clashes break out in egypt's capital cairo as police fired tear gas to disperse protesters joined the day of rage against the islamist rulers. painful scars of war r t catches up with the u.s. army veteran who was witness to a notorious u.s. led massacre in iraq and says what he saw almost made him take his own life and. western diplomats say they're happy with iran's added to that the latest round of international nuclear talks despite a lack of a significant breakthrough iran's new chief negotiator speaks exclusively with r.t. about his country's stance on the stalemate.

two am in moscow i matras a good to have you with us here on r t our top story clashes have broken out between thousands of anti-government protesters and riot police in egypt's capital cairo people have been taking to the streets joining in a so-called day of rage against the country's islamic rule rally organized by the april sixth youth movement that played a crucial role in the ousting of egypt's former leader hosni mubarak and has now turned its back against the current leadership let's go to cairo based journalist tom della for the latest updates tell us what's the latest going on right there in egypt. well the less we understand is that there are clashes still going on on the streets of downtown cairo metal barricades being pulled off across the street seem prices that take us the smoke from fire rocks the finning the others the wail of sirens and we even in this town that clashes spread to the town of mahama which was so important for the both of the april sixth movement five years ago. on monday five years ago police fired live ammunition into

a crowd protesting against rises in food prices they killed three people including a fifteen year old boy and tonight there's no suggestion that anyone has been killed but still there are an easy echoes of that day i'd say once again a peaceful demonstration has been fired upon. once again there are complaints that the interior ministry and the security services are brutal and on reform and once again food prices are rising while wages remain stagnant and in that context this is just the latest sign of a growing polaroids ation between mohamed morsi says we misled government and the opposition on the streets tells more about that opposition on the streets who are they and what are their main goals. as i say for six grew out of this. movement five years ago which was really one of the first staging posts

in what was to become in two thousand and eleven the egyptian revolution i spoke to the leader of the april sixth movement earlier today he actually made the movement to support the muslim brotherhood. and president mohamed morsi indeed against the alternative contender for the presidency in some last year and they did so because they said that that was necessary in order to hold off the representatives of the old security apparatus but now have told me the muslim brotherhood and president mohamed morsi have broken the promises which they made to the revolutionary youth including to april sixth and that's why people are on the streets of that's why they're angry all right tom bell thanks very much for your update. thank you well it's been exactly three years since wiki leaks published a graphic video that left a black mark on the u.s. action in iraq the footage that shows u.s. helicopters killing more than a dozen iraqi civilians not only shocked the world but had an impact on u.s.

soldiers who say they witnessed a massacre we spoke with an army veteran who shared his memories of a day he says he'd rather forget. morning walk 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 in these guys. and from looking at it now you can't see anything and i mean that right there is obviously a camera dangling. if you're to really pay attention. for that guy has an a k forty seven right there baghdad iraq two thousand and seven two hundred sixteenth battalion was out patrolling a volatile part of the city i was about five blocks away four or five blocks away to the. to the left of the screen this was a battalion wide mission and then the situation turned deadly. we

heard the apache was firing. ethan and his infantry squad began running toward the scene to provide support again the apache helicopter opened fire. when he arrived on the scene the apache guns were quiet the accused enemies were dead. one guy's head the top of his head was completely off and the brains were. on the ground and the smell this smell so. i don't even know how to describe it when he approached the van a noise even wasn't expecting a cry of a little girl and she's four years old. you could tell she had a wound to the stomach and. remember looking at me and. the blood around her eyes made her eyes so ghostly why isn't grabbed

a girl and ran into a nearby building he then picks glass out of her eyes so she could blink and handed her off to a medic i went back outside and. was told to take pictures i started taking pictures of the inside of the van and that's when he discovered the little boy and that's me. 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 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 . 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 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 those who 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 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 to the barrel of 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. . started r.t. dot com for more information related to the wiki leaks video and the storm that 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 u.s. russia china the u.k. france and germany have proposed easing economic sanctions in return for iran stopping uranium enrichment past twenty percent tehran says it says it's all responded with its own set of counteroffers based on the points made during a previous round of talks in moscow tehran's chief negotiator said that while

enrichment of uranium is iran's indispensable right the country may consider suspending it in order to build trust speaking exclusively with out with r t saeed jalili who is declared western sanctions as one of the stumbling blocks hindering the talks chance in the whole 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 a radian people have managed to transform those threats into opportunities at the moment to run 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 same life creatures into space these are indications that the policy of sanctions has been very much if i you know what in 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 new legal base to stand many countries including russia and china time and again have expressed their opposition to the senate. while the world tries to dissuade iran from potential nuclear weapons program north korea professes to be on the verge of using its own later in the program the report. karen hughes warnings to foreign embassies to clear out and ask why the u.s. and south korea are sending warships near the north's coastline. but first a second chinese city is started calling birds in a wave of panic about a possible even flu outbreak fears of also spread to neighboring countries six people have died out of the eighteen infected figures far from epidemic or pilbeam looks now word who might hope to benefit though from any bird flu. pandemic is already spreading across the globe over phases of a bird flu epidemic in china twenty thousand birds were slaughtered at one local

market japan has a health warning some people coming into the country from china hong kong says slumped in chinese as a line stocks in an attempt to restrict travel vietnam pounds poultry imports from china and taiwan raises quarantine. all u.s. and china already looking into creating a vaccine for this specific type of bird flu drug produces already poised to jump in and produce a cure out of 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 class a smith kline secured a billion dollar contract from it mikey a billion dollars from vaccines alone last year my 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. was it only britain where the big pharmaceutical companies made billions from the swine flu panic let's take a look at how the fear spread across the world during that outbreak so after the first suspected case that was reported in mexico in march of two thousand and nine it took less than a month for the world forward epidemic to appear in the media that was even before the first deaths from swine flu was confirmed what happened after that 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 thousands of deaths so all the worldwide it transpired that many millions of dollars spent on the vaccine were wasted less than a year after those were ordered in the u.s. alone forty million of them expired and had to be destroyed as a result billions of dollars of which billions of dollars worth of profits were

made by big pharmaceutical companies little more than a year will have to wait and see where the current bird flu hype leads next will stay with us for more after a short break. well with. science technology innovations all the latest developments from around russia we've got this huge you're covered.

removal of international and the world in the very heart of moscow. thanks for staying with us here on our t.v. quarter past the hour now foreign embassies in pyongyang are staying put for now despite warnings from the regime there to evacuate the north korean government says it can't guarantee the safety of diplomatic enclave citing tensions and the threat of war the north has primed at least two ballistic missiles in response to the u.s. and south korea's warship encroachments they say patrick headings in an analyst at

current affairs website twenty first century wire says so far he sees only hyping the crisis. the big question is how this hyped up at the beginning had to do with the nucular threat from north korea and there's a series of things that have gone on in the last months to get us to that conclusion and i can't help but remember in the run up to the iraq war everyone was asking would saddam hussein used chemical weapons or not but no one actually asked the question does he really have them in the first place and the same question i just asked regarding north korea what is their nucular of threat and as far as i can see as far as u.s. officials actual emissions are there is no need no nucular threat as we can say into a ballistic missile threat to the united states so this is very much overhyped in the cold war theatrical sense but the pivot towards asia from the united states is very real ok right now since this crisis began the philippines has already okayed

the use of more bases for the united states in that country and there was a deal to decommission some of the okinawa sites in japan and that might be off the table as a result of the hype of this particular conflict so you know you see the military industrial complex needs a reason to exist and i believe the north korean threat to be in theatrical real just that reason here is the pretext for the expansion of the military economy from the u.s. side. who lost three hundred protesters were detained and fined after participating in a demonstration deemed illegal by police in the canadian city of montreal people were ticketed for opposing a by law that allows peace to police to shut down rallies the controversial legislation the states groups are required to provide state authorities with an i ten or a before hitting the streets or march could be illegal let's go now to ethan cox i quebec correspondent for rabble dot ca who was at friday's protest so tell us what happened at the protest when you were there. well basically the march was allowed

to go around in a large circle of zero three times with all of the other streets it could've could've left on blocked off by police before police moved in and used the tactic no one scheduling with basically means when lines of riot cops surround the crowd on all sides and don't allow anyone to leave and then proceeded to give a six hundred thirty seven dollar ticket to everyone who was caught up in this battle and it's important to point out that there was no provocation there was no violence nothing was broken and the state of affairs in montreal right now is that for all intents and purposes peaceful protesters only go so then what's the problem though with submitting an itinerary before going on a march. well the issue of an early is really a red herring what we're talking about here is our constitutional right to peaceful assembly which is being encroached upon so there are a variety of reasons why people might want to or not give an itinerary but the most

important thing to understand is that for an ordinary citizen who wants to participate in a protest they're not an organizer and they don't have a soul over whether an itinerary is submitted or not so if i want to go out to the demonstration and express my displeasure with government policy i have the absolute guarantee constitutional right to do so whether the organizers of that protest submitted my ten or you're not is there any kind of push underway to change legislation then to change the law. yes and in this form by law which is the same time as what was known as bill seventy eight last year at the height of the student strike that law with them into law is of course appealed by the in coming government after the previous government and succeeded and so this new this will by a lawyer is is another during latency of that conflict so there is a municipal council meeting out there on the twenty second of april and a major demonstration is the whole the coincide with that meeting and trying to serve pressure on this bill politicians who feel that by law now by also understand

. the use of masks at protests why do you think the protesters would find it necessary to cover their faces. while there are a number of reasons first of all people up the right to conceal their identity people may have a job that they could lose if their boss saw them at a protest people might have family members that would be disappointed or they're going to reasons why people wouldn't want there and be known and then of course there are also issues of cost which are often used to political satire here in the back we have moscow all sorts of the protest movement dresses up in a panda there are other people that dress up in rabbit that there is in banana suits so there's a lot of reasons why people cover their face but what's what's important in old boat a boat is this prohibition is that there's already a federal law on the books that makes it an additional crime to be wearing a mask while many criminal law so the only thing different about this probation is it means that people can be charged for simply covering their face without getting

any other criminal offense which which goes way too far when you're talking about masts and satire and people dressed up and a suit being arrested. can we expect more protests that against obama. i think it's it's difficult to say there's there's a real climate of fear in montreal right now nobody really knows what to make of this live in a country where we've always taken for granted the right to protest the right to express our opinion and so a lot of people right now are very very fearful and so there's an attitude that people want to go out they want to challenge this by law they know what's happening is not right but at the same time they're afraid six hundred thirty seven dollars is a significant take it on a second offense if you go over a thousand dollars so i think there's also a lot of fear out there i think that most people's efforts are focused mobilizing for the twenty second because obviously once a protest is large enough then the police don't have the ability to have a look thanks fareed you can talk to thank you. well scott has accused the

u.n. of trying to undermine the investigation into use of chemical weapons inside syria syria's government claims rebels used illegal agents near the city of aleppo last month killing around two dozen the opposition no direct blame out damascus sara flounders head of the international action center though says the situation under raveling in syria is a repetition of what the west has already carried out and other countries in the region. given the u.n. needs lol in weapons investigations in the last no this is not just means in the book the quest because the un weapons and vested interest in fact worked hand in hand with the cia with the pentagon and in every single and not being the entire industrial infrastructure in iraq and they want to do the same thing in syria who can certainly see the anonymous chaos the loss of life that us wars in the black and the last stand in libya created and when you look at libya today

without an ounce of stability a completely unfunctional the scenario at the same playbook seems to be who's now in syria is similar charges i mean who has the weapons of mass destruction well today it's the pentagon and that's the thought. but nevertheless news in the charge of homes on trees that are trying to defend their own sovereignty again and again and it's used for war occupation for destabilization or for pumping more and more weapons and mercenary usage that's wads attempting to foment civil war sectarian warfare so mary dangerous policy. and the worst and most dangerous is again and again power from the state department in the white house as humble warnings that have a whole weapons going to be a possible excuse for deeper us and bob. a thousand french troops now could be

permanently stationed in mali as a so-called peacekeeping force currently four thousand french troops in the african country after being flown in to squash an islamist insurgency there the plan is now pending into play a pending the approval of mali's government came to power via a military coup last year robert harness a journalist covering mali says that france will keep its presence in the african country to revert to preserve its influence in the region from a french point of view 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 says 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 that plaid was

to withdraw all their troops by july but this clearly it 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 don't see west africa. turning now to some other stories making global headlines this hour hundreds of thousands of muslims are out in the bangladeshi capital demanding anti blasphemy laws that would promise those who insult islam they also clashed with government supporters outside the capital leading to at least one death the demonstration proceeded despite a day long nationwide shutdown of the muslim dominated country imposed by liberal and secular groups to denounce the route. of six americans including three civilians killed in afghanistan in two separate incidents three u.s. soldiers and two civilians killed in the country's southern province of as a boy after a suicide bomber detonated a car full of explosives another u.s.

civilian was killed in a separate insurgent attack in the country's east u.s. led nato forces plan to pull out of all their combat troops or a pull out their combat troops from afghanistan by two thousand and fourteen country remains how volatile you know troops regularly coming under insurgent attack. authorities of 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 but the figure at several times higher with three of the prisoners hospitalized and around a dozen being force fed under a strike over harsh conditions imposed on detainees at the camp started about two months ago. after the break a report on the lives of palestinian families living next to a waste facility stay with us here on our.

you know when 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 and 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 toward

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.

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