let's now take a look at how you are voting at the moment so far so around forty nine percent of you most of you believe this is a part of the u.s. strategy to destabilize china and east asia a fear of believe it's a dangerous it's dangerous brinkmanship actually and it could well escalate lead to a war eighteen percent say it's north korea's attempts to build a powerhouse at home and just a small percentage who think it's beyond young's way of demanding aid from seoul

and the west so you can go to r.t. dot com and to participate in our online poll there. the backlash from the death of a palestinian prisoner in an israeli trailer increasingly threatens the fragile peace between the neighbors so these all are includes of thousands of hunger strikers in is really low carbs rocket exchanges between hamas and israel and now fierce clashes in the west bank that have already turned deadly a teenage palestinian who was shot dead by the israeli military who fired live rounds in response to stone throwing and fire bombs and. the west bank more violence is expected as. it will be laid to rest later on thursday. we're expecting more riots and uncertainty in the middle east as my sawzall some d.n.a. is being buried today in his hometown of hebron now there was of course six there were protests hebron as well as

a low for the entire west bank area on wednesday lows in monday following news of his death while in prison in israel and a lot of palestinians accuse israeli officials of not doing anything to help the sixty four year old man who has first complained about his illness in the summer of last year he was however diagnosis or rather informed about the diagnosis just and at the end of february of this year and literally he was told that he has terminal cancer and has only days left to live that of course help made a lot of folk people extremely angry in palestine this is not the first time that ability and prisoners dying while in in an israeli prison something similar has happened just in february of this year when it's very year old palestinian prisoner died of a heart attack in israeli jail now palestinians are saying that israeli officials could have provided medical help to the two of you some of the above they chose not to and of course this has prompted

a very angry expression from the president of palestinian authority mahmoud abbas and also from the minister for the prisoners there is of thousands and i who have called on international community to carry out and this occasion into this case but rise as i have said continued for the last several days among palestinians there was also a very strong reaction among the housing and are actually in israeli jails they have declared in three day hunger strike as well as they have staged initial process upon hearing of the death where they were going various objects and based on their cell doors and have actually called. security in some israeli jails to use tear gas against the inmates we're getting reports that at least twenty four people have every seen various injuries during clashes with. israeli i id and on wednesday however how things will turn out today on thursday and course we have yet to see we do expect clashes to happen during to funeral which will be followed by protests in

hebron and of course we will bring you more as we get it and. to the eldest son of the palestinian prison to his death led to the initial riots hunger strikes and even rockets exchanges between hamas and israel and has will have to say it was left and delays death without any treatment or anything he started to complain last august from a swale in his neck and severe in and tossing his voice and there nic and nothing is being done to him actually us sent to one of the clinics and he was surprised that us and up to me to assist in his stead o. for someone a specialist. to see is getting nothing has been done to him not a single treatment bill and he said that they as if it is and all of that is for the doctor to announce it cute or he and the prisoner but only to give him pinned

pillows i think that my father's case give us a message to the self-conscious of all the palestinians be goes it to us demi gelati over who is who has to be all supposed to be very human the doctor was the doctor was an excellent if the doctor was in israel. the palestinian be shunts like this then with whom are we making peace. and still ahead for you u.k. iraq war veterans come out with shocking accounts of a secret torture account in baghdad we investigate what one told the facility and how the ministry of defense is a reaction to the revelations. and also they saw murtha's growing use of drones is sparking protests an action where in new york where a month long campaign against them kicks off that and much more for the break.

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this is actually welcome back the war in iraq has seen its share of abuse and military misconduct scandals most of them involving u.s. troops but recent revelations by u.k. servicemen have put the british army in the spotlight soldiers who served at a secret detention facility in baghdad have made immigration's of systematic prisoner abuse and torture but as part of boyko reports now authorities appear reluctance to make this information public. it was reportedly one of the most brutal u.s. run military facilities in iraq during the war but a new report by the guardian newspaper reveals the extent of british involvement at the secret facility speaking anonymously personnel from two r.a.f. squadrons and one army air corps squadron admitted to having what camp nama one

british servicemen recalls seeing a man having his prosthetic leg being pulled off and being beaten about the head with it before being thrown onto a truck others described prisoners held in cells the size of dog kennels reportedly called hotel california by u.s. army personnel allegations include detainees being routinely hooded and subjected to electric shocks the story of the secret camp nama prison is a watershed moment for britain's involvement in the alleged abuses in iraq this time it's not just alleged victims talking about their war deals it's former soldiers talking about what they saw their problem is the people sitting in here in britain's ministry of defense don't want to hear it and those form a sub is men that have openly tried to blow the whistle on what took place at camp nama have been gagged i do have an intimate knowledge of the activities of the charge force that i mentioned in there in the recent reports but unfortunately

a high court injunction was taken out by the ministry of defense in two thousand and i. os he got in touch with the ministry of defense and despite ben's public allegations about what took place at camp nama this is the statement we got. we have carried out searches of our records and this is find no record so far of any complaints made by u.k. service personnel about the treatment of detainees by u.s. personnel in com nama to the chain of command any further evidence of human rights abuse should be passed to the appropriate authorities for investigation camp nama isn't the first time the ministry of defense has had to ward off like his ations of abuse but i think the u.k. government is embarrassed by fighting all efforts to get to the bottom of things all the u.k. government is doing is is holding up the country to charges of a proxy signs posted around the camp nama prison

a set of proclaimed the warning no blood no foul as long as an interrogator didn't make a prisoner bleed he wouldn't face disciplinary action revelations about the u.k.'s involvement in the natori is facility likely to raise fresh questions i think it's right that the british public have got this idealised view about the british army and british soldiers now the reality of what is being done in iraq these people are criminals are lies and criminals and you know they should be hounded i should be charged until the true nature of them is brought into line. london it's a great. as always most stories online for you including sitting on a power keg that says u.s. officials why one would smell so this is a story in terms of radio actually waste could explode at any moment but are you local residents in danger. and also getting a shock we've got the story of

a bra that will stop sexual offenders in the latest defense against sexual assault learn how at all c dot com. washington's overseas drone strikes on the surveillance use at home house long attracted the attention of iraq's have its groups across the u.s. political spectrum so it is trying to reach american law and have the country's international standing now a month long and drawn campaign has kicked off with a protest in manhattan she's wearing a fortnight was that. a month long nationwide anti drone campaign has kicked off in the u.s. and here in midtown manhattan dozens have gathered to protest washington's use of

drones for targeted assassinations overseas and domestic surveillance here at home organizers say the aim the goal of this month long campaign is to bring the widest possible public attention to the ways in which drones they say are being used to violate sovereignty due process privacy and freedom of assembly how dare they even talk of bad drones on a domestic gas they were being reassured constantly that oh it's surgical precision bombing it's not that's an outright lie it's supposed to target terrorists but sadly too many civilians have been killed by destro and says well and that includes children and women we need to come to peace and you can't bomb the world to peace the u.s. has a reported one hundred drone basing sites and critics say the biggest problem is a lack of transparency u.s. citizens don't know how federal and local officials are using the drones who can be

targeted and what justifications lawmakers can use organizers say they began planning this event late last year and the campaign received an unexpected boost last month when washington's drone campaign came into question with john brennan's nomination for cia director anti-drug events are planned to take place in major cities throughout the country including boston baltimore san francisco and san diego which is home to general atomics the company that manufactures the killer predator and reaper drones and on thursday war veterans and anti drone activists are planning to hold a rally outside of general atomics production office reporting from new york marina r.t. . so the drone strike in pain isn't cross has today and she looks at how the program affects president obama's peacemaker reputation. the most controversial

aspects of obama's presidency has been his escalation of drone warfare across the muslim world a practice that will cement obama forever as a war president which is perhaps why it's so astonishing that this is the same man who also won the highest accolade for peace in the world yep it's been almost four years since brock you say obama won a coveted nobel peace prize now one might say that obama's use of killer robots in perpetuation of many bush era war policies is merit and not to revoke the prize and as of yesterday their efforts to do just that a new campaign is underway that's kind revoke his piece of board that nobel peace prize got a order to obama because he wasn't george w. bush well that's a sort of a low hurdle to get over he did get over that low bar he's certainly not w. but he is somebody who has been expanding the claims and proud of that is the work

here state of the united states and one of the ways that i think you can evaluate whether it's ok for you to do something is whether they'd like to have it done to them and how they would feel about a cruise missile or a drone strikes being exercises impunity inside their own borders from another country. looking for a secure future ever seen anything like that. firefighters have put out a massive blaze in the capital of russia south of republic of chechnya that fire forty eight story skyscraper in grozny is believed to have been spawned by a short circuit in six months. around six pm local time reports came in that a large fire has started around the thirtieth floor of the one hundred forty five

meter tall a limpets building now that is a part of the grozny center complex that was just completed in two thousand and eleven the luxury hotel and apartment building now this building contains the largest clock to sit on top of a building in the entire world now according to local police everyone who had been evacuated from the building before any injuries could occur week cause of the fire is still under investigation i had a criminal investigation has actually been opened to see whether or not to fire safety rules have been violated this entire complex cost around two hundred fifty million dollars to build and it's actually contains the apartment that a french actor gerard depardieu receives as a gift for a chechen leader runs on cut off. stunning pictures of the blaze and part of this footage as well as an increasing number of other videos were filmed by aussies new video agency ruptly well the agency has now also gone online so you can check

the latest videos of the world's top stories at roughly dogged t.v. so the project kicks off less than a gary grow to give media outlets across the world access to stories and perspectives different from the mainstream so in addition to archive footage it's also providing you with live pictures of the world's major events as they take place so rob please had quarters in berlin are now operating twenty four seven with state of the artistic knowledge so do get involved at rockley dog t.v. . the taliban has claimed responsibility for a target on a courthouse in western afghanistan at least forty four people have reportedly been killed and more than nine she wandered during the also told in the town of fire on the prevention of police chief said the attack is the deadliest in the year to free type of prisoners transferred there for trial so the latest violence comes despite a terms by kabul to appease the militants the abdul president has said the time

about it could be given the chance to enter politics and their leader could even run for president in the next year's elections however made cars a simulated they would have to renounce terrorism and to talks before they happened so r.t. elusive confidence was reported from afghanistan believes karzai his closeness to the west undermines his credibility. he's made this point numerous times before calling for the taliban to participate in elections is that stand is so open and democratic that even mullah omar working to disarm essentially could run for office of course the reality is that this is a complete political nonstarter because the taliban have been very clear in their position they do not see the karzai government as being legitimate they have openly called it as a puppet of the united states they refused to hold any sort of negotiations much less view the constitution as legitimate or offer any sort of candidate so again this is just sort of wishful thinking perhaps or rather a rhetorical remark by president hamid karzai than any sort of reality on the

ground because the taliban has refused to negotiate with him there really isn't very much that cars i can do in the situation for the taliban the number one position is this affectively to remove all foreign troops from the ground in afghanistan in order to do that why negotiate with the so-called puppet government when we can talk to be occupiers themselves but there's divisions within the taliban as well do they actually hold negotiations or do they fight until the occupiers the u.s. forces leave the country there are also divisions within the obama administration about this because while this war has been encouraged probably costly to the united states and the taliban has long been an enemy for the u.s. many factions in the administration see the political solution as the only possible sort of way forward i mean it's been more than clear that military might isn't enough to eradicate the taliban so somehow talks have to take place but at the end of the day i don't think anyone actually realistically expects peace with the taliban anytime in the next few years for sure when i was in afghanistan most of

the afghans that i've spoken to have seen this deadline with with looming trepidation in fact they think that once the americans draw down and there's no indication the americans will fully withdraw from the country but of course that will leave a massive power vacuum there's the potential for the country to descend into civil war and it also really remains to be seen what happens with the elections in two thousand and fourteen because again if the country doesn't isn't seen as sort of having legitimate. elections it really could spark much much much further unrest than we've seen so far. and more news from around the globe now three days of mourning have been declared in argentina after flash floods killed at least fifty two people the capital that is ari's along with the city of la plata were hit by one of the heaviest storms ever recorded thousands of people have been moved from their homes and more heavy downpours are expected on thursday.

three pakistani security officers have been killed and three more wounded after a grenade attack on paramilitary troops and karate the pakistani taliban when is claiming responsibility saying they targeted the security forces conducting military operations against them that makes the time to highlight concerns that militants could increase attacks head of pakistan's upon entry and actions phone acts. still ahead for you all seem like said the world of medical experiments and often and reported a baby is so that's off label after the break. what if one third of the population of a capital city of

a small arab country took to the streets in protest while the mainstream media would scream the people of nation x. are crying out for democracy we have to intervene and take their oil i mean hopeful but the earth shaking a large protest is in arab country it's in paris france and for traditional marriage yes protesters in paris claim that they had eight hundred thousand people on the streets of france's capital and even though the police said that half those numbers for a city of less than two point five million people this was a huge protest for guard less the european union loves to educate the world about democracy and show that's liberal values around and yet the e.u. doesn't really seem to listen to the citizens very much who want to stop the madness of waves of illegal immigrants bailing out members on the dimes of other nations and for focusing the union's national attention on social issues like gay marriage instead of creating jobs to the e.u. officials out there who. claim to believe in democracy maybe it's about time you

actually try you know listening to a few words disagree with you before you keep promoting policies against possibly the will of the majority but that's just my opinion.

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