Residents who live on the foothills of the Calbuco volcano return to assess the damage after it erupted without warning on April 22. Rough cut (no reporter narration).
In a recent TV interview, Brigadier-General Ahmad Reza Pourdestan, Commander of the Iranian Ground Forces, said: "If Saudi cities were targeted by bombings and missiles, it would be difficult for the officials there to withstand this." He further said that in order to prevent a Sunni-Shiite union from materializing, "the first thing [the Americans] did was to plan and carry out the events of 9/11." Pourdestan was speaking on the Iranian Al-Alam TV channel on April 19, 2015.
Διαδηλωτές αυτοκίνητα της αστυνομίας και καταστήματα επιτέθηκε κεντρική Βαλτιμόρη ανατολικές Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες, στο περιθώριο από τα μεγαλύτερα συστήματα συλλογής από το θάνατο του νεαρού άνδρα αφρικανικής καταγωγής, αφού τραυματίστηκε κατά τη σύλληψή του από την αστυνομία
Rescue efforts in Nepal are intensifying after nearly 2,000 people were killed on Saturday in the worst earthquake there in more than 80 years.
Many countries and charities have offered aid to deal with the disaster.
Seventeen people have been killed on Mount Everest by avalanches - the mountain's worst-ever disaster.
Meanwhile a powerful aftershock was felt on Sunday in Nepal, India and Bangladesh, and more avalanches were reported near Everest.
The 6.7 magnitude tremor, centred 60km (40 miles) east of Nepal's capital Kathmandu, sent people running in panic for open ground in the city.
Screams and the sound of an avalanche could be heard as an Indian mountaineer was interviewed by phone from near Everest by Reuters news agency.
The death toll from the original earthquake could rise, as the situation is unclear in remote areas which remain cut off or hard to access.
Many mountain roads are cracked or blocked by landslides.
Scores of bodies have been ferried to hospitals in Kathmandu, many of which are struggling to cope with the number of injured.
More than 700 have died in the capital alone.
Medics are expecting a fresh influx of patients on Sunday as supplies run low.
Rescuers in places used their bare hands to dig for survivors still buried underneath piles of rubble and debris overnight on Saturday.
Army officer Santosh Nepal told the Reuters news agency that he and his soldiers had to dig a passage into a collapsed three-storey residential building in Kathmandu using pickaxes because bulldozers could not get through the ancient city's narrow streets.
"We believe there are still people trapped inside," he told Reuters.
The 7.8 magnitude quake struck an area of central Nepal between Kathmandu and the city of Pokhara on Saturday morning.
There were also victims in India, Bangladesh and in the Chinese region of Tibet.
It is the worst earthquake to strike Nepal since one in 1934 which killed some 8,500 people.
'Moment of crisis'
"We have launched a massive rescue and rehabilitation action plan and lots needs to be done," Information and Broadcasting Minister Minendra Rijal told Indian television.
"Our country is in a moment of crisis and we will require tremendous support and aid."
Scores of people slept outside on Saturday night - braving wet and cold weather - either because their homes were destroyed or because they feared numerous aftershocks.
World leaders and global charities have offered emergency aid to Nepal, as the government grapples with the scale of the disaster.
India is at the forefront of the relief effort, offering help including helicopters which have been deployed to remote areas.
The United States, Britain, China, Pakistan and European Union countries are among those who have pledged aid. The US and China have both sent search-and-rescue teams.
"The absolute priority must be to reach people who are trapped and injured, and provide shelter and protection to those who have lost their homes," UK International Development Secretary Justine Greening said.
A number of international charities including Red Cross, Oxfam, Doctors Without Borders and Christian Aid are also sending teams to quake-hit areas.
"We do not yet know the scope of the damage, but this could be one of the deadliest and most devastating earthquakes since the 1934 tremor which devastated Nepal and [the Indian state of] Bihar," said International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) Asia-Pacific Director Jagan Chapagain.
The IFRC said it was especially worried about the fate of villages near the epicentre of the quake, some 80km (50 miles) from Kathmandu.
'Rubble and landslides'
The problems have been compounded by erratic internet and mobile phone communications.
British Red Cross spokeswoman Penny Sims said it was hard to get an accurate picture of what is going on.
"A lot of the roads are blocked, there's rubble, there's been landslides as well... So that is going to make the aid effort very difficult," she told the BBC.
Foreign climbers and their Nepalese guides around Mount Everest were caught by the tremors and a huge avalanche.
As well as the 17 confirmed deaths, 61 people were injured when part of the base camp was buried under snow.
Helicopters trying to airlift the injured to Kathmandu were delayed by cloudy weather, but have now managed to land at the base camp.
Dan Fredinburg, a Google executive who described himself as an adventurer, was among the dead, Google confirmed.
SHOCK VIDEO: UKRAINIAN NEO-NAZIS NAIL REBEL FIGHTER TO CROSS, BURN HIM ALIVE
US-backed militants carry out brutal execution
byPAUL JOSEPH WATSON | APRIL 25, 2015
Shocking video shows Ukrainian neo-nazi militia fighters carrying out an ISIS-style execution during which they nail a separatist rebel to a cross and then burn him alive.
WARNING: GRAPHIC FOOTAGE.
The authenticity of the footage is yet to be confirmed, although it seems chillingly real on first viewing.
The brutal murder was reportedlycarried outby members of the Azov Battalion, which was converted into a regiment last year, making it a de facto part of the Ukrainian Army. Theparamilitary group forms“the backbone of the forces fighting against the local self-defense militia advocating independence from Ukraine.”
The clip shows a hooded man kneeling in a field as five Ukrainian militants stand around him while one reads a statement. The militants then grab the victim, who is gagged, and place him down on a wooden cross.
The man’s arms are taped to the cross and his hands are then nailed to the structure as he groans and writhes in agony.
The victim is then lifted up on the cross, which is planted in the ground before the militants light a fire at the bottom. The video cuts off at the point that the fire reaches the man’s feet and he begins to scream.
The execution, which was reportedly carried out near the village of Shirokino, came with a message from Azov fighters to pro-Russian rebels; “All the separatists, traitors of Ukraine and militia fighters will be treated the same”.
Pro-separatist hackers Cyberberkut, to whom the video was sent, responded by vowing that no Ukrainian Army or militia fighters would be taken alive in future.
Azov militants identify as neo-nazis and routinely adorn their helmets and uniforms with Nazi SS logos and swastikas, as seen in the image below taken from German television.
“Azov fighters do more than wave a Swastika-like flag,”writes Robert Parry, “they favor the Wolfsangel flag of Hitler’s SS divisions, much as some of Ukraine’s neo-Nazis still honor Hitler’s Ukrainian SS auxiliary, the Galician SS. A Ukrainian hero hailed during the Maidan protests was Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera whose paramilitary forces helped exterminate Jews and Poles.”
Following last year’s coup d’état, Kiev alsohanded key positionswithin the newly formed government to members of the neo-nazi Svoboda Party, despite the fact that one if its top members, Yuriy Mykhalchyshyn, founded a think tank named the Joseph Goebbels Political Research Centre as an homage to the Nazi propaganda minister.
Despite their implication in war crimes and fascist ideology, on Monday, U.S. troops from the 173rd Airborne Brigadearrived at the Yavoriv training groundin Lviv to work with Ukrainian national guard battalions.
As theTelegraph reported last year, Kiev has thrown openly fascist battalions like Azov onto the front line in their battle against pro-Russian separatist rebels.
Arming and funding bloodthirsty militants who carry out ISIS-style executions would be a repeat of Washington’s disastrous policy of doing the very same thing in Libya and Syria, a strategy thatdirectly led to the growth of ISISthroughout the region. However, aPew pollconducted in February found that a majority of Americans support doing precisely that.
The one hour video below exhaustively documents how neo-nazi militants were involved in both the overthrow of the elected Ukrainian government as well as fighting on the front lines alongside post-coup Kiev forces.
Demonstrators raise torches in remembrance of Armenian massacre victims at the hands of Ottoman Turks, with some burning a large Turkish flag. Rough Cut (no narration).
Published time: April 25, 2015 06:33 Edited time: April 25, 2015 08:32
Shortly after the earthquake, the USGS raised the initial 7.5-magnitude of the quake to 7.9.A 7.9-magnitude earthquake has struck Nepal and India, killing at least two people. The most severe damage was seen in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, where buildings collapsed, reportedly causing numerous injuries.
The quake occurred 33km east of Lamjung District and 80km northwest of Kathmandu, which has a population of about 1 million.
The death toll from a powerful 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal kept rising on Saturday, with police telling the Associated Press that at least 1,130 people were confirmed dead.
The quake destroyed homes and ancient temples, and triggered at least one avalanche on Mount Everest. The number of deaths was not immediately confirmed by NBC News; earlier, Minendra Rija, the country's minister of information and communications, said nearly 600 people had died, but cautioned, "That number may rise."
The quake hit just before noon local time (2:15 a.m. ET), with an epicenter about 50 miles from the capital of Kathmandu and 50 miles east of Nepal's second-largest city, Pokhara. It was felt as far as neighboring countries, and killed at least 34 people in India, 12 in Tibet and two in Bangladesh, the Associated Press reported.
ΕΤΣΙ “ΤΙΜΩΡΗΣΕ” Ο ΠΟΥΤΙΝ ΤΗΝ ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΕΜΕΙΝΕ ΚΟΚΚΑΛΟ Ο ΕΡΝΤΟΓΑΝ !!
Έντονη δυσαρέσκεια στην Άγκυρα προκαλεί η στάση του Ρώσου πρόεδρου… να περιφρονήσει κυριολεκτικά την τουρκική πρόσκληση να παραστεί στις 24 Απριλίου στις μεγάλες εορταστικές εκδηλώσεις που διοργανώνει η Τουρκία για την νίκη της το 1915, στον πόλεμο κατά την απόβασης των Αγγλογάλλων στην χερσόνησο της Καλλίπολης.
Οι εορταστικές αυτές εκδηλώσεις διοργανώθηκαν από τους Τούρκους την ίδια μέρα της επετείου της αρμενικής γενοκτονίας, σε αντιπερισπασμό στις εκδηλώσεις που γίνονται την ίδια μέρα στην πρωτεύουσα της Αρμενίας, το Ερεβάν, για την εκατοστή επέτειο της αρμένικης γενοκτονίας. Ο Ρώσος πρόεδρος όχι μόνο απέρριψε την τουρκική πρόκληση αλλά, όπως ανακοινώθηκε από το Κρεμλίνο, θα παραστεί να τιμήσει τα θύματα της αρμενικής γενοκτονίας στις εκδηλώσεις του Ερεβάν.
Όπως ήταν επόμενο αυτή η στάση του Ρώσου πρόεδρου προκαλεί την οργή της Τουρκίας και είναι ενδεικτικό πως ο τουρκικός τύπος την χαρακτηρίζει σαν μεγάλη περιφρόνηση του Ρώσου προέδρου προς τους Τούρκους.
Ο Ρώσος πρόεδρος θα είναι ανάμεσα στους ξένους ηγέτες που θα παραβρεθεί στις εκδηλώσεις της γενοκτονίας στην αρμενική πρωτεύουσα μαζί με τον Γάλλο πρόεδρο, Φρνσουά Ολάντ, με τον οποία μάλιστα όπως ανακοινώθηκε θα έχει ιδιαίτερες συνομιλίες για τις σχέσεις Ρωσίας Ευρωπαϊκής Ένεσης. Αντίθετα στην εκδήλωση αντιπερισπασμό των Τούρκων όπως έγινε γνωστό, θα στείλει συμβολικά μόλις τον τέταρτο στην ιεραρχία του Κρεμλίνου, Sergey Narışkın.
Στο Ερεβάν ο Πούτιν θα συναντηθεί και με τον Αρμένιο πρόεδρο, Serj Sarkısyan, με τον οποίο θα έχει συνομιλίες για την ενίσχυση της αρμενικής άμυνας με ρωσικά οπλικά συστήματα.