the north korean. official authorized to strike. want to commit suicide however. desperate cry for negotiations. in the region. in the west bank where thousands of right here for the funeral of a former high ranking security officer a. deadly protests live pictures right here hebron in the west bank the funeral of. a deadly virus known as avian flu in china a look at the media frenzy. a

pleasure to have you with us here on a day with worldwide news live from moscow i'm. north korea's military says it's now officially authorized to wage a nuclear attack against the u.s. to counter what it calls washington's aggression. and explosion is imminent and war could break out today or tomorrow this latest warning came after the pentagon announced the deployment of a missile defense system to prepare against a possible attack. she reports now on the war mongering rhetoric and where it could all 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 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 through 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 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. and in the meantime north korea appears to be moving from words to actions of pyongyang apparently moved a mid range missile to his east coast that's according to south korean media

quoting intelligence sources a soul based journalist joys of kemeny explains how some kind of showdown that might come as early as this month we see that they used 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 one hundred moon or secretary of 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 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 that that was the third nuclear test so we can see that something will probably happen in the next week or so. and right now you can log on to our website our two dot com get involved have your say on the reasons behind the rising tensions on the korean peninsula how you're voting for this hour from our dot com still though the majority of our voters are saying this is all part of the u.s. strategy to destabilize china and east asia down to around of believing it was

dangerous brinksmanship and could well escalate coming into the position eighteen percent say is north korea's attempt to build a power base at home and just down to the smallest percentage which i think in my own personal opinion should be a bit higher the moment but basically the thirteen percent now are saying it's pyongyang's way of demanding a we've seen the whole carrot sticking thing between pyongyang and washington going back years from now although you can still get involved at r.t. dot com. for now though thousands of gathered in the west bank city of hebron for the funeral of a former high ranking palestinian security officer he did die from cancer while serving a life sentence in an israeli jail and more violence is feared after his death triggered riots and clashes during which two palestinian protesters were killed by israeli forces this is in addition to a massive hunger strike palestinian prisoners have been staging across israeli

jails and rocket exchanges go on going between hamas and israel. was at hebron small square the funeral has been taking place. i just thought he has been delivered to the have from moscow after which the funeral procession will see head to the cemetery where we're getting here this morning actually will brady saw kids on the streets pelting stones at the idea forces down in hebron so we can expect i think violence to unfold still but for the wrong because hunt is numerous supporters here along with their kalashnikov rifles and they're firing live rounds in the air you cannot hear them right now but there's radically coming on and off his death has left a lot of people unhappy 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 are running extremely high especially here in hebron of course people are driving around shouting slogans and basically expressing their anti israeli sentiments but you'll see right now is the body of. my sorrow he actually

being moved from these from the mosque towards the cemetery you can see he is on the truck right there we can see his guards armed with their kalashnikovs literally for five thousand people here in this little square in front of the mosque the sixty four year old from dia was serving a life sentence on charges of terrorism ah she has complained about settling on the well last summer i mean she wasn't treated. he 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 the coliseum officials 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 tells you promised unions incredibly and poppy

a lot of tension a lot of anger that has that has pent up especially considering the fact there's been knew that there are a lot of the palestinian prisoners in israeli jail. those have actually been there for more than two decades at this point so frustration anger and we can see probably escalation of violence happening in the next maybe even couple of hours. doctors are in a close call reporting right well earlier we did speak to the eldest son of the palestinian prisoner in question whose death led to the initial riots the hunger strikes and as we agreed upon alia the rocket exchanges between hamas and israel here's exactly what he had to say. it was left and delis death without any treatment or anything you started to complain last august from a swell in his neck and seaview in and hoarse and his voice in the nick and nothing is being done to him actually us sent to one of the clinics and he was surprised at us and up to me tourists instead of 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 there is and all of us for the doctor to announce it to you or he in the prison or but only to give him didn't kill us i think that. my father's case give us a message to this so conscious of all that honest indians bigos it to us. over who is who has to be all supposed to be very human the doctors the doctor was in excellent the doctor was in israel. the palestinian be sure it's like the esteem with whom are we making peace. this is r.t. still ahead for you very shortly u.k. iraq war veterans coming out with some well very disturbing accounts of a secret torture camp inside baghdad and we investigate what went on there and how

the ministry of defense is reacting to the revelations also america's growing use of drones that sparking protest action we're in new york where a month long campaign against them kicks off. 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 for these kind of concerns of swept the country takes a look at how the flu spreads not just across the population but across the media as well let's check out some of the headlines from previous cases a very and flu and demigods on the. panic they caused the bird and swine flu's that emerged in recent years created a media storm that apparently caused more panic in the press than it did even in the hospitals artie's been looking at the flu fear factor. 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 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 was too many of it myself with the situation in ukraine in two thousand and nine 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 on how big the panic was you 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. and i'm back with more international news after a very short break. wealthy british style.

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three fifteen pm moscow time this is odd t. the war in iraq is certainly seen its share of abuse and military misconduct scandals of course most of them involving american troops but the recent revelations by u.k. servicemen and up of the british army in the spotlight soldiers who served at a secret detention facility inside baghdad have made allegations of systematic prisoner abuse and torture but it's not his party boyko report's authors 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 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 don't 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 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 to me 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 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 borning 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 know the reality of what is being done in iraq these people are criminals they're liars and criminals and you know they should be hounded i should be charged until the true nature of them is brought into the light. r.t. . and many more stories for you online right now at our dot com including the likes of a senior swedish prosecutor supporting the release of classified wiki leaks documents labeling the legal process against founder julian assange a mess and saying his fear the extradition to the u.s. lacks a legal ground to get those details right now on our website. also online for you

this hour at r.t. dot com an indefinite no fly zone over the oil spill in the u.s. state of arkansas is sparking concerns some suggest it's not all about security for operating company exxon more do you. well as online. it's good to have you with us here on a day washington's overseas drone strikes on the surveillance use at home is certainly attracted the attention of activists groups across the u.s. political spectrum say the strikes a breach of american lore and hurt the country's international standing now a month long campaign has kicked off with

a protest in manhattan. this report. 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 of bad drones on a domestic case 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. . while the drone strike campaign is in the margins cost has today the program effects president obama's peacemaker reputation has approved 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 for ever 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 merit enough to revoke the prize and as of yesterday the. our 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 and proud of it is the worst fear 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 unity inside their own borders from another country . looking. to do it if you've never seen anything like the driver.

or the i mean modern in just a moment finale at sea world update starting with argentina three days of mourning of the declared flash floods killed at least fifty two in the capital one 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 . three pakistani security officers have been killed and three more wounded after a canadian attack on a power military set of troops in karachi pakistani taliban wing is already claiming responsibility saying they targeted the security forces conducting military ops against them the latest incident highlights concerns that militants pretty increase the level of violence and of pakistan's parliamentary parliamentary elections so those are now show jewels for next month. well there is no end in sight to the economic crisis raging in greece people all over the country are

feeling the pinch from big cities to isolated villages and as a he's told bottom found out before from the catastrophe is beginning to attract and effect even nature preserves. 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 the 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 hectares the toll starts to look much more serious as the eurozone crisis but deep into greek pockets expensive heating oil became harder and harder to afford now the forests are paying the price to the nastyass and his team take notes and record the damage but with thousands of hectares coming over the last few years they are 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. elsewhere or nothing else your says area 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 would priced at just five hundred he understands those who do. they were 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 on patrol goes deeper evidence of the tree falling 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. these are ordinary people we've been in isolated villages and for the last two years they've gone to afford heating oil 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 postoffice is happy that his wood is affordable and comes from legal sources but others here can't or won't pay a result they say of a crisis brought right into the home tom watson r.t. the village of the rest northern greece. breaking aside with abby martin starts in just a moment next. 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 as capital and even though the police said that half those numbers for a city of worse than two point five million people this was a huge. protest for a cardless 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 times 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 but that's just my opinion. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks

a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous and like i've said any i mean. i know that i'm still really messed up. and we're all very sleepy the. worst sure to look. like that sick of a. guy for a minute click. on what you call for about six because you've never seen anything like this i'm cold. well some guys and i mean martin and this is breaking this set so you may remember back in december when it was revealed that the part of homeland security had been extensively spying on the occupy movement in fact they were treating it as a potential criminal and terrorist threat despite the fact i could buy organizers explicitly called for peaceful protests while another forward.