the north korean army says a nuclear attack on the u.s. is imminent and they have officially been authorized to strike. her career does not want to commit suicide. over some of the pyongyang war mongering rhetoric is actually a desperate cry for more negotiations all amid increased american interest in the region. let's take you to live pictures right here on our fresh violence is feared in the west bank where thousands have gathered here for the funeral of a former high ranking palestinian security officer he did die in an israeli jail recently it's deadly protests with the israeli defense forces on high alert here you're looking at those who are attending the funeral of the palestinian man in question live pictures or not. and a third man dies from a deadly virus known as avian flu in china you look at the media frenzy

accompanying the latest development. it is just after two pm here in the russian capital this is r t live worldwide news here with me. north korea's military says it's now officially authorized to wage a nuclear attack against america to counter what it calls washington's aggression and warns an explosion is imminent and war could break out perhaps today or even tomorrow now this latest warning comes after the pentagon announced the deployment of a missile defense system and to prepare against a possible attack guy nature can gauge is the war mongering rhetoric and ultimately where it all could end up. 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 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 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 through or 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 form 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. in the meantime north korea appears to me moving from woods to actions as well

appealing apparently moved to a mid range missile to his east coast according to south korean media quoting intelligence sources told by journalist joseph cemex planes all some kind of a showdown might easily come as early as this month we see that the 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 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 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 two genders debt that was the third nuclear test so we can see that something will probably happen in the next week or so. now you can always just log onto our to talk calm right now you can have your say and what are the reasons the true reasons perhaps behind the rising of tensions

on the korean peninsula let's see how you're voting this hour from our dot com it's a hot topic because the numbers keep changing every hour now the leader forty eight percent saying well it's all about a u.s. strategy to destabilize the area perhaps china in the east asia as well coming in at a very distant second position well it's brinksmanship leading to armed conflict very dangerous on the verge of possible escalation eighteen percent now saying no it's north korea's attempt to try and build a power base at home and a very very small percentage now down to thirteen ultimately saying well they think it's pyongyang's way of demanding aid from seoul and the west certainly a hot button issue today at r t and r t dot com you can have your vote right now on the web site.

live from moscow this is our t.-r. . now thousands have gathered in the west bank city of hebron this for the funeral of a former high ranking palestinian security officer who died from cancer while serving a life sentence in an israeli jail more violence is feared after his death triggered riots on clashes during which two palestinian protesters were killed by israeli forces now this in addition to a massive hunger strike the palestinian prisoners have staged across israeli jails and rocket exchanges have also been occurring of course between hamas and israel all in hebron right now is all these are going to. take in place joining us live good to see you now can you bring us up to speed here any any signs of violence

where you are we know emotions continue to run high. yes absolutely in fact his body has been delivered to the have around moscow after which the funeral procession will see head to the cemetery whether we're getting here this morning actually we'll bring you saw kids on the streets pelting stones at the i.d.f. forces down and have brought so we can expect i think violence to unfold to little bit further on because humvee has numerous supporters here all along with the colossus of rifles and they're firing live rounds in the air you cannot hear them right now but there is radically coming on and off and right now right now that thousands of people who have gathered here are praying and they still look very determined and of course this entire event of the. it has left a lot of people unhappy as you have said numerous protests all over the entire palestinian territory in the west bank resulting in two palestinian deaths last night and you can say that the tensions around the extremely high rise are still

here in hebron of course people are driving around shouting slogans and basically expressing their anti israel the sentiments you talk about the death and obviously of today's funeral of of all abu hamed you know those those we can see behind you in the bottom of the screen tending this funeral in hebron today where you are but do tell us what exactly has the death of a person in israeli custody caused such a backlash in such an outcry. well from do you know how from the sixty four year old from dia was serving a life sentence on charges of terrorism ah she has complained about ceiling on the well last summer. she wasn't treated. she wasn't treated properly according to the palestinian authorities until february of this year when he was essentially told that he has cancer and literally days left to live. and dad this is the second palestinian prisoner has died in just this many months in an israeli jail the policy of the visuals already said that the israeli government is to

correctly to play for not providing enough medical help to him and they're saying that close to him prisoner. is almost five thousand in israeli jails are being constantly mistreated and not treated as human beings this makes telecine promised unions incredibly unpopular a lot of tension a lot of anger that has been that has pent up especially considering the fact there's been new that there are a lot of the palestinian prisoners in israeli jails have actually been there for more than two decades at this point so frustration anger and we can see probably the escalation of violence stuff happening in the next maybe even couple of hours will you t.j. frustration anger possibly hardening of emotions or as you were talking a moment ago because the gunfire there it goes again back you behind you in the distance or hebron a few the funeral of abu hamed do you take care of yourself well you know when you go to school thank you. he did speak to the eldest son of the palestinian prisoner whose death led to the initial riots and hunger strikes and as i said earlier even

the rocket exchanges between hamas and israel here's exactly what he had to say. he was left and delays death without any treatment or anything he started to complain last august before most well in his neck and severe being and hoarse and his voice and their name and nothing is being done to him actually us sent to one of the clinics and he was surprised at us send up to me to assist in his stead o. someone a specialist. to see is getting nothing has been done to him not a single treatment bêlit and he said that they as if they did it is and all of that is 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 so conscious of all that on the stimulus the goes it to us.

over those who has to be all supposed to be very human the doctors the doctor was in excellent the doctor was in israel. the palestinian positions like this been with whom are we making peace. thanks for joining us here on r.t. today still ahead for you on the program or u.k. iraq war veterans come out with shocking accounts of a secret torture camp in back we investigate what happened there and how the ministry of defense is reacting to this also. america's growing use of drones sparking protest action we're in new york where a month long campaign against them kicks off. for now though a third death from bird flu in china has sparked concerns the virus could become endemic if no immediate measures are taken it's not the first such time the concerns of swept the country let's have a look here on r.t. at how the flu spreads not just across the population but more importantly perhaps

across the media as well or here are some of the headlines from previous cases a variant flu endemic and the panic they caused the bird and swine flu that emerged in recent years created a media storm that apparently caused more panic in the press than it did in the hospital's artie's alexia chef ski takes a very close look at the flu fear factory. 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 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 myself which was the situation in ukraine in two thousand and nine when

there was an epidemic of the swine flu there and the stores of. 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 then 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 of 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. reporting right back with more global news in just a moment. science

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the international airport in the very heart of moscow. coming to life in the heart of moscow this is art see the war in iraq is certainly seen its share of abuse and military misconduct scandals of course most of them involving u.s. troops but recent revelations by u.k. servicemen have put the british army now in the spotlight soldiers who served at a secret detention facility in baghdad have now made allegations of systematic prisoner abuse and torture as ati's party boy reports saw authorities appear rather reluctant 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 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 report but unfortunately due to

a high court injunction which by the ministry to friends 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 accusations 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 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 bleed it wouldn't face disciplinary action revelations about the u.k.'s involvement in the tories 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 they're lies and criminals and you know they should be hounded should be charged until the true nature of fame is brought into the light. r.t. london. although a lot more stories for you online that are to dot com including a senior swedish prosecutor supports the release of classified wiki leaks documents labeling the whole legal process against founder julian assange mess and saying his feared extradition to the u.s. lacks legal ground more details that are to be thought come on that. also an

indefinite no fly zone over the oil spill in the u.s. state of arkansas for sparking concerns some suggest it's not all about our security for the operating company x. more details online that r.t.e. dot com. i'm real researcher live in moscow one he and washington's overseas drone strikes on this surveillance used at home as long attracted the attention of activists groups across the political spectrum say the strikes a breach of american law the country's international standing and now a month long drone campaign is kicked off with a protest in manhattan. is 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 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 these drones as well and that includes children and women we need to come to peace and you can 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. r.t. . well the drone strike come painters and. today she looks at how the program effects president obama's peace reputation. the most controversial aspects of obama's presidency has been his escalation of drone warfare cross the muslim world to 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 has merit 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 peace award the 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 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. to do their job or she made me feel like. i was. and into the out he will drop it we go some other global headlines for you

have brief let's start with argentina where three days of mourning have been declared off the flash floods killed at least fifty two people in the capital but i saw as along with the city of la plata hit by one of the heaviest storms ever recorded thousands have been moved from their homes and more heavy downpours are expected on thursday. three pakistani security officers have been killed three more wounded after a grenade attack on a power military set of troops in karate at the pakistani taliban wing is claiming responsibility saying they targeted the security forces but conducting military ops against them are the latest incident highlights concerns that militants could increase the level of violence head of pakistan's parliamentary elections those are show if you will the next month. or the just around the corner here on r t we look at the world of medical experiments and often unreported failures that's an 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 help them 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 have 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 edges. 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 of 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 unions 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 who disagree with you before you keep promoting policies against possibly the will of the majority of the show just my opinion.

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