there's the brains. and the smell the smell still runs from. an eyewitness to the notorious civilian mass slaughter by u.s. troops in iraq which was caught on video tells r.t. that taking part in the campaign left his own life in utter ruin. north korea suggestion that pyongyang and this is be evacuated leaves the international community on shore because of its state's intentions. last taking advantage of china's new train but through till six prompting months poultry slaughter the investigator who could thrive from the fast spreading panic that.

international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. with me your leisure above all of a hello and a very well welcome to the program. it's been three years since we could legs release the graphic video dubs the collateral murder showing us helicopters flying over a dozen iraqi civilians they've been 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.c. revisiting the tragic day he says destroyed his life. by the way 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 ethan mccord it was just another day on duty the helicopters are approximately about a mile and a half away. when they resume in these guys. and from looking at it now

you can't see anything. that right there is obviously a camera dangling. if you're to really pay attention. for that guy has a k forty seven right there that i doubt 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 firing. ethan and his infantry squad it 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 so.

i don't even know how to describe it when he approached the van a noisy thing 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. remember looking at me and. the blood around her eyes made her eyes so ghostly why isn't grabbed 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. 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. that is a little boy who i originally thought was 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 started daydreaming of killing my own children and everybody around me so even took matters into his own hands i had already began drinking pretty heavily. and. i had 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 ethan tried to take his own

life after that he was dismissed from the army i was kicked out with no disability and. 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 before i did it. up with a gun in my mouth and. i don't know if i really want to talk about it. these ten story is tragic but he certainly isn't alone tens of thousands of military veteran 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 of 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 plus the full collateral murder video is available on our website dot com. north korea has once again made the international community

wary of a possible conflict on the peninsula by suggesting that foreign embassies evacuates to stop the warning follows reports the place to have its mid range missiles and mobile launchers on the east coast in turn south korea and the two us moved interceptor missiles and warships to the region but such moves are increasingly pushing the north and defensive so it's political writer and journalist douglas prig. north korea's hol intention is to show its willingness repaired menace 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 scene what's happened to iraq to libya and so on it feels threatened knows it was on the 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 break in china panic has already spread across neighboring countries six people have died so far out of this sixteen infected think that's far from an epidemic on his case a pill that looks now at who might hope to benefit from any bird flu hi pat. 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 pounds poultry imports from china and taiwan 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 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 we've gone to an online poll for you where you can have your say on the latest panic and here's how the results are right now. those who voted say the flu will provide big pharmaceutical companies with opportunities to cash in around a quarter say as snow was than a normal flu gun shouldn't be hyped up twenty percent believe was dangerous and most big before it becomes an epidemic and only five percent of you feel the new virus will down the asian economies but to remain contained contained in the region so due out to all to dot com and give us your he.

will see live from moscow still ahead for you this hour the asian economic forum tows global with heads of state and business leaders from all over the world attending. the ripples from china. awas the escalating tension between israel and palestine sparks an advertisement it's full time to new york that's just ahead after the break. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew. our market was a big. international

that in the very heart of moscow. this is all see coming to life in moscow welcome back heads of state to business

leaders and nobel prize winners have all gathered in china to discuss economic and other pressing global issues the twelve zero hour forum has already proven a truly global events this year once again bringing the world's attention to emerging nations have a growing economic clout and local correspondent alexander reports from china. when people hear it can always forum the first thing that comes to mind is this no escape in 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 left 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 ball in his 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 nine 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 we're recovering therefore i for you throughout the next three days on and online. 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 dollars stashed in tax havens have been brought to light the international consortium of journalists leaks a report exposing offshore ties of some well known corporations and high profile figures such as the election campaign treasurer for france's president on land and margaret brogan green from financial advisory a.c.m. partners says a fox pact whistleblowing has become an effective trend. let's use france as an example if you look at what's going on there you have the president is pushing for

a seventy five percent tax on millionaires well some of his body 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 the true information 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 further ends of that kind of vigilante 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 it. and always have more news

for you online including exxon mobil has been named as the winner of a safety award that despite the ongoing cleanup operation of plates or oil spill in the u.s. state of arkansas dot com we've got a timeline of the disaster with more footage and background. i want to tell you why creating human organs using a three d. printer could replace traditional medicine in the near future. europe is being alarmist that's the view of russian president vladimir putin as he discusses new laws to monitor non-governmental organizations finest from abroad in an interview to a german broadcaster the president says the politically involved organizations operating nearly a billion dollars combined should follow russian laws and his peace owner has the details. let amir putin face the questions from the german broadcaster in typically bullish manner he said that there wouldn't be any kind of witch hunt against

n.g.o.s operating within russia this is after russia and poland had new laws on non-governmental organizations operating within its borders the president pointing out that there's six hundred 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 anything nor does it limit or close down anything else or to put organizations financed from abroad or not forbid them 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 cypresses recent financial dire straits putin said this going allegations that cyprus has become some kind of laundry for the russian money that those making those allegations well they better have some pretty hard facts to back them up their will is that fair that people invested their funds mainly deposit 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 their deposits 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 hard facts about this because we create that off sure you know 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 while syria was a top were

a major topic that was touched upon during this interview to me of putin saying that an end to 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 putin said there's no laws anywhere that would make darts illegal to assad 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 paramilitary groups the recent past three point five tons of munitions 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 along going to r.t.

dot com for a full transcript of the interview and find out what my depression had to say about other pressing global issues. u.s. secretary of state john kerry's do and israel 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 israeli custody and. 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 path to a middle east peace agreement the issue has sparked a contentious war in new york are purple a sunni and 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 dozen to 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 really a group called the american freedom defense initiative is planning to fire back with a campaign depicting what it calls. apartheid the 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 gate under islamic law shari'a another ad shows a woman dressed in a white burqa getting whipped and there the caption reads under islamic law rape victims are tortured or killed unless they agree to marry their rapist no 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 hate speech

the 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. . other world news this hour. an enigma constructed a building in the indian city of mumbai collapsed has now reached seventy two officials say over seventy have also been injured rescue workers asuncion through the massive pile of debris all the hopes are diminishing of finding any survivors. wise president has refused to apologize after apparently being caught on microphone calling his counterpart from argentina an old hog argentina have filed a protest against their neighbor and. is thought to be critical of christine a recent meeting with the new argentinean. was the latest eurozone crisis seemingly resolved in cyprus this part white house shifted towards the blogs the third largest economy submerged in recession since twenty eleven peacefully

also remains in a political stalemate after the latest election final weeks ago failed to result in a coalition government and. reports there's certainties pushing the future of the euro in a fresh perspective. a 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 pretend a tempest for europe putting the future of the euro at stake you for in italy. well he got the sense this will influence him to leave 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 about 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 series of measures put in place by mario monti begging the question just what kind of future is in store for the eurozone. in rome even. to my colleague shays here with more news for you in about fifteen minutes next that it's breaking the.

what if one third of the population of a capital city of a small arab country took to the streets in protest while the mainstream media would scream the people of nation x. are crying out for democracy we have to intervene and take their oil i mean help them but the earth shaking a large protest 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 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 who disagree with you before you keep promoting policies against possibly the will of the majority but that's just my opinion. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how bad the less and less. i mean . i know that i'm still really messed up. in the all series so closely. it's. worse for the food. white house or for the. radio guy and for a minute. what. we're about to give you never seen anything like this

i'm so. happy friday everyone with all the stereo but in the nuclear war with north korea i think it's important that our leaders are keeping a cool head about it take for example oklahoma senator jim inhofe with some words of advice on how to deal with the current state of affairs he said quote i think something of a preemptive strike something like that and get their attention and great idea a preemptive strike against nuclear armed north korea and what could go wrong. you know for a senior senator and view this kind of rhetoric is not only careless it's dangerous which is exactly why we need to keep these of the lug thirsty warmongers in check. the total that we're about to do if you've never seen anything like that.