of war. with an american army veteran who was an eyewitness to. take his own life. foreign embassies in pyongyang to clear out. risks that says u.s. and south korean war ships draw. western diplomats say they're happy with. the latest round of international nuclear talks despite the lack of a significant breakthrough chief negotiator exclusively. with asia. fingertips the economic forum kicks off today in china the top politicians business leaders and nobel prize winners of business in emerging markets. are reporting that taking advantage of

a strain of bird flu kills. investigate who could benefit from the fast spreading stories. live from new center here in moscow this is a twenty four hours a day it's been exactly three years since we could expose the graphic video which left an indelible blot on america's reputation the footage which shows u.s. helicopters killing more than a dozen iraqi civilians not only shocked the world but had adar impact on american soldiers who witnessed the massacre we spoke to an army veteran who shared his memories of a day he'd 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. that right there is obviously a camera dangling. if you're to really pay attention. for that guy has a k forty seven right there 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 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. i remember looking at me and. the blood around her eyes made her eyes so ghostly why i even 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 so 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 dead despite their injuries the children survived but part of eason 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 so i started drinking and metal have given me prescriptions thirteen prescriptions. and geodon depakote. prozac i was i was a zombie but things got worse i started daydreaming of killing my own children and and everybody around me so even took matters into his own hands i'd already began

drinking pretty heavily and. i had downed all the pills and i drank a fifth of crown royal 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. no benefits from the army was he returned to wichita and then even attempted suicide for a second time i actually wrote a poem right before i did it. rep 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 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 while we're doing is trying 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 war stress the future is far and the past is too much to cope with reporting from wichita kansas meghan lopez r.t. and check out our website r.t. dot com for more information related to this wiki leaks video and the storm which followed its release. the 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 the north has primed at least two ballistic missiles in response to u.s. and south korean warship encroachments geo political analyst at twenty first century dot com having some says so far he sees only hype in this 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 there in the killer of threat and as far as i can see as far as u.s. officials actual missions or there is no need no nucular threat as we can say in triple a stick missile threat to the united states so this is very much over hyped in a 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 our 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 you just that reason here is the pretext for the expansion of the military economy from the u.s. side 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 don't come aside from pictures and videos we've got full analysis of what's transpired in these last few hectic weeks. the latest round of international talks on iran's nuclear program has wrapped up in kazakhstan with participants praising the negotiations as constructive despite reaching no immediate agreement the sanctions imposed on iran by the west were named by terrans chief negotiator as one of the stumbling blocks hindering the talks speaking exclusively to r.t. explained his position. economic threats against my people and nothing new various u.s. administrations have level threats and taken hostile action against my people

including the imposition of sanctions this is especially true for the past two years they themselves have openly said that they are trying to impose crippling sanctions however they have seen for themselves that arabian people have managed to transform those threats into opportunities at the moment iran is the seventeenth largest economy in the world regardless of sanctions or rainy and scientists have managed to build a rocket ship and send live creatures into space these are indications that the path of sanctions has been very much of what the actual fact they've done is deny an opportunity for their citizens and businesses and corporations to do business with a very lucrative radian market we also have to note that these sanctions have no legal basis to stand on many countries including russia and china time and again have expressed their opposition to the. us china russia the u.k. france and germany have proposed easing economic sanctions in return for iran

stopping you raney and enrichment cost you twenty percent level iran says it's responded with its own set of counterproposals based on the points made during a previous round of talks in moscow mr jelly also said that while enrichment of uranium is a rant indispensable right a country may consider suspending it in order to build trust the former head of the iran section at the british foreign and commonwealth office michael axworthy says it's been a much more positive meeting but there is much still today. what has happened seems to sound like a good deal not positive to name some previous rounds and i don't think anyone quite yet should expect very dramatic developments in the history of this dispute is very long running. for a long time there's been a stalemate there's a lack of trust on both sides and i think it takes precisely these sorts of developments. gradual shift in positions towards each other

to begin to escape from our stalemate a second chinese city has begun calling birds in a wave of panic about a possible avian flu outbreak the fears of also spread to neighboring countries six people have died out of the sixteen infected figures far from an epidemic are these kitty pilgrim looks now at who might have to benefit from any 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 but 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 bans poultry imports from china and taiwan it 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 and produce a cure out of price of course now let's look at the example of britain on the swine flu epidemic which cost the british taxpayer one point two billion dollars asked 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 dive regular flu every year so while china battles with the flu drug companies are no doubt preparing for a multi billion dollar order. and it wasn't only britain where big pharmaceutical companies made billions from the swine flu panic let's take a look at how fear spread across the world during that break so after the first suspected cases reported in mexico back in march two thousand and nine it took less

than a month for the word epidemic to appear in the media and it was even before the first death from swine flu was confirmed well when that happened swine flu immediately became the most covered news story in the media shortly after the world health organization declared a swine flu pandemic and mass vaccinations were produced despite the fells and of deaths worldwide it transpired that many millions of dollars. went on the vaccine wasted this in the year after the doses were ordered in the us alone forty million of them expired and had to be destroyed well as a result of billions worth of dollars worth of profits were made by big pharmaceutical companies in just over a year and will have to wait and see where the current bird flu hype leads this is r.t. live here in moscow stay with us for more news stuff to the break. the

international airport in the very heart of moscow. these continues here in all t. moscow 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 the opposition whoever directs the blame at damascus discussed the issue with all of these were it from the ocean she spent some time in the country covering the bloody civil standoff there. was such reaction from you on such a young position is not constructive and it 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 that also sent. will travel by plane and of course russia's main concern is that that may end and sabotage investigation while we know that these chemical weapons have always been. a very sensitive issue for syria and for is of evidence very very important to shed light on what happened. this is why russia is very concerned and also comparing these with what happened during the investigation of the use of weapons of mass destruction in iraq 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 serious national news agency reported that the rabble xah had fired containing

chemical agents but this is exactly almost exactly what we were moving 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 lantern investigate what would you say about the methods of war being used by both sides i think that the army off syria is using all kinds of methods that any in the war old can use as for the rebels they are not carrying weapons all the time with them 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 pretending been civilians they leave the area safely. asia focused but global in scope the twelve but will form held in china is into its stride with two more days to go and

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 where professor and leaves the author of the book what the u.s. can learn from china she joins us on the line now from new york does the west have anything to learn in terms of economics from forums like this one focused on asia. sure everyone can learn something from when others are doing and this is no exception. what they can find out is obviously what she's been paying planned to lay out on china's lam and that could have certainly overfull butterfly effect on the rest of the world and understanding how they're going to go about doing it and watching their successes as well as their failure can be very insightful and you've written a book about what the u.s.

can learn from china is just specifically just briefly was one of the main points. in many points but some an economic standpoint one of the things i mentioned is the huge anomic in which the asians are very practical they approach economic almost the same way that scientists would test out a theory in the laboratory and they want to see if things are repeatable and so they can. use the economy and test it out like a petri dish and different areas to see if they're going to get people results and that's something that western economies have not been doing. such systematic faces now this point with this because of this group of countries that are talking about giving emerging markets a shot in the all but what about struggling economies in europe and the u.s. at the moment coming hope that. absolutely so like this idea i

mentioned about gathering data systematically by testing out policies certainly there's something similar in europe but in europe they basically measure the wrong things as opposed to measuring back out of policy what they tend to do is measure what the inputs are whether it's done on time whether the budget the project met its budget and so on so forth and so they're not actually measuring results so just little things like that tend to go a long way. much is made of china's economy possibly outpacing that of the us by twenty five c. but is this really a sure bet the chinese government's concern about social stability not could be a serious threat to growth could in the long term. it certainly can be if it becomes a problem because remember you can't have it konami progress innovation anything

if there's chaos and so this is the foundation of hell or that any country must have in order for it to help move and make reforms in advance economically and so china does the rest is a crap satirises all the things then sure it could certainly. be a very very. good soucie thank you very much indeed and professor and lead joining us live on t.v. thank you. and we'll be following the fall from the new forum to rival babbles on a and online all. 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

r.t.e. . a court of despair from palestinian prisoners in israeli jails inmates say they've been left to waste away behind bars and denied any medical treatment in as inhumane conditions are claimed to be behind the recent death of a palestinian official in israeli custody which was followed by angry riots in the west bank and gaza r.t. spoke 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 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 take historic responsibility for the life of palestinians we are demanding that the international community uses the security council to free the sick contains we are talking of those who are more to be ill i was just released from a hospital where i saw a young man suffering from treatment stoners who was only given painkillers instead of treatment there are people among us who spent thirty five years behind bars we are demanding an international committee who would visit these prisons and prison hospital all of them. some international news in that brief the south ortiz at the guantanamo bay prison camp of said the detainees have joined a large hunger strike at the facility putting the number of those refusing food to forty one that's up from a half a dozen at the beginning of the month the inmates lawyers however say the figures several times higher with three of the prisoners hospitalized and around 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 no movement has been made by the u.s. government to resolve the crisis so far. thousands of teachers protesting against education and labor reform have clashed with police in mexico around eight thousand demonstrators marched through the streets of the capital knocking down police barriers outside. government offices and blocking traffic police responded with tear gas the controversial reform which limits union power came off to the rest of the head of the maine teachers union is accused of stealing over one hundred and fifty million dollars. or so in a world update this hour two hundred seventy nine protest is being arrested in montreal during a rally against police repression and the street is angry over what they say is a systematic crackdown on political protests by law enforcement agencies the focus of the ranks is a law that allows police to shut down any ready they weren't fully informed beforehand. that's it for me for the moment talk about with the news team with more

for you in just over half an hour from now in the meantime a report on the lives of palestinian families living cheek by jowl with an israeli waste facility that's our special report coming up after the break. 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 countries 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 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 dimes of other nations and for focusing the union's national attention on social issues like gay marriage instead of creating jobs to the e.u. officials out there who claim to believe in democracy maybe it's about time you actually try you know listening to a few who disagree with you before you keep promoting policies against possibly the will of the majority but that's just my opinion.

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