and if you watch the full interview was brian becker in twenty minutes time here on our. in china thousands of barrels containing toxic chemicals continue to move towards russia after being swept into a river by floods and although chinese authorities are desperately trying to intercept the poisonous containers there are unconfirmed reports that some are already leaking their contents into the water are going off as more. basi there just around fifty years ago the water in the it was so clean it was possible to drink it straight from the river obviously over the years the situation has changed but the ecology here is now under threat of becoming even worse chinese authorities now say that they've managed to extract several thousand barrels which have been washed into the. as a result of the biggest experienced in a decade but that means that several more thousand barrels are still in the water since the river joins the. chinese located just several dozen away from here these barrels are currently enroute to russia. eight beers to prevent these barrels from reaching here h

and you can see the full interview with antiwar activist brian becker later in the program. the chinese authorities say around six hundred barrels of oil highly toxic chemicals remain missing in a river flowing towards russia while six thousand of the containers swept away in floods have been recovered there are fears some may have already caused pollution. office in russia's far east which is on high alert against this threat. basi there just around fifty years ago the water in the more was so clean it was possible to drink it straight from the river obviously over the years the situation has changed but the ecology here is now under threat of becoming even worse chinese authorities now say that they've managed to extract several thousand barrels which had been washed into the river last wednesday as a result of the biggest flood china has experienced in a decade but that means that several more barrels are still in the water and since the river joins the. chinese located just several dozen kilometers away from here these barrels are clearly enroute to words russia chinese

while we also spoke to brian becker from an american antiwar coalition for his view on why support for the wars in afghanistan and iraq is plummeting you can watch that interview after the headlines that passed on r.t. was a little bit later in the program the germans fear more potentially dangerous could soon be living in their communities as the country looks forced to end its practice of keeping some offenders locked up after they've served their sentences. and purpose even south koreans now doubt the findings of a u.s. led report the blame pyongyang for sinking a saddam or ship in march you can find out why in a few minutes from now here on. the first the u.s. state of arizona has enforced new illegal immigration legislation this week but the most disputed parts of the bill were struck out just before it was inducted it means immigrants will be safe from random police checks which some claimed were racial profiling but those against the bill say it's a bittersweet victory as the fate of illegals in the u.s. remains precarious. i don't know who. is it is. doesn't sound like a typica

well we also spoke to brian becker from an american antiwar coalition for his view on why support for the wars in afghanistan and iraq is promising and you can watch that interview after the headlines at. also a little bit later in the program. more potentially dangerous could soon be living in their communities as the country looks for its practice of keeping some of. the sentences. of a u.s. led report the blame. you can find out why in a few minutes. the u.s. state of arizona has enforced new illegal immigration legislation this week but the most disputed parts of the bill were struck out just before it was interrupted it means immigrants will be safe from random police checks while some claimed racial profiling but those against the bill say it's a bittersweet victory as the fate of illegals in the u.s. remains precarious. as it. doesn't sound like your typical immigration protests today i feel great as. everybody was very excited. in. that it was. because just one day before the law was to be enacted and i. just provisions. to be removed a celebration over one hundred long hot da

or brian becker from the american antiwar coalition says the leaked documents expose an attempt by u.s. officials to save face. in its broadest context these documents prove that the war in afghanistan cannot be won and that the leaders of the us government know that it cannot be won but they don't want to tell the american people the truth because they don't want to take responsibility they don't want to have it be known in history that on our watch obama or poetry is that we lost we the great united states lost a war against an armed insurgency in afghanistan. well it's just after ten minutes past the hour now here in the russian capital you with our tears were running down the top stories of today and of this past week and in china thousands of barrels containing toxic chemicals continue to move towards russia they were swept into a river by recent floods and although chinese authorities are desperately trying to intercept the poisonous containers there are unconfirmed reports that some are already leaking their contents into the water to use you've got to put it off as more. they s

brian becker from the american and he will coalition says someone within the military leaked these documents. i know that's a current argument that the u.s. military may have leaked this in order to blame pakistan or to blame others i don't think that's really what's going on i think that there are voices within the u.s. military just as they were doing in vietnam who have become disillusioned with the war and are releasing these documents to paint a picture that tells something quite different from the official version with the hope that the american people will as they did during vietnam become opponents of the war and help change the policy. you can watch the full version of the interview with the antiwar activist and director of the answer coalition brian becker next hour here on r.t. and r.t. as resident laurie huffman is hits the streets of new york together opinion on the wiki leaks story. should they be releasing such sensitive information this week let's talk about that i'm a journalist and i think freedom that you get the people need to know what's happening and i think it's great

week dozens of iraq died in a wave of terror attacks of course the country with antiwar activists brian becker says the war is far from over but the birkin's will continue to die in iraq. we see a rebranding of the occupation if you leave fifty thousand heavily armed soldiers backed by all sorts of aircraft the latest high tech aircraft of course all of the naval destroyers the submarines the aircraft carriers that are all throughout the region that have cruise missiles and all sorts of means by which to intervene in iraq we see now the end of an occupation by a certain diminishing of the occupation in terms of some of the troop numbers but a rebranding of the occupation so that instead of calling it combat troops they call it rise of the troops they still have guns they still shoot those guns when they're shot at in their head they die it won't be sufficient to tell iraqis on september first or second or american families who have g.i.'s and loved ones there who may perish after the so-called end of the war that their loved ones indeed are not dead because the war has been officially ended i

military operation the white house has requested wiki leaks to stop posting the top secret documents brian becker from an american war coalition says the leaked documents will influence u.s. public opinion this is a war that's already been lost the politicians know it's been lost what these documents reveal is that they've concealed that fact from the american people and they're sending more and more troops tens of thousands more troops to kill and to be to be killed in a war that they know can't be won and the reason they're doing it is that they don't want to take responsibility as nixon did not want to take responsibility in vietnam for a military set back and that's millions of people will be paying some kind of price in national treasure of course the blood loss for afghan civilians for american g.i.'s i think this will have an explosive effect on a on the american public which already has turned against the war. spoke to the founder and editor in chief of the wiki leaks website he says he tried to cooperate with the white house but received no response we're looking at the issue seriously t

watch a full version of that interview with the antiwar activist and director of the coalition brian becker in the next hour here on the tea. party's resident laurie harvest hits the streets of new york together opinion on this wiki leaks story. should they be releasing such sensitive information this week let's talk about that i'm a journalist and i think freedom that you get the people need to know what's happening and i think it's great is there anything that the public shouldn't know. i don't want sordid details of politicians i don't think we need to know that but information that's in the same public domain yes such as should know everything is there any information that should never be published by a watchdog oh yeah i mean if this thing which is going to endanger troops or something which is really going to hurt us or hurt the people who are really trying to do the right thing in afghanistan that should absolutely not be shared so out of ninety one thousand reports it is possible i'm sure there's a bunch in there that's bad stuff i believe that you know america should know a lot of

when i'm with brian becker director of. the coalition he's in washington for us many thanks for joining us by now in a previous interview you said that the war on drugs in afghanistan is on winnable why well be the war in afghanistan is unwinnable because the american military occupation whether it's called the nato occupation or u.s. occupation or both won't be accepted by the people of afghanistan and the war on drugs is not winnable either because unless the economic situation changes radically for the people of afghanistan in other words where there can be a thriving economic development separate and apart from drugs people farmers especially will rely on the drug trade because they must feed their family and then of course you have a large amount of demand both in the west and elsewhere for opiates so there is no military solution at all and of course as the war in afghanistan view curio rates even as it expands this situation will only worsen define the past miss the meeting is now taking place between these four majo

promise to withdraw the country's forces from iraq and for more on this i'm joined in washington by brian becker he's a director of the antiwar protest group good to see you thanks very much indeed for joining us no combat troops are leaving the country so surely this does mean an end to the war doesn't it well we see a rebranding of the occupation if you leave fifty thousand heavily armed soldiers backed by all sorts of aircraft the latest high tech aircraft of course all of the naval destroyers the submarines the aircraft carriers that are all throughout the region that have cruise missiles and all sorts of means by which to intervene in iraq we see not the end of an occupation but a certain diminishing of the occupation in terms of some of the troop numbers but a rebranding of the occupation so that instead of calling it combat troops they call it rise of the troops they still have guns they still shoot those guns when they're shot at in their head they die it won't be sufficient to tell iraqis on september first or second or american families who have g.i.'s and loved ones there who may peri

of hearts and minds you might have in afghanistan gemstones know talking a little earlier and brian becker director of the anti war on sicko nation in washington says the four countries are attempting to reassert their sovereignty over the u.s. . since the dissolution the breakup of the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred one the american government both the democrats and the republicans didn't really matter who was in charge saw south and central asia and and especially the former soviet republics in that region as a new piece of real estate a possibility for an expansion of american of an american empire of an american sphere of influence of course the resources natural gas and oil which are rich in that region are a vital interest for american corporations and the u.s. government and the pentagon see these areas as an effort a place to stage new u.s. military installations u.s. military bases so we saw the meeting today and in the recent days with russia and to stand in pakistan and afghanistan as an attempt by these countries to reassert their sovereignty their control their inde