the morning. while activists try to make their voices heard against all the olds plus. split about the kids my kids their friends live in those parkman's those houses we don't know about them. as the search for survivors continues after the deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant in texas concerns grow out of public safety violations and america's crumbling industrial infrastructure and. that is why it is election kindly greece to partially audit presidential vote results just hours before nicolas maduro is sworn in. come to life for moscow with me andrey fam. now clashes have erupted in bahrain

ahead of sunday's formula one grand prix police fired tear gas to disperse protesters in isolated areas of the country earlier teenagers were sentenced to ten years in prison and were allegedly tortured before they confessed to attacking police during antigovernment riots human rights watch also says masked police officers detained twenty opposition activists last week in towns near the f one circuit without a warrant the government denies it's discriminating against its own people but anti regime protesters say the state is on the path of becoming a sunni dictatorship bahrain is home to the u.s. is fleet and is racked by almost daily violence were even doctors arrested for helping injured protesters. let's take a closer look now at some of the figures put hat by amnesty international since twenty eleven clashes between authorities and demonstrators have seen seventy two

people killed on both sides the number of arrests made last year of those participating in rallies top one thousand and on top of that at least eighty children under the age of eighteen are being held in adult prisons that in the tories for their torture interrogations yet the bahraini government labors hard to improve its image it recently spent over thirty two million dollars on public relations firms. and it's impossible to kill the brains protest movement without mentioning. who is the nation's leading human rights defender his work as an activist cost him a lengthy prison sentence last year for participating in illegal gatherings the term was later reduced but the verdict during intense criticism both from bahrain's western allies as well as many human rights groups to be over jobs been an outspoken supporter of the demonstrations calling on the country's ruling mana key to stop widespread abuse and start reforms to bring the bahraini protest movement to the media for for and the activists met with the world's top whistleblower

jewing the son she was interviewed at a job just before he was arrested r.t. for the boycott reports on their encounter. not long before his imprisonment bahrain's most famous human rights campaigner was in london talking to another prominent activist and whistleblower julian a sauna so we came here to london's ecuadorian embassy which the wiki leaks founder has been calling home for some ten months now in order to have a chat about the man at the forefront of bahrain's pro-democracy struggle i began by asking afghans why he was so keen to invite me over job for an interview on his exclusive r.t. show braid has nine hundred thousand people the bureau has one hundred fifty thousand twitter followers cards predominantly all the population of earth. sincere interest of a number of activists in the brain screen. your regular. person

brings you right towards the most prominent voice for the. speaking to julian assange over job was unequivocal about his determination to fight for democracy in bahrain if you have. if you believed in did just tools you'll recall. you wouldn't want. to difficulties and you know that the changes that you were fighting for it's been good four hundred years is not an easy thing to change to achieve those changes you have to be willing to pay a price and my price might be your life fun to be over a job that price has become is freedom three months off the interview was that he was sentenced to three years behind bars but according to a staunch keeping him in prison on the current charges is going to be increasingly

difficult for the bahraini government. cartoonish former despotism where he's been sentenced to three years imprisonment for a number of tweets everybody into your personal stories the prime minister. as well as organizing the protests he even when he was imprisoned briefly released he did not resign to the same standard criticizing you for it's hard for the people with that much courage you can't. you can't be cowed so i think it's long term prospects accord good amnesty international have labeled him a prisoner of conscience but unless the international community wakes up to abuses in bahrain there's little hope that maybe over jobs going to be tasting freedom any time soon. see london's ecuadorian embassy. sayyid yousif. closely with libya with

a job when he headed the bahrain center for human rights he says that even though being an activist in bahrain is obviously dangerous for jobs all of us are ready to take up his ban it. no and this is to go get both of you but i do wish you'd behave and sending messages to the one hundred people to get the vote out but i did and follow him and they are not dish out. by i just think there are many here but i think it is even if they were just maybe but i think it is and it may give us we'll cover it will be god i know we have sixty. six activist behind but one of them so i think of what i mean by becoming good but i'd like to give this to miss took it easy don't take your you need to get their shit but if you like them to. go for example to get a yes i sure your you don't that get go about the human rights situation in bahrain then he was it was that. i did good. body.

and of course we will be following closely the rest in the turbulent gulf kingdom in the coming days in the meantime you can check out our website at r.t. dot com to find out more about an appeal to jab on the history of the bahraini protest movement. monarchy fueling flames of the arrest and activist in pole position gridlocked nobody's asian was involved with the right to be seen to be credible. when there bureaus are to suppress a formula for controversy burning rubber on the streets of bahrain checker flagship weekend on our team. the fate of dozens of people is still unknown in texas where a search and rescue mission continues for victims of the fallen into explosion that ripped apart the time of west up to fifteen people are believed to have died more than one hundred sixty were injured when a fertilizer plant exploded on wednesday night and i'm on glinda reports now from

the sing. several police departments from around texas cordoned off a large area around the fertilizer plant which exploded last night at about seven thirty local time now i just came back from one of the local hospitals which admittedly nearly one hundred people who were injured in the explosion last night overall we know that more than one hundred sixty people were hurt in the blast right now there have been come for unpaid teles however we haven't gotten a new casualty count recently given the fact that this is still a search and rescue mission we do speak to one woman earlier who was slightly wounded during the explosion she lived in the vicinity of the blast her family was ok but so many of her friends she did not know the whereabouts swayed about the kids my kids their friends live in those apartments those houses we don't know

about them we don't know about some of the father or friends if so what happened during school hours i mean it's still bad but if the kids were in school it was real close by some of the first responders digging through the rubble this morning still hoping to find survivors in a neighborhood which has been described as a war zone i can tell you i was there i walked through the blast area i searched some houses earlier tonight massive just like iraq just like the murray building in oklahoma city same kind of exploded so you can imagine what kind of damage we're looking out there. i know there was at least seventy five to fifty fifty to seventy five houses damaged there's a partner complex that has about fifty units in it that was completely. just skeleton standing investigation is still underway for the root cause meanwhile police and firefighters are still searching the rubble near the fertilizer plant.

the blast has caused many to question why the by sikh industrial safety regulations are being ignored in the united states the planned reported that it only held around twenty four kilograms of anhydrous ammonia far less than the twenty tons that he's believed to be nick nine hundred on the five most i stated that there were no fire or explosive risks the worst possible scenario visits was a ten minute really seven i need gas but with any casualties have been this blast sure congress is eighty kilometers away resulting in a rising number of injuries and deaths professor dr jeffrey pattison from the school of medicine wisconsin university believes that lax federal regulation may be supplying for the tragedy there's been this montreaux that we have to deregulate we have to take away regulations so business can thrive and obviously we see examples like this or fukushima for example where when we do that we suffer the

consequences in the end and so i think we're seeing it with the environmental protection agency today where they are probably getting new regulations if there is a mother who she learned trouble that will allow all of the cleanup to be in much more lax than it currently is and not force people to be moved out of the area because of radiation damage so there's this tremendous move. to to deregulate things to take away the powers of the e.p.a. and other regulatory agencies and i think that's it we're seeing now that that's a very dangerous precedent. on the bluffs which devastated the local nursing home and the school has highlighted the issue of the country's multi-billion dollar investment priorities. reports it's no secret that the crumbling infrastructure in the u.s. is considered one of the largest dangers to national security over the past four

years if not more of the american society for civil engineers has given the greed d. plus to america's infrastructure that is an indication underscores how how most of the bridges the tunnels the airports the levees that list goes on and on are so decrepit and the problem is is that washington is not investing its resources into rebuilding america's infrastructure while over the past ten plus years america has invested hundreds of billions of dollars into surveillance systems into the department of homeland security into c.c.t.v. cameras and systems of facial recognition they do that under the auspices of keeping americans safe they have neglected to invest the money that is necessary to build up america's infrastructure and that infrastructure extends to the amount of inspectors that are available to go into facilities such as the fertilizer facility

that exploded in texas in west texas and examine it and to make sure the proper repairs are taking place there's not enough funding that seeing allocated to you to have the proper means for the infrastructure of the u.s. be it rebuild it or be it you know making sure that it's up to par look it could be texas that we're talking about at this moment or last month we were talking about the oil spill in arkansas or last year we're talking about new york and new jersey in the tri state area going dark because of hurricane sandy or the year before that when we're talking about other failures of infrastructure being bridges collapsing or pipes exploding this is a situation that's considered the biggest danger to national security and it's a danger it's a situation that most environmentalist and say that officials in washington are ignoring. shocking amateur video footage and witness accounts of the blast have

flooded the internet. i think. you. had to our website r.t. dot com to get the latest updates and comprehensive analysis of this developing story for the new videos do log on to argue cheat channel. and coming up in the program how a territorial dispute between kurds and iraq's central government is further fueled by vast oil reserves in the country's north all the details coming up shortly. now a large police operation is ongoing in the u.s. city of boston the following the killing of a police officer the massachusetts institute of technology there all reports that none getting violent incident in watertown has resulted in the year arrest of a suspect in the bombing of the city's marathon these are live pictures we can

bring at the moment f.b.i. agents members of the national guard are involved in the massive manhunt along with hundreds of police officers witnesses say they heard gunfire and blasts obviously we'll bring you more on this developing story as we get it. back with more in a couple of minutes just after a short break. the

book about international and world in the very heart of moscow. but again welcome back venezuela's electoral body has announced an order to the remaining votes just hours before the swearing in of the country's president elect nicolas maduro is now a victory over an opposition rival hungary cake as has split the country wrong in

the middle sparking large scale demonstrations. reports now from caracas first of all ready fifty four percent of the votes have been audited the day after the election so this is just completing it making it one hundred percent audit and the electoral committee had come out saying that it agreed to that it offered that to the opposition and we could be this is campbell who had been staunchly calling for first of all vote recount and an audit had come out and give it a press conference and said he accepts this offer also so he says they want to be part of the process essentially supervising this process but let's make a differentiation with the manual vote counting the counting the votes again one by one now this is being called justice the chief had already come out and said that this was not possible and said that anyone with thought this was possible had been deceived because the a system electoral system here is fully automated therefore a manual vote counting would not be possible as far as the inauguration ceremony is concerned it's still going on everything scheduled and will go on as planned

security has been stepped up across the city in hotels where dignitaries are are going to be staying with some countries about more than a dozen have already said that they will be sending a high level delegation so that still is going ahead but also there will be a military parade during the day after the announcement of the elections you know that emotions have been running high so we did see the protests they did get quite violent the government said that about seven people had died in those opposed to election tensions but people are still very hyped up about you all to the election but so far everything that has been planned for the nineteenth of april here in venezuela seems to be going ahead a spondee moderation of me going to smuggle. egypt's president morsi is in russia at the moment to talk business with vladimir putin today from his r.t. . this is the first visit by an elected dejection president to russia and among issues such as bilateral cooperation in the sphere of investment as well as tourism

because egypt remains one of the prime location for russian holidaymakers to visit while on vacation of course there are other issues which will be discussed by president putin and president morsi in sort this other resorts among those items well before speed the mediation of peace in the middle east both countries are extremely interested in maintaining stability and librium in the region and that unfortunately has not been the case as of late of course egypt itself has been under fire for the last week and a half due to the violence which has been happening in the country surrounding coptic christians and that has been one of the primary issues which mohamed morsi has promised to address while in his position as the leader of egypt gyptian the government is obviously seems to be putting a lot of effort into presenting its image as a stable and determined entity to the world which we're seeing right now in sochi the lower house of the u.s. congress has passed a controversial bill that many say puts digital freedoms on the fire the cyber

intelligence sharing protection act would allow private firms to share the personal data of web users with u.s. government agencies one of the lawmakers who voted for the bill cited monday's deadly boston bombing as a pretext but the white house has hinted it may block the legislation which it feels doesn't address public concerns about the invasion of privacy r.t. america producer is following the control. aides for the white house actually said that we will recommend the president veto this legislation to sever intelligence and for sharing of protection act it's come under a lot of criticism by its opponents because they say that it does more than what the authors say it does now the authors of cispa they say that this bill will lead to businesses private companies google facebook and many internet provider these companies will be encouraged to share information with the federal government that

will be used to track down and monitor and curb cyber attacks aimed at the united states computer critics say that it puts too much of americans privacy at risk and that the right safeguards aren't there so in turn people would be separate facing their privacy for a little bit of security when the bill is introduced back in february i believe one of the areas for the second time representative or one of the authors of the bill he said you know we can't have another nine eleven we can't have another terrorist attack it but if we do we will pass any law that needs to happen sure enough to another congressman who actually got up and said well look what happened in boston these were bombs sure they weren't digital bombs but the next ones will be digital bombs so we need to come together for the sake of national security and do something and that's exactly why a lot of people have problems with this bill because the people who are touting it the people who are writing it are people that don't really understand the cyber security concerns and there's a lot of concern over who is coming up with this bill who is supporting it and what they actually know about cyber security. incident this morning saying that you know

boston would be reason enough to pass a cyber security bill is laughable to many people. now let's go back to our developing story reports say that a suspect in the bombing of the boston marathon has been detained it follows a large ongoing police operation in the boston area following the killing of a police officer at the massachusetts massachusetts institute of technology f.b.i. agents and members of the national guard are involved in the massive manhunt manhunt along with hundreds of police officers these are live pictures we're bringing witnesses say they heard gunfire and blasts police say that another suspect in the shooting is still at large we bring you more on this story as it develops. let's get some other international news stories making the headlines the u.s. military's muslim it visor at guantanamo bay say's the ongoing mass hunger strike there will lead to the death of detainees officials say many of the camps these captives who've been starving themselves for two and

a half months perfected their methods for suicide and are willing to die the hunger strike began in protest of alleged mistreatment by prison guards i mean definite detention some detainees have been in for more than a decade the military says fifty nine inmates have now joined the strike with fifteen being force fed but lawyers claim the figures are much higher. former pakistani president pervez musharaff has been placed under house arrest for two days he fled to his residence from islamabad court on thursday after a judge rejected his bail play and ordered him to be taken into custody sharaf is wanted in connection with the sacking of senior judges while he was in power he went into self-imposed exile in two thousand and eight and returned to pakistan last month to contest elections but ended up being disqualified from the rights. at least twenty seven people have been killed in

a suicide bombing in baghdad in the latest spate of violence there and six hereon tensions rise across iraq kurdish leaders are pushing for independence despite strong objections from central government the conflicts being further fueled by the massive oil deposits in the country's north which both sides wish to claim and exploit is losing caffein off. they call them those who face death gone once guerrilla rebels fighting saddam for an independent kurdistan now an officially sanctioned force in iraq's semi autonomous kurdish region the peshmerga and the iraqi troops are supposed to be on the same side after all they're citizens of one country but for more than a year now here in northern iraq the two armies have been pitted against each other their weapons locked and loaded these peshmerga soldiers are on alert twenty four hours a day they're guarding the kurdish front line of the so-called disputed territory

now no iraq the soldiers are allowed beyond this point if either army advances if there's even a single misfire it could spark a new war. it's a war the kashmir gong is ready for it's. we have enough forces in place and enough firepower for the peshmerga to defend against any surprises if for attacks of course we will retaliate at the heart of the disputed territory is secure coop which both baghdad and the kurds say belongs to them all the program code group. it's like a small version of iraq that sunni shia christians arabs and kurds it's disputed because. but of course the other reason is kook's oil. the oil fires illustrate the main reason that this land is so hotly contested here kuka sitting on an estimated ten billion barrels of oil and is responsible for a large chunk of iraq's current output that's enough to sustain an independent

state should the kurds get their way and annexed this disputed territory it's also enough to bankrupt iraq if the oil revenue is lost. that revenue makes up ninety five percent of iraq's annual budget of more than one hundred billion dollars and there's a lot more money at stake the international energy agency says iraq could export a staggering five truly. in dollars worth of oil over the next two decades the kurds and the central government are supposed to share these profits but they haven't been able to sort out how. the oil and guys it's all iraqi people. are having to buy coals to sion but no no there is no legal salt acceptable and standing between all iraqis on the revenue sharing this is the key problem. or oil has transformed kurdistan into a boom town and the capital of our bill construction projects dot the landscape there

are luxury malls and foreign investors are flocking here the region looks and feels like a different country and for the kurds that may be the ultimate goal but for now this is one iraq divided into two. you have facial between. iraqi military and. couldn't stand it when you have a situation like this it causes tension and if something goes wrong it can lead to . actual fight between the two sides. blood for oil it's a scenario that no one in iraq wants to see but the army's remain in place each side carefully watching the other kurd versus arab iraqi versus iraqi lucy catherine of r t reporting from the disputed territories in iraq. and crosstalk is next here why not take.

iraqi cardiologist dr omar our claims that the war in iraq. destroyed iraq's environment even worse than dropping the bomb on hiroshima did dr e.c. puts to data that the number of breast cancer cases has grown in the country from fifteen to thirty times cases of congenital heart disease have become fifteen times more frequent a case of leukemia have increased thirty fold the doctor puts the blame on the weapons used in the one thousand nine hundred one and two thousand and three invasions of iraq it which nato forces used white phosphorus depleted uranium rounds and other toxic gases and poisonous substances human rights watch and the world health organization have measured radiation levels in iraq and can see.