american warships jet. stream into the pacific the war of words with north korea now reaching fever pitch. says its military is now. proved nuclear showdown with. fear in the west. who died while in israeli custody. bloody cross border. china mobilizes resources to combat a new strain of bird flu. reported fears spread wider. than the disease itself. and u.k. soldiers report torture and abuse of secret prisons in iraq while the ministry of defense denies any wrongdoing. try to blow the whistle.

it's just after five pm here in moscow this is our worldwide news and me. 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 atomic warfare against what it calls washington's aggression. could break out today or tomorrow on american missile cruisers are reported to be streaming into the pacific and the war of words between the errant signs took a turn for the worse last week a nuclear capable u.s. bombers skirted north korea space. picks up the story for us. to north. 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 had 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 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 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. while it's not all on the korean peninsula reports now of activity among the north forces and

intelligence sources claim at least one mid range ballistic missile had been repositioned to the east coast of the seoul based journalist joys of king says that a showdown may well be on the cards. 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 hungry moon 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 home kim song is earth day and we've seen last year that they did their first satellite launch attempt so i can i predict and i think as well as many experts they say that something might happen in mid april whether that will be an attack or whether there will be a celebration and easing of the tensions we aren't quite sure yet but it can be seen that historically they've done celebrations to mark to mark certain things to happen whether it was the anniversary of can each other's death that was the third nuclear test so we can see that something will probably happen in the next week or so. well with the tensions brimming out let's get some international perspective on the crisis joining me for that dr jim walsh a specialist on security and nuclear weapons at the massachusetts institute of technology a pleasure to see you today thanks for coming on so quickly on yang saber rattling

washington sending in a weapons to that area that part of the world mr walsh what exactly is going on here. well in some ways it's a repeat of what we've seen in previous plays you know this is not the first time we've seen brinksmanship provocation on the part of north korea's koreans this is sort of their playbook and we're used to it but i agree things are different in other ways we've seen things that we've never seen before like the u.s. use of b. fifty two b. two bombers symbolically flying over south korea and the thing that i would be watching right now is the case on industrial complex it was south korean workers go there to work and then return to south korea the north koreans have stopped that and so there are about eight hundred workers south koreans in north korea waiting for that to resume so. they they they have in the past when things have gotten bad case on still kept going once in two thousand and nine it was suspended one other

time but basically that sort of chugged along if they shut that down permanently that would be a sign that something is very different and certainly raise a good point that we know about this industrial complex being shut down now the eight hundred as you say workers who have been stopped from working there now it is a joint mission between both the north and south both having mutually beneficial economics at play there but when it comes to north korea russia saber rattling you say is being done for years of course it has been done for years often to try and get some sort of aid or lack of sanctions brought towards it but now washington sending a destroyer is a flying as you were saying the stealth bombers a b. fifty two s that might seem to some to be exacerbating the situation. yeah you know and i think you can make a case for that i'd might have handled it a little differently but you know you can also understand the rationale so what is the u.s. doing the u.s. is for sending a signal to the south koreans it's treaty ally saying we've got you back you don't have to worry we'll protect you in fact for the first time ever this week the

president will press spokesperson raised this idea and said well one of the reasons why we're doing this is we don't want south korea to take unilateral action action on its own i never heard anyone say that before that's clearly a concern of the white house so one is to send a message to south korea we've got your back to japan it's also intended to send a message to the north koreans say we can reach out and touch you you know be careful what you wish for and then it's also a message to the united states the american public saying look we're doing something about this we're taking it seriously i do worry though that you know all these moving pieces and plus all this new leadership a new leader and new leader in north korea all this stuff going on someone could make a mistake and that could light a match that would lead to a conflict that no one actually wants to have and as you say a very dangerous kind of brinksmanship in effect a let's bring in one of the other big factors and we're getting reports here about see about mass troop movements in china how would you factor that into the equation

here. yeah i saw an a.p. or a some press report earlier in the week about that. you know that could mean two things it could be multiple things sometimes the chinese will mobilize in support of north korea during the big naval exercises the military exercises that the u.s. and south korea do jointly and a chinese response to that is meant to signal to their ally to north korea don't worry everything's going to be fine don't do anything crazy this could be though given the circumstances this could be preparations for just in case something does go badly you know something goes wrong and there's a conflict on the korean peninsula so i think we have to watch those specifically and see how those where those two movements are and what particular units they are but right now well the chinese may be hedging their bets a little all right i talked to jim walsh a specialist on security and weapons at the massachusetts institute of technology thank you very much indeed for joining us here on r.t.

today a pleasure. well here at r.t. you can always get involved with the stories we're covering of course at r.t. dot com right now we are still engaged in a poll basically it's been going on for the past couple hours now in the numbers continue to change what do you think are the reasons for the standoff and going on now between pyongyang and washington d.c. the ongoing heightened tension north korea threatening basically the united states with some sort of nuclear attack a rising tensions and the korean peninsula for the following reasons here's how you're voting for this hour at dot com we're still at the majority of nearly half of use thinking it's just a u.s. strategy to try to destabilize asia coming in a very distant second it's a very dangerous game of brinksmanship stoking an armed conflict and tempers are certainly flaring in pyongyang and a lot of concern in washington as well third position no it's just north korea trying to build a power base and down to the minority well it's pyongyang's way of the modeling aid we've seen the whole carriage sticking maneuvers between pyongyang and washington

for years perhaps this is nothing different well at r.t. dot com you can still get involved with a poll here we always greatly value your opinion. today. these are the images the world. can't. change for asians to rule the day. live from moscow this is our two young brewery sushi the west bank city of hebron has been flooded with fouls and of those coming to attend the funeral of a former palestinian security officer and he did die while in israeli custody his death has triggered a wave of riots and clashes between palestinians and israeli forces which resulted

in at least two teenagers being killed by the soldiers. been following the funeral procession joining us live here on our to arena good to see you again so quickly you've been keeping a very close watch on clashes and post funeral violence so what can you tell us where you are. well i'm actually in downtown have run right now that you are allowed to have to tell about an hour ago made it look evil a little bit less now we are in downtown and there are clashes going on between the i.d.f. forces and that of the protesters now i have to say most of these protesters there's about a hundred hundred fifty of them so not everybody who was at the funeral actually went to the protests but let me just take a step away for now you can see what's happening behind me now a majority of the protesters actually have look like us see they're lining up along the long the wall there the i.d.f. forces are on top of the building on the right and also are also in another building at the end of this street behind the tree and now it's looks like for most of these kids most of these people who are actually rather young i would say

a majority of them are teenagers and they're very early teens there has been exchange of rocks which they were throwing out the i.d.f. forces which you may be able to see you kind of in the background. they are now they they were they were met with some rubber bullets as well as flash grenades and tear gas canisters from the i.d.f. forces now the course this is you can see them running there usually after after they run like this usually there is some sort of fire to come so now of course the siege of violence there we go the exchange of violence has been continuing for the last three days you can say there has been actually the rocket fire axes from gaza to israel there also. there also has been numerous also and i'm going to step back and just in case something interesting happens the cameraman will show you of course so yes there has been rough exchange between gaza and israel there have been numerous protests like i said to those seen youths have

been killed in northern and northern west bank so this looks like it's going to continue first time time this is what this is what's happening in hebron in this is the hometown of. the eventually just died in israeli prison so we can expect the clashes here to continue for quite some time you can just by the clashes to continue or you know also the tempers and emotions to continue to flow just a moment ago the cameraman was showing what i presume was an idea of sniper on the rooftop behind you we're going to zoom you didn't very close shot indeed so so certainly tensions are high the i.d.f. is on alert where you are you talk about the funeral of abu hamed why has the death of this man there was you know news already pretty white houses death caused so much to where you are. well he was she was he was for love for life essentially the ninety nine years for for conspiring for the for his ties with terrorist organizations hobeika when his health started to give out to the palestinian

officials have asked israeli officials to release him early and according to israeli officials the people were questioned processed fast enough and he died before that release could come and of course his death just heard this anger among palestinians who have long been protesting the writ the the fact that there are literally thousands there's almost five thousand palestinian prisoners in israeli jails right now and more than one hundred of them have been there for more than two decades and a lot of them actually have not have not received the proper handling of their cases they've never even been charged with anything just basically put in the jail and slam their behind bars for you for you know recent that they have where explains so this is this is one of the main big one of the main source think that the palestinians right now are live in a downtown hebron in the west bank aussies are really going to sky thank you. well here at r.t. we did manage to speak to the elder son of the prisoner whose death is as we agreed upon exacerbated the time billons in the middle east he said the case of his father

is yet more proof that israel is not seeking any long term peace with the palestinians. it was left and del his death without any treatment or anything he started to complain last august from a swell in his neck and their 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 at us and you opt to meet tourist instead of someone a specialist to to see is getting my father's case give us a message to the sub conscious of all the other stimulants be goes it show to us. over those who has to be very human that the doctor was in as well if the doctor was in israel. the palestinian be assurance like b.s. then with whom are we making peace live from moscow this is ati activists have

kicked off a month of protests against the use of drones both in war zones killing hundreds of civilians and in the us with a nervous about the rapid rise of intrusive overhead surveillance that story coming up a bit later in the program here on arts. but for now u.s. troops may be out of iraq but allegations of military misconduct and abuse of certainly followed them home now the latest report has put the british army in the spotlight after a subbasement shared some uncomfortable revelations his party boy could details the allegations and the response from 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 there the problem is the people sitting in here in britain's ministry of defense don't want to hear it and those form a service 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. 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 thank you stations of abuse i think the u.k. government is embarrassed by fighting all efforts 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 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 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. . so a lot more to come here on our two year including the panic caused by just a few bird flu deaths in china and that story and more after the break.

the international airport in the very heart of moscow.

thank you for joining us here on our two young rover sushant live in the russian capital of china and neighboring countries are mobilizing resources to fight health a new strain of bird flu three people have died from the disease out of the ten infected so far now this has sparked concern it could become endemic i was not the first time such panic has swept the country let's take a look at how the flu is spreading but not just across the population but rather across the media as well as behind me here are some of the headlines from previous cases of variant flu and makes and of course the fear they caused a bird and swine flu of both emotion in recent years seen many causing more concern in the press than in the hospitals. i spoke to me about this just a bit earlier. 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 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. reporting now the ripples from japan's fukushima nuclear meltdown a still reaching far and wide. report on the. coast of america. radiation course. in the russian republic of chechnya. we've got the.

news today. these are the. this is a drone strikes have killed more than five hundred civilians around the world since u.s. president barack obama took office that's according to research by the bureau of investigative journalism and american citizens are showing their outrage with a month of protests. reports. 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 dare they even talk about drones 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. . hoping to stay with us here on c.n.n. just a moment we look at the world of medical experiments and often unreported failures special documentary off label just a matter. what if one third of the population of a capital city of a small arab country took to the streets in protest. why 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 cardless the european union loves to educate the world about democracy and show the 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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