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thanks so much for joining us here today. it's been exactly three years since wiki leaks published a graphic video which. blocked on america's reputation the footage which shows u.s. helicopters killing more than a dozen iraqis not only shocked the world but. american soldiers who witnessed the massacre and we spoke to a former army veteran who shared his memories of a day he would rather forget. for 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 when i'm in that right there is obviously a camera dangling. if you're to really pay attention. that guy has an 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 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. were on the ground and the smell this smell still haunts me to. 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. who to her. that is a little boy who i originally thought with 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 had given me prescriptions thirteen prescriptions. geodon depakote. prozac and i was i was a zombie but things got worse this 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 . 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. 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 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 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 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 more 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 dot com for more information related to this week and it's

a video of course of a storm which followed its release. foreign embassies in pyongyang are staying put for now despite warning some of 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 the north has primed at least two bullets to missiles in response to u.s. and south korean warship encroachments geo political analyst a twenty first century wired dot com patrick henningsen says so far he sees only hype in the crisis. the big question is how this hyped up at the beginning had to do with the nucular threat from north korea and there's a series of things that have gone on in the last months to get us to that conclusion and i can't help but remember in the run up to the iraq war everyone was asking would 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 nucular threat and as far as i can see as far as u.s. officials actual emissions are there is no need no nucular threat as we can say into a ballistic missile threat to the united states so this is very much overhyped in the cold war theatrical sense but the pivot towards asia from the united states is very real ok right now since this crisis began the philippines has 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 hype of this particular conflict so you know you see the military industrial complex needs a reason to exist and i believe the north korean threat to be a theatrical real gives us that reason gives the pretext for the expansion of the military economy from the u.s. side. and if you're wondering about any chance or how the korean situation devolved

to the level it's out today you can just catch up by visiting the timeline of events at r.t. dot com the pictures and the videos we've got the full analysis of what's transpired in these last few. weeks. a second chinese city has begun culling birds in a wave of panic about a possible avian flu outbreak the fears of also spread to neighboring regions now only six people have died out of the sixteen infected of the figures far from any type of epidemic. pilbeam looks now what or who might have hoped to benefit from hyping up the bird flu pandemic 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 all 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 out of price of course now this 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 your 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. but it wasn't only britain where the big

pharmaceutical companies were cashing in and making billions from the swine flu pandemic so let's take a look at how fear spread across the world during that outbreak ultimately the first suspected case reported in mid march two thousand and nine in mexico it took less than one month for the word epidemic to appear in the media or the news guys out there just jumped all over this that was really april two thousand and nine swine flu confirmed when that happened immediately we have the confirmation of cases and then we have the media blitz that's ratcheted up even more it becomes essentially the issue of swine flu the biggest and most covered story of the news at the time we're talking earlier spring or early summer of two thousand and nine at which point the world health organization says well we've got a pandemic that means it's a global outbreak that was in june or early summer two thousand and nine and we just look at the mass inoculations and vaccinations begin it is then june thirtieth two thousand and ten america realizes that forty million expired doses need to be

destroyed at a loss of two hundred sixty million dollars safe to say one might think by that point in time the big pharmaceutical companies had made an awful lot of profit over the hype of the flu will just have to see where the current bird flu. up and if indeed it really does turn into not just an epidemic but a pandemic i would a vizor bit of skepticism when it comes to stories like these are and more news for you after the break. thank.

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today the russian capital has accused the un of trying to undermine the investigation into the use of chemical weapons inside syria the syrian government claims rebels used illegal agents near the city of aleppo last month killing around two dozen of the opposition however directly says the blame is to do with damascus or with me here to discuss the issue further. you've certainly spent quite a fair amount of time in syria certainly and the surrounding borders as well can you just clear this up for us why is moscow want to happy with how the u.n. is and is handling the investigation into this whole alleged use of chemical weapons well most such reaction from that. position is not constructive and doesn't help investigate actually what happened in syria in march when damascus requested and has asked for an unlimited access for its expertise to any place in syria including to neuter in secret places they've also requested to allow them to do all the people they think they have to be within the frame of this

investigation and of all of those they've also said that they investigate as well traveled by planes and boats and of course russia's main concern is that that may end we see in riyadh and sabotage investigation while we know that these tactical weapons have always been. a very sensitive issue for syrian forces of us and it's very it's very important to shed light on what happened. this is why russia is very concerned in russia also comparing these with what happened during the investigation of the use of weapons of mass destruction in iraq reminding that the result of that mistake. that they were that badly and i mean it's very difficult to truly understand who is telling the truth whether it's in a state of war a civil conflict can you take us back maria for a moment. tell us how did the alleged use of chemical weapons in the usage of them come to light and how do the blame game suddenly shift into such a high. shortly after the attack happened in syria is north the country's biggest

city of aleppo which has been the epicenter of bloodshed and violence over the past year we started receiving conflicting reports from both sides of the conflict and each side was accusing the other one and the accusations sound similar syria's national news agency reported that the rabble za had containing chemical agents and at least fifteen people mainly civilians that reports were say had been killed during this attack but this is exactly almost exactly what we were moved here in time from the rebels that the army had attacked a target in syria's north using chemical weapons well still today almost a month later it's very hard to understand exactly what happened and this is why damascus has asked glanton yesterday. around the world of course syria being no exception i understand in the near future you're going back to that part of the

world but for now having been a correspondent in ultimately in a war zone how difficult is it to get the news from an impartial level to fairly represent both sides of the conflict. it's very hard to get the truth i mean you can get the news if you are in damascus and you hear that terror attack happened you can come to the scene and see that the car was bloated and you can see dead bodies but we can't say for sure who is behind this attack and it's always been like this with this syrian conflict it's been kind of hard to be independently verified conflict and all every time something bad was happening in syria the different sides of the conflict start restarting accusing the other one well it's always been like this and it's very hard because i think ultimately murray you see the blame game surfacing in any number of conflicts around the world we typically have at least two players in every field here when it comes to though the

methods of war being used by both sides in syria you've got the syrian government you've got the opposition rebel fighters what would you say about the methods of war being used by both sides i think that the army of syria is using all kinds of methods that any army in the war old can use as for the rebels or this group so opposition groups fighting against bashar assad of the current regime i can say that they i mean definitely they're using terra tactics because we've seen many terror attacks happened in damascus in homs in the lab and many other places all around syria and attack to say using of course i mean very hard i mean making it very hard for the army to fight to get. they are not carrying weapons all the time they have storage is a weapons everywhere throughout the country in major cities and in the suburbs of these cities and every time the army comes to the area to liberate this area to fight against these rebels they just throw their weapons and pretend to been

civilians they leave the area safely and next on the move to another place and i mean take the weapons from that storage and they continue to go out and how he was looked on touchable absolutely right all right oh well i'm glad you're back from the area but good luck if indeed you are anybody understand you heading back to the syrian border maybe to turkey in the very near future so we're looking for you a lot of reports from. thank you thank you very. but we are coming to you live from moscow a call of despair from palestinian prisoners in israeli jails inmates say they've been left to waste away behind bars and denied basic medical treatment the alleged inhumane conditions are claimed to be behind the recent death of a palestinian official in israeli custody of course was followed by an angry riots in the west bank and gaza here at r.t. we did manage to 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 diop 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 were moved to the hill 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 minding an international committee who would visit these prisons and prison hospital all of them. this is r.t. iran may consider suspending uranium enrichment in order to earn the trust of western nations that's one of the statements that's come out of the latest round of international talks on terror nuclear program that is now just wrapped up in kazakhstan and no specific agreement was reached in the e.u. as top diplomat has hailed the quality and depth of the hole british academic michael axworthy the former head of iran section of the british foreign and commonwealth office currently the director of the center for persian and iranian studies at exeter university now joins us live to talk more on the international nuclear talks on iran let's join him now and michael very good to see you thanks for coming on r.t. today any side do you think of an actual breakthrough coming off today's talks from kazakhstan. i think the breakthrough isn't yet. but it

certainly that what has happened seems to sound like a good deal not positive than in some previous rounds and i don't think anyone quite yet should expect very dramatic developments in the history of this dispute it's very long running. for a long time and there's been a stalemate there's a lack of trust on both sides and i think it takes precisely these sorts of developments. a gradual shift in positions towards each other to begin to escape from the stone rain we've seen and we've seen carrot stick in going on for quite some time now we've seen sanctions levied against iran we seen their economy taking a big punch from western levied sanctions when it comes to iran and its alleged nuclear program of course tehran always says it's for energy purposes do you think tehran is building

a nuclear bomb. that's the sixty million dollars question that. i think. there is there's definite there's definitely evidence that there has been some kind of nuclear weapon program in the past with them over there and my personal view is that that perhaps was not aimed directly at obtaining an a nuclear weapon as such but rather aimed at acquiring and a nuclear capability such that iran could if in extremis could. create a weapon in a relatively short period of time if there were some kind of international security crisis so a threshold or latent weapon rather than an actual weapon i think i think certainly when i went here at r.t. we had an exclusive interview with up with some months ago he said that the days of

using atomic weapons in an issues of world warfare long gone an atomic bomb hasn't been used in many many decades and he also said that we know very well that if indeed iran wording use a nuclear weapon israel would retaliate swiftly i think that's absolutely right i mean it's not often i would concur absolutely with president but in a job but when he talks in that way about the nature of nuclear weapons and. the horrifying nature of nuclear weapons the fact that they are effectively unusable. i think he is right nonetheless we only have to look at what's been happening in the last week or so. in north korea to see that the nuclear weapons can be a dangerous element in the game of brinkmanship. threat in the games between nations there are dangers associated with nuclear weapons but

fundamentally. use. this is as a deterrent and i believe that would be the case. with iran just as it would be for most of the other countries that possess nuclear weapons michael axworthy a director of the set of a persian and iranian studies at exeter university thank you for joining us on r.t. today thank you. microbial coming to life from the heart of moscow into the office he will adopt a very briefly announce some other global news for you and the authorities at the guantanamo bay prison have said that more detail needs have joined a large hunger strike at the facility of putting the number of those refusing food to forty one that's up from a half dozen at the beginning of the month the inmates lawyers however say the figure is several times higher with three of the prisoners hospitalized i round a dozen currently being force fed the strike against injustice and harsh conditions at america's most notorious detention camp began

a couple of months ago and no movement has been made by the u.s. government to resolve the crisis of. 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 anger is a law that allows police to shut down any rallies they would fully informed of before. all right in just a moment here on sci we head over to our washington studio for breaking the set with abby martin thank you for watching.

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 the. one 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 guard less the european union loves to educate the world about democracy and show that 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 unions national attention on social issues like gay marriage instead of creating

jobs to the e.u. officials out there who claim to believe in democracy maybe it's about time you actually try you know listening to a few voices who disagree with you before you keep promoting policies against possibly the will of the majority but that's just my opinion. internationally in the very heart of moscow.

to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how bad. it is. that i've seen really messed up. for it so personally i feel it's. worse for the. white house to give it to. they want. to have you never seen anything like that i'm telling. you friday everyone steria but in a nuclear war with north korea i think it's important that our leaders are keeping a cool head about it and take for example oklahoma senator jim inhofe who had some words of advice on how to deal with the current.