moscow. american warships jets and missile systems stream into the pacific as the war of words with north korea reaches fever pitch pyongyang in response says its military is now and approved for a nuclear showdown with the u.s. . first scuffles erupt in the west bank as palestinians bury a long term prisoner who died while in israeli custody triggering a wave of bloody confrontations. china mobilizes resources to combat a new strain of bird flu after a third death is reported spread wide. the disease itself. and report torture and abuse at a secret prison in iraq while the ministry of defense denies any wrongdoing war veterans that tried to blow the whistle are being gagged those are our top stories this hour.

live from the new center here in moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day a nuclear attack on the u.s. has moved a step closer with north korea's military saying it is now being authorized to wage atomic warfare against what it calls washington's aggression pyongyang says conflict could break out today or tomorrow one american missile cruisers reported to be streaming into the pacific the war of words between the sides took a turn for the worse last week when you click capable u.s. north korean space he's going to picks up the story. to north korea's bellicose threats washington responds with an even more intense buildup of military power in the region that north korea responds with even more threats even though defense secretary chuck. 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 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 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 sites to snap or some kind of a mistake before everything spirals out of control in washington. it's not all talk though on the korean peninsula with reports of activity among the north missile forces southern intelligence sources claim at least one mid range ballistic missile that be repositioned to the east coast seoul based journalist

joseph kim says the show may yet be on the cards. 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 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 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 thousands others 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 it's always good to know what you think about this issue have your say on a website online poll of the moment is running on our front page one hundred page on t.v. dot com also what do you think is driving the increase in tensions there in the korean peninsula well these are the results we've got so far on the screen half of

the nearly haul forty nine percent suggest that it is a u.s. strategy to the stay. asia and then run about a fifth responding with the idea that brinkmanship is stoking the conflict and then eighteen percent think that this is a north korean attempt to build a power base and a minority at the moment think that pyongyang has a grand plan in order to get aid in the long term with thirteen percent of you always good to hear your thoughts we'll be looking at the poll again in the next dot com to express your point of view because to hear from me. today. these are the images the world. can. operations around.

the west bank city of hebron has been flooded with thousands of those coming to attend the funeral of a former palestinian security officer who died while in israeli custody his death has triggered a wave of riots in clashes between palestinians and israeli forces which resulted in two teenagers being killed by the soldiers. has been at the funeral procession which was later followed by street scuffles. we are in downtown and there are clashes going on between the idea forces and the protesters now i have to say most of these protesters because there is about a hundred hundred fifty of them so not everybody who was at the funeral actually went to the protest but let me just take a step away for now you can see what's happening behind me now a majority of the protesters see they're lining up along the along the wall there the idea forces are on top of the building on the right and also are also in another building at the end of the street behind the tree and now it's looks like for 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 at the idea forces which you may be able to see you kind of in the background there they were rude they were met with. rubber bullets as well as flash grenades and tear gas canisters from the idea of forces there has been running since between gaza and israel there have been numerous protests like i said to those in youth have been killed in northern in northern west bank so this looks like it's going to continue for some time this is what this is what's happening in hebron and this is the hometown of the mentally just died in israeli prisons and she was she looked for a lot for a life essentially for ninety nine years for his ties with terrorist organizations are glad to when his health started to give out the palestinian officials have asked israeli officials to release him early and according to israeli officials the

people requests and 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 the fact that there are literally thousands there's almost five thousand palestinian prisoners in israeli jails right now and 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 a jail and slam players behind bars. well earlier i spoke to the eldest son of the prisoner whose death has provoked the turbulence in the middle east he said the case of his father is yet more proof israel is not seeking any long term peace with the palestinians he was left and delis death without any treatment or anything you started to complain last august from a swell in his neck and their severe in and horse and his voice and their neck and nothing is being done to him actually you were sent to one of the clinics and he

was surprised that you were sent up to me tourists in his stead o. someone a specialist. to see is getting my father's case give us a message to the sub conscious of all the other stimulants bigos it show to us. over those who has to be very human but the doctor was an excellent the doctor was in israel. the palestinian be assurance like the esteem with whom are we making peace in addition to the public discontent palestinian prisoners of stage a massive hunger strike across israeli jails and rocket exchanges between hamas and israel have been taking place palestinian human rights advocate dr mazin can say says that the people are sick and to others living under the occupation. both hummus. in gaza and the palestinian authority in ramallah are interested in maintaining quiet we have tried to keep quiet in their respective areas the problem

is that the israeli occupation is a scary thing the violence against the palestinian people and the palestinian street cannot continue to tolerate the situation of injustice perpetually quiet is maintained they either by hamas or the pedestal as an austerity in all the fatah on the palestinian authority in the west bank the palestinian street the people on the street one some movement and we do not see any movement toward liberation what we see is continued occupation intensification of settlements intensification of abduction and killing of people. activists have kicked off a month of protests against the use of drones both in war zones killing hundreds of civilians and in the u.s. where they're nervous about the rapid rise of intrusive overhead surveillance that is coming your way a little later in the program stay with us the break is night. wealthy

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about international and world in the very heart of moscow. he's continues here on r t u.s. troops may be out of iraq but allegations of military misconduct and abuse have followed them home for now the latest report has put the british army in the spotlight after its service men showed some uncomfortable revelations. details the allegations and 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 enormously personnel from two r.a.f. squadrons and one army 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 from us 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 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 high court

injunction was taken out by the ministry of defense in two thousand and i. got in touch with the ministry of defense and despite ben's public allegations about what took place at camp nama this is the statement we got. we have carried out searches of our records and this is find no record so far of any complaints made by u.k. service personnel about the treatment of detainees by u.s. personnel in com nama to the chain of command any further evidence of human rights abuse should be passed to the appropriate authorities for investigation camp nama isn't the first time the ministry of defense has had to ward off accusations of abuse 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 is holding up the country to see signs posted around the camp nama prison claimed the morning no blood no foul as long as

an interrogator didn't make a prisoner bleed he would 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 i should be charged until the true nature of them is brought into line. in china neighboring countries are mobilizing resources to fight off a new strain of bird flu four people have now died from the disease out of the ten infected so far this is paul concern it could become endemic 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 the media as well and here are some of the headlines from previous cases

a variant flu and demi and the fear that they cause bird and swine flu that both emerged in recent years seemingly causing more concern in the press than in hospitals. has more of the hype and the numbers. 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 the 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 who 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 ripples from japan's fukushima nuclear meltdown are still reaching far and wide at our web site and we've got an alarming report on the field across the west coast of america where thirty percent of all newborns are suffering from

a radiation cause condition that can slow their development. multi-million dollar hotel in the russian republic of chechnya has been turned into little more than a shell we've got video footage photos and comments from the spot that at all the. 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 london based bureau of investigative journalism and american citizens are showing the outrage with a month of protests against sentence that research build and fly the bombers. reports now from manhattan on the first of the so-called april days of action. 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 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 bistros 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. . although they control the headlines much as in iraq to greece continued to grow was to spin recession devastating unemployment and little future prospects of forced many greeks quite literally into the cold and the reports the crisis has begun taking its toll even on greece's his story. 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 bit deep into greek pockets expensive heating oil became harder and harder to afford now the

forests are paying the price to athan as the os 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 or something. else where another nasty losses 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 we're illegally because they have to pay all these taxes that the government forces on the back in the forest our patrol goes deeper 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 ordinary people we've been in isolated villages for the last two years they're going to look for 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 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. time now for some international news in the brief at least fifty people have been killed three thousand evacuated city of la plata after a rain triggered massive flooding sixty kilometers southwest of the capital but desire is many of those who died were pinned under cars or electrocuted local

officials say three days of mourning and been announced by the government. nato air strike has killed four afghan policemen and two civilians in the eastern province the planes were called in by officials to defend police under attack by the taliban afghan president hamid karzai had said that he banned his security forces from asking for nato airstrikes back in february. but brings up to date for the moment i'll be back with a news team with morphy in half an hour from now in the meantime the dark side of the world's finances is the focus of the kaiser report that's 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 in arab country it's and 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 worse than two point five million people this was a huge protest for a card less the european union loves to educate the world about democracy and show that's liberal values around and yet that doesn't really seem to listen to the citizens very much who want to stop the madness of waves of illegal immigrants bailing out members on the dimes of other nations and for focusing the union's national attention on social issues like gay marriage instead of creating jobs to

the e.u. officials out there who claim to believe in democracy nabi 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. welcome to the kaiser report imax guys are. you know a poster at bus stops across the u.k. asks do you know someone living beyond their means and benefiting from crime it's

called the u.k. for going to commie population and government living beyond their means because the financial system benefits so much from crime they don't need or want workers or makers because a policy is by and for the takers taking lives taking that taking the piss taking the fun out of the laws cat this is why no one we trust is the motto for the latest battle in the global insurrection against banker occupation states here 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 sun oh it's gone it's there that's it that's the five minutes of sun for london for this year but you were talking about how do they afford it yes i was tweet from cory doctorow as you see here and if you pull back to the poster this was a poster campaign i think somewhere up in south yorkshire and it says do you know

someone living beyond their means and benefiting from crime. now of course they mean poor people as you see from the image they're saying this is gold bullying these people would be wearing and if you see somebody who doesn't look like they should be wearing gold bling you should call crime stoppers well yeah you know this is crazy because if i see somebody living beyond their means i mean i ought to do is go to any restaurant in mayfair and i will see dozens of three piece wearing banks toure's living beyond their means they're they they are living on the proceeds of crime you know you've got mark carney coming in and he's also going to be running the regulatory agency supposed to be overseeing these banks are still be living beyond his means the state has given him an ample allowances wife who's a can't think of the word iran to the rich is complaining she doesn't have enough

crime generated cast to live beyond her means of five thousand pounds every five seconds that guys should be arrested i'm reporting that guy george osborne whose office is right behind me i want to report them to make a citizen's arrest on my way here on the tower of london under the london bridge they had a good thing it's already set up and ready to go let's stop chop chop chop chop chop chop i know they all look alike to you max but the tory behind you is actually boris johnson not george johnson. so you know here we are in the city of london where everybody is living thanks to the benefit of the crime beyond their means. now they're of course looking up in the poor areas these posters are not in these expensive areas in the city so i want to look at cypriot president angrily denies claims family member export did bank funds cyprus t.v. station claims.