painful scars of war halt has caught up with an american army veteran who was an eyewitness to an a taurus u.s. led massacre in iraq he says the horrors he saw almost made him take his own life. when diplomats say they're happy with iran's attitude of the latest round of international nuclear talks despite the lack of a significant breakthrough iran's chief negotiator has exclusively spoken to r.t. about his country's stance on the stalemate. crowds of egyptians uniting karo joining the day of rage against the islamist rulers point suggest tear gas being used to disperse the protesters sparking fears of follow up clashes. taking advantage of china's new a strain of bird flu kills six to. investigate who could benefit from the fast spreading panic the top stories this hour.

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 can do 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. 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. whenever zoom in guys. and from looking at it

now you can't see anything when you know 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 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 of this now 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 didn't pick the 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 was 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 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 of us 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. ethan 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 often times they choose to end their own lives their fathers and brothers sons and soldiers and now they're simply another and american wars abroad in the

past two years alone ethan has lost eight of his veteran brothers to suicide and his outlook on life hasn't improved with time i know that i will never ever ever get better i'll never get over this for the world of the collateral murder video was just another black mark on an unpopular war for ethan it was a catalyst that made him question the entire purpose of the iraq war you know america. john wayne you know we were the white house. americans are always out well we're going to try to help people that's all we do is try to spread freedom and democracy 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 all t. dot com 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 the sanctions imposed on iran by the west were named by to ron's chief negotiator as one of the stumbling blocks hindering the talks speaking exclusively to our teens so you julie explained his position. chance economic threats against my people and nothing new that various u.s. administrations have level 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 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 had 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 arabian 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 senate. the us china russia the u.k. france and germany have proposed easing economic sanctions in return for iran stopping your reign in enrichment past the twenty percent mark tehran says its responded with its own set of counterproposals based on the points made during a previous round of talks in moscow mr kelly also said that while enrichment of uranium is iran's indispensable right the country may consider suspending its 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's still much to do. 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 is 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 that stalemate. 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 also why the u.s. and south korea aligning the north coast with washington.

still to come of first clashes a broken out between hundreds of anti-government protesters and riot police in egypt's capital carra people have taken to the streets joining the so-called day of rage against the country's islamic rule ronnie's been organized by the april sixth youth movement which played a crucial role in el sting egypt's former leader hosni mubarak has now turned its back against the current rule as well kyra based journalist tom bell is joining me live now. and told me what the first time we've seen such rallies in colorado and they usually end up with clashes what is happening in the capital right now. interest of an hour ago it seems the police follow find a volley of tear gas into protests is good god outside the country supreme court and so what we're seeing now is scenes of chaos we see fires. on some reports of police firing a shot guns into the crowd and you know as you say this is

a return of the images we've seen over the past few weeks and months which are for really increasing discontent and mobilization against they're going to mohammed morsi. and it's also an anthro of the protests which happened five years ago in two thousand which gave the six mood. police fire drive the mission to a demonstration in the industrial town. killing three hundred fifteen year old boy now there's no suggestion that he would have been killed so far tonight but for many people the power of the actor if you will is extremely symbolic many of the. shoes which led to those demonstrations five years ago which some see is marking the first death knell of mubarak's regime are still here to dire so we'll see if we see discontent with what seems a brutal and illegitimate security apparatus and we can also see rising food prices

which are making it harder for people to me me me and make ends meet. so the clouds of tear gas and the fires that we're seeing in downtown cairo are really expressions of that until this movement april sixth youth movement it's behind this rally and it actually helped to install the current regime so why are they actually protesting against it now. that's right months ago. a good six movement marched into tahrir square and bias which held their logo the logo of the muslim brotherhood party the freedom of just his party and also the logo of these missiles southie party and i spoke to ahmed mind of the leader of the six movement about this said it's a dire and he said that he doesn't regret it. he says that the steps that they took at the time were necessary in order to hold back the threat to make sure they have

representatives of the old military and security apparatus from gaining power in what was then disputed presidential elections but he acknowledges that the. discontent with the brotherhood has caused russians and disputes both within his own group and between his group and others so there are certainly elements of april sixth and i don't look for the why the opposition now question whether that was the right choice to tack told thank you very much for that tom dale cora based journalist joining us live for not thanks. sun sea and banks with billions of hidden dollars a new tax avoidance scandal erupts in the british virgin islands coming up we are four of the world's most influential have been caught red handed and sitting vast fortunes from the prying eyes of taxman back at home. the first 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 so far figures fall from the epidemic these crazy pilbeam looks now at who might hope to benefit from any bird flu hype panic is already spreading across the globe over fears of a bird flu epidemic in china twenty thousand birds were slaughtered at one local market japan has 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 bones 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 drug producers 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 off of the government

panicked and splashed out billions on vaccinations pharmaceutical giant black face 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. 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 outbreak well 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 that was even before the first death from swine flu was actually confirmed well when that did happen 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 well 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 actually made by big pharmaceutical companies in a little over a year or have to wait and see where the current bird flu hype leads. well stay with us this is r.t. live here in moscow more news for you coming up to start this short break.

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the book about international airport in the very heart of moscow. he continues here in our naughty foreign embassies in pyongyang all staying put for el despite warnings from the regime that to evacuate the north korean government says it can't guarantee the safety of diplomatic and lives starting tensions on the front a war the north of prague at least two but a state missiles in response to u.s. and south korean warship encroachment if your political analyst at twenty first century watch dot com patrick henningsen 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 nuclear 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 there really a killer 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 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 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 is that today you can catch up by visiting the timeline of events at all dot com aside from pictures and videos we've got full analysis of what's transpired in these last few weeks. 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 position however directs the blame at the mass because my colleague discuss the issue with. she spent some time in the country covering the bloody civil standoff that. such reaction from you and such 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 do the frame of this investigation and of all of those they also said that investigators will travel by planes and boats and of course russia's main concern is that that may end syria and sabotage investigation while we know that these chemical weapons have always been. a very sensitive issue for syria and for is evidence very very important to shed light on what happened and this is why russia is very concerned and also comparing this 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 did the 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 over here in that

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 as i ask you and 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. 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. a call of despair from palestinian prisoners in israeli jails inmates say they've been left to waste away behind bars and tonight any medical treatment alleged 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 already 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 crashes 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 detainees we're talking of those who are mortally ill i was just released from a hospital where i saw a young man suffering from kidney stones who was only getting painkillers instead of treatment there are people among us who spent thirty five years behind bars we ended minding an international committee who would visit these prisons and prison hospitals all of the. presidents moloch superstars and businessmen worldwide have been left red faced and a new tax haven scandal originating in the british virgin islands millions of leaked e-mails have exposed the offshore ties of the world's elite to the sunny caribbean islands a cyber security expert and we all saw he's a campaign manager of the u.k. part party point the arnie that some of those with tax haven accounts actively promoted us therapy. some of these people appear to be in positions where they

wouldn't necessarily want to be associated with sticking a lot of money onto an office into an offshore tax and it was 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 have there been discussions about using this to actually take a look at the whole area in the whole industry with a view of regulating it and clearly there is some regulation needed this may well change that having this kind of information have and may well cause this to be a much bigger political issue than it has been for a long time it's something that you obviously have to deal with when it becomes public and for 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 somebody suggested up to thirty two trillion pounds worth of cash assistance in the . well they sent offshore 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 moment willing to deal with it as best they can in terms of whistle blowing i think this might well

encourage more people to think that they're in a position where they have access to information or data that they don't like the implications of the sort of same way that bradley manning maps on the u.s. may well decide that actually it's best that it gets handed over to journalists whether they are the traditional media companies or the likes of wiki leaks or other whistle blowing organizations that may well pop up clearly there is a desire for for this kind of made public and clearly there is a will by people working within these organizations or with access to this data to make it public. well it's been a turbulent few weeks for tax havens and we want to know what you think the future might hold for them when you can vote on don't call but here's what those of you who have already taken think so far on the screen you can see that was off of the opinion is that tax havens will stay strong as the month from criminals and tax evaders won't be going anywhere a quarter right about twenty six percent thought that down a bit from last time i actually believe the insatiable governments will force

people to look offshore a little less think that cyprus will set a precedent but it won't actually ultimately lead to the demise of tax havens and fewer still say that governments will do their very best to end offshore banking have your say if you haven't already done so don't call. with a news team with more in just over half an hour from now in the meantime we'll find out what the banks would prefer that you never knew that'll be in the kaiser report stay with us for that here in moscow. what if one third of the population of the 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 an 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 card 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 voices 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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