one hundred four see if there was to talk on u.s. soil since nine eleven and comes despite years of heightened security about just a big spans of civil liberties that followed. and as well as opposition takes its anger to the streets adding to concerns the oil rich nation is at a crossroads following a razor thin election victory for the. road block sixty five years since its founding but it was claims to be a beacon of democracy in the middle east is critics say fall is turning into a god line religious right away with. a new song russia under around the world this is aussie was me thanks for joining

us. twin blasts at the finish line of the boston marathon have left three dead including an eight year old boy one hundred forty are in hospital with the various injuries many have lost limbs in the bombings no one has claimed responsibility for the terror target while the white house says they perpetrate as will feel the full weight of justice as a she is marina for now reports. u.s. president barack obama said that the u.s. does not yet have all the answers as to who was behind the attack why they did this but obama said that the u.s. will find out who did it and will hold him accountable he would not go into detail he said an investigation is ongoing and that. the u.s. federal officials will be helping out boston in any way that city needs as they continue searching for clues as to what caused two to the bombings their work

proximately twenty seven thousand people participating in the boston marathon and tens of thousands on the streets watching the event and also securing the perimeter ironically there were so many police officers on the scene so many emmaus workers this explosion went off and just about ten seconds later a second explosion went off there is some horrific images out there of some of the victims some of whom have lost limbs what history has shown is that if the u.s. is attached to the beach house and it has retaliated over the course of more than a decade we did have the patriot act in the aftermath of the september eleventh attacks that department of homeland security was created and the controversial drone program was implemented under the ministration of forged w. bush and it was carried out double down on by president obama but what many would argue is that even with all those different measures put in place through war

through surveillance that it still doesn't prevent horrific attacks like the one scene unfolding in boston we. spoke with kimball who witnessed the tragedy and described the can also the terrorists. i was there with my sister she had left work early and she when the first bomb went off there was just a silence that went over the crowd and then immediately scream started happening and she grabbed my hand and said just start running so we started running but the place where we were at where the stage comes out where people run through the finish line and the crowd bottlenecks and it became an immediately very very scary situation where a woman was on her bike and had fallen and people were just on able to get out and at that point the second bomb went off and i that was when i really found to him to

me that this is something that i could perhaps die from and i think that was when i became more of a this wasn't just an accident or an electrical problem that this was a definitely an intentional act incident under a rock we were trying to draw from seed the building will be used by washington to justify additional security steps as heinous as the intensive measures already in place failed to prevent the tragedy. even with the peter it act even with the end the even with the surveillance states that it's been going on even with with that with all the wars going on you know in in gas and in yemen and in pakistan and all the true program is attacked not to happen i'm not going to speculate on on who did what whether or not this you know this was caused by a foreign national it was just it was caused by domestic terrorist one thing is for sure that the government the united states government will use this as an excuse to

continue and it should on the trajectory of even more surveillance of even law our security of even more i mean what's next t.s.a. at every marathon t.s.a. in every street corner and that's going to be the solutions and that's going to be put forward for the past that basically past decade you know when you when you call some going to terrorists you're basically saying that what the government does to terrorists or people accused of terrorism are ok with that your opinion when they're being indefinitely detained being put in and get no you're ok with them being spying on you are you are ok with them being assassinated because that then is what this government is doing to people suspect the end of terrorism stay with asking for the latest on the boston bombing and we've got more details and analysis on that on our web site r.c.

dot com. and venezuela's campus so caracas police have fired tear gas to disperse crowds protesting the official results of the presidential election is came after venezuela's electra body rejected calls for a recount of sunday's vote that this is hunt picked successor win by a razor thin majority and dozens his tests are similar reports now uniting the nation is going to prove a tough task for the new president elect. when the results of the presidential election on april fourteenth was announced there were huge celebrations in this district heavily supporting nicolas maduro the so-called successor will go chavez now his supporters tell me that although the margin between my daughter and his main opposition very weak a couple that was very small they say that with this victory the spirit of the. chavez continues to live on in a for a very very big job there's a lot of problems that we have to solve even supporters reiterate the fact that

there are a lot of problems that have to be addressed such as food shortages medicine shortages as well as the issue of crime being really want this addressed because they say they just don't feel safe on the streets but there was also with very thing another one of the world's largest oil reserves as the world will be watching on how this is going to be managed moving forward and also model will have a quite a very short grace period including his ability to unite a very divided country we've seen in the elections it was almost a fifty fifty split between between model and community and one more task would be to see the military support we know that will go chavez was was a former army tank commander you have the military support and this is something that model will have to work on but perhaps the biggest challenge for nicolas maduro is filling his predecessor shoes as many of his supporters have been saying a vote for model is in fact a vote for who got shot this. depends election observer doc to julia buxton

believes these seemingly blood could spark a major tensions around the oil rich state it's very slim margin but the races are observed just today was when the ferry was transparent this is a fully automated searching for says obviously this was a very very narrow victory for him adorable really to call into question the capacity in the technical feasibility of the voting system i think is very very unfortunate i think the way that this should be presented is actually to the see any which the should then investigate rather than this being something which is used as a mechanism to generate publicity. so i think we really need to wait for the results of the see any investigation before we can comment on that my immediate concern now is that if the united states does not recognize the election process here in the picture of majority this is going to once again put venezuela and the united states on a very very strong bilateral clash is going to be even more problems going forward in that relationship spain i believe has come out and said that it's not fair to recognize the victory at the moment again i think it's very unfortunate somewhat irresponsible for these countries to be for announcing so soon and we really need to see in the audience of this voting process before we should be making such diplomatic declarations. venezuela sits on some of the biggest crude oil reserves

in the world and his business analyst talk to my colleague what we so shy about what's at stake. when as well is actually a very juicy morsel what on comes to oil and gas especially oil it has a whopping two hundred ninety seven billion barrels of oil reserves comparable only to saudi arabia and actually even higher than saudi arabia which is the world's leading or energy exporter now when it comes to exporting oil it's actually ninety five percent of its export revenues come from energy so that really makes russia's energy dependency pale in comparison so essentially it's a dime in the rough relatively low production levels but a huge potential there huge potential there we just need to up a bit i suppose of the labor working there and also the infrastructure to get the oil out from underneath the ground regardless of who actually takes the top job in

venezuelan politics how could that affect the energy policy that well the fact could actually be dramatic would do it's more or less clear a lot of policy continuity and of course we're probably going to see the left as governments in latin america continue to receive support now with capri that is it's not as clear we could see a complete about face when it comes to energy policies but even if. we see that at the moment that. everything stays as it is it's really a signal that the previous has a lot of support not only with it as well but also outside of the country and of course you know u.s. energy companies cannot wait to get back into the country after being kicked out of there where you talk about u.s. companies or as you were saying earlier with venezuela having such a huge reserve of oil for the world there must be you saw major global players who are keeping an extraordinarily close watch on venezuela right well essentially it's a fight between russia and the united states with china also being

a major player they are not markets u.s. companies as i mentioned were kicked out starting in the seventy's when the oil and gas sector was nationalized but really that policy was cemented during charges ironically it's still the biggest consumer of venezuelan oil but it's really trying to get back into the country now russia has a major presence there all of the country's oil and gas companies have long term contracts in venezuela and of course china is a huge investor just several years ago china's state owned bank agreed to lend venezuela a whopping forty billion dollars against future crude sales so there you go interesting stuff indeed we'll have to see if this port to your business i was to show you it's go a pleasure thanks for coming on today. there's always that home where asking you what's next for them as well as based in the nicolas maduro and here let's see what you are saying right now over the whole of you chile fifty two percent were taken

pales in the oil rich states saying the u.s. will interfere because it's not satisfied with the result around a quarter believe china this is one will succeed and twenty first century socialism will be established and also fifteen percent of you don't believe will be able to handle the job and they call me will start the day that and the minority just once and things the country will see more prosperous over the narrow aussie dot com is where you can go and tell us what you think. this is all c. and coming up in a couple of minutes as glory's secures the next trial bailout funds from its international lenders in exchange for slashing thousands of jobs also he takes a look at the war they can only strain has done to the country's industrial sector . wealthy british style. sometimes right on. target.

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this is zero c. welcome bach national celebrations in north korea saying more warlike or a trick also marking the bust of its found kamal son on monday their case of states only has demanded an apology from the sulfa hall style acts towards it and house arrest and or to haitians any time the young gave little hens during festivus is that. the test firing of its latest missile is imminent with people gathering in squares with flowers to pay tribute to their leaders but america south korea and japan say the country appears ready to launch a medium range rocket despite u.n. sanctions barring any such action as washington spends huge sums of money on what it calls maintaining peace on the peninsula but critics warn that that's exactly what provoking pyongyang and joins us live from the institute for policy studies believes as a rueful pouring across a new venue stations but only for america softens it stands there have been

a number of initiatives coming from the obama administration some meetings in the past over the first term even though the official policy was of course strategic patience in other words basically ignoring north korea's long as possible china of course is very interested in seeing negotiations go forward south korea under its new leadership are could have a has proposed discussions with the north so all signs point toward negotiations on the other hand the united states has also said look there might be some preconditions here and preconditions in the past of basically scotched any attempt to have any negotiations so i think of the united states really wants to see some negotiations moving forward it's going to have to go to the table without any preconditions and staying with north korea the b.b.c.'s undefine of pushing the boundaries of ethics for a good story the london school of economics believes the broadcast

a use the trip by its students as a cover to shoot a documentary about the secretive state without the universities for consent so the general secretary of the of the c. students union alex speeches day explains why the situation is causing such. group was just told that their one journalist would be a print journalist only it wasn't until they actually arrived in north korea did they find out that they'll be a document to which they'd be appearing on it wasn't until they arrived in beijing to fly over to north korea that they were joined by the journalist when we're talking about a trip like this with a risk they're involved i think it's so important machines would have been briefed all stages and would be made aware and they just went in this case the b.b.c. deliberately mis held information from them i mean they could have been detained a couple of years ago and to an american journalist were found to have been doing undercover journalism in north korea there were sentenced to nine years of hard labor obviously right now as we just head the climate north korea is even more heightened than it was back then but shouldn't should have the right to make that

decision for themselves whether or not they're going to face danger and the problem for us is that the b.b.c. made that decision for them and students after returning home they received threatening letters from the north korean government and now we're in a situation where not only is the wealth of our students at risk but also elysees work i couldn't work in researching places like north korea and other politically sensitive areas which is so important and that's been jeopardized because alice is now associated with undercover illegal activities to be gambled with students' lives and i think that's not ok and for the b.b.c. to go out publicly and say deceit is ok and that and the length they will get that thirty minute documentary i think i send such a negative message especially at this time when the b.b.c.'s reputation isn't perfect and i think they should make sure they have enough trust in their viewers. and later in the program we'll look deeper crossing in britain that says things are grave in the u.k. to let the public broadcasters ditch the impartiality clause and was done by coverage in

a way that deflects company's views and opinions the details are coming. out of paying tribute to its fallen on memorial day on monday israel shouldn't celebrations for its sixty fifth anniversary but says the nation was founded back in one thousand nine hundred forty eight it's rarely heard at the chance to live in peace with its neighbors or he was born a slave explains one. the country celebrates its sixty fifth birthday but it comes against the backdrop of settlement expansion continuing it also ignores the existence of a huge palestinian population of which israel cannot control these kind of steps twice and many are warning in effect in fact we see this in many editorials they threatening to turn israel into a non democratic country where doc style of religion holds sway and there is a sizeable and noticeable upsurge in the fall of white religious minority in this country that is both small and does have

a very vocal representation and this is why many are saying sixty five years on the country claims to be the only democracy in this region but there are real concerns over just how much power the religious have on monday the country held its national memorial day it is a day for israel's foreign soldiers as well as victims of terror there were a number of alternative memorials that were held these calls for attention to be paid to palestinian victims but they received very little attention in the mainstream media the criticism by and large is that is will commemorate all its wars as having had the higher moral ground when in fact there are very big questions over whether or not many of the wars were in fact the jewish much more such as the fifty six sinai campaign the eighty two war in lebanon and the two palestinian intifada these are awards that are controversial but they are not presented like that in the general israeli discourse although there are widespread celebrations throughout the country there are

a lot of person and important and critical questions that are being asked the situation between israel and its bordering countries is unclear the situation between israel and the palestinian territories is ambiguous and the future status over jerusalem is also unresolved many are saying that in fact the situation between israel and its neighbors remains fragile and unstable which is why many are asking what exactly is there to cheer about sixty five years on. our website to get more comprehensive coverage of today's top news and stories from around the world soul mind a broad ball of flame lit up the sky above the spanish capital madrid upon thing astronomers and on lukas so learn more about the mysterious subject online. as they are going to call them is expected to bring the country's most notorious and legal industry poppy cultivation is reportedly set to hit a record high this year at the details as.

calls are being made in britain to reassess the way the country's broadcasters bring news to the public and their shift aims to free them from their legal duty to uphold impulsion ality and lead that coverage reflect the opinions of other views and out as poorly boy reports. the way that news papers and news channels are regulated in the u.k. is stossel any different so newspapers and online news portals they still regulate themselves that means that they can be as politically biased as they please he example being the guardian on the left in the u.k. or the london times on the right but for news channels it's a whole different story they're legally bound by off to be impartial and if they're deemed not to be they can be fined or even have their license revoked but in a day and age when the media is converging annis portals are looking more like television channels and television channels have their own websites is this

regulation re distinction fair and does it make sense well the lords communication committee have come out with a report recommending that the government removes the impartiality tools from known public broadcasting i'm joined by lord richard inglewood who's the chairman of the lords communication committee to talk about this so if the way that the industry is regulated right now is outdated is that impartiality or sport for us to compete york city to not entirely know we firmly advocate that the public service broadcasters in this country should be assisted the exactly the same way as they do not doesn't christianity exist at all well it's a very slippery concepts you quite right to say but one of the advantages of a plural media landscape is that different people will approach the question of. impartiality from slightly different perspectives i don't think you can say impartiality means that there is one way of doing it which is the only right way

but what impartiality does do is cut out the kind of political proselytizing but you're quite right in saying you find it quite a number of newspapers and in certain news providers for watch side of jerry stiction already you can get stuff off the internet from these other companies providing with extremely partial use at the end of the day in the world of the internet if you really want to know you're always going to be able to find anything lord richard engel would thank you very much for your comment well thank you very much for taking part. greece has managed to secure the next tranche of bailout funds are worth eight point eight billion euros from the european union after agreeing to cars that include slashing four thousand public sector jobs almost three times more jobs are expected to be cut next year the agreement between the country's government and foreign credit says was reached after almost two weeks of difficult negotiations and as the country struggles to get back on its feet it's been humbled by an industrial sector literally crumbling to pieces all his time bought a house to start. cobwebs outside rain falls on the still and silent

bits attack his plastic piping from tree confess lawmaking movement grease inside the machines have been unused since banks stopped investing and the owner of your boss puts attackers fled in two thousand and ten one of his workers also be old boss did meet the just one softer that he and ninety five other staff owed seven million euro in wages at the aftershock talk i had to force myself to leave so i wouldn't hurt him workers see that they are being made to bear the cost of greece's economic woes this is that the story and of course the. pain is. very unequal across the industrial northern greece the story is repeated this fertilizer factory used to be a center of northern greek industry nowadays though by economics fair all file it's

a ghost factory and the only fertilizer coming in here is imported from elsewhere in europe it produced specialist fertilizers until one day the workers were called together and told by the owners that the know how for their products had been sold off and that operations would be stopped they are all at the it's criminal very profitable industry was shut down till an industry that produced high quality material only with a few man workers now see the cruel irony that since the factories closing fertilizer prices have tripled but it's a wider fear that one skilled workforce is a laid off it's all too hard to bring them back at them us in the path of those against us the unemployment rate here is thirty percent or by the years and it could be over thirty eight with no fish and policy the situation is out of control yes he said he would move the court the workers across northern greece are desperate desperate to keep their jobs to get back into jobs and to be paid for

their work it doesn't help ease their concerns when they're in positions like you of course has been unemployed for three years and he's off skiing in switzerland tom otten. and aftermath of a break on the set with added muscle tone. oh no whole lazy bureaucratic and trivial censorship strikes again but this time in russia a bill has been signed into law that will put. fines on individuals and legal entities for using vulgar already in the media one major flaw of many with this is that they really don't know which words are going to be considered vulgar i guess these words are so awful that they cannot even write them down i'm not naïve there has always

been and will always be censorship but this where word list is just silly there is a common expression on the russian internet that russian mainstream media connects up more and i is ation of society russian t.v. does have all the bloody violent action movies as well as scandalous talk shows which are kind of like freak shows and plenty of reality t.v. where young people pretty much act like subhuman animals in a cage they've got all that so the government is basically saying that if some guy on t.v. comes there are twenty people blooded limbs flying that that is totally ok for television unless they come out for bid swear while doing it you can show brainless materialistic dimwits sleeping and fighting with everything that moves on a reality show but if they say that one magic three letter russian word then it is over the line this is not a logical way to conduct censorship but that's just my opinion.

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a minute. i want. to give you never seen anything like this i'm told. what's up guys welcome to breaking the set on abby martin so a lot of time learning viewers about issues that politicians often overlook or simply ignore however former congressman ron paul says an exception so you just made a public statement about the awful detention of army private bradley manning former presidential candidate told us news that it's manning who deserves the nobel peace prize not president obama he said quote while president obama was starting an expanding unconstitutional wars overseas bradley manning those actions have caused exactly zero deaths was shining a light on the truth the army's wars it's clear which individuals done more to put .