painful scars of war all t. is caught up with an american army veteran who was an eyewitness to in the tories the u.s. led massacre in iraq he says the horrors he saw almost made him take his own life. western diplomats say they're happy with iran's attitude at the latest round of international nuclear talks despite the lack of a significant breakthrough tehran's chief negotiator has exclusively spoken to r.t. about his country's stance on the stalemate. taking advantage of china's newest strain of bird flu kills six prompting a massive poultry slaughter to investigate who could benefit from the fast spreading panic. live from our new center here in moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours

a day. it's been exactly three years since we could expose a 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 a dollar 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. spork 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 even mccord it was just another day on duty the helicopters are approximately about a mile and a half away. when they resume goes. and from looking out american can't see anything. that right there is obviously a camera dangling. if you're to really pay attention. that guy has in 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 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 in 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. i. was told to take pictures i started taking pictures of the inside of the van and that's when he discovered the little boy and that's me. that is a little boy who i originally thought was 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 had given me

prescriptions thirteen prescriptions. geodon depakote. prozac and i was i was a zombie but things got worse i started 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 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 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 oftentimes 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 even 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 we 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 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 for more information related to this weekend the storm which followed its release. 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 new sanctions imposed on iran by the west were named by tehran's chief negotiator as one of the stumbling blocks hindering the talks speaking exclusively to r.t. so you julie explained his position. chancellor you know make threats against my people and nothing new that various u.s. administrations have leveled threats and taken hostile action against my people including the imposition of sanctions that this is especially true for the past two years they themselves have openly said that they're trying to impose crippling sanctions however they have seen for themselves that arabian people have managed to transform those threats into opportunity that's at the moment iran is the seventeenth largest economy in the world regardless of sanctions or rainy and scientists know how to manage to build a rocket ship and send live creatures into space these are indications that the path of sanctions has been very much up for you know 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 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 your raney and enrichment past the twenty percent level tehran says its responded with its own set of counterproposals based on the points made during a previous round of talks in moscow mr shelley also said that while in which meant of uranium is iran's indispensable right the country may consider suspending it in order to build trust the former head of the iran section of the british foreign and commonwealth office michael axworthy says it's been a much more positive meeting but there's still much to do. what has happened seems to. close to some previous rounds and i don't think anyone

quite yet should expect very dramatic developments with history of this dispute is very long running. for a long time has been us. there's a lack of trust on both sides i'm afraid takes precisely the sorts of developments a gradual shift in position is also each other to be good scape for stone. and while the world looks to dissuade iran from a potential nuclear weapons program north korea professes to be on the verge of using its own they from the program report on pyongyang's warnings to foreign embassies to evacuate and ask why the u.s. and south korea aligning the north coast with warships. also with asia at its heart and the world at its fingertips the economic forum kicks off today in

china where top politicians business leaders and nobel prize winners and looking to spark business in emerging markets. all still to come free but first a second chinese city has begun counting 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 fall off from an epidemic. looks now what 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 health warnings on people coming into the country from china hong kong shares slumped in chinese airline stocks in an attempt to restrict travel vietnam bans poultry imports from china and taiwan raises quarantine level alerts while 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 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 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 may billions from the swine flu panic let's take a look at how fear spread across the world during that outbreak so after the first

suspected case was reported in mexico in march two thousand and nine it took less than a month for the word epidemic to appear in the media and that 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 w h o declared a swine flu pandemic and mass vaccinations were produced and despite thousands of deaths worldwide it transpired that many millions of dollars spent on the vaccine were actually wasted less than a year after the doses were ordered in the u.s. alone forty million of them expired and had to be destroyed as a result billions of dollars worth of profits were made by big pharmaceutical companies in a little over a year well we'll have to wait and see where the current bird flu hype leads.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew. i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

the new cover international airport in the very heart of moscow. continues here in r.t. foreign embassies in pyongyang 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 problem that needs to ballistic missiles in response to u.s. and south korean warship encroachment geo political analyst a twenty first century water competitor headings and 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 new killer 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 actually missions 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. well if you're wondering how the korean situation devolved to the level it is at today you can catch up by visiting the timeline of events at all t. dot com aside from pictures and videos we've got full analysis of what's transponder in these last few weeks. asia focused but global in scope the twelfth but while forum held in china is into its stride with two more days to go and as europe and america's 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 professor she's the author of the book what the u.s. can learn from china told me earlier that the west has much to glean from asia in forums such as these why they can find out is

obviously what he plans to lay out on china's i am and that could have certainly butterfly effect on the rest of the world and understanding how they're going to go about doing it and watching there are successes as well as their failures can be very. very very practical approach economics almost the same way that scientists would test on a theory in a laboratory and so they can use the economy and has it out like a petri dish in different areas to see if they're going to get it peter will result . you would believe economic forum for the big players who are shaping tomorrow's global ecology wow twenty thirteen the stakes are high today on our two. president small it super stars and businessmen worldwide have been left red faced in

a new tax haven scandal originating in the british virgin islands a collective of journalists has begun publishing millions of leaked emails exposing the offshore tiny's of the world's elite to the sunny caribbean islands will for more perspective on this let's talk to cyber security expert and wholesome is a campaign manager of the u.k. pirate party so andy many influential figures from russian oligarchs politicians celebrities from around the world they really will be very embarrassed by this how could such sensitive information be leaked in this way. well the resourcing so far suggest as somebody posted a hard disk i'm sending rather a lot of information and rather all the stellar information as it seemed to people implicated are at the top of society essentially this comes back down to people having access to data within the organizations where it's javert presumably having a reason whether it's personal or it's logical. the kind of levels of well this parity or similar that we're seeing and decided that this information should go to

people who could make use of it in this case list and that a cyber security expert surprised by the sheer volume of this something like two and a half million documents this is unprecedented in then. it's unprecedented but from a sort of purely i t. perspective if you have access to a lot of course systems whether it's a mile circle whether it's a group a mile service within a single organization it's not a vast amount of data for most organizations large organizations especially they will hold huge amounts of information and to use it usefully you need to make it available to people whether that's in small amounts to people who are actually working with customers over whether it's a huge amount because you've got a young administration or an individual or even an external company dealing with your back ups this data is held in places it's usually how securely banks put a lot of effort into making sure that their information is properly stored properly communicated in encrypted but at the end of the day it does exist in large batches and clearly somebody was able to access this and pass it on i'm talking about

making invaluable to people there is still a stooge amount of information that hasn't been passed on it seems that these journalists whoever holding this information seem to be holding back in some way what why is that because clearly lot more for us to know about but i suppose there are a couple of reasons they might be the first obvious one would be whether as a public interest if you go and get hold of two hundred gigabytes worth of data from somewhere and also a lot of it will be dross a fair amount of it will be information that probably shouldn't be made public even if you're a journalist and the last thing he says the ship volume of it working through it and actually being able to present a coherent picture is also quite important i mean that's been a criticism of wiki leaks in the past about holding on to a lot of information and trying to get it out in a coherent manner. that want to report on these sort of vast data leaks that come into them you have want to get into why is this a story and these people surely a putting money in offshore tax havens legally and they want what's the big story behind this thing. well there are two i think the first is that the information is

out there i mean that in itself makes it newsworthy the second is that some of these people appear to be in position where they wouldn't necessarily want to be associated with sticking a lot of money onto an off into an offshore tax whether it's legal or not will depend heavily on where they are the jurisdiction of the bank and various other bits and pieces which i'm frankly not qualified to answer but in terms of. in terms of the kind of things that we've seen from germany for example last year where we had officials trying to get hold of c.d.'s of tax holder tax payments made from other countries so there is clearly a problem for the jurisdictions where people live getting hold of tax information is clearly a disconnect between what people are saying in terms of taxes and austerity especially and what they're actually doing in terms of their personal finances so i think it's a story of a government i would predict and of course a big difference between tax evasion and tax avoidance and here's the british government running the british version and surely there's so much tax evasion going

on there why isn't there more transparency more regulation in this. i think this number of reasons the first is the will to actually regulate this properly might not be that this may well change that having this kind of information out there may well cause this to be a much bigger political issue going to has been for a long time it's something that you obviously have to deal with when it becomes public and so most people everybody's known that offshore tax havens exist but haven't really understood the amounts of money involved in this case i think just sort of thirty two trillion pounds worth of cash in those. issues off shore in ways that aren't necessarily being tracked or monitored or available to governments that maybe should be so it's a vast amount of information it's a vast amount of money and governments don't seem able or at the moment willing to deal with it as best they can although that is changing and has started changing since the crash of two thousand and eight like i said german officials trying to get hold of tax and nation from countries around germany and in this case there's been discussions about using this actually take

a look at the whole area in the whole industry with a view of regulation and clearly there is some regulation needed and deal with what's happened recently in cyprus it really is a very topical story thanks very much indeed for sharing your thoughts on this. hold on the u.k. power party could have you here live on our team. well we've heard from andy we also like to hear from you on this matter what do you think is behind the future now of these offshore tax havens what is the cyprus debacle had in terms of the impact of the future of these sort of tax avoidance islands and havens well we're asking on a website r.t. dot com at the moment and these the results so far the majority forty four percent think that what happened in cyprus really will have absolutely no difference at all offshore tax havens will exist for tax evaders and of course those who want to illegally nor their money twenty six percent say yes there will be no impact at all because there's a lot of government distrust or distrust in governments with major shareholders

investors in their own country looking elsewhere to put their money. percent say it's really not have much of an impact because the cyprus crisis really won't affect tax havens and also governments will not want to shut down these offshore havens that's what twelve percent think the results so far. be good to hear from you. and express your point of view. this is r.t. live here in moscow time now to update you on other international news from around the world and hundreds of people have taken to the streets of egypt's capital cairo joining the so-called day of rage against the country's islamic rule the rally is being organized by the april the six youth movement which played a crucial role in egypt's former leader hosni mubarak but now it's turned its back against ruling president mohamed morsi saying he's no different from his predecessor. hundreds of thousands of muslims rallied in bangladesh's capital demanding anti blasphemy laws that would punish those who insult islam and also clash with government supporters outside the capital resulting in one death in

a massive protest march took place amid heightened security across the country after the hardliners targeted bloggers who said atheist demonstrations proceeded despite a day long countrywide shutdown of the muslim dominated country about twenty five liberal and secular groups to denounce the radical. forces of the guantanamo bay prison camp has said that more detainees have joined a large hunger strike at the facility putting the number of those refusing food to forty one that's up from half a dozen at the beginning of the month 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 tourist detention camp began a couple of months ago no movement has been made by the u.s. government to resolve the crisis so from. teachers protesting against education and labor reforms have clashed with police in mexico and around eight thousand

demonstrators marched through the streets of the capital locking down police. as outside government offices and blocking traffic police responded with tear gas the controversial reform which limits union power came up to the rest of the head of the main teaches union he's accused of stealing over one hundred and fifty million dollars so. well that brings up to date for the moment i'll be back with a news team with more news for you just have a home for now from now in the meantime breaking the saints is to the brink. you know in 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 buddy make the nation look better that's your job but that's just my opinion.

more news today violence is once again flared up. in these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i'd like. to eat i

mean. i believe that i've seen the team really messed up. in the old story so personally apologize that's. the worst you are going through the white house to give it to the radio guy in fort lauderdale minestrone cause they want what we're about to give you never seen anything like this i'm told. the friday everyone with all the stereo but in the 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 with some words of advice on how to deal with the current state of affairs he said quote i think something of a preemptive strike something like that would get their attention and great idea a preemptive strike against nuclear armed north korea and one.