north korea warns all foreign embassies in pyongyang to evacuate so i think critical tension and risk to the regime there reportedly ordered another missile to be primed in the face of encroaching american and south korean jets and warships. and enlarge of the escalating muscle flexing between north korea and the u.s. britain says it needs a better nuclear arsenal citing a threat which critics believe doesn't exist. billions repeal the president's international celebrities and captains of industry are implicated in a mammoth task tax avoidance scheme laid bare by millions of miles from the british virgin islands. also this hour the u.n. suspends food handouts in gaza or off the breaks out of its local headquarters leaves thousands of palestinians in the occupied territories without any aid whatsoever. thousands of slaughtered poultry markets closed down and.

fears caused by six bird flu deaths in china we investigate whether the panic is being blown out of all proportion. this is r t with you twenty four hours a day. north korea has asked for an embassy in pyongyang to evacuate in light of the rising tensions and risks on the peninsula it follows reports the north had armed a second but listed missile with an unknown payload on the east coast of the country washington and south korea meanwhile say they're taking all precautions dispatching more ships and missile systems towards the north ortiz lucy coming off has the

details. with tensions on the korean peninsula escalating we do have confirmation that north korea has asked for an 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 to 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. 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 are 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 a war this as these kinds of tensions have been forced taken place in the past and

diplomat. simply looking at this as rhetoric as opposed to actual potential of conflict although we should of course mention that the united states had deployed military assets to the region and it certainly didn't help but these tensions were last week the americans and the south koreans have held a joint drills in many ways. of course we'll have to keep a close eye on the situation as it develops but so far we do have confirmation that the staff have of course been asked to evacuate but no confirmation yet whether any embassy will actually take them on their suggestion and. going on the offensive. defensive tactic political writer and journalist dan glazebrook believes north korea is using. north korea's. whole intention is to show its willingness preparedness to defend itself should war should war be launched upon it of course the every year we have these massive provocations of joint u.s.

and south korean war games exercises right on the borders of north korea this year the provocations were stepped up to actually simulate mutely a missile attack on north korea be two bombers were used for the first time along the fifty two is an f. twenty two bombers so this military to military provocation from the u.s. north korea feels rightly threaten the scene must happen to iraq to libya and so on it feels threatened knows it was on the overt explicit list of. the american government some music go. to make very clear that it will not tolerate any kind of infringement of its sovereignty any attack and this is what all of this is about is to show that it's willing to defend itself north korea also features in today's breaking the said martin explores who gains from provoking the communist state to the brink of war. the war rhetoric high level north korean officials is not letting

up and as a result the u.s. announced that in a precautionary move they'll be speeding up the deployment of advanced missile system defense to the region in the next few weeks this following a series of u.s. training exercises in south korea as a show of military straight including saying b. two stealth bombers each of which cost taxpayers more than three billion dollars but wait before you run for your bunkers support understand the legitimacy of these threats and the context of why they're happening in the first place. where you are going to be like. breaking the set coming away a little later here. britain is looking to pull billions of pounds into cementing security by renewing its submarine base nuclear deterrent the country's prime minister a saudi what he calls the evolving atomic threat from north korea which is topping the headlines with this anti american drive the conservatives are seeking

a like for like replacement of the outdated trident fleet members of a coalition partners the liberal democrats and the opposition labor party however voicing objections to this plan jeremy corbin i spoke to middle aged he's a british labor m.p. and 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 we tried and system with a new even more expensive system is not taking steps towards disarmament i want to see a more peaceful world i do not believe that nuclear rearmament will bring that about

. north korea's rhetoric has dragged attention away from another nuclear power iran for later the report on where international efforts to diffuse what some see as the dangerous atomic potential of tehran currently standing. also still to come for you hungry for humane treatment no food strike among inmates brings attention back to the controversial prison and america's continued use of it as a human rights black called. all that still to come for you but 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 leaked 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 the guards were silly has more on the leak just who's behind it. let's just look at the actual league

we're talking about two hundred sixty jigga bytes of documents or 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 a chinese business partner and to knowledge that he has offshore investments also and this is a embarrassment afonso alone because for us a lot is so staunchly against a clamping down on tax savings also we've seen a number of the politicians saying that they may already be thinking of leaving their posts 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 with this. 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 governments or legal systems in place around the world when it comes to clumping down or are looking for transparency and governance pursuing those values of course and 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 the 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. because the u.n. has suspended food distribution in gaza for a violent protest at its local headquarters this is the fountains of promise to living in an area blockaded by israel without humanitarian aid very fear has more from the region while 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 it emergency monetary handouts to some of the most poor families in these refugees protested on several occasions across the gaza strip united nations aid distribution depots. is there has been

a very pronounced increase in these sorts of protest 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 process this elevator's sense of insecurity the united nations felt meant that it has basically decided to feeling in secure stop all aid distribution at all of its twelve distribution centers across the gaza strip 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 destruction

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 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 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 even prolonged. a restriction that say will definitely have a very very severe humanitarian effect on at least thousands of palestinians. how

the fear that a saudi cleric gives syrian rebels a license to rape a video address posted online he says it's a legitimate front foot jihadist find is to sexually assault any woman from a different religion i've got more on the story in just a couple of minutes stay with us.

for about international and in the very heart of moscow. news continues here on r.t. two months without food but still retaining a good appetite for justice the hunger strike among prisoners has managed to bring the issue of human rights and america's anti terror of facility back into the

spotlight the un human rights chief has called for the prisons closure while uncomfortable questions are being french awards the u.s. state department. looks into whether officials they're 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 strike has asked a delegation to visit this detainee when a journalist asked if they're new and about how things were with 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 ming garza 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 so all of the battlefield of course rudiment one of them oh look for oil but we're certainly going to respect his right not to sue the russian. not to sue the 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 further excessive weight of their conditions and lead to health problems with their kidneys or in areas systems and stomachs in addition the prisoners claimed 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. jonathan have hits who's

a professor at the seton hall university school of law and represented a number of guantanamo inmates says it will be some time before the strike achieves anything i think the more pressure may force the us 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 when you have to really kind of tie yourself in knots to do so. an oil spill has swamped a small town in arkansas or in america sparking fears for the health of local

residents find out on r.t. don't calm white the state's attorney general spoke of the area as a scene out of the walking dead. and read and original memo online to find out who was doing the utmost to destabilize the former venezuelan president hugo chavez and tip him out of power all that and more on our website. a salafi cleric has issued a fatwa online allowing worries of jihad in syria to rape norm sunni 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 dialogue dr young has told me 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 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 our front or al qaeda 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 enrichment e.u. nations open up by saying they were ready to accept iran's right to atomic energy so long as they were given guarantees that weapons were off the table negotiating is said to have offered to run a proposal on production and enrichment to which they are still waiting but iran has its own conditions ones that there are still a lot of questions about according to russian officials as for sanctions dr mohammad hassan carney who's a professor of international relations at the university of tehran told us that

they had minimal negotiating affect. some sense of how i'm looking at a lot of people at the new war but they are not crippling your opinion as managed to find all of these and remember that science is out there. seventy nine. do you got your story and now you know how to cope well it's all or how seeking a solution because they want to just how and now it's your obligation soon with their stuff to warn including the looting of the united states i think now that the stars are just. bridging the gap between the two sides and of course it's not going to happen overnight it takes time but what i can see it from today's devotion is the fact that all sides are now ready and all the side of the truth that they want a. peaceful solution this is very important. bird flu pandemic is spreading across

china and its neighboring countries many thousands of poultry being 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 new flu strain on thomas has more on the virus and 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 corn 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 and 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 already there 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 mentioned for the first time in the news

twenty seven first confirmed deaths from that time until may third the swine flu was 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. 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 a 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 regular flu so given these small numbers looks like a lot of hype over nothing chip political analysts women doll the 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 the world health organization the c.d.c.

in atlanta or any health organization in the world isolated an h seven n nine virus electronically photographed. detailed be biological chemical characteristics of that i've seen no evidence has been done and done in numerous cases to the reproducibility about so i think we're getting to a lot of hype over nothing it's interesting that the v h o again is recommending tamiflu company that donald rumsfeld has a huge personal interest in. on r.t. dot com we've got an online vote where you can tell us what you think about this current flu panic and the results here this hour on screen for you this is the vote on our home page altie dot com half of those who voted so far say the flu will provide big pharmaceutical companies with opportunities to cash in around a quarter say it's no worse than

a normal flu and really shouldn't be hyped up we can see that many think it is dangerous and must be curbed before it becomes an epidemic that's eighteen percent and six percent of you the minority think that this could have an economic impact it could damage asian economies but still remain contained in the region those are your thoughts of the moment. you get to hear from me. now regulating the world's lucrative trade as prescribed by the un comes on the next in cross talk and i'll be back with more news with the team in half an hour from now stay with us in moscow. what if one third of the population of the capital city of a small arab country took to the streets and. well 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 shove its 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. down the. stream quality. favorite. if you're away from your television. with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. any time anyway. the subs.