the north korean army says a nuclear attack on the u.s. is imminent and that they've officially been also writes to strike. north korea does not want to commit suicide. however some say beyond gangs of war mongering red trick is actually a desperate cry for negotiations i mean increased american interest in the region. also fresh tensions between israel and palestine sponsored by the death of a former high ranking palestinian security officer in israeli trail are stoked further by the killing of at least two protesters in the west bank. and the third man died from a deadly virus known as avian flu in china a look at the media frenzy accompanying the latest development.

international news and comments live from moscow this is all she with me hello and welcome to the shop north korea's military says it's now officially also writes to wage a nuclear attack against the u.s. to counter what it calls a washington's aggression beyond young ones an explosion is imminent and war could break out today tomorrow or. journalist of came has more now on 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 that 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 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 the young youngs latest warning came out so they plan to going to announce the deployment of a missile defense system in guam to prepare against a possible attack but the while at asault is deemed highly unlikely in the u.s. many are questioning whether washington's actions are proportionate to north korea's war a trick he's going to take on now explains. 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 haven't seen any 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 while a major u.s.

military base in asia north korea the north korean army has announced that he has the final approval for a nuclear attack on the u.s. as they tell us north korean rockets can't really reach the u.s. 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 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 u.s. 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. and as always you can log on to r.t. dot com and have your say on what the reasons behind the rising tensions on the korean peninsula are and let's now take a look at how you're voting at the moment so most of you actually forty eight percent believe this is a part of a you are strategy to destabilize china and east asia around a fifth twenty one percent believe it's dangerous brinkmanship and could well escalate so eighteen percent say its north korea's attempts to build a power base at home and are just thirteen percent of you just a very small percentage of you who think it's beyond young's way of demanding aid

from seoul and the west so do go to r.t. dot com to have your say that. the backlash from the death of a palestinian president in an israeli trail increasingly threatens the fragile peace between the neighbors so they fall out includes thousands of hunger strikers in israeli law rocket exchanges between hamas and israel are now fierce clashes in the west bank that have already turned deadly at least two teenage palestinians were shot dead by the israeli military who fired five live rounds in response to start throwing and fire bombs and doesn't she israel reports now from the west bank more violence is expected as dear will be laid to rest later on thursday. we're expecting more riots in uncertainty in the middle east so my sorrow to some d.n.a. being buried today in his hometown of hebron now there was of course there were protests in hebron as well as

a low for the entire west bank area on wednesday as well as on monday probably 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 diagnosed or rather informed about the diagnosis just in the deadly in december or any of this year and literally he was told that he has terminal cancer and has only days left to live that of course has made a lot of people extremely angry in palestine this is not the first time that a prisoner's dying while in an israeli prison something similar has happened just in february of this year when a thirty year old palestinian prisoner died of a heart attack in israeli jail now palestinians are saying that it is really could help provided medical help to the two of you some day about big chose not to and of course this has prompted

a very angry expressions from. the president of palestinian authority mahmoud abbas and also from the ministry for it the prisoner if there is of palestine who has called on international community to carry out an investigation into this case but rise as i have said continued for the last several days among palestinians there was also a very strong reaction on the palestinians for actually in israeli jails they have declared three day hunger strike as well as they have staged initial protest upon hearing of the death where they were throwing various objects and banging on their cell doors and have actually caused security in some israeli jails to use tear gas against the inmates we're getting reports that at least twenty four people however received various injuries during clashes. israeli eye with i.d.f. on wednesday however how things will turn out today on thursday of course we have yet to see we do expect clashes to happen during the funeral which will be followed

by protests in hebron and of course we will bring you more as we get it. and he spoke to the eldest son of the palestinian prisoner whose death led to the initial riots hunger strikes and even rocket exchanges between hamas and israel and he is what he had to say he was left and delis death without any treatment or anything he started to complain last august from the swale in his neck and their severe in and horse and his force and their neck and nothing is being done to him actually you are sent to one of the clinics and he was surprised that you are sent up to me to assist in his stead o. someone a specialist to do to see is getting nothing has been done to him not a single treatment bill and he said that they as if there is an order that's for the doctor to announce it cute or he in the prison or but only to give him pin

pillows i think that in my father's case give us a message to the self-conscious of all the palestinians the goes it to us. gelati over there was who has to be all supposed to be very human the doctors the doctor was an excellent the doctor was in israel. the palestinian be sure it's like the it's been with whom are we making peace. and still ahead for you on the program the u.k. iraq war veterans come out with shocking accounts of a secret torture campaign but done with best skater what went on in the city and how the ministry of defense is reacting to the revelations. and also america's growing use of drugs is sparking protests where in new york where a month long campaign against him kicks off. that's later but now said from bird flu in china has sparked concerns the virus could become

epidemic if no immediate measures are taken so it's not the first time such concerns have swept the country and also he has decided to take a look at how the flu is spreading not just across the population but across the media and here are some of the headlines from previous cases of variant flu epidemics and the panic they actually caused so bird and swine flu both emerged in recent years storming the media apparently causing more panic in the press that and hospitals and. he's here with me in the studio joining us right now live and save great to have you with us right now so it looks like history is repeating itself again so will this again be blown out of proportion or is that a real threat that was thirty to judge in this particular outbreak when we can look at the numbers of the past to see a taste of things to come while the bird flu has claimed three hundred seventy one deaths in a decade the swine flu caused so much more than that but if we look at how much the

common flu which happens every year claims five hundred thousand deaths annually it's not just one of it happens every year but nobody is ringing any alarm bells about that not to mention of course other diseases which happen worldwide and but not causing panic as huge as every swine flu or bird flu is causing in the press and in the societies worldwide so. why is there such a reaction to this news that there are certain claims and allegations that this panic always serves to the benefit of the pharmaceutical companies now in two thousand and ten a judge in german m b. claimed that the major pharmaceutical firms orchestrated plan to complain and he described this epidemic as false and one of the biggest scandals in the history of medicine in the very same year the british medical journal and the daily mail newspaper printed the names of the people the twenty people who served as the divisors to the world

health organization at the same time they had financial ties to pharmaceutical companies and last year an independent study suggested that the death toll from swine flu was exaggerated by as many as fifteen times there have been cases of course when the tamiflu drug was burnt because there was too many of it and i myself witnessed the situation in ukraine in two thousand and nine when there was an outbreak of the swine flu when people were panicking thanks to the propaganda campaign from the state media and from the officials the stores were empty of any drugs treating flu or common flu and other diseases and i remember even the prime minister of ukraine back then you go to a arriving personally to the airport to meet a shipment of drugs so this story was pretty much telling on how things are when we have an outbreak of the virus panic spreads people are rushing to buy drugs and of course the pharmaceutical companies earn a healthy profit on that whether this will be the case once again we're of course have to wait and see. then you and me will not ok all right let's say thank you

very much indeed for sharing your insight it's always great to have you in the studio thank you and dr kahn hanumant from foreign policy in focus told us china has a poor record at fighting the disease and that's not likely to change this time around . over the years china has dismantled its public health clinics tickets rule public health clinics and when the sars virus struck in two thousand and three the chinese would save tens of millions of dollars by closing these quick clinics and they end up having to spend billions of dollars in order to control the sars liars i think the effect on the economy will be if this is a virus that breaks out or some other virus breaks out in the future i don't think that the chinese public health system is capable of dealing with it i don't think the american public health system is capable of dealing with it either there are

very few public health system in the world that could deal with a serious pandemic stay with ausiello bank with more international news and just a few moments. wealthy british style sun. sometimes. markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on r g.

the new book about international airport in the very heart of moscow. this is all see life from moscow welcome bok 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 a big ations of systematic prison abuse and torture but as point to boycott 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 enormously personnel from two r.a.f. squadrons and one on the air corps squadron admitted to having to 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 that 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 this 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 the recent reports but unfortunately due to a high court injunction which by the ministry of defense in two thousand and i. 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 and come 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 his ations of abuse but i think the u.k.

government is embarrassed by fighting all if it's to get to the bottom of things all the u.k. government is doing is is holding up the country to see 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 believed they wouldn't face disciplinary action revelations about the u.k.'s involvement in the tourist facility are likely to raise fresh questions i think it's right that the british public who've got this idealised view about the british army and british soldiers should know the reality of what is being done in iraq these people are criminals are lies and criminals and you know they should be hounded they should be charged until the true nature of fame is brought into the light. r.t. london. more stories online for you this hour including assessing how to

care that says u.s. officials go through one of its nuclear facilities storing tons of radioactive waste could explode at any moment putting local residents in danger. and also online getting a shock we've got the story of a brand that will stop sexual offenders in their later defense against sexual assault so learn how. washington's overseas drone strikes on civilians hughes at home has attracted the attention of acts of its groups across the u.s. political spectrum scientists trying to reach america no one hugged the country's

international standing now a month long companion has kicked off with a process in manhattan is more important now is that for. a month long nation wide 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 a.t.m. the goal of this month long campaign is to bring the widest possible public attention to the ways in which they say are being used to violate sovereignty due process privacy and freedom of assembly how dare they even talk a bad dreams on a domestic gas we're 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 bistros as 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 campaign received an unexpected boost last month when washington's drone campaign came into question with john brennan's nomination for cia director reporting from new york marina r.t. . on the drone strike campaign isn't the martians crosshairs today's show looks at how the program affects president obama's peacemaker reputation that. the most controversial aspect of obama's presidency has been his escalation of drone warfare across the muslim world it's 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 barack hussein 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 america enough 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 to 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 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 would 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. i think. and more news around the world now this hour three days of mourning have been declared intelligent enough to flash floods killed at least fifty two people the capsule going as ari's along with a city of la plante were hit by one of the heaviest storms ever recorded thousands of people have been moved from their homes and more had a town down polls are expected also as day. three pakistani security officers have been killed. three more wounded after a grenade attack on paramilitary troops in qur'an showing the pakistani town of and wayne is claiming responsibility is saying they targeted the security forces conducting military operations against them and they just at times highlights concerns the clintons could increase at times ahead of pakistan's parliamentary elections scheduled for next month. to diets and coming up next the dark side of

the world's finances are the focus of the kinds the report. 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 help them but the earth shaking a large protest is in arab countries 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 was some two point five million people this was a huge protest for guard less the european union loves to educate the world about democracy and showed its 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 voices who disagree with you before you keep promoting policies again. possibly the will of the majority but that's just my opinion.

the international airport in the very heart of moscow. welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser enough a pastor at bus stops across the u.k. asks do you know someone living beyond their means and benefiting from crime it's called the u.k. for going to comic population and government living beyond their means because the financial system benefits so much from crime they don't need or want workers or

makers because the policy is by and for the takers taking this taking that taking the piss taking the fun out of the laws cat this is why no one we trust is the motto for the latest battle in the global insurrection against banker occupation stays here. yes max aside from taking our savings across the european union in the past week or two they've also taken an hour from us but they did deliver the sun we finally have the sun for the first time or lunch here in the little sun oh it's gone there that's it that's the five minutes of sun for london for this year but you were talking about how do they afford it yes it was tweet from cory doctorow as you see here and if you pull back to the poster this was a poster campaign i think somewhere up in south yorkshire and it says do you know someone living beyond their means and benefiting from crime now of course they mean poor people as you see from the image they're saying this is gold bling these

people would be wearing and if you see somebody who doesn't look like they should be wearing gold bling you should call crime stoppers well yeah you know this is crazy because if i see somebody living beyond their means i mean i ought to do is go to any restaurant in mayfair and i will see dozens of three piece wearing banks toure's living beyond their means they're they they are living on the proceeds of crime you know you've got mark carney coming in and he's also going to be running the regulatory agency supposed to be overseeing these banks are still be living beyond his means the state has given him an ample allowances wife who is a can think of the word iran to the rich is complaining she does them enough crime generated caste to live beyond her means of five thousand pounds every five seconds that guards should be arrested i'm reporting that guy john.