stories that showed the week here on our north korea gives its military the green light to strike the u.s. as a counter to what it calls washington's aggression i mean while we. have the capability of fulfilling its threats. of world has been launched into an oil spill caused by one of america's corporate giants in the state of arkansas while local household still seek reimbursement for the damage done. also this hour break of rachel's ease role as the death of palestinian prisoners sparks a wyatt's mass hunger tried to in jails and walked extractors. to mass protest against a new law designed to clamp down o'reilly's sees hundreds detained in the canadian city of montreal as people say the metro station is a severe abuse of civil rights. the

latest news on the main top stories of the week you're watching the weekly here on ars he was me you know thanks for being with us north korea iran top its war a trick this week announcing its army is now officially also wise 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 it's on actions are aimed at countering aggression by washington which has built up its military presence in the region as the crisis deepens so do downs that pyongyang is capable of turning its war was into action unlike the u.s. she's going to shoot down 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 one 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 it for 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 sure 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 sites to snap or some kind of a mistake before everything spirals out of control in washington i'm going to. independent john as james cool bit says despite the facts not the side wants all out war there are those who benefit from keeping the situation or 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 a 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. and the north korean crisis is also the main focus of his breaking the said this week head

to our website to see the full program where among other things. the u.s. could possibly gain from keeping the situation. the war 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 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 saying 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 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 as 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 cited 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've never seen anything like. the u.s. state of arkansas has launched a probe into an oil spill and this is how the mayflower which affect at least sixty

homes there local government along with two households which filed federal law suits is seeking when bassman from one of america's of america's largest oil companies responsible for the disaster and chris harrow whose home was affected by the pegasus pipeline rupture told us here about it right i got off work early and was headed back to my home and the 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 our family and my wife and children at the home so he allowed me in a little town to get them on the road in and to kind of survey the damage and it was all just flowing down the street behind our house when i 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 who were turfed or the houses i think it was twenty two doctors affected what are they back in their. notes or there are still staying in local hotels in the area. they've been allowed back in their homes

through 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 a lot of people officials in exile know bill then coming to apologize and one of the speak sure. there are some in the area there's a claims apartment that's been sent out but we've not heard a lot from just yet so it's we're taking a wait and see approach what happens next how are we going to be compensated and along with for some of our neighbors can get back in their homes would you have hope for more i'm sort of approach maybe from them so far could you don't mislead a few more people from 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 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 consider him out of all that was going through his daily and it's a huge huge well truth of the matter is a lot of the residents in our neighborhood weren't aware that the plan was even

there. yet 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 . and you can follow the oil spill timeline on our website called including photos and videos from the disaster area. the hacker group anonymous has launched a major offensive against israel the accident say their aim was to disrupt and a raise israel from cyberspace in protest over israeli policies towards palestine this is what he would have seen or heard if you try to access and israeli web site during that time right now listen. of the operation involving hackers from all over the world was frustum house on you tube the group cited israel's failure to end settlement expansion violations of

palestinians rights as motivation for the massive campaign numbers of hackers sites including the government ones range from hundreds to thousands so it's not the first time anonymous has targeted israeli cyberspace with a previous operation occurring during last year's gaza war during the four days it lasted hundreds of israeli websites suffered from more than four million unique at times and that r.t. dot com we've got footage posted by the hikers with more details on background to the vicious cyber strike one you. want to use today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. joint operations rule.

the world keeps a close eye on the bus through our break in china panic has already spread across neighboring countries six people have died so far out of the eighteen and affected figures are far from an epidemic of his case a pill being looks now at who might hope to benefit from anybody to hype that. 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 a health warning some 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 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 the government panicked and splashed out billions on vaccinations pharmaceutical giant class a smith kline secured a billion dollar contract from it making a billion dollars from vaccines alone last year i reality four hundred fifty seven people died from swine flu a third of which dive regular flu every year so while china battles with the flu drug companies are no doubt preparing for a multi billion dollar order. only britain were big pharmaceuticals made billions from the swine flu panic let's now take a look at how the fear spread across the globe during that break and so far after the first suspected case was reported in march two thousand and nine it took less than a month for the world epidemic to appear in the media and that was even before the

first death from the swine flu was confirmed well when that happened 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 massive and nations were produced despite the thousands of deaths worldwide it transpired that many millions of dollars spent on the vaccine would just wasted and less than they get after the doses of orders in the you are so low forty million of them expired and to be destroyed and as a result billions of dollars worth of profits were made by a big pharmaceuticals in a little over a year as you can see right here and we'll have to wait and see whether current birth leads they stand around.

he or she were clear when i'll see more news coming your way after a short break including a day of rage in cairo clashes in egypt's capital with police firing tear gas to discuss those protests against the islamic leaders. block hunger strike and gone tunnel day and has that sudden mom found race to prisoners how close rapidly look at why washington continues to twelve down the scale of the protests that are short break. ten years ago by god was overtaken. ten years of political infighting terrorism and economic dick cheney a. chance to rush a rise. to fame by. our april ninth on our take.

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this is the wiki on i'll see welcome back egypt has once again been corrupted by protests and fighting five people have been killed and at least eight wounded in clashes between christians and muslims in a town near cairo in some of the worst sectarian violence the country has seen in months and the capital of south and anti government does ration demanding regime change attended by thousands anderson scuffles with the riot police and camera based journalist tom dale has the details. clashes have broken out in downtown cairo metal barricades have put being called across the street tear gas and smoke fills the air and the wail of sirens the familiar green laser cutting through the gas once again clashes and spread to the town of mahalla which was so important for the first 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 to their own only easy echoes of that day are once again an unarmed peaceful demonstration has been 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 polaroids ation between mohamed morsi says the misled government and the opposition on the streets 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 some way last year but now the muslim brotherhood and president mohamed morsi are 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 tensions between israel and palestine have flared up once again this week fueled by the death of a high profile palestinian prisoners serving

a life sentence in an israeli jail the backlash included a violent protests across the west bank might hunger strikes by palestinian inmates and fresh rocket exchanges between israel and hamas are ours and the west bank closely following the developments for us. one man's death turned into a rage of the masses at the beginning of the week sixty four year old my sorrow 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 the 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

a home to 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. straight through of widespread anger and diggnation over. what many people here. think. that there. was a direct through the. criminal negligence of the moral carelessness of more than four thousand palestinian inmates went on hunger strike to show what they thought about humvees death gaza broke the fragile four month long cease fire rockets into southern israel and the listing an airstrike from to levy. some to his death provided an outlet for the 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 that is an issue that can really explode there can be very very sophisticated how to go in full world and to deal with issues and with one. of the palestinian prison. demonstrations and shooting the demonstrators. 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 heart attack in temporary causes such as these only adds to the anger palestinians feel towards israel people on the street want some movement and we do not see any movement toward liberation what we see is continued occupation

intensification of certain immense intensification of abduction and killing of people every aleksey which some believe could be and should be changed. that israel will. release. good number of bullets the moon. really. means a simple solution that maybe to some but it depends on whether israel has the good will to get it was very into or even go to school or to. and from on air to online stories now including playing with power of god the story of how the us did its best to destabilize former venezuelan president hugo chavez and force him from power it's all spelled out on our website. and also that merkel

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 web site with a full story. behind bars without charge and starving for justice hunger strike as a danton away have been engaged in a desperate act of defiance for two months now the race to their health is growing rapidly but here are sufficient continue to downplay the scale of the crisis and federal public defender carlos warner a lawyer for granted detainees told r.t. the government's drug itself into a no win situation. the military is under estimating 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 that 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 law in guantanamo you have people that everyone even the ones that have been declared innocent are there for life until they die they are indefinitely detained. so reports say there are more yemeni prisoners inside the jail and from any other country and also he has spoken exclusively to the president of yemen who says it's

hypocritical for the u.s. to keep the facility open while still promoting the idea of democracy there were engineers here on ars here later today but here's a quick preview now. 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. and the canadian city of montreal almost three hundred people have been detained and fined for taking part in a demonstration opposing a new law aimed at clamping down on ronnie's the controversial legislation says groups are required to provide state authorities all in it before they hit the

streets although much as illegal and even cox quebec correspondent for canadian affairs website rabble dot ca says the law is a clear violation of citizens' rights. mina's followed by a lot of the sixty's and activity there the height of the student strike last year in your provincial laws. laws 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 governor and the fact that the montreal police are now using this file always hears it in so many ways in which is also been denounced by every civil liberties and human rights organizations 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 high 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 that tennessee because he's had protests 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 bylaw they know what's happening is not right but at the same time they're afraid and coming out would continue reporting on the lives of palestinian promenades living next to an israeli west sort of say that's into the break here.

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 on 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 towards 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. the international airport in the very heart of moscow.

thank. you. jack.