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the surviving suspect in last week's boston bombings has reportedly admitted he was involved in the blasts which killed three people and left alone with two hundred injured some of us media claims nineteen year old john hartson naive has denied links to any islamic terrorist group or the indicators that talk was driven by religious views led by his older brother more now from. official complaints in the presence of a judge and a lawyer have been filed against one thousand year old boston bombing suspect just hearts or nine of this took place at his hospital bed here in boston where he has been kept under strict guard ever since his arrest friday evening we do know of course that he suffered several serious injuries and was unable to speak for this entire time sunday evening he finally awoke and was able to answer several questions and writing and finally today he was conscious and able to react to the charges being brought against him at his hospital bed these charges of course include the use of weapons of mass destruction as well as the malicious destruction
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of property resulting in death now the penalty that's her knife is now death facing as a death penalty or any term of years behind bars including life he's also facing a fine of up to two hundred fifty thousand dollars we do know of course that his miranda rights were presented to him his right to remain silence as well as his right to an attorney throughout this brief encounter with the judge and we do know that mostly turn iof was. nodding and automation of hearing what he was being told he only spoke once when asked whether or not he's able to afford a lawyer and he said no so legal counsel is going to be presented to him it's important to note that earlier there was a lot of discussion surrounding the possibility of trying as an enemy combatant this is something that certain republican lawmakers in the united states were rooting for this is not been the case of course we're talking about a u.s.
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citizen who became a u.s. citizen last year on september eleventh and has been living in the united states for over a decade the older brother to milan certainly i have twenty six year old to milan of course died in a boston hospital after being taken into custody by police and the f.b.i. has been highly criticized for avoiding to take note of his identity. despite being of church and discerned the alleged bombers spend most of their lives in the u.s. after their parents applied for asylum both were rare visitors store russia but this didn't stop moscow from raising the alarm over possible terrorist intentions of the older brother and she's going to just recount reports now on why the concerns failed to prevent the boston tragedy. as the dust settles in the wake of boston bombings the question many ask is why and how could u.s. federal authorities fail to act on the valuable intelligence from two years ago
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stating that the middle of was radicalized dangerous and quote prepared to join unspecified underground groups that's the information the f.b.i. says they received from the russian government so two years ago the f.b.i. interviewed the guy and reported back to the russians that they found nothing suspicious since then they've apparently failed to monitor the middleman because if they have they probably discovered his you tube page under his own name by the way full of radical content with a playlist titled terrorists so you have intelligence from a foreign government you have the individual openly sharing radical content and yet somehow he's off the radar the fear is the reason the f.b.i. dropped the ball on the alleged russian intelligence is that they treated it as soley russia's problem they may have taken the marlins chechen background into consideration and they may have ended up looking at this individual from a more political rather than purely law enforcement point of view this is possible given the history of all the requests and pleas that russia has made in the past
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with regards to a number of individuals from north caucasus accused of crimes particularly those of chechen background one example yulia moderates who was known as the right hand of the internationally recognized chechen terrorists. just a quick reminder of who was he was killed in two thousand and six. record as a chechen militant leader included in one thousand nine hundred ninety five he and his gang attacked the city of blood urine of took up to one thousand eight hundred residents of that city hostage in a hospital including one hundred fifty children at least one hundred forty people died as a result of that attack also as he gained power in the region stated his objective to have all muslim regions in russia break away from the country it was basically a call to start a war on all fronts among his other heinous acts that was to. school hostage crisis in beslan in two thousand and four terror that russia will never forget it left swe hundred and thirty four people dead one hundred eighty six of them children so the
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right hand of this monster who helped stage all this whore. arrives in the us somewhere around the year two thousand settles down in boston by the way and receives political asylum despite russia's pleas to treat him as a clue criminal at the beginning us federal authorities appealed the boston course decision on granting him asylum then they withdrew their opposition after a number of political heavyweights in the us tuned in to support the chechen militants including former secret state margaret albright so when questioning u.s. federal authorities reaction to the alleged russian intel on the middle of it is important to keep in mind the mindset perpetuated in the u.s. for many years in favor of the militants in russia and against the russian government's actions to stop them new york city's former mayor rudy giuliani spoke to the confusion that many americans had as they learned about the background of these hard i have brothers the chechen revolution against russia is an islamic based revolution they want to islamic state in russia. not inherently anti-american
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right anti russian. american i mean and in fact here's the odd part of this if anything we've been i'm not going to say sympathetic with them but we've certainly been critical of putin and how far he's gone in dealing with. so if anything they should they shouldn't have this anger at the united states so given all this maybe maybe this political mindset has prompted authorities in the u.s. to drop the ball on valuable law enforcement intelligence on tom. and james petras professor of sociology at binghamton university believes the u.s. is walking on very free nice one and banks questionable on functions elsewhere in the world. the u.s. government is working with extremists to day in libya they are working with islamic extremists in syria they have been working in other
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places with islamic extremists on the one hand they oppose them on the other hand they instrumental lies them and hope they can discard them launch their adversaries undermined and i think this is a very dangerous game that washington's playing and this case we see the boomerang effect with the terrorists that once allied with the u.s. china round in point did guns at underbellies tie gets the united states supported the chesney and terror terrorist when they were working against russia when they were putting bombs in schools and metros etc they were called freedom fighters. so the u.s. has no be only one being criticized for controversial choices about who to bog the e.u. has agreed to buy crude from rebels in syria selectively leaving functions in the process critics say the union is simply supporting terrorists.
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sixty firms and people have signed an online petition for the u.k. to offer a firm and hundreds of i'm going to interpret is who worked with the british forces during the mucho operation being left behind as the army was drawn to phase the roles of the turnabout who see them as enemy collaborators point michael has more now on the plight. it was a dangerous job that required courage but while british forces withdraw the afghan interpreters who made their what possible are being left to fend for themselves rafi worked at camp prince in the helmand province he says he gets regular calls from the taliban this is your group or for. the well or you are all sent for those you have to be. if i catch you then i read you some six hundred fifty interpreters just like rafi remain in afghanistan with no right
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to settle in the u.k. many of these translators are washing on the frontline so they're working with soldiers risking their lives in exactly the same way soldiers do wearing the uniform wearing their combat fatigues following their rules at least twenty to been killed many more horrifically injured that's a danger they knew about when they signed up with danger they didn't know when they signed up was that at the end of that i've been to that ten year i mean both times when you when you finish the job and you've done it right well that's a thank you at the end of that job in this case it's a death threat it's a risk to your life because what's happening now is that as british troops withdraw afghanistan is not a safe place for these people the scene is that as having been seen by the taliban as having collaborated with the enemy and david the past year targeted killings of so-called international collaborators by the taliban have doubled according to the un mission in afghanistan last year six hundred ninety eight civilians were killed
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and three hundred seventy nine were injured in assassination attempts if they do not take the responsibility of saving their lives and providing them a peaceful environment. it will mean that they have only used those interpreters and left them. in a position where today their life and their family's life are in danger because of working for the british forces r.t. got in touch with the foreign and commonwealth office responsible for the interpreters asylum claims this is the response we've got people who have put their life on the line for the united kingdom will not be abandoned the government has put processes in place to ensure the service given by former enterprises with him forces is taken fully into account if individuals apply for asylum in the u.k.
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. the keyword here is individual for the moment it's a case by case basis according to the foreign office to make sure the personal circumstances are recognised case by case the sign of claims can take months even years there's no accountability every other nato country that directly employed interpreters has offered them some kind of special program visa program asylum britain's the only country that has an interest or dragging its feet on this the us a new zealand down norway are among the countries to publicly pledged to resettle any formally employed afghans to feel their lives are at risk in the u.k. there's also been a precedent interpreters that worked with british forces in iraq were offered asylum automatically i think we are a match of all of these people who are willing to risk their lives to support us and the second one is a programmatic basis which is we will be involved in events overseas in the future and all military clearly will need to have people helping them and who is going to
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help our military if they realise that they're not going to help themselves senior military and political figures urging the people who work here in the u.k. foreign office to rethink the policy and the campaigns gaining momentum over sixty thousand people have signed an online petition urging the british foreign secretary to offer a bulk resettlement program while the politicians think it over and here the men that risked their lives to help british forces say that the waiting game is getting deadlier by the day we were. helping the people but all they see is that reward with the aggression forces in afghanistan which are so-called the no two forces or eyes of forces but to every other. of the national. aggression forces and once they leave
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the people who are in danger and will pay. for the wrongdoings of the americans who we deal with going into troops and their families. london. angry subs filled the streets saying they feel betrayed accuse the government of selling them out after murdering a recognition deal with coleslaw in pursuit of political profit that are now left right. so that gunmen trying to hold up a citizen to shop and what's on russia leave six people dead including to teenage girls but the details have to alter it all. stay with us for more news after the break.
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i. this is i see welcome back mired in a struggle for economic supremacy and military domination of asia the u.s. and china are now contesting the moral high ground to beijing's released its latest briefing on the human rights situation america and response to a similar report from washington a reckless foreign policy indiscriminate wiretapping and raise based rights are just some of the issues brought up our season exceed our chefs curable. after years of accusations of violating human rights beijing is fighting back last year the u.s. state department issued its holding human rights practices report now china held a mirror to washington the u.s. again accused china of limiting internet freedoms the so-called great firewall of china where beijing has long been under scrutiny for blocking many western websites
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such as facebook google and you tube but those criticizing china are no saints sounding people and cispa bills to control the internet data have made waves across the atlantic lately and the u.s. government approved interception of private text messages and e-mails for security needs are hardly contributing to online freedom china's single party political system and lack of democratic elections also came under fire the chinese report made its wife back at america's multi-party system saying that in what seems to be a democratic process it's really not the people but the amount of money spent on complaints which really decide the when is the largest part of the us report was dedicated to human rights as they are today from harsh labor conditions to poor salaries indeed china's status of being the world's factory is nothing new and the cheap labor force concept has long been debated beijing hit back with a scathing claim that in the country where racism and discrimination officially do not exist after american and hispanic employees earn forty percent less than the white population in the united states and that's through the glass ceiling for
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women who earn a twenty percent smaller salary than men the us report also lashed out at the treatment of prisoners and members of opposition in china contrast that with a country which runs notorious guantanamo prison and the allegations of multiple human rights abuses within its walls with china highlighting full statistics on the debts in u.s. prisons and the use of brutal force against peaceful demonstrators in twenty twelve it is no secret that china has a checkered human rights record but by countering the claims of those who it believes should get its own house in order it is quite clear that beijing no longer wants to see a monopoly in the market of examining human rights. and there ingrates i'm listed on parrot isn't dot com says there is are a link between the stations labeled a right a friend as opposed to u.s. interests for the united states to talk about human rights it's incredible hypocrisy when you have a massive hunger strike going on in the concentration camp known as guantanamo when
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the united states has engaged in violating the human rights of the people of libya the people of syria of countless other nations around the world the chinese certainly have a lot to answer for for in terms of their own human rights record but the examples that their report highlights are all not only accurate but very telling we should also remember too that the it is the and it states which monopolizes control of international institutions such as amnesty international human rights watch doctors without borders and so forth which act as the arbiters of human rights sitting in judgment of countries whether they are or are not violators i'm not suggesting that there aren't good people who work within some of these organizations or that the organizations themselves don't sometimes do good work but often what you see is those who are deemed as violators of human rights are those who sit on the enemy's list of the united states the united states pretends that it has the option of
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being the arbiter of truth that is to say whatever the united states determines to be human rights violation is whatever the united states does is not a human rights violation. now to some other stories making news around the world north korea has reportedly demanded to be recognized of a nuclear weapons state the country's official newspaper says pyongyang has rejected u.s. demands to dismantle its atomic arsenals which is a precondition for talks it says a meeting will only go ahead if both parties negotiated as equals the north's missile forces have been increasingly active in recent weeks and some suspect further rocket tests are being prepared. but israel has warned it will respond to any sanctions the u.s. might want to impose over the outcome of the presidential election in the south american countries foreign minister vowed to take economic energy and political measures should washington resort to such pressure nicolas maduro the late president hugo chavez has chosen successor one day election in venezuela by
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a tiny margin the opposition kind of the demanded a recount the u.s. says it won't acknowledge manure is a victory without one. or. two guards of the french embassy in libya have reportedly been injured in a car bomb a part of the embassy was destroyed by the blast it's not here clear whether the guards were french or leave it or who was behind the bombing. to government fighters in syria will now be able to fill their coffers with money from oil exports to the you the union has decided to ease its all and bargain for the rebels now all crude transactions will have to be approved by the opposition's national council but in the us as investigative journalist willie brown says in this case the e.u. is giving a helping hands to terrorists. it's a blatant lie to say look we are fraid of all those right we are afraid about but
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in reality one sees him arming and financing and supporting. in syria the european union still officially recognizes the government even though they have an r.v. any ambassador embassy able to airlift and then they don't recognize as a government to these rebels there say they're legitimate representative but that's meaningless in diplomatic and in any law so what they're doing is legalizing. gang the european union waving the flag over it's madness we in belgium at the moment out of our wrist think people because they're radicalize muslims to go outside and now when they're on the other hand our foreign minister says we should buy and finance all those around there's no logic in it it's just complete lunacy germany's pulling out the stops to keep its economy growing with people sensitive to anything is seen as a financial drag on the state like immigration which is not
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a twenty year high newcomer as a playing to the industrial powerhouse in search of jobs and wealth that not only from out front in the but within it has a well known of of course now from. those coming to germany in search of a new life might find one of their biggest challenges in the shape of the german people a bertelsmann foundation poll shows two surge of people here a few new comers as a burden on society one of those is called schmidt he says he knows families who come from outside of the e.u. as many as five children who live in the state presently. the main performance which you have to bring to stay in germany you have to make children if you have no drop in germany and normal social flat hundred square meters in five children you get another three thousand euros that
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month social eight call runs a motor scooter hire company in berlin and claims to represent many upset at what they see as a free ride given to migrants. if i would live in africa and i hear that and i see that my friend of my of of mind is already in bali and shows me via facebook how he is living then i would say oh well i go to bernie and as soon as possible immigration here is a twenty year high with a further two million expected to arrive within the next three years along with traditional settlers from turkey the bulk of that number will come from with in sight the e.u. as the jobless countries like spain and greece look for better opportunities and the much wealthy in north as the mediterranean situation worsens wealthier countries like germany are a magnet to provide work for their fellow e.u.
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citizens but even those who weren't even born in germany worry about the influx. i came here in one thousand nine hundred four and now there are so many immigrants in germany who are not working not doing anything this leads to problems they live better than those who weren't. but those in the turkish community insist it's not easy. sometimes having immigrant status is not stickle to get a good job which leads to a lack of prospects and in some cases people turn to crime but this is not the majority how to handle surging immigration numbers or even the perception that they're draining society is going to prove harder for leaders to avoid there's a general election here just five months peter all of her. coming up in just a moment it's our big mountains breaking. the
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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 in hollywood this is not the first time 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
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koreans who can't even defeat the u.s. 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 coaches 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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remember that international airport in the very heart of moscow. you live on one hundred thirty three possibles for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck i've got so many i mean the towns that i've seen really messed up. and we're all very so personally apologize that's. the worst we're going to go live outside of a. radio guy and for a minute from a click. what the march quarter of a good good you've never seen anything like this i'm told. it's up guys i'm having martin and this is breaking the set so yesterday i woke up
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to this disturbing headline survey of koch brothers turning focus to newspapers yep a billionaire brothers charles and david koch are looking to expand their corporate dynasty and this time they're targeting the media that's right koch industries and seriously exploring a bid to buy the tribune companies eight regional papers including the l.a. times or the chicago tribune and for those of you who are worried about those images remind you that these two men are the same two men set up to benefit from the controversial keystone pipeline and they're the same two men who have used their cronyism to influence supreme court justices ultimately securing the ruling that made it possible for their company to fully loaded an insane amount of money into politics and now these two men could be buying up the news that we depend on for the facts and polluting it with their ideology let's hope that doesn't happen but for now let's break this up.
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