twenty children are among ninety one people reported dead in the u.s. after devastating tornado streets through an oklahoma city suburb leveling neighborhoods and schools. shooting the messenger the u.s. government hits out of the fox news journalists to publish classified information leaked by state department security experts. sectarian strife sheer militants joined forces with the syrian government to retake a city rebel stronghold in lebanon raising fears of a new just divide could spread across the region. and artie talks the lawyer of a gun time zero inmate who says his client was shot several times by god this is the hunger strike there enters its one hundred fifth day.

around the world and around the clock this is r.t. i'm carried off. two mile wide tornado has swept through a southern suburb of oklahoma city in the us leaving devastation in its wake twenty children are among the ninety one reported dead as rescue operations continue in essential u.s. state and a further twenty four children feared to be trapped under the rubble of their school on one hundred forty casualties have been admitted to local hospitals and sent obama has declared a major disaster in the city and announced federal aid for the area journalist has more for us now. so this afternoon a massive tornado ripped through oklahoma ripped through the areas around oklahoma city it was new for tornado is the second strongest tornado on the scale from you one to you five that means winds over two hundred miles an hour the tornado was

reportedly two miles wide something you don't see very often here wide swaths of residential area have been completely just dust it is though something you'd see after the hiroshima or nagasaki tomic bombings we have rescuers are frantically searching through the rubble where there was an elementary school in line with the tornado reports are that there were seventy five students in staff in the school at the time the tornado hit and that school's been reduced to rubble rescuers are now combing through that school trying to pull out people alive and we have some reports that some children have indeed been pulled out alive this was one of about twenty eight tornadoes that touched down around the area in oklahoma kansas illinois. the main hospital in moore oklahoma had to be evacuated for you know what sustained massive damage in the storm and storm as well so there's a considerable cleanup effort going on right now with search and recovery effort going on now that will go on through the night but this is something you know

nearly unprecedented in the area let's get more now on the oklahoma tragedy from someone who knows how to tackle that deadly weather calamities we're now joined by the neocons smith can you tell this these sort of things can't be prevented but possibly predicted why is the death toll been so high then do you think. well for example what happened in two thousand and eleven marched eleventh in japan yes we have earthquakes in japan yes we have two nominees in japan but actually the warning system was very bad and it's humanly created in japan because of the concern of earthquakes an assessment was made but the japanese government took the assessment of the japanese society of civil engineers nuclear engineering committees instead of more academic scientific research and the nuclear committee predicted that there will not be any earthquakes in areas where

there had not been earthquakes before for example and. and so the warnings were not out there the warnings that a serious tsunami could occur and seventy eight percent of the deaths occurred in those areas where there was not enough proper warning being set up so in many ways i mean you know over so many people died and it's not me and over fifteen thousand people on nearly sixteen thousand but many of those deaths could have been prevented if there had been a proper warning system so based on your experience is that as you've described what kind of things will the people of oklahoma be going through right now. well i have you know i mean it's just devastating my heart goes out to those people i used to live very near kansas and so i know you know the seriousness of of tornadoes i've been once very close to one but i cannot imagine what hardship

they are going through in pain. i don't know the situation there but i think that we have to be very careful and consider you know any kind of warning system should be completely not political you know the words it has to be on the best scientific knowledge and that is the way to protect the people as much as possible but a lot of times these decisions are political about what kind of warnings to issue or what kind of preparation to make and that's absolutely not excusable i don't know what the case is in oklahoma but i know that that's for sure in japan what happened and how long does it take was early days obviously but for people to get back to anything like normality in these kind of areas well i mean you know right now we have in japan over three hundred three hundred ten thousand people still evacuated and living in limbo and trying to reestablish

a life back where where you were located before i mean rebuilding complete cities towns villages is just incredibly difficult also concerned for example in japan another tsunami would hit and so trying to prepare for it building up high on the ground at cetera it just takes you know a whole generation or more and it's just so much hardship and to increase that hardship because of poor political decisions is just inexcusable you talk about preparations i mean tornadoes are common in the u.s. aren't there i mean are enough safety measures in place do you think. you know i don't know the details about tornadoes in the u.s. but you know a lot of times people for various concerns for example saying it is certain areas safe or there's no problem and you want to say that for commercial reasons or various reasons you might not be issuing enough of a warning or enough of her preparation but that's wrong i mean you have to you know

we live disasters happen it's just that we cannot. allow them to become even greater or the hardship to be even larger because of human decisions ok well even the miracles spared from green action a lot from curator in japan thanks for joining us here today on r.t. ok thank you. well you can track all the latest developments from oklahoma on our website that's artie dot com of course everything you want to tell coverage of the latest pictures video and reaction from those this. hour fox news journalist has been accused of conspiracy after disclosing classified information he received from the state department advisor f.b.i. claims james rosen could be charged as an accessory to a national security leak his colleagues say they're outraged he's been labeled of

criminal for doing his job as a reporter or he's going to chicken says journalists are lost and the u.s. government now appears to be treating them as whistle blows. the u.s. justice department not only subpoenaed the fox news reporters private e-mails but also said that james rosen was quote an aider and abettor and or coconspirator in the alleged crime so these words appear in a court document basically accusing the reporter of breaking the law for conducting the routine business of reporting on government secrets in the forty four pages of the justice department's application for the search warrant of mr rosen's g.-mail account you see e-mail exchanges between a state department employee identified as the alleged leaker and james rosen so the authorities have established that the communication between the two has led to rosen writing an article in two thousand and nine which said north korea planned to respond to looming u.n. sanctions with another nuclear test it's becoming obvious to journalists that the

administration is now targeting not just the leakers but also reporters just recently we learned that the u.s. justice department secretly obtained two months of telephone records targeting a.p. reporters and editors work and personal phone numbers a.p. believes more than one hundred of its journalists were caught up in this surveillance sweep the some president eight hundred full leaks has had an enormous chilling effect on investigative journalism the obama administration has brought more cases against whistleblowers than all previous presidents combined journalists have seen their sources drying out as government officials are much less inclined to share these days but now we see a different probably more alarming development the government making journalists the subject of their investigations and it's not clear what the government expects from journalists just to copy paste whatever they say in press releases if that is the case that would be the end of our profession. well the fox news reporter case comes in the wake of revelations the u.s. government tap the phones of a.p.

journalists something agencies talk executive described as a massive and the president intrusion well as founder of the water weight news portal china graff told r.t. sean thomas a us media is paying the price for going beyond official sources these networks. need opinion yet they are not known to to step outside the line of the government press conference they should just regurgitate exactly what the government puts out but if you're somebody that. actually doesn't journalism yes you can expect retribution and i don't know who could possibly consider that and not to work that way in their decision to be investigated journals well if there is a leak that could compromise national security doesn't the government have the right to do everything that they can to stop that leak that you go through it is obviously stepping outside of that bounds if you're talking about reporting these information that is critical for the lives for the populace yes it's going to be

things that can be reported that shouldn't be leaked but you're really going after the jury was to do a news job and not the intersect is a dysfunctional government that had folks in the first place now the government is investigating reporters in the hopes of finding leaks within its own ranks and you kind of touched on this just a second ago why do you think it has chosen this approach rather than looking for the source of the actually just scare the hell out of the body who dares to stand up to the party went to the edge and a lot and this isn't just the obama administration it's the previous administration it will be the next administration it has control of the government it's hubris at its worst and it's going to continue to read the freedom of the people this country . arising that a region wide sectarian conflict is spreading across the middle east of the his but join the syrian government in the battle to drive rebels out of the city of both

sides but the syrian army can maintain control in that area would be a turning point to your conflict rebel forces consisting mostly of sunni radical groups are fighting troops in the zone. u.s. state department says his participation is provoking sectarian strife within syria there. have been targets of violent attacks in iraq. people. are examines how the sectarian threat is spreading. the standoff in syria is as much about religion as it is about politics the majority of the population in the country is sunni muslims president also meanwhile whose family has been at helm for the best part of fifty years comes from the sect of shia islam called allo it historically the two branches of sunni and shia islam have been deadly rivals for centuries you can see it too in iraq and the worsening sunni shia standoff that's already claimed thousands of lives there she added president assad is supported by

hezbollah a lebanese political party and a militant organization that's also affiliated with shia islam levanon has already seen fifteen years of civil war involving not just sunni and shia muslims but also the christians and the druze branch of islam and both lebanon and syria the fighting effects neighboring jordan to it is now flooded by hundreds of thousands of syrian refugees some of which have been drawn and discourages with local residents sectarian affiliation also plays a role in the arms shipments into syria shii the iran is said to supply to us and forces while the predominantly sunni could target saudi arabia lend a helping hand to the rebels who are also getting at all coddling to boost generations of sectarian animosity in all of these countries have never been a national borders and a deepening syria shockwave might be what lights the touch paper to ignite the entire region into a blood soaked catastrophe. iraq there has been a new wave of bombings which targeted shia mosques killing six people in the city

of south of the capital so it's had been protesting against the country's she led government attack on their protest camp in late april that caused a major surge in violence there last month became the deadliest in the country since two thousand and eight is friday one of the most violent days of this year. and a constant strife since the two thousand and three us military intervention has led to more than one hundred thousand deaths so terror and bloodshed reached its height three years into the u.s. occupation when tens of thousands were killed and he now fear a return to those violent days of tit for tat sunni and shia attacks showing no signs of ending the conflict in iraq has displaced over three million people in the past decade nearly two million more fled their homes remain at risk within the country support for displaced iraqis throughout the region is dwindling with some of the donor focus being shifted an increasing number of syrian refugees professor abraham says u.s.

involvement sectarian conflicts in iraq at the start of the conflict in syria this is definitely a conflict that has really dramatic by mentions what's in store is a sectarian conflict as stake in place and iraq since the u.s. invasion of that country ten years ago the identity of the leadership and iraq before the invasion was not on the on the same thing goes for syria today on one hand you have said forces trying to stir up some variant conflicts on the other hand you have many is suddenly is within syria probably more than half of the certainly population within syria siding with the bashar assad regime because they realize that the old learn not the. sectarian conflict and sectarian divisions. and. i looking on to

a website called. the sectarian strife. dipping into trouble. from the pressing issue of. the restaurants. and. wealthy british. market. really happening to the global economy with. no holds barred the global financial headlines kaiser reports.

more than one hundred inmates in guantanamo have now been on hunger strike for one hundred five days and the drive to highlight abuses at the tourist attention center on prisoner was reportedly shot several times last month by

a god or tease miniport now has the story. thirty five year old detainee. was reportedly shot several times by get most garden last month his attorney ramsey cost some joins me now to speak exclusively to our team about what happened mr clawson thank you for your time. and when it was your client shot and what were the circumstances of the shooting on saturday april thirteenth of this year the bottom will military prison and the station decided to raid at six the prison facility at guantanamo pipeline the trollies prison. they conducted the raid in order to move all the prisoners into solitary confinement and that was just one additional way that the prison and the station wanted to try to break the hunger strike what happened on that day according to mr alawi is that in the process he was shot without any warning for absolutely no good reason by one of the u.s. army guards had dangerously close range using rubber coated steel pellets that are

only safely use outside of a certain range he was shot in five places one shot was around the heart and the other shot was in his elbow another was in his shoulder and there were a couple of impact on the size particularly the shot that went to his heart the dark horse of range even a rubber coated steel pellet can penetrate skin and can be fatal the authorities are guantanamo endangered mr always life for no reason they gave him no warning they fired on him repeatedly and then following that fact they delayed the medical treatment that he should have received immediately as the u.s. government acknowledged that this shooting did take place absolutely and i received confirmation in writing by an e-mail from the department of justice that mr all he was sustained what they described as minor injuries but then when i heard the description from mr all we solved it was very different from what i saw on the government's you know we also received confirmation in writing from the u.s. government via e-mail that he was being force fed. that is

a vial. nation of international law fact that it is done in an unnecessarily painful and brutal way that does that prisoners are strapped down to these restraint chairs that they have to force down their nose into their stomachs there are many other ways to to feed prisoners even if those prisoners wish to be true. and the u.s. government is again doing it in a deliberately filing way in order to break the hunger strikes correct me if i'm wrong he's being held at guantanamo. with no charges against him is that right that's correct the trial he has never been charged with any crime we have no reason to believe that the u.s. government has any interest in charging him with an actual crime here in the real court or in a military commission the reality is that mr ali has been a blot on him for over eleven years without a fair process and that's the reason he's our congress right today u.s. president barack obama is expected to address the nation on thursday speaking about guantanamo bay at the detention center and i assume he will address this hunger

strike what would you like to hear the president united states like and tell you what i would not like to hear i don't want to hear a repetition of the promises that president obama has been making for years i don't want to hear that he's going to appoint some official will be the sponsible for closing guantanamo we had an official like that for years and want to animal was not closed i don't want to hear about administrative review mechanisms because we've had many before that and they didn't lead to any meaningful progress the only official who is responsible for the existence of guantanamo today as far as i'm concerned as far as my clients are concerned is president obama himself he needs to take concrete steps towards closing the prison and i don't believe the man i'd want on a mobile interrupt their hunger strike unless president obama takes such concrete steps and one very obvious concrete step you can take is to begin by releasing some prisoners who are food for transfer who can be repatriated or resettled in another country like another one of my clients shakur aamer who's been approved for transfer for years the u.k. has been asking for his release that's the united states' oldest and most

trustworthy ally he is a very natural for us that the president is serious about closing guantanamo we need actions we need deeds not words mr president thank you very much for your time i really thank you. now to some other news making headlines around the world this hour thousands of m.q.m. party members have rallied in the pakistani city of karachi against iran can the leader of the movement for justice party spark their outrage after publicly accusing him of involvement in the murder of a senior member of his party saracen he was saying rashad died on the eve of this controversial election. and violent riots broke out in stockholm over the fatal police shooting of an only man capitols who's been a district a lot of footage shows gangs of youths attacking a police officer while cars and buildings burned in the background services were forced to evacuate residents from adjacent buildings. u.k.

prime minister david cameron is due in brussels this week to debate tax policies in the e.u. but at home he's facing mounting questions over whether britain should even be involved in the books matters cameron's conservative party has issued a draft bill an in out referendum which says it must be held before the end of twenty seventeen so far opinion polls suggest the majority are likely to vote for an exit was take a look at the latest figures well right now almost a half of those surveyed six percent would say yes to leaving the e.u. almost the same amount say the vote should be held now more than the twenty nine percent already to wait until cameron's chosen date of twenty seventeen with a rising euro skeptic mood is fuelling worries foreign investors are being put off by the uncertainty you keep a party that nigel farage though says it's another reason the u.k. should hold a referendum soon that. well what would have been really damaging to the u.k. economy is if we'd been stupid enough to join the euro zone but thank goodness we

said no otherwise we'd be in a very similar state to many of the mediterranean countries today so that was the first big good decision that we laid now i do understand the argument about it. even though i very much take the view that trade would go on between britain and the rest of europe completely out of affected by us leaving political union after all european countries sell far more goods to us that we do to them but i do understand that anything where you're told it could be headed for a half perhaps even five year debate on the subject could lead to uncertainty all of which really reinforces my view what cameron has done here is to attempt to kick this issue off into the long grass and that really we've got to have a referendum to sort this issue out before the next general election well meanwhile with the eurozone starting to dig itself out of recession and trust of politicians and record lows it's letters in brussels have found time to tackle some unexpected this she's going to do with the debt crisis migration or social welfare but with

dining on the voile and dipping bowls to all of them has more. from the start of next year the european dining experience is set for a small change that could have potentially huge implications after the deadline restaurants won't be able to serve all of oil from small bottles like this that can be topped up they going to have to service from sealed bottles that can't be refilled now this is being put into law from brussels by the european union and it's going to come into effect as i say from the first of january next year now to talk more about this and what it actually means i'm joined by steve meissner from the german political organization a party of reason steve the you surely has bigger things to worry about than this right now i would think so this seems to be almost like a caricature of the you with their with their constant meddling in small problems and making small problems

a big problem you would think they would have less to do with the euro currency problems and the debt crisis in southern europe but now here we go having to start dealing with you know restaurants and what they can serve an open corrupt and it's sort of this joke really it also it just smacks of a lack of self-awareness the e.u. is under attack from many different sides you've got people in britain wanting to pull out of the union and they go and live up to the stereotype of bonkers brussels bureaucracy and make legislation about all of oil as it does seem to be a real lack of self-awareness that is why do they think seems to have too much time on their hands perhaps many of the problems when you aren't even big enough that they still have energy and tax money and very crap to spare to expend on silly experiments like this or believe programs like this maybe we have to cut down the whole size of the new broccoli that they have don't have that much money and be that many bureaucrats so they can't even come up with the all these harebrained

schemes in the first place this is definitely not something that needs to be done on the international uy basis how we're going to serve our all of oil in the restaurant i mean i don't see the need for it at all so there we go steve my society very much for talking to us all of oil topping the list of topics that the e.u. deem needs their attention right now. he's over there by the kaiser report is coming your way next stay with us. although i was born after the vietnam era i remember t.v. discussions about that buddhist monk who burned himself to death as a form of protest the commentators on the news said that people there just have

a different mindset that westerners could never understand you know which is probably true but they were implying that people in the west are just different and would never use this absolutely extreme form of protest which is also probably true until just recently with the cost of electricity exceeding the income of the average bulgarian and a new government coming to power that looks exactly like the old government that collapsed at least six ball gary and have used self-immolation as a very desperate and extreme form of protest but why kristen ghodsee a professor at bowdoin college who is extensively talked about here and protesters claims that those who self-immolating are just incredibly desperate and cannot feed their own children and that people are actually becoming a stealth check for communism because at least that system at the people's basic needs the current democratic system from the populace perspective according to her just cycles through a few new crooks every few years although it does get media attention and you may be feeling desperate suicide is never an answer the more living bulgarians the

better bogey areas chances believe me but that's just my opinion. welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser longstanding data patterns broken down stock prices have soared even as bond spreads have declined corporate bond yields are falling while debt is right.