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statement for the first time the nineteen year old received a throat injury during a fierce standoff with police and is still unable to speak charges against the alleged bomber due to be filed later on monday more details now from artie's and the sea of chalk in the. law enforcement officials in boston are saying that nineteen year old the boston bombing suspect just hearts or naive is finally awake he's currently at a boston hospital being treated for injuries we're hearing that he is awake and answering officials questions sporadically in writing there asking him about any further possible accomplices in the boston bombings case as well as whether or not any further explosive devices should be of concern to officials but as of yet we're not hearing any details officials are not revealing any details in terms of the answers that is giving them of course all of this comes after he was arrested friday night after a mass lockdown took place in boston after unprecedented manhunt that took place here and a several hour shootout between law enforcement and this nineteen year old suspect
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we do know that he suffered so serious injuries in the shootout and has been treated at a local hospital here in boston he suffered injuries to his throat and was unable to speak and this is precisely what officials have been waiting for to be able to communicate with him to find out the motives to the boston bombings as well as the participation of any per possible further accomplices and of course we have to note that the miranda rights off tonight have been revoked the right and he has to remain silent as well as a right to a lawyer are being deny to him because officials are interested in being able to question him without being able to use this right and the fact that his miranda rights have been revoked is receiving major criticism throughout the united states and causing really a lot of debate civil rights groups are saying that he should be able to have these rights provided to him. a u.s. citizen being investigated in a criminal case but certainly this is not been the case officials are using the
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public safety clause and the criticism stems from the fact that they did say earlier that any immediate threat has been removed also it's important to mention that republican lawmakers in the united states have been suggest. that i have been treated as an enemy competent this is also been a topic of much debate because we are of course talking about a us citizen or ny and didn't become a naturalized citizen last year on september eleventh he has also lived in the united states since two thousand and two and this case involves us a u.s. citizen committing a terror act on u.s. soil it's also important to know that a major aspect of this case that's being debated is the participation of the f.b.i. because as we do know back in two thousand and eleven they did receive a request from a foreign government this is russia's government that said that they should look into the identity of the older brother the older suspect to milan he did in fact bring to milan in for questioning the followed his phone calls they intercepted his
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social relationships but did come to a conclusion that he is not dangerous and did end up freeing him of course because the f.b.i. right now is being criticized for this they're going to trace their steps back look into what exactly they could have missed but also try to establish right now with the second suspect being alive whether the two brothers had any kind of connection to extremist groups that they might have overlooked two years ago and in the time in the years and diesel leading up to the bombings that took place here in boston and also of course they're going to consider and look into the purposes of the trip that the older brother tamerlan when he went back to the north caucuses for about six months they're going to try to see whether or not this time was used for him to be able to communicate with extremist groups on the ground inside r.t. boston massachusetts well former u.s. federal agent cohen riley believes that u.s. citizens have fallen victim to the government's policy of picking good and bad terrorists. this idea terrorism is such
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a confusing concept because we have our terrorists and they are terrorists it's the definition is supposed to be acts of violence against civilians for political purposes but use. see this over and over where they're they you us considers that there are good rebels good freedom fighters at the very least the separatists in other countries are not considered as terrorists we have a whole establishment neoconservative as stablished me in the us now i have only involved in propagandizing that there are good rebel groups for instance in iran is the latest example of the mujahideen call that actually was on the us terrorist list but now we have been delisted to become the good rebel fighters against iran. the revelation that the boston terror suspects are of chechen origin has seen an influx of journalists to russia's north caucuses where the brothers family live
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while the parents no longer willing to comment on the issue he has been able to speak to another relative who knew the alleged bombers from childhood. 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 a party months to 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 as the father of the two brothers couldn't find a proper job they have been moving from kyrgyzstan to change them back to the 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 older brother is just over a year old now she's found a lot of time with the time of life when he came to visit his parents to dagestan
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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 he 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 have carried it out just impossible it's terrible but i couldn't believe it their children who respected their parents
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a lot timberland was very attentive to older people to his family for him have been was of his mother's feet. the parents' mobile phones are rare he switched on but i have since managed to speak to the mother of the two brothers on the phone and the woman sounded really devastated she kept repeating that her sons are innocent she also mentioned her eldest son time that along was under constant 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 have to stand on this region to really hold out that some lives will never be right and will hopefully set some line to watch how their sons and out you made some real traction in the boston terrorist attack with one down and the other under an armed guard and you go to r.t. dot com to get the full picture of what the past week has meant for the citizens of
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boston online photo gallery contains images of the tragic events unfolding at the boston marathon as well as the manhunt that followed. spend ten months holed up in ecuador's embassy in london and the u.k. has spent millions on watching the door he faces extradition to sweden for questioning over sexual assault allegations although no charges have been brought against him we spoke to the whistleblower exclusively who says the u.k. just can't let go of him because of the external forces it's torn between. well it's been said of the british prime minister william hague that there does not exist the diplomatic situation that william hague cannot make what's so far that has proven to be true but really for the united kingdom they've been handed a poisoned chalice united kingdom so admits to spending over forty four and
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a half million dollars just on the police surveillance around this embassy about the cost absolutely so that money is some money that should be spent on the people of. why is the united team doing. its between a number of different forces so you have the united states on the one hand the united kingdom feels that it cannot defend any matter what sort of chemistry. on the other hand you have it's into relationships in europe that it wants to be seen in some ways in europe to be part of europe mystic population a part of. the united kingdom actually wants to ship the problem away as fast as possible but now of course it overstepped. and not the state has intervened ecuador this is not right and we want to project out.
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in showing to do so. and so there is a clash now of cultures. rule of law. and your property. police stand accused of using human shield tactics that's after they tracked the palestinian scene in front of a crowd of protesters say they only did it to show he was unharmed to calm the anger. and the state for so seize greece put some of its most tragic properties under the hammer tearing the cuts but in nation between necessity and pride our poor home and more still ahead. for me one has wrapped up in bahrain with anti-government protests clashing with police in a bid to disrupt the controversial event security offices stone there is where prior form activists gathered suppressing most opposition marches the protesters
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had been using the formula one race to draw attention to human rights abuses in the country demanding more international pressure on the ruling family so each abhi from bahrain freedom the movement says the monarchy is trying to distract attention from the level of unrest in the country. if you were. hundred. round the country schools. around two hundred. the process. if you want to call. if you were crying but. not. quite at all. and people are really angry about all the. behind. not much. really.
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the u.s. military has acknowledged that over a half of guantanamo bay prisoners are now on hunger strike there among the eighty four protesters five have been put in hospital with life threatening conditions and sixteen are being force fed. explains why the inmates have resorted to such desperate measures. here's a breakdown of who's currently held captive at the u.s. prison in guantanamo fifty four percent are yemeni nationals that is ninety five captives out of one hundred sixty six just a few more figures a total of eighty six prisoners there have been cleared for release fifty six of them yemeni nationals three years ago the u.s. suspended all transfers of detainees to yemen what seems to aggravate the psychological torture of indefinite detention is knowing that your nationality something that you cannot control is the sole basis of that ordeal defense lawyers say what they deal with now is collective punishment by the u.s.
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government based on nationality which is a clear violation of international law when pressed for answers the administration the state department specifically which was in charge of those transfers they point the finger at congress at the moratorium that the lawmakers put in place that the defense authorization act that they passed but lawyers say those are just excuses our clients are coming to grips with cold the me will die is going to not because the state is unable to transfer but because unwilling to do so the transfer of structures are difficult for example they would require the secretary of defense to personally certify that a receiving state had taken steps to ensure that a prisoner can ever threaten the united states in the future whatever threaten might mean in that context. and obviously no state can guarantee that a future event will or will not occur but that was the point the point was to discourage transfers from guantanamo citizens of forty eight countries in total have been held in guantanamo since the opening of the prison in two thousand and
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two the majority of them were from afghanistan and over the years most of them have been transferred back to afghanistan the second largest group of captives were from saudi arabia then yemen then pakistan but you see the scope of the manhunt it included forty eight countries as of now it's not just the yemeni nationals who are stuck in this legal limbo but the rest as well michael williams. senior advisor for guantanamo policy in the office of the legal advisor at the u.s. department of state testified before a human rights commission and here's what he said we will continue to work through the secretary of state and the other arms for us government to accomplish transfers first of all mr williams of the state department gave this testimony in the middle of march that is three months after the state department shut down the office that was working on those transfers so it is not clear how they continue to work on it if they shut down the office that was doing that also defense lawyers present at this commission hearing saw the response was an attempt to water down the core
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issue to walk down in legal details which seem to have no effect on the outcome of the indefinite detention that they're asking for or justifying is under the laws of war and in the states united states mind that that. that war ends at the end of hostilities against two al qaeda and associated forces well what does that mean that's indefinite that is the epitome of indefinite some here have voiced the idea that whatever is keeping most of those people there has nothing to do with the law but more with the fear that even those who had been wrongfully captured and held there for years for no reason have weakness so much at that prison including torture and other forms of humiliation the fear that the u.s. may have created its own enemies there you have dozens of people cleared for release and still languishing in prison so they may have fallen victim not just to
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their wrongful capture but now to u.s. politicians assumptions of what they may or may not do in the future in washington i'm going to check on. israeli police are being accused of using a handcuffed palestinian teenager as a human shield after they were seen parading him in front of an angry crowd however they say they only wanted to calm the protesters down our middle east correspondent paula slayer has this report. 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 israeli border policeman removing this young palestinian who is identified as mohammad asif interior from the army jeep and forcing him to stand both sides then with handcuffed hands raised above his
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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 mocked the annual palestinian prisoners day and this was possible 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 fence 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.
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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 letter 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 prison or something or other is sol we do 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. look at some other international news now hundreds of people have rallied in the indian capital new delhi for a second day to show their police police conduct after the rape of a five year old girl they cues officials of failing to investigate after the family
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of the child reported her missing the attack left the girl in a critical condition but doctors say her health is now stable. you venezuelan president nicolas maduro has appointed the head of the country's central bank is the new finance minister now as has been the helm of the financial body since two thousand and nine the president vice president foreign and defense ministers in their current positions it was majority chosen successor so hugo chavez won a narrow victory in venezuela's elections last sunday. tens of thousands of protesters in the french capital have made a last ditch attempt to block a proposed law allowing same sex couples to marry and adopt children the rally was largely peaceful but scuffles did break out between far right groups who had been banned from the protest and the latest supporters of gay rights held a small account to protest parliament is due to vote on the new measures today. i want to head this out artie's cross talk takes a close look at why the u.s.
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is pumping in massive resources to expand its presence in asia. china has never had the strength to wage a war across an ocean the united states did but the idea that their behavior would be different in hundred. for it were slave ships from the west. it was probably couldn't draw nine hundred fifty pounds culture counts. what your ig it's not a coincidence that it's china has grown stronger but its economy has grown that its military has grown that it has pursued a more interest interventionist foreign policy this is what happened to the united states for this is what we're going to do for in the united way it's been interventionist have you not paid attention to anything anyone says over the last few years because i have. china china the video you sort of mentioned while overseas nowhere.
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seem cross-talk a bit later on the wealthy shakes and only guards are flocking to greece as it auctioned off seventy thousand prime state properties national landmarks historic palaces and even entire islands are going under the hammer at a frantic pace thins though has little to say on the matter but the fire sale demanded by the e.u. and the i.m.f. chief paymaster is a fact that for one filmmaker demonstrates demonstrates just how far greece has fallen. we have a soaring unemployment that in a few months we reach thirty percent and we have people committing suicide rates in the streets we have homeless all around campus so we're living in a humanitarian crisis that we haven't seen scenes i haven't seen a second world war they cannot make elites that actually control the greek government or they supported what i imagine the c b droid wanted to do now that the real lead is that there is
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a problem that we cannot continue with this just there in the policy unfortunately the same thing doesn't happen for the greek government that just for me or there is coming from brussels or are or very lean. the to say to the mobilization that if you don't accept these are staring people you see. everything we've got a lapse in in a few days or or a few hours the country should default and probably even exit the eurozone troika doesn't understand this because troika and especially a method europeans are not about the desk here to save big financial institutions and b. banks if you don't pay attention to the relation. well greece isn't just stopping it selling off what's above ground zero with the country's mineral rich is open to the highest bidder and that has spilled even split even the ranks of austerity wary greeks on the one hand it could spell ruin for the environment and local businesses and on the other it's jobs for
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a country wrapped with unemployment artie's tom barton found himself in the thick of the conflict. protest in paradise the cause proposals to expand gold mines here were on a mountain road near the village of strato ne in northern greece there were the protesters who lodged in their position against the mine here further on the mountain road the riot police blocking them from getting to the village this process is just one of those showing the intensity of feeling surrounding the subject here greece's kalki did keep an insular is renowned of my tourists roots but it also contains precious metals which canada's eldorado gold corporation wants to extract but split the region here in the year of source locals want to protect their traditional trades. mining activity is the worst that could happen to this area mining and beekeeping cannot co-exist. and protect the health and environment that i'm in panic because the mining will destroy our clean air and
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clean water part of the problem is the process used to extract and purify gold and other metals which critics say will leave contamination by cyanide and other chemicals this method. results in getting the metals from the or. all of the metals the majority of them and live in there with a lot of residuals as we travel up into the hills where forest has already been cleared the mining company security trails us then persuade the police up to stop us. security and locals are going extinct this is expected point. they don't want us to film we want to pass on us public roads but i don't wish there was somebody tension between the locals and whining about here but their good. intentions indeed the locals have destroyed some of the company's heavy machinery and ransacked the police station police have raided homes in the middle of the night to arrest
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suspects and fired tear gas at protesters but there is as much support for eldorado here is criticism both from the government and other villages whose mining populations welcome the possibility of thousands of extra jobs at a time of deep recession around half of the nearby villages approach mine and deeply critical of anti mining protesters when you these people who are unemployed cause many problems by telling lies their only purpose is to shut the mines down in fact they want nothing they don't want any development. eldorado gold refused to talk to us but they say they won't be leaving the area. locals in areas source say they won't let mining go ahead without a fight but that if they do lose they will be leaving this corner of greece that they love so much tom bottom r.t. . stay with us for a cross talk that is coming up next. mission
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