the price of war in iraq a little better and tells all see that after two suicide attempts he can't get over the only side of america's crusade for democracy. north korea's attraction that young embassies be accurate it leaves the international community and sure because the united states and tension. aren't taking advantage as china's new strain of bird flu kills six prompting mohsen poultry slaughter were investigated who could derive from big pond spreading heartache. international news and comment live from moscow this is our she was me here are hello and welcome to the program so it's been three years since the wiki leaks released a graphic video doubles the collateral murder showing u.s.

helicopters flying over a dozen iraqi civilians the incident showing the world and also left a mark on many american soldiers who witnessed the massacre and one of them has exclusively spoken to r.t. revisiting the tragic day he says destroyed his life. back to what it was the video that put wiki leaks on the map turned the tide of war in iraq and landed private first class bradley manning in military detention but for army veteran even mccord it was just another day on duty the helicopters are approximately about a mile and a half away. when they resume his goes. and from looking at american can't see anything. that right there is obviously a camera dangling. if you're to really pay attention. that guy has a k forty seven right there baghdad iraq two thousand and seven the two hundred

sixteenth battalion was out patrolling a volatile part of the city i was about five blocks away four or five blocks away to the. to the left of the screen this was a battalion wide mission and then the situation turned deadly. we heard the apaches fire and. ethan and his infantry squad began running toward the scene to provide support again the apache helicopter opened fire. when he arrived on the scene the apache guns were quiet the accused enemies were dead. one guy's head the top of his head was completely off and the brains were. on the ground and the smell this smell still haunts me. i don't even know how to describe it when he approached the van a noise even wasn't expecting a cry of a little girl and she was four years old. you could tell she had

a wound to the stomach and i remember looking at me in. the blood around her eyes made her eyes so ghostly why isn't grabs a girl and ran into a nearby building he then picks glass out of her eyes so she could blink and handed her off to a medic i went back outside and. i. was told to take pictures i started taking pictures of the inside of the van and that's when he discovered the little boy and that's me. and her. that is a little boy who i originally thought was dead despite their injuries the children survived but part of ethan changed forever that day but i couldn't stop myself from crying i couldn't stop myself from feeling the way that i was feeling when he did seek mental help he says he was mocked by his commanders and threatened with expulsion from the military when i started drinking and metal have given me

prescriptions thirteen prescriptions. geodon depakote. prozac and i was i was a zombie but things got worse it's darted daydreaming of killing my own children and then everybody around me so even took matters into his own hands i had already began drinking pretty heavily and. down all the pills and i drank a fifth of crown row ten o'clock in the morning and my wife at the time found me that was the first time even tried to take his own life after that he was dismissed from the army i was kicked out with no disability . no benefits from the army was whoever he returned to wichita and then even attempted suicide for a second time. i actually wrote

a poem right before i did it. up again in my mouth and. i don't know if i really want to talk about it. these ten story is tragic yes but he certainly isn't alone tens of thousands of military veterans suffer the effects of p.t.s.d. long after they leave the battlefield and for the also simply can't cope with the stress often times they choose to end their own lives their fathers and brothers sons and soldiers and now they're simply another times will see an american wars abroad in the past two years alone ethan has lost eight of his veteran brothers to suicide and his outlook on life hasn't improved with time i know that i will never ever ever get better i'll never get over this for the world the collateral murder video was just another black mark on an unpopular war for ethan it was

a catalyst that made him question the entire purpose of the iraq war america. john wayne you know we were the white house. americans are always out well we're going to try to help people that's all we did was try to spread freedom and democracy the barrel of a gun history will be the ultimate determinant of how the iraq war is viewed but for ethan and so many soldiers suffering from post war stress the future is far and the past is too much to cope with reporting from wichita kansas meghan lopez r.t. and more on this story of lies before collateral murder video is available on our web site. north korea has once again made the international community are wary of a possible conflict on the peninsula by suggesting that foreign embassies evacuated this stuff they warning follows reports that pyongyang placed to have its range

missiles on mobile launchers on the east coast in turn south korea and the u.s. moved interceptor missiles and warships to the region but such moves are increasingly pushing the north on their phones so says political writer and journalist don. 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 b. two bombers were used for the first time along be fifty to use an f. twenty two bombers so this military to military provocation from the us north korea feels rightly threaten the seen as happened to iraq to libya and so on it feels threatened knows it was under the overt explicit list of. the american government

some years ago and it needs to make for 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 as the world keeps a close eye on the bird flu break in china panic has already spread across neighboring countries six people have died so far out of the sixteen affected they get a fall from an epidemic or his case a pill there looks now at at who might hope to benefit from any but hype that. panic is already spreading across the globe over fears of a bird flu epidemic in china twenty thousand birds were slaughtered at one local market japan has health warnings on people coming into the country from china hong kong shares slumped in chinese airline stocks in an attempt to restrict travel vietnam bans poultry imports from china and taiwan it raises quarantine level

alerts while the u.s. and china are already looking into creating a vaccine for this specific type of bird flu drug producers are already poised to jump in produce a cure at a price of course now let's look at the example of the swine flu epidemic which cost the british taxpayer one point two billion dollars off of the government panicked and splashed out billions on vaccinations pharmaceutical giant black say smith kline secured a billion dollar contract from it making a billion dollars from vaccines alone last year i reality four hundred fifty seven people died from swine flu a third of which dive regular flu every year so while china battles with the flu drug companies are no doubt preparing for a multi billion dollar order. and political analyst and also william says panic is being spread and profits made before any research into 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 n nine virus electronically photographed to. detail the biological chemical characteristics of that i have seen no evidence that such as been done. in the numerous cases to just 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 on our c.n.n. dot com with god i don't mind but where you can have your say on the latest panic and say here's how the results loops right now so. just say the flu will provide

big companies to the press here so as to caution around a quarter say it's now was down to normal flu young shouldn't be high atop just under twenty percent twenty five it's dangerous and before it becomes an epidemic and only six percent of you feel the new virus will die in major economies but remained contained in the region so do have to own here at home and to give us your point. and this is also still ahead for you this hour the asian economic forum turns global with heads of state and business leaders from all over the world attending on mine so i'll see reports from china. around the world was

there a tension between israel and palestine sparks and advertisement tit for tat in new york. is is trying to get rid of. but it's also a treasure. it's worth fighting for. and the trap was no way out. choose your language. call it we could without any financial conversational some of that. choose to use the consensus get to. choose the

opinions that invigorating to. choose the stories could impact your life choose be access to your office. thank. you. thank you welcome this is darcy heads of state to business leaders and nobel prize winners have all gathered in china to discuss economic and other pressing global issues the twelth forum has already proven a truly global event this year once again bringing the world's attention to emerging nations ever growing economic clout and local correspondent alexander comes up reports now from china. when people hear it can only four of the first

thing that comes to mind is this no escaping doubles but this is not changing as the repertoires of the so-called asian tigers has shifted the focus east towards when it comes to the world's economic development established twelve years ago the ball forum had its main focus in asia but it's love the door open for other countries to join in the years later in two thousand and thirteen we have top ranking government officials and business leaders from all over europe and america attending the conference including bill gates christine lagarde george soros and the excitement is understandable as well america and europe have been dealing with a no go in economic recession china's trade wall in this skyrocketed for example the trade wall between brazil and china in two thousand and twelve alone has reached a whopping one thousand percent or seventy five billion u.s. dollars the same happened to other countries in the region they can china their number one trade partner the place previously occupied by the u.s.

on the top of that china and brazil have recently struck an agreement to ditch the u.s. dollar and trade in their own national currencies similar agreements have been made between china and russia and china and australia china's rise has certainly faced criticism and accusations of currency many feel lation from washington d.c. is the u.s. is feeling that is losing its position as the world's leading economy. but china consistently demonstrated its resilience in diplomacy and its independence in the economic decision making so the tropical island of may be nothing like the mighty slopes of switzerland but the economic agreements made here may send avalanches across the globe that are just as powerful. and of course for recovering the foreign for you throughout the next three days are now armed online here on alt. if you would believe economic forum for the big players who are shaping tomorrow's

global ecology while twenty thirteen the stakes are high today on our team billions of haydon dollars slashed and tax havens have been brought to light the international consortium of journalists have leaks a report exposing some well known public figures like france's president nicola. orlando i should say and other top politicians from around the world and margaret bergen green from financial advisory fran i.c.m. partners says popping whistleblower whistle blowing is becoming an effective trend . let's use france as an example if you look at what's going on there you have the president he's pushing for a seventy five percent tax on millionaires well some of his body's employees and close colleagues are keeping their money offshore so i think you almost have to rely on the sort of twenty first century vigilantes to really get good treatment for me sure it's easy to say one thing you know corporate billionaires and fat cats

and all of that it's another to actually see it in writing go two point five million accounts and see who's hiding what so i think you're going to see a furtherance of that kind of vigil and secondly it'll be interesting to see what happens in the euro zone most of all i mean you have riots in several countries right now from regular you know folks who are being asked to take their belts not just not take vacations but having trouble feeding their children meanwhile the leaders friends and like their colleagues are busy stashing their money away and not paying arguably their fair share of taxes i think it would be pretty devastating if something didn't come out of this. and as always and got more news for you online including exxon mobil has become has been named the winner of a safety award that's just find on going cleanup of states or oil spill in the u.s. state of our consorts o.o.c. dot com we've got the timeline on the disaster with more footage and background for

you. created with the help of three d. printers and ambition that may become reality after research has produced a device that creates synthetic tissue and could replace medicine in the future. europe's being alarmist does the russian president vladimir putin as he discusses new moves to monitor the nongovernmental organizations finest from abroad in an interview said german girl cost or the president signs the politically involved organizations operating nearly a billion dollars combined should follow russian rules peace will prevail over has the details. let amir putin face the questions from the german broadcaster in typically bullish manner he said there wouldn't be any kind of witch hunt against n.g.o.s operating within russia says that the russian president and new laws on non-governmental organizations operating within its borders the president pointing

out that there's six hundred and fifty four n.g.o.s currently operating in russia many of them dealing with the internal politics of russia and these new laws were in place to find out basically just where the cash that goes to finance these non-government organizations is coming from and just regarding how much that cash is it's around one billion u.s. dollars a year so they want to find out who is putting money into russia and where that's coming from. the law does not prohibit any thinks you know there's a limit close down anything to put organizations financed from abroad are not forbidden to carry out any type of activity including internal political ones the only thing we want to know is who receives money and where it goes i repeat are going to law is not some sort of innovation of our own the shockwave still being felt from cyprus is recent financial dire straits putin said this

going allegations that cyprus had become some kind of a laundry for dirty russian money but those making those allegations well they better have some pretty hard facts to back them up their will is that the people invested their funds merely deposited their money with banks without breaking any laws or whether the laws of cyprus are those of the european union you know just to see sixty percent of the posits forfeit that they did not violate any rules as to the allegations that cyprus was as they say in the financial community for dirty money they have to be supported with the hard facts but if we create that off shoes or no and we didn't it was the european union the we had the. rather it was created by the cypriot authorities with the approval of the european union well syria was a top were a major topic that was touched upon during this interview to me of putin saying let's end the hostilities must come from both sides in the conflict this is always

been russia's point to to find a solution to what's going on in syria he also touched on the point of what's always said that russia is arming a sad blow to me uproot he said there's no law that makes us illegal to there's no law stopping the doing of business with a legitimate government which the assad government still remains however what there are laws against is arming our military groups the recent past three point five tons of missions and weapons have been given to the opposition fighters in syria by outside forces now there are laws against that serious international law and he said that that must stop and you can log on to r.t. dot com for a full transcript of the interview and find out what legend putin has to say about other pressing global issues. u.s. secretary of state john kerry's do in

a zero hoping to restart peace talks between tel aviv and ramallah this follows renewed turbulence between israel and palestine sponsored by the death of a former house member in his reign of custody and. now finds out the ever high tensions in the middle east have spilled over into a full on propaganda war in america. the international community continue searching for the best powers to a middle east peace agreement the issue has sparked a contentious ad war in new york are proposed to me in group recently unveiled an ad campaign that calls on the us to stop sending three billion dollars in aid to israel every year the poster compares israel's policies to the south african apartheid and also includes a quote from doesn't into two who led the fight against the apartheid now this campaign is being sponsored by the american muslims for palestine national grassroots advocacy group now in the meantime grow is really

a group called the american freedom defense initiative is planning to fire back with a campaign depicting what it calls its apartheid counter ads which have already been submitted to transit officials for approval show the image of two blindfolded iranian men getting wrapped with nooses the caption below reads under islamic law shari'a another ad shows a woman dressed in a white burka getting whipped and there the caption reads under islamic law rape victims are tortured or killed unless they agree to marry their rapist now last year the american freedom defense initiative sponsored an ad campaign that compared muslims to savages those viewed in new york city's subway stations jewish organizations in the majority of new yorkers criticize that campaign as. a tone of speech that does nothing to assist in cementing a permanent peace plan in the middle east reporting from new york marina r.t.

. some other news making headlines around the globe. and the construction building in the indian city of mumbai collapse has now reached sixty two official say over seventy have also been injured rescue workers transfer of a massive pile of debris all the hopes are diminishing of finding any survivors. right president has refused to apologize after apparently being caught on microphone calling his counterpart from argentina a lot on t.v. i have filed a protest against their neighbor where he is thought to be critical of christine a recent meeting with the new argentinean. now with the latest eurozone crisis seemingly resolved in cyprus the spotlight has shifted towards the blocs third largest economy submerged in recessions in twenty eleven italy also remains in a political stalemate after the latest election five weeks ago failed to result in a coalition government and result he is really going to their certainty is putting the future of the euro in a fresh perspective. i country with a glorious past and

a very uncertain future the word crisis has been used so often in recent years with an e.u. nations that it may have lost all meaning but recent elections in italy have shown a total collapse of mario monti's austerity measures which were supposed to yank the country out of the economic hole yet didn't achieve much other than create division and uncertainty right there everybody understands the deep crisis and the. proposition. two trillion euro that's the amount of italy's national debt threatening to force entire cities to declare bankruptcy tax hikes pay cuts sporadic corruption scandals and youth unemployment at over thirty percent these are the top of the list of reasons italians say they have lost faith in country's politicians and that is largely wife february's elections were described as

a victory for better agree loz five star party a movement which positions itself against everything italian politicians have done or said in the last two decades italy is european union's third strongest economy in the us any small storm in the country may put tend a tempest for europe putting the future of the euro at stake and if in italy. god for instance this will influence the european politics some analysts say the e.u. states may share common currency and enjoy open borders their attitude towards one another is infused with discord for the moment it has been yes. well we could do a much much more you know by agreeing among countries on the financial. with disparagingly called peaks. it's not pigs it's it's financial attack and it's a private attack italians headed to the polling stations desperate for

a leader who could bring back stability and prosperity the nation once enjoyed but the results seemed to show unity only in the resoundingly no to this there is measures put in place by mario monti begging the question just what kind of future is in store for the eurozone. in rome even. next report on the lives of palestinian families are right next to an israeli waste facility. 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 hopeful

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 as capital 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 guard less the. loves to educate the world about democracy and show the liberal values around and yet that doesn't really seem to listen to the citizens very much who want to stop the madness of waves of illegal immigrants bailing out members on the times of other nations and for focusing the union's national attention on social issues like gay marriage instead of creating jobs to the e.u. officials out there who claim to believe in democracy maybe it's about time you actually try you know listening to a few voices who disagree with you before you keep promoting policies against possibly the will of the majority of the shust my opinion.

that's how our life was. east and west. and. i'm a little boy they won't hurt me.