actually. the ukrainian crisis spirals into a bloodbath as radical nationalists a fireball manty government activism not desa bring in the volatile days the death toll to forty three. and authorities in kiev to push on the with of the crackdown on anti-government activists in the east of the country following a night of that left at least a one dead and nine injured. and as russia at the international community for failing to denounce radicals killing people in ukraine someone some politicians put all the blame on the victims.

a very warm welcome to you if you've just joined us here on r. and t. international we started with last night's massacre in the ukrainian city offered death you want some people may find the following pictures rather disturbing. right let's take a look at this video that we're seeing right now dozens of people burned alive in a desk as radical nationalists fire bombed a building associated with anti-government groups in sheer desperation some of the people also jumped out of the windows only to die from the fall while bloodied survivors were brutally beaten by armed men other clashes wish began early in the

day claimed forty three lives with almost two hundred people injured our team managed to speak with a number of people who survived the place. because of a woman and children living in the trade unions building first and then on demand so decided to dance then started throwing molotov cocktails and to the building who had showed fight and smelled smoke there were about fifty of us on the roof men and women the right sector was blocking the streets we looked down at what was happening around us and thought they wouldn't let us out alive people from other floors were brought down and the extremists attacked them like a pack of wolves then the police the schools and us from the building we had to step over dead bodies women were coming down the stairs. i saw at least six people jumping from the building i think our tears were for national i was also in a desa for us. the clashes between those protesting against the country's new assault witnesses say they were around one hundred of them and those supporting the

country's new government people in kirkuk reportedly a group three times bigger started here from the city's central square or greek square it lasted for two hours up to four people were killed and many others injured it stopped when police arrived to the scene but it was not the end of the supporters of the interim government in kiev joined by football fans reportedly coming from neighboring regions came here to where for weeks those who do not recognize ukraine's new approaches have been protesting the so-called roll my down activist first going down that chance they were here in front of the building on the square and then set on fire the trade unions had supporters if you can see behind me at the time when several people were inside why witnesses say they barricaded the an intrinsic you could see over there preventing people from leaving and started throwing molotov cocktails to the windows people inside started

suffocating as a result more than thirty died many of them very young others were killed while trying to jump out of the window for several hours after that around fifty people remained trapped on the rooftop of this building until police arrived to the scene and saved what happened in it just on friday change the mood here in the town dramatically and now no one can say for sure what is going to happen next rif notional r.t. from a disaster in ukraine. we've had reaction pouring into worldwide but not all that much explanation from kiev by discusses with dean henderson geo political analyst and author of the great for an rich revolution and fifty countries who says what happened in adesa traces its roots in the very top.

you know just like to do with the order of machine code you will see through this over in the east they want to know what he wants to do with these fascists and it's all of our resources goes all the way up to the i.m.f. the version back in october when they said your electricity rates are to. foreigners. and shizuka medical care for the people and actually those employees are being implemented as we speak so they grow she goes all we have to the bankers the. euro and it was deeper within the euro zone. russia's already branded what happened in odessa as a nazi like wall crime in a few minutes we're bringing you international reaction to the tragedy. ukrainian authorities have vowed to continue the military operation against activists who are demanding more autonomy for the east of the country one of the army's main targets as the city of slavyansk on friday it's the deadliest assault since the start of the operation ati's policia is there for us. the city remains on

edge with residents waking up to a very nervous saturday morning most people here are heeding the call to stay indoors they were shooting late on friday this follows the launch of a military operation on the outskirts of the city early friday morning the army managed to take down a number of roadblocks belonging to protesters there was also fighting inside the city by members of the right sector the casualty count stands at to date for the ukrainian army although they say the interior ministry says that the number of protesters killed is much higher than that we're also hearing from protesters that they managed to shoot down two helicopters i managed to catch up with one family who has barricaded themselves behind closed doors and this is what they had to say . here to kill us. and his wife have lived in slavyansk all their lives until recently it was a small sleepy provincial town but friday morning that changed forever. north

around four thirty in the morning there was the sound of short crowns and explosions i woke up immediately it was very scary. with. all of them together with them mercenaries together with the right sector instructed by our interim president interim prime minister the all our war criminals residents of slovyansk have been ordered to remain indoors flooded near and i now have no intention of stepping out they're glued to their television sit where it's been reported that the right sector is in the city center. of the troika and to the city disguised the students there were renting apartments but eventually the. there's a panic shops will run out of food amid rumors the army is stopping supplies from getting in the a.t.m.'s are cash strapped and pharmacies are short of medicine as long as. there is no possibility to go somewhere if something happens because the

city is closed. i'm afraid that losing will start there will be france and my family we have no police now to ask for help even in my worst dream i couldn't imagine a situation like this. but the nightmare is a ball to get worse as rumors circulate that the army is gearing up for another onslaught the streets might be empty but many fear this is the calm before the storm policy r t slovyansk eastern ukraine during the night of the army also stormed to the nearby city of qom a task away activists have also been occupying administrative buildings at least one person has been confirmed dead and nine injured. thank. however protests thirty leaders say at least ten people were killed and almost thirty inch it appears interior minister says the army has now taken control of a police center in the thirteenth during the night of fighting erupted when an

armored column blocked by the protesters tried to break free the sorters reportedly first started shooting in the air and then that the people would try to stop them is what one eyewitness told r.t. . troops have surrounded the protesters now and the ambulances in the lights have been turned off on the nearby streets shorts are being heard across the city signal rockets light up the sky from time to time people see the ukrainian army shooting at everything that moves right now. the locals in the east of ukraine have been desperate to stop the army's advents. ok you can see it cut will run on people trying to stop a tank with their bare hands shouting at the soldiers not to shoot at their own people the troops so i went on the scene there there is a mommy at me however who believes those in the east of the country are still

a competitor. but i'd be so much. where you from. laval of all this do you think these are ukrainian people or separatists abilities they are ukrainian people. everybody going to fight against these people no it's. their ukrainians and saw my i use the army has you that you know people want to referendum on your bit of us the over how do you know what i guess you. know what do you think about that. i'm not sure how to answer that question if they want to referendum i have no right to tell these people what to do on their mobile devices of. almost not yet let us know your sleep but if you are given orders to stormy slovyansk tonight what will you do. because i won't follow those orders because we pledged allegiance to the ukrainian people that's right most of them and he

condemned the inaction our western countries towards the country a white dress in ukraine russia's envoy to the un pulled no punches comparing the actions are taken by the right sector in the city of odessa to those of the nazi. we were struck by the complacence of the western members of the security council towards the actions including the use of force by the illegitimate kiev authorities and the ultra radicals they rely on it is not surprising therefore that with this kind of backing they believe they can act with impunity we are profoundly disturbed by the information from the city of odessa in southern ukraine such actions are reminiscent of the crimes of the nazis from whom the ukrainian ultranationalist derive their ideological inspiration. well some a was some politicians went as far as suggesting the people who were burned alive in odessa brought the whole thing upon themselves as the u.s. state department limited its reaction to calling for an investigation and she can

has the details. it's interesting the headlines in tweets that we've seen coming from major u.s. and european news outlets do not mention that those who were torched you know this anti key activists and that it was done by a group of radicals then you have the swedish foreign minister called bill actually suggesting that it's the koran for pro russians fault that they were burned to death he writes horrible was at least thirty eight dead you know this seems to have started with progress or an attempt to get control of buildings violence must stop that he police again is getting out because of violence you know this as well unfortunately unexpected but this is a city full of. just wishful spoken or generic terms when commenting on the radicals apparently. this without mentioning who carries out the attacks british foreign secretary for example wrote i deplore and regret the loss of life you know this there is an urgent need for restraint and stepping back from confrontation

then here in the u.s. you have pundits and foreign policy at first like the head of the brookings think tank who wrote. a consequence of putin using a word to add twelve a cab to the cavalry of our time which is what this with feelings and blood again is to tell but somehow suggesting that the russian president is responsible for the killings and not the radicals who are actually attacked these people you know this we hear no clear do not see action of this kind of violence coming from u.s. officials they have firmly sided themselves with authorities in kiev and everyone in ukraine who opposes the government here in the view of washington just received their instructions from. one of the biggest concerns that we've seen is. the russian propaganda that has been. blasted out nonstop. suggesting somehow that the a korean government is responsible for the problems in eastern ukraine the

ukrainian government has shown remarkable restraint throughout this process president obama spoke early after his meeting with german chancellor angela merkel and basically dismissed the whole protest against cuba sponsored and controlled by russia and put the responsibility for the escalation on moscow alone president obama also showed full support for key its crackdown on the protests in the east of ukraine he called it a move to restore order. who is a senior lecturer of international relations at moscow state university things the western political heavyweights have their eyes closed to the real causes of the chaos in ukraine. they will continue to blame russia as being responsible for this for destabilizing the situation in the ukraine by their view they had a right to destabilize the situation in ukraine a few months ago and helped bring this puts regime to power with the euro my down riots but now russia although there is no evidence they claim has no right to

destabilize the situation in the rest of these radicals have not been stopped by the government because they are doing the business of this government these brownshirt paramilitaries are the only true believers that this government can politically and ideologically rely on the ukrainian flag flying over a burned building full of the corpses of dead and charred citizens is a perfect metaphor for the way this regime will govern the ukraine if they're given the chance. well closely following the situation in ukraine and we'll be bringing you the latest news throughout the day and also on our web site at ati dot com.

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bell you weekdays by day two story about the impacts government cuts having on the n.h.s. now it's paramedics who are speaking out the recent death of william cold burn the seventy five year old man he died after waiting two hours for an ambulance his two examination of the current pressures facing ambulance stopped after the coroner in the case closed the day a sad consequence of cuts on condition of anonymity former employee exclusively. about his own experiences in the ambulance service. felt sad for patients that were going from a great job after picking their. husband or wife up on the floor having a stroke for an hour to think i'm not down so hence.

why i need to speak up why i need to speak i think it's just to do with government funding cuts bosses in the under so he's having to. more and more with less money and less funding. which told about some of the tough conditions now facing i.b.m. and staff that is left trying to pick up the slack some are working ten eleven twelve hours without a meal break and i'm not sure why they long for their own health as much as they are for the patients and in the end. if you don't if you're not giving people. the right breaks to get there are a higher risk of making twenty four errors there are a risk of. a free three and a half tons they're driving these around. there are more risk of making a drawing ever clinic where the government has said they want the n.h.s. to make up to twenty billion pounds worth of a fish and sea savings by twenty fifteen isn't me thinking. flammed campaign is

saying that putting lights at risk. reverses soonest possible to clive today is the co-leader of the national health action party a new political group that wants to pick the future of the n.h.s. the heart of the political agenda ahead of the general elections but i think for health care austerity cuts across the board so right from public health down much more local services for example ambulance services we're seeing increasing cuts and we've seen patients waiting longer and longer to get an urgent call and you know the media is now filling up with stories where patients become acutely sick not getting seen in time and actually you know really sadly some people are dying it's absolutely outrageous and yes this is what happens when you start cutting back public services. put the concerns raised to the department of health in a statement they said. the ambulance service is performing well arriving on scene

in under eight minutes in more than seventy five percent of the most life threatening cases but we know the service is getting busier so since twenty ten the n.h.s. has recruited sixty percent more paramedics to help longer term n.h.s. england is carrying out a review to look at the demands on services and how the n.h.s. should respond but days on the frontline can but this is the problem i have things quite easily be owing statistics. quite. interesting so i think it's quite a lot i think if you were on the service. and the router question that they come unstuck because you actually know can i stay quiet any more i call stay for any more because i care for the patient that patient i treat as the my own family member and it could be me. and the struggles on with morale of course the whole service reportedly at an all time many are now warning

that if the cuts continue the person will have to wave goodbye not just too inefficient turn violent but to the n.h.s. as we know it sir artie reporting from london. now to some other world news three hundred and fifty people have died after a major landslide hit north east in afghanistan a village was buried after torrential rain was part of a failed to collapse of thirty's have little hope of finding the other two thousand five hundred people missing giving the scale of the disaster and rescue efforts are being hampered by the state of the soil which kind of hold heavy machinery following a week of heavy rain. one person was killed and two injured after exploded in a busy kyra district on friday on the same day another attack took place in cairo and two suicide bombings had a police checkpoint and a passenger bus. in egypt sinai peninsula bringing the number of dead to five

militant attacks and political tension in the country have been growing since the army overthrew president morsi and banned the muslim brotherhood egypt is preparing for presidential elections in less than four weeks. nigerians have marched in that a capital to demand the government step up efforts to find hundreds of girls kidnapped by islamist militants more than two weeks ago i believe invested with number of girls abducted from a secondary school has now risen to two hundred seventy six per day that the management group responsible for the abduction is currently negotiating over the students trade schools of whom are reportedly being forced into marriage by way of . dura gabba breaking news story a day of clashes between pro and anti government activists in ukraine has claimed more than forty lives you may find some of the following pictures disturbing the

most gruesome episode took place in the middle of the city where radical nationalists besieged and fire bombed the trade union headquarters almost three dozen people were either shot burned alive suffocated as jumps to their deaths in a bid to escape the bloodbath happened as clear for restarted it is an office of against anti-government groups with more deaths reported the interim government now says the massacre in odessa will not stand in the way of its armed incursion into rest of cities in the east of the country. syria. up next it's breaking the sets with abby martin i'll be back in half an hour.

the american humanist association is really riled up over that one very famous chunk of the pledge of allegiance that was added to fight the communists in the cold war that says that america is one nation under god they claim that the inclusion of god in the pledge makes it seem like atheists in america are second class patriots and contributes to atheist prejudices well this really depends on how you see the united states is it some sort of neutral ground where anyone with any beliefs can go i mean a lot of people did immigrate to the usa for religious freedom so in this case the word god needs to go or is the state's unique culture that needs to be assimilated into their culture is ultimately process and christian in which case the lord almighty must stay in the pledge i doubt that this philosophical argument about the nature of the united states will be solved any time soon although it would be really great if it was but if we think about it the u.s.

is a country of rugged individuals so can't patriotism be a bit individualistic yeah they may make you say the pledge of allegiance in school every day but you don't have to say the part about god if you don't want to well that might not save you from pressure from your religious schoolmates but it will keep your conscience clean before the eyes of god or not god whichever you prefer but that's just my opinion. the middle east peace process this. news is proud of this tremendous challenge to the peaceful dr to chart the best. stop this way you cannot minister benjamin netanyahu. to the peace process with who was close. to us the life we now crossed over to gaza to check the flaps of the palestinians for closure say to the. it's you see.

that's one of the things that has me so excited about this point is that it's technically technologically beyond the control of politicians and all in all it's can be a wonderful wonderful thing it's going to live so many people out of poverty all over the world and if the politicians try and stop that that's on them that's them committing evil trying to prevent people from improving their situation in the world. what shaken welcome to break in the set i'm happy martin for some reason the majority of people in this country still support the death penalty which is slightly unsettling considering the fact that almost every other nuts realize

country in the world has already been a practice personally i used to support it but i learned that eighteen people on death row had been exonerated by d.n.a. evidence since one thousand nine hundred nine in the fact that even one let alone eighteen innocent people have already been sentenced that was enough to convince me that capital punishment is deeply flawed and this week it turns out the number of innocent people on death row is actually much higher than previously estimated according to a new study by the proceeding of national academy of sciences' one hundred twenty five inmates on death row are innocent moreover study researchers are calling the findings which are double the percentage of those exonerated in the decades prior a conservative estimate yes samuel gross professor and lead author of the study says quote the great majority of innocent people who are sentenced to death are never identified in freedom the purpose of our study is to account for the innocent defendants who are not exonerated. the study was conducted by reviewing the outcomes of almost seventy five one hundred death row cases in the last three

decades according to the study of that group one hundred seventeen or one point six percent were exonerated but with enough time and resources the authors concluded that at least four point one percent of them would have been exonerated in other words more than two hundred other prisoners would have been cleared during those three decades so now that we know that there are innocent people languishing behind bars awaiting their demise because of a flawed system ask yourself would you rather take the chance of letting one guilty person free than sentenced an innocent one to die think about that and let's break this. please please turn a dollar very hard to take that leap. lightly that back with that there are those. that.

will. ultimately. lead. two weekends ago mark one of the deadliest u.s. drone campaign since the assassination by air policy began in two thousand and two several strikes conducted over the course of three days against alleged al qaeda militants killed at least sixty eight people in southern yemen according the country's sabah news agency now only three of those deaths have been reported a civilian casualties but considering that the new america foundation discovered that drone strikes only have a two percent success rate of taking out high level targets and that one only needs

to be of military age male in order to be labeled a militant the number is most likely far higher of course these casualty numbers are almost impossible to confirm considering the extreme is secrecy and hope he said opacity of a program that is digging out as they did forty seven hundred people across the middle east and africa are in the bureau of investigative journalism but back in november in a rare act of reasonableness the senate intelligence committee passed the two thousand and fourteen intelligence operations bill with the provision that the president must issue an annual public report on the number of combatants and civilians killed by drone strikes great idea. well the small measure of transparency when it comes to state sponsored killings was apparently just too much for the intelligence community to handle and two weeks ago director of national intelligence james clapper wrote a letter to the senate intelligence committee stating that these transparency provisions were needed because the executive branch is already committed to

disclosing more public information about these strikes great very reassuring words coming from a known purger in a letter addressed to senator dianne feinstein and senator saxby chambliss clapper wrote quote the executive branch is currently exploring ways in which it can provide the american people more information about the u.s. as use of force outside areas of active hostilities well to no one's surprise in the face of the indiscriminate spying and drone strike movement dianne feinstein was all too eager to comply with kloppers request that's right just yesterday the crip keep herself along with other high ranking intelligence committee members decided to remove the transparency requirement from the bill just before it goes to the senate floor for a vote because all feinstein fight to declassify her committee's own report on cia torture declassifying the number of civilians murdered by machines is just a step too far not to get this the most insane part of all of it is that

feinstein was the center of that propose the transparency measure in the first place and now out of sheer cowardice she completely buckled under the pressure of taking even the most minuscule step to shed light on this horrific policy but luckily there are members of congress who aren't completely and james clapper as pocket representatives adam schiff and walter jones a democrat and republican respectively introduce their own bill in the house earlier this month for save ministration to disclose casualty numbers and civilian deaths when it comes to drone strikes shift called the bill a modest but important measure of transparency and oversight to see shift and jones know that demanding at. numbers is literally the bare minimum congress can do when it comes to of knowledge in human life and the fact that clapper and the obama administration are so afraid of releasing these numbers indicates the civilian casualty count may be far more insidious than media reports indicate as director of amnesty international security and human rights program says quote how many people

have to die for congress to take even a small step of toward transparency it's stunning that after all these years we still don't know how many people the obama administration has killed with drones. but if our sycophantic congress keeps kowtow ing the people like clapper that question may never be answered. in the last few decades the world has seen an information renaissance all thinks of the internet's ability to level the playing field when it comes to disseminating knowledge but the very notion of equal distribution online is under threat like never before since the internet's inception a concept called net neutrality is protected users small and large to be able to access websites and distribute content at the same speed and bandwidth but internet service providers or i as pieces like comcast and arisan have tried to overturn net

neutrality for years and now take over has never been closer to thanks the documents leaked to the wall street journal last week we now know that the federal communications commission or f.c.c. is proposing to abandon net neutrality altogether by creating a tiered internet this means that pay to play will be the new i.s.p. business model and even those who can afford the faster tear in the dust now given the fact that the f.c.c. is supposed to be a regulator and they are shocked at how far the agency is going to protect massive telecom corporations but according to a new article by vice this shouldn't come as a surprise considering the people that run the f.c.c. ever since f.c.c. commissioner tom wheeler took his position last year he's hired everyone from former comcast attorneys like daniel alvarez to matthew del narrow to a former lawyer for t.v.'s telecom not to mention wheeler himself as a former lobbyist for the telecom industry in fact has been sponsored by comcast horizon and the u.s. telecom association what better person to represent the people when it comes to an

internet free of corporate collusion so to discuss what this all means and the end of the internet as we know it i'm joined now by john fox global advocacy manager at access now dot org thank you so much for coming on thank you for having me so i know. we these aren't finalized but we do know of the leaked report can you break down exactly what we what we now know from this document. gender stand how we got to this mess today we have to go back in time a bit and look at an early two thousand when the f.c.c. really of scandalous responsibility and. gave up its its its ability to regulate the internet by calling it something new something unbranded before in two thousand and ten. the f.c.c. passed rules the open internet rules which prevented a speech from discriminating against content online in january of this year a d.c. court shut down those rules saying they didn't have the authority to regulate

internet service providers in such a way so the f.c.c. now has a very clear way to deal with this problem which is to reclassify internet service providers as common carriers just as they were in the past but instead we've seen chairman wheeler try to come up with new rules and new ways of doing things and what he's basically open the door allegedly according to media publications is to allow i asked to use the find creative ways to find to get more money out of content providers and for people who don't really understand what net neutrality is or what it means to average internet users can you break down an example of how this would affect the average internet user so neutrality basically sets up principles that prevent network discrimination so i asked to use internet service providers like comcast in one thousand nine hundred varieties and have a responsibility to make sure all information gets sent across the internet no matter where it starts or where no matter what kind of information if it's an

e-mail or a picture or streaming t.v. and to make sure that they put a best effort to get that information across while preventing any form of discrimination it also prevents any company or business to ask for permission to innovate on line and so. we're afraid of internet users not just in the u.s. but all over the world will have less options and they've been paying more for those fewer options and just two months ago netflix was forced to make a deal with comcast in order to speed up their streaming service i mean what does this indicate about how video providers will be affected and will operate in a non neutral internet world what it means is that increasingly content providers such as netflix will have to pay more to beat the monopoly in getting to the consumer at the end and the that extra cost that netflix will have to pay will eventually trickle down to the consumers and what we're also concerned is that i have speakers are essentially going to get paid three times for providing the same

service they're going to triple dip they're going to get paid by the consumer who pays their monthly internet bill they're going to be paid by back and providers to access the internet and then they'll be paid a third time by netflix in order to make sure that they reach me had a speed that i can watch netflix because you don't have to block netflix in order to kill exactly you just have to slow it down i'm really really happy you pointed out john the payment structure that's going to be just given to these i as p.s. i mean when you have the f.c.c. kind of stacked with former lobbyists and lawyers for the telecom industry it really shows you how this is all kind of channeling back to the f.c.c. it's just unbelievable how much they will get the telecom it's a huge win for them john there's so much information about this i want to bring up something that is really surprising i think how the u.s. internet speed pales in comparison to places like japan south korea i want to bring up this chart here because competition in the marketplace i mean this is going to

affect competition as well i mean how does the f.c.c. is new policy going to curb the incentive for companies like comcast to invest in upgrading our infrastructure which is poorly i mean which is poor comparison to other countries and. the u.s. already has a highly concentrated market when it comes to telecommunications whether it's wireless or internet this is a problem in the united states and this is a structural problem we have and it's just going to get worse if companies like comcast are allowed to buy time warner which is another deal that's in the works so with that in the background we're extremely concerned about this. one of the ways we can make the situation better here in the united states is by the f.c.c. taking more proactive role in protecting users not telecommunication companies and enforcing strong rules that protect consumers in regards to network discrimination and training that access is readily available no matter if you live in

a large metropolitan city or even in a rural area nineteen million americans today don't have access to broadband internet and one of the ways to solve that is through better regulation by the f.c.c. standing up for users it is time and none of these proposals are finalized it is time for us to stand up for a lot of congress telling them that we need the f.c.c. to cement neutrality one thing for all thank you so much john fox really appreciate and i thank you for having me on. stick around to hear all the reasons why israel is already an apartheid state. we will stand for europe the white europe the traditional europe for the free nation europe that. they should be resting all those terrorists in kiev instead all of the presidential candidates the military junta

the nazis who gave orders to kill their own people just because their culture and their views a different i. mean so we will slavs those we have to live in peace brothers so we shouldn't fight each other with the one people who will bring this. exactly what happened that day i don't know but a woman got killed. piers later is when i got arrested for. for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results. innocent people to confess to police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why

because there's been this is lightman know because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse and they were often they could get what they wanted they could say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said. i marinate joining me. for in-depth impartial and financial commentary confirm this and much much. only on the bus and. dramas that can't be ignored to. stories others refuse

to notice. the faces changing the world writes never. the old picture of today's leaves. from around the globe. brokenly. folks in between coverage of races and be a owners and ranchers the corporate media had just enough time to viscerally react to secretary of state john kerry dropping a big bomb secretary of state john kerry is pushing back after drawing heavy criticism for comments he made about israel during a closed door meeting with world leaders on friday at a closed door meeting in washington friday kerry kerry said middle east peace is

not achieved israel could become an apartheid state that remarks are going to storm of criticism certainly but using the term apartheid is a loaded comment and that's what had republicans as well as some democrats up in arms over secretary of state john kerry's remark this is beyond something requiring an apology i think this is a resigning type statement. that's right angers puns and lawmakers alike have been outraged over john kerry daring to compare israel to apartheid in south africa or the media feigns anger over kerry for saying potential apartheid in the future let me break down the reality israel is already an apartheid state and fact instances of institutionalized segregation in the country abound first starters israel has a permit system which restricts travel for ethnic palestinians in the west bank limiting where they can live unless they obtain permits from the israeli government these checkpoints aren't all that dissimilar from south africa's past system which

restricted movement from blocks in regard to the limited mobility of palestinians former u.s. president jimmy carter said in two thousand and six that quote when israel occupies territory deep within the west bank and connects the two hundred settlements with each other with a road and then prohibit the palestinians from using that road or in many cases even crossing it this perpetuates even worse instances of apartness or apartheid and we were. just even in south africa wow but as the last half century shows the gradual takeover of palestinian land by israeli colonies means that every day palestinians are left with less and less land to call their own and less land means less rights following the one thousand nine hundred designation of israel as the jewish state the land was effectively cleansed of palestinian inhabitants you need only look at the demographics today where nearly seventy percent of gaza residents once lived where it's now considered southern israel historian one call notes in

a recent article how the segregation that exists within villages is not found on any map citing that somewhere around ninety thousand arabs live in one hundred seventy six unrecognized villages inside israel inhabitants of these villages are considered internal refugees displaced after the nine hundred forty eight war having fled their homes with nowhere else to go and being unrecognized by israel means that tens of thousands of arab residents have no access to public services like water roads education healthcare or even electricity but hey we have to be careful not to get carried away and start comparing israel to south africa right i mean come on it's not like israel was forcibly injecting african immigrants with birth control some sort of nuanced eugenics program. waving as apparently as many as one hundred thirty thousand ethiopian women were forcibly sterilized according to her rights dropping the birth rate of ethiopia and israelis by twenty percent.

all right all right but at least israel didn't uphold the law banning palestinians from living with their spouses in israel right oh wait they did despite human rights organizations calling the ruling racist israel supreme court has legally prevented thousands of individuals in the west bank and gaza from living with their spouses in israel all right fine but the very least there are any parts of israel that would introduce racially segregated schools right unfortunately they're doing that to last summer children and south tel aviv attended preschool classes segregated by race so knowing all of this is it really any wonder why we're seeing growing support for the israel boycott divestment sanctions movement or b.d.s. were just like south africa and international movement is galvanizing to divest and boycott israel for its apartheid system so given the emotional reaction to anyone simply criticizing the israeli government these unpopular truths are rarely

discussed but i think it's about time we call a spade a spade call it segregation call it racism call it what you will but institutionalized discrimination and systematic oppression over any group based on race is the definition of apartheid. next week congress will be going marking up the nation's annual defense bill with all eyes on obama's military response in eastern europe there's another turbulent region of the world being largely may go a bit neglected can't speak the middle east the u.s. occupation of afghanistan was the longest one of most pointless military excursions in the in the history of this country sadly the country rarely enters mainstream public consciousness and in fact most americans probably think the war ended years ago but alas the future of afghanistan hangs in the balance see amidst the drawdown

process the pentagon has yet. to say how many troops will remain in the country and how much it will cost to keep them there in the fiscal times the white house is asking for eighty billion dollars as a placeholder until the details are sorted out but aside from the troops and contractors that were made on the ground there's another huge mess to contend with during america's withdrawal military equipment right now there's thirty three billion dollars worth of military equipment in afghanistan and the question remains what are they going to do with it to break down exactly that correspondent megan lopez who's been working on a six part exposé on this very subject thank you so much megan. so as i said thirty three billion dollars worth of equipment left in afghanistan how is it being shipped where's it going so the thirty three billion dollars that you're talking about breaks down into forty eight thousand vehicles twenty three thousand cargo pods those cargo pods filled with equipment much of that equipment has come back but there's still quite a bit left that needs to come out of the country so there are three different

transport routes those being we're rail ports and air transport and the air transport is obviously the safest is you can just fly it out however it's also the most expensive ten times more expensive than some of the other methods for transport one of the other really big kind of ways to transport it is the northern distribution network which is those railroad so you take a truck up to those railroads the railroads take it out to other countries where you can then ship it the problem obviously right now is that a lot of those railroads go to russia and russia right now is obviously under a lot of criticism by the u.s. for what what is going on in ukraine so the other kind of routes that we're taking and that we're most favoring right now is through pakistan to the south we take those roads south through pakistan to the port of course and then take the ports ship the cargo back that's the best way but there are a lot of issues with trying to get things through pakistan namely that the route is just so inconsistent at the moment two thousand and eleven for instance there was.

it was closed down for seven months retaliation for an errant nato airstrike that killed twenty four pakistani soldiers in retaliation again they closed down that route also there's things like the fact that those roads are dangerous those roads are going through mountains are not safe another really big issue come up with the fact that pakistan wants more for customs to transport some of those things and then also kind of some of the smaller things cultural things for instance last year the route closed down for several weeks in recognition of ramadan the holy week. but considering i mean you said it costs much more to keep the equipment in afghanistan than it does to ship it out i'm sorry opposite of what i just said cost much more to ship it out than they keep it there is let's talk about what's being kept there well a lot of the equipment that is being kept there for us is kind of what we saw in iraq is some of the the lower tech equipment in terms of keeping equipment there let's take them up for instance that's kind of probably the most recognizable

vehicle that afghan and iraq wars it comes ten thousand dollars to destroy one of those vehicles versus fifty thousand dollars to transport them right so they're saying ok we'll you know we'll sell them they're trying to ship back sixty percent of the equipment they're trying to sell or scrap forty percent the problem is that you have to take that equipment as is where it is so you are asking other countries to have to interact in a sand figure out their own transport routes which adds on to the cost and they're not giving a lot of that high tech equipment to the afghan army so a lot of it they're scrapping and not just scrapping but completely decimating to the point where it's not even recognizable that's even things like microwaves for instance they're taking them apart completely because of the fact that there is a timer inside of those microwaves which could potentially be used to create an i.e.d. and we're we're not just talking about this equipment as you mentioned in your in your incredible expose i mean the u.s. army basically built little america's around all these bases and all of that is

being stripped and completely decimated and destroyed as. well everything within those restaurants and and what not you mentioned briefly be a rock ark a patient and kind of compared how does this compare to the iraq drawdown when a lot of the different people that i talked to spoke about afghanistan in terms of historical context they said that this is the biggest drawdown since world war two it's the berlin airlift in reverse the reason being that where iraq has some ports afghanistan is landlocked it's completely different not only that but afghanistan is surrounded by a bunch of countries that are not exactly friendly with the united states and iran being one of them and the list kind of just goes on and on so afghanistan is different then iraq geopolitically but also kind of when it comes to the history the u.s. left six hundred million dollars worth of equipment to the iraqi army and also sold ten billion dollars worth of additional equipment to the iraqi army that's something that you're not going to see happen with afghanistan reason being because

iraq had a very well formed very well functioning army before the u.s. came in the u.s. came in through overthrew saddam hussein took over the army dissolved it rebuilt it and those people were already well well equipped trained on the other hand you have a loose collective of afghan tribes that composed the afghan army if you want to call it that before us has been working very hard to build up the afghan army but there are some very big problems with the afghan army one of the biggest problems is the language barrier but then also not only the language barrier because they speak farsi and dari and pashto to iraq which they have one kind of more uniform language but also the literacy rates more than fifty percent of troops right now cannot read they can't read road signs for instance they can't read maps so if they can't read simple things like that and you're giving them a very complex piece of appraisement you can imagine how that would go twenty seven

thousand m. wraps. figure it out here's the manual i don't agree with that absolutely oh wait let's talk about these machines because this was really a crazy part twenty seven thousand and i want to show our audience what these vehicles look like again now that basically what's happening now is that they're just giving them to local municipalities in america under the n.d.a. section ten thirty three that's insane so basically all the militarisation going on around the country is you're going to see a lot more of these machines i mean i'm talking about cities that have like ten thousand twenty thousand people do they need these machines well i think that's a question to be had for those the army and police departments that i've spoken to so that you can use these for disaster relief and recovery efforts for instance although i haven't heard of a situation where they have been used swat teams have they're spreading out throughout the country through this ten thirty three program with kind of an emphasis on counterterrorism counternarcotics and national security and things like that but again it is those really small kind of towns that are getting their hands

on these very big machines and they take the armor off they take the machine guns off but still you do have the question of whether those machines you know kind of need to be back and i think we have a map of all the cities that do have them but was amazing as in your package joe donnelly representative was basically saying you know we don't care about the price tag it was all worth the price and really what this should show was that we should be taking all of this into account before we just invade countries and occupy them let's take the cost and all of these things into account megan thank you so much for doing just. really appreciate reporting thank you. that's our show you guys you're going tomorrow want to break the set all over again. now according to the book because the last years of the roman republic it was an

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scenes of desperation in the ukrainian city of odessa with thirty six anti-government protesters died in a fire set by nationalist radicals. at least ten and to government activists reported killed by right sector radicals in eastern ukraine as the government vows to continue the military crackdown on dissent. and as russia lashes out at the international community for failing to denounce the radicals killing people in ukraine and some western politicians put all the blame on the victims.

hello to you if you're just joining us here on r t international it's eleven am here in the moscow capital you with me tom with day we start though with last night's massacre in the city of desa please be warned us some people may find the following pictures a disturbing. dozens of people burned alive today in the death as a radical nationalists fire a bomb to a building associated with empty government groups and sheer desperation people jumped out of the windows as you can see there in the video we're showing you right now while survivors were brutally beaten by armed men believed to be from the ultra nationalists the right sector group extremists have out called out for the use of terror tactics like gave the separatist the clashes which began early in the day claimed forty three lives with almost two hundred injured our team managed to speak

with a number of people who survived the blades. hooman and children running heating in the trade unions building first on demand said goodbye to dance then started snowing most of cocktails and when the to the building we heard shots fired and. there were about fifty of us on the roof men and women the right sector was blocking the streets we look down at what was happening around us and saw the wouldn't let us out alive people from other floors were brought down and the extremists attacked them like a pack of wolves then the police escorted us from the building we had to step over dead bodies them were coming down the stairs. i saw at least six people jumping from the buildings which i don't think they were dead wilfred you will hear in some of the people they had little shoots of children the same time there were shots from behind the backs of the security forces someone was trying machine gun we have the empty shells to move it over for egypt. is in our deaths so far as

bring us this report. the question between those protesting against the country's new assault chase witnesses say they were around one hundred of them and those supporting the country's new government people in kiev reportedly a group three times bigger stuff in here from the city center. or greek square it lasted for two hours up to four people were killed and many others injured it stopped when police arrived to the scene but it was not new and hello the supporters of the interim government in kiev joined by football fans reportedly coming from neighboring regions came here to where weeks those who do not recognize ukraine's new approaches have been protesting the so-called roll my down activist first burning down the towns they were here in front of the building on the square and then set on fire the trade unions had supporters if you can see behind me at

the time when several people were inside why witnesses say they barricaded the an intrinsic you can see over there preventing people from living and started throwing molotov cocktails to the weak people inside something suffocating as a result more than thirty died. many of them very young others were killed while trying to jump out of the windows for several hours after that around fifty people remained trapped on the rooftop of this building until police arrived to the scene and saved them what happened in it just on friday to change the mood here in the town dramatically and now no one can say for sure what is going to happen next rif notionally r.t. from a death in ukraine. we've had reaction pouring into world wide but not all that much explanation from kiev i discuss this with dean henderson geo political analyst and author of the grateful on which revolution in fifty countries he says that what

happened in a desk that traces its roots to the very top. of this government there is no legitimacy or. you know just like to do with the order of machine to see through this or in the east but what he wants to do is that it's over resources goes all the way up to the version to. your lectures or to. medical care for the people actually those in those really implemented as we speak so the girl she goes over to the. euro and it was in the euro zone. russia was already branded what happened in a desk as a nazi like war crime in a few minutes we'll bring you international reaction to the tragedy. ukrainian authorities have to continue their military operation against activists who are demanding more autonomy from the east of the country one of the army's main

targets is the city of slovyansk on friday it's the deadliest us all since the start of the operation artie's policia is there for. what you've been following through the situation out they update us now on the way you are in what's happening . well wasted and here in the town of slovyansk are bracing themselves for possible on sold by the ukrainian military this comes as kid says it will continue with its military crackdown that began in the early hours of yesterday friday morning whether that happens in the coming minutes will be coming hours of course is the reason why people here inside the town are so tense and so nervous at the same time your self defense unit members are taking a position at checkpoints at all the entrances and exits of the town they have been holding those positions for the better part of two weeks we've just heard from the mayor of the town who says that ten people were killed last night this happened when right sector members tried to meet into one of the suburbs of slavyansk people

there trying to form a human shield they tried to form a human chain to use their bodies to prevent this movement by the right sector but they were fired on ten people were killed and some forty people were injured here in the city center it is still in the hands of anti kiev protesters most of the shops are closed some of them are open and what i've witnessed walking down these streets as people queuing up there's a great fear here that in the coming hours the shops will run out of food the a.t.m. is already not working people very concerned that this is a city in lockdown and that the situation is only going to get worse i managed to catch up with one of the families who have barricaded themselves behind their front doors of. the city center is in lockdown the streets are empty people are afraid to leave their homes. came here to kill us. and his wife have lived in slavyansk or their lives until recently it was

a small sleepy provincial town but friday morning there changed for ever. more with around four thirty in the morning there was the sound of short crowns and explosions i woke up immediately if it was a very scary. all of them together with their mercenaries together with the word sector instructed by all interim president the interim prime minister the all are war criminals residents of slovyansk have been ordered to remain indoors flooded near and i now have no intention of stepping out they are glued to their television sit where it's being reported that the right sector is in the city center. of the troika into the city disguised as students there were renting apartments but eventually the wall of being called there is a panic shops who run out of food amid rumors the army is stopping supplies from getting in the a.t.m.'s are cash strapped and pharmacies are short of medicine as

long as. there is no possibility to go somewhere if something happens because the city's closed i'm afraid that looting will start or there will be friends or my family we have no police now to ask for help or even in my worst dream i couldn't imagine a situation like this. but the nightmare isabelle to get worse as rumors circulate that the army is gearing up for another onslaught the streets might be empty but many fear this is the calm before the storm policy r.t. slovyansk eastern ukraine. during the night of the army also stand with the nearby city of kramatorsk where activists have also been occupying administrative buildings at least one person has been confirmed dead and nine injured. however protest leaders there say at least ten people were killed and almost thirteen in good years interior minister says that the army has now taken control

of a t.v. center in the city during the ride of fighting erupted when an armored column blocked by the protesters tried to break free this old it reportedly first started shooting in the air and then there are people who tried to stop them here but an eyewitness told us. troops have surrounded the protesters now and won't let the ambulances in the lights have been turned off on the nearby streets shorts are being heard across the city signal rockets light up the sky from time to time people say the ukrainian army is shooting at everything that moves right now. but let's take a look at this video here you see the locals in east ukraine greeted the army said events let's just take a listen to what they had to say. calling out the word fascist say a handful of desperate people tried to block

a bank all the while shouting for the soldiers to stop the only response they got a warning shot. of the column and then drove on white on running over this man's feet he had to be taken to hospital however there are some among of the ukrainian army who say they couldn't refuse to go against their country men. given orders to storm slovyansk tonight what will you do. that i won't follow those orders because we pledged allegiance to the ukrainian people. must governmentally condemn to the inaction of western countries towards the countrywide andress in ukraine russia's envoy to the un pulled no punches comparing the actions taken by the right sector in the city of odessa to those of the nazis. we were struck by the

complacence of the western members of the security council towards the actions including the use of force by the illegitimate kiev authorities in the old to radicals they rely on it is not surprising therefore that with this kind of backing they believe they can act with impunity we are profoundly disturbed by the information from the city of odessa in southern ukraine such actions are reminiscent of the crimes of the nazis from whom the ukrainian ultranationalist derive their radiological inspiration while some western politicians when asked why a suggestion that people who were burned alive in a desa brought the whole think upon themselves that says the u.s. state department limited its reaction to calling for an investigation now to his advantage as the details. it's interesting the headlines in tweets that we've seen coming from major u.s. and european news outlets do not mention that those who were torched you know this where anti kiev activists and that it was done by a group of radicals then you have the swedish foreign minister called bill actually

suggesting that it's the quote unquote pro russians fault that they were burned to death he writes horrible with at least thirty eight dead you know this seems to have started with progress an attempt to get control of buildings violence must stop that he puts again from russian because getting out of a violent you know this as well unfortunately not unexpected but this is a city open to all your other special spoke in a more generic terms when commenting on the radicals apparently anti-human focus this without mentioning who has carried out the attacks british foreign secretary for example wrote i deplore and regret the loss of life you know this there is an urgent need for restraint and stepping back from confrontation then here in the u.s. you are putting off and foreign policy at first like the head of the brookings think tank who wrote. a consequence of putting using a word to add twelve a cab to the cavalry of our time which is what this is. fillings in blood again

this is the tell but it's somehow suggesting that the russian president is responsible for the killings and not the proteas radicals who have actually attacked these people about this that we hear no clear did not see action of this kind of violence coming from u.s. officials they have firmly sided themselves with authorities in kiev and everyone in ukraine who opposes the government in kiev in the view of washington just receives their instructions from one of the biggest concerns that we've seen is the russian propaganda that has been. blasted out nonstop. suggesting somehow that the a cranium government is responsible for the problems in eastern ukraine the ukrainian government has shown remarkable restraint throughout this process president obama spoke early after his meeting with german chancellor angela merkel and basically dismissed the whole protest against key of it sponsored and controlled by russia and put the responsibility for the escalation on moscow alone

president obama also showed full support for key its crackdown on the protests in the east of ukraine he called it a move to restore order. moxon a border who is a simian lecturer of international relations at moscow state university things less than political heavyweights have they eyes close to the real causes of the chaos in ukraine. they will continue to blame russia as being responsible for this for destabilizing the situation in the ukraine by their view they had a right to destabilize the situation in ukraine a few months ago and helped bring this putsch regime to power with the euro my bad riots but now russia although there is no evidence they claim has no right to destabilize the situation in iraq these radicals have not been stopped by the government because they are doing the business of this government these brownshirts paramilitaries are the only true believers that this government can politically and

ideologically rely on the ukrainian flag flying over a burned building full of the corpses of dead been charred citizens is a perfect metaphor for the way this regime will govern the ukraine if they're given the chance. we're closely following the situation in ukraine and will be bringing you the latest news throughout the day here on air and all thought on our website at our dot com. we're going to put up we will stand for europe the one to europe the traditional europe for the three nations europe.

we should be arresting all those terrorists in kiev instead of all of the presidential candidates the military junta the nazis who gave orders to kill their own people just because their culture and their views in different. ways what we will slavs we have to live in peace with brothers we shouldn't fight each other one people. will bring all this.

some news just in here an arch international the governor of the northeastern province of. done in afghanistan has come for him that over two thousand one hundred people are confirmed dead as a result of the land slight disaster was caused by the collapse of the hill and. day following a week of torrential rain about a thousand houses away buried by the landslide to the united nations a says the focus is now on the more than four thousand people displaced by the landslide rescue efforts are being hampered by the state of the soil which is too waterlogged to support heavy machinery. right to the u.k. now where according to the kings of funded think tank the british national health service is facing a financial crisis with two thirds of hospital bosses fearing a possible cash shortfall it also warns that only a radical solution from the government will drag health trust back from the brink

of economic disaster for my ambulance driver speaking exclusively to r.t. sarah for it says that while there are only budget cuts people will continue to die waiting for medical help. sounding the alarm bell you weak case by day tears story about the impacts government cuts having on the n.h.s. now it's paramedics who are speaking out the recent death of william cold burn the seventy five year old man he died after waiting two hours for an ambulance his two examination of the current pressures facing ambulance stopped after the coroner in the case called the does assert consequence of cuts on condition of anonymity former employee exclusively. about his own experiences in the ambulance service. felt sad for patients that were going from

a great job after picking their. wife up on the floor having a stroke for an hour i just think i'm not down. hence. why i need to speak up why i need to speak i think it's just to do with government funding cuts bosses in the under so he's having to. more with less money and less funding. which told about some of the tough conditions now facing arguments start with the left trying to pick up the slack some are working. twelve hours without a meal break. for their own health as much as they are for the patients and in the end. if you don't if you're not giving people. the right breaks to get there are a higher risk of making critical errors there are a risk of. a free for. these. there are

more risk of making a drawing ever between where the government has said they want the n.h.s. to make up to twenty billion pounds worth of the fish and sea savings by twenty fifteen isn't the thinking. slammed by campaign is saying that putting the lights rid. of this is possible to climb. the national health action party any political group that wants to pick the peaches the n.h.s. the hostage the political agenda ahead at the general elections but i think the health care austerity cuts right across the board so right from public health down much more local services for example i'm going services we're seeing increasing cuts and we're seeing patients waiting longer and longer to get an urgent call and you know the media is now filling up with stories where patients who become acutely sick not getting seen in time and actually you know really sadly some people are

dying it's absolutely outrageous unless this is what happens when you start cutting back public services i put the concerns raised to the department of health in a statement to us they say. the ambulance service is performing well arriving on scene in under eight minutes in more than seventy five percent of the most life threatening cases but we know the service is getting busier so since twenty ten the n.h.s. has recruited sixty percent more paramedics to help longer term n.h.s. england is carrying out a review to look at the demands on services and how the n.h.s. should respond but days on the front line combat. the problem will have quite be so many people going to stick. quite. interesting things i think if you were on the service. and know how to question them they come on start. going can i stay quiet any more i can stay quietly more because i care for the patient that patient

i treat my own family member and it could be me. the ambulance service struggles on with morale of course the health service reputedly after the time many of the warning. this if the cuts continue britain will have to wave goodbye not just to a sufficient time violence service but to the n.h.s. as we know it so r.t. reporting from london. a second look at some other stories worldwide one person was killed in two injured after a car exploded in a busy curry district on friday on the same day another attack took place in cairo in truth or side bombings hit a police checkpoint and a passenger bus in egypt's sinai peninsula bringing the number of dead to five militant attacks and political tension in the country have been growing since the army overthrew president morsi and banned the muslim brotherhood in egypt is preparing for presidential elections in less than four weeks.

nigerians of marcion a powerful tool to demand the government to step up efforts to find hundreds of girls kidnapped by islamist militants more than two weeks ago the police's estimate number of girls abducted from a secondary school has now risen to two hundred seventy six reports say that the military review sponsible for the abduction is currently negotiating over the student's fate scores of whom are reportedly being forced into marriage by the abductors. to recap our breaking news story a day of clashes between pro and anti-government activists in ukraine has claimed almost fifty lives you may find some of the following pictures disturbing the most gruesome episode took place in the middle of the city where radical nationalists seizure and fire bombed the trade union headquarters more than three dozen people were either shot burned alive suffocated or jumped to their deaths in a bid to escape a bloodbath happened as here we started at least an offensive against and to

government groups with more deaths reported the interim government now says the massacre in odessa will not stand in the way of its armed incursion into restive cities in the east. the country. but you didn't you ixia. british do you. after the break or intend to be bent in south east ukraine in a documentary program you're watching i t international. jeffrey chapman from kansas is going on trial for murder but he is very afraid of

jury prejudice is it because the jury is full of racists or has some sort of vested interest in seeing him get locked away no it is because he is a giant tattoo on his neck of the word murder written backwards wiser and backwards so he could read it in the mirror. nowadays we live in a total culture of almost complete and total myth so naturally chapman wants to leave jail on a special trip to a tattoo parlor to get the ugly ink changed or removed yeah because he did something stupid his appearance now it is the obligation of the government to help him fix the problem he created often on these opinion pieces i am very critical of the government but this time the man is totally right you can't just take everyone on special trips across town so they can look good for their trial it isn't the state's fault that he has the word murder on his neck the prosecutors even said that chapman that it would be ok if he covered it up with something like a stylish cur for dapper turtleneck sweater it is not the job of the government to help you get rid of your very stupid and very incriminating debt to

a fascist my opinion. boring to the. the last years of the roman republic it was an article of faith to the romans that they were the most morally upright people hence the romans concerned to refute all charges of bullying and to insist that they had won their empire surely in self-defense. this is for a million or stacy.

rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. this is the city of lugansk we are now inside the barricade which has been set up

around the perimeter all the square. people are on guard here. keeping watch over our city. around the clock there are no weapons or troops here you can see for yourself the barricades made of ties. barbed wire. this particular section has been reinforced to repel potential attacks which may come at any time of the day or night. other. than under budget that.

still is below than what is our government excuse me the skiff giunta done to unite ukraine when you like you did mobilize their army excuse me but against whom are they mobilizing who are the aggressors were are they have made some pies laid a clean tablecloth and i'm waiting for this aggressor to come and capture me when he's a going to come and then they disconnected our televisions after that they call this the diaspora how can it be a day ask for their eight million of us here who just speak a different language twenty million not eight no i'm talking about the number of russian speaking people here how long are they going to believe yes. i can sing a song in ukrainian i can recite your poem in ukrainian because they're queer what do you think about how ukrainians and russians get on together christiane. we're all slavs we have to live in peace we're brothers we shouldn't fight each other we are the one people we're all brothers my home and behind me russia reside the

moment i have an aunt in russia and friends never ceased. we can't go to war against each other i don't even like to use the word this is the twenty first century how can two slavic peoples go to war and what are we supposed to make of today's order from the so-called kiev government. the so-called kill government gave the order to kill their own people in slovyansk how is it even possible i don't know what to say. they don't care about the geneva accords fascists they're o.s.c. monitors wondering about all over the place but what's going on so i can figure it out none of us can know who is in charge of this madhouse. shouldn't go we were just getting on with our lives and not bothering anyone. if they want to join the e.u. that's fine with those we're not against the west but we've always been friends

with russia the russians don't interfere in our business and we've always got on well we've no reason to quarrel either with all the west so why send in troops it's just ugly. story this is our home we've got a culture and a language of our own what right do other people have to come here and start laying down the law. both my grandfathers were killed in world war two. never seeing glory to ukraine glory to bender i hope they get the message to all those responsible will have to be tried at the hague one of those know why send troops here. they should be arresting all those terrorists in kiev and stood up for all of

the presidential candidates the military junta the nazis who gave orders to kill their own people just because their culture and their views are different i'm just standing up for myself i'm not a politician. or a kalashnikov here's the kalashnikov the latest model that's our automatic. nobody other weapons. head of the right sector is assembling a hit squad called don bus once it's assembled he's going to target us money. we're just unarmed people who are simply trying to protect our legitimate interests . he's made an announcement promising to pay ordinary soldiers one thousand dollars and officers five thousand dollars.

from the kid over. here to what they're about of course the norm. for leaking if. you want to bring. through that period it. was it wasn't just me. because there's an injustice going on in our country it was a coup and illegal takeover of power was used on the naturally the new authorities are setting up their own rules i mean state but how can anyone who disagrees is removed by any means possible but either put it in prison or killed. ah. these other rules. but they're not but that is

somebody. if come. up that let me out somebody. come not to let somebody. else. not come up. to speed up. to see them because you know might. be putting myself through the feeling that maybe the money. that would back you are different from a fun. thing to do nothing. but it's a pretty sure my will and you know i mean you do i know you know i do you. know

i was surprised. i was i i was so much more i'm so much you see too much of a summer so i don't for one moment her. that's right i'm going to tell us. that. being assembled in my name is the tell us a phone number and i live in the city of cross and on their relation began the miners kept working there will working until a few days ago yesterday on april twenty second at nine pm a demonstration began here in the young guard square. just today's april twenty third and it still hasn't broken up. in unison with its because it was also please tell us how do you feel about their rights act his actions in ukraine. you could call it nazis are you

afraid of a mouse is of course not why would we be afraid not all the miners around donbass have risen up yet if the whole of don't bust rises up together it'll be game over for everyone do you know that a soldier was killed a mother what a day for if using to fight. this is just the beginning yeah right this is just the beginning but how long will it last for well i have no idea we're doing our best standing here trying to put an end to it. if i can say one thing only if the miners rise up it will be worse than my done a million times worse. people in the gun scree general russians in their hearts our people are russian at heart they gather here and chant russia i'm sorry but they wouldn't be able to use money to bring ten twenty or even thirty thousand people together to show russia i wouldn't be coming here daily to bring us porridge eggs and financial help you see the point of our activity here is to represent the

interests of the people if the people say so then that's how it will be that is we do what the people say and if they say otherwise that means we'll do so as well. yeah. ok. with objects. at the store the market talker stuck around. a little not much and that if they. stopped by doing what the limit of. the. show. was so there's a new down so let's look at the senior political acumen. this year will. be

a pro-life that's always been that but if you got to seventeen. when you are the point you have to go i'm retired what has puzzled me what do you think you could leave the on yourself along with for your new movie seventy years if it will go away for a little over an amazing over the six love just a lucky break up if they were there for jesus. so many years left to go because that is the author trying to discredit. the idea of. the like and the prime minister to a public notice in the future there was after us with the more help people then there's about both of you have all of the doubt that some like your son was the son of the little cleared up say oh i'm just not for guns when you look at the bottles in your book when it's in the same color and he is in those little ones the small

mindedness of the soul obviously none the less if you like the subtlety i was loving it will go on and so you. know by the might of the new life in the village in the family. choose your language. calling me kevin though if you're going to say sell some other. treatments that is the consensus get to. choose the opinions that you think a great book. choose the stories that entire life choose the access to your.

war is probably the most complex and difficult human activity. in the phenomenon of friendly fire probably extends back to the invention of gunpowder. to kill a bunch of people you don't know if there are no relatives there are of us people. reading. this some of them shoots my brother in the leg not intentional because of it because it was nine times four in the morning even the best given the belch shoulders. are going to make mistakes does this whole idea of brotherhood an

author. and camaraderie in this sense it was in this context it has absolutely no place. to go places try to. see people are going to be curious what you like for the story taking every minute. cut me. laugh though at. my own life but. think that's setting all. these cases to meet limits. sometimes for nothing which. is so easy and it's still. it's

not just. school stories will be just if you see the stage eight. speech was. the first one to cut. through the crowd i don't want to hear oh i want you to want to was a bust all you want yes a little bit about the money i want to pull your unions michael from us they just want to show the chimps for what you could you want a cubicle you should get some you want to be done yes you did you pulled us over and your boss will know what he's mean let us go do you got

a job at all these nail polish you know because of me or when you floods you look up when you start all over you when you're all cook what you did was those. who quit because when you leave your local real cultural. emmeline's you're. not. going to yet again show to the both of us that the from no one to. this place because of what we have not given to them yeah. but we've got huge unwashed who did their thing and then gets it. right behind us because we need to pull one q what are you going to do about that never you give up but you're going to go to the what you do i did i. love you know cool new i could go for the social life. machine which you know you're in here. not just you but. to me.

i think you are doing great on. your. own good i thought i had. come out here my dear i was really young yes sir that doesn't sound like oh. i knew it was the little ones. that want to take me over five hundred fifty. five that really will never come up. to the other snip most of the from i got you out of it i think if you really think you've got a lot done by senior board you this would be and you're doing it because of something weird if you have to get through that with that you didn't pull the trigger on the belief that it was a person not a mutant but when they don't stop insulting us when we stop calling the separatists

and terrorists we get up each morning and we're called separatists that's how we started greeting each other hello i'm a terrorist hello i'm a separatist. movement at the point belief that we're no different from those people well except we don't speak ukrainian that's the only difference between us so why is it they hate their own people so much where does all this bitterness and hatred come from what have we done to them to hate us so much if we were really such a pain in the neck so hooked on subsidies why don't they just leave us alone all the want is the right to determine our own future give us a referendum and we'll solve the problems also they're afraid of a referendum afraid of their own people but why the people have the right to vote well for on the land and work in the mines just leave us alone please please just let it speak with peace loving people. yeah i'm from

a desk like little i wish you could ask the people how it's come to this country the reason why i don't. to show my face is because to my mind we live in a democratic country which has no freedom of speech there are lots of kidnappings in ukraine it's not at all uncommon for people whose opinions are different in the streets and. you can be sure to be a. beacon she didn't need you she didn't a united we didn't. lose you to. be she want you. to win the young. you know yeah it was. she feels alive.

if you please said i. asked. what if she's shut up you can see the caucus it's the national assembly the motion got the parts do you think most people in adesa support or oppose the. government of the work and if i think about eighty percent of the residents are against the. twenty i'm probably misled or just don't live here permanently almost all the locals are against them. they rallied to my down to make it a covert go and he did it why are they there now then what do they want for it with family or personally i'd say they want the plague of nationalism to spread all over ukraine mainly in the southeast all the rest of ukraine needs any of this kind of nationalism.

was. there was. but didn't. we want the europe that the crusaders fought for the europe the european nationalists fought for the europe of white people. muslims humiliate the natives now they take away our lands. we will stand for europe the whites of europe. the traditional europe. for the three nation europe right that's clear it's a nation it was what do you think about the situation in the country is it good or bad it's awful

first they drove a wedge between us in our russian brothers. yeah you know we as friendly and night are going to travel to russia not to anywhere else i want to live in a desert. i want everything to be fine. i want us to be friends with russia the west is not for us you know this union what's happening in our country it's a nightmare how do you say life in prison is my salary is ninety two dollars per month we can get by gas prices are now about despite by seventy three percent received the prices for medicines in the ready bit raised by sixty percent it's terrible really terrible. it's a machine we've been waiting for the geneva agreements we got them and we're very grateful to russia fold them because we understand well that the so-called into rim government as well as the right certain of us for the party and some other nazi groups never meant to fulfill the obligations and they're not going to comply and

simply count. they have different intentions to cut and kill the. slogan muscovites on trees. you know. what there occur radzivill is never heard the word that it did it was you know who had. was. it was and then you. sit and i sometimes i feel like we've all been used they took a four hundred coughs and put us in leg irons instead they're now setting us up against the southeast if ukraine the same way the setters against the. police crimea and then russia you i wonder who's interested in it and why i wouldn't want to be persecuted any person who is against the developments in ukraine may be accused of separatism and really go to jail that's why i want to stay anonymous for

. the ukrainian parliament adopted a law under which those guilty of acts of separatism and terrorism can be thrown into prison for ten to fifteen years or even for life we know fall into this category i'm not saying that it's you but your european colleagues some european or thirties approved of crimean parliament adopted the law they did it so it appears the new i mean those european bodies agree that we're terrorists here i am do i look like a terrorist no i'm facing a life sentence according to the current legislation i'm polite and communicate normally i represent the interests of the people you have to understand that not everybody can or is willing to put their own life at stake in order to save people . the only.

thing i'm going to start to was always the most should. go. through old guy. was. oh ok oh i. was. i was you know nicole.

was if you. want to. thank you. thank you thank you. thank you. my. thanks. to our. legal speak. only i won't speak on behalf of ukraine each person must speak up and say what he wants what he desires but so while the authorities are afraid of the referendum why are they afraid yes they are. your heart is there not because then they must let us

say what we have to say and we will but we are not separatists we are not radicals i live in hock of i'm sixty one i want to understand where i live what country i live in the russian ukraine belarus need to unite machinelike russia down russia isn't here russia supports us morally but not physically americans are supporting they join to face likely. there are troops there are a lot of documents media material spread and materials proving that nobody is interested me. but let me just click how many people come to the rallies and everybody is there from students to pensioners even veterans come ukrainian t.v. spreading lies there saying that russians are being brought in is even possible to

bring so many russians look thousands of people come for rallies in eastern ukraine have they brought half of the russian population here they call us extremists we always ask for permission to hold peaceful rallies but they refuse us you know but it seems that the heroes of my dun are allowed to seize buildings to rob banks to kill people but we're not allowed to hold peaceful rallies you can see that we are unarmed we're not wearing masks we have only one demand who want to hold a referendum we want to be heard you can't force twenty million people into europe and nato against their will.

because of. the plentiful supply it was terrible they come up very hard to take out a plan to get along here to supply houses that had sex with the earthquake their lives let's play. lists and le mieux lists lists. of.

now according to the book. the last years of the roman republic it was an article of faith to the romans that they were the most morally upright people hence the romans concerned to refute all charges of bullying and to insist that they had won their empire surely in self-defense. this sounds familiar stacy. exactly what happened there i don't know but a woman killed. piers later is when i got arrested for. for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results. innocent people to confess to police officers don't beat people

anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is like meant no because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse and they were often they could get what they wanted they could say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said. i wonder if we feel if you don't buy. the trail i thought as to those lengths. to which. of course i don't believe by any means that bush. cut out of the same cloth as his father who was totally powerful. later in fact you may not be fully in charge.

scenes of desperation in the ukrainian city offered forty three anti-government protesters died in a fire said by nationalist radicals. at least ten the anti-government activists reported killed by right sector radicals in eastern ukraine as the government but also continued the military crackdown on dissent of the. and as a russia lashes out at the international community for failing to denounce radicals killing people in ukraine some western politicians put the blame on the victims. plus a massive landslide kills over two thousand people in a remote village in eastern afghanistan.

just one possum a day here in the russian capital you live with us on our international time to bang would say we start to with the last night's a massacre in the ukrainian city of death please be warned some people may find the following pictures disturbing. dozens of people burned alive in odessa as radical nationalists fire bomb to a building associated with n.t. government groups and sheer desperation people trapped by the flames jumped out of the windows. to. show you that video they survived is over were brutally beaten by armed men

believed to be from the ultra nationalists the right sector group extremists have called. for the use of tara tactics against the separatists the clashes which began early in the day claimed forty nine lives with almost two hundred injured out he managed to speak the number of people who survived the blaze. a woman and children mother heading in the trade unions building first the announcements of the fire to dance then started snowing most of cocktails and grenades to the building we heard shots fired and saw the smoke. there were about fifty of us on the roof men and women the right sector was blocking the streets we looked down at what was happening around us and saw we couldn't let us out a minute people from other floors were brought down and the extremists attacked them like a part of the nudes and the police escorted us from the building we had to step over did bodies them were coming down the stairs. as in order for us and told us how the situation unfolded. the question between those protesting against the

country's new thought chased witnesses say they were around one hundred of them and those to prove to countries new government people in q three pulled to be a group three times bigger stuff a year from fifty central. for three where it lasted for two hours up to forty people were killed and many others injured they stopped when police arrived to the scene but it was not due to the supporters of the interim government in kiev joined by football fans reportedly coming from neighboring riggers came here to wear full weeks those who do not recognize ukraine's new protests have been protesting the so-called throw my gun activist first moment on that tense they were here in front of the building on the square and then set on fire the trade unions had quarters if you can see behind me at the top when several people were inside why witnesses say they barricaded the an insurance you can see over there

preventing people from leaving and stuff. throwing molotov cocktails over the weekend people in saw itself suffocate as a result more than thirty dollars. when you know that very others were killed while trying to jump out of it we've done. i saw at least six people jumping from the buildings here i think there are dead i carried some people who had wounds at the same time there was shorts from behind the backs of the security forces someone was farming the machine gun we have the empty shells to prove it over for several hours after that surround fifty people remained trapped on the rooftop will be filled in until police arrived to the scene and saved what happened in a test on friday change the mood here in the town dramatically and now no one can say for sure what is going to happen next original from a desk in ukraine. this or remind you who the rind sector is the group believed to

be behind the inferno actually off the extremism network is suspected of being involved in numerous attacks against anti-government activists however i reported he doesn't have food control over the radicals they have already defied the interim leadership several times including fusing to disarm or leave buildings they occupy in the capital. we've had reaction pouring in worldwide but not all that much explanation from kiev i discussed this with dean henderson geo political analyst and author of the great for underage revolution in fifty countries and says that what happens in a desa traces its roots the very top of this government has no legitimacy or predicted. it would just like to do with the order of lucian and the machine to see through this so already in the east they want to know what he wants to do with these fascists and it's all of our resources goes all the way up to the progression

barker who when they say. it's one or two or one soldier or nurse. and shizuka medical care for the people and actually those inputs those are really implemented as we speak so they grow she goes over to the bankers the i.m.f. the euro and it was state department in the euro zone. russell's already branded what happened in a desk as a nazi like war crime in a few minutes will bring you international reaction to the tragedy. ten people have reportedly been killed by right sector extremists and near the eastern ukrainian city of slovyansk the city has been one of the main targets of the kiev led military crackdown on friday and saw the deadliest of sold since the start of the operation artie's policia is a for us. residents of the town are bracing themselves for possible military crackdown and by the ukrainian army this comes as the kiev government threatens that it will continue with its operation that it began yesterday friday morning at

the same time self defense units are taking up position at checkpoints in and out of the town these are positions that they have been holding for the better part of two weeks now we've just heard from the people's mayor of slavyansk he says that overnight ten people were killed when you had members of the right sector trying to move into one of the suburbs residents of that suburb formed a human chain but those right sector activists started firing at them and as i say ten people killed and we're hearing forty people injured the people's mare is calling on the people of slavyansk to come forward and defend this town and that is a call that is being taken very seriously particularly as we hear from kiev that it is going to continue with its military offensive i managed to catch up with a family who are locked behind closed doors too afraid to step out. in. this game here to kill us. and his wife have lived in slavyansk or their lives

until recently it was a small sleepy provincial town but friday morning that changed for ever. more with around four thirty in the morning there was the sound of short crowns and explosions i woke up immediately it was a very scary. with. all of them together with them mercenaries together with the right sector instructed by oh interim president interim prime minister the all are criminals residents of slovyansk have been ordered to remain indoors bloody near and i now have no intention of stepping out they're glued to the television set where it's being reported that the right sector is in the city center. detroit and to the city disguised the students there were renting apartments but eventually the rule of being. there's a panic shops will run out of food amid rumors the army is stopping supplies from getting in the a.t.m.'s are cash strapped and pharmacies are short of medicine or

go as long as they are we. there is no possibility to go somewhere if something happens because the c.d.'s closed i'm afraid that looting will start or there will be fred so my family we have no police now to ask for help even in my worst dream i couldn't imagine a situation like this but the nightmare isabelle to get worse as rumors circulate that the army is gearing up for another onslaught the streets might be empty but many fear this is the calm before the storm policy r.t. slovyansk eastern ukraine. during the night of the army also stormed the nearby city of kramatorsk away activists have also been occupying administrator buildings at least one person has been confirmed dead and nine injured. however processor leaders are saying at least ten people were killed in all those thirty injured piers interior minister says that the army has now taken control of

a t.v. center in the city during the night fighting erupted when an armored column blocked by the protesters tried to break free the soldiers reportedly first started shooting in the air and then that the people for tried to stop them here's what an eyewitness told r.t. . troops have surrounded the protesters now and won't let the ambulances in the lines have been turned off from the nearby streets shorts are being heard across the city signal rockets light up the sky from time to time people see the ukrainian army shooting at everything that moves right now. here's how some of the locals in east ukraine and greeted at the army's advance. a handful of desperate people try to block the time call the while shouting for the soldiers to stop the only response so they got the warning shots.

oh come on then drove right on a running over this meant to be taken to hospital after that however there are some among the ukrainian army who say they would refuse to go against a country made. yesterday if you're given orders to storm slovyansk tonight what will you do. i won't follow those orders because we pledged allegiance to the ukrainian. people. and news just in anti-government activists in slovyansk a have released all twelve foreign military observers detained last week one of them was freed earlier over health concerns the observers were held in at the end of april when protesters suspected they were spies among them they were initially invited by the government to monitor troop movements in the area all were from

a member state of the organization for security and cooperation in europe although they were not on an up fischel all with the mission. was government to condemn to the him actually of western countries so was the country wide and western ukraine president putin has also said they'd care facilities also bear responsibility for what happened in a desa russia's envoy to the un pulled no punches comparing the action taken by the right sector in the city to those of nazis. we were struck by the complacence of the western members of the security council towards the actions including the use of force by the illegitimate kiev authorities in the ultra radicals they rely on it is not surprising therefore that with this kind of backing they believe they can act with impunity we are profoundly disturbed by the information from the city of odessa in southern ukraine such actions are reminiscent of the crimes of the nazis

from whom the ukrainian ultranationalist derived their radio logical inspiration. well some was some politicians all went as far as suggesting the people who were burnt alive in a desert brought the whole thing upon themselves that's us the us state department limited its reaction to calling for an investigation and chicha can has the details . it's interesting the headlines in tweets that we've seen coming from major u.s. and european news outlets do not mention the those who were torched you know this anti key activists and that it was done by a group of radicals then you have the swedish foreign minister called bill actually suggesting that it's the koran for pro russians fault that they were burned to death he writes horrible was at least thirty eight dead in all this seems to have started with progress or an attempt to get control of buildings violence must stop that he puts again from russian thugs getting active and violent you know this as well unfortunately not unexpected but this is

a city filled with all your other special spoke in a more generic terms when commenting on the radicals attack on protesters without mentioning who has carried out the attacks british foreign secretary for example wrote i deplore and regret the loss of life for this there is an urgent need for restraint and stepping back from confrontation then here in the u.s. you have pundits and foreign policy experts like the head of the brookings think tank who wrote. a consequence of putin using a word to add twelve a cab to the cavalry of our time which is odessa with flames and blood again mr talbot is somehow suggesting that the russian president is responsible for the killings and not the pro radicals who have actually attacked these people we know this we hear no clear do not see action of this kind of violence coming from u.s. officials they have firmly sided themselves with authorities in kiev and everyone in ukraine who opposes the government in kiev in the view of washington just

received their instructions from moscow one of the biggest concerns that we've seen is the russian proper. the end of that has been. blasted out nonstop. suggesting somehow that the a korean government is responsible for the problems in eastern ukraine the ukrainian government has shown remarkable restraint throughout this process president obama spoke early after his meeting with german chancellor angela merkel and basically dismissed the whole protest against cuba sponsored and controlled by russia and put the responsibility for the escalation on moscow alone president obama also showed full support for key its crackdown on the protests in the east of ukraine he called it a move to restore order about sort of border who is the same man lecture i'll of international relations at moscow state university things western political heavyweights have their eyes closed to the real cause of the chaos in ukraine and will continue to blame russia as being responsible for this for destabilizing the

situation in the ukraine by their view they had a right to destabilize the situation in ukraine a few months ago and helped bring this puts regime to power with the euro my down riots but now russia although there is no evidence they claim has no right to destabilize the situation in the rest of these radicals have not been stopped by the government because they are doing the business of this government these brownshirt paramilitaries are the only true believers that this government can politically and ideologically rely on the ukrainian flag flying over a burned building full of the corpses of dead been charred citizens is a perfect metaphor for the way this regime will govern the ukraine if they're given the chance well to stay following the situation in ukraine and will be bringing you the latest news throughout the day here on it and also on our web site r.t.

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i marinate joining me. for it seems that impartial and financial commentary in from news and much much. only on the bus and. that's the same with us here on r.g.p. international wall than two thousand people are confirmed dead after a massive landslide buried at a remote village in northeast afghanistan that is us that was caused by the collapse of a hill on friday following a week off to wrench away about a thousand houses away buried by the landslide the united nations says of the focus is now on the wall than four thousand people displaced by the collapse rescue efforts are being hampered by soil which is too wet to support heavy machinery

officials fear for the length of life in the area. to the u.k. now where according to the kings the fund think tank of the british national health service is facing a financial crisis with two thirds of hospital bosses fearing a possible care shortfall and also warns that only a radical solution from the government will drag health trust back from the brink of economic disaster of all ambulance drivers speaking to our teaser sarah for says that while there are only budget cuts people will continue to die waiting for medical help. sounding the alarm bell you weak case by date here's a story about the impacts government cuts having on the n.h.s. now it's paramedics who are speaking out the recent death of william gold burn the seventy five year old man who died after waiting two hours for an ambulance is to an examination of the current pressures facing ambulance staff after the coroner in

the case called the day a sad consequence of cut. on condition of anonymity former employee spoke exclusively to see about his own experiences in the ambulance service i felt sad for patients that were going to me you're doing a great job after picking their. husband or wife up that would be lying on the floor having a stroke for now i just think i'm not letting you down so hence. why i need to speak up why i need to speak i think it's just to do with government funding cuts bosses in the under so he's having to. more and more with less money and less funding. we're told about some of the tough conditions now facing argument stop the left trying to pick up the slack some are working ten eleven twelve hours without a meal break and i'm not sure why they're not for their own health as much as they

are for the patients and in the end you're going to if you know if you're not giving people staff. the right breaks to get there are a higher risk of making twenty four errors there are a risk of. his wife or a three and a half tons there driving these amnesties around. there are more risk of making a drawing ever clinic where the government has said they want the n.h.s. to make up to twenty billion pounds worth of a fish and sea savings by twenty fifteen it's an ethiopian slammed full by campaign is saying that putting lives at risk. aversion. to clive today is the kalitta of the national health action party a new political greek that wants to pick the future of the n.h.s. right at the heart of the political agenda ahead of the general elections but i think the health care austerity cuts across the board so right from public health

down much more local services for example ambulance services we're seeing increased . in cuts and we see in patients waiting longer and longer to get an urgent call and you know the media is now filling up with stories where patients become acutely sick not getting seen in time and actually you know really sadly some people are dying it's absolutely outrageous and yes this is what happens when you start cutting back our public services. put the concerns raised to the department of health in a statement they said. the ambulance service is performing well arriving on scene in under eight minutes in more than seventy five percent of the most life threatening cases but we know the service is getting busier so says twenty ten the n.h.s. has recruited sixty percent more paramedics to help longer term n.h.s. england is carrying out a review to look at the demands on services and how the n.h.s. should respond but those on the front line convinced these are the things quite

easily be going statistics. quite. interesting so i think it's quite a lot i think if you were on the service. and know how to question them they come on start. going can i stay quiet any more i call or stay for any more because i care for the patient that patient i treat as the my own family member and it could be me. and even service struggles on and with morale across the whole service reportedly at an all time low many are now warning that if the cuts continue a person will have to wave goodbye not just to an efficient time violent service but to the n.h.s. as we know it sir artie reporting from london and now to some other world news one person was killed in two ended up psychotics quoted in a busy cairo district on friday on the same day another attack took place in cairo and two suicide bombings hit a police checkpoint in

a best passenger bus in egypt's sinai peninsula bringing the number of dead to by militant attacks and political tension in the country have been growing since the army overthrew president morsi and ben the muslim brotherhood egypt is preparing for presidential elections in less than four weeks. nigerians have must stay in the capital didn't mend the government step up efforts to find hundreds of girls kidnapped by flemish militants more than two weeks ago the police of that. from a number of girls abducted from a secondary school has now risen to two hundred seventy six reports say that the militant group responsible for the abduction is currently be gauche aging of the students faint schools of whom i reported the being forced into marriage by the abductors. to recap our breaking news story a day of clashes between pro and anti-government activists in ukraine has claimed almost fifty lives you may find some of the following pictures disturbing the most

gruesome episode to place in the middle of the city where radical nationalists besieged and a fire bombed the trade union headquarters more than three dozen people well i the shot burned alive suffocated jumped to their deaths in a bid to escape the feeling russia's president putin condemned to the violence thing here is to blame. that's an art international it's a boom bust with every new age but if you're in the u.k. it's put me with george galloway. the american humanist association is really riled up over that one very famous chunk of the pledge of allegiance that was added to fight the communists in the cold war that says that america is one nation under god they claim that the

inclusion of god in the pledge makes it seem like atheists in america are second class patriots and contributes to a theist prejudices well this really depends on how you see the united states is it some sort of neutral ground where anyone with any beliefs can go i mean a lot of people did immigrate to the usa for religious freedom so in this case the word god needs to go or is the state's unique culture that needs to be assimilated into their culture is ultimately present christian it which case the. lord almighty must stay in the pledge i doubt that this philosophical argument about the nature of the united states will be solved any time soon although it would be really great if it was but if we think about it the us is a country of rugged individuals so can't patriotism be a bit individualistic yeah they may make you say the pledge of allegiance in school every day but you don't have to say the part about god if you don't want to well that might not save you from pressure from your religious schoolmates but it will keep your conscience clean before the eyes of god or not god whichever you prefer

but that's just my opinion. i wonder if we still if you don't buy. the trailer i thought it looks like. to put church because i don't believe by any means that bush. is cut out of the same cloth as his father who is totally powerful engine troll leader in fact he may not be fully in charge. right from the sea. search tree. and i would think the tree.

on our reporters twitter. and instagram. would be in the. low end happy end of your week i marinate this is boom bust and these are the stories that we're tracking for. you today first up unemployment in the u.s. plunged to six point three percent as hiring kicks into high gear now it's the first upright of the month which means it's bill as numbers and we look into them coming up then we have a physicist and author mark buchanan on the show today mark writes about economics and what physics that meteorology and the natural sciences can teach us about pretty interesting stuff you want to but plus it's the end of the week which means it's viewer feedback day here on boom bust edward harrison i address your questions

coming concerns live on the show you all want to miss a moment let's get to it. it looks like job creation kicked into high gear this april as u.s. job growth increased at its fastest pace in more than two years and jobless rates plunged to the lowest level since the collapse of lehman brothers now the labor department released job numbers on friday morning and nonfarm payroll jobs increased by two hundred eighty eight thousand last month that was the largest gain since january of twenty twelve and beach wall street expectations revised march and february data showed thirty six thousand more jobs than previously reported

household spent more in the first quarter as well as many factory began to accelerate help me explain why large manufacturing companies such as ford have started taking on new workers now the figures support the fed's view that the economy is gaining momentum and indicate that the fed will continue trimming the stimulus the increase in employment was broad based with construction companies adding the most workers in three months still the report did give some troubling signals on the economy as help while the unemployment rate fell to five. a five and a half year low of six point three percent part of that decline was because hundreds of thousands of people left the labor force altogether now overall however the data suggested that the economy was gathering strength then stocks rose following the release of the report on friday morning treasury yields climbed and the dollar jumped to session highs against the euro and again fed policymakers said the economy is showing signs of picking up and that the job market is improving now the fed's open market committee trimmed its monthly asset buying to forty five

billion dollars it's the fourth straight ten billion dollar cut and said that further reductions in measured steps are likely as always we'll be watching and keeping you posted on all the latest. you can it is a physicist author and bloomberg views columnist now he writes about economics and what physics meteorology and the natural sciences can teach us about economics fifteen to twenty years ago he was an editor with the international science journal nature and ended up reviewing a lot of the work submitted by his peers and applying the laws of physics to economics of finance and the markets since then he has been increasingly drawn into finance and markets and has published two books in the field now i started by asking him what a probability distribution is take a look at what he had to say ok probability distribution we faced there's lots of

events that are uncertain so you're going to leave the studio tonight and you're going to walk up the street and the first person you encounter will be you know of a certain height you can't predict what their pipes is going to be it's a it's a probabilistic chance event. so to characterize what you will expect that to be you say well the average may be five to six feet with some fluctuations around that you know maybe six inches tall or six inches shorter than a really rare event maybe they'll be seven footer who comes along. and there's to the bit of mathematics that characterizes what is called the normal distribution which is a kind of very smooth distribution about an average and applies to lots of things in the world such as the heights of people or the weights of people or the size of a basketball next basketball you can see size of a cat whatever it might be you know mark what is the excuse me is it that the galaxy a normal distribution also known as the bell curve most people know it is that is

a poor representation of how events in markets are just repeated is that a poor representation of bell curve. it's a bit it is a poor representation especially for the extreme events so. most days in the market are pretty ordinary days prices just move a little bit up or down that's you know that the bell curve has a peak at zero which is like no change at all that's the most likely thing to happen sometimes it goes up sometimes goes down but the most likely thing is going to be something around zero. so the bell curve does a pretty good job when it's ordinary times and things aren't changing very much a little bit up a little bit down it's in the special times when things change a lot it turns out the bell curve fails entirely so it says really big changes say a price change of ten percent in one day she'd only happen maybe once every one hundred years it turns out they happen a lot more frequently than that because the statistics of the market markets just don't work to the tune of the bell curve people don't make their decisions

independently and the price movement isn't just the contribution of lots of independent factors there are factors that are one factor causes another which influences another and this leads to these really large scale extreme events that can happen very quickly so that's why the bell curve is ok in ordinary normal times but it really fails us in the extreme events which happen to be much more frequently hitting us than the bell curve would suggest they should right now i want to talk about this you wrote a book called ubiquity about distributions observed in nature and events like forest fires and earthquakes like you mentioned in our interview but can you tell me about the power law distribution as first of all power law is a great name for it so i want to learn more about this specifically. right they have the power law it's a really hard thing to describe because the reason it's called a power law has to do with some technical mathematics and nomenclature. what the the central thing about a power law which which makes it really interesting to physicists is that it says

if you feel if you find this mathematical pattern in a certain set of data whether it's about forest fires or of quakes or market movements whatever it is it says to you that there's nothing there's no inherent scale or preferred scale to the events that happen in that system the process that generates forest fires or earthquakes or market fluctuations isn't designed to give you an average size around a short or sure. interval it's designed to give you this huge variation in sizes over this enormous range in a sense it doesn't it doesn't have a preferred scale and when you find things like that from a physicist perspective it's very interesting to try and try to start understanding where do these things come from how can a process be like that where it doesn't tend to give you any typical size gives you this this huge range of different things so that's where the where this power law idea comes from and as you mentioned yes it's it is one of the most ubiquitous and

that's the reason i chose that title for the book patterns that we see in the world around us we grew we grew very used to the normal statistics and gaps in statistics that mathematicians had worked out centuries ago but i'd say about one hundred years ago sixty years ago people really started noticing that these power laws and these these distributions that go of a huge range of scales are everywhere in the world if you look at the size of craters on the moon you find that kind of distribution if you threw some rocks at the wall and cross them up you'll find there's a few big chunks there's an intermediate number of intermediate sized chunks there's lots of dust and debris at the tiny scale again the results range over this huge range of scales out and comes out of a very natural process so interesting i want to ask you how our power law distribution is related to outcomes we have served in the financial markets ok so i mentioned before the the fact tail distribution so. the bell curve is this nice

curve that goes down to zero in the extremes which means so this is the size of the event and this is the likelihood of you going to find it so events that are smaller are very likely events that get bigger and bigger are very unlikely and the bell curve goes down and very quickly and says that it's just not going to happen maybe once every hundred years or a thousand years or you can see this ten percent or bigger change in them in the market. the fat tail distribution which is the which is the power of law they're the same thing it isn't like the bell curve it's like it's much more like this it goes off very gently and so way out here on the tails it says those big changes the ten percent change in the market isn't very unlikely after all in fact if you're going to see one once a year or once every two or three years and so that's what the power law is it says this fat tail of extreme events is actually much more likely than we would have thought it was is this kind of the subject matter and seems discussed and not seem

to have black swan the idea that you know these these outliers these things on the outskirts are more common than we think we have to care for them. absolutely so this this research has been going around for it's been building for forty fifty years so you know when i wrote ubiquity fifteen years ago or twelve years and i guess it was about fifteen years ago i was trying to capture. the emergence of this idea in science and taleb i think brilliant book with his his own style of. energy in language that really captures that idea so the black swan is one of these extreme events that is actually perfectly normal it's an expected event the natural world and not markets or natural systems they produce those events and we shouldn't really be surprised by them now can you tell me about the fingers of instability and the critical state what they do is they started doing experiments with the with the sand pile so they take a table and they start dropping grains of sand one by one drop of grain let it come

to rest proper grain drop a grain after a while you course you get a mound that builds up. and they keep going drop the grain see what happens eventually the grains start triggering avalanches that go you know either a short distance or further down the pile sometimes a big avalanche knocks half the pile off the table and what they did is over time studied the size of the apple. and that gets caused by the next single grain that's dropped on the pile and then what they found is that this this pile organizes to what they call a critical state which is a state of kind of extreme and permanent. instability or it's on the threshold of always being unstable and the distribution of these avalanches turns out to be so these fact tale's just like earthquakes just like forest fires or market fluctuations so that was a physicist and author mark peek at an. time now for

a very quick break but stick around because when we return we're bringing you the best of the very best from this past week plus edward harrison and i are talking your viewer feedback in our weekly accrued interest segment and as we head to a quick break here are a look at some of your closing numbers of the bell stick around. boring to the book because the last years of the roman republic it was an article of faith to the romans that they were the most morally upright people hence the romans concerned to refute all charges of bullying and to insist that they had won

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income inequality discussed in pickaninnies new book at the moment capitalism in the twenty first century i know you've all heard of it and then we have a promise john boudreaux now boudreau is former chair of the economics department at george mason university and a leading advocate of public choice theory he gives us his take on picotee as well and afterwards boudreau is colleague professor brian kaplan gives us his impassioned view on the need for an open immigration policy we also have stephen kinzer law from the university of limerick in ireland now he tells us that a lot of what's going on with european sovereign bonds is about investors chasing yield and not fundamentals and finally we have mark chandler the head of currency strategy at brown brothers harriman and our go to guy for everything f.x. in the f.x. markets now he schools us on time frames and currency trading and purchasing power parity take a look. there's a. proposal is for a annual tax on capital well. i find that personally i find that.

problematic i don't know quite how you go about appraising capital wealth on a on an annual basis how you go about capturing wealth that is across countries. and it strikes me that the effect of the ripples was basically to depress capital asset prices which i'm not sure why that is a reasonable economic objective i favor instead progressive income taxes reduction of loopholes and exemptions and a stiff inheritance tax which is something with that one can impose once appraisal upon death basically and that gives an enormous incentive for charitable distributions before death which is i think really the effective way of getting large fortunes divided up and back into circulation in a socially useful fashion that's the way that we do this in the united states and everybody who goes to a university or to a hospital is a beneficiary of that system now you say you like

a tax on income opposed to an annual tax on basically capital wealth can you differentiate between income and capital wealth how would you do that well very simply and the income tax is something we've had in this country since one thousand seventeen everybody knows how it works there were elaborate rules you report you read come in you you pay a tax according to a table capital wealth is it's your stocks your bonds the value of your property i don't know what other household assets you would put into that maybe the value of your artwork appraising that on an annual basis would be exceptionally complicated and it overlooks the fact that the very wealthiest people know where the cayman islands are so that it's not as though you would have complete access to their records and the event the premise seems to be that there is this natural tendency in capital societies for wealth to accumulate in fewer and fewer hands or in smaller and smaller portions of the population and that this is

the dean. because if that happens then the people who are in the lower echelons of the population will feel dispossessed and they may they may. revolt one of the complaints i have so far about the book maybe he addresses it later is that he's also in addition to being insensitive to public choice concerns and he's also insensitive he also blew views as to what happens to be absolute living standards of people at the bottom so it may be that you get you become ten times richer than me but if my absolute living standard is increasing if my welfare mice mice my prosperity is higher in absolute sense well i'm better off and frankly if i'm better off i see no reason why i should complain about about your wealth as long as you can steal it from me first of all i think it is it is the way that we treat foreigners is unjust also with us wanting to say that we shouldn't have to go and give charity to foreigners we shouldn't we shouldn't have to go and send the

welfare checks i agree with that but to say that it's ok for americans to prevent say for now from getting a job from american from an american player wants to hire him seems to me to be no better than a jim crow laws where you say blacks are allowed to be hired by certain kinds of employers. if there is a worker wants to work an employer wants to employ him aas this seems unjust to be too for the law to say no sorry you're not one of the right country you chose the wrong parent so you can't take that job i'll send now of course if doing the right thing would be incredibly costly i would go i can understand why people would want to do it ali you know the next key part of the argument is if you really look at all the social science on immigration the cost of doing the right thing the cost of treating foreigners justly is really less nothing i mean the main thing to remember is that our standard of living depends on production and what immigration laws do is trap people and core countries where they produce at only a very tiny fraction of their full potential i mean think about how little you could accomplish if you lived in haiti right so there are dysfunctional countries

where even very talented people. get much done for a long list of reasons whereas just moving to a country that works better now we see that people can drastically increase their earnings typical haitian comes to the us can get a raise about two thousand percent very quickly and it's not an employer american employers are some are nicer the nation employers said a haitian in america can accomplish so much more than a haitian haiti now this is a course now this is great for the haitian but me and my point in terms of what would it actually cost us to be just is that it's also great for americans because americans consume the stuff that the haitians are that that nations may be looking at our respondents we're not looking at people making a sound decision on the basis of irish macroeconomic fundamentals it's a good news story for our nation but the real reason that it's happening is people are chasing a low inflation low interest rate environment they want to refer to sovereign debt and are looks the least risky and that's what's driving the yields john it's not

necessarily a pat on the back for our policies well it's obviously welcome that we don't borrow it or that it doesn't cost us as much to borrow we're still going quite a bit and at the end of the day i don't think necessarily it's an indicator that we're in route health it's more of an indicator that what's happening to us at the moment is laura laura evidence of the international financial or currency that say that short term things i look at four or five times if somebody asked me where i'm going to take asia and europe i want to lock in some euro's now what should i look at i'm going to you know so what do i look i think short term phenomenon like what's in the news market positioning ok is there going in august i want to today if yes but what about for the long term your company and you want you to make a buying machine tool you know going to go for two years from now and it's based on your you know what you project to five years from now so you've got a longer term time frame rate so what do you look at so i look at century two things one is purchasing power parity which is it's right it's like

a basic form of third reich of the economist magazine did. big thing with a big mac and a big mac. should cost you where you go to sell for the same price to the extent that it doesn't when you make the currency conversion tell you some currency is out of whack ok so we look for is there between the value and the price can stretch to the major to. how far someone can deviate from its true value being the big. and so the major countries o.e.c.d. countries and the currencies often move in about a twenty percent band around purchasing power parity ok but some currencies like you say like like swiss shrink no region cone right now yes very very overvalued like thirty or forty percent so that tells us either something is wrong with our model purchasing power parity and you can get more complicated with it than the big mac. right or it's telling us that it's seriously overvalued is not something to be done yet so what are the swiss studies they said we're not going to let our currency appreciate over this level and so they haven't had to intervene recently in the

past even intervene a lot right to defend defend their ceiling for their currency. and there you go highlights from the best of the best this past week time now for us to hear from you. the interest and with that we're here as always we do this every friday and harrison and i put you the viewer into the driver seat letting you steer the show with your comments questions and concerns all centers throughout the week we have twitter and facebook let's dive right in and start with brucey b. i like that name now customers have more money if minimum wage is raised period question clint where does a small business operator get the extra money to pay the minimum wage raise to begin with the only way would be to have a wage subsidy from government which means higher taxation ed thoughts on this

higher taxation is that what that means though fellas of composition basically what happens is like that you know. when more people have more money that means if they spend more especially if people in minimum wage jobs are they have a higher marginal propensity to spend that means more of that money goes back into the economy so ultimately that means that if they were making eight dollars an hour another making ten dollars an hour that's an extra two dollars an hour per employee that's actually going to go into the economy if they were to spend all of that extra money in the economy right in the small business owner they take up on our will have more kick ups all cupcake so it kicked up kicks older and have more money exactly the problem of course is that maybe that specific small business owner is not going to have more so you know maybe. there will be more cups there will be more. c.d.'s that's bought and so it is going to have an impact in terms of

so. businesses are going to be impacted by the world now move right on michael mclaughlin he writes in that quote i would rather have the good kind of deflation because the same amount of currency is chasing an increased amount of goods rather than people having incentives to save money in a late game kensi an environment that revives on ever increasing velocity of money and the thoughts of good kind of deflation yes or no would you prefer to have this whole philosophy of money i never really think about velocity of money because to me it's a meaningless concept given the loans deposits velocity has you know that's a term that people use for the top of the money multiplier but at the bottom of the bottom this is that when you have deflation you have debt deflation dynamics that can take over we just drop people they put off their spending and they spend less debt becomes more onerous people are it's been a success or it sort of like spirals and it's so it's not just the fact that you

have good fleece today in that sense the only good deflation you can get is really from increased productivity and that's when prices go down from the i think that general deflation is not a good thing they have and i want to guess number three this comes from tina sullivan three percent or she tweeted that she is not happy with us and she writes . that emanate at edward n.h. i can't believe you would even allow kaplan time to spew his disdain for mission propaganda saying that lobbyist does no harm but loney exclamation point there are two point three lobbyist for every politician in d.c. there to curry favor from the corporate for politicians i am seeing a serious shift in our chile you are pandering to the wrong side shame on you r t ok first i'd like to say that we aren't pandering to the wrong side because we are pandering to any side in the very fact that she wrote here pandering to the wrong side is evidence that we are pandering to either one i mean you want us to actually pursue the other agenda that's not good journalism that's not how we'd like to

report it and so i will remain the same more you said it perfectly that's exactly stand by what we're reporting i think that it's pretty solid that's. it's four and finally one of our frequent comments from some commenters how we're going to rights moving profits overseas is simply one of the many tactics corporations employ to maximize shareholder value as you say ed ok so you take money away from a corporation via taxation and what happens less dividends for shareholders higher prices for customers who corporations care about they care about their shareholders and the customers it's natural to want to protect your allies against rapacious enemy thoughts well you know just because you actually have taken money away from the company doesn't mean that they're going to pass that cost on to. the customers but at the end of the day what it boils down to is the when you are a corporation and you've incorporated in order to gain benefits from that from incorporating that you wouldn't be able to get if you were an individual and those that status needs to be taxed like any other legal person. you know legal persons

that are individuals or businesses should be taxed as well the concept should somehow be taxed because of double taxation doesn't make any sense to me and i think it creates an unfair advantage for those who can cooperate and gain their wealth through that particular structure of incorporation i think you have an taxation is a big issue we're dealing here back on that and more on it but i like your opinion that's all for now but you can see all segments featured in today's show on you tube at youtube dot com slash boom bust our team we were hearing from you please check out our facebook page facebook dot com slash boom bust arctic please tweet us at edward and it's from all of us here thank you for watching see an x. time check out.

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