american warships jet. stream into the pacific as the war of words with north korea . says its military is now. showdown with the united states. in the west bank. who died while in israeli custody triggering a wave of deadly cross. china mobilizes resources to. bird flu after a third reported spread. in the disease. while the ministry of defense any wrongdoing. try to blow the whistle being.

just after four pm here in the russian capital with me will receive. a nuclear attack on the u.s. has moved a step closer with north korea's military saying it's now been authorized to wage war against what it calls washington's aggression says war could break out today or tomorrow while american missile warships are reported to be streaming into the pacific and the war of words between the arab sides took a turn for the worse last week when a nuclear capable u.s. bombers skirted north korean air space. story. 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 have a large scale movements from north korean military forces suggesting that it may be just rhetoric but while north korea talks washington acts apart from f. twenty two fighter jets and other bombers that it sent to the region for the ongoing military exercises with south korea the pentagon is now deploying an advanced missile defense system to guam a major u.s. military base in asia north korea the north korean army has announced that it has the final approval for a nuclear attack on the us as they tell us north korean rockets can freely. 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 tack to 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 that may take is for one of the sides to snap or some kind of a mistake before everything spirals out of control in washington i'm going to check on. and it's not all talk though on the korean peninsula with reports of activity among the north misato forces and intelligence sources also claim my mid range

ballistic missile had been repositioned to the east coast seoul based journalist joseph kim says a showdown at the end of the day may well still be on the us. 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 in d.c. 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 the honeymoon 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 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 to 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. well with the korean crisis headlining across the world you can break from the narrative and actually have your say for example of a dot com right now running a poll asking you what's driving the rise in tension on the korean peninsula hey

come on let's for this hour from dot com subtly some point changes going on in the past fifty nine minutes still the first position it's gone up a few points the forty nine percent saying what it's all about the u.s. strategy of trying to destabilize asia and trying to get. on the nerves of china as well coming up now to a very distant second position in well it's very dangerous brinksmanship stoking the conflict and certainly we're seeing heightened tensions in the region as well down to third position well it's just a north korean attempt to well to try and build a power base and then to the minority now voters that are saying it's just pyongyang's way to try and rest aid from seoul and the west has been done before it could be poised to happen again the poll is still in effect right now at r.t. dot com you can cost your vote. for now the west bank city of hebron is flooded with thousands of those who came for the funeral of a former palestinian security officer. boreham dhea died from cancer while serving

a life sentence in an israeli jail after allegedly being refused adequate medical care as death has triggered a wave of riots and clashes between palestinians and israeli forces which so far resulted in two teenagers being killed by soldiers this amid a massive hunger strike among palestinian prisoners across israeli jails as well as rocket exchanges between hamas and israel let's get all the latest now from the funeral and artie's arena filed this report. this body has been delivered to they have from moscow after which the funeral procession will see head to the cemetery where we're getting here this morning actually we're ready saw kids on the streets pelting stones at the idea forces down in hebron so we can expect i think violence to unfold still bit further on because the humvee has 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 the event of his

death has left a lot of people unhappy in numerous protests all over the entire palestinian territory in the west bank resulting into palestinian deaths and you can say that the tensions around the extremely high rise really here in hebron of course people are driving around shouting slogans and basically expressing their anti israel the sentiments the sixty four year old from dia was serving a life sentence on charges of terrorism she has complained about test feeling on the well last summer he was essentially told that he has cancer and literally days left to live and die this is the second palestinian prisoner has died in just as many months in an israeli jail policy number vicious already said that the israeli government is to directly to play for not providing enough medical help to him and they're saying the palestinian prisoners there is almost five thousand israeli jails are being constantly mistreated and not treated as human beings but you can see right now is the body of my sorrow humpty actually being moved from the mosque

towards the cemetery you can see he is on the truck right there we can see his guards armed with kalashnikovs literally four or five thousand people here in this little square in front of the mosque in hebron so frustration anger and we can see probably the escalation of violence toppling in the next maybe even couple of hours . to say we're going to go reporting right there and bit earlier we actually spoke to the eldest son of the person whose death over three years added to the fresh turbulence in the middle east he said the case of his father is yet more proof that israel is not seeking any peace with the palestinians. he was left and delis death without any treatment or anything he started to complain last august from a swell in his neck and severe being 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 that us sent to op to me tourists instead of someone

a specialist. to see is getting my father's case give us a message to the self conscious of all the other stimulants bigos it show to us gelati over to is who has to be very human but the doctor was an excellent the doctor was in israel out of treating patients like b.s. then with whom are we making peace are here in the russian capital outearning ten minutes past the hour this is r.t. activists of kicked off a month of protests against the use of drones both in war zones killing hundreds of civilians and in the us where the nervous about the rapid rise of intrusive overhead surveillance. and creek wouldn't have the price of austerity as crisis had greeks unable to afford central heating to take up the axe to stay warm .

china and a neighboring countries are mobilizing resources to fight off a new strain of bird flu now three people have died from the disease so far out of ten infected this has sparked concern it could become endemic and it's not the first time such panic has swept the country let's take a look at how the flu is spreading not just across the population but across the media as well here are some of the headlines from previous cases a variant of flu and makes on the fear of course of a caused bird and swine flu have both immersion in recent years seemingly causing more concern in the press than in the hospitals r.t. is elected talk to me about this just a bit earlier in the program. 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 with 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 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 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. the reporting we've got a more on the way for you here an include in fresh abuse allegations in a secret iraqi prison and more after a short break. wealthy british soil. from time to time. markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mikes concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report

on r g. about international and world in the very heart of moscow. by some joining us here on r t just a moment on the world update off an hour the war in iraq has certainly seen its share of abuse and military misconduct scandals most of them involving american troops and although the british army is in the spotlight following fresh

revelations by its own servicemen. a boy could details the allegations on the response from the authorities. it was reportedly one of the most brutal u.s. run military facilities in iraq during the war but a new report by the guardian newspaper reveals the extent of british involvement at the secret facility speaking anonymously personnel from two r.a.f. squadrons and one army air corps squadron admitted to having what 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 the problem is the people sitting in here in britain's ministry of defense don't want to hear it and those form a serviceman 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 charging 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. 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 can't mamma

isn't the first time the ministry of defense has had to ward off accusations of abuse i think the. 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 claimed 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 destroyers 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. and criminals and you know they should be hounded should be charged until the true nature of them is brought into line.

and artie's coming here live from moscow now the ripples from japan's fukushima nuclear meltdown are still reaching far and wide at aussie dot com we've got an alarming the fourth on the fallout felt across the west coast of america almost thirty eight percent of all newborns are suffering from a radiation cause condition that can slow their development. and towering inferno a multimillion dollar hotel in the russian republic of chechnya has been turned into a little more than a burnt out shell and we've got dramatic footage of the photos and comments right from the spot all of that and more about the dog. today. these are the.

this is the drone strikes have killed more than five hundred civilians around the world since president barack obama took office that's according to research by the london based. and american citizens. with a month of protest. reports from on the first of the so-called april days of. a month long nationwide anti drone campaign has kicked off in the u.s. and here in midtown manhattan dozens have gathered to protest washington's use of drones for targeted assassinations overseas and domestic surveillance here at home organizers say the aim the goal of this month long campaign is to bring the widest

possible public attention to the ways in which drones they say are being used to violate sovereignty due process privacy and freedom of assembly how dared they even talk a bad drones 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'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. . and these are drawn out and deadly drone campaign so often the tension talk is

the us president who made it all possible. 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 brock you say obama won a coveted nobel peace prize now one might say that obama's use of killer robots in perpetuation of many bush era war policies is marriage 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 a order to obama because he wasn't george w. bush well that's a sort of a low hurdle to get over he did get over that low bar he's certainly not w.

but he is somebody who has been expanding the claims and proud of that is the work here state of the united states and one of the ways that i think you can evaluate whether it's ok for you to do something is whether they'd like to have it done to them and how they would feel about a cruise missile or a drone strikes being exercised impunity inside their own borders from another country. looking. to do their job or achieve anything like this right. this is ought to be although large we've taken from the headlines not has an austerity rocked greece continue to grow worse a tailspin recession devastating unemployment and little future prospects of forced many greeks quite literally out into the cold as it is to not reports the crisis has begun taking its toll even on greece's historic woodlands. 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 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 there's a view that elsewhere in the nasty aussies 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 are forced to go in 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 as evidence of the tree felling appears around every corner. 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 all going to rip people we've been isolated for the last two years they can't afford. 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 up a storm 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 a restless northern greece. starting with argentina to the antiwar dot there we go now it's where fifty people have been killed at least and three thousand evacuated in the city of la plata this after rain triggered mass flooding sixty kilometers southwest of the capital. and many of those who died were pinned under cars or electrocuted that's according to local officials three days of mourning have been announced by the government emergency workers are still on the scene as they try to rescue those trapped by the waters. a nato air strike has killed four afghan policemen and two civilians in the eastern province in afghanistan and the

planes were called in by officials to defend a local police post under attack by taliban fighters afghan president hamid karzai had said he had banned his security forces from asking for nato airstrikes back in february over the highest civilian casualties. or up next we're not seeing the dark side of the world's finances and the suddenly being the focus of the kaiser report just a moment on here on. 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 isn't 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 a card list 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 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.

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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 coming 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 last 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 or lunch here in the kajal little oh it's gone so that's it that's the five minutes of sun shining for london for this year but you were talking about how do they afford it yes i was right.