it was completely brains were. on the ground and the snow. and i witness to the notorious mass slaughter by u.s. troops in iraq which of course video he tells us he taking part in the campaign left his life in a state of. north korea's suggestion that pyongyang be evacuated leaves the international community unsure of the. taking advantage of china's new a strain of bird flu kills six. poultry slaughters.

a pleasure to have you with us on this day this is moscow with me. from around the world it's been three years since wiki leaks released a graphic video. that shows u.s. helicopters slaying over a dozen iraqis and the incident shocked the world and also left a mark on many american soldiers who witnessed the massacre and one of them has spoken exclusively to us here revisiting that tragic day that he says ultimately 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. whenever zoom in guys. and from looking at it now

you can't see anything when i mean that right there is obviously a camera dangling. if you're to really pay attention. for that guy has an 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. the 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 in. the blood around her eyes made her eyes so ghostly why isn't grabbed a girl and ran into a nearby building he didn't pick 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 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. 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 . no benefits from the army was however he returned to wichita and then even attempted suicide for a second time i actually wrote a poem right before i did it. up with a gun in my mouth. and. i don't know if i really want to talk about. these then 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 those who 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 time and 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 you know 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 through 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. . a lot more of that story plus the full collateral murder video it's available on our website r c dot com. north korea has once again made

the international community wary of a possible conflict on the peninsula by suggesting that foreign embassies evacuated all of this stuff and the warning follows reports that pyongyang placed two of its mid range missiles on mobile launchers on the east coast in turn and south korea and the u.s. moved interceptor missiles and warships to the region with such moves are increasingly putting the north on the offensive that's according to political writer and journalist glazebrook. 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 to seen what's happened to iraq to libya and so on feels threatened knows it was under the overt illicit 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. this is our duty as the world keeps a close eye on the bird flu outbreak in china panic is already spreading across neighboring countries six people have died so far out of the sixteen infected figures very far from an epidemic artie's kitty pilgrim looks now at a who might hope to benefit from any hype of but flicks. the 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 raises quarantine level alerts while 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 asked the government panicked and splashed out billions on vaccinations pharmaceutical giant class a 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 die regular flu every year so while china battles with the flu drug companies are no doubt preparing for a multi billion dollar order. and it wasn't only britain where big pharmaceuticals made billions from the swine flu panic let's have a quick look here at how our fear spread across the globe during that outbreak alternately the first suspected cases reported in mexico on march the seventeenth the first known cases we're talking here before any confirmed fatality they want april the fifth the epidemic first was mentioned in news articles and started being plastered around the headlines around the world as far as we know when it comes to the big global network so the first confirmed death twenty seven. two thousand and nine it right there and then the ultimately it until may the third swine flu remain the most covered news story in the media well then we early may twenty nine then we come to the summer of two thousand and nine the world health organization declares

a swine flu pandemic not an epidemic a pandemic suggesting global a global spread mass vaccination starts in september and then america forty million expired doses destroyed in the summer of two thousand and ten a loss of two hundred sixty million dollars i think it's safe to say by that point though the big pharmaceutical companies had certainly made the money they were hoping to have to wait and see where all this hype about bird flu ultimately ends up. still to come for you here on the asian economic forum tons of global heads of state and business leaders from all over the world attending on the reports from

china. plus the war woods the escalating tension between israel and palestine spots and to a topic in new york that is just ahead for. a mission. couldn't take should be free. for charges free. range means free. free studio time free. old free broadcast quality video for your media project free media. dot com. well with. science technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

international landlord in the very heart of moscow. thank you for joining us here on ars he today heads over state business leaders and nobel prize winners of all gathered in china to discuss economic and other pressing global issues the twelfth boao forum has already proven a truly global event this year on its again bringing the world's attention to

emerging nations of a growing economic clout a local correspondent alexandra. scuse me he has this report from china. when people hear it can all make for the first thing that comes to mind is the snow will escape in doubles but this is now changing as the repertoire eyes of the so-called asian tigers 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 in america attending the conference including bill gates christine legarde and 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 making 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 us 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 none 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. we'll be covering the forum for us throughout the next three days on air and on line at city from

billions of dollars a starship in tax havens have been brought to light the international consortium of journalists have leaked a report exposing offshore ties of some well known corporations and high profile figures such as the election campaign treasurer for france's president a liar and a moderate from financial advisory a.c.m. partners she says facts packed whistleblowing is now becoming an effective trend. let's use france as an example if you look at what's going on there you have the president is a christian or a seventy five percent tax on millionaires well some of his body employees and close colleagues are getting their money off shore so i think you almost have to rely on the sort of twenty first century vigilantes to really get good treatment for me 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 to two point five million

accounts and see who's hiding what so i think you're going to see a further into 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 several countries right now from regular you know folks who are being asked to tighten their belts not just not take vacations but having trouble feeding their children meanwhile the leaders friends and like i said colleagues are busy stashing their money away and not paying arguably their fair share and in taxes i think it would be pretty devastating if something didn't come out of the us we could have much more news for you online including exxon mobil has been named the winner of our safety award despite the ongoing cleanup operation after his most recent spill in the u.s. state of arkansas where there are people called we've got a timeline of the bizarre and more footage and background of the oil spill. bust we tell you why creating a human organs and using a three d.

printer could replace traditional medicine in the near future. europe is being alarmist and that's the view of the russian president vladimir putin as he discusses new laws to monitor nongovernmental organizations financed 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 details not wanting to prepare for. 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 the russian parliament 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

the 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 cashiers it's around one billion u.s. dollars a year so they want to find out who's putting money into russia and where that's coming from. the law does not prohibit then you think you know there's a limit or close down anything through the organizations financed from abroad or not forbidding 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 again the law is not some sort of innovation of our own the shockwave still being felt from cyprus is recent financial dire straits. said this we're going allegations that cyprus has become some kind of laundry for dirty russian money that those making those allegations well they better have some pretty hard

facts to back them up that will is that fair that people invested their funds merely deposited their money with banks without breaking any laws whether the laws of cyprus or those of the european union just this she 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 a laundry for dirty money they have to be supported with the hard facts that we create that off sure no we didn't it was the european union that created. or rather it was created by the cypriot authorities with the approval of the european union well syria was a major topic that was touched upon during this interview 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 sound now to me a putin said there's no laws anywhere that would make that 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. the u.s. secretary of state john kerry he's a jew in israel have been to restart peace talks between in ramallah and this follows renewed between israel and palestine sponsored by the before the hamas member is rarely custody as. finds out the tensions in the middle east have spilled over into

a full on propaganda war in america as 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 proposed to me 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 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 burqa getting whipped and there the caption reads under islamic law rape victims are tortured or killed unless they agree to marry their rapist 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 and the majority of new yorkers criticize that campaign as hate speech a tone of speech that does nothing. to assist in cementing a permanent peace plan in the middle east. r.t. r t world update time here on the program let's start with now the death toll ofter an illegally constructed building in the indian city of mumbai the death toll now reaching seventy two off to the structure collapsed officials say over seventy have also been injured and rescue workers are still at the scene looking for survivors.

president has refused to apologize after apparently being caught on microphone calling his counterpart from argentina an old hag in argentina has now follow the protest against the neighbor. thought to be critical of christine a coach in his recent meeting with the new argentinean pope. the latest eurozone crisis seemingly resolved in cyprus and the spotlight has shifted towards the blocs third largest economy submersion of recessions twenty eleven italy also remains in a political stalemate and that's after the latest election five weeks ago failed to result in a coalition government as. reports the uncertainty is putting the future of the euro in a very 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 left everybody understand that we have a deep crisis and the. proposition from the side of the power 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 bet 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 and different italy will. but 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 among countries on the financial. with disparagingly called peaks. it's not pigs it's its financial attack it's a private the 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. just a moment on the program when we report on the lives of palestinian families brushing shoulders with an israeli waist live from moscow. you know when the history of any culture there are some dark chapters throughout human history there's been war on every continent and religious strife and oppression every culture has some skeletons in their closet and in recent u.s. history the scandalous prison at guantanamo bay as making patriotic americans scurrying around a decade or so rather than slamming the door shut on get mall i hate that term

condemning it as one of the greatest mistakes in american history and glorious it occurring on t.v. channels and newspapers the country wide that it shall never be repeated again the pentagon instead wants to blow another forty nine million dollars. expanding it even if you are one of the types of things that american gulags are super cool and awesome do you realize that it takes over one million dollars per year per prisoner to keep the place open are you sure you don't want that money to go towards something else like your children's education the thing that burns me up about this the most is that obama promised if elected to close guantanamo bay and as commander in chief of the armed forces he could do this whatever he wanted no amount of filibustering by the republicans could stop him obama you promised hundreds of millions of people to do something very simple start the paper work tomorrow buddy make the nation look better that's your job but that's just my opinion.

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