clashes of broken out in egypt's capital cairo as police fired tear gas to disperse protesters who joined a day of rage against the islamist rulers. and painful scars of war all t. is caught up with an american army veteran who was an eyewitness to and the tourists u.s. led massacre in iraq he says the horrors he saw almost made him take his own life. and western diplomats say they are happy with iran's attitude at the latest round of international nuclear talks despite the lack of a significant breakthrough their own chief negotiator has exclusively spoken to r.t. about his country's stance on the stalemate. from our new said to here in moscow this is r.t.

with twenty four hours a day clashes have broken out between thousands of anti-government protesters and riot police in egypt's capital cairo people have taken to the streets joining the so-called day of rage against the country's islamic rule the rally is being organized by the april sixth youth movements which played a crucial role in egypt's former leader hosni mubarak and has now turned its back against the current rulers carra based journalist tom dale has the details. in downtown cairo there are clashes going on between the police on the one hand and protesters primarily from the april sixth movement on the other and these functions began when police fired a volley of tear gas into a crowd of protesters outside the country's cream court and protests responded by throwing rocks there have been some reports of casualties. there being some reports of shotguns being used on the police side people being injured people being arrested on the media green lasers cutting through the smoke and take outs they

were outside the high court because they say the country judiciary is a joke to decrease the politicized. prefer to prosecute potence of mohammed morsi is regime was going soft on his friends and the eighty six movement to take it was protesting against the fact that a number of their comrades were detained last week and they say that he was out for just such a not to change year to six movement is named after this day five years ago when protests trigger around the country against the rising cost of food and against what was seen as a brutal and repressive security apparatus and many of those causes a still very present and people's thoughts and minds today food prices are rising again wages are stagnant and the muslim brotherhood led government has not so far taken credible steps to reform the security apparatus is the interior ministry of course it's not the first time we've seen the scenes and when these protests do

break out they reflect an increasing polarization between the muslim brotherhood dominated government and the opposition which still feels that the original demands of the revolution has already been met. coming up later in the program is it iraq all over again russia criticizes the u.n. for obstructing the investigation into the use of chemical weapons in syria comparing the expanding investigation to the weapons of mass destruction height which led to the u.s. invasion in iraq. in exactly three years since wiki leaks published a graphic video which left an indelible blot on america's reputation the footage which shows u.s. helicopters killing more than a dozen 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 ethan 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 at ameri can't see anything. that right there is obviously a camera dangling. if you're to really pay attention. that guy has a k forty seven right there that i doubt 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. remember looking at me in the blood around her eyes made her eyes so ghostly why isn't grabs a girl and ran into a nearby building he then picks glass out of her eyes so she could blink and handed her off to a medic i went back outside and. was told to take pictures i started taking

pictures of the inside of the van and that's when he discovered the little boy and that's me. 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 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 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. i had 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 ethan 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. 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 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 war stress the future is far and the past is too much to cope with reporting from wichita kansas meghan lopez r.t. check out r.t. dot com for more information related to this week the leaked video and the storm which followed its release. the latest round of international talks on iran's nuclear program is 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 our team so you julie explained his position. chance economic 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 a radian 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 a fire you know what the actual fact they've done is deny an opportunity for their citizens 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 second. the us china russia the u.k. france and germany have proposed easing economic sanctions in return for iran stopping enrichment past twenty percent tehran says it has responded with its own

set of counterproposals based on the points made during a previous round of talks here in moscow mr hadley also said that one enrichment 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 at the british foreign and commonwealth office michael axworthy said it's been a much more positive meeting and there's much still today. 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 this dispute is very long running. for a long time has been. stalemate this is a lack of trust on both sides and i think it takes precisely these sorts of developments. a gradual shift in positions tools each other to begin to escape from our 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 nation the program report on pyongyang's warnings to foreign embassies to evacuate and why the u.s. and south korea aligning the north coast with warships also still to come the south . weary and todd of afghanistan france pushes for a thousand of its troops to be stationed imadi permanently after the break we had just what it is it's called the french so interested in money. ten years ago baghdad was overtaken. ten years of political infighting terrorism and economic decay. chimed in iraq a rise. or fall of. our april ninth.

the international airport in the very heart of moscow.

life here in moscow the news continues now moscow has accused the un of trying to undermine the investigation into 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 however directs the blame at damascus sara flounders head of the international action center has told me that the situation unraveling in syria is a repetition of what the u.s. has already carried out an other countries in the region. given the u.n. role in weapons investigations in iraq no this is not a reasonable request because the u.n. weapons investigators in fact for hand in hand with the cia with the pentagon and in every single in mapping the entire industrial infrastructure in iraq and they want to do the same thing in syria and you can certainly see the enormous

chaos the loss of life that u.s. wars in iraq and afghanistan in libya create it and when you look at libya today without an ounce of stability a completely unfunctional government the scenario at the same playbook seems to be who's now in syria as similar charges i mean who has the weapons of mass destruction in the world today it's the pentagon and that's a fact. but nevertheless news in the charge against countries that are trying to defend their own sovereignty again and again hides and an excuse for war for occupation for destabilization power for pumping more and more weapons and mercenaries that's why it's attempting to foment civil war sectarian warfare so dangerous. and the worst and most dangerous is again and again. from the state department from the white house has come the warnings chemical

weapons will be a possible excuse for deeper us and bob. 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 is probably at least to put a statement sells in response to u.s. and south korean warship encroachments patrick henningsen political analyst at cardiff as website twenty first century wattle column 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 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 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 missions are there is no need no nucular threat as we can say into 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 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. 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 at r.t. dot com aside from pictures and videos we've got full analysis of what's transpired in these last few weeks. thousand french troops may now permanently stay on in mali as a so-called peacekeeping force there are currently four thousand french troops in the african country after being flown in to squash an islamist insurgency the plan is now pending the approval of the government which came to power via a military coup last year robert harness an independent journalist covering mali says that france will keep its presence in the african country to preserve its influence in the region and not be pushed out by the us for a french point to west africa is a vital area in which they have had an interest for when they had an empire and then after general de gaulle gave the west african countries their independence france has retained its influence in the area and wants to continue to retain its

influence there so they realize that if they don't act in west africa the chances are the americans will push them out and they will lose out in commercial terms and politically the french are determined to have elections in july and their plan was to withdraw all their troops by july but this clearly hasn't happened isn't going to happen and all the people who know nothing about this question said it wouldn't happen once they got involved yes it's expensive but it's the price of retaining their influence in the united nations and their parents once in west africa 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 alleged inhumane conditions a claim 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 crashes germany during the holocaust it only has a small infirmary if you get placed there for several hours you leave with sick it means your 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 them were. president small acts superstars and businessmen worldwide have been left red faced in 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 cyber security expert and a whole soul has a campaign manager of the u.k. pirate party pointed out to me earlier that we are any there is that some of those with tax haven accounts actively promoted austerity. 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 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 us well they sent offshore in ways that aren't necessarily being tracked and monitored are available to governments that maybe should be so it's a vast amount of places 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 question 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 holds for them and we're asking exactly that on our home page on our web site r t v dot com all on our online poll and here's what those you view who've already taken part think so far forty five percent almost half believe that tax havens will stay strong demand from criminals and tax evaders will always exist a quarter think that distrust of government will continue to push people to store their money off shore a little less feel that the cyprus president will ultimately lead to the demise of tax havens and fewer still think that governments will do their very best to end

off shore banking have your say and r.t. dot com because to hear from me. 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 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 and lee is the author of the book what the u.s. can learn from china and says the west has much to glean from asia in forums such as these white they can find out is obviously what he plans to lay out on china's i am and that could have certainly over for butterfly effect on the rest of the world and understanding how they're going to go about doing it and watching there are that does this as well their failure can be very. very very practical approach economics almost the same way that

scientists would test out a theory in a laboratory and so they can use the economy and toss it out like a petri dish in different areas to see if they're going to get it peter ford salt. and in the next couple of days will be following the fireworks from the new forum to rival davos on hat and online on r.t. . if you would delete economic forum for the big players who are shaping tomorrow's global ecology while twenty thirty the stakes are high today on our t.v. . turning to some other international news making headlines around the world at the stage of the day hundreds of thousands of muslims have rallied in bangladesh's capital demanding anti blasphemy laws that would punish those who insulted them it was a clash with government supporters outside the capital resulting in one beth the demonstration proceeded despite a day long countrywide shutdown of the was didn't dominate the country and posed by

liberal and secular groups to denounce the rally. also not what of a bizarre authorities at the guantanamo bay prison say more detainees have joined a large hunger strike at the facility putting the number of those refusing food to forty one inmates lawyers however say the figure is several times higher with three of the prisoners hospitalized in iran a dozen currently being force fed protest against harsh conditions at the camp began about two months ago. well that's it for the moment more news in just over half an hour from now in the meantime you can find out what the banks would prefer that you never knew that will be in the cards report here stay with us resulting in moscow.

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 worse than two point five million people this was a huge protests. 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 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. welcome to the kaiser report i'm max foster where the concerned trolls they cut and paste are concerned for your well being oh my god george soros the selling is paper gold just like he did last year and the year before that and the quarter before that every other quarter before that of course he is a was buying the paper gold right back after the headlines concern trolled you into

selling your real goal and in the meantime having sold your real goal you are now no longer a hedge against inflation deflation confiscation stacey or max they're so concerned for your well being they're only telling you this because they're worried about you gold bubble scene turning to bear market by soc gen on recovery investors are unlikely to raise gold holdings because inflation has remained low signs that the economy is improving may spur the federal reserve to curb stimulus and the dollar has strengthened soc gen said today in a report the other. financial narcissism because the dow jones is hitting all time new highs but that dowd jones is the inflation the money printing any five billion dollars a month by ben bernanke is being front run by manipulators and stock traders who then are gaining on the good.