it should be i mean here in a the russian capital you're live with us on our team you with me would say right there have been the chairs and applause at the end of a free as a shoot out of that saw a man who kept boston on the edge of four days scored and taken into custody and nineteen year old suspect in monday's the deadly marathon bombings was seriously injured in the standoff with police and is now in a critical condition outies unless the see a shooting now was at the scene. after what has been a week that seems to have lasted an eternity f.b.i. officials as well as local law enforcement were finally able to arrest and take into custody nineteen year old just outside nine of the second suspect in the boston bombings case of course on monday afternoon two bombs went off seconds apart from each other at the finishing line of the boston marathon and this entire week

there has been a manhunt after the two brothers that were seen as suspects in this case now this friday night officials were able to find the younger brother who was in hiding in a dry docked boat in the town of watertown just minutes away from boston a local had informed officials that he had seen a man covered in blood and they were able to through a helicopter that had that had heat signature technologies to be able to track down the young man even though he was covered up in the boat standoff between him and the police lasted for several hours and eventually they were able to arrest him and take into custody we do know that he is in serious medical condition and has been taken to a hospital in boston now to talk a little bit more about the identities of the two brothers of course we're talking about twenty six year old in a nineteen year old who have lived in the united states since two thousand and three the older brother twenty six year old to milan died last night in

a shootout with police he had a green card the younger brother was a nationalized citizen they have been living in the united states for the last ten years and their colleagues and friends and former schoolmates acted shocked when they found out that these two brothers were behind the boston tragedy we do know that the f.b.i. in two thousand and eleven upon request of a foreign government had taken the older twenty six year old brother in for questioning trying to establish whether or not he had any leads to extremist groups the united states president of course barack obama has addressed the nation really thinking cooperation and. and questioning really the fact that somebody who was brought up in the united states of course the brothers have been here for the last ten years was able to commit such a horrific act and the latest for now is that the younger brother that is now in custody is going to be treated for any kind of injuries that he had there are reports that he had blood on him and officials have confirmed that he was in fact

are seriously injured so he will be treated now and then the legal part of this case will certainly move forward and r.t. boston massachusetts. and our t. dot com we're also collecting the latest news accounts and images are related to the boston manhunt check out the photo section to get more of an idea on how events unfolded and the reaction when the terror suspect was finally captured. the fallout of the boston bombings that took on a broader international scruple of to the perpetrators were reported to be from russia's north caucasus region to the suspects mother insisted that had children had nothing to do with terrorism and have been set up by the f.b.i. archies the medina went to find out more about the family's background. the investigation into the background of this have knives brothers has brought us here

to this part of the capital of dagestan now this is the house where their parents live however as we tried to reach them this morning it turned out that they fled to the neighboring region of chain to their relatives to avoid old the attention meanwhile this morning i managed to speak to the mother of the two brothers and she told me how devastated she is and that she still can't believe that her son may have been involved in the bombings in our house nobody talked about the terrorism my son. or what they got involved in. you know. i really do believe that. five years ago he was told by a b i like five three five he knew that they knew what my son was doing they knew what action and what type he would go and how could that happen how could they they were conjoined

they probably never ever heard this is not my two sons are in and those neighbors we spoke to are shocks they say that it was a very nice and a very quiet family. and know the brothers very well from the childhood we used to live in chechnya was the neighbor then we moved here i know they couldn't have carried out the attack and they couldn't have been involved in it they spent most of their lives in the us. that they didn't have any links with the hobbits and other militants. some of them even remember the brothers especially the older one time let alone when he visited parents last year so basically the whole neighborhood is just in shock. after the revelation that the alleged bombers away from russia's north caucuses moscow has warned against it dividing terrorism into domestic and foreign new york's former mayor rudy giuliani has already admitted that the attack was a result of washington's

a reluctance to admit that chechen extremists as them is not just a russia's headache. reports. when news broke of an unexpected north caucasus traced to the boston bombings literally every global media outlet was quick to put the word into their headlines told by a source that they fled the russian caucus of chechnya he is an ethnic chechen brothers is that to be ethnic chechens lived in kurdistan and darkest before coming to the u.s. the two suspects were branded as coming from a russian region close to chechnya indeed many may need reminding of the name and location of republic of the distance where the two supposedly came from but the word certainly rings bells probably because of the media headlines in the ninety ninety s and at the beginning of the new millennium that's when russia had a military operation in the north caucasus. russian troops deployed in the republic can finally be drawn that rebels fighting for independence or go bankrupt you reduced it without cause the churchill fight for independence had no become the

ultimate jihad that conflict often went beyond the borders of the chechen republic let's remember apartment buildings bombed in moscow a theater siege in the russian capital and a school takeover in russia's north a city and thousands of civilians were killed but the men who had blood on their hands were often described as freedom fighters and rebels by the western media at times it even sounded like a romantic image the reality is that in the north caucasus russia has been fighting the same war which america embarked upon after the twin towers were brought down against global terrorism mosco never made a secret that those fighting on the side of the chechen militants were closely tied to al qaeda and were financed from abroad by a terrorist organization. worldwide but it's only after nine eleven the transport bombings in madrid and london that understanding the notion that terrorism has no nationality has started to appear in the global media from freedom fighters to armed dangerous terrorists most wanted man in america years have passed media labels have changed the question is whether a change in attitude towards

a common enemy will follow in due course. and it looks like it that change is a stubble close as both is russia and the u.s. have agreed to to boost their antiterrorism effort to despite a recent cooling in relations security expert john give us that washington should first of all abandon its policy of sheltering chechen separatists driven by cold war stereotypes since the collapse of the soviet union it is seven hundred ninety one the united states has continued to deal with russian issues based on its old paradigm and to a large degree the us regionally came out in support of the chechen cause for independence it was the enemy of my enemy is my friend paradigm and the russians continue to be perceived as inherently bad inherently evil if you will going back to the soviet era and the american perspective was that any group

of people trying to rescue their independence from russia therefore must be good and this is a significant measure of u.s. government or even to the extent of providing political asylum to one of the chechen leaders who was at the time under indictment for terrorism in russia. and the czech republic has some want and willingly and i'm deservedly become tangled up in the terror attack after the internet a lit up in confusion over exactly where and even you want to chechnya was the small mountain region ended up being one of my mistaken for the czech republic a member of the european union and a close ally of the united states of this was especially apparent on social media side such as a twitter with twitter posts here to share in fact it got served bad that are the czech government to step in to stamp out the confusion it's a message to the united states released

a letter mourning the boston tragedy and the casualties but i'm making it quite clear that the czech republic is an unrelated country in of itself and quite apart from the federal region of chechnya national security is something washington has been pouring billions of dollars into since the tories nine eleven attacks but as artie's a marine aboard my reports in the wake of the boston bombings the effectiveness of this massive spending is now being questioned. in a post nine eleven america washington has taken wide reaching measures and defense friend spending has hit unprecedented levels because officials say that's what was needed to keep america safe the department of homeland security was created along with many other law enforcement agencies the patriot act was passed sent up a very complex and far reaching surveillance system which includes c.c.t.v. cameras in major cities facial recognition iris scanning cyber surveillance and

officials say this was all to keep americans safe as was the passage of the national defense authorization act in addition to all the measures that have been taken domestically over the past twelve years america has waged two wars overseas that across the country more than two trillion dollars but after the events that unfolded about boston marathon bombings many critics believe that washington has spent a large amount of money and wasted a lot of resources and at the end of the day it has not kept americans any safer. this illusion that technology is going to save us that filling our skies with drones and covering our buildings with surveillance cameras and treating every airport airline passenger as it's going to terrorist is going to save us is to use an incredible delusion i mean that causes that dead are possible here range from

incredible inequality in our society the promotion of violence in our society the idea that we're going to continue on the course we're on in these terms and then save ourselves through technology is an incredibly misguided delusion it's just not going to happen earlier this week u.s. secretary of state john kerry insisted that that america's investment in front policy is national security insurance. and by making the right small investments upfront kerry insisted that costly conflicts can be avoided in the future but as this past week has shown the cost of pressure cookers does not amount to a lot of money and washington's investment was enough to prevent a deadly terrorist attack in boston that quickly in the lives of three people and hospitalized more than one hundred seventy reporting from new york ny or r.t.

. right to if they you have your own opinion on how the boston bombings the investigation will unfold have to r.t. dot com to cost you a vote in a one of our polls or let's have a look at what you've been saying so far on that poll right to more than a houseful of you at fifty seven percent think that the truth will never be revealed as of the second suspect is in the hospital twenty percent of you believe that of the brothers were guilty and acted on their own fourteen percent to believe that the third suspect may not appear that there must be somebody behind this nine percent of you believe that apart we believe that the third suspect will appear at a certain point to well if you want to those numbers to change and if you want to know what you think you do cost. dot com.

i going up shortly here on our countries are supporting the opposition in syria to get a foothold on how to get rid of president assad so this amid mounting pressure from rebel groups and to be supplied with guns and ammunition. and to the winds of change to miss the world's most oil rich nation of this time around but as well so as they move a child is so successful in the face of small divisions all report from caracas just ahead. monarchy fueling flames of the west and activist in pole position gridlocked nobody's agent was involved with the right to be seen to be credible. when the bureaus are busy it's a formula for controversy burning rubber on the streets of bahrain checker flagship

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. thanks for saying with our t.v. injuries the bombings and mortar fire being reported in iraq as a nation holds its for us election after nearly a decade long u.s. occupation but with the flow of candidates assassinated and more than one hundred barred from ballots and a wave of violence terrorizing voters it may not be the new beginning many hoped for let's cross now to our g.'s recent cavanagh's baghdad lou see what do you know about this the latest attack. hi there well what we're hearing from officials so far is that there's been about a dozen small explosions in northern cities in iraq in three different areas as well as several rounds of mortar fire that have landed in several cities polling stations targeting polling stations south of baghdad we're hearing that there have been casualties pardon me injuries but no casualties confirmed as of yet now this comes amid incredibly tight security restrictions here all across iraq even getting

to the studios here in baghdad we had to pass multiple checkpoints and what these attacks indicate is that despite these security restrictions determined insurgents are still able to carry out waves of violence and of course this comes on the heel on the heels of numerous attacks that have rocked iraq in recent months and weeks now what we're hearing from voters here is that the corruption is really the number one concern they feel that of corruption was addressed in these kinds of attacks wouldn't really be taking place so much well most of them have been blamed on the insurgency there were insurgency of al qaeda in iraq there are it's clear by talking to voters that there are plenty of other parties and political interests that are vested in this wave of violence now most of the voters that you talked to seem to be rather split on their opinions about the selection the actual outcome isn't likely to affect the results of the government but it is a key strength test of strength from prime minister nouri al maliki who is likely

to seek a third term in next year's elections how many people actually turn out to vote despite these security restrictions and whether they feel that this government represents their voices remains to be seen of course but there are nearly eight thousand candidates running and fourteen million iraqis are eligible to vote but one of the key things that we know about iraq today is that not all voters seem to be created equal we have we do know that elections have been postponed in a third of iraq's provinces including the come. herschel anbar province where large scale demonstrations have been taking place over the past three months against this government we here at r.t. had a chance to get into kluge i was a very difficult journey despite the roadblocks despite a ban on journalists to actually enter the area but we want to find out what the people there have to say about these elections and about the situation in iraq today and let's play you that report right now this is rather a dangerous area for me that's why i'm dressed like this i'm trying to not attract

as much attention foreign journalists have been banned from covering these protests from entering the anbar province altogether and al qaeda elements are still here in fact among the crowd you'll see from black flags later on when we go into to the crowd which had been associated with al qaeda groups the protestors have been demanding more equality they feel like they've been discriminated by the shiite led government of nouri al maliki they want a change in power in politics they want more rights they want more equality they also want a different political system now the amber province. has been the heart of the insurgency and the war now it's the heart of the anti-government protest perhaps a fault line of sorts that threatens to divide iraq let's go and talk to some of the people. who don't believe in this election we don't believe in it because it's sick tarion sectarian.

the government this is just which is why we are promising here we are demanding change to the constitution and this government. these people will not be turning out to vote for saturday's provincial elections that's the first election since americans have left from the country in december of twenty eleven the government has postponed elections and several sunni provinces of the anbar province where we're located right now as well as the province. the government says this is because of security and indeed attacks have been escalating over the past weeks and months but most of the iraqis that you speak to here say that this is not the case it's politically motivated of course the recent weeks have proven to us that a bloody backdrop to the elections numerous attacks all across the country have killed scores of civilians there going political assassinations of candidates running for office political gatherings have been targeted on thursday

a car bomb took place in baghdad in a largely sunni area in a cafe internet shop where a lot of young people tended to go out it's a situation that's reflective of the state of iraq today a country that has been torn apart by war but doesn't seem to be any closer to healing the wounds in the divisions that have been unleashed during that occupation . tensions are high in bahrain sunday's formula one grand prix but not in anticipation of a dramatic raise tens of thousands of pro reform protesters across the country a furious at the government hosting a major sporting event despite to be kinda poor human rights record demonstrators burning tires to block main roads and hurled petrol bombs and wide police who responded with tear gas protests will also demanded the f one management should cancel the brain stage of the grand prix as little hold because it will happen though as the organizers believe the un resin doesn't pose a threat through the event security as human rights activists jihan kazumi explains

the opposition is almost policy to influence the situation in the kingdom. being human rights activists unfortunately we don't have that much power to improve the situation what we can do is just to document the cases deliver to human rights organizations and spread the weirdness of being peaceful in the protestants actually during the urgency security emergency law before two years very. team was arresting every person who was trying to talk and expose the rejean violations the sunni report came up with with this saying that the government should rehab elate torture victims they did not take a step in this so we as bravo to the habitation organization tried to rehab alleviate the torture victims unfortunately the government is keeping pressure on us not to continue our job. rebel forces in syria say they hope western and arab

countries a meeting on saturday will grant them the arms they need to get rid of president assad u.s. secretary of defense chuck hagel has already announced he'll put american boots on the ground in neighboring jordan as a first step to preventing chemical weapons from getting into the wrong hands it's also recently emerged of france and the u.k. have presented evidence to the u.n. of the use of nerve gas in syria that's now being looked at by u.s. intelligence services but a u.n. investigation into the claim as stalled with damascus and the international body wrangling over which areas investigators should be able to visit artist maria for national reports i head of the friends of syria meeting. the meeting in turkey comes when the situation around syria is heating up dramatically and the countries will decide to go are losing patience and while the gender is unclear the right indicators that

a military solution could be discussed istanbul just ahead of the seventeen nation group conference britain and france informed the un but they have credible evidence that syria used chemical weapons at least once while the u.n. investigation over the issue is stalled two major european powers have stated that soil samples witness interviews and opposition sources prove nerve agents were used in and around the cities of aleppo homes and damascus it hasn't been specified which sites did it but president obama had earlier made it clear no matter who's going to utilize chemical weapons once it happens it'll be a red line and while u.s. officials have stressed the deterrent effect of such remarks many have taken it as a clear signal of possible military intervention the mission in turkey also comes just days after america's defense secretary said around two hundred u.s. troops will be sends to jordan its border with syria to boast of jordan's training and defense capabilities as one jordanian minister later commented they have also been confirmed reports that the u.s.

agreed to deploy to pay for me. batteries at the border he responds to detaining authorities and syrian opposition requests in another significant twisted to put a looser front to the most effective force fighting to topple assad recently confirmed it had links to al qaida something america claimed months before blacklist in the group as a terrorist organization but even after these revelations they had of the syrian national coalition them rela united political and military opposition groups and recognized by the majority of the friends of syria group is referred to as brothers russia has warned the meeting in istanbul could have a negative effect in for most in dollars between the sides of the conflict and in its hopes common sense will prevail nicolas maduro now heads of the world's most oil rich nation venezuela often official swearing in ceremony but the victory of all good chavez's successor came with the slimmest of margins so slim in fact that the country's top electoral body haven't budged an apostle audit of the of its

concerts that's all for the opposition playing his election was a war unfortunately and the demands of who voters recount that's an american scholar dr jones of as a children pings and nicholas madieu it is inherent in venezuela during hard times . it's got inflation running at thirty percent he's got import problem she's got a whole basket full of economic problems and the price of oil has just gone down a few dollars which doesn't make it easy for the government the problem from our bureau in the short term the next month or two or three in addition to the economic difficulties is that his own group is split he's got some hardliners with him who want to close down the space for freedom of expression closed the justice system close the t.v. and so on which will make venezuela totally isolated in the western hemisphere

you know watching our teams stay with us. oh no 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 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 conducts more and eyes ation of society russian t.v. does have all the bloody violent action movies as well as scandalous talk shows which are kind of more 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. because 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. more news today.