to you any time anywhere. death and despair in the home of sauber strong by a massive tornado that's left dozens dead and many homeless. russian security forces say they have killed the right hand man of russia's most wanted terrorist and special operation in the north caucasus. justice department versus journalist outrage over what's seen as a government swipe at media freedom after it targets a fox news reporter who published secrets from an official. lebanon's hezbollah is the syrian civil war and the most intense government offensive this year sparking fears of the region wide spill were.

you what you are to coming to live from the russian capital i'm marina josh. the search for survivors continues in the suburbs of america's oklahoma city devastated by one of the deadliest tornadoes in years a massive cycle own tore through a residential area leaving chaos and its wake. fifty one people are confirmed to have perished just homes and schools were flattened at least twenty children are among the dead but the number of victims is expected to rise as rescuers sift through the rubble president obama's declare the area a disaster zone sachs has more from washington. a massive tornado ripped through oklahoma ripped through the areas around oklahoma city i was need 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 decimated is though something you'd see after the hiroshima or nagasaki tomic bombings was just unbearably loud. and you can see stuff flying everywhere just about like on the movie twister. everything i own. my my pickup was sitting out there my daughter's car everything and 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 discount and then i found some news writing saying.

this was one of about twenty eight tornadoes that touched down around the area in oklahoma kansas illinois i walked in 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 this is something you know nearly unprecedented in the area disaster relief for daily mail dismiss who is involved in tackling the aftermath of the fukushima tragedy says politics needs to be taken out of a of work and prevention measures. i used to live very near kansas and so i know you know the seriousness of of tornadoes i've been one very close to one but i cannot imagine what hardship they are going through in pain 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 trying to reestablish a life back where where you were located before i mean rebuilding complete cities towns villages is just incredibly difficult and it's just so much hardship and to increase that hardship because of poor political decisions is just inexcusable or were to be updated on the turn a tragedy in the american midwest on air and online with the latest food photos and eyewitness accounts from the scene at r.t. dot com.

now russia's national security council chief is in washington for talks with his u.s. counterpart dominating the agenda the issue of global safety artie's a gorgeous going off has the details. security services have managed to eliminate the you wake of russia's number one terrorist. in the republic in the caucasus plus just on monday of the reason i asked that the for a plan to attack moscow all this gives weight to the head of russia's security council. as he visits the us since he does have some useful experience he could share with his american counterparts when it comes to battling terrorism because it does come shortly after the recent terror attack in boston which was planned and conducted by the brothers both of whom were of chechen origin and for russia the caucasus is the most volatile region and before people were killed in

two bomb explosions in the republic of biggest on definitely the security services of what countries have things where they could work together on and joint threats and just earlier the leaders of both countries did call on them to work together more intensely and it's a fact that they can help each other and to learn from each other in many things and law professor has entered omran says that in the wake of the boston bombing the u.s. stance on global terrorism needs to change. the preparations for that visit began long before the. attack. but it was same time of course it should be a kind of a counterpoint during these negotiations right now because the main message that should convey to you is that in the same boat. we need to do something about it to my american friends you need to stop providing the status of refugees the chechen

terrorists you need to disband the so called american community. which is now action is called american committed for peace in the caucasus as you can see those people who kill in the russians they start killing americans unfortunately in the last several decades the position of the united states was so different from the position of russia regarded and she got in the caucasus or got in the overall disintegration of the russian federation so i believe it. was a boston attack and they have a kind of a healing psychological effect on the american society and on the american government. a journalist and free speech activists in the u.s. are rounding on the justice department's probe into a fox news reporter the government's pulled james rosen's phone logs personal e-mails and security badge records over an alleged conspiracy rosen is not charged with any crime and there is deep suspicion that national security is now

a pretext to keep america's reporters on a tight leash here's our washington correspondent got a shout. 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 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 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 this 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 even press releases if that is the case that would be the end of our profession. the recent scandals expose a fine line between the demands of media freedom and those of state have charlie

mcgrath from wide awake news told r.t. sean thomas that journalists are paying the price for going beyond official sources you're talking about with something you can use information that is critical for it in its three hundred pockets yes it's going to be things that can be reported that shouldn't be leaked but you're going to go after the jury was to do his job and not the in the senate is dysfunctional government. 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 to scare the hell out of the body who dares to stand up to the party wound 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's control totalitarian tyrannical government

it's hubris at its worst and it's going to continue there will be freedom of the people this country. and coming up lives on the line for justice as guantanamo bay and national have her started the u.s. military running the camp as we speak to a lawyer for one of the hunger strikers who claims to have been nearly shot dad by prison guards. plots bottling up the real issues e.u. ministers throw their average interest from rules on serving olive oil despite the caught him being smothered in death the details are up ahead here in our team. some of these traditional chili lines they've been grid and developed and passed down from generation to. this is a total destruction of the culture of new mexico and i tell you what i mean this this is not going to impact asylum in mexico whatever happens here we're going to

have the whole world now we're eating at about six in the in the you know a you know ordinance or. genetically engineered crops why do you think this country is full of obese and sick people because we have a crappy food system. the world. finds technology innovation all the lives developments from around russia we've gone through huge earth covered.

welcome back you're watching r.t. coming to live from the russian capital now three and a half months into the guantanamo hunger strike and the u.s. military running the facilities under fresh pressure to close the camp the tories international group of hacktivists known as anonymous have threatened to disrupt prison activity forcing the authorities to shut down wireless internet axes as a precaution most of the one hundred sixty six detainees at guantanamo are starving themselves in protest at indefinite detention without charge artie's marina met one of the captives lawyers. thirty five year old detainee. was reportedly shot several times by get most guard last month his attorney ramsey cost some joins me now to speak exclusively to our team 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 blood tunnel military prison

at the station decided to raise him six the prison facility at guantanamo pipeline the trollies prison. late they conducted the raid nor does it move all the prisoners into solitary confinement and i 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 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 at that close of range even a rubber coated steel pellet can penetrate skin and can be fatal the authorities or 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 saw 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 mr ali was being force fed. that is a vial. 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 stomach there are many other ways to to feed prisoners even if those prisoners wish to be true. and the us government is again doing it in a deliberately violent way in order to break the hunger strikes 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 on a mobile interrupt their hunger strike unless president obama takes such hockley starts and one very obvious concrete steps you can take is to begin by releasing some prisoners who are approved for transfer or who can be repatriated or resettled in another country like another one of my five 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 source that the president is serious about closing guantanamo bay we need actions we need deeds not words mr president thank you very much for your time i really thank you. for your patience frustration isn't just restricted to the hot baths in the south this is the normally last capital of sweden that you're seeing now which has seen angry youths cars and buildings

a blaze and calmly explained to holmes sudden right. plus the revelation that over eighty five thousand american veteran sought medical help for sex abuse trauma last year alone reported that is online dot com. a fresh series of blasts across iraq has left at least twelve people dead and scores injured the recent surge of sectarian violence was triggered by a government attack on a sunni protest camp in late april last month became the deadliest in the country since two thousand and eight while the ongoing strives. was stirred up by the two thousand and three u.s. led military intervention sectarian bloodshed reached its height three years into the occupation when tens of thousands were killed and many now fear every turn of those violent days was ted for tat sunni and shia attacks showing no signs of and dying 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 as one allowing as aid afterwards shift an increasing number of syrian refugees after further analysis word out joined by a story in an international relations professor mark almond there thank you very much mark for joining us here on r.t. to discuss this well let's go back a few years and the u.s. led invasion as we know to iraq wasn't spurred by secretary nism so how did it so happened that the war against terrorism sort of slid back into what we're seeing now the deadly and bitter religious divisions that have them are the past decade if we start with iraq we in many ways the area that is the center of the trouble today was where the americans had trouble with resistance their invasion in western iraq province and so on in sunni areas and then two thousand and six two thousand and seven the united states instead of trying to suppress this

a rebellion put in cash huge amounts of money flowed into buying all troublemakers and the american civil and general petraeus was innocent able in a way to calm the level of violence in iraq which of course now the strategic situation has changed the very people who were leading into americans eight years ago are now perceived to be natural allies of the west against its shiite enemies iran in particular but of course iran's allies government in syria. has been are in it in lebanon but also close. nouri al maliki's government in iraq is a shiite government in effect the majority people in iraq have voted for all candidates who supported him and in a way we're seeing a strain shift whereby the people who the americans claim to be liberating from saddam's sane sunni tyranny in two thousand and three now perceived to be geo politically uncomfortable for the united states and the very sunni fundamentalist

groups who are seen as the enemies of the state from two thousand and one onwards and then in reach and he american assistance of two thousand and three have become allies so we have a very cynical game of power politics going on at the same time as we have unfortunately our street level santeria larger war about syria and focus on the sectarian violence there are which has been on their eyes lately so in your opinion how much do you think syria's civil war is becoming secretary and in nature rather than anti-government conflict will the anti-government forces are almost entirely drawn from the sunni part of population which is roughly speaking sixty to sixty five percent of the syrian population and the sectarian nature of the violence the attacks upon shiites are whites but also on christians and druze has brought together a coalition behind the saddle if you like is firmed up his position if all sixty five percent of the sunni population are against assad then it's made of can see how his regime could have survived the onslaught not only of the rebels but of

course the rebels backed by the tranche of saudi arabia and qatar and western states and by this pile of weapons from saudi arabia qatar through turkey and saw so we see in a sense a sectarian opposition a multi-faith were regime based forces partly pushed together by fear that if sunni fundamentalists came to par christians would lose out jews would lose out and of course other whites and shots would lose out. are mark almond thanks very much indeed for your views here international relations professor thank you. well ya know british prime minister david cameron is expected in brussels this week for talks on struggling policies although everyone around the table knows the u.k. has got one eye on the exit with cameron's party circulating a draft referendum bill here's what the british public seems to think. well close to the house of those surveyed for a national newspaper would say yes to leaving the e.u.

as opposed to thirty percent and would vote to stay as for when they want to decide forty four percent and say now while only twenty nine percent are ready to wait until the conservative bill is down line of twenty seventeen and our britain's business leaders have warned of the swelling and. uncertainty could scare off vital foreign investors panas party leader nigel farage says that's another reason the referendum is needed now. 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 made now i do understand the argument about uncertainty even though i very much take the view the trade would go on between britain and the rest of europe completely out affected by us leaving political

union for all european countries so far more goods to us that we do to them but i do understand that anything where you're told it could be bad for even five year debate on the subject could lead to one certainty only which really reinforces my view what cameron has done here is to attempt to kick this is you off into the long grass and really we've got to have a referendum to sort this issue out before the next general election. and when in rome well here is how want to tie an entrepreneur chose to tell the country that needs to quit the eurozone he climbed the don't sing peter's basilica hoping for a little divine intervention and while on top of the world's largest catholic cathedral he appealed to the pope to help persuade the governments to have more faith in going it alone. on maybe you should always do what the romans do but of all the sayings that e.u.

my of on its plate right now it seems the most pressing issue for them right now is olive oil all things here's our taxpayer all over. 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 could be chopped up they going to have to serve it 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 they said what it actually means i'm joined by steve meissner from the german political organization party of reason steve he 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 e.u. with their with their constant meddling in small problems and making small problems

into big problems you would think they would have enough to do with the euro currency problem and the debt crisis in southern europe but no here we go having to start dealing with restaurants and what they can serve an open and it's sort of it's a 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 in live up to the stereotype of bankers brussels bureaucracy and make legislation about all of oil and this seems to be a real lack of self-awareness that is what are they seem 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 bureaucrats to spare to expend on the silly experiments like this or that the programs like this i mean we have to cut down the whole size of the you or ocracy but they just don't have a that much money and b.'s that many bureaucrats so they can't even come up with

all these harebrained schemes in the first place this is definitely not something that needs to be done on an international you wide basis how we're going to serve our all of oil the restaurants i mean i don't see the need for all there we go steve meister thanks very much for talking to us all of oil topping the list of topics that the e.u. needs their attention right now. well there won't be any on of all in the next program as will bring in those financial news you need to know first and prime interest here on our team don't go away. 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 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 bulgaria's chances believe me but that's just my opinion. download the official publication to yourself choose your language. quality i've enjoyed your favorite film on t.v. if you're away from your television on the phone with just doesn't do well with your mobile device you can watch your three anytime anywhere.

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