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any muslim terrorist group that's what u.s. officials have revealed offer investigators interrogated the surviving suspect. in hospital and associates in the reports from boston. official complaints in the presence of a judge and a lawyer have been filed against nineteen 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 militias destruction of property resulting in death now the penalty that's her knife is now dead facing
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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 throughout this brief encounter with the judge we do know that mostly her knife was. nodding and offer mation 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. not his point being of chechen origin the alleged bombers spent almost half of their lives in the united states after the parents applied for asylum and both were visitors to russia but this didn't stop moscow from warning the f.b.i. over the possible terrorist intentions of the eldest brother two years ago questions and al being raised why the f.b.i. failed to take proper action. takes a look at the possible reasons. as the dust settles in the wake of boston bombings the question many ask is why and how could u.s.
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federal authorities fail to act on the valuable intelligence from two years ago 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 solely russia's problem they may have taken down their lines 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
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given the history of all the requests and pleas that russia has made in the past with regards to a number of individuals from north caucasus accused of heinous crimes particularly those of ketchum background one example in 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 good yarn 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 this line in two thousand and four terror that russia will never forget it left
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three hundred and thirty four people dead one hundred eighty six of them children so the right hand of this monster who helped stage all this whore. modify 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 clerk 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 sector of state albright so when questioning u.s. federal authorities reaction to the alleged russian intel on the middle ansara naive 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 in 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
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based revolution they wanted islamic state in russia. not inherently anti-american 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 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 top of and in the meantime james put trust's a professor of sociology at binghamton university he believes the u.s. is walking on very thin ice when it supports questionable functions elsewhere in the world. the u.s. government is. with extremists in libya they are working
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with islamic extremists in syria they have been working in other places with. extremists on the one hand they oppose them on the other hand they instrumental lies them and hope to discard them launch their adversaries undermine and i think this is a very dangerous game that washington's playing and case we see the boomerang effect. as always love to get your opinion on the stories we're covering today on our website on dot com we are asking for your view on how the boston bombing investigation will unfold. dot com and cast your vote online.
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good to have you with us here on our. fears of the lives of more than a half of the hunger striking guantanamo bay prison is finally being shared by u.s. authorities and the military is sending additional medical personnel to where a growing number of inmates are refusing food in protest over mistreatment and indefinite detention dr. tired army medical corps officer and a former senior adviser to the defense department says it might not be long before the strike turns fatal. typically people get very sick after about fifty days in which they've not had any food but are taking water so they may be
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getting very sick and i think there's a fear that a number may die within the next several weeks but all the world medical associations 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 poorer 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 accept that as 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 what it does not help resolve their grievances and help resolve the conflict that we're having between the detainees and the authorities.
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now allege the violations of our personal rights a one ton of just one aspect the us is being scolded for by china later this hour here on r.t. we take a detailed look at what else beijing has put in its report criticizing washington's human rights record at home and abroad. and the sunni protesters have raided by the heavy on the iraqi police leaves twenty six people dead though the violence escalates in the deeply divided country. let's get back to our top story here on our part of the ongoing investigation into the boston marathon bombers certainly one of them now is conscious on soaring through writing questions with police let's discuss this further now and speak to him at clements a regional manager at the ira information company specializing in the analysis of european and former soviet countries good to see you today sir let's discuss this
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further now the the two boys are ultimately being deemed as chechen militants my first question to you would be why they would chechen militants be interested in staging an attack on america a country that at the very least used to sympathize with chechen armed groups. well i think you kind of get to the point really which is i don't think chechen militants are indeed militants from the why did north caucasus would be interested in striking at the united states and i think actually the chechen nationality or ethnicity of the prime suspects is actually somewhat misleading for instance they have not actually lived in russia for the last ten years but actual time to spend in the north caucasus appears to be relatively small and there's some disagreement about that and i actually think the most likely. outcome is that these guys are probably going to be self radicalized rather than having direct links to the militants and of course you talk about you talk about these two guys being self radicalized having spent you know more than half their lives in the united states how does that happen. well i mean there are no number of reasons in which people
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become radicalized details surrounding tamela and his younger brother are somewhat sketchy the moment to go into too much detail would be to speculate too far however there does seem to be some signs around the older brother tamerlan in particular to suggest that he was struggling to adapt to life in the united states which is a slight sign of previous people who become radicalized in this sort of a way indeed this kind of disengagement with society can often lead people to look for alternative sources and indeed radical islam can be one of those kind of factors which people can turn to as as a means to sort of direct their lives but why do you why do you think it was two years ago two years ago now that russian intelligence officials warned washington about the elder brother saying that he did have some sort of radical links or some fundamentalist ideology why do you think the f.b.i. didn't pick it up and run with it. well it's very difficult to say exactly what the
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f.b.i. situation was and what information they had indeed what they were able to find out about tom alon but linking back again to the north caucasus i think the difficulty we have here is that the north caucasus militants and selves who operate under the loose banner of the caucasus emirate have very little interest in striking targets in the united states or indeed the west more generally they're very much locally focused their interest is creating an islamic caliphate in the north caucasus itself and indeed in the last couple of years if stepped away really from even launching attacks against civilians within other parts of russia. the leader of the caucasus emirate in february last year ordered civilians would no longer be targeted and since the domodedovo airport attack in january twentieth haven't seen any major attacks in other parts of russia all of which suggests that this group is no longer really interested in operations beyond its real core area operations in the north caucasus so for this then to sort of suggest that they would be undertaking attacks in the u.s. really is quite a step that i don't think would be likely at all now certainly since nine eleven
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the nine eleven attacks that occurred at the united states and certainly nato continued to put up military facilities around the world america having military stations in over one hundred countries worldwide nato having many facilities as well there are some rumors out there that such such a strike on america from the chechen militants could further see america or nato putting its positioning more along the southern areas of russia do you read any truth any truth to that or not. i don't think the particular attacks in boston would lead to any major realignment of the u.s. or alignment globally the plans that the u.s. has regarding its military and other operations around the world are already likely to be in place and i spritz particular do not think that this this attack itself especially as i think that the links to the north caucasus unlikely to be very minimal would lead to any major change in u.s. strategic thinking on the clements or regional manager of the information company
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specializing in europe and yes country analysts it's a pleasure to have you on our team today thanks very much for sharing your time with us thank you. a public storm is gathering in britain with calls on the u.k. government to offer asylum to hundreds of afghan interpreters who worked with the country's forces during its military operation they are being left behind as the army withdraws to face the wrath of the taliban views them as enemy collaborators. reports on this. it was a dangerous job that required courage many of these translators are working on the front line so they're working with soldiers risking their lives in exactly the same way soldiers do but while british forces withdraw the afghan interpreters who made their what possible are being left to fend for themselves is it your job or forward . or you are all sent for those you have to be if
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i catch you then i would if you. can prince in the helmand province says he gets regular calls from the taliban some six hundred fifty interpreters just like rafi remain in afghanistan with no right to settle in the u.k. most times when you when you finish the job and you've done it very well there's a thank you at the end of that job in this case it's a death threat it's a risk your life seen by this how about this having collaborated with the enemy and david the past year targeted killings of so-called international collaborators by the taliban have doubled r.t. got in touch with the foreign and commonwealth office who are responsible for the interpreters asylum claims this is the response we've got people who have put their life on the mine for the united kingdom will not be abandoned the government has put processes in place to ensure the service given by former interpreters with him forces is taken fully into account if individuals apply for asylum in the u k. the
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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 planes can take months even years there's no accountability every other nato country that directly employed interpretation has offered them some kind of special program visa program asylum britain's the only country that hasn't is still dragging its feet unless we will be involved in events overseas in the future of our military clearly will lead to our people helping them and who is going to 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 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
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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 of so-called the no two forces or eyes of forces but to every other of the national. aggression forces and once they leave the people who are in danger and will pay for this some wrongdoings of the americans who have been interpreters and their families. r.t. london. and a more news are just ahead for you here on r.t. including the rolling manhunt for a gunman on the run in russia's city of belgrade. about
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international landlords in the very heart of moscow. pleasure to have you with us here on out. a human rights a become the latest battleground for china to challenge america in addition to trade economy and regional military supremacy beijing has slammed washington's approach to people's freedoms and its own report released on the heels of an american one of the infringement of rights abroad and increased electronic surveillance and a spike in gun violence are just some of the issues china has criticized the u.s. for aussies election a chef ski has the latest. after years of swallowing accusations of violating human rights beijing is fighting back after last year the us published its scalding human
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rights practices report now china held a mirror back to washington and its role of international human rights judge. let's take a look at where the two clash the u.s. again accuse china of limiting internet freedoms the so-called great firewall of china where beijing has long being under scrutiny for blocking many western websites such as facebook google and you tube but those criticizing china are no saints the sounding people and cispa bills to control 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 that the amount of money spent on complaints which really decides the winner is the largest part of the us report was dedicated to human rights as they are today from harsh labor conditions to poor
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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 women who earn a twenty percent smaller salary than men the u.s. 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 all deaths 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. live from moscow this is this
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news just in a blast hits the russian capital injuring two an explosion has taken place in one of moscow's central streets reportedly in a metal container and we're waiting for comments from the police on the course of the blast i do follow our story on our website www dot com also online if you. she was crippled nuclear power plant will need more than three decades to decommission but apparently times are already running out for tokyo to complete the work you can see what japan should be bracing itself for in the worst case scenario on our website. a man suspected of killing six people in western russia including two teenage girls remains on the run for a second day. reports. it looks like the authorities are doing everything in their power to apprehend the suspect as soon as possible we do know that thousands of police forces have been on their feet throughout the night searching calming the
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area looking for the thirty two year old the suspected killer they haven't recovered him yet they have recovered his rico at this point they know for certain that he has sold in the least one semiautomatic rifle from the hunting store where the carnage began yesterday afternoon so they are warning everybody that he's he's armed and extremely dangerous now they have at the thirty's from belgrade have also asked for assistance from the neighboring regions as well as ukraine which is really close to the belgrade region as well as basically next door so they are also called in calling on people in those regions to be on high alert to give any information in the ballots which could lead to the arrest of the thirty two year old suspect and whoever does prove a twitter does provide that information is offered a three million ruble reward for that that's roughly one hundred thousand dollars and of course people are being told to stay inside in belgrade itself there is an extremely heightened police presence on the streets and yet people are saying that
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the witnesses from the city are saying that they are they have seen people going outside going to the place where they where six people were killed yesterday outside of the hunting story leaving flowers toys and candles to pay respects to the victims as well as we have to remember that tuesday is a day of mourning in belgrade so we're watching the situation as it develops obviously there is still a lot more questions that need to be answered and of course the suspect has to be caught so as soon as we get the latest information course we'll bring it to you. at least twenty six people have been killed in iraq because they got to vent their anger at the shia led government ahead of the publication of local election results from the. according to. the troops. in the. fire. bomb.
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in the southern. thousands of. the area. again. in recent months now if you. think they're a minority. job. fair anti-terrorism laws that have been specifically. violent dozens of people. because. a lot. of their.
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very much. now. up ahead because europe. 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 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
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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 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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