evacuate critical tension and risk to the regime there reportedly ordered another ballistic missile to be primed in the face of encroaching american and south korean jets and warships. between north korea and the u.s. britain says it needs a better nuclear arsenal citing a threat which critics believe doesn't exist. president's international celebrities and captains of industry implicated in a tax avoidance scheme made by millions of leaked e-mails from the british virgin islands. bird flu link in china we investigate whether the panic is being blown out of proportion to top stories.

from our new center here in moscow this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day. north korea has. to evacuate in light of the rising tensions and the risks on the peninsula it follows reports the north a second but a state missile with an unknown payload on the east coast of the country washington and south korea meanwhile say that taking all precautions dispatching more ships and missile systems towards the north. has the details. with tensions on the korean peninsula escalating we do have confirmation that north korea has asked foreign embassies to evacuate their staff from pyongyang in the event of an emergency saying at least to the british embassy that the north koreans will not be able to

guarantee the safety of staff the embassy staff there in the event of conflict following april tenth it certainly is a tense situation there although we've heard from diplomats saying that the tensions on the ground within the north korean capital were rather calm at the moment what we know from russian foreign minister sergey lavrov is that the russians are currently considering the proposal but there's been no decision made as of yet whether to actually evacuate the staff we know that the russians are in close contact with other allies in the region and let's take a listen to actually what the russian foreign minister had told r.t. when asked about his worries in this rather tense situation because you are in close contact with the chinese american and regional partners who are highly concerned about the build up of tension which is so far been verbal we're trying to understand why we've been asked to evacuate and whether it's in order or just

advice for you so as as you can see there the staff are still considering this proposal this has been of course a rather tense situation north korea has said that nuclear conflict could break up at any time on the korean peninsula and really what has been an escalating war of words over the past month we do know as you mentioned least according to south korean press the north koreans had moved to intermediary range missiles sort of getting them ready for a potential conflict but at this point no one at least in the diplomatic community really believes that this could lead to an all out break of war this as these kinds of tensions have of course taken place in the past and diplomat. at this moment. looking at this. conflict we should. the united states deployed military assets to the region and it certainly didn't.

have held joint drills in many ways. as it develops but. no confirmation yet whether any embassy will actually take that suggestion and. billions of pounds into cementing security renewing its nuclear deterrent the country's prime minister what he calls the evolving atomic threat from north korea . which is topping the headlines north korea is topping the headlines with this american drawing the conservatives are seeking a like replacement of the trident fleet and. the liberal democrats. are voicing objections to this plan jeremy coleman is a british labor m.p. i spoke to him earlier he explains why. hundred billion pounds on

a new nuclear missile system at a time when austerity is the order of the day in britain with cuts in public services redundancies and rising unemployment is not a sensible use of money the claim that it makes britain more secure is really simply not credible the on that argument every country in the world with nuclear weapons we signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty when it first came around as one of the five declared nuclear weapon states they are all required to take steps towards disarmament replacing be tried and system with a new even more expensive system is not taking steps towards disarmament i want to see a more peaceful world but i do not believe that nuclear rearmament will bring that about. north korea's rhetoric has dragged attention away from another nuclear power iran later this hour report on where international efforts to diffuse what some see as the dangerous atomic potential of tehran currently stand. and hungry

for humane treatment for no food strike among one time or inmates brings attention back to the controversial prison and america's continued use of it as a human rights black hole. or that still to come the first part of the trillions of dollars hidden in tax havens by the world's most powerful and influential figures could soon be a matter of public knowledge the e-mails about stashed money in the british virgin islands has already implicated the friends of french president francois hollande american politicians entire arab ruling families and oligarchs artie's test recently has more orderly just his behind it. let's just look at the actual leak we're talking about two hundred sixty jigga bytes of documents here two million e-mails and about one hundred thirty thousand people from one hundred seventy countries could be implicated in this massive leak this information was passed to the a washington based international consortium of investigative journalists in collaboration

with the u.k. the guardian newspaper and other media information was given by an anonymous whistleblower now already this has really caused a lot of effects we're talking about a money stashed in the british virgin islands and you know it's not illegal to set up a company in the british virgin islands there are a mammoth of reasons why you could be doing so personal reasons to keep your wealth discreet however where when we're talking about possible criminal offenses such as tax evasion or tax avoidance that certainly would be coming to light and already there's been some embarrassment we're looking at the front wall and close friend for example also his campaign manager during the presidential elections and now he had been forced to to reveal his in the name of his chinese business partner and to knowledge that he has offshore investments also and this is an investment afonso along because a lot is so staunchly against clamping down on tax savings also we've seen a number of a politician saying that they may already be thinking of leaving their post because

of this investigation we see russian oligarchs names public public officials from the u.s. from the u.k. basically around the world now what does this all mean it's really interesting to see that we've seen a slew of whistleblowers or citizen journalists making use of technology to reveal important information and in fact it has really proven a bit more effective if you will than the government or legal systems in place around the world when it comes to clamping down or looking for transparency and governance pursuing those values of course of revealing information we have to acknowledge that it is a double edged sword however when it comes to really going after those in high positions. who may have been hiding information that should be made known and should be criminally or publicly liable the rules of the game has certainly changed with this way of technology and whistleblowers and leaks of information and the what they thought they could hide forever from public view may not be the case anymore as a city of. cleric cleric gives syrian rebels

a license to rape in a video address posted online he says it's a legitimate jihadist fighters to sexually assault any woman from a different religion we've got more on that story for you in just a few minutes from now. the u.n. has suspended food distribution in gaza following violent protests at one of its distribution outlets this is left thousands of palestinians living in an area blockaded by israel without humanitarian aid. joins us live or i should say harry fear joins us now live from the region with more. apologies for that i can see you there it is definitely you now tell us can you detail for is exactly what has happened here. well this story started when the united nations relief and works agency decided last month in march to cut back on

financial aid payouts they call that emergency monetary handouts to some of the most poor families in gaza as you know the gaza strip is under as you said a besiegement program by israel with egyptian complicity in collaboration this territory is already economically suffocated as it is the united nations relief and works agency on room for short helps most palestinians in gaza an estimated two thirds of the population about one point two million. among it services a medical provision medical. centers food and these money tree hand and also educational provision as well now last month this decision to cut back on the monetary handouts to some of the poorest families thousands of families. these refugees from nine hundred forty eight the war nine hundred forty eight the creation of israel and also the six day war in one hundred

sixty seven these refugees protested on several occasions across the gaza strip united nations aid distribution depots what's happened in the last week is there's been a very pronounced increase in these sorts of protests meaning that yesterday there was a protest of hundreds of palestinians including women and children and men of course at the united nations headquarters in gaza city now we understand from eyewitnesses that about a couple of dozen men tried to trespass on to the headquarters of the united nations here in gaza and united nations security personnel and hamas the government here the police force also managed to stop the riot and the protest but this elevated sense of insecurity the united nations felt meant that it has basically decided to feeling in secure stop all. distribution at all of its twelve distribution centers across the gaza strip now this obviously puts the refugees

into an increased position of insecurity and in what way could this suspension or all of food aid actually hurt the people in need of this now while it is actually and potentially in the future now hamas the government here has condemned the decision saying it's unjustified and immediate rethink some of the protesters have said that they will continue to protest and cause noise potentially disruption again the point here is that immediately today when the decision to close the centers was exacted thousands will be affected every day it provides food aid to twenty five thousand palestinian refugees the point here is that if they continue to feel insecure going forward the provision will be that the lack of provision of food aid will be prolonged further suffocating the refugee

population economically speaking now the point here is according to owner itself. more than sixty percent of the population of gaza not the refugees or the poorest but all of the population of gaza more than sixty percent are vulnerable to food insecurity even after the owner aid food provision so the point is that already the benchmark is so severe that any temporary or even prolonged. restriction that say will definitely have a very very severe humanitarian effect on at least thousands of palestinians and briefly the possibility of violent protests in response to this. well i believe that hamas will try to stop any riots and try and quell indeed any protests to ensure that this. suspension is not prolonged it's certainly not in the interest of a mass to be seen as not properly protecting and securing the most important aid

agency in gaza which affects so many so much of the population so hopefully this will be resolved in a matter of days kerry thanks a lot for that very fair live in gaza. two months without food but still retaining a good appetite for justice the hunger strike among guantanamo prisoners has managed to bring the issue of human rights and america's anti terror facility back into the spotlight the un human rights chief has called for the prisons closure while uncomfortable questions are being thrown towards the u.s. state department ortiz alexy looks into whether officials there are prepared to answer them. a russian citizen of one thousand or more. of the man who spent eleven years in the prison for his alleged links to al qaeda and russia haven't been concerned with the situation right now in the prison with the hunger strikers asked a delegation to visit this detainee when

a journalist asked if they were new and about how things were with him in gaza from the state of situation there was a very interesting exchange between the state department's spokesperson and the journalist let's have a listen mr mingles of has refused through his own legal counsel to meet with any russian delegation we've conveyed that to the russians so we're not able to facilitate the interview that they requested because we have a longstanding policy of not forcing such interviews if they're not voluntary so it's ok to watch them all off the battlefield of course rudiment one of the most would look for oil but we're certainly going to respect his right not to see the russian. pursuit of russian delegation we have when work is interesting which wrote to you we have been we have been working hard as you know to. meet international humanitarian law standards at guantanamo including the right to refuse visits by

individuals victoria nuland went on to say that the invitation for the russian delegation to visit guantanamo still stands but the russian foreign minister says he knows nothing about this invitation the majority of the one hundred sixty six detainees at guantanamo have been held without any charges for nearly eleven years more than half of those eighty nine have actually been cleared for release but the authorities failed to either send them home or close the facility altogether has led to the current act of ultimate desperation with one hundred thirty inmates now on the hunger strike according to lawyers at least three people have already been hospitalized and almost a dozen are being forced fed through a tube. but the authorities who worry about inmates right to accept or reject a meeting with the country's delegation seem to be taking no action at all to bring this protest that could turn fatal to an end instead camp officials have been already pressuring detainees to end the hunger strike by methods criticized by human rights watch dogs worldwide hunger strikers have complained of being denied

drinking water and being forced to drink from the tap lawyer say that they for the excessive weight of their conditions and lead to health problems with their kidneys their own areas systems and stomachs in addition the prisoners claim to temperatures in their cells were being kept extremely cold so you can see for yourself whether these facts actually correspond with what the state department spokesperson said at the press conference about respecting inmates rights doesn't have had suz a professor at the seton hall university school of law respectability and represented a number of gun to the inmates he says it'll be some time before the strike achieves anything forced the u.s. to respond it may not come right away but i think that the pressure triggered from the hunger strikes and the international attention of the statement by the u.n. i think may have an effect over time i think that it's going to force the united states to realize that it just can't simply ignore what zach want on a mo and that at some point it's going to have to come to grips with the fact that

you know these these men are being imprisoned year after year without charges and you know more and more and more are in fact in jail and i think it's very difficult to. be able to justify this and you have to really kind of tie yourself in knots to do so this is all to live here in moscow more news after this short break. that's a meteorite only. ten thousand tons per told through space towards russia. with the power. of a nuclear. city

open sky full on r.t. . the international airport in the very heart of moscow. he's continues how naughty a salafi cleric has issued a fatwa online allowing warriors of jihad in syria to rape funny women human rights

groups have already dubbed the situation in the country a rape crisis with both sides of the conflict being accused of sexual assault syrian academic a member of the syrian dollars dr abdullah told me earlier that he thinks that rape has become one of the weapons in the conflict. those who are committing the war crimes and the. and the child abuse and and and the rapes on the ground are the very same tools that the opposition is using the opposition on the ground has house militants so called a or so-called free syrian army as well as those who fight under the umbrella of front. or other similar affiliations those are the tools who are committing these atrocities and if they are to be condemned by the opposition it means that they are condemning their own tools. a second round of talks over iran's nuclear program has begun to a somewhat slow start the sticking point being you rainy and enrichment the e.u.'s

negotiators are said to have offered iran a proposal to which they're still awaiting an answer but iran has its own conditions ones that there are still a lot of questions about according to russian officials first assad mohammad marandi from the university of tehran explains why iran is sticking to its guns. that demand so basically. they run against iran's sovereignty and iran's independence. both individuals and nations they are innocent until proven guilty the iranians. have been open to the i.a.e.a. the iranians actually halted nuclear enrichment enrichment for about two years they . allowed that this one of protocol to be implemented in iran for extra inspections and inside that you run. it in half to allow them into for those two years and there was no evidence at all ever found that iran's nuclear

program was anything but peaceful. u.k. based business is set to make a one billion dollar investment in energy to buying a russian company that owns enough gas to fill nearly seven million olympic sized swimming pools and almost two hundred million tons of oil reserves the details for you right now at r.t. dot com. and he did his best to destabilize former venezuelan president hugo chavez and trip tip him out of power it's all spelled out in the original memo you can find on our website. dot com. bird flu panic is spreading across china and its neighboring countries many thousands of poultry have been slaughtered and markets are being closed down to prevent the spread of the virus six people have died so far out of the fourteen infected raising the alarm over a possible break of the flu strain already shown thomas has more on the virus on the panic. there is evidence of a localized type or panic specifically regarding the h seven n nine strain of the

flu virus if you look at what's happening in china twenty thousand birds slaughtered from one market there from a place where the birds tested positive live birds tested positive in hong kong the stock market shares dropped particularly in relation to chinese airline companies because they want to restrict travel vietnam bans poultry imports from china japan puts health posters up at points of entry from people coming from china taiwan raises the corteen level alert and us in canada they decide that they're going to move to develop vaccines specifically for the h seven n nine virus just to be on the ready now all of these moves are localized it's not coming from the world health organization in fact of the world health organization on the other hand they are saying they want a more measured watchful response in fact they are saying they're not going to be mass producing any vaccines they're not going to be making recommendations for

trade restrictions and they are not recommending special screenings for one thing if they stop what they're doing and do you know this h seven n nine vaccine then they're going to have to put regular flu vaccinations on hold and they're also pointing out that there's no evidence of the disease spreading easily between people in that you actually have to have contact with the disease burden or to contract that so here's where it gets interesting leading vaccine companies the top three where the money is being made and where it gets controversial they're all into reading they're saying hey we want to do this we want to make sure that this happens let's go through the swine flu back in two thousand and nine first case in mexico march seventeenth april fifth epidemic mention for the first time in the news twenty seven first confirmed deaths from that time until may third the swine flu is the most covered story then from may each day new countries getting on the bandwagon and if you break it down back in the thirtieth of june forty million expired doses had to to be. droid of a us order of two hundred fifty one million doses that was eighteen billion dollars

of profits for the drug companies made in just the course of a few months to put this in perspective the c.d.c. says that the united states country of three hundred fourteen million about thirty six thousand deaths from the regular from the flu so given these small numbers looks like a lot of hype over nothing geo political analysts william and ali author of the book seeds of destruction the hidden agenda of genetic manipulation says panic is being spread and profits made before any research on the virus has been completed i think the fundamental thing is has the world health organization the c.d.c. in atlanta or any health organization in the world isolated an h seven and nine iris electronically photographed and detailed the biological chemical characteristics of that i have seen no evidence but it's been done and done in numerous cases to see the reproducibility about us so i think we're getting to

a lot of hype over nothing it's interesting that the b.h.o. again is recommending tamiflu a company that donald rumsfeld has a huge personal interest in. and we also want to hear from you of course all the issues of the day and today we're asking you what you think about this flu panic that's the question we're posing on our home page on all of the responses so far we can see that forty seven percent believe that this is a chance for the big pharmaceutical companies to cash in also we see that twenty eight percent nearly a third of you say that just the flu and that's all it is it shouldn't be. just the sort of flu that people get every year dangerous it could be ninety percent and it's going to be contained shortly must not spread into epidemic and finally be minorities six percent believe that this could have an economic. economies in china

but actually stay in the region and not spread anywhere else as of the thoughts we're getting from you at the moment on the website. good to hear from you stay with us we're coming to you live from the russian capital the business news with katie is next. what if one third of the population of the capital city of a small arab country took to the streets in protest while the mainstream media would scream the people of nation x. are crying out for democracy we have to intervene and take their oil i mean help them but the earth shaking a large protest is an arab country it's in paris france and for traditional marriage yes protesters in paris claim that they had eight hundred thousand people

on the streets of france'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 guard less the european union loves to educate the world about democracy and show the liberal value. 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 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 of the show just my opinion.

so choose your life stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. i welcome to visit me in this friday evening sky now the cyprus banking crisis has put the spotlight on off show accounts but much like what he links expose sensitive government data financial organization has published the one hundred thirty thousand companies from the wild numerous individuals are also on the list now.