stories that showed the week here on r.t. north korea gives its military the green light to strike big while says that counter what it calls washington's aggression made growing doubts beyond the capability of fulfilling its threat. a probe has been launched into a normal spill caused by one america's called for giants in the state of arkansas while local households seek reimbursement for the damage done. by fresh i'll break a great deal of the israel of the doubt for palestinian prisoners sponsor riots mass hunger strikes in jails under rocket exchanges. and a mass protest against the new law designed to clamp down on the rallies these hundreds detained in turn eighteen in the canadian city of montreal those people say that legislation is a severe abuse of civil rights. the

latest stories and the week's top news this is the weekly here on r.t. with me hello and welcome to the program. north korea iran top its war a trick this week and now saying its army is now officially authorized to wage a nuclear attack on the u.s. the warning was followed by reports pyongyang moved to ballistic missiles to its east coast north korea is saying is actions are aimed at countering aggression by washington which has built up its military presence in the read. deep and so does that pyongyang is capable of turning its war was into action unlike the us he's going after chicken explains. to north korea's bellicose threats washington responds with an even more intense buildup of military power in the region to that north korea responds with even more threats even though defense secretary chuck

hagel called north korea real and clear danger the white house says they haven't seen any large scale movements from north korean military forces suggesting that it may be just rhetoric but while north korea talks washington acts apart from f. twenty two fighter jets and other bombers that it sent to the region for the ongoing military exercises with south korea the pentagon is now deploying an advanced missile defense system to guam post a major u.s. military base in asia north korea the north korean army has announced that it has the final approval for a nuclear attack on the u.s. as they tell us north korean rockets can't really reach the u.s. mainland but they can potentially attack u.s. bases in the region there are twenty thousand u.s. troops just across the border in south korea so could we see the worst nuclear standoff since the cuban missile crisis between the soviet union and the u.s. even though the rhetoric is probably as hostile as it's ever been no one really believes that north korea is actually going to carry out an attack north korea itself knows that if it did the attack the united states it would be committing

national suicide the united states would retaliate in a tremendous fashion north korea does not want to commit suicide i believe north korea is doing all this so it can get to a point to actually negotiate some kind of peace agreement with the united states in the u.s. media to you have all pundits basically saying the same thing that north korea is not going to strike because they know it's a suicide that they want to reach some kind of a deal with washington but they're not going to get it you have former officials experts all saying that but with all this war talk from north korea and with u.s. military buildup in the region some say all it may take is for one of the sides to snap or some kind of a mistake before everything spirals out of control in washington i'm going to check on. and independent journalist james corbett says despite the function not a sign of war there are those who benefit from keeping the situation on a knife edge. i think that really the all of the players here have

a vested interest in keeping the tension up but not allowing it to spill over and i think that obviously works for north korea which could be easily wiped out in a in military confrontation but it also works for south korea and america and all of the allies here in this region that are that also serve to benefit from this and we've seen this directly for example with the announcement of more missile defense on the western coast of the united states that there are now going to be fourteen new ground based interceptors deployed at fort greely alaska at a cost u.s. taxpayers a one billion dollars by two thousand and seventeen so this is this is doing a fantastic business for the defense contractors who serve to to to feed into this tension and play off of it so i don't i think that honestly there isn't a lot of plans for preemptive strikes at this moment i think it's more a question of if this will accidentally spill over into something more. the north korean crisis is also the main focus of the militias breaking the set here and i'll

say this week so head to our website to see the full program where among other things gas to what the u.s. could possibly gain from taping the situation. the rhetoric from high level north korean officials is not letting up and as a result the u.s. announced that in a precautionary move they'll be speeding up the deployment of advanced missile system defense to the region in the next few weeks this following a series of u.s. training exercises in south korea as a show of military straight including sending b. two stealth bombers each of which cost taxpayers more than three billion dollars but wait before you run for your bunkers supported understand the legitimacy of these threats and the context of why they're happening in the first place you know i just read today that north korea's actually proposed continued efforts for a peace treaty in the past it kind of flies in the face of everything that we're told that north korea is this hostile nation and if this is true why isn't this proposed peace treaty come to fruition well because the united states is interested in peace i mean as we know many people in america do not know one of the key

negotiating points for the north koreans has always been the side of peace treaty only the armistice has been signed the united states refuses to sign a peace treaty because they feel they have no interest in a peaceful resolution of north korea the north korean issue because their north korea would be free to not spend all their money on the military not have to be consistently concerned with being invaded by the united states and so by keeping up the pressure on north korea militarily and by sanctions it sort of forces them into a fortress like mentality which makes it look like the least desirable place in the world to live and that's very valuable to us propaganda in terms of saying to other countries you should do what we. do you ever seen anything like. the u.s. state of arkansas one has launched a probe into a new oil spill in the city of mayflower which affected at least sixty homes the

local government along with two households which filed a federal lawsuit is seeking from one of america's largest oil companies responsible for the disaster and who was affected by the pegasus pipeline rupture told us about the message made. i got off work early and was headed back to my home and a police officer at the entrance to the neighborhood not allowing anybody in i asked why he said the issue was there was no will still in the area and i told him my family and my wife and children at the home so he allowed me in were to get a little town to back them up and get them on the road in and begin to survey the damage and there was oil just flowing down the street behind our house well it actually went through some yards and some of the houses and down one of the main streets in our subdivision it's a big effect on quite a few houses what about the people that would think it was twenty too much as a fact it was just a bad back in now with a no sir there are still staying in local hotels in the area they they've been

allowed back in their homes for you know twenty minutes at a time and together belongings take care of pets and they don't know when they'll be back for good i guess the lots of people from officials in exile know bill then coming to apologize and one of the speaks to a larger. there are some in the area there's a claims apartment that's been set out but we've not heard a lot from them just yet so it's kind of taking a wait and see approach what happens next how are we going to be compensated and along with for us some of our neighbors can get back in their homes would you have hoped for more hands on of approach might be a problem so far could you have done mislead a few more people in the company well so far as the cleanup process they've done a good job there but they've not done a really good job of communicating to some of the residents that would be this all part of large city sixty five years old is one of the oldest in the country isn't it i don't know whether worries in your community about this before considering the amount of law that was going through it daily at its age which well truth of the matter is a lot of the residents in our neighborhood weren't aware that the plan was even

there but yes believe it or not and that may be a shame on us kind of thing but friday afternoon when the wall was running down the street that was the first time many folks even knew there was anywhere in the area . so you can follow the in-depth oil spill timeline on our website to dot com including photos and videos from the disaster area. as the world keeps a close eye on the both broken china panic is already spreading across neighboring neighboring countries six people have died so far out of the eighteen and affected figures far from an epidemic on his case a pilgrim looks now at who might hope to benefit from anybody who hype panic is already spreading across the globe over fears of a bird flu epidemic in china twenty thousand birds were slaughtered at one local market japan has health warnings on people coming into the country from china hong kong shares slumped in chinese airline stocks in an attempt to restrict travel

vietnam bans poultry imports from china and taiwan it 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 and 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 are the government panicked and splashed out billions on vaccinations pharmaceutical giant glaxo smith kline secured a billion dollar contract from it make you billion dollars from vaccines alone last year i reality four hundred fifty seven people died from swine flu a third of which die of regular flu every year so while china battles with the flu drug companies are no doubt preparing for a multi billion dollar order. it wasn't only britain where big pharmaceutical is

made billions from this one flu panic let's now take a look at how c. is spread across the globe during that outbreak and after the first suspected cases reported in mexico in march two thousand and nine it took less than a month of the world epidemic to appear in the media and that was even before the first death from swine flu was confronted well one that i hop and swine flu immediately became the most covered news story in the media and shortly after the world health organization declared a swine flu pandemic and a mass vaccinations were produced so despite thousands of deaths worldwide it transpires that many millions of dollars spent on the vaccine wasted less than a year after the doses were already in the u.s. alone forty million of them expired and had to be destroyed and as a result billions of dollars worth of profits were made by a big pharmaceutical in a little over a gear as you can see here so we'll have to wait and see where where the current

through higher believes this time around. you're watching also a line from more news coming your way also a short break including. a day of rage in cairo most puncture the age of congress so we're pretty far into to despise those protests thanks. to. the hunger strike on tunnel day and as it said none found the risk to prisoners how from grows rapidly we'll look at why washington continues to talk down this scale approaches for the price.

i mean so should the u.s. city in europe on a host of the twenty four g. in the winter the trigger. thank you. so much. a. dog days are. days it. calms. the sun it's so true. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

this is the weekly on our c. welcome back egypt is once again being groped by protests and fighting five people have been killed and at least eighty wounded and clashes between christians and muslims in a town near cairo is some of the most sick terror and violence the country's seen in months so the capital itself and anti-government demonstrations demanding regime change attended by thousands and didn't scuffles with riot police and cairo based journalist tom daley has the details there. clashes have broken out in downtown

cairo metal barricades have put being pulled across the streets tear gas and smoke fills the air and the wave of sirens the familiar green laser cutting through the gas once again clashes spread to the town of my house which was so important for the birth of the april sixth movement five years ago on that day 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 their own only easy echoes of that day are once again unarmed peaceful demonstrations being fired upon there are complaints of 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 zation between mohamed morsi says the misled government and the opposition on the streets i spoke to the leader of the april sixth young she led the movement to support the muslim brotherhood. and president mohamed morsi indeed

against the alternative contender for the presidency in some way last year but now the muslim brotherhood and president mohamed morsi have broken the promises which they made to the revolutionary youth including two april sixth and that's why people are on the streets and that's why they're angry. and staying in the region and tunnels between israel and palestine have flared up once again this week fueled by the death of a high profile police sting in prison or so a life sentence in an israeli trail the backlash in committed violent protests across the west bank last hunger strike as by hunger strikes by palestinian inmates and fresh rocket exchanges between israel and hamas all these rain are going to cause in the west bank closely following the developments that. well one man's death turned into a rage of the masses at the beginning of the week sixty four year old my sorrow book from dia died in the israeli prison according to his family the palestinian prisoner has complained about his health since the summer of last year but it was

only in march that doctors told him that he had a terminal illness and only days left to live news of the hunt is death spread like wildfire cross the palestinian territories clashes haven't asked numerous towns and villages across the region resulting in the deaths of two palestinian teenagers but the most intense clashes between israeli security forces and palestinian protesters took place right here in hebron the hometown of abu hamza your rage smoke tear gas and rubber bullets filled the streets as people expressed their feelings about the treatment of from dia as well as thousands of other palestinians in confinement. a state of widespread anger and diggnation over. what many people here. primitive murder by israelis palestinians think that the death of my father was

a direct result of israeli criminal negligence moral powerlessness more than four thousand palestinian inmates went on hunger strike to show what they thought about him d. his death gaza broke the fragile four month long ceasefire fire rockets into southern israel and the listing an airstrike from tel aviv come to his death provided an outlet for frustration that has been building up for years since the palestinian uprising in the beginning of the century known as the second intifada a growing number of israeli settlements palestinian prisoners and as a result a peace process in jeopardy every. palestinian being israeli prison. rules. can really explode there can be very very sophisticated playing how to go in full world and all to be with you and with such one. of. palestinian prisoners and the most gracious.

the most traitor of the whole thing can explode this was the second palestinian death in an israeli jail this year the regular old earth larger adult died of a heart attack in february causes such as these only adds to the anger palestinians feel towards israel people on the street once a movement and we do not see any movement toward liberation what we see is continued occupation intensification of settlements intensification of abduction and killing of people every aleksey which some believe could be and should be changed. that israel will. release a good number of palestinians to show goodwill and. readiness for real negotiations with the palestinians

a simple solution that maybe to some but it still depends on whether israel has the good will to get in the west bank in tel aviv illegal is called acting. the mistreatment of palestinian prisoners is named as one reason for a massive cyber assault on israeli web space as a notorious hoax of his group anonymous claims to have attacked hundreds of his really websites and servers and we've got food posted by the hikers with more details and background to the vicious cyber strike. and a miracle baby in india a ten month old girl survives after thirty six hours trapped under the rubble of a collapsed eight story building in mumbai head to our website where the full story . behind bars without charge and starving for justice hunger strikers have gone tunnel been engaged in a desperate act of defiance for two months now the risk to their health is growing

rapidly but u.s. officials continue to downplay the scale of the crisis and federal public defender defender carlos warner a lawyer for gun tunnel detainees told the government's trying to itself into a no win situation. the military is underestimating the number by at least two thirds i think we have at least one hundred thirty men on hunger strike in guantanamo as we speak today the resolve has not changed in a week the military can force feed them they are playing a game of chicken with an opponent who is ready to die and you can't do that you will lose that game of chicken the military doesn't seem to grasp this logic at this point it's premature to even ask that the president close guantanamo we're just asking that he charge somebody with with the responsibility just one person if president obama gives us one person we can talk to and gives that person the strength of his office we can close guantanamo the pentagon general kelly from the

southern command went on the record and said look this is frustration because the president broke his promise that's unprecedented in our society to have a general tell the president look this is what's causing it it's not about the qur'an it's about the frustration that is going to animals so there is no longer want on a mole you have people that everyone even the ones that have been declared innocent are there for life until they die there indefinitely detained. so the pool say there are more yet many prisoners inside the child than from any other country and he has spoken exclusively to the president of yemen who says it's hypocritical for the u.s. to keep the facility open while so promoting the idea of democracy the full interview later today but here's a quick preview. we believe that keeping someone in detention for over ten years without due process is clear cut tyranny it will be difficult to rehabilitate

someone who's been through such an excruciating experience ten years of imprisonment without due process the united states is fond of talking democracy and human rights but when we were discussing the prisoner issue with the american justice secretary he had nothing to say. moscow has accused the un of trying to undermine the investigation into the use of chemical weapons in syria the syrian government claims rebels used illegal agents near the city of aleppo last month killing around two dozen the opposition however derives the blame at damascus author and political historian gerald horne explains why he believes the universe to geisha will bear no fruit. this quiet from the north atlantic countries about this chemical attack speaks volumes that speaks loudly because we all know that if this chemical attack could be pinned on the damascus regime of president all saw that they would have been shelling from the

rooftops about it the fact that they're not quiet about it i think says all that we need to know if the investigation is a relative beginner and united nations security council it is possible to have experts from beijing and moscow on the ground investigating but we all know that the rebels and their backers in turkey and israel and in gutter and in saudi arabia or putting on a full court press we all saw what happened at the arab league meeting this past week where they were able to maneuver the rebels to take the heat of the all assad regime we all know about the recent on talk between turkey and israel which does not bode well for a peaceful resolution of the syrian crisis therefore it seems to me that an attack of this chemical in an investigation of this chemical attack in moscow and beijing in particular managers who worked. in the canadian city alone troll almost three

hundred people have been detained and fined full taking part in a demonstration opposing and you know aimed at clamping down on fridays the controversial legislation says groups are required to provide state authorities that with an eye terry before they hit the strains or the marches illegal and well that correspondent for canadian affairs website ravel adult c.a.a. says they know is a clear violation of status as a right. minutes followed by a lot of the sixty's and active at the height of the student strike last year in your provincial law the law of twelve which was denounced by everyone in the united nations high commissioner on human rights to 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 my selfies are now using this file always here is that in so many ways in which has also been denounced by every civil liberties and human rights organization this is really troubling it's

a clear violation of our constitution and and one that's obviously going to be found to be a violation once it once the court case is heard that it's it's a very it's a very disturbing situation right now and the end result of the use of this file right now is that people are be rounded up and and charged and given six hundred thirty seven dollar tickets for no crime other than that ten thousand because he's a protest nobody really knows what to make of this late 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. coming out what's take a look at the natural wonderland of russia. as it prepares to host twenty mostly went.

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 an arab country it's and paris france and for traditional marriage yes protesters in paris claim that they had eight hundred thousand people on the streets of francis 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 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 dimes 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. down on the black sea coast of the city of sochi is busy preparing for the twenty four winter olympic games construction is booming transport infrastructure is being completely read. i'm disabled access points of being installed across town. but aside from being russia's second lympics city sochi is also one of the country's most popular tourist destinations people flock here for the long hot summer as the

spacious beaches on the warm seas busk if you're looking for more than just a top it's also an area filled with some amazing natural highlights. so i've been spending a lot of so i'm in the city but off in the mountains there's the caucuses reserve which is literally the size of finland so i've met up with one very experienced. and we are off on a bench. it's fair to say that if you're driving up here then you're in for a bumpy ride it's you might be lucky and find some tama but mostly it's just to try the ropes fortunately alexei's wonderfully named was a.