altie contributor wayne madsen that. let's bring you up to date on some other international stories this out. all printed on workers trapped underground in the new zealand comando pulled off a second gas explosion police say no one could have survived which is described as an awful. thing gas had been swirling in the prior record recent the first blast last friday which prevented rescue attempts is the country's worst mining accident century. cumbered investigators are trying to discover what started the stand paint that claimed more than three hundred seventy nine lives you know countries still tragedy struck when thousands of people panicked as they tried to cross a narrow bridge causing huge crowds. most victims were crushed while others drowned as they have declared a national day of mourning. the u.n. says haiti's a deadly cholera epidemic is spreading faster than originally thought is likely to result in hundreds of thousands of actions health officials are warning people that the disease may spread further into ne

country to wayne madsen that. chiefs have been left red faced with a man purporting to be a senior taliban commander turned out to be nothing more than a pakistani shopkeeper he kept the pretense going for more than two months accepting huge payouts for taking part in high definition nations with afghan leaders when they took command that general petraeus now claims doubts had been raised but that cia analyst ray mcgovern says it's symptomatic of what's become a botched mission. of course as people in our own or unable to identify correctly what they said was number two number two man and you know there's no hope for us at all what kind of intelligence failure is that it's very very embarrassing you know and it's a an indication of how far we have to go there and how possible that is i mean here's general petraeus saying last month. they're coming to negotiations with us that shows that it's working you know they've got the shopkeeper who undoubtedly was a very clever man but he was not really a double he didn't e

but now some reports suggest there weren't any bombs on board at all investigative journalist wayne madsen says journalists anywhere. accustomed to stories not this popping up that is going to the polls. well i think we have to look back at past instance for example the underwear bomber flying to detroit from amsterdam who was allowed to basically board the plane no questions asked we had the times square fizzle bomber where something fizzled in times square in the and they guy was sitting there waiting to take off at kennedy airport and when the federal agents came in he said i've been expecting you what took you so long i mean here's another case now we're being told that this u.p.s. cargo flight was either going to blow up over new jersey new york maybe upstate new york maybe pennsylvania and maybe canada it seems like once again we've gotten one of these stories that may have been engineered prior to the election we're always sitting here in washington waiting for october surprises before major elections and this may have been another october surprise i think we've seen skepticism from

trying to stall the process saying no more pressing problems to deal with a vestige of journalist wayne madsen says some republicans are in favor of signing the treaty and that president obama still faces a daunting task to persuade the rest of them to do so. unfortunately if we don't pass a start treaty and this congress it's going to be thrown into a senate where the republicans are going to have an increase majority people like senator john kyl and senator john mccain both from arizona will have a lot of influence and less so people like senator lugar who's been forcefully arguing he's a republican of course he's been forcefully arguing for the republicans to do the right thing if he can persuade enough republicans and maybe some of the outgoing republican senators to get on board maybe we could see passage but this is going to take some. some monumental statesmanship not only on the part of president obama but on the part of the democratic and republican leaders in the senate who are not trying to sabotage the start treaty with the with russia ok i think we're going to have to wait and see

contributor wayne madsen believes the south korean president is using instance to boost his political power we've got the korean peninsula those two countries north and south are still in a state of war out there was only an armistice signed until russia and china king talked to the north to get them to back down but we also have to have the united states put pressure on president lee myung bok of south korea because he's been very warlike unlike his predecessors who were trying to open up to the north in a policy of sunshine diplomacy cross border visits special economic zones this particular president of south korea is very aggressive very right wing and very unpopular at home and the only thing he has going for him is to boost his image by getting into a military showdown with the north. r.t. contributor when madsen that. now i let's bring you up to date on some other international stories this hour. knowing that workers trapped on the ground in new zealand coal miner died after a second gas explosion police say no one could have survived what was described as a last thing gas had

contribute to wayne madsen believes the south korean kristen's is using incident to boost his political power. we've got the korean peninsula though those two countries north and south are still in a state of war out there was only an armistice signed until russia and china king talked to the north to get them to back down but we also have to have the united states put pressure on president lee myung bok of south korea because he's been very warlike he unlike his predecessors who were trying to open up to the north in a policy of sunshine diplomacy across border visits special economic zones this particular president of south korea is very aggressive very right wing and very unpopular at home and the only thing he has going for him is to boost his image by getting into a military showdown with the north or to continue to win that's that. to the head for you this hour a tide of change. after decades of mismanagement the water is in one of the world's largest landlocked these went away and tell a gigantic fishing industry but now coming that island the france joined me in the air all sea

contributor wayne madsen believes the south korean president is using the incident for his own political interests. we've got the korean peninsula though those two countries north and south are still in a state of war up there was only an armistice signed. russia and china king talked to the north to get them to back down but we also have to have the united states put pressure on president lee myung bak of south korea because he's been very warlike he unlike his predecessors who were trying to open up to the north in a policy of sunshine diplomacy across borders. special economic zones this particular president south korea is very aggressive very right wing and very unpopular at home and the only thing he has going for him is to boost his image by getting into a military showdown with the north. coming up in a few minutes getting a good grounding before blasting off. the next crew of the i assess of being cleared for launch this next stop the launch get all the details with us in just a minute. protests against austerity measures that are once more in cities across europe a twenty four h