teams combing the suburb where the action took place nineteen year old soccer seven was cornered after a gunfight with police and is now in hospital in a critical condition artesian says it brings us the details from 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 joe hart side 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 and 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 of 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 seriously injured so he will be treated now and then the legal part of this case will certainly move forward and archie boston massachusetts. well some of the most dramatic and memorable pictures from friday's manhunt in boston are available on our web site r t don't call the news of the terror suspects capture said a wave of public euphoria through the boston area we got those dramatic images

there in our special photo section you can also see how the standoff unfolded as well. now in an exclusive interview the mother of the two alleged bombers told me that one of his sons had been hounded by the f.b.i. for several years but that there is no way either of the brothers she said could have been involved in any terrorist attack. never travel to dagestan in south russia where the mother lives to find out more about the family's back story. 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 left however as we try to reach them this morning it turned out that they fled to the neighboring region of chechnya to their relatives to avoid all 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 sons may have been involved in the bombings in our house nobody talked about the terrorist

my son. or what they were. involved in the leader you know. i really do believe that's pretty high few years ago he was told by a b i like why . he knew they knew what my. what action what. we were going how could this happen how could be they were conjoined we. never ever heard this is not my sons are in and those neighbors we spoke to our shox they said that it was a very nice and a very quiet family. i know the brothers very well from the childhood. we used to live in chechnya together i 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 studied the works there they didn't have

any links with the harvests and other militants the youngest brother just hired on his plate at the social network spent back to mansion at this school number one in the high school in money those places where he used to study however here are very few people remember that sadly i have brothers. you know the family came to dagestan in september two thousand and one when the boys to our school then they apparently managed to get papers to leave darkest on the left in less than a year they didn't spend a long time here and they didn't grow up in the first and third the school together with their two sisters back in two thousand and one however for a very short period of time in two thousand and two they left to the united states . russia special services are also stressed at the boston bombing suspects of a very tenuous connection to russia as they lived there for many years nears what a source in the russian intelligence services said to us but since the brothers did not reside in russia our special services could not provide our foreign partners

with any valuable intelligence on them but russian special services are still working closely with them to say whether american partners is another quote as well established communications with the appropriate channels and our contacts will continue they said. moscow warned against classing terrorism as either domestic or foreign right after the murder of the alleged bombers have links to russia's north caucasus region new york's former mayor rudy giuliani has already admitted that the u.s. has for a long time turned a blind eye to terrorism in the north caucuses western media has tended to patrol the armed groups in the mountainous region as freedom fighters as a lecturer explains next. 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 a source that they fled the russian caucus to chechnya he is an ethnic chechen brothers this not to be ethnic chechens lived in kurdistan and dagestan 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 just on the where the two supposedly came from but the word certainly rings bells probably because of the media headlines in the one thousand nine hundred 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 the rebels fighting for independence or go have been dramatic you reduced it scalds the churchill fight for independence had no become the ultimate judgment 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 thousands of civilians were killed but the man who had blood on their hands were often described as freedom fighters and rebels by the western media at times that 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 terrorist organizations 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 it change in attitude towards a common enemy will follow in due course. it's a question is it will security expert john get a says that washington should first of bad that it's cold war driven policy of sympathizing with chechen separatists since the collapse of the soviet union in december one thousand nine hundred one the united states has continued to deal with russian issues based on its old cold war paradigm and to

a large degree of us originally came out in support of the chechen cause for independence it was then 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 about 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 all 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 national security something the united states has been pouring billions of dollars into since not eleven but off to two young men with let's face it crude homemade bombs managed to cause devastation at a public event in boston well that investment's now big question we have explains. in a post nine eleven america washington has taken wide reaching measures and defense

for and 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 have cost the country more than two trillion dollars but after the events that unfolded at the bar of 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 feeling our skies with drains and covering our buildings with surveillance cameras and treating every airline passenger as a potential terrorist is going to save us is to use an incredible delusion 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 earlier this week u.s. secretary of state john kerry insisted that that america's investment in foreign policy is national security insurance but as this past week has shown the cost of pressure cookers does not amount to a lot of money and washington's investment wasn't enough to prevent a deadly terrorist attack in boston that claimed the lives of three people and

hospitalized more than one hundred seventy reporting from new york marina port naya r.t. . or is it more a case you just can't protect yourself against every eventuality willis know what you think we go to a vote running on a website where all the big stories that day this is the big one of the day cause and take voting if you have dot com today we're saying how will the boston bombing investigation unfold do you think thanks for voting if you have a slight changes sixty one percent of you lost fifty nine now think that the second suspect is going to die in hospital we're never going to know the answer to it seventy percent of you think that investigators are going to prove the brother's guilty and we'll find out that they acted on their own twelve percent you think a third suspect is going to come along here a surprise suspect that maybe we don't know about yet and again twelve percent equally split was lost are slight changes there think that someone else a big mastermind involved here and that more details again will come out we just don't know the full picture yet r.t.

talk com is where you can have your say. thanks be with us for me come by all the world's latest developing news including the formula one race rage in bahrain. technology innovations all the developments around russia. the future covered. a gulf monarchy fueling flames of on the west an activist in pole position gridlocked nobody's asian who is involved with the right to be seen to be credible . when their bureaus are busy there's a formula for controversy burning rubber on the streets of bahrain checker fly ship weekend on our team.

the international airport in the very heart of moscow. iraq's first election since u.s. combat troops pulled out speeding overshadowed by attacks reports of blasts and mortar fire in a polling stations a mounting at the end of a campaign this in a spike in violence in recent weeks with more than a dozen candidates assassinated and sectarian tensions rise and it doesn't look

like the new beginning that many hopeful as if we can offer found out for us in baghdad. 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 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 heels 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 happened blamed on the insurgency the revived 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 that we do know that elections have been postponed in a third of iraq's provinces including the controversial ambar 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 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 some black flags later on when we go into to the crowd. which have been associated with al qaeda groups the protesters 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 quality they also want a different political system now they are province forces than the heart of the insurgency and the war now it's the heart of the anti-government protests 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. all the candidates for the government the system is unjust 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 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 just that a bloody backdrop to the elections numerous attacks all across the country have killed scores of civilians there's been 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 and closer to healing the wounds in the divisions that have been unleashed during that occupation . so those four we want grown primp are a nerds for the start line the pro-democracy protests are also revving up tens of thousands of turned out in recent days accusing the event of racing on their blood they blocked roads with burning tires and a whole petrol bombs and police are responding with tear gas the bahraini regime is also getting tough and foreign journalists trying to cover the crack in a british t.v. crews the latest to be deported from the country even more than two years of protests often ending in violence with the police with more than seventy people killed on both sides the country's most famous human rights activist meantime noble roger observing a jail sentence for posting anti-government messages on twitter a stalker to mohammed or sufi an activist who was injured during the latest protest mohammed i thank you for taking the time to be with us tonight tell us what you

witnessed if you would surgery today's rally how he described the police's actions what you see. today was just like any other in there's no one there are just it really mean that if there is they were calls for this. group of people to try in real while we're. writing in. mohammed the law and the law is a little bit on clear i just the question i really wanted to push over to you is why the protest is so fierce about holding this formula one race in bahrain and it's a sporting event so what is your main message here what's the what's the problem with it. it is this is this we deem should be on sanction after this systematic torture. this is systematic discrimination and.

it should be all sanctions if not be what it will all be events such as the run or any other events is it not something maybe though that you can swing the other way is about as a p.r. event to go get some games publisher to for your cause out of it and that's happening already by the very fact that we're talking now it's true that it gave us a window to bring. our. misery to evil and show them whole. bad missions in bahrain but on the same time it's a chance for the government to see that even though we can't risk it well we can still hold events at the formula and that we reach zero. despite. more than half of the population mohammed thanks for being on the low so it was awfully bad quality line i'm afraid but we really do appreciate your time how much of the bahraini activist on the line thanks sorry about that how do you get more of

course at r.t. dot com to see our special section on bahrain with all the latest in the run up to the grand prix racing clicking reports of foreign journalists being deported ahead of the event i do stay with us too as we provide full coverage over the weekend then for that as the events unfold. world news now in brief first off italy's president's been re-elected for a second term eighty seven year old children a politan i was about to step down next month but was asked by the major parties to reconsider because of the country's political paralysis currently parliament secured a politician or some president a term after five failed attempts to pick a successor. a powerful earthquake measuring six point six in magnitude struck china's southwestern sichuan province it's left at least one hundred sixty people dead thousands of others are injured and almost ten thousand homes destroyed lives

have been deployed to the stricken area to search for survivors. hundreds of people in new delhi have been protesting after a five year old girl was legit in the rate for children in captivity for nearly forty days the rest of the. girls in stable condition with medics three she will need surgery because their injuries a so severe have been months about a protest over the mistreatment of women in india since the fatal gang rape of the . capital last december. coming up in just a few minutes time more on artie's trip across war torn iraq it's our next program and after the break up you can join me again for more news in thirty five minutes.

i reckon cardiologist dr omar our claims that the war in iraq destroyed iraq's environment even worse than dropping the bomb on hiroshima did dr okubo easy puts the 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 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 invasion of iraq it which nato forces used white phosphorus depleted uranium rounds and other toxic gases and poison of substances human rights watch and the world health organization have measured radiation levels in iraq and consider many places in iraq even some very far from the fighting to be contaminated naturally radiation is not racist and foreign soldiers in iraq are not immune usa today even published research results that found that depleted uranium was indeed in the lungs and other organs of navy vets who filed for health compensation claims yet you know saddam

hussein seemed like a pretty bad guy but there are always ways to get around the confines of a dictatorship but there is no way to escape from radiation it is truly present so for the invasions of iraq good for the iraqis well it doesn't seem to be doing too good for their physical health but that's just my opinion. download the official. to your cell phone choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites. if you're away from your television. with your mobile device if you can see any time anyway.

visiting the general hospital in pfluger is like living it was a nightmare. children with two heads tumors malformations missing limbs and macao been unbearable literally they say every family here is sheltering or hiding a deformed monstrous child. all of them. get me and the grandmother you know my daughter cries all day long it but she hopes to see her daughter get better. i deeply affected i leave the city with its newborn monsters.

we head for baghdad on the banks of the tigris. to. baghdad can be translated as the garden of peace. but it's a better fragile peace the patrols are iraqi wearing uniforms applied by the u.s. the army is divided by political religious and tribal conflicts everyone fights for his own camp. the president is kurd the prime minister shia and the parliament is run by sunnis. in paradise square opposite the royal mosque stands a concrete pedestal. here once through the absolute symbol of power a statue of saddam hussein. on april ninth two thousand and

three it was. into the ground of the united states believed to have won the will. nine years have passed the square is empty and the city appears to be in a state of siege. that our passenger alyea theater director back from exile in paris waited for a long time to see his enemy fall and return to his native city. where i was thrown in prison and when i got out i was given five days to leave baghdad and iraq that gave me to. put folly the combat continues. and it through theatre that he hopes to win it is methodist to reinvest the public with a sense of resistance and a taste for life. i know that out. there today.