after nine years of occupation the last american troops are finally leaving the country. every gun got in it but it was the only way to get their minds of the iraqis anger towards the departing invaders who once dreamed of being liberators their departure resembles abandonment and escape despite the optimistic speeches. a. cease.

and i'm back in iraq in soho on the border with turkey. i have an appointment this morning with a lebanese taxi. family in the united states said they would make a democracy out of iraq in the heart of the arab world but the iraq i see today is a country on the brink of chaos torn between. three groups sunni's and shia's. is

a country divided a stranger to peace that i'm about to cross a taxi ride to the heart of iraqi history. from a hole in the north travelled down through l.b. little ammonia was soon tikrit volusia baghdad babylon. and i'll file a road map of the iraqi tragedy. serve obviously i'm delighted the americans have finally left iraq as much as we're rocky's a very happy not to see it or hear anymore enough was enough the americans occupied us so we hate them like they lean here in iraq they killed in creating the conditions for chaos they're responsible for the whole tragedy because we were living in peace and they came to destroy our country and also we want all of us out of the.

right andrea says bringing in the buff crane ahead of the weekend's of formula one grand prix with the protesters fear is that the government plans to her use and the lead to a sports event despite the country's poor human rights record now there's already been some of violence with activists hurling petrol bombs that drive police or who responded with tear gas the demonstrators accuse of formula one of ignoring rights abuses as security forces clamp down in the lead up to the grounds of race organizers insisted the protests do not pose any threat to the event or human rights watch or slam them for quote risking a holding race against repression it has provoked. now the man at the forefront of the pro-democracy movement it must reign remains

a behind bars and the bill ridge ob is serving a two year prison term for his alleged role in the february two thousand and eleven are prizing he was jailed on last year after criticizing the government and the more likely in a messages posted on twitter a court ruled that his comments were in a temperature inside a revolution through mess and rest is jail term was later reduced from three years to two but the verdict is sparked an international outcry and shortly before his arrest rajab met with the world's best known whistleblower julian assange archies probably boyko reports on being counter. not long before his imprisonment bahrain's most famous human rights campaigner was in london talking to another prominent activist and whistleblower julian a sandwich 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 chance about the man at the forefront of bahrain's pro-democracy struggle i began

by asking a son why he was so keen to invite me over job for an interview on his exclusive r.t. show. has one hundred thousand people. has one hundred fifty thousand twitter followers rise predominantly all the population are. sincere arrests of a number of other activists in the brain in spring two thousand my. job. trying to present to the brains of human rights was the most prominent voice for the bahraini spring speaking to julian assange over job was unequivocal about his determination to fight for democracy in bahrain if you have a goal or if you believed. just. because you wanted. 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. those changes you have to be willing to pay a price and my that price might be your life fun to be over a job that price has become is freedom three months off the bat 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 form of despotism where he's been sentenced to three years imprisonment for a number of tweets. into your personal stories the prime minister and so on as well as when i see protests he even when he was imprisoned briefly released he did not resign he took the same stand criticizing you for if you it's hard for the people with that much coverage. you can't be cowed so i think is long term

prospects accorded good amnesty international have labeled him a prisoner of conscience but unless the international community. she wakes up to abuses in bahrain there's little hope that maybe over jobs going to be tasting freedom any time soon ali boy can see london's ecuadorian embassy. bahrain has endured over two years of standoff between the sunni authorities and the opposition which wants a transit towards democracy and equality for the majority shia population the monarchy is still insists it's not discriminating against its own people but human rights groups say that that doesn't tally with how the under arrest is being curbed now let's take a closer look at some of the figures put out by amnesty international since two thousand and eleven the clashes between authorities and demonstrators have seen

seventy two people killed in clashes with police this is a february two thousand and eleven and eighty children under the age of eighteen are held in the adult prisoners while participating in protests now yet the government is also saying that effort geared towards improving its own image and recently spent over thirty two million dollars on public relation for us and. ride for more coverage of the ongoing political crisis and bus train and all of the jailed opposition figure head in a bill ridge up head to r.t. dot com for more. planes of all the rest of us to position gridlocked nobody's agent was involved with the right we seem to be pretty . we build roads are. a formula for controversy burning rubber on the streets of. hardship weekend on our team.

venezuela has sent for a partial election recount double concerns where waves of the election council agreed. older the presidential battle is that's well nicolas maduro prepares to be sworn in as the new leader. and divided to iraq that debt being freelance and violence are highlighted the countries that tarion split and the battle to secure lucrative oil fields alone that when we come back. we are facing a lot of problems. because no one thought to drink no good school. mates when you feel for. other local what's not enough wealth is a law in the local needs you might want to community l.n.g.

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thanks for staying with us here watching our team search and rescue teams that continue in their work at the site of wednesday's explosion at a fertilizer plant in texas the fate of dozens of people a still unknown who was some thirty five believed to be date well than one hundred sixty way injured when that devastating blas a rip through the small town of west outies a roman glinda reports from the scene several police departments from around texas cordoned off a large area around the fertilizer plant which exploded now i just came back from one of the local hospitals which admittedly nearly one hundred people who were injured in the explosion overall we know that more than one hundred sixty people were hurt in the blast right now there have been confirmed paid teles however we haven't gotten a new casualty count recently given the fact that this is still a search and rescue mission we did 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 fathers 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 so many 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 could tell you i was there i walked through the blast area are searching houses massive just like iraq just like the murray building in oklahoma city same town and harder sticks floated 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 apartment complex that has about fifty units in

it that was completely. just skeleton standing investigation is still underway for the root cause meanwhile the police and firefighters are still searching the rubble near the fertilizer plant. the tragedy has caused to many people to question whether basic industrial safety regulations all being enforced in the u.s. the plant has been accused of on those stating the amount of the highly flammable guess the end hydrous ammonia stored they have the latest safety reports concluded that the facility stated there was a no fly at all explosive wrists and that they'll be in no casualties the worst possible scenario was a ten minute release of ammonia guess the with little to no casualties but this blows a shock on sugar houses around eighty kilometers away resulting in multiple casualties professor dr jeffrey pattison from the school of the medicine i had to wisconsin

university believe that the last a federal regulation may be to blame for the disaster. 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 and we're seeing it with the environmental protection agency today where they are promulgating new regulations if there is a mother to push a merchant that will allow. 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 a we're seeing now that that's a very dangerous precedence. young families were among those who witnessed the

explosion at close range head to our team to see amateur footage up a blast captured by a father and his young child our online team have been saying up today deal with this story since it broke within twenty reactions pictures and comprehensive analysis also they. showed ads for demanding unpaid wages. pulls a gun on immigrants. who are for their pay dating bag six months of the details to go home. then as well as the actual body has announced it will conduct a full audit costs on in sunday's presidential election this as nicolas maduro who was declared the winner prepares to be sworn in as the country's leader is now a victory has been the country's sparking rival protests artie's test us earlier reports from caracas first of all ready fifty four percent of the votes have been

altered to 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 copy this is campbell who had been staunchly calling for first of all vote recount and an audit and 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 the supreme court justice 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. doesn't i've already said

that we will be sending a high level delegation so that still is going ahead also there will be a military parade during the day after the announcement of the elections we know that emotions have been running high so we did see street protests they did get the government said about seven people had died in the election tension people are still very hyped up about the results of the election but so far everything that has been planned for the nineteenth of april here in venezuela seems to be going ahead a spawn of me going to smuggle. some more international news stories now pakistan's former mill true liberal versus musharraf has been put under house arrest in islamabad the ets leader returned from self-imposed exile last month to run in a maze general election respond to pending charges against him which included treason house arrest was ordered after he fled to the courts where he is they're being tried following the judge's refusal to grant him bail it's the first time in the history of pakistan that a form on the chief has faced criminal charges. the police in paris

have arrested between seventy and eighty people for. protests against same sex marriage last night one person was reportedly injured during the scuffles police say three thousand marched in the capital as problem and let its final debate on the bill decisive a ballot is june next tuesday. in argentina a million people marched on thursday against their president in one of the largest anti-government rallies the country has seen in years protesters accuse cristina fernandez of corruption and a glossing over tough issues but the real level of inflation currently estimated at twenty five percent although initially popular for bringing down unemployment and strengthening state finances allow deteriorating economy has hurt her public spending. the u.s. military's muslim advisor at guantanamo bay has warned that with

a mass hunger strike there will lead to multiple deaths of her children say many of the captives who've gone without food for two and a half months now when to go all the way with their protest the military say fifty nine inmates have now joined the strike with fifteen being force fed but lawyers claim the real figure is much higher. iraq who goes to the polls on saturday but the lections already been marred with deadly sectarian violence a suicide bombing that's killed. at least twenty seven people in baghdad could pushing for independence in the provincial ballots despite strong government objections at stake through all the mess of oil deposits in the country's north which both sides are one to exploit his artie's use of half an hour. 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 pashman gone 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 iraqi 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 peshmerga is ready for it's truck and. we have enough forces in place and enough firepower for the peshmerga go to defend against any surprises for attacks of course we will retaliate at the heart of the disputed territory is cure kuku which both baghdad and the kurds say belongs to them all the program good cook

. it's like a small version of iraq sunni shia christians arabs and kurds it's disputed because all the six a year but of course the other reason is kook's oil. the oil fires illustrate the main reason that this land is so hotly contested kirkuk a 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 annex 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 trillion 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. to boil. all the

people. living by calls to sion but no no there is no real solve 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 in 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. military and 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 is

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.e. reporting from the disputed territories in iraq. will be back with more on our breaking news on the hunt of the second boston bombing suspect in a few minutes from now.

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he he. knew . good evening. breaking news all from r t two brothers a suspected of monday's marathon bombings i tend to fight one is dead and the others on the run off to a police shootout. boston is in lockdown as a huge

a manhunt underway to find the second man these are live pictures as police job of the house where the suspects lived locals are being warned to stay at home and not open their doors to strangers. and the details emerge about the suspects a background to their family moved to the u.s. who two thousand and two after a year in dagestan in russia corpuses also believed to have lived in kurdistan or turkey. oh. it's six pm here in the russian capital you're watching r t live in with me to one would say to our breaking story now the hunt is on for one of the two men suspected of the boston marathon bombings.