death and despair in the oklahoma suburbs are struggling a massive tornado that's left at least two dozen dead and many homeless. russian security forces say they've killed the right hand man of russia's most wanted terrorist and a special operation in the north caucasus. justice department versus journalists outrage over what's seen as the government's swipe at media freedom after it all gets a fox news reporter who published secrets from an official. number one welcome to you if you're just joining us here on our t.v.

we're live from moscow you're with me with say. the search for survivors continues in the suburbs of america's oklahoma city devastated by one of the deadliest tornadoes in yez a mess of cyclon tore through a residential area leaving chaos in its wake. the local media a medical examiner's office has revised the initial number of dead from fifty one to at least twenty four some of the victims are schoolchildren and the figures are still expected to rise as rescuers continue to sift through the rubble president obama declared the area a disaster zone artie's sachs has from washington. a massive tornado ripped through there 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 as 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 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 to discount any and then i felt some news reading. 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 this is something you know nearly unprecedented in the area disaster relief expert to a layman smedley is involved in tackling the aft a month before the sheema tries it in says policies and needs to be taken out of aid work and prevention meses. 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. we're keeping you updated on the tornado tragedy in american midwest on air and online but what the latest footage photos and i would miss a count from the scene at ality dot com.

security forces will say they have killed in the right hand man all the terrorists known as a russian's osama bin laden during a special operation in the north caucasus artie's peace cannot has the details the anti terror operation took place in a residential neighborhood in russia's southern republic of industry in the caucasus police walked upright it tells where a group of suspected militants was writing be refused to surrender only a woman accompanied by a child came out she's believed to be here. i saw one of the armed men and shortly after she did they opened fire at the authorities and were eliminated now soon after the operation ended the investigators found out that one of the militants was the right hand men in number one terrorist. responsibility for various terror attacks across russia including the two moscow metro blasts and the attack on the

airport and to the operation continues a set of successful efforts in russia since just on monday before a plan to attack moscow by a group of terrorists now all this adds up to the visit of the head of russia's security council who is now in the united states and does have some useful experience he could share with american counterparts when it comes to tackling terrorism since international terror is one of the mean mutual threats that russia and the united states share his visit does come shortly after the recent terror attack in boston which was so blind and conducted by the time my brother is before the war. while the caucasus for russia is one of the most volatile region since just on monday four people were killed in the southern republic. in two car bomb explosions now surely the country's security services do have

a lot to talk about lots of spheres where they can work together following the direct orders of the presidents of both russia and the u.s. for the security services to intensify cooperation. law professor alexander don run says that in the wake of the boston bombing the u.s. stance on global terrorism needs to change. preparations for that visit began long before the boston attack. but it was same time of course it should be a kind of a counterpoint during these negotiations because the main message that should convey to tom donilon is that where in the same boat. we need to do something about it my american friends you need to stop providing the status of refugees the chechen terrorists you need to disband the so-called american committee for peace in church now which is now actually called american committee for peace in the

caucasus as you can see those people who were killing 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 regard in chechnya regarding the caucasus regarding the overall disintegration of the russian federation i believe it paradoxically is a boston attack and they have a kind of a healing psychological effect on the american society of the american government. journalists and free speech activists in the u.s. rounding up the justice department's probe into a fox news reporter the government's paul james rosen's of science logs of personal e-mails and security bets records over an alleged conspiracy and as not to charged with any crime and there's deep suspicion that national security is now a pretext to keep america's reporters on a type leash is a washington correspondent and she can. 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 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 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 even press releases if that is the case that would be the end of our profession. the recent scandals expose the fine line between the demands of media freedom and those of statehood changable grant the from wide awake news told r.t. it's on thomas that the journalists are paying the price for going beyond official sources if you're talking about returning users

a nation that it is critical for in its three hundred populace yes it's going to be things it can be a report it shouldn't be leaked but you're really going after the jury was to doing his job and not the intersect is a dysfunctional government that 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 well into the agenda line and this isn't just the obama administration it's the previous administration it will be the next administration it is controlled totalitarian tyrannical government it's hubris at its worst and it's going to continue there will be three of the people this country. coming up but lives on the line for justice is

a guantanamo bay international hackers target 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 dead by prison guards. wealthy british scientists some. time to. go. to. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons are the no holds barred. the global financial headlines. watch. free. education free. free.

free. free. and free. video for your media. free media r.t. dot com. i. welcome back you're watching r t 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 but authorities an international group of activists known as anonymous have threatened to disrupt prison activity forcing the authorities to shut down wireless internet access as a precaution most of the one hundred sixty six detainees at guantanamo are stopping

themselves in protests at indefinite detention without charge are just worried about one of the captives lawyers. thirty five year old detainee. was reportedly shot several times by get more guard 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 was your client shot and what were the circumstances of the shooting on saturday april thirteenth of this year leave the time old military prison in the station decided to raid them six the prison facility at guantanamo pipeline the trollies prison. need to conduct a direct order to move all the prisoners into solitary confinement and that was just one additional way that the prison in the station 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 of range even a rubber coated steel pellet can penetrate skin and can be fatal the authorities at 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 mr ali was being force fed. that is a vial. ation 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 chew 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 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 at guantanamo will interrupt the 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 ahmed 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 source that 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. so the protest leaders in iraq are demanding autonomy from baghdad according to reports in the country state media meanwhile are for a surge of national nationwide sick terror and violence has left at least twelve people dead as well as a deadly wave of bombings on monday that has eighty people killed or use two hundred injured a country has been in the grip of the worst sunni and shia tit for tat attacks and since the two thousand and three u.s. led military intervention political analyst professor ibrahim lucia's says all the recent surge in sectarian bloodshed could needed to grave consequences for the whole region. 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 u.s. and razan of that country ten years ago the identity of the leadership and iraq before the invasion was not a sectarian one the same thing goes for syria today you have sectarian forces trying to stir up sectarian conflict so it can get very about but at the same thing is happening in other places we are seeing in escalation within jordan we have read too many clues and analyses showing that it will be as far as iraq lebanon jordan and other countries other arab countries. right meanwhile in syria government troops have exchanged fire with israel syria says it opened fire and destroyed in israel's vehicle which allegedly crossed the ceasefire line in the disputed golan heights and headed towards a rebel held village israel has claimed it returned fire however there have been no

reports of casualties countries have exchanged fire on numerous occasions in recent weeks. sweden could be paying a tough prize for its policies on immigrants and multiculturalism a stocker must subaverage erupted into violence for a few hours as crowds of angry mosque a uniter from a migrant families burned cars smashed windows and hurled stones at police officers once believed to have fielded the riot was the death of a sixty nine year old man allegedly shot by police in the area last week the chairman of sweden's national democratic party told r.t. this is a new trouble for highlights old policy floors. this is fairly new to to sweden. and this is clear consequence of this multiculturalism politics that sweden adopted around the eighties and increased it in the ninety's and now we are seeing these

problems but these politics is not working and we have seen this this is not a unique one single occasion we have seen this in gotham bergen several times and even in the elected council or inside italian roma have these ethnical based riots against swedish authorities i think that sweden has been trying harder than and all the country in europe to try to push for integration where we invested billions into it of taxpayers' money we tried everything that the scientists have passed presented and still it's not working the problem to the core here is that these people don't identify themselves with this way. to society or us swedes and he's clearly not working it's not working so it is not working in france or in the united states there is and i think we'll see more of this if we don't change the politics. in the future. by one man keeping

a distance from the sweden is a world famous whistleblower julian the sun is this close a link to the intelligence message that calls attempts to extradite him to sweden on charges of sex abuse put up that story at r.t. dot com. plus the revelation that over eighty five thousand american veterans are for medical help for abuse troll one last year alone are important that this is all online. with more than a billion people each he would expect china and india to carry some clout so imagine what they could do by joining up they've agreed one hundred billion dollars bilateral trade target for twenty fifteen well the first analysts. yes says a beijing and new delhi have all it takes to make a good business team president xi jinping chose russia for his first foreign visit

after assuming office and premier li kitchen has chosen india first foreign visit so it does show that for the chinese the greek family is very critical in india also we take it seriously and utra bridge street has been growing at a tremendous space and if you're trying to trade actually projected to reach up to one hundred billion dollars in the next couple of years so that's a very ambitious target of increasing you'd always be forty percent and if they're cheap it it's going to benefit the rest of the brics countries insofar as it's already creating momentum because india and china are obviously the two major economies in the brics formation and the reason efforts on the part of india to track changes invest. especially in our infrastructure sector so the great edge and of the stream issues which is what is making them feel important in the world is very connected to our creative investment strategy and that for a chinese premier means when he says that this is going this partnership if we can

iron out some of the i'm comfortable aspects of it it will turn out to be. combination of british prime minister david cameron is expected in brussels of this week for talks on the e.u. 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 about this now close to a half of those surveyed for a national newspaper would say yes to leaving at the you as opposed to thirty percent who would vote to stay as full when they want to decide forty four percent say now while only twenty nine percent say that they're ready to wait until the conservatives bills the deadline for twenty seventeen now a number of britons a business leaders have warned that this whaling anti e.u. sentiment in an uncertainty could scare all vital foreign investors u.k.

independence party leader nigel farage says that's another reason the referendums now needed. 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 unaffected 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 had for a half perhaps even five year debate on a subject could lead to uncertainty all of 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. but of all the things that the e.u. might have on its plate right now it seems the most pressing is sinful them right now is all the while is art. 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 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 and small problems and making small problems and a big problem for them 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 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 don't they think seems to have too much time on their hands perhaps many of the problems you aren't even big enough that they still have the energy and tax money and very proud to spare to spend on silly experiments like this or believe programs like this we really have to cut

down the whole ties of the 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 but 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. romex kaiser's next though with the late to is a financial expert. 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 both 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 is 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. good luck or or two. mission to teach.