the north korean all these says a nuclear attack on the u.s. is imminent and that they've officially been also rise to strike. north korea does not want to commit suicide however some say pyongyang some warmongering rhetoric 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 official in an israeli jail i spoke further by the killing of at least two protesters in the west bank. and assad months dies from a deadly virus not as avian flu in china look at the media frenzy accompanying the latest development.

this is r.t. coming to life from hello and welcome to the program north korea's military says it's now officially authorized to wage a nuclear attack against the u.s. to counter what it calls a washington's aggression young young ones an explosion is imminent and war could break out today or tomorrow or this latest warning came after the pentagon announced the deployment of a missile defense system in guam to prepare against a possible attack she's going to take on gauges now they warmongering rhetoric and ways may lead. 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 host 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 the tact 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 so 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. meanwhile north korea things to be moving from what's to actions as well pyongyang apparently moved a mid range missile to its east caused according to south korean media quoting intelligence sources so based journalist in terms of came explains how some kind of a showdown might come as early as this month we see that they used words like the

attack has been cleared or 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 birthday and we've seen last year that they did their first satellite launch attempt so i can i heard

dick and i think as well as many experts they say that something might happen in mid april whether that would be an attack or whether that would 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 others that was the third nuclear test so we can see that something will probably happen in the next week or so. and as always you can go and logon to our to dot com and have your say on the reasons behind the rising tensions on the korean peninsula and let's now take a look at how you've been voting so far and actually the majority of your most heart of you believe this is a part of a u.s. strategy to destabilize china and east asia around officials believe that actually it's dangerous brinkmanship and it could well escalate eighteen percent of you say

it's north korea's attempts to build a power base at home just when the minority of you saying it's beyond young's way of demanding aid from seoul and the west so head to our home and have your say that . the backlash from the death of a palestinian prisoner and israeli jail increasingly threatens the fragile peace between the neighbors so the fallout includes thousands of hunger strikers in israeli in israeli low carbs rocket exchanges between hamas and israel and 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 live rounds in response to a stone throwing and fired bombs. from the west bank more violence is expected as. will be laid to rest later on thursday. we're expecting more riots and 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 that there were protests in hebron as well as a low for the entire west bank area on wednesday as well as on monday foley 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 and at the end of february of this year and literally he was told he has terminal cancer and has only days left to live that of course has made a lot of folk people extremely angry palestine this is not the first time that it bronstein prisoners 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 israeli officials

could have provided medical help to the two of you some dear but they 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 of foreign the prisoner affairs 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 among the palestinians who are actually in israeli jails they have declared three day hunger strike as well as they have staged initial protests on 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 receive various injuries during clashes. israeli eye with id and on wednesday however how things will turn house 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 down in hebron and of course we will bring you more as we get it. of course and talk to the eldest son of the palestinian prison i whose death led to the initial riots hunger strikes and even rocket exchanges between hamas and israel and here's what he had to say he was left and dale his death without any treatment or anything he started to complain last august from a swell in his neck and severe in and hoarse and his voice in the neck 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 they had it is and all of us

for the doctor to announce it cute or he in the prison or but only to give him pin kilo's i think that. my father's case give us a message to the self-conscious of all that on the stimulus the goes if it chilled to us demi gelati over those 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 shunts like this then with whom are we making peace. you're watching our c.n.n. still ahead figure this hour u.k. iraq war veterans come up with shocking accounts of a secret torture account there but done will investigate what went on in the city and how the ministry of defense is reacting to the revelations. and also later america's growing use of drones is sparking protests in the wherry new york where

a month long campaign against them kicks off. said death from bird flu in china has sparked consigns the virus could become epidemic if no immediate measures are taken so it's not the first time such concerns have swept the country r.c. has decided to take a look at how the flu is spreading not just across the population but across the media so and here are some of the headlines from previous cases of varied flu epidemics and the panic they actually cause so bird and swine flu have birth emerged in recent years storming the media apparently causing more panic in the press than in hospitals. spokesmen. in almost a decade the bird flu has claimed three hundred seventy one lives the swine flu of course killed far more people but if we look at the statistics of common flu which happens every year it kills almost half a million people every year and this is not

a one off it happens every year and it's not a single epidemic and moreover the common flu has vaccines has no medication against it but still people are dying in huge numbers and nobody is ringing any bells about it not to mention of course scores of other diseases which are not causing concerns by the media and by the societies worldwide certainly the numbers the huge difference in numbers between deaths from a common flu and the swine flu and bird flu has caused many to believe that this is being orchestrated by the pharmaceutical companies in two thousand and ten german m.p. was going to describe the epidemic as orchestrated by major pharmaceutical firms and described it in fact as the biggest scandal in the history of medicine in two thousand and ten also the british medical journal and the daily mail published a list of people there were twenty people there who worked as advisors to the world health organization at the same time they had financial ties with pharmaceutical companies even last year an independent research suggested that the the death toll

from the swine flu was exaggerated by as many as fifteen times there were also cases when the tamiflu drug known to be the something of a remedy against the swine flu and the bird flu was burnt because there were too many of it i myself witnessed a situation in ukraine in two thousand and nine when there was an epidemic of the swine flu there and the stores of pharmacies the shelves of pharmacies were emptied by the people panicking rushing there to buy medication and there was even an episode when the prime minister of ukraine back and you arrived personally to the airport to meet huge shipment of the tamiflu drug which eventually didn't solve the problem but still this was pretty much telling on how big the panic was involving the officials and the state media so definitely we'll have to wait and see whether this situation in china will become another case of huge worldwide caused by the epidemic of the of the flu. you know watching all see and i'll be back with more

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the international airport in the very heart of moscow. this is all she coming to you live from moscow welcome by the war in iraq has seen its share of abuse and military misconduct scandals most of them involving u.s. troops but a recent revelations by u.k. servicemen have put the british army in the spotlight soldiers who served at a secret detention facility in but done have made integrations of systematic prison abuse and torture but us point to boycott reports now sources that pair 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 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 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 the recent report but unfortunately due to a high court injunction it was taken out 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 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 of abuse i think the u.k. government is embarrassed by fighting all efforts to get to the bottom of things

all the government is doing is holding up the country to see signs posted around the camp nama prison a set of proclaimed the borning no blood no foul as long as an interrogator didn't make a prisoner bleed they wouldn't face disciplinary action revelations about the u.k.'s involvement in the tourist facility unlikely 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. and criminals and you know they should be hounded should be charged until the true nature of them is brought into the light. r.t. . and most stories online for you this hour including a scene at swedish prosecutor supports the really so classified wiki leaks documents labeling big legal proceedings founded truth and

a sound and saying they had extradition to the us lots of legal ground learn why. and also an indefinite no fly zone over the oil spill in the u.s. state of arkansas talks concerns some suggest it's not all about security cooperation company x. on the timeline. washington's overseas drone strikes on those surveillance use at home has long attracted the attention of acts of its groups across the u.s. musical spectrum say this tribe's breach american law and how the country's

international standing now a month long and who drunk and pain has kicked off with a protest in manhattan autism or an abortion i was there for hours. 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 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 case 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 these drones 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. . so the drones try comparing the isn't his cross has today said how to program a fax president obama's piece make a reputation that. the most controversial aspects 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 and perpetuation of many bush era war policies has merit enough. revoke the prize and as of yesterday our efforts to do just that a new campaign is underway that's kind revoke his peace award the 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 prodding 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 exercised with impunity inside their own borders from another country. like the part where do you shop or sheet anything like.

let's not check some other news stories from around the world now three days of mourning have been declared in elgin teena after flash floods killed at least fifty two people the coverage will bring us ari's along with this city of love plateau we're told were headed by one of the heaviest storms ever recorded some things of people have been moved from their homes and nor heavy downpours are expected on thursday. refocused on the security officers have been killed and three more wounded after a grenade at paramilitary troops in karate pakistani taliban away is claiming responsibility saying they target the security forces conducting military operations against them. highlights concerns that militants could increase attacks head of pakistan's parliamentary elections tragedy. there's no and

decided to the economic crisis raging in greece people all across the country are feeling the pinch from big cities to isolated villages and stone bought and found out the fallout from the catastrophe is beginning to affect even natural nature reserves. the rolling forests of northern greece thousands of years old they're now under threat we had out of town and into the woods with a local forest patrol then they find what they're looking for an illegal logging site coming at night in small groups the longest take trees like this possible hundred year old oak is just one tree but if you add up the free for all over the hector the toll starts to look much more serious as the eurozone crisis deep into greek pockets expensive heating oil became harder and harder to afford now the forests are paying the price too that the nasty arson his team take notes and record the damage but with thousands of hectares coming over the last few years

they're hard pushed to keep up with the destruction and there's a bitter irony limiting their work. because of the economic crisis we can't afford enough fuel to patrol the area and stop this disaster that are still. elsewhere enough in our sources area and lives up a stylus he has smoke coming from his chimney a cat on the garden wall and a pile of logs in his shed he says he's not involved in the illegal logging trade but with heating oil costs running to two thousand euros over the winter months and wood priced at just five hundred he understands those who do. they are forced to go and cut wood illegally because they have to pay all these taxes that the government forces on us back in the forest our patrol goes deeper is evidence of the tree felling appears around every corner of. the local government is trying to clamp down but is torn between that and sympathy for greeks who are struggling under severe economic hardship and other bits where these are ordinary people we've been

in isolated villages for the last two years they can't afford you can or will so. some financial aid has been planned to help people afford winter heating oil but no funding has yet been provided for it so until heating oil does somehow become cheaper. the timber will continue to fall still this is happy that his wood is affordable and comes from legal sources but others he comes or won't play a result they say of a crisis brought right into the home tom watson the village of the restless northern greece. europe today it's and my colleague well he says shays here with no news at the top of the hour and coming up next the dark side of the world's finances is the focus of the kind of therapy.

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 an 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 that 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 against possibly the will of the majority of the show just my opinion.

welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser you know a posture 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 commie 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 a 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 stacey or 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 in months here in the kajal little sun oh it's gone. that's it that's the five minutes of sun for london for this.