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news h.q. tonight developments in the big story of the day u.s. federal prosecutors have charged in the last few hours the surviving suspect in last week's boston terror attack nineteen year old dzhokhar of said knives under armed guard in hospital after being severely wounded in the throat in a shootout with the police let's go up to speed on the latest showing from boston artesian a situation a. little confusion over these charges there were sealed i gather however some of the information has got out what do we know. cavanagh certainly more information about the official charges brought against nineteen year old joe hart's or not i have has now have now surfaced what we do know is the official complaint against him includes charges of the use of weapon as weapons of mass destruction as well as most destruction of property resulting in death and of course these are charges that are under federal u.s. law would call for a death penalty we do know that in the state of massachusetts where these crimes were committed there is no death penalty but it does exist in the federal criminal
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system as well as in thirty two other states in the u.s. and this is certainly now what your hearts are now i have seems to be facing now it's of it's important to note that we are hearing that he is in fact conscious now he did awaken last night on sunday night and was able to answer brief basic questions from the f.b.i. sporadically in writing this has been the case for now he remains in his hospital bed he is alert and responding to these charges according to what we are hearing now there has been some kind of confusion and debate really in the united states surrounding the fact of the revoking of his miranda rights where he would not be informed of the right to remain silent as well as the right to an attorney we're not hearing any confirmation as of yet on the ground in terms of whether or not his miranda rights were read to him there is no information in terms of whether or not an attorney was actually present when these charges were revealed but of course now the investigators have to stylish was an american citizen his brother could have allegedly committed what went on here how those investigations progressing.
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well and kevin of the investigation is certainly now going to get into its most intricate stages now that is finally conscious again and they will going to be able to ask all of the questions that they have been building up over this last week we do know that a probable cause hearing has been scheduled for may thirtieth but basically what the investigation is now going to have to do is try to trace back their. steps in a sense because as we know back in two thousand and eleven according to a request from the russian government the f.b.i. did in fact look into the identity of the older brother twenty six year old to milan to try to establish whether or not he was connected to any sorts of extremist groups on the grounds he was released at that time and that is certainly a cause for much controversy people are wondering why it is that this man who ended up being behind the boston bombings was in fact released back in two thousand and
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eleven they're wondering why the f.b.i. didn't keep him on his on a watch list at least to be able to kind of follow his steps that led up to the bombings of course many red flags that seem to have been ignored he certainly has plenty of questionable videos on the social networking site and according to some people who knew him here we here in boston that for example the mosque that he was part of wanted to even block him from coming in because of his views becoming increasingly radicalized all of these questions now to be answered by the f.b.i. . boston from. the relatives and friends of the family saying the older brother kept a low profile during his trip to the north caucuses last year and that he didn't seem like a religious fanatic didn't coach never travel to doug tried to get in contact with the alleged bombers relatives. the city of my high school is still reeling from shock at what happened the brothers parent stopped talking to the media as of early saturday but i managed to speak to
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a close relative of the family puts months who is married to the uncle of the two suspects now she told me that both brothers moved from dagestan after living here for just a bit over a year to the united states in two thousand and two when the older brother time adeline was a teen and the brother just thought it was just six no she showed us some pictures that we're taking during that time pictures that captured both brothers in their early trial good and then one time alone there's just over a year old now she spent a lot of time with time let alone the when he came here to dagestan to visit his parents last year and she describes him as a nice family loving and caring young man and he talked a lot about his american wife catherine about their daughter and about this trip that was the first one after almost a decade that he lived in the united states she also said that he acted and sounded as a foreigner to her having spent really the most significant for his life in the states
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and she admits that he expressed here ya city in about his heritage and showed interest in old thoughts of things including the religion which she never assumed intense. the middle long wasn't a religious fanatic he was curious about religion he started to be really interested in islam about three years ago but he was never a radical we would talk about his commitment to religion but it wasn't extreme. remembers that plan to come to dagestan in may also for this time in a decade but now their father plans to go to america to burry his older son time at a line just like the neighbors and friends around them she really struggles to believe that the two brothers were involved in this tragedy. it's impossible to believe that they could have carried it out just impossible it's terrible but if
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you can believe it there are children who respected their parents alone time or learned was very attentive to older people to use family. was of use mothers. the type of knives family mobile phones are rarely switched on however in the brief telephone conversation the mother of the two brothers told me that she believes that her sons are innocent and really with the devastation in her voice she told me that her elder son time evelyn was under constant surveillance for years and then after the attack by madeleine reached both parents and told them that he was asked for questioning now that is something that the f.b.i. now denies as for the father i tried to reach him but he refused to answer any questions it is really hard to find anyone who really knew the family well and especially the brothers as they left several years ago and left very few memories so now dozens of journalists who have this ended on this region really hope that
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this have knives will speak and eventually shed some light on how their boys and it up the main suspects in the boston terrorist attack. after revelations of the suspects chechen origins the us media wasted no time in shifting the focus to armed groups in russia's north caucasus region whether it's in gangs that previously been portrayed in the west as freedom fighters and those seen as merciless terrorists freelance journalist said berg believes american attitudes to chechnya could explain the f.b.i.'s failure to take action after russia warned it two years ago about the older brother there's a number of issues here one is that. 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 the u.s. so it's not that they were non 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 checked and it could be
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a threat to the russia but really did not a threat to us so there's a number of issues here there's also the issue of look maybe did you i just thought you know what these guys are extremists but they really don't pose much of a threat we don't see them doing anything so there's a number of issues here in the coming weeks and months we're going to find out the answers the u.s. may no be changing its mood and towards chechen militants amid suspicions they may be connected to the boston bombings but things were different just a few years ago when it was quite willing to cede some of them on its soil in two thousand and four american authorities granted political asylum to key chechen extremist made of despite a warning from russia that he had links with the region's terrorists. well after the dramatic man and for the brothers is still plenty of uncertainty surrounding the case and r.t. dot com we've got an opinion piece pointing out several glaring inconsistency in the official account of the standoff with the suspects invite you to log on to check that out. folks on some other news now receiving has moved
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a step closer to joining the european union after the commission recommended starting talks on membership that decision comes in the wake of belgrade approving a deal with its breakaway territory kosovo the agreements were met with theory that among serbs some of whom have branded it treason thousands turned out in belgrade a matter of instead of protest against the deal grants prettiness ethnic albanian leadership control of a kosovo while serbian minorities will be granted autonomy within the territory for affairs editor and serbian public t.v. says the issue of course opposed become a bargaining chip in session told. even those. wanted that because of what not to become bargaining chips that was not what brothel had in mind and needs in particular some major members of the european union like germany they clearly. belgrade that either you make a deal with cost of all or you will never. continue your road towards the european union they. call of all the roads today european union and some of them do not
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break. how they will deal with it remains to be seen but indeed european union is on solving that issue because they haven't invested much into cost of all the fault or secure like members of nato to secure its independence of course the way they're not going to give up now. for some countries buying on the door to get into the a year where there's a fine of the membership rules are driving them to desperate measures great seats up for grabs it's the largest fire sale in history from pristine coastlines to ancient palaces just to keep its economy afloat we've got details about coming up a little bit later this hour. next the gunman's open fire in a shop in western russia has killed at least six people including two girls aged fourteen and sixteen or police units in the rule city of both girls are currently undergoing the shooter. the story this all started just several hours ago when this
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thirty two year old suspect has opened literally started a bloody massacre in the center of their russian town killing six people three people he shot inside the hunting store and then he went outside according to reports and shot three more passer bys among them two teenage girls now at this point we're also being told by the police that his father has been brought in for questioning his father has also variously served time for various criminal offenses in fact it's important to note that the victim's self has just been released from prison last year where he was out on charges for robbery as well as assault on a police official the full details of the tragedy in bogor including eyewitness pictures and on our website. so just a little after thirty minutes past eleven at night moscow time we're going to stay with more international news right after this break.
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the group of international landlords in the very heart of moscow. moscow course put the head of a british investment firm one of the international wanted list and issued an arrest warrant william browder from the hermitage capital investment funds also the former boss of the late russian lawyers to the game admit skee who died in prison while being held on tax evasion charges can offer earlier shared the details with me. he is suspected of not being around seventy million dollars worth of taxes it is the same case which involved the war work for the fund but while he died in prison before a court could make a decision on this case but he was also suspected of taking part in these alleged illegal activities overseen by mr browder but actually now he's been put on the
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international wanted list in connection to a whole other story he's a suspected of illegally purchasing through various criminal schemes around one one hundred million dollars worth of shares of russia's energy giant gazprom and on the russian war of foreign companies are prohibited from buying with such shares and he's also suspected of trying to infiltrate the company changing things inside including changing its charter one of the reasons behind him being put on the international wanted list is that the previous court hearings were held without without him actually there present and the other reason is that the prosecution believes that he could apply pressure on some of the witnesses so well now that he has been put on the list it's logical to expect that the interpol will get involved it's also logical to expect for moscow to ask for his extradition but here there's a problem of the complicated relationship between russia and the u.k. in that sense for instance a former church militant leader of london denied his extradition to russia several
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times to the same goes for the recently deceased bodies because you saw it's very unlikely that london will cooperate with moscow in that sense when it comes to william browder but the fact that the man is already on the international wanted list has to mean something. from ancient palaces to entire islands greece is selling off seventy thousand lots of state assets to desperately try to raise cash wherever it can it's been described indeed as the largest fire sale in history but it's vital to getting the next financial injection from the country's creditors and there are no limits in the paymaster's appetite either as one greek filmmaker told us we have a soaring unemployment that in a few months will 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
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economic elites that actually control the group government or the supporters where i am i think the see droid 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 same thing doesn't happen for the greek government that the be or there is coming from brussels sorer or barely. the seed of the population that if you don't accept these are staring people you see. everything we could allow in a few days or a few hours gundry's should default and probably even exit the eurozone troika doesn't understand this because troika and especially meth and europeans are not about the just here to save big financial institutions and b. banks don't pay attention to the illusion or citizen anger is just over public i said sold off to help banks rather than the actual public the country's minerals
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are also open to be exploited by the highest bidder too and the fear there is more ecology than economy itself he told barton found out. protest in paradise the cause proposals to expand gold mines here were on a mountain road near the village of star tony 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 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
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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 by cyanide and other chemicals as we travel up into the hills where forest is already being cleared the mining companies security trails us then persuades local police to stop with. their security and locals i was even if this is expected point they don't want us to film we want to pass on us public we're going to put on this show or 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
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populations welcome the possibility of thousands of extra jobs at a time of deep recession around half of the nearby villages are pro mine and deeply critical of anti mining protesters. 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 the 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. a lot more of these stories and of course in a web site tonight there is some anonymous call for a web blackout in protest over them from a cyber intelligence bill that allows authorities to harvest private information that it was one of the stories that we follow that up plus two masses can tell us
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sports three planets where human life may be sustainable while still scanning the rest of the sky is one of the star like the sun is there life out there find out from us no. more than half of the detainees in guantanamo bay and one hunger strike according to the u.s. military that's the biggest spike in the number of inmates refusing food since competitions acknowledge the protest so far five have been hospitalized in a prison camp and seventeen of being force fed up to stevens innocuous a retired army medical corps officer and former senior adviser to the defense department told us it might not be long things before the protest turns lethal. typically people still get very sick after about fifty days in which they've not had any food but are taking water so they may be getting very sick and i think there's a fear that a number may die within the next several weeks all the world medical associations
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are categorically and ethically against force feeding the reason being is that it in fact disrupts what is most important which is establishing a constructive relationship were poor with the hunger strikers and being able to discuss the terms of their protest the this is a they if they have it also. really overrides their. autonomy which is very important in medicine we except that is one of our ethical principles so that by and large most organizations across the world feel that it is not acceptable and in this particular case it does not help resolve their grievances and help resolve the conflict that were having between the detainees and the authorities through a big story making the headlines the still no sign of the angry protests ending in
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new delhi where hundreds of people have been rallying over a third day over police conduct of the rape of a five year old girl offices are accused of ignoring the girl's parents when they reported her missing child's condition said to be slightly improving a second man's been arrested of the assault there are regular protests more generally over the authorities failure to clamp down on the attacks against women. turkish transport helicopter with at least eleven civilians on board has been forced to make an emergency landing in a taliban controlled area of eastern afghanistan the insurgents then took all those on board hostage mater's confirmed that the helicopter did go down on monday and said the search operation is now underway. it's only recently reelected in the fall of time though as being sworn in to office for a second term of president only agreed to serve again after being lobbied by the major parties but laid into politicians what he called quote unforgivable failure to bring in reforms eighty seven year olds about to step down next month but
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political leaders failed five times to pick a successor. it's been ten months now since june a son joined to the ecuadorian embassy in london seeking asylum and he stayed holed up there ever since with ecuador the u.k. locked in a diplomatic standoff over how to deal with this the cost of policing the sites continuing to mount the u.k. settle next to it in the world's best known whistleblower to sweden for questioning over sexual assault allegations meantime artie's police boyko got a rare chance to talk to a search. one thing that scott 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 in the free flow of information and when our studio songe about how he fancies 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 assignment is very clear he says he wants to put a stop to the u.s.
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corruption in order 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 ninety's seventy's even when he was a member of senior member of the new south wales strain your current prime minister julie get out your role as the sitting prime minister can rub it happened in part because she sent a voice to the us embassy base but this couldn't stop there's a constant back and forth in this year long sort of preparation. which she 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
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power after the general elections in twenty fifteen but when i asked just about 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. the nation into politically of institutions the mark for my six central bank so this is more. controls the behavior. and the media. and elected representatives simply represent. they represent the forces exist on the big institutions or what i suspected you're 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 unusually frank when i asked the officer about how
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he feels about the cost of policing the area you could sense a bit of frustration he 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. . well a boy or a correspondent left out of the break hoping stay with us crossed looks of why the u.s. has increasingly got its own age of these days and nights program. the movie world war z z being for zombie which stars brad pitt as one hundred seventy five million dollar budget has been recalled 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
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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 that there has been pro-choice and the 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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