the weekly here on r.t. with me andrey farmer now it has been a traumatic few days for the u.s. city of boston to terror blast struck it is landmark marathon on monday killing three including a child injuring more than one hundred the attack was followed by an intense manhunt for two suspects through the city suburbs eventually saw one of the alleged bombers killed and the other wounded and taken into custody artes and sissy churkin a look back at the bitter events. mayhem took place here at an area still cordoned off at a sporting event that attracted tens of thousands of participants and thousands of spectators from all over the world two bombs went off just seconds apart from each other at the finishing line of the boston marathon the explosions were so strong. ripping off. leaving three people dead and over a hundred and seventy five people injured despite all of the money the united states spends on security it was a surveillance camera of

a department store that helped pinpoint the two brothers behind the tragedy several memorials like this one have been set up throughout the city of boston to remember the victims of the three people who died including an eight year old boy two young women a twenty nine and twenty three year old over a dozen victims remained in critical condition for several days many of them needing follow up surgeries despite having between the two suspects lived in an apartment on the third floor of this building in cam bridge now they came to the united states the two brothers of chechen origin back in two thousand and two the younger brother joe hart became a naturalized citizen on september eleventh last year the older brother had a green card dreamt of joining the united states olympics boxing team to get a passport all of the people who knew them were shocked to find out that they're the suspects in the bombings but law enforcement officials are saying that they had indications from the russian government to look into the identity of the older brother to milan they did in fact bring him in for questioning back in two thousand

and eleven to try to establish any possible links to extremist groups at this time they released the older brother and of course now following the days after the bombings at the finishing line of the boston marathon law enforcement yet again tried to establish any possible links the brothers might have had with extremist groups after monday's bombings late on thursday afternoon the f.b.i. finally released photos of the two suspects the ended up coming out of their. fighting killing an mit officer hijacking a car releasing the person to whom that car belonged and got in a car chase with police the police officer said that the two brothers were throwing explosive devices out of their car and shooting over a dozen police officers wounded as a result eventually the older brother twenty six year old to milan got out of the car to continue the shootout with the police officers the younger brother stayed in the car ended up running over his older brother getting

a win the car which he eventually abandoned and was able to get away on foot in the meantime police officers captured to milan and took him to this hospital in boston suffering multiple injuries this is where he died shortly after one thirty am on friday morning and then president a manhunt for joe hart continued for over twenty hours involving thousands and thousands of federal and local law enforcement officers were currently in watertown just several minutes outside of boston now law enforcement officials have established a perimeter in this area going from door to door trying to locate just harz whereabouts where they ended up with finding him was just a block away from the area they were searching he was hiding out in one of the houses in this area in a dry docked boat a local neighbor in the person living in this area saw a blood trail and led police to the area where just car was hiding now a helicopter off the officials was also able using heat signature technology to

locate joe hart hiding out in this boat even though he was covering himself up now it's important to note that a two hour standoff and shootout between police and joe hart continued eventually we know that there was negotiating attempts because the officials were very interested in getting him alive eventually they were able to arrest him take him into custody following his arrest or higher was taken to. the same hospital where his brother died also suffering severe injuries he's undergoing medical treatment under heavy security and officials are saying that the legal proceedings against him will begin as soon as he's able to communicate after a week filled with tragedy shock fear and a mass lockdown the city of boston has breathed out a sigh of relief that locals want to see justice and find out the motives behind the terror rocks that made so many question the illusion of safety they have been

living under mr marty massachusetts well u.s. authorities are reportedly checking whether the brothers could have any links to russia's most wanted man model while the parents of the suspected bomber say this is complete nonsense and it's american security services which framed their son's r.c. went to the north caucuses city where the brothers family lives the find out more on the background. that middle and sad naive and amateur boxer who dreamt of representing his adopted country the united states he claimed to have no american friends but married a local woman katherine and they shared a daughter by contrast his younger brother john had a period well adjusted popular in high school and even won a college scholarship yet sadly they were revealed as the main suspects in the boston marathon bombings their father was the first step bob to claim his dubois' were set up i'm confident of my children's innocence and i'm not sure what how

thought that we're only god knows no one in the household ever owned any weapons i think my children may have been frightened their mothers to be duds shared her biggest suspicion telling r.c. their to her family was under constant af b. i serve aliens raising the question why her sons were not stopped if they were supposedly planning terrorists and not how nobody talked about the caribbean my son permit or got involved in bitterly. he was told by a b i like fly by he knew that they knew what my thumb was doing they knew what action and what. they were going to how could it happen how could they were conjoined we. never ever had this is not my two sons are in front of the as b. i confirmed that in two thousand and eleven agents investigated but didn't find any

terrorist activity did not go for ethnically chechen that said ny family first moved from kyrgyzstan to dagestan a republican russia is north caucasus this is the house where the brothers parents live but now there is no one here it's sad and i family i voicing any contact with the media neighbors here are in deep shock at the news. in does believe that any of this happening to the top ny 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 that they didn't have any links with the hobbyists and other militants the youngest brother jihad on his plate have the social network spent back to mansion this school number one in the high school and money those places where he used to study however here are very few people remember that saddam lives brothers. you know the family came

to darkest on in september two thousand and one with the boys from the old style school then they apparently managed to get papers to leave dark and stone so they left in less than a year they didn't spend a long time here and they didn't grow up. in search of a new line and new one vicious indeed after a decade in the u.s. the heart became an american citizen last year but in that time something or someone made the top of my brother's seemingly turned against the nation which gave them asylum and wish they'd stand the most significant part of their lives by jenna bush the artsy reporting from russia is that you stand republic it is alarming that extremist ideas are being rooted in the minds of bright young people around the world showing that terrorism has no borders that is according to peter's ally of from the eurasia democracy in the shit if. should the north caucasus link in this case be proven it tells us that global jihad the move to global jihadi movement

really knows no geographic economical social boundaries. and years into the hearts and minds of young people such as what we saw in september eleventh attacks and what is being said now about these two brothers whether they were linked or not these two young men were quite bright they got scholarships to attend prestigious universities and still have that is proven to have been brainwashed into committing such heinous crimes meanwhile brownback and antiwar activists believes america's reliance on its military to keep a safe has affected domestic security since september eleventh the united states government has sent spent hundreds of billions of dollars for a government security agencies right now i'm sure as out happened after september eleventh private security companies are salivating over the new contracts that are

are soon to come of course there is a business there there's there's profits and even mega profits made by this kind of security apparatus there is no indication that such an attack was coming so is it possible by the by by using military methods and security methods alone to stop terrorist attacks to protect society i don't think so we can see though that the u.s. policy at home and abroad as well is almost exclusively based on. towards a security towards militarization towards the abrogation of civil rights and civil liberties which i think ultimately don't defend protect and make people more secure . and on the wave of fear and frustration after the deadly bombings in boston the highly controversial cyber security bill finally gets from the u.s. house of representatives next hour we report on how the new law could be used in the war on terror and why it's called cry in america.

well on top of the tragedy in boston this week also saw the u.s. hit with one of its worst industrial disasters in decades leaving fifteen dead more than one hundred injured and dozens still missing an explosion at a texas fertilizer plant was so powerful it registered as a small earthquake and could be more than one hundred kilometers away. i think with. the resulting explosion why danton time neighborhoods of the small town of west entire blocks of hi is this and apartments were mangled by the blast as well as a nearby retirement home and school in the immediate aftermath noxious fumes hung heavy over the area wildfires could be seeing burning for miles around a spokesman for the texas department of public safety described what he witnessed i could tell you i was there i walked through the blast area are searching houses

earlier tonight massive just like iraq just like the murray building in oklahoma city same crowd exploded so you can imagine what kind of damage we're looking out there. four days on the flames yet there are reports that ruptured chemical tanks at the plan tonight are leaking tokes ins and sparking small fire as the air is also being quarantined with locals relay katie. for missing people under the dead brake it's also emerged that there may have been serious safety shortfalls at the plant hops encouraged by decades of negligence by inspectors dr jeffrey patterson is a professor at the school of medicine it was scones and university he thinks that lax federal regulation is to blame there's been this montreaux that we have to deregulate we have to take away regulation 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 she lurcher will all of the clean up to be much more lax than it currently is and not force people to be moved out of the area because of radiation damage so there is tremendous move. to to deregulate things to take away the powers of the e.p.a. and other regulatory agencies and i think that sort of we're seeing now that that's a very dangerous precedent and there are also strong phase i.v. toxins released by the explosion the pump both still makes dozens of compounds including gases and volatile chemicals and those could spread over the area improved to be major has it's the top of that chemist professor christopher busby says that even more behind this blast. and hundreds of monia on its own would not

be able to produce the kind of devastation that we hear is occurring over there it seems much more likely to me that like the other monia not great plant explosions in history is that somehow the ammonium nitrate itself the fertilizer material that is produced by this long to explode it but of course ammonia itself is very toxic it's it's it's a respiratory irritant and it would cause lots of serious upper respiratory tract problems but then it cause it's also produced when ammonium nitrate itself is heated up so if you heat ammonium nitrate to about three hundred fifty degrees it dissociates into ammonia and not to pass it and so these two things would be quite toxic fumes to anybody inhaling them. eyewitness accounts stories from those injured on that comment are all available for you at r.t. dot com to go there and you can also watch when you're there videos of the aftermath of the blast and find out what the danger is not. known

a few moments here we're not saying we talked to the world's top whistleblower and wiki leaks as a jew doing a song about his meeting with bahrain's main opposition figure. also just ahead israeli police parade a handcuffed teenager in front of an angry palestinian cried saying they just wanted to calm the protests.

the international airport in the very heart of moscow. hello again bahrain's controversial formula one race is set to start as planned on sunday despite protests from the opposition desperately trying to draw attention to the human rights abuses in the gulf kingdom tens of thousands of people have been

venting their anger saying the money he's using the event to paper over the crackdown on private phone activists bahrain's protest movement has been accusing the government of violating freedom of speech valley's opposition made in the build a job is the most prominent figure to stay in prison as many believe he was thrown behind bars just between against the raiders artie's pretty quick i reports now on his struggle. 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 a songe 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 and has one hundred fifty

thousand twitter followers cards predominantly all the population are. sincere the rest of a number of other activists in the brain screen. you wrote your. brains you write for 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 a. believes. just tools you'll recall. you were going over those difficulties and you know that. it changes that you are fighting for it's been good for hundred years is not an easy thing to change. those changes you have to be willing to pay. and my that price might be your life

fun to be over a job that christ has become is freedom three months after that interview was that he was sentenced to three years behind bars but according to our phones keeping him in prison under current charges is going to be increasingly difficult for the bahraini government to cartoonish form the developers on the same standard criticizing us or it's hard for the people with that much courage to come. you can't be cowed so i think it's long term prospects of court 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. hindi is a member of bahrain's opposition party and he says the moment he is trying to

create an illusion of progress in the country. i think i just tried to say that there are no i'm just not the man nothing's happened to be on my situation and it's why the one i'm stuck that died on starting and did not want to know the story would come on but this is all oh nothing seriously have been stood the human rights violations have been and this this moment it's all so i just think people and try and then and it was a violation to beat them on then even throw their will and their aunt on inside they are awfully hard trying to catch them so it's still a tiny image that they got on me and i'm going to get started to see it awkward for you to part with no one it's the opposite way it would cover side cream. is right and police have paraded and arrested palestinian teenagers in front of

protesting cries at a border post human rights groups say it amounts to abuse adding the youngster was used as a human shield well to tell us more about this. joins us now live paula why was this person arrested and what actually happened can you tell us more. what we don't know the exact circumstances as to what led to be a waste of this youngster but what we can tell you is that on friday israeli police paraded this handcuffed palestinian youth during protests that were taking place in the palestinian neighborhood of abu dhabi switches on the outskirts of east jerusalem human rights groups have accused the army of using the child as a human shield defense for children international palestine has posted a video on you tube that shows helmeted is raided border policeman moving this young palestinian who is identified as mohammed are seventeen from the army jeep and forcing him to stand beside them with handcuffed hands raised above his head

human rights groups have released a statement. in that they're outraged that israeli soldiers continue to use palestinian children in this way as human shields with impunity the claim is that the teen was deliberately exposed to danger after he had been taken into custody since the start of this year alone two hundred and seven palestinian children between the ages of fifteen and seventeen have been arrested and those figures are according to the palestinian authority and the israeli army spokesperson however has said that the move was to calm the violence especially after four hundred palestinian protesters attacked an israeli border police vehicle for almost four hours and poor this this latest episode comes on the back of further unrest in the occupied territories early this week as a. certainly earlier this week palestinians marked the annual palestinian prisoners day and this was passed by the palestinian national council back in one nine hundred seventy four as

a means of consolidating efforts to support palestinian prisoners who are currently being held in israeli jails on wednesday about three thousand palestinian prisoners refused a food this is in solidarity with the event at the same time activists tore down fifty meters of a prison fence set off a prison which is on the outskirts of ramallah in the west bank where they mounted a palestinian flag and this forced the i.d.f. as well as israeli border police to use why it control measures to disperse the group also in gaza hundreds of people marched from gaza city to the offices of the international committee of the red cross the palestinian authority has sent and urgent matter to the european union foreign policy chief catherine ashton calling for a prompt intervention to save the life of prisoners in israeli jails who are currently conducting a hunger strike the most notable among them is a prisoner some near is sol we who has been striking for some three hundred days there are four thousand nine hundred palestinians who are currently held in israeli

jails hundred sixty eight of them are under administrative detention without charge or trial ok thank you paula we do have to leave it there that's our to fall asleep reporting live from tel aviv. he picked successor is now officially at the head of the world's most oil rich nation having been inaugurated as the president of venezuela but the going was far from smooth for nicolas maduro with seven protesters killed in clashes with police this week thousands of supporters of his supporters of opposition candidate on the ticket pretty list took to the streets around the country demanding a total vote recount police and national guard units responded with tear gas and plastic bullets the country's top electoral body did finally agree to a partial audit but caution. let me george i speak straight is irreversible ok robinson professor of sociology at the university of california says there may be an ongoing effort to destabilize the situation. this is not

a new tactic on the part of washington and on the top of the a not a new tactic on the part of the new of the venezuelan opposition and generally the far right in latin america which aligns with washington the idea is you have an all out to struggles and this civilization campaign this is simply another topic within that campaign there's been diplomatic isolation economic sabotage our military activity the attempted coup d'etat in two thousand and two massive us financing for the internal opposition including for properties and for the organizations that he represents and so we see this very often when this election which is very close and when the united states wants to get rid of a government in this case the macdougall jarvis with little governments around an election it will launch violence and trying create chaos and instability and the united states will not recognize the results and this is really at least of this is an incredible the focusing on the part of u.s. foreign policy because mexico just had elections in which there was massive fall because mexico is a close ally of the united states it's the u.s.

immediately like recognizes the results in the rules that georgia's proposition that destroy the united states has no moral authority whatsoever to talk about the going to sort of them elections. next the they doing gold rush in colombia. oh no who a lazy bureaucratic and trivial censorship strikes again but this time in russia a bill has been signed into law that will put fines on individuals and legal entities for using vulgar already in the media one major flaw of many with this is that they really don't know which words are going to be considered vogue or 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 could accept 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 like freak shows and plenty of reality t.v. where young people pretty much act like subhuman animals in a cage they've got all that so the government is basically saying that if some guy on t.v. comes there are twenty people blooded limbs flying that that is totally ok for television unless they come out for bid swear while doing it you can show brainless materialistic dimwits sleeping and fighting with everything that moves on a reality show but if they say that one magic three letter russian word then it is over the line this is not a logical way to conduct censorship but that's just my opinion.

america international airport in the very heart of moscow. for the past ten years colombia has welcomed foreign capital with open arms in his turn the new president juan manuel santos places mining at the center of his development model in bogota the independent expert cleo farrow denounces an incest race relationship between the multinationals and the colombian political class.