clashes break out in cairo as police fired tear gas to disperse protesters who joined the day of rage against islamist rulers. scars of war r t catches up with an american army veteran who says he was witness to a notorious u.s. led massacre in iraq and says the horrors he saw almost made him take his own life . western diplomats say they're satisfied with iran's attitude at the latest round of international nuclear talks despite a lack of significant breakthroughs tehran's chief negotiator has exclusively spoken with r.t. about his country's stance on the stalemate. five am in moscow i match reza good having you with us here on r t our top story clashes are broken out between thousands of demonstrators and riot police in egypt's

capital cairo people took to the streets calling joining the so-called day of rage against the country's islamic rulers the rallies been organized by the april sixth youth movement which played a crucial role in ousting egypt's former leader hosni mubarak and has now turned its back against the current leaders kyra based journalist tom dale has more. clashes have broken out in downtown cairo metal barricades have put being pulled across the streets take us in smoke fills the air in the way of sirens the familiar green lasers a cutting from the gas once again clashes and spread to the town of my house which is so important the first of the it will cease 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 still there on an easy echoes of that day up once again an unarmed peaceful demonstration has been fired upon there are complaints that the interior ministry and the security services are brutal and on reform food prices

are rising while wages remain stagnant and in that context this is just the latest sign of a growing polarized nation between mohamed morsi says the misled government and the opposition on the streets april sixth 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 the un she led the movement to support the muslim brotherhood. and president mohamed morsi indeed against the alternative contender for the presidency in someone last year but now the muslim brotherhood and president mohamed morsi of broken the promises which they made to the revolutionary youth including to april sixth and that's why people are on the streets and that's why they're angry it's been three years since wiki leaks published a graphic video that left a black mark on america's action in iraq footage showing u.s. helicopters killing more than

a dozen iraqi civilians shocked the world and had an impact on the soldiers who say they witnessed the massacre we spoke with an army veteran who shared his memories of a day he says he'd rather forget. fork 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 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 were 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 and. 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 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 . 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 before i did a. rep of the gun in my mouth and.

i don't know if i really want to talk about it. these then story is tragic yes but he certainly isn't alone tens of thousands of military veterans suffer the effects of p.t.s.d. long after they leave the battlefield and for the also simply can't cope with the stress often times they choose to end their own lives their fathers and brothers sons and soldiers and now they're simply another time and american wars abroad in the past two years alone ethan has lost eight of his veteran brothers to suicide and his outlook on life hasn't improved with time i know that i will never ever ever get better i'll never get over this for the world 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 and 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 our dot com for more information related to the wiki leaks video and the controversy following it's really. latest round of international talks on iran's nuclear program has wrapped up in kazakstan participants praising the negotiations as constructive despite reaching no immediate agreements the u.s. china russia the u.k. france and germany all proposing easing economic sanctions in return for on halting uranium enrichment past twenty percent says its responded with its own set of counterproposal based on points made during

a previous round of talks held in moscow tehran's chief negotiator said while enrichment of uranium is iran's right the country may consider suspending it in order to build trust speaking with our teesside jolie also declared western sanctions one of the stumbling blocks hindering talks. you know mad threats against might be a nothing new in the various u.s. administration has had level threats and taken hostile action against white people including the imposition of sanctions this is especially true for the past two years they themselves have openly said that they are trying to impose crippling sanctions however they have seen for themselves that arabian people have managed to transform those threats into opportunity and at the moment they're braun 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 policy of sanctions has been very much up for 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. former head of iran a section of the british foreign and commonwealth office michael axworthy says the latest meeting has been much more positive than previous tries but there's still a lot of work to be done. what has happened seems to sound a good deal not positive than 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 this being a 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 be given to escape from the stalemate 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 later in the program or for a young yang's warnings to foreign embassies to clear out and we ask why the u.s. and south korea are sending warships near the north's coastline. a second chinese city has started calling birds in a wave of panic over a possible bird flu outbreak fears have also spread to neighboring countries six people dead of the eighteen infected figures that while tragic are far from epidemic artie's katie pilbeam takes a look at who may benefit though from the 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 pounds 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 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 glaxo smith kline secured a billion dollar contract from it make you 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 in britain where the big drug companies made billions of dollars from the swine flu panic let's take a look at how the fear spread across the world during an outbreak four years ago now first suspected case was reported in mexico in march of two thousand and nine it took less than a month for the word epidemic to appear in the media after that this is before even the first death from swine flu was confirmed when that happened swine flu immediately blew up grabbing the media headlines shortly afterward the world health organization declared a swine flu pandemic and mass vaccinations were produced despite thousands of deaths worldwide though many millions of dollars spent on the vaccine went wasted less than a year after the doses awarded the u.s. alone forty forty million of the doses expired and had to be destroyed this did however lead to billions of dollars worth of profits for big pharmaceutical companies and a little more than a year's time will have to wait and see what the current bird flu hype and elite.

foreign embassies in pyongyang staying put for now despite warnings from the measure from the regime there to evaluate north korea's government says it can't guarantee safety of diplomatic enclave citing tensions and the threat of war the north has primed at least two ballistic missiles saying it's a response to the u.s. and south korea moving warships near its coast patrick headings in an analyst at current affairs website twenty first century wire says so far he only sees hype in 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 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 has 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 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 and almost three hundred protesters detained in find after participating in a demonstration deemed illegal by canadian police in the city of montreal people there are ticketed for opposing a bylaw that allows police to shut down such rallies controversial legislation states groups are required to provide state authorities with an i ten year area before taking to the streets or the marches illegal ethan cox quebec correspondent for canadian affairs website rabble dot ca says a new bylaw is a violation of citizen's rights. municipal by a lot of the sixty's and active at the height of the student strike last year in your provincial law. law as well which was announced by everyone in the united nations high commissioner on human rights to the back bar association representing all the provinces lawyers and prosecutors but it was a serious violation of civil liberties which was then repealed by the incoming

provincial government and the fact that the montreal police are now using this pile always hears it in so many ways in which it's also been denounced by every civil liberties and human rights organization and this is really troubling it's it's a clear violation of our constitution and and one that's obviously going to be found to be a violation once it gets to court cases heard that it's it's a very it's a very disturbing situation right now here and the end result of the use of this file right now is that people are being rounded up and and charged and given six hundred thirty seven dollars a ticket for no crime other than they can keep it because hey you used to protest nobody really knows what to make of this we 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. remember there's always more news

for you a click away at our team dot com including this miracle baby in india a ten month old girl surviving after thirty six hours trapped under the rubble of a collapsed eight story building in mumbai the kind of web site for the full story plus. fifty suspected former guards from the notorious auschwitz concentration camp may be brought to justice for holocaust atrocities sixty years after the end of the second world war more details a click away on our team dot com. moscow's accusing the u.n. of trying to undermine the investigation into the use of chemical weapons in syria syria's government claims rebels used illegal agents near the city of aleppo last month killing around two dozen the opposition the director blame it damascus sara flounders head of the international action center says situation and arrival in syria is a reputation a repetition of what the west has already done in other countries. given the u.n. needs lol and weapons investigations in iran no this is not only reasonable request

because the un weapons and vested interest in fact worked hand in hand with the cia with the pentagon and in every single in mopping the entire industrial infrastructure in iraq and they want to do the same thing in syria you can certainly see the enormous chaos the loss of life that us wars in iraq and afghanistan in libya created and when we look at libya today without an ounce of stability a completely unfunctional government the scenario at the same playbook seems to be used now in syria as similar charges i mean who has the weapons of mass destruction but well today it's the pentagon and that's a fact. but nevertheless news in the charge against untrue saturday trying to defend their own sovereignty again and again and i suppose it's used for war the

occupation for destabilization power for pumping in more and more weapons and mercenary which that's why it's attempting to foment civil war sectarian warfare it's a dangerous policy. and the worst and most dangerous is again and again. from the state department in the white house has come the warnings have a whole weapons would be a possible excuse for deeper us symbolic. a thousand french troops may now be permanently stay and may now permanently stay on in mali as a so-called peacekeeping force there currently four thousand french troops in the african country after being flown into aquash an islamist insurgency the plan is now pending the approval of mali's government which came to power by a military coup last year robert harness an independent journalist covering mali says france will keep its presence in the country to preserve its influence in the region from a french point to you know 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 that is so they realize that if they don't act in west africa the chances of 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 the 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 rallied in bangladesh's capital demanding anti blasphemy laws

to punish those who insult islam they also clashed with government supporters outside the capital leading to one death the demonstration went on despite a day long nationwide shutdown of the muslim dominated country and acted by liberal and secular groups to denounce the rally. seven people including six americans killed in afghanistan in two separate incidents three u.s. soldiers two civilians along with an afghan doctor died in the country's southern province of zabul after a suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives another u.s. civilian killed in a separate insurgent attack in the country's east u.s. led nato forces plan to withdraw all combat troops from afghanistan by twenty fourteen the country remains highly volatile with nato troops regularly coming under insurgent attacks. authorities at guantanamo bay prison the same or detainees have joined a large hunger strike at the facility but in the number of those refusing food to forty one inmates lawyers though say the figure is several times higher with three

of the prisoners hospitalized and around a dozen currently being force fed under a strike over harsh conditions imposed on the detainees at the camp began about two months ago. several hundred catholic protesters rallied in paris in opposition to the legalization of gay marriage and child adoption by same sex couples this comes before the bill giving the green light for gay couples to marry and adopt children of those under debate in the country's upper house of parliament despite president francois hollande support for the issue it's faced wide opposition from the public leading to a wave of protests in the country's capital. presidents monarchs superstars businessmen worldwide left red faced by a new tax haven scandal originating this time in the british virgin islands millions of leaked e-mails expose offshore ties of the world's elite to the sunny caribbean islands cyber security expert and the halls all whose campaign manager for the u.k. pirate party points out the irony of those with tax haven accounts actively promoting 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 more than actually doing in terms of their personal finances have there been discussions about using this. to 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 or available to governments that maybe should be so it's a vast amount of inflation it's a vast amount of money and governments don't seem able or the moment willing to

deal with it as best they can in terms of whistleblowing 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 mapped 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 week for tax havens on our website our team dot com we're asking what you think will become of them let's take a look on our web poll about how the numbers are stacking up right now thank you all for taking part in the poll if you already have if not be sure to click on it and do so almost half of at this moment think tax savings will stay strong as demand from criminals and tax evaders will always exist just over

a quarter think distrust of the government will continue to push people to store offshore money eighteen percent feel the cyprus precedent will ultimately lead to a demise of tax savings and if you are still think that governments will do their best and offshore banking will click as i said on r.t. dot com and have your say well still to come we continue our report on the lives of palestinian families living next to a waste facility after a short break stay with us here on our.

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