painful scars of war. with an american army veteran who was an eyewitness to a notorious. he says. almost made him commit suicide. to clear out. the korean war ships. the world. economic forum kicks off today in china top politicians business nobel prize winning. business states. taking advantage of china's new a strain of bird flu killed six. we investigate who could benefit from the spreading.

thank so much for joining us here today. worldwide. it's being exactly three years since wiki leaks published a graphic video which left an indelible blot on america's reputation the footage which shows u.s. helicopters killing more than a dozen iraqis not only shocked the world but had a dire impact on american soldiers who witnessed the event. we did speak to a former veteran who shared his memories of a day he would rather forget. 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 these 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. 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 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 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. 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 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. 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 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 with a gun in my mouth and. i don't know if i really want to talk about it. he's been 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 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 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 and 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. . you can check out on dot com for more information related to this wiki leaks

video of course the storm which followed its release. foreign embassies in pyongyang are staying put for now despite warnings from the regime that to evacuate the north korean government says it can't guarantee the safety of diplomatic enclaves citing tensions and the threat of war and the north has primed at least two ballistic missiles in response to u.s. sound south korean warship encroachments let's get some more perspective on the standoff now with the geo political analyst at twenty first century. patrick henningsen joining us live here on our team good to see you today do you think do you take any stock or any substance to the embassy warning or is this just a bit more hype. yes it is a very real danger for the embassies in north korea as as is the danger for south korea and the countries around the big question is how this hyped up at the beginning had to do with a nucular threat from north korea and there's a series of things that have gone on in the last month to get us to that conclusion

and i can't help but remember in the run up to the iraq war everyone was asking will saddam hussein used chemical weapons or not but no one actually asked the question does he really have them in the first place and the same question i just asked regarding north korea what is their nuclear threat and as far as i can see as far as u.s. officials actual missions or there is no. threat as we can see into a ballistic missile threat to the united states so this is very much overhyped in the actual sense let's let's engage at what's going on right now i understand south korea has sent missile cruisers to the north of. us all model cozying up on the coast as well at any chance do you think that could persuade pyongyang to stand down. it's a very interesting situation we have here as you know north korea that kind of state propaganda that they released within their own country for their domestic use is actually being validated by washington d.c. as a reaction in other words the b.

two stealth flyovers the f. twenty two exercises destroyer parked off the coast of south korea this is validating north korean propaganda it's a perfect storm for some sort of a staged international conflict whether it will go hot is another matter but there's a lot of other things that happened around this with korea is threatened to restart its nuclear reactor and i think that has more to do with these events than people realize has lot more to do with the actual production of nuclear power is the same case with iran that's why these countries or. why did i so suddenly other western powers out there that do like to throw north korea and iran into the same box as well but if i can for a moment here for years now the former leader kim jong il he's saber rattling euphony washington stepped in with some sort of a carrot stick maneuver this time though under king kim jong un it seems has actually turned its usual method up a few notches. yeah well you know you have to look at this really in the construct

in the context of what's going on geopolitically the good you know the threat from north korea might be overhyped but the pivot towards asia from the united states is very real ok right now since this crisis began the philippines is already okayed the use of more bases for the united states in that country and there was a deal to decommission some of the okinawa sites in japan and that might be off the table as a result of the high of this particular conflict so you know you see the military industrial complex needs reason to exist and i believe the north korean threat. or real. reason here is the pretext for the expansion of the military economy from the u.s. argentine. geo political analyst from a twenty first century wired dot com a great pleasure to have you want to do this today thank you. and if you are wondering how the korean situation devolved to the level it's at today you can

catch up by visiting the timeline of events dot com aside from pictures and video we've got a full analysis of what's transpired in these last few rather hectic weeks a second chinese city has begun. in a wave of panic about a possible avian flu outbreak and the fears also spread to neighboring countries six people have died so far out of the sixteen infected those certainly have figures fall from any type of epidemic. looks now at who might hope to benefit from any type of bird flu hype. 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 says slumped in chinese airline stocks in an attempt to restrict travel

vietnam pounds 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 co-produce is already poised to jump in and 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 pharmacy school 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 the only britain where big pharmaceutical

companies made billions from the swine flu panic let's take a look at how fear spread across the globe valent outbreak the first known case reported in mexico in the third month of two thousand and nine it's a little less than a month for the word epidemic to appear in the media and that was even before the first death of the swine flu was confirmed so people were very very quick to rush to use in their words epidemic. the swine flu though immediately became the most covered story in international headlines not just domestic news but all the big global networks went crazy for it swine flu became the most covered story just in the open. in weeks of the summer of two thousand and nine then the world health organization said oh we've got a pandemic a global crisis on our hands mass vaccination mass it will kill asians begin and then we see by the end of it all that towards what june mid-summer of twenty ten america realizes that forty million expired doses need to be destroyed at

a loss of two hundred sixty million dollars it's probably fair to say though that the big pharmaceutical companies have made a huge amount of profit up until that point where is all going to end up with the current bird flu we just have to see whether to stay with us if you can here at r.t. this more news after the break. international

airport in the very heart of moscow. it's a quarter past the hour moscow time this is all t. a call of despair from palestinian prisoners in israeli jails and might say they've been left to waste away behind bars and denied basic medical treatment they allege

to in a humane conditions are claimed to be behind the recent death of a palestinian official in israeli custody which was then followed by angry riots in the west bank and we did speak to one of the prisoners who describes the plight of those locked up. 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 crashes germany during the holocaust it only has a small infirmary if you get placed after several hours you leave with sick kidney and your liver or any other kind of disease his life could have been saying if you receive treatment at an early stage but medical assistance in the prisons is not given on purpose they do it to break the will of the detainee rules 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 were moved to be ill i was just released from a hospital where i saw a young man suffering from kidney stones who was only given pain killers instead of treatment there are people among us who spent thirty five years behind bars we have demanded an international committee who would visit these prisons and prison hospital all of them. and as i was saying about the death of abu hamed sparked renewed protests on tension which are triggering an all out post a war in new york the conflict between israel and palestine and liked it in a new wave of propaganda ads by activist groups supporting both sides got more on the inflammatory rhetoric and just a couple of minutes and also. the banks with billions of hidden dollars a new tax avoidance scandal of rocks in the british virgin islands we report on

some of the world's most influential people who have been caught red handed concealing their vast fortune. but for now the focus but globe. event in scope the twelve forum was kicked off to much fanfare in china and as europe and america struggle to boost their flagging economies national leaders and big names in business of gathered to talk about how to give emerging markets a shot in the arm a local correspondent alexander to cast off reports from china. when people hear it can all make for 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 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 wall 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 happen 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 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 in a more details on the ongoing forum at odds he dot com. 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 two presidents on superstars worldwide have been left red faced in a new tax haven scandal this coming out of the british virgin islands a collective of journalists has begun not publishing millions of e-mails exposing the offshore ties of some of the world's richest margaret boken reef from a.c.m. partners says a fact packed 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 employees and close colleagues art getting their money offshore so i think you almost have to rely on the sort of. m.t.v. to really get their treatment for me it's easy to say one thing you know corporate billionaires in fact 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 digital 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 about 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 well it's been a turbulent few weeks for tax havens we want to hear what you think the future may hold for them r.t. dot com is where our poll is happening right now let's see what our vote is going for here from the web site this hour here come the numbers obama's top of the opinion the tax havens will stay strong as demand from criminals and tax evaders won't be dying out and the less believe in social governments will force people to look offshore just a fraction believe the cyprus president will lead to the demise of tax havens about the same thing that the governments will do their best to end offshore banking you can have your say on our website. for now the u.s. secretary of state john kerry is due in israel hoping to restart stalled peace talks between tel of event. this follows renewed turbulence between israel and

palestine sparked by the death of a former hamas member in israeli custody marina portnoy found the ever high tensions in the middle east have spilled over into a full on propaganda war this time in america. as the international community continue searching for the best path to a middle east peace agreement the issue has sparked a contentious ad 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 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 you 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 ads debuted 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 reporting from new york marina r.t. . and into the on sea world update now starting with the latest round of international talks on iran's nuclear program they've wrapped up in the text on

a member of the iranian delegation says the negotiations were constructive but no official outcome has been announced the u.s. china russia the u.k. france and germany have proposed easing economic sanctions in return for iran stopping uranium enrichment and tehran says its responded with its own set of proposals but those details have yet to be revealed. dozens of people living killed in a suicide bomb blast in the iraqi city of baquba that's about sixty clicks north of baghdad they had been taking part in a political rally in support of a sunni muslim candidate standing in local elections to be held across the country in two weeks' time. portugal's cause if you will court has ruled that a handful of new budgetary measures aimed at saving the government money cannot be put in place declared four out of nine of the articles to be unconstitutional including scrapping some holiday bonuses and unemployment benefits the decision

deprives the state of one point five billion euros in savings it had counted on to meet the terms of a euro zone bailout. two hundred seventy nine protesters have been arrested in montreal during a 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 used as a law that allows police to shut down any rally they were fully informed of before . are just a moment here on t.v. report on the lives of palestinian families who are rushing shoulders with an israeli waist on this results.

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 in arab country it's in paris france and for traditional marriage yes protesters in paris claim that they had eight hundred thousand people on the streets of france's capital and even though the police said that half those numbers for a city of less than two point five million people this was a huge protest for a 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 disagree with you before you keep promoting policies against possibly the will of the majority but that's just my opinion. download the official publication so. stream quality and enjoy your favorites. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. any time anyway.