we brought here to video for your media project free media r.t. dot com. twenty children are among ninety one people reported killed in the u.s. with dozens more feared trapped under the rubble after a devastating tornado sweeps through an oklahoma city suburb leveling neighborhoods and schools. looting the messenger the u.s. government hits out of the fox news journalist after he published classified information twice state department security expert. sectarian strife hezbollah militants joined forces of the syrian government to retake a sunni rebel stronghold now lebanon raising fears a religious divide could spread across the region. and artie talks to the lawyer of a guantanamo inmate who says his client was shot several times by god this is the hunger strike the renter's it's one hundred fifty

a day. international issues live from moscow this is r.t. . two mile wide tornado swept through a southern suburb of oklahoma city in the us leaving devastation in its wake twenty children among the ninety one reported dead as rescue operations continue an essential u.s. state with a further twenty four children trapped under the rubble of their school or one hundred forty casualties have admitted to local hospitals isn't obama has declared a major disaster in the city and announced federal aid for the area where journalist has more for us now.

so this afternoon a massive tornado ripped through oklahoma ripped through the areas around oklahoma city i was need for tornado it's the second strongest tornado on the scale from you one to you five that means winds over two hundred miles an hour turn it was reported leave two miles wide something you don't see very often here wide swaths of residential area have been completely just decimate is though something you'd see after the hiroshima or nagasaki atomic 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 iowa and to make matters worse 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 on the oklahoma tragedy from someone who's familiar with deadly weather calamities we're joined now by june from video news dot com he worked in the aftermath of consumer tragedy in two thousand and eleven thanks for joining us here on r.t. today now we understand the death toll has been rising in oklahoma many children trapped under the rubble what are the chances in your experience of finding any more survivors well you know we had two major. natural disasters in the past fifteen years there was one big earthquake in kobe. five in those another two years ago in a speaking from experience. usually very small because it takes time to conform.

so many people reported missing ended up. being dead so. in the first twelve hours we only had like four death and in the end. ok i think we'll have to stop you there we have some technical difficulties here obviously will try and get back to you if we can let's see if you can stick can you still hear us actually in fact can you still harris ok let's continue we can i mean from some of the footage we've been seeing some of these homes don't look very substantial at all got mobile homes etc how could this have contributed to the tragedy. can you hear me can you hear me mr. oh sorry can repeat the question again so yes i

mean it looks like some of the homes were very substantial could that have contributed to this you mean case of japan know in the case of oklahoma and given the japanese situation yes yes well you know. many people in case of earthquake in japan. ok looks like we have lost our guest there but we'll try and get back if we can a bit later in the program some technical difficulties there ok well you can track all that is about minutes from oklahoma on our website r.t. dot com and we'll bring you detail coverage the latest pictures video and reaction from there is at the scene that's at r.t. dot com. well moving on now folks news journalist is being accused of conspiracy after disclosing classified information you 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 a criminal for doing his job as a reporter and he's going to education says journalists are alarmed that the u.s. government now appears to be treating them as whistleblowers. the u.s. justice department not only subpoena 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 application for the search warrant of mr rosen's g.-mail account you see e-mail exchanges between the state department employee identified as the alleged in the courier 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 eight people leaves 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 fox news reports a case comes in the wake of revelations the government and us tap the phones of a.p. journalists something agencies top executives described as a massive and unprecedented intrusion and founder of the want to wake new support for charlie mcgrath told r.t. shaun thomas u.s. media is paying the price for going beyond official sources these networks that we're talking about are not new and. you need opinion yet you're not known to to step outside the line of the government press conference that you should just regurgitate exactly what the government puts out but if you have 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 jools 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 got it is obviously stepping outside of that bounds if you're talking about reporting news information that is critical for this fruited populace yes it's going to be things that can be reported shouldn't be leaked but you really go after the troops to doing his job and not the intercept of a dysfunctional government that we 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 did this 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 government it's hubris at its worst and it's going to continue to rule the freedom of the people this country.

well then one hundred inmates in guantanamo have been on hunger strike for one hundred five days and the drive to highlight abuses that when a tourist attention sent one prisoner was reportedly shot several times last month by god. as the full story. thirty five year old detainee. was reportedly shot several times by guard last month his attorney ramsey cost joins me now to speak exclusively to our about what happened mr costin thank you for your time. when it was your client shot and what were the circumstances of the shooting on saturday april thirteenth of this year the autonomous military prison and the strange decided to raid six the prison facility at guantanamo pipeline the trollies first. lady conducted direct orders to move all the prisoners to solitary confinement and that was just one additional way that the prison in this situation

wanted to try to break the hunger strike what happened on that day according to mr allawi is that in the process he was shot without any warning for absolutely no good reason by one of the u.s. army guards 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 another 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 of range even. from the department of justice 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 team we also received confirmation in writing from the us government via e-mail that he was being force fed. that is a violation of international law the 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 and 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 been 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 on hunger strike 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 to present the united states say well i can 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 who'll 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 want to animal will interrupt their hunger strike. so president obama takes such

concrete steps and one very obvious concrete step he can take is to begin by releasing some prisoners who are cool for transfer or who can be repatriated or resettled in another country like another one of my cars shot drama has 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 first step of the president is serious about closing guantanamo we need actions we need deeds not words mr carson thank you very much for your time i really thank you. just ahead for you dipping into trouble even though mike has confront the first thing he sure of how all the boy is served in restaurants setting aside the financial woes rocking europe for a while the great. some of these traditional chili lines they've been bred and developed and passed down from generation. to the told destruction of the culture of mexico by telling them i

mean this is not going to impact asylum in mexico whatever happens here throughout the whole world now we're eating out about in the in the open the way you know all the organs that work for. genetically engineered crops why do you think this country is full of obese and sick people because we have a crappy food system. download the official publication to yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter how would your mobile device if you could watch on t any time anyway.

about the program. now u.k. prime minister david cameron is due in brussels this week to debate a tax policies in the e.u. but at home is facing mounting questions over whether britain should even be involved in the blocs matters cameron's conservative party has issued a draft bill in an in out referendum which says it must be held before the end of twenty seventeen well so far opinion polls suggest the majority are likely to vote for an exit let's take a look at the latest figures right now almost half of those surveyed forty six percent would say yes to leaving the e.u. almost the same amount say the vote should be held now only twenty nine percent are ready to wait until cameron's chosen date of twenty seventeen well the rising era skeptic mood is fuelling worries that foreign investors are being put off by the uncertainty you keep party leader nigel farage says it's another reason that the

u.k. should hold a referendum sooner. 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. even though i very much take the view of the trade would go on between britain and the rest of europe completely unaffected by us leaving political union after all european countries sell far more goods to us than we do to them but i do understand that anything where you're told it could be had for a half perhaps even five years debate on the subject could lead to. all 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. or the

eurozone struggling to dig itself out of recession and trust to politicians hitting record lows legislators in brussels have found time to tackle some unexpectedly she's has nothing to do with the debt crisis migration or social welfare they were dining on of oil and dipping bowls with all of the hassle. from the start of next year the european dining experience is set for a small change that could have potentially huge implications after that 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 reasons the e.u. shuli has bigger things to worry about than this right now i would think though

this seems to be almost like a caricature of the you with their with their constant meddling and small problems and making small problems into big problems than you would think they would have enough to do with the euro currency problems and the debt crisis in southern europe but no if you only go having to start doing with restaurants what they can serve an open corrupt and it's sort of 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 do they have too much time in their hands perhaps there is the problem you aren't even big enough that they still have energy and tax money and very crap to spare to spend on the

experiments like this or that we progress like this where we have to cut down the whole size of the new broccoli that they have don't have to pay 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. fears are rising at a region wide sectarian conflict is spreading across the middle east of the hizbullah join the syrian government in the battle to drive rebels out of the city of qusayr both sides believe if the syrian army can maintain control of the area it could be a turning point in a two year conflict there are forces consisting mostly of sunni radical groups are fighting syrian troops and lebanese armed group my state department says last

participation is broken sectarian strife only in syria but the region as a whole we are sunnis and shias have been targets of violent attacks in neighboring iraq nearly one hundred people killed in the country on monday alone what he's going to call the script salman's out of 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 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 lebanon 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 into skirmishes 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 tar and 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 the entire region into a blood soaked catastrophe. well in iraq another series of blasts has rocked the northern city killing five and wounding sixty nine others so as have been protesting against the country's shia that government attack on their protest camp in april caused a major surge in violence there last month became the deadliest in the country

since two thousand and eight with friday one of the most violent days of this year with constant strife since the two thousand and three u.s. military interventions there to more than one hundred thousand deaths sectarian bloodshed reached its height three years into the u.s. occupation when tens of thousands were killed many now fear return to those violent days of tit for tat sunni and shia attacks showing no signs of ending the fighting in iraq has also displaced over three million people in the past decade nearly two million more fled their homes and remain at risk within the country support for displaced iraqis throughout the region is dwindling and some of the donor focus being shifted to an increasing number of syrian refugees first into him says u.s. involvement stope sectarian conflicts in iraq i said the start of the unrest in syria this is definitely a conflict that has read by mentions that what's in store is

a sectarian conflict as stake in place and iraq since the us invasion of that country ten years ago the identity of the leadership and iraq before the invasion was not on one the same thing goes for syria today on one hand you have sectarian 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 suddenly population within syria siding with the bashar assad regime because they realize that the old learn not the. sectarian conflict and sectarian divisions. and you can get a more in-depth coverage of the violent conflict engulfing iraq by logging on to our website r.t. dot com they are firing detailed analysis of what's causing the sectarian strife i would as accounts and. some other news making headlines

around the world a roadside bomb has killed six policemen in afghanistan's western province of heart and a convoy hit an improvised explosive device even though survivors attacks occur on almost daily basis in the country as militant groups continue to wage war against foreign military presence there. thousands of party members have running the pakistani city of karachi against iran on the leader of the movement for justice party he's part of their outrage after publicly accusing him of involvement in the murder of a senior member of his party so i shouted hussein was shot dead on the eve of saturday's controversial election. riots broke out in stockholm over the fatal police shooting of an elderly man in a credible district i want to put it 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. now sober to prime interest for some lessons in the cyber currency because i'm among other financial intrigues that's next in alt. 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 has extensively talked to bulgaria 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.

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