on r.t. tonight no apologies from nato for the killing of eighteen civilians most of the children during a coalition air strike in afghanistan also. something happens the catastrophe and should noble will seem like a kid's fairy tale russia's president is on a trade trip to germany warns the west against ratcheting up tensions on the korean peninsula saying peaceful talks are the only solution. take the whistleblowing to the next level wiki leaks releases millions of potentially embarrassing u.s. diplomatic files dubbed by the organization is the most significant geo political publication ever. britain's first and only female prime minister margaret thatcher dies after suffering a stroke we take a look at the legacy of the iron lady who was both love in her lifetime.

even if you just joined us let me have you with us this is our team my name's kevin owen it's now just after eleven pm here in moscow. the first roadside bomb has killed at least nine people in afghanistan it's the latest in a series of violent attacks to hit the country meanwhile nato still not claimed responsibility for the death of eighteen civilians including eleven children during a coalition air strike over the weekend i got the latest on that from r.t.c. got preschoolers. and i thought he condemned the death of these women and children and unfortunately this isn't the first time that we're hearing these news president karzai personally ordered all afghan troops not to call for airstrikes he's pleaded with the united states and the lions to stop targeting populated areas to stop killing civilians and throughout the years it's estimated that around twenty thousand civilians lost their lives in afghanistan this is

a very sensitive matter of for the country and many of these lost lives are connected with airstrikes in fact the u.n. acknowledges that every year the amount of killed children and women rises and here are just a couple of examples just from last year february two thousand and twelve seven children and young adults killed in an air strike me two thousand and twelve six children and two women from the same family killed in an airstrike july september and the list really goes on and these are only era strikes and only cases which have been confirmed by need to while they're also drawn strikes reeds and while many other cases where there are unfortunately casualties and of course eager coalition forces say they're ready to pull out twenty forty as well if they do and how much they pull out how it's like your affect the security situation this is a very complicated question for the united states and for afghan authorities since

if the americans do want to stay in afghanistan after two thousand and fourteen they'll need some sort of guarantees that they won't be prosecuted under afghan law and be or losing trust from the local population well if it could be called that way since the locals are pretty much outraged at this point. for all these casualties but it's not only that without going to for authorities themselves are losing the strongest and actually the taliban are actually gaining this trust and all of this is definitely connected to all of these innocent lost lives actually. really understands this that with each innocent lost life the trust that he still may have from the local population the crease as you go with a bit earlier there now in a separate incident over the weekend five americans including a diplomat were killed by a suicide bomber will though delivering books to an afghan school and while the

story of course made headlines in the u.s. media course the killing of afghan civilians is often ignored according to peace activist david swanson even the news articles about this strike which killed a greater number of people are dominated by paragraphs talking about another strike that killed americans and in particular one woman who was a state department employee who had met john kerry and the u.s. deaths of course are always smaller numbers but they dominate the coverage of americans are not aware of the extent to which this war is essentially a one sided slaughter of helpless people who meant us no ill and has been for over a decade the debate going on is how many u.s. troops will stay beyond two thousand and fourteen that but the idea that they should be staying until the end of two thousand and fourteen and that we should just accept that is sort of built into all the news coverage in the united states and it's actually rather outrageous because there's been no evidence put forward

that there is any sort of progress or any sort of good being done it and they predictably killed far more innocent people then those alleged to be to be guilty of resistance to an illegal occupation let's focus in on the koreas now russia's president as well that any further escalation between south and north korea could have catastrophic global consequences but ima putin spoke at the world's biggest industrial fair in hanover peter all of i was there listening in. president putin then chancellor angela merkel took the stage here at the had of a trade fair in one of the issues that both president putin and chancellor merkel agree on a whole heartedly is that the provocation from north korea must be stopped. something happens the catastrophe in two novel will seem like a kid's fairy tale i think this threat does exist i'm calling on everyone to come

down sit at the negotiating table and solve the problems which has piled up in recent years it's the biggest trade fair in the world and there's plenty of things on display from all over the globe but while. we're looking around there they were interrupted by a topless then protester. president putin taking a moment to well a few jokes ago about the protesters saying thanking the get the ukrainian feminist group for promoting the trade fair here and saying that well as much as he appreciated it it wasn't really the time all the place to be naked while they. talked about some of the issues that they perhaps don't see eye to eye on cyprus is a major war and president putin saying that the way in which the recent cypriot financial crisis was dealt with was really not acceptable that it shouldn't be repeated in the future that private. private account holders should never be having

their money taken to bail out the wrongs of the government or back to their careers again so saying the threat of its communist neighbor undertaking another nuclear test is not imminent that is after reports of increased activity though at a north korean facility where three previous detonations took place the latest of which in february pyongyang sent letters to the foreign embassies asking staff to leave before a possible attack this wednesday the north has unleashed a show of threats lately reacting to u.n. sanctions and military exercises between south korea and the u.s. washington indeed delayed a missile. a test of its own on sunday fearing it would unnecessarily provoke said it has however proof the deployment of a missile defense system to u.s. territory in the pacific political analysts now bowie told us he thinks america's action makes north korea's threats the justified didn't want to make it seem like it was provoking north korea but if it really had that intention it wouldn't have

flown the b. two bombers nuclear capable bombers it would have sent an f. twenty two stealth fighters to north korea i think these moves are ultimately berghoff it if they do nothing to improve the situation to escalate hostilities and i think ultimately it creates animosity and it allows the change of regime should consolidate power because it effects of the jim lies and the rhetoric that the united states is of the same nuclear war on the peninsula so i think cool heads really must for sale in this situation and i think russia china i think it's high time that they put the incentives on more and more pressure on dialogue and bring the parties concerned to the table as it's really get into a situation where it's it's going to be very problematic if this fictions. the revelations wiki leaks now as the website publishes none present a number of u.s. diplomatic records described by the organizations headed to julian assange is the most significant geo political publication ever living and i talked to kristen

halford said the spokesman for the whistleblowers about this major publication. because it is dedicated to bring historical records to the public attention when there is an attempt to keep them hidden although these documents have been declassified except stream it difficult to approach them and assess them in their current format only in the national archives so what we did was to gather together with help and publish them in a searchable database a very robust database and merge them with the two hundred fifty thousand u.s. diplomatic cables that we publish under the cable gates and extremely important to have results in the public domain chris what kind of response to make spectrum washington as you said these are not strictly speaking classified anymore but you kind of collated them all together to make them easier to get hold of is washington talk concerned about our neighbors well i haven't heard of any response from the earth already here in washington of course they should be very pleased that we are

doing the job that they should be doing themselves so maybe you should apply for some funds and continue his work from the us government and they should actually focus on one tension of supporting over a concert or continuing of this unprecedented and relentless attempt to prosecute julian assads and all the members of that we can use team. coming up on the program went out tonight turkish police cracked down on a mass protest outside a prison called istanbul where hundreds are on trial over alleged plot to overthrow the government we're focusing in on that in just a bit and a deadly car bomb near damascus school hypersphere is now that targeting civilians has become part and parcel of the syrian conflict. technology innovation all the developments from around russia. the future

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hello again margaret such a former u.k. prime minister and the only woman to ever hold the post has died after a stroke at the age of eighty seven she'll be remembered as the iron lady the nickname that was forwarded for indeed by a soviet journalist but earlier spoke former personal interpreter of many solve it leaders in the past the pseudo prev he shared his memories of mrs thatcher and shed some light on the story behind the nickname that was given to her. i do have one vivid memory of. prime minister satcher which dates back to nineteen eighty five when the then leader of the soviet union karen enco died and she came to bosco for his funeral and he was replaced of course by mr mikhail gorbachev and mrs thatcher is famous for

having said you couldn't do business with mr gorbachev so when she came for the food or of mr turton and co she had a one on one meeting with mr gore were drawn and you know i remember this very vividly when she saw him her face lit up and her eyes sparkled you know i had a feeling and i still have that she was in rapture right mr gorbachev and lady was something that came from the from the russian side as well something that she loved to coin let's just listen in to margaret thatcher a second when she was using that. room for less iconic phrases it is now the russian said that i listen i am lady. thank you every night. with three britain needs an iron lady but she took it as praise i'm not

sure initially parkin one hundred seventy six the term our lady was actually meant as praise was it no of course not that was a huge blunder. which played right into the hands of the aryan lady because by using that phrase they actually wanted somehow to belittle but she took it not only took it you know stride it became her catch word phrase. could drive their speed to be a better iraq and in a statement mikhail gorbachev called margaret thatcher a great politician and an exceptional person who helped end the cold war a former member of the conservative party to load from hesketh who used to work with this is that sure in the late eighty's says some of the signature aspects of a character is sorely missed in the current british leadership. chief whip and i was a minister under five years. she was the most

dedicated. intellectual. intolerant. of me as. anyone i've ever worked for. all of which are outstanding qualities she said what she believed and she did she believe here. we have i mean i remember and i wouldn't mention names but i remember one prime minister. who was of various figures came to see if we have. seen we've heard it's fantastic several has it occurred to you that he told you exactly what you wanted to hear which is absolutely useless you have to have someone who says i'm going to do what i'm going to do the death of margaret has prompted david cameron to cut short his european trip the british prime minister was expected to promote his ideas for a more flexible e.u.

made growing euro skeptic sentiment among voters back at home but robert oulds the director of the proof group think tank told the cameras proposals would be welcomed by the rest of the e.u. anyway. former prime minister margaret thatcher was of course the president of the group and she had an enormous effect on britain she changed britain arguably greatly for the better you broke the former consensus in british politics restore prosperity and also criticised the european union its drive to more centralization which has damaged many youth states and of course undermined what democracy throughout the year of prime minister david cameron course wants to emulate margaret thatcher's effect with regarding the paean union they will not back him up on the return of powers from the e.u. to nation states they don't want a more flexible european union where people can pick and choose what powers belong with nation states and what powers belong at the level they support a blanket e.u.

where things are standardized from one one area to the to the next from ireland to portugal or costa finland and greece that's how they want things done from eastern europe to to the atlantic there is not a chance of getting significant powers back from the european union or to the nation states that is quite simply not feasible when it's already been rejected by other e.u. leaders. time for tough austerity of the eurozone and making the entire project increasingly unpopular next hour on r.t. french right when politicians are in the pen explains why more and more people it seems now think they'd be better off going it alone without brussels. i think that first and foremost there is a rejection of the european union and its policies the us means people are realizing that the european union is a land park. that is in fact destroying that region and doesn't protect them from economic social or migratory difficulties and i think that the increase in patrick has me to managing

a country's own affairs to control of the border is whether it's a human capital a product like this is a reversible i think what we're seeing is the brussels bill falling down it's crumbling that is to say that the european union and its model has reached an end it's a destruction that is slow right now but will probably accelerate it was it was happening at the european parliament it's supposed to be democratic but it's not at all representative of what the people of the european union think that there is a very strong proportion of people who are generally model and these people are not represented by the european parliament so i think that electing the success all of them on a wild are although is a large screen it's to make people believe that there will be an increase in democracy but in fact the mortal the economic model the truth is killing democracy my. well you can catch our full interview with bring the pain at twenty forty five

g.m.t. . the car bomb has exploded in the syrian capital killing at least fifteen people and wounding over one hundred forty more that attack up near a school headquarters the country's central bank a busy road in damascus the blast cause extensive damage to nearby buildings and burned dozens of cars is the latest in a series of car bomb attacks in the capital with one of the recent large explosions killing fifty three people back in february it comes as pro-government forces continue their major push to force rebel militias out of their strongholds across the country earlier manual oxon reuter a german reporter who specializes on sirius spoke to us about this he said that targeting civilians in the capital has become a common tactic now for rebel fighters. they are not aiming the military they are not aiming the security forces they are aiming civilians in our case today a special case they were aiming children at the car bomb exploded right in front of a school with a lot of children where and among the dead people are also children the tactics is to show to show that they have is snow on the spot any more safe and to show the

civilians who are to lead them free of the fear and to penetrate that the rebel forces that this so-called free syrian army is in charge of where they can do what they want we here in the west always from the media that the regime the so-called regime is a main the population this is what we hear nonstop their reality is what kills the bomb explosion of to date right the other way the rebel forces are pushing on the civilians and they are of panic thinking then terrorists are infiltrating the cities and of course they are not just the taking of the central bank like today but also a very important sea villian supports like electricity stations schools. the stations and so on so you see it's hard for the government to secure every square meter off the city from terrorist attacks. a lengthy winter along with an

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dot com. police in egypt are on high alert tonight after the latest in a series of interreligious clashes outside cairo's main coptic christian cathedral people were killed and over eighty injured in hours of fierce fighting between christians and muslims our correspondent bell true reports next and from the gyptian capital. security forces have secured the area and remain on guard while street cleaners clear the rubble the tear gas canisters bullet casings and rocks here i eat chips main coptic christian fifty two after sunday's bloody battles following a funeral for both christians killed in sectarian violence in the north of cairo on saturday it is yet to be known exactly how the clashes began yesterday but said what happens was that after a funeral of christians are killed in the sectarian violence according to the ministry of interior the moon is then initiated the attack five eyewitnesses say an unidentified group attacked the use gathered at the cathedral and security forces

then joined in what is certainly true and what has shocked the nation was pretty just today of egypt's security forces firing tear gas and bullets directly into the cathedral compound as the one standing by asked to billions standing on the buildings just behind me continue to throw rocks at those trapped inside this sacred building president mohamed morsi promises to investigate and his alleged comments saying an attack on this cathedral was an attack on himself has done little to satisfy the coptic christian community with divisions deepening between the two religions many fear the worst has yet to come. true the u.s. military's admitted the number of detainees on hunger strike ago has again risen to now officially stands at forty one but lawyers for the captives claim it's a hundred thirty of them would have been starving themselves to death for more than two months now the protest was sparked when the guards allegedly mishandled the personal kuranda of the captives and the detainees more than half of them cleared for release years ago furious being held indefinitely without charge lawyers say

indeed some of the clients are now close to death but the military for its part maintains it won't let anyone die if force feeding some of the inmates. police have fired tear gas and water cannon to disrupt a mass protest outside of prison court in istanbul in turkey several hundred people are held there on trial over alleged plot to overthrow the government the details now from artie's channel producer lizzy. there's been thousands of people which have come since midnight last night in buses from across the country and extremely angry so they managed to break through the barricades and that was immediately met with water cannons they were drenched in water and it's not a warm day today and also several rounds of take gas were fired upon them and that that succeeded in pushing them back behind the barricades and then they were confined to a smaller space and what they essentially calling for is for the government the

turkish government to resign saying that these trials trials are a sign that the government has slipped in. and it is an extremely controversial process because we're talking about people that have been detained for about five years without charges and these are high ranking military officials that have been arrested very prominent journalists. prominent members of parliament and heads of opposition parties and they many of them don't even know what they are actually being accused of i mean they know that being accused of being a member of an organization called again a car which the government says has been responsible for decades of violence as well as plotting to overthrow the turkish government but many of the many of the opponents of this controls say that there's no even there's not even any evidence evidence that this organization called. actually exists and that some people say

that this is almost like turkey's version of of the war on terror whereby. hundreds of people are detained without charge essentially just to get rid of any opponents of the ruling party the a.k.p. party it's extremely controversial process it's very unclear what the outcome of this process is going to be the trial today has been again postponed they say until tomorrow so we can expect probably more protests to be taking place here again tomorrow. eleven twenty six moscow time thanks pay with us great program lined up next as the people of help on his cross talk us debate whether george w. bush and tony blair should be held to account for the killing of civilians during the invasion of iraq you cannot call it yeah it's a good program coming up so. he

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download the official r.t. application to yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's if you're away from your television all it just doesn't matter with your mobile device so you can watch r.t. anytime anywhere. this is amazing. hello and welcome to cross talk were all things considered i'm peter be elusive search for justice is the citizen's arrest campaign to have tony blair held accountable for possible war crimes and other serious offenses a public relations stunt or is it important precedent for those leaders who start wars of aggression if you had

a chance would you arrest player. cross not whether tony blair should be put on trial i'm joined by stephen slight injury new york he is a senior fellow at the century foundation an author of the book act of creation and in watching the cost ivan eland he is a senior fellow and director of the center on peace and liberty at the independent institute all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it steven did tony blair commit a crime in one thousand two thousand and three with the invasion of iraq well i it's a decision i disagree with but he committed a policy or he didn't he didn't commit a crime now i think it's important to make a distinction between what happens in a democracy and what happens in a dictatorship in a democracy when you make a policy mistake you pay for it and different.