american warships jet. stream into the pacific because the war of words with north korea reaches a fever pitch pyongyang in response says its military is now and approved for a nuclear showdown with the u.s. . scuffles erupts in the west bank as the palestinians bury a long term prisoner who died while in israeli custody triggering a wave of bloody confrontations. mobilizes resources to combat a new strain of bird flu after a fourth is reported spread wide and. the virus itself. and soldiers report torture and abuse at a secret prison in iraq the ministry of defense denies any wrongdoing. of trying to blow the whistle being gagged the top stories this hour.

live from our new center here in moscow this is twenty four hours a day. a nuclear attack on the u.s. has moved a step closer with north korea's military saying it's now been authorized to wait atomic warfare against what it calls washington's aggression says conflict could break out today or tomorrow when american missile cruisers are reported to be streaming into the pacific well let's cross now to. for more on the crisis american officials are really expressing concern that rhetoric coming from north korea. hello god i can hear me now it's below here most going on and i'm afraid i can't hear you you can hear me that's a shame because we're alive at the moment and i was just asking a question talking to you we tried again can hear me now that's

a shame we spoke to god just a few seconds before we went on that but sadly we'll cannot talk to for the moment let's see if we get back to a little bit later. now it's not all talk though on the korean peninsula with the presence of activity among the north missile forces southern intelligence sources claim that at least one mid-range but listing missile have been repositioned to the east coast so please join us joseph kim says a showdown 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 fund you 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 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 be done celebrations to mark to mark certain things to happen whether it was the anniversary of two genders that was the third nuclear test so we can see that something will probably happen in the next week or so. well we can now

return to going to in our washington studios. the officials in america they really now are expressing concern about that rhetoric coming from north korea. bill they are because this is how it's been so far the u.s. and south korea were having their usual war games in the region annual joint military exercises that is to north korea's bellicose and very aggressive threats washington has been responding with an even more intense military buildup of military power in the region to attack north korea has responded with even more threats so we saw tensions rising and it reached a point where now a pentagon official told one of the news channels here quote we accused the north koreans of amping things up now we are worried we did the same thing the official was not named in that report apart from f. twenty two fighter jets and other bombers that washington sent to the region for this for the young going military exercises with south korea the pentagon is now

deploying in its best missile defense system to guam one post a major u.s. military base in asia north to the north korean army you know has it as and now is that it has the final approval for a nuclear attack on the western north korean rockets as they tell us can't reach the mainland they can potentially attack u.s. bases in the region there are twenty eight thousand u.s. troops just across the border to south korea so even though the rhetoric has been very hostile no one really believes that north korea is actually going to carry out an attack as young as the north korean leader is he doesn't defend that it would be so it's titles of him to do that and that is an opinion shared by. almost all experts all pundits on the. all sides know they're making threats that they're really not going to carry out north korea itself knows that the. attack the united states it would be committing suicide the united states

would retaliate in a tremendous crash in north korea does not want to commit suicide i believe north korea is doing all this so we can get to a point to actually negotiate some kind of peace agreement with the united states. well the international community is very much critical of this kind of saber rattling and even china. you know north korea has allegedly asked china to send a high ranking envoy but china rejected it according to the same reports china said if they wanted an envoy in north korea should send their their own envoy to china first however north korea hasn't done that so far and if they do china is likely to pressure them to stop saber rattling and return to the six party talks but with all this war talk from north korea and with the u.s. military buildup in the region some say all it may take is for one of the sides to to snap or some kind of a mistake before everything spirals out of control and thanks very much indeed for

that that's going to live the you know washington studio. specialist on security and nuclear weapons at the massachusetts institute of technology dr jim walsh has offered his view on the risks and payoffs of america's engagement in korea. 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 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 those we're taking it seriously i do worry though that you know when all these moving pieces 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 the north the north koreans are crazy

. they're not going to deliberately start a war but they are they try to stay just below that level of provocation will they react the way we want them to react i just don't know we don't know what's inside the minds of north koreans it's the most closed country in the world but when we brandish arms and do that we are taking a risk that they will misunderstand that and respond in the wrong way. well with the korean crisis headlining across the world we like to know what you think about what's going on there in the korean peninsula and i ask you on our home page on our website r.t. dot com what you think is driving the increase in tensions and these are the options we're asking and these are the responses we getting so far this hour about half of you forty nine percent believe that this is a u.s. strategy to keep china and east asia on its toes at the moment also we think that eighteen well twenty percent of you think if you believe that this is brinkmanship perhaps could resulting in a disastrous conflict and we can see that about thirteen percent believe that yang

is trying to perhaps get aid through by perhaps increasing the tensions and then resulting in peace talks and then resulting in aid for the country and we can see that eighteen percent believe that the north korean regime are attempting to build up the power base there in the country so those are the results so far dot com always good to hear from me please log on and express your point of view. today. these are the images the world. trade canada. operations are on the day. 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 and clashes between palestinians and israeli forces which resulted in two teenagers being killed by the soldiers but he has been at the funeral procession which was later followed by st scuffles. we are in downtown and there are clashes going on between the idea forces and the protesters and i would 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 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 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 of forces they were rude

they were met with. rubber bullets as well as flash grenades and tear gas canisters from the idea forces there has been running scenes between gaza and israel there have been numerous protests like i said to the scene you 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 in this is the whole town of the men who just died in israeli prisons and she was able to cora love for 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 request 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 slammed their behind bars. well there there are 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 it 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 being and horse and his voice and their neck and nothing is being done to him actually you are sent to one of the clinics and he was surprised that you were sent up to me to assist in the stead of 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 demi gelati of those who has to be very human the doctor was in as well the doctor was in israel. the palestinian b. shunts like b.s. then 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 taken place palestinian human rights advocate dr mazin can see it says the people a second time of living under the occupation. last summer. in gaza and the palestinian authority in ramallah are interested in maintaining quiet and have tried to keep quiet in their respective areas the problem is that there is very occupation is escalating the violence against the palestinian people and the palestinian street cannot continue to tolerate the situation of injustice

perpetually quiet is maintained the either by hamas or the pedestal. all the fatah on the palestinian authority in the west bank the palestinian street the people on actually want 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 us where the nervous about the rapid rise of intrusive overhead surveillance that is coming up a little later in the program along with plenty of other stories stay with us this is altie in the sky.

about international airport in the very heart of moscow. continues here and u.s. troops may be out of iraq but allegations of military misconduct and abuse have followed them home but now the latest report has put the british army in the spotlight after its service men shared some uncomfortable revelations all the 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 on the air corps squadron admitted to having to camp nama one british servicemen recalls seeing a man having his prosthetic leg being pulled off and being beaten about the head

with it before being thrown onto a truck others described prisoners held in cells the size of dog kennels reportedly called hotel california by u.s. army personnel allegations include detainees being routinely hooded and subjected to electric shocks the story of the secret camp nama prison is a watershed moment for britain's involvement in the alleged abuses in iraq this time it's not just alleged victims talking about their war deals it's former soldiers talking about what they saw that the 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 man 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 reports but unfortunately high court injunction which 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 and come 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. 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 that 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 and the true nature of them is brought into line. the ripples from japan's fukushima nuclear meltdown are still reaching far and wide and are called we've got an alarming with the fallout felt across the west coast of america where almost thirty percent of all newborns are suffering from a radiation cause condition that can slow their development. and powering inferno a multimillion dollar hotel in the russian republic of chechnya has been turned into a little more than a shell we've got video footage photos and comments from the spot that i'm all for

you at all dot com. china neighboring countries are mobilizing resources to for. out of a new strain of bird flu four people have now died from the virus out of the ten infected so far this is spot 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 endemic and the fear they caused burden swine flu have both emerged in recent years seemingly causing more concern in the press and hospitals ortiz alexy yet a chef scheme has more now on 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 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 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 next year there russia says it's being prevented from meeting with his own citizen currently being held in guantanamo bernie without charge over the u.s. state department claims the prisoner himself doesn't want to see the delegation lottie's medina question of the has more on the story but the claim and counterclaim what exactly has been said then. well the u.s. state department says that it is preventing russia from meeting with its citizens and now it claims that the russian citizen who has been how insolent went on a mile for over a decade without trial has apparently refused to meet any of the russian delegation it was also added that before the u.s. department has invited the russian delegation to visit the facility but according

to the comments that russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov gave to r.t. he had never seen any official invitation. personally disagree. it's been ten years since we started trying to get access to the russian citizen to be honest i see no such invitation as i've been traveling but if it's true we would certainly like to make sure the russian citizen is held in acceptable conditions. the guantanamo detention facility has really a long history of controversial human rights records with a torture and human rights abuse and the u.s. department claims that it has been working real hard to meet all international humanitarian standers at the facility but the leaders development is that the situation has gone so bad that a number of prisoners went on a hunger strike this february and their action has lasted for nearly two months now

. but david thanks very much indeed for that live update in central moscow made in the kitchen over. 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 their outrage with a month of protests against centers that research build and fly the unmanned bombers porton are 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 drones they say are being used to violate sovereignty due process privacy and freedom of assembly how dared they even talk about 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. . the two things up today with a moment i'll be back with a news team with more free in about thirteen minutes from now in the meantime

a disturbing look into the world of medicine gone wrong off label is coming your way after the break. what if one third of the population of a capital city of a small arab country took. on the streets in protest when the mainstream media would scream the people of nation x. are crying out for democracy we have to intervene and take their oil i mean help them but the earth shaking a large protest is in arab countries 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 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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