armed guard and a little bit later in the hour we will have information from marty's an associate and we'll bring you that information as it comes in now the suspects family claims that the they have been under f.b.i. surveillance for the past five years and they refuse to believe that the young men carried out of the atrocity artie's but in a culture of went to the north caucuses where the brother's family lives and spoke exclusively to one of their relatives. the city of nashville is in deep shock for what happened to the brothers ferentz refused to talk to any media on the early saturday but i managed to speak to a close relative of the family to part two months of the month about who is married to the voice uncle now she told me how ready tragic and difficult the life of the family was but for years they have been moving from one place to another the father of the two brothers couldn't find a proper job they have been moving from kyrgyzstan to change and back to that later to dagestan where they spent just a bit over

a year until they moved to the united states in two thousand and two now she showed us some pictures were taken during that time in some of them captured those brothers in their early childhood and then one time the older brother is just over a year old now she's found a lot of time with the time of law and when he came to visit his parents to dagestan and she describes him as a really nice family loving and caring young man he talked a lot about his american wife katherine and about their daughter and when i asked her whether she expressed any acts or interest in islam she told me that his interest was never overwhelming the middle and wasn't a religious fanatic she was curious about religion he started to be really interested in islam about three years ago but he was never a radical who would talk about his commitment to religion but it wasn't extreme fighting like was devastated she remembers that just part of the younger brother plan to come to dagestan this may and now their father plans to go to the united

states to. see my can believe they were involved in that tragedy. it's impossible to believe that they could carry it out just impossible it's terrible but i can believe it there are children who respected the parents of the terminal on was very attentive to older people to his family for him have been was at his mother's feet the parents mobile phone. it was a rarity swished on behalf since managed to speak to the mother of the two brothers on the phone and the woman sounded good she kept repeating that her sons are innocent she also mentioned that her eldest son time it alone was under constant f.b.i. surveillance for years but on sunday she refused to answer any questions asked for the father he told me also in a telephone conversation that he doesn't want to talk to any media now dozens of journalists the cop descended on this region really holed up it's not nice when will it be like this and will hold for the summer line to walk their sons and out

of the main suddenly back in the boston terrorist attack with one down the other under an armed guard and as we've been reporting russia apparently warned v.s.b. either one of the suspects was following radical islam but u.s. investigators apparently saw nothing suspicious former u.s. federal agent coleen rowley explain to us why she thinks the case wasn't properly pursued. well there's two are possible explanations here and maybe both one is there's this idea that when you're looking for a needle in the haystack the answer is to put more hay so they are collecting what data what the data massive data and innocent americans at all part of this top secret america and actually it turns to get the feeling you get you don't know me and the real critical pieces the other. explanation is that you know that this idea terrorism is such a confusing concept because we have our terrorists and their terrorists it's that

the definition is supposed to be our acts of violence against civilians for political purposes but you see this over and over where there that you u.s. considers that there are good rebels and good freedom fighters at the very least the separatists in other countries are not considered as terrorists the lack of follow up that the f.b.i. has had is not unusual. and first a development in the boston marathon bombings we're doing here at r t dzhokhar chardonnay of the younger brother of the two suspects is reportedly awake and responding to the authorities questions in writing he is currently being treated at a medical center in boston under armed guard let's now get details from marty's on associate. on associate we know you've been following this story through the past week what do we know about the bombing suspects condition at this time.

close seana ever since being arrested friday night after a mass lockdown unprecedented manhunt and a several hour shoot outs with law enforcement and your hearts are not have doesn't stop to me in a hospital in boston in serious condition the latest that we're hearing is that he is finally a week and officials are being able to ask him certain questions that he's answering sporadically in writing they're trying to find out. and whether or not there are more explosive devices that they should be looking into and whether or not certain accomplices might have been involved in the case the details of the answers that your hearts are not half as good is giving them are not being provided at this time of course side since being arrested he has been in a serious medical conditions we know that he has received he's gotten service certainly injuries to the throat and was on able to speak so this is why the questions right now are being answered in writing and we're waiting to hear more details as law enforcement officials begin to reveal them. well honestly we know

right now the charges have not yet been filed what a way to this young man when that happens will he be treated the same as every other criminal. ah shon that is already not the case because out while love the prosecution is preparing to bring charges against him we do not know when exactly this is going to happen and what kind of five charges exactly does will be but we do know that already has no round or rights have been revoked the right to remain silent as well as the right to a lawyer and this is something that the u.s. government has basically revoked from so naive because they are using certain clause the cause of the clause is called the public safety exception this is something that's been largely debated by politicians and civil rights groups in the united states because earlier officials had announced that there's no immediate threat following the bombings any longer so the fact that they're using this public

safety clause is certainly causing a controversy here on the ground but we know of course that officials are doing this to be able to ask him as many questions as possible without cyanide being able to use the right to remain silent while this is ongoing certain republicans in the united states are suggesting that tonight be treated as an enemy combatant this is also something that's causing much to be here on the ground because of course we're talking about a u.s. citizens are naive did become a naturalized citizen last year in september eleventh and has been living in the united states state since two thousand and two so because we're talking about a u.s. citizen a crime committed on u.s. soil and were involved in other american citizens certainly treating him as an enemy combatant is receiving a lot of criticism some officials are going even further they're saying that he should be taken to guantanamo one lawmaker even suggested that he should be tortured and this is of course something bad civil rights groups here are saying that is quite unacceptable all right thank you very much honestly we know that

you'll be following this and as more information becomes available i'm sure we'll be coming back to you thanks a lot. now since the nine eleven americas a key national security policy has been to target terrorists abroad but anti-war activist brian becker believes that this reliance on the military to keep the country safe has backfired at home since september eleventh the united states government has sent spent hundreds of billions of dollars for government security agencies right now i'm sure as happened after september eleventh private security companies are salivating over the new contracts that are are soon to come of course that is the business there is there is 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 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 . the revelation that the boston bombing suspects are of chechen origin has led to a quick shift in american attitudes towards the region on r.t. dot com we have opinion on the standard u.s. portrayal of armed chechen groups as a freedom fighters and how it has changed overnight to depict them now as ferocious militants. of the boston marathon attacks were not the only tragedy to hit the united states and this week a powerful blast ripped through a small texas town on wednesday after a fertilizer plant caught fire at least fourteen people lost their lives most of them emergency responders and almost two hundred were injured.

well you know i think you really do you know. that explosion very powerful what you witnessed just what is believed to have been an accident flattened entire neighborhoods in the town of west leaving several schools and a nursing home in ruins a spokesman for the texas department of public safety was at the scene and described what he saw. i can tell you i was there i walked through the blast area search some houses earlier tonight massive just like iraq just like the murray building in oklahoma city. exploded so you can imagine what kind of damage we're looking out there. the disaster is believed to have been caused by ammonium nitrate a potentially explosive fertilizer stored at the plant in large quantities fears of a toxic leak and further blasts led to mass evacuation but now that people are

returning to their homes there remains a question mark over how the plant slipped through the net of safety inspectors dr jeffrey patterson from the school of medicine at the university of wisconsin thinks the federal regulations are protecting business interests at the cost of human life . 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 another to push a virtual bill that will allow all of the clean up to be in much more lax than it currently is and not for 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 precedent is bahrain a revving up for a revolt. police in the country violently suppress anti-government protests accompanying the formula one grand prix as peaceful demonstrators call on the international community to acknowledge human rights abuses in the kingdom instead of racing cars. fierce clashes have marred the first days of nicolas maduro as a presidency as the opposition took to the streets of venezuela demanding a recount of the recent presidential vote that and more after a short break on our team.

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the international airport in the very heart of moscow. and a welcome back you're with our team nicolas maduro has taken the reins of power in one of the world's most oil rich nations he was sworn in as venezuela's president on friday but it's been a rough start for the chosen successor of the lady hugo chavez as his narrow victory sparked post-election violence that left seven people dead the government blames the opposition for instigating the clashes which erupted when thousands of supporters of my dogs main rival took to the streets they demanded a total vote recount the country's top electoral body finally agreed to a partial audit but cautioned that the poll result was reversible dr william robinson a professor of sociology at university of california santa barbara says the protests might be part of an ongoing effort to stabilize venezuela. this is not

a new tactic on the part of washington to talk to the owner not to talk to go to the border. 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 tactic within that campaign there's been diplomatic isolation economic sabotage our military activity the attempted coup d'etat in two thousand and two the massive us financing for the internal opposition including for property they say 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 little guy who moves around an election it will launch violence and trying to create chaos and instability and the united states will not recognize the results and this is the police that this is an incredible the focusing on the part of u.s. foreign policy because mexico just had elections in which there was massive pool because mexico is a close ally of the united states it's the u.s.

immediately work recognizes the results in the north of georgia's proposition that therefore the research has no moral authority whatsoever to talk about the going to sort of them elections even if the audit does confirm a victory the newly elected president will have trouble maintaining his predecessor's popularity by an american scholar miguel gonzalez told us about some of his challenges. i think it tells us that there are real problems in venezuela and that mother will have a very short period in which she has to begin to address these issues or will have to will have a confronting a crisis within his own party and among his own supporters he has to address head on the question of prying the question of inflation the question of infrastructure eliezer real issues that affect real venezuelans and although they felt the pain for a job is a significant number also now begin to criticize and to see them need to actually carry through and implement change i think we're going to see

a continuation of venezuelans foreign policy i think there's a difference between criticizing us and being anti american i think will see a promotion of latin american policy the promotion of a multi-polar world that is the u.s. is not the dominant issue on their agenda they have relations with russia with china with europe with that with latin american countries and will see i think a continuity within that that's been part of the strength promoted by the chavez administration and my little recall was the foreign minister in charge of chavez's foreign policy so i very much see continuity during this period. and of course we've got more analysis on what the post chavez landscape in venezuela could look like on r.t. dot com don't miss out on our invasion section there where you'll find dramatic pictures from the recent protests that's along with plenty of other stories waiting for you on line. the human race has a back up plan in case of disaster strikes earth go to our dot com for all of the details on where american scientists have discovered planets that could support

human life. plus detroit's streets could soon be cleared of the homeless but find out why the police say their way of dealing with the issue is causing complaints and concern dot com for the full story. the checkered flag has come down on formula one grand prix a race which just hours before it began saw protests against the event being hosted in the country that followed days of mass protests leading up to the race by activists angry that it was being used to mask the gulf kingdom's grave human rights abuses rallies for democratic reform have been ongoing for over two years often turning violent with more than seventy people killed on both sides the crackdown even extends to writing on twitter with the country's most famous human rights activist. behind bars for posting anti-government messages or he's probably boyko 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 the fans why he was so keen to invite him to be over jobs for an interview on his exclusive r t show parade has nine hundred thousand people. has one hundred fifty thousand twitter followers rides predominantly. the population of. sincere interest of a number of activists in the brain screen. trying to present the brains of wright was the most prominent voice for the.

speaking to julian assange over job was unequivocal about his determination to fight for democracy in bahrain if you have. if you believe. just. because you want to. do. difficulties and you know. the changes that you have five thousand four. hundred is not an easy thing to change. those changes you have to be willing to pay a price and my price might be your life and to be over a job that price has become is freedom three months after that 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 just because he did not resign to the same standard criticize it. yes or if you it's hard for the people

with that much courage to come. become and be cowed so i think it's long term prospects the court could amnesty international have labeled him a prisoner of conscience but unless the international community wakes up to abuses environment there's little hope that maybe over john's going to be tasting freedom any time soon buddy boy can see london's ecuadorian embassy. in iraq at least three people have been killed and more than twenty wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a restaurant in the city of fallujah that's near the country's capital that's according to police saturday's provincial elections were marred by violence with bombs and mortar shells exploding near polling stations injuring dozens iraqis have cast their ballots in the country's first vote since u.s. combat troops withdrew at the end of two thousand and eleven the election also took

place against the backdrop of anti-government protests raging in a sunni dominated provinces where voting was postponed allegedly due to security concerns the new local authorities will have to cope with a country deeply divided along religious and ethnic lines and in the grip of fierce competition for its rich oil reserves artie's lucie county has more they call them those who face death passionate gone once guerrilla rebels fighting saddam for an independent kurdistan now an officially sanctioned force in iraq's semi autonomous kurdish region the peshmerga and the iraqi troops are supposed to be on the same side after all they're citizens of one country but for more than a year now here in northern iraq the two armies have been pitted against each other their weapons locked and loaded these peshmerga soldiers are on alert twenty four hours a day they're guarding the kurdish front line of the so-called disputed territory now no iraqi soldiers are allowed beyond this point if either army had. if there is

even a single misfire it could spark a new war we have enough forces in place and enough firepower for the pressure to defend against a major surprises if we're attacked 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. it's like a small version of iraq with sunni shia christians arabs and kurds it's this because. of course the other reason is kook's oil. the oil fires illustrate the main reason that this land is so hotly contested 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 alex 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 or oil has transformed kurdistan into a boom town in the capital overbill construction projects dot the landscape there are luxury malls and foreign investors are flocking here the region looks and feels like a different country and for the kurds that may be the ultimate goal but for now this is one iraq divided into two. of our reporting from the disputed territories in iraq. and there's a little time to celebrate for venezuela's new leader as he gets a rough ride from his rivals as we report in a few minutes plus. police.

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the international airport in the very heart of moscow. and welcome back you're with our team israeli police are being accused of using a handcuffed palestinian teenager as a human shield it is after a video emerged to depicting them parading the youth to an angry crowd supposedly in an attempt to calm the protesters our middle east correspondent paula slayer reports. on friday israeli police paraded there's handcuffed palestinian youth

during protests that were taking place in the palestinian neighborhood of abu dis which is 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 removing this young palestinian who is identified as mohammad asif interior from the army jeep and forcing him to stand both sides them with handcuffed hands raised above his head human rights groups have released a statement saying 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 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 earlier this week palestinians mock the

annual palestinian prisoners day and this was possibly 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 refuse they food this is in solidarity with the event at the same time activists told fifty metres of the prison cranes that off the 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 saved 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 are currently conducting a hunger strike and most notable among them is a president something or other 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 under administrative detention without charge or trial artie's possibly reporting for us there now on to greece where they could receive a transfer of three point two billion euros from its euro rescue aid package earlier than expected the money is a part of a near nine a billion euro bailout deal which athens agreed with its international lenders last week the cost to greece is that it has to slash over four thousand public sector jobs before the year ends even as the lending troika pumps more money into avon's the country's industrial backbone is still on the slide as tom barton has been finding out. cobwebs outside rain falls on the still and silent bits attack his plastic piping from tree infest along mickey northern greece inside

the machines have been unused since banks stopped investing and the owner of the oldest puts attackers fled in two thousand and ten one of his workers also be old course did meet the just one softer that he and ninety five other staff seven million euros in wages and those look at the after short talk i had to force myself to leave so i wouldn't hurt him workers see that they are being made to bear the cost of greece's economic woes this is that the story. and of course the. pain is. very unequal across the industrial northern greece the story is repeated this fertilizer factory used to be a center of northern greek industry nowadays though by economics fair all foul it's a ghost factory and the only fertilizer coming in here is imported from elsewhere in europe it produced specialised fertilizers until one day the workers were called

together and told by the owners that the know how for their products had been sold off and that operations would be stopped. it's criminal that a profitable industry will shut down an industry that produced high quality material and. workers now see the cruel irony that since the factories closing fertilizer prices have tripled but it's a wider fear that one skilled workforce is a laid off it's all too hard to bring them back. in the path of those who have this the unemployment rate here is thirty percent or by the years and it could be over thirty eight we don't know the fish and while see the situation that is out of control yes he said he the mother got the workers across northern greece are desperate desperate to keep their jobs to get back into jobs and to be paid for their work to martin r.t. . now to some other international news for you in brief this hour the death toll from the massive earthquake in southwestern chinese province of

a such one has reached two hundred seven with over eleven and a half thousand more injured damaged roads and traffic jams and a large aftershocks hampered the rescue operation the six point six magnitude earthquake struck the region on saturday morning in two thousand and eight a quake in the same province left more than seventy thousand people dead the. demonstrators in new delhi have clashed with police on the second day of furious protest over the rape and torture of a five year old girl protesters vented their anger over allegations that police ignored the girl's parents complaints that their child was missing. and demanded the city's police chief step down meanwhile doctors say the young victims that condition has stabilized reports of violence against women have risen since the brutal gang rape of a student on a bus last december caused an outpouring of anger and numerous anti-government rallies. at least seventy four girls in the north of

afghanistan have fallen sick after inhaling gas at their school several of the victims remain in critical condition officials fear the schoolgirls might have been poisoned by ultra conservative activists opposed to female education since the taliban lost control of the country in two thousand and one women have won back their right to education voting and employment but sporadic attacks on female students continue. tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of paris demonstrating against a new bill which will allow gay marriage and adoption by same sex couples the bill is said to be passed by parliament this week meanwhile thousands of supporters of gay marriage staged a counter rally against homophobia the controversial law has been a main part of president francois alonzo genda since his election and sparked regular protests across the country. london marathon runners have paid tribute to the victims of the boston bomb attacks

sunday's race was preceded by a thirty second silence a marathon taking in major london landmarks has been held under intense security hundreds of police were out in force along the twenty six mile route helicopters patrolled the sky and everyone approaching the finish line had to pass a security checkpoint organizers hailed this the thirty third annual race as the most successful ever. in the u.s. a cyber security bill allowing corporations to share customers personal data with the government has been passed by the house of representatives that's despite a veto threat from the white house the plans are supposedly aimed at tackling cyber terrorism but as andrew blake reports they're raising the deep privacy concerns. aides for the white house actually said that we will recommend the president veto this legislation to sever intelligence and for sharing of protection act it's come under a lot of criticism by its opponents because they say that it does more than what

the authors say it does that the authors of cispa they say that this bill will let business is private companies like google facebook and any internet provider these companies will be encouraged to share information with the federal government that will be used to track down and monitor and curb cyber attacks aimed at the united states computers critics say that it puts too much of americans privacy at risk and that the right safeguards are there so in turn people would be sacrificing their privacy for a little bit of security when the bill was introduced back in february i believe one of the areas for the second time representative or one of the authors of the bill he said you know we can't have another nine eleven we can't have another terrorist attack it but if we do we will pass any law that needs to happen sure enough to another congressman he actually got up and said well look what happened in boston these were bombs sure they weren't digital bombs but the next ones will be digital bombs so we need to come together. for the sake of national security and do something and that's exactly why a lot of people have problems with this bill because the people who are touting it

the people who are writing it are people that don't really understand these cyber security concerns and there's a lot of concern over who is coming up with this bill who is supporting it saying that you know boston would be reason enough to pass a cyber security bill is laughable to many people are going to church of canada has been taking a look at some of the anti privacy measures already adopted by the u.s. government in the name of national security. terrorists don't have policies they just have sick minds but spawns to their he acts governments adopt policies nine eleven was followed not just by two long wars but also by a series of changes in the us laws are sharing in an era where words liberty privacy due process have adopted many many footnotes the patriot act which gave sweeping powers to the government was branded in such a way as to say as a patriot you have to give up certain rights that had been previously guaranteed by the law among many provisions in the act it introduced roving wiretaps where you can be caught. in a phone sweep without

a specific warrant the so-called library profession where the state can monitor your reading habits if any you have no connection to terrorism national security letters a tool used instead of warrants whereby the f.b.i. can spy on you when the service provider has to share your private information can't tell you about it provisions that require banks to report your financial activities to federal agents well civil rights advocates say the public sentiment the familiar argument i have nothing to hide so we shouldn't concern me over the years it has contributed to the erosion of rights many of the patriot act provisions have been passed and repassed over and over again and they still stand and then the new national defense authorization act contains a provision which allows for indefinite detention without due process at the discretion of the president the statute has temporal or geographic limitations and can be used by future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any

battlefield experts say with laws like this once they're adopted they're very difficult to reverse as far as u.s. actions overseas part of the nation's response to terror policies like torture or drone strikes which target terrorist suspects but also kill civilians overseas terrorism draws strength from the adoption of extra legal violence as a counter measure but he. yet unclear how much security people draw from giving up their rights in washington i'm going to check on. when we come back to russia's former a long serving finance minister alexey talks global money you stay with us here with r.t. . ok going. pro bono way things are going the republican. better off with the state attorney.

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mitigate the fallout from writing down the greek debt after all the write down was a collective decision taken by the e.u. but it did come as something of a surprise when the e.u. declined to bail out cyprus to the extent that it had earlier rescued greece i believe this course of action was not entirely consistent and that is why i said that the european union was fully responsible for the state of the cypriot banking system considering that cyprus is part of the union and of the eurozone schools i've also argued that there might be a spillover effect from cyprus to the banking systems of e.u. neighbor states i don't believe the crisis is over but far from that it's presently at its peak and we don't know where it will eventually get us its outcome may prove to be better than expected or it could be worse for cyprus has not yet allowed depositors' to withdraw their money from cypriot banks especially from the biggest ones such as the bank of cyprus so far there is no way of telling what those depositors and investors will do will they all decide to pull out their money and

walk or will some of them choose to stay so the outcome is so far on clear so if it happens to be worse than everyone is expecting it will draw. magically the situation for europe southern economies you know their words we cannot be certain that the crisis will not spill over onto other countries but now there's a debate going on in terms of which countries are going to be next to be hit luxembourg spain italy what's your projection is that. it is difficult for me to say slovenia maybe having it hardest at the moment but at least a crisis there would be relatively easy to contain some other countries it would be far harder to deal with that is why everybody is more concerned about portugal spain and italy these economies are presently in a tight spot they're also getting more support than others as the european central bank is committing the bulk of its resources to bailing out these three countries.