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is in intensive care under armed guard after he was severely wounded in the throat in a shootout with police now the investigators task is to establish why an american citizen and his brother could have allegedly committed the deadly boston marathon attack and if indeed there were any accomplices reporting from boston now auntie's and i see a chicken. 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 they're 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 a unprecedented manhunt that took place here and
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a several hour shootout between law enforcement and this nineteen year old suspect we do know that 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 apart from the two brothers that have been hunted by a officials here throughout the week nineteen year old dzhokhar and twenty six year old to milan and of course we have to note that the miranda rights officer and i have have been revoked the rights of he has to remain silent as well as the rights to a lawyer are being deny to him because officials are interested in being able to question him without being able to use this right and the fact that his miranda rights have been revoked is receiving major criticism throughout the united states and causing really a lot of debate between certain politicians and civil rights groups also it's important to mention that republican lawmakers in the united states have been suggesting that to be treated as an enemy competent this is also been
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a topic of much debate because we are of course talking about a u.s. citizen 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 back that he was twenty four years. hold and the f.b.i. did receive recommendations that they investigate him they did in fact bring to milan in for questioning the followed his phone calls they intercepted his social relationships as well as his activity online with did come to a conclusion that he is not dangerous and did end up freeing him and 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 days leading up to the bombings that took place here in boston
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also of course they're going to consider and look into the purposes of the trip to the older brother to milan 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 especially churkin party boston massachusetts. relatives and friends of the sort of my family say the elder brother kept a low profile during his trip to the north caucuses last year and that he didn't seem like a religious fanatic i mean all the father of the alleged bombers says he will travel from russia to america this week on a quest for the truth i think that he has lots of questions for the american police a correspondent in a question of is in the dagestan republic to learn more about this. really almost anyone who has any links with the family is really in deep shock after what happened both relatives and friends now the brothers spare and stopped talking to
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the media asked of early saturday but i managed to speak to a close relative of the family now her name is. and he was she was married to the boy's uncle now she told me how really tragic and difficult the life of the toddler i have family was and that for years they have been moving from one place to another as the father couldn't find a proper job and they've moved twice from kyrgyzstan's first to than to dagestan were they span just a bit over a year and still they moved to the united states in two thousand and two she even showed us some pictures that we're taking during that time pictures that captured both brothers in their early trials of women in one picture the older brother time evelyn is just a bit over a year old now she spent a lot of time with tom avalon when he came here to dagestan last year to visit he has a parents and she describes him as a very family loving and caring young man and when i asked her whether he expressed any x.
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her interest in this 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 just that it wasn't extreme it was really hard for her to speak she told me that. the younger brother was planning to come here to dagestan this may and now their father plans a trip to the united states to bury his midline so as for many here if she couldn't the woman couldn't really believe that they were involved in the tragedy. most believe that they could have contributed to. believe it there are children who respected their parents who loved him or learned was very attentive to older people to spam for him have been was of use mothers. both parents mobile phones
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are switched off or rarely own law and it's really impossible to reach them but i have since managed to speak to the mother of the two brothers and kept repeating their first sons were innocent she also mentioned that her eldest son to madeleine was under constant surveillance for years when both parents before mentioned that told them that the i would be i can talk to him right after the boston bombings and ask him for questioning however the hour. later denied that information now as for the father i spoke with him also in a telephone conversation just yesterday and he told me that he doesn't want to talk to any media right now so really dozens of journalists from all over the world is that how descended on this region hold that man's family will speak and eventually shed some light to how their boys and did up the main suspects in the boston terrorist attack. within a quarter of
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a reporting that now after revelations of the suspects chechen origins of the u.s. media wasted no time in shifting the focus to groups in russia's north caucasus region a militant gangs that had previously been portrayed in the west as freedom fighters and now seen as most of the terrorists freelance journalist believes american attitudes to chechnya could explain the f.b.i.'s failure to take action that after russia warned two years ago about the older brother. there's a number of issues here one is that either it's gross incompetence by the f.b.i. in which case some heads have to roll and why did this take place how did these guys get in under the radar but also that they were pointed out by the russian authorities to that u.s. so it's not that they were not it's not like they didn't register so the people who are known so it could be gross incompetence or not taking the threat seriously the f.b.i. could be saying look at these guys are chechen they could be a threat to the russia but really did not a threat to us so there's
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a number of issues here there's also the issue of look maybe if you i just thought you know what these guys are extremists but they really don't pose much of a thread we don't see them doing anything so there's a number of issues here think in the coming weeks and months we're going to find out the answers. and the u.s. may now be changing its move towards chechen militants amid suspicions they may be connected with the boston bombings but things were different just a few years ago when it was quite willing to see some of them on its own soil in two thousand and four american authorities granted political asylum to key chechen extremist made off despite a warning from russia that he had links with the region's terrorists. well after the dramatic a manhunt for the brothers there's still plenty of uncertainty surrounding the case at r.t. dot com we have an opinion piece pointing out several glaring inconsistency used in the official account of the standoff with suspects and you can log on to r.t. dot com to get the latest on that. for now here on r t
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serbia has moved a step closer to joining the european union after the e.u. commission recommended starting talks on membership now that decision comes in the wake of belgrade approving a deal with its breakaway territory because of agreement has been met with fury among both in serbia and kosovo some of whom have branded it as treason it groans pristine as ethnic albanian leadership control over kosovo or serbia minorities will be granted autonomy is within the territory of more on this and are joined by boycotting but it sure the foreign affairs editor at serbian a public television and nice to see you today so thanks for joining us here on r t serbian officials have stressed that the deal does not imply a recognition of kosovo as independents while pristina insists that it does how do you read into it. well of fish and it does not even depend on the recognition of independence of course always specially because their leaders insist that in one of
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the article says that. serbia will. block membership of the way the international organization that article was changed to serbia will not block at the european integration process of course of it doesn't say international organization anymore so serbia many still continue to block off course along with its main main ally in the security council russia the membership of course the united nations. also serbian leaders he said that they have managed to avoid the recognition of course though however being the first to deal with the government also concede their right to peace now thought it is to actually run cost of all on their own but i mean this about which i'm sort of jumping quickly does address the issue of bargaining chip because serbia used to say that it was not going to let calls of zero be used as a bargaining chip in its session process but essentially that's that's effectively what's happened now isn't it it is it is even though serbia wanted that
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because of the north to become bargaining chip that was not what brussels had in mind and in particular some major members of the european union like germany they clearly. had to belgrade that either you make a deal with costs of all or you will never. continue your road towards the european bone but wonder why but why continue the road to the european union when it's got so many of its own problems of a massive debt slow growth what why is serbia so keen to join. well that's exactly what the whole debate in third gays about majority of political parties more than three quarters of the parliament are pro european and they say that we should feel joined because investors are more confident in the countries that are members of the european union which we can see in the balkans in the case of let's say about gary and romania who are expecting much more hoarding investment in serbia
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and because we need to reform our country and make it more efficient we exactly what supposed to happen during the negotiations. negotiations and i said but why but why has the e.u. b i'm sorry to jump in i do apologize why has the e.u. been so insistent on the cause of i wish you in his negotiations with even though several states don't even recognize cause of. the thing but the european union have will have to sort out they have promised costs of all the roads to the european union and some of the member states the cost of all the how they will deal with it remains to be seen that's not up to us but indeed european union ing on solving that issue because they haven't invested much into cost of all they fold a war to a secure like members of nato to secure independence of course the way they're not
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going to give up now. and also i think they don't believe that serbia can solve the problem of problem of a nation in the balkans wanting to seek to secede from from serbia so they want to do it in our stead all right have foreign affairs that it's been public television thank you for joining us here on our seats a day. well while some countries are bang on the door to get inside the e.u. others a finding the membership's rules are driving them to desperate measures greece is up for grabs with the largest fire sale in history from pristine coastlines to ancient palaces and just to keep its economy afloat as details of just around the corner.
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of the international airport in the very heart of moscow. good to have you with us here on r.t. on rory sushi a moscow courts for the head of a british investment firm on an international wanted list and issued and of arrest warrant william browder from the hermitage capital investment fund is also the former boss of the late russian lawyer. who of course died in prison while being held on tax evasion charges let's get more now from our teaser you got a piece going off or joining us live here in the studio are you going to bring us up to date here what charges in moscow is broader wanted for well first of all we know about william browder from the scandalous image capital group or find rather a story would be key said he was its head and he suspected that here. evaded taxes worth of around seventy million u.s.
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dollars is the single piece where you might need skew was involved course he died in prison before a court could make any decision on his case but he was also suspected of being involved in various criminal activities that this fund was allegedly conducting overseen or overlooked by william browder but now this man has actually been put on an international wanted list in connection to different. broader is suspected of unlawfully through various criminal schemes purchasing around one hundred million dollars worth of shares of russia's energy giant gazprom and also allegedly tried kind of infiltrating the company changing its charter changing the rules within or how it works within and basically under russian a lot of foreign companies are prohibited from buying shares of such companies so then you go well what are the chances that he'll actually face a court in russia and even get convicted for that matter well so far so far all
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these court hearings have been conducted without his. present now that he's been put on the international wanted list it's very likely that interpol should get involved but since william broader is a citizen of the united kingdom russia and the u.k. do have quite a complicated relationship in that sense in the sense of extradition we don't have to think much about it just remember asking for a former church militant who is in the u.k. russia has been asking for is a tradition but failed to get him so far or the recently deceased former tycoon but he's been pretty much the same story so it's very very likely could that well we won't see that much cooperation from london when it comes to william broader but the man is on the international wanted list and while that has to mean something shown on t.v.
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what it is going to thank you. now are from ancient palaces to entire islands greece is selling off seventy thousand lots of state assets to desperately raise whatever cash it can it's being described as the largest fire sale in history it's vital to getting the next financial injection from the country's creditors and there are no limits in the paymaster's appetite as one greek filmmaker told r.t. . we have a soaring unemployment that in a few months we reach thirty percent and we have people committing suicide in the streets we have homeless all around us so we're living in a humanitarian crisis that we haven't seen since the second world war the economic elites that actually control the greek government and they supported what i imagine the sea really got wanted to do now that the real now is that there is a problem that we cannot continue with this was there any policy unfortunately the
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same thing doesn't happen for the greek government that the just for me or there is coming from brussels or are or barely. the deceit of the relation that if you don't accept these are staring people you see. everything we collapse in a few days or a few hours the country should default and probably even exit the eurozone troika doesn't understand this because drawing a gun and especially a method europeans are not about the just here to save big financial institutions and b. banks if you don't pay attention to the nation. and our citizens anger isn't just over having their public assets sold off to help banks robbed of natural public or the country's minerals are also open to be exploited by the highest bidder for the fair this time is more than economy as artist tom barton discovered. protest in paradise the cause proposals to expand gold mines here were on
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a mountain road near the village of strat-o. ne in northern greece there were the protesters who lodge 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 is how he did keep an insular is renowned of my tourists for its beauty but it also contains precious metals which canada's eldorado gold corporation wants to extract that split the region here in yet a 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 clean water part of the problem is the process used to extract and purify gold and other metals which critics say will leave contamination
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by cyanide and other chemicals as we travel up into the hills where forest has already been cleared the mining company security trails us then persuades local police up to stop. their security and locals all giving up the physics technique or if they don't want us to film we want to pass on us public won't but i don't wish there was some attention to it when the locals are whining but here they go into tensions 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 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 yep we have to go up with you these
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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 will be leaving the area. locals in a year a 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. r.t. into the world update now starting with new delhi where there is no sign of the angry protests ending where hundreds of people have been rallying for a third day over police conduct after the rape of a five year old girl officers are accused of ignoring the girl's parents when they reported her missing on the child's condition is said to be slightly improving and a second man has been arrested over the years sold and there are regular protests over the earth already its failure to clamp down on a tax against women. a turkish transport helicopter with at least eleven
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civilians on board has been forced to make an emergency landing in a taliban controlled area of eastern afghanistan the insurgents than took all of those on board hostage it was confirmed that the helicopter went down on monday and says a search operation is now under way. and a gunman has gone on a shooting rampage in western russia killing six people including two teenage girls it's happened in the city of belgrade near the ukrainian border and a thirty two year old man entered a shop short three people with a hunting rifle before attacking three others on the street police reportedly surrounded the building where the killer is holed up. it's been ten months since julian assange entered the ecuadorian embassy in london seeking asylum he's been stuck there ever since with ecuador and the u.k. locked in a diplomatic standoff over how to deal with a songe the cost of policing the site is continuing to rise and the u.k.
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is set on extraditing the world's best known whistleblower to sweden for questioning of a sexual assault allegations and meanwhile. got a great chance to speak with us. one thing that's got the man excited is politics as many of you will know he's making a bid for the australian senate there's now a wiki leaks party that stands for truthfulness and the free flow of information and when our studio songs about how he sees this chances at getting into the senate he actually mentions that he's got quite a considerable interest in both him and the wiki leaks party and in terms of political goals of science is very clear he says he wants to put a stop to the u.s. corruption in or so let's take a listen to him elaborating on that point the current foreign minister bob carr was a u.s. embassy informant even back in the nineteenth seventy's even when he was a member of what senior member of the u.
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south wales strain your term prime minister julie god who rolled the sitting prime minister can rub it happened part because he sent a voice to the us embassy base but the security stopped was a constant back and forth in this year long sort of preparation. which he was gracious himself with various parties very recently there have been reports that ecuadorian diplomats in a meeting with the labor party in the u.k. right she raised the issue of julian assange perhaps in an attempt to get a guarantee of safe passage for julian assange orange in case labor does come to power after the general elections in twenty fifteen but when i asked just on your bow say he was quite skeptical he told me that he doesn't really think that there is going to be a change in the situation depending on which have a political party is in power in the u.k. the united kingdom is. the nation that you're pretty clear institution the money
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for my six top right so this is what. controls the behavior. and the media. and elected representatives simply represent. they represent the forces to exist on the big institutions or when i speak to you going to sarge actually according to him he said that the cost of policing the embassy is tipping four million pounds now and actually while we were filming outside the building i got chatting to some of the officers on duty and they were on usually frankly when i asked the officer about how he feels about the cost of policing the area you could sense a bit of frustration and said that you know all this money is going on watching one man when there are very crippling budget cuts taking place to police forces across the u.k. . his political reporting right there now after the break here and say across talk
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looks at why the u.s. has increasingly got its eye on asia thank you for watching. the movie world war z z being for zombie which stars brad pitt as one hundred seventy five million dollar budget has been re cut by paramount executives not because this is probably yet another stupid violent zombie movie but because the chinese might get offended according to the wrap dot com china was supposed to take the blame for starting the evil zombie apocalypse this time but china becoming the largest foreign market for american movies made artistic integrity fly out the window to protect the bottom dollar as is tradition and hollywood this is not the first time
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that there has been pro-choice censorship in hollywood the remake of red dawn which was originally a cold war era a minstrel show against russians was supposed to show a chinese invasion of america this time however they have changed it to north koreans who can't even defeat the us military in south korea let alone at an away game in the usa the thing that is interesting is not the censorship is the fact that they will censor movies for whoever's got a lot of cash countries the big markets won't be offended but countries with small markets will this is a complete prostitute mentality show that love to any guy who's got bills in his palm you know i was always pretty sure there were a lot of prostitutes working in hollywood i didn't know they actually started making the movies but that's just my opinion.

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