the top of his head was completely brains were. on the ground in the snow. with an eye witness of a notorious u.s. led. the war horrors he saw almost made him take his own life. to clear out citing uncontrollable. south korean warship. the north border. with asia. the world at its. economic forum kicks off today in china politicians. nobel prize winners are looking to. take advantage of china's new a strain of bird flu kill six. we investigate who could thrive spreading.

pleasure to have you with us here on r.t. today it is saturday here in the russian capital and we have your worldwide news around the. it's been exactly three years since wiki leaks published a graphic video which left. a lot on america's reputation and the footage which shows u.s. helicopters slaying over a dozen iraqi civilians not only shocked the world but had a dire impact on the lives of american soldiers who saw the massacre with their own eyes we spoke to a former army veteran who shared his memories of a day that he would rather forget. morning walk 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 his 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. that guy has a k forty seven right there baghdad iraq two thousand and seven 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 apache was firing. 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 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 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. 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. to 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 that'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 and. no benefits from the army he returned to wichita and then even attempted suicide for a second time. i actually wrote a poem right before i did it. up of the gun in my mouth and. i don't know if i really want to talk about it. ethan 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 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 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 do is 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. and you can check out onto dot com for more information related to this weekend weeks video of the storm which followed its release. foreign embassies in pyongyang staying put for now despite warnings from the regime that to evacuate the north korean government says it can guarantee the safety of diplomatic enclaves citing tensions and the threat of war of the north in the meantime is primed at least two ballistic missile in response to u.s. and south korean warship encroachments but it seems such moves may increasingly be putting pyongyang on the offensive rather than tempering it. north korea's whole intention is to show its willingness preparedness to defend itself should war should all 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 was stepped up to actually simulate a nuclear 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 it knows it was under the overt explicit list of. the american government some music go and it needs 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. and if you're wondering how the korean situation devolved to the level it's at today you can catch up by visiting the timeline of events that are to dot com aside from the pictures and videos we've got full analysis of what's transpired in these last few rather hectic

weeks. it is a ten minutes past the hour moscow time a second chinese city has begun culling birds in a wave of panic about a possible avian flu outbreak and the fears of also spread to neighboring countries six people out of sixteen have died that's figures ultimately far from any type of epidemic. looks now at who might hope to benefit from any bird flu hype. 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 a health warning some 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 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 britain the swine flu epidemic which cost the british taxpayer one point two billion dollars 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 die regular flu every year so while china battles with the flu drug companies are no doubt preparing for a multi billion dollar order. it wasn't only britain where big pharmaceutical companies made billions from the swine flu panic let's take a look at how fear is spread across the globe during the outbreak it was just in the third excuse me march of two thousand and nine when the first known cases

reported in mexico then were literally just a few weeks later the word epidemic was first mentioned in the news media headlines all around the world well just about three weeks later the first confirmed deaths wrought from the swine flu were confirmed and when that happened swine flu immediately became the most covered story in the news around the world that was in may twenty eighth two thousand and nine i should say shortly thereafter in june the world health organization declares a pandemic saying this is a global threat mass vaccinations begin. and then in june in the middle of summer two thousand and ten the u.s. realizes that forty million expired doses have to be destroyed at a loss of two hundred sixty million dollars well it's probably safe to say that big pharmaceutical companies by that day had made more money than they could shake a fist south we'll just have to wait and see where the current bird flu hype ends up.

these are the. thanks for joining us here on our. call of despair from palestinian prisoners in israeli custody inmates say they've been left to waste away behind. medical treatment of the alleged inhumane conditions claimed to be behind the death of a former security official which deadly clashes between palestinians and israeli forces this week we did speak to one of the prisoners who describes the plight of those locked up. or. we suffer from an incredibly low standard of medical assistance among those detained here there are

at least twenty five people who suffer from cancer and they're not getting the treatment they need the most recent example is abu hamed daya who died in the prison hospital but this hospital is really like a jail like the ones in fascist germany during the holocaust it only has a small infirmary if you get placed there for several hours you leave with sick kidneys or liver or any other kind of disease his life could have been saying if you receive treatment at an early stage medical assistance in the prisons is not given on purpose they do it to break the will of the detainees we are a people who are forced to live with occupation we are demanding that the international community takes historic responsibility for the life of palestinians we are demanding that the international community uses the security council to free the sick detainees we're talking of those who are mortally ill i was just released from a hospital where i saw a young man suffering from kidney stones who was only getting painkillers instead of treatment there are people among us who spent thirty five years behind bars we

ended mounting an international committee who would visit these prisons and prison hospital all of them. i never got in the death of abu hamed of course our spots renewed protests and tension which are trading at all i'll post a war in new york of the fall between israel and palestine elected in a new way for propaganda by activist groups supporting both sides and we've got more on the inflammatory rhetoric in just a couple of minutes. also sudden. banks with billions of hidden dollars a new tax avoidance scandal erupts in the british virgin islands and we report on some of the world's most influential people who are being caught red handed concealing vast fortunes from the prying eyes of the tax man at. speak your language. programs in documentaries in arabic in

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the book about international and world in the very heart of moscow. good to have you with us here on this saturday this is our t. live from moscow asia focused global in scope twelve forum has kicked off to much fanfare in china as europe and america struggle to boost their flagging economies national leaders and big names in business have gathered to talk about how to give emerging markets a shot in the arm a local correspondent alexander took us off a reports now from china. when people hear it can only forum the first thing that comes to mind is this no less given 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 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 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 a sense 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 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. following the fireworks from a new form to rival davos so on air and online right here on c. you would believe economic forum for the big players who are shaping tomorrow's global ecology while twenty thirty the stakes are high today on our team presidents superstars and business men worldwide have been left are rather red

faced in a new tax haven scandal this one though originating in the british virgin islands a collective of journalists as i began publishing member millions of leaked emails exposing the offshore ties of the world's elite to the sunny caribbean islands. from financial advisory partners says fact whistleblowing 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 who's a pushing for a seventy five percent tax on millionaires well some of his body. and close colleagues are getting 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 to two point five million accounts and see who's hiding what so i think you're going to see

a further end 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 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 this. foreign funded organizations in russia should respect the laws of the host state had this according to president vladimir putin has been rebuffed thing accusations that moscow is being too harsh with n.g.o.s and gave an interview to a german broadcaster ahead of his visit to the state or also stressed new laws to monitor the activities of nongovernmental groups are no different to elsewhere details now who are the spirit or all of the. 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 as is that of the russian president and new laws on non-governmental organizations operating within its borders and the president pointing out that there's six hundred and international 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 cash is 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 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 we're 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 that will is that fair that 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 just this she sixty percent of the posits forfeit that they did not violate any rule or one of your absolutely allegations that cyprus was as they say in the financial community for dirty money they have to be supported with hard facts about this but if we create that offshore note and we didn't it was the european union the should we have that it's. or 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 sounds like to me a putin said there's no laws anywhere that would make that's 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 power 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 it's the complete picture of what else

president putin had to mention just log on to. you'll find the full transcript of his interview. on u.s. secretary of state john kerry is due in israel hoping to restart stalled peace talks between. this follows renewed turbulence between israel and palestine or the death of a former hamas member and it's already custody as. you have a high 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 mean group recently unveiled an ad campaign that calls on the u.s. 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 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. a part of 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 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 now last year the american freedom defense initiative sponsored an ad campaign that compared muslims to savages those ads debuted in new. york city's subway stations jewish

organizations in the majority of new yorkers criticize that campaign as hate speech a speech that does nothing to assist in cementing a permanent peace plan in the middle east reporting from new york. the world update now starting with iraq or dozens of being killed in a suicide bomb blast in the city of but. that is north of baghdad taking part in a political rally held in support of a sunni muslim counted it standing in local elections to be held across the country in two weeks' time. two hundred seventy nine protesters have been arrested in montreal during a peaceful rally against police repression demonstrators are angry over what they say is a systematic crackdown on political protests by law enforcement agencies the focus of their i missed is a law that allows police to shut down any rally they weren't fully informed of before. our children here and find out all the details the banks would prefer you

never knew because a report just of saying. 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 gloriously declaring 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. body make the nation look better that's your job but that's just my opinion.

today. these are the images the world. can. challenge for asian to rule the day. welcome to the kaiser report i'm max foster the where the concerned trolls they cut and paste are a concern for your well being oh my god george soros is selling his paper gold just like he did last year and the year before that and the quarter before that every other quarter before that of course he is was buying the paper gold right back.