it. was. the man being questioned over the ball so marvin bombings are reportedly claims america's voice drove him to terra and denies any links to foreign groups. big sounds the alarm of the plummeting european defense spending which leaves washington picking up the majority of the topics on nato and threatens a crisis of unity. on the gruelling hunger strike a gun tunnel date now includes more than a halt of the detainees that with additional military medics being sent to deal with the escalating crisis.

international news and comment live from moscow this is all see with me your leisure probably all over hello and welcome to the program according to investigators the surviving suspect in the boston marathon bombings says it's america's wars in iraq and afghanistan that led him and his brother to carry out the was us based at times since nine eleven after questioning nineteen year old johansson i've police believe the bombers were acting on their own initiative and no slinks to any foreign terrorist group she's in a situation reports now from boston. as the nineteen year old boston bombing suspect dzhokhar tsar naiads condition improves from serious to fair he's beginning to reveal information to investigators from what we're hearing on the ground according to official search has said that the motive behind the two bombings that took place on monday april fifteenth for the wars you what the u.s. has been fighting in iraq and afghanistan according to officials are now it has also said that him and his brother were self radhika lies he allegedly says that

the two brothers were not involved and were not in contact with any foreign extremist groups and that they learned everything themselves by basically going online and learning how to build build the bombs through the internet he has also said that his older brother to milan's are naive who was twenty six years old at the time of the bombings is according to joe hart the mastermind behind the attacks that they carried out now here in boston right now obviously as this investigation continues the barricades of the area that was cordoned off at the finishing line of the boston marathon are being removed we know that the eight year old victim of the bombings has been laid to rest here on tuesday and earlier boston the hospitals also announced that the number of people injured has risen from over one hundred seventy five to two hundred and sixty people now as this information comes in in

terms of just hard being able to share more of course we have to remind our viewers that he is that he has been charged with the use of weapons of mass destruction as well as malicious destruction of property resulting in death and what this means is that your heart's her knife is now faced with a death penalty or any number of years behind bars including being imprisoned for life he's also faced with a fine of two hundred fifty thousand u.s. dollars and obviously he's being treated. is a federal criminal right now although there were talked earlier about the possibility of trying him in the military tribunals but the white house has revoked this option it's also important to mention that of course the f.b.i. now is being grilled about their knowledge of the older brother tamerlan star night of traveling to russia back in two thousand and twelve because of course according to our knowledge russian officials advised the united states to look into his

identity to see whether or not he could possibly be involved with any kind of extremist radical groups and the f.b.i. back then two years ago deemed him not dangerous and freedom up and of course has been receiving major criticism here in boston and throughout the united states with people saying that possibly maybe this attack could have been prevented we're continuing reporting from the ground as the story develops and associates you're going to party boston massachusetts. found of independent media outlet wideawake news service the american war on terror breeds violence instead of curbing it. radicalizing the world seems to be what we're really good at right now getting people angry at this nation certainly seems to be a valid argument that is going to be brought before civil q we've been waging a war on terror for over a decade now we've destabilized how many countries and we're killing how many nationals that have nothing to do with terrorism whatsoever and we're doing it for reasons that the american people been lied to overwrite weapons of mass destruction

and so on so can this lead to people becoming hostile towards the west how can it not affect the columbia law school's human rights institute six months ago came out the report showing a that obama is exponentially increased the number of drone strikes since he's been president but ninety eight percent of the casualties and drone strikes are civilian so it's fifty civilians killed for every one so-called high value target that's being killed the notion we want peace with the rest of the world well that's all we're that's all talk when the cameras are on and those cameras are on the drones why people die and for the latest updates on the boston marathon bombings along with comprehensive analysis head to our website dot com. top military officer says european countries need to spend more on defense because that free a rising on american funding officials warn the u.s. led block is rapidly losing effectiveness and unity crisis head nato states forced

to slash their spending have already chopped forty five billion dollars off the alliance treasury they quibble and of germany's entire military budget the number of european troops and the u.s. led bloc has also plummeted from two point five million in two thousand to one point eight to six million and while the us is also trimming its defense spending its share of the budget has still risen to seventy five percent of total the benchmark of spending at least two percent of g.d.p. on defense is not only being achieved by three nato members. as late as from brussels. we're here in front of the nato headquarters where the foreign ministers had just met to discuss a whole range of issues from afghanistan post twenty fourteen to north korea nuclear situation to syria and a lot of other issues the weather before this actual foreign ministers meeting the nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen had actually come out and he warned

its partners against the danger of more defense spending cuts as we've already seen especially from its european partners so this opinion was also echoed by the outgo a u.s. defense secretary leon panetta he said that if this trend does continue that the alliance could be in danger of moving into what he called a collective military irrelevance so there's the question of whether or not it will actually still be relevant given the decrease in its capabilities and opinion also . echoed by the former u.s. defense secretary robert gates the problem that nato is facing when it comes to budget is no small matter if we just look back to more than a decade ago if you. had a goal of having sixty thousand troops for instance available for battle in the so-called in so-called core however today we see that these battle groups range from about fifteen hundred to twenty five hundred clearly a huge difference from the initial intention of the number of troops that they had

planned to have the cuts that we're seeing it. clearly it's because of the year the euro zone crisis the priorities have clearly shifted and there's not much enthusiasm to increase spending in the military alliance some sort of equal burden sharing the united states share has increased from fifty percent to seventy five percent and there are signals coming from the u.s. that they're not keen on continuing that kind of partnership with this sort of inequality and also looking at the u.s. his own budget costs as well as its shift in priority especially after we've heard that pivot to asia so they have their own concerns with their quest. kind of a lie of the kind of partnership that they have especially with european countries moving forward they're also facing some lack of enthusiasm from european members of just germany france are very eager to contribute to any military operation so we get. the nato secretary general has come out saying that the capability of nato

will be impacted and there is a question of critics on the actual relevance of the alliance seeing it that there's not much enthusiasm from its members to contribute or to to give more into a dip into the alliance moving forward. contributes to. the multi-billion dollar bills nato has waged in the past fifteen years have left a legacy of death and destruction that fuels instability around the globe. journalists from all over the world seem to be covering the straight line that nato is this complex system of fine military generals and military armor when of course every time a deal goes into a country it ends up in either disaster or blowback disaster as it has been in libya which is given power to however many militias and of course when we have to look at afghanistan to see what it's done there not many people actually covering

the aftermath of the war in yugoslavia to see where the costs are always better off now than it was before the yugoslav assumes he started so perhaps the worst fears would be that the nato drone attacks on that killed so many children in the outback border regions and so forth will result in profound blowback and even as we might be seeing of course we have to speculate the kind of homegrown terrorism we saw i seventy seven here different groups within nato countries to try to divide themselves with the dispossessed those murdered maimed or bereaved by nature's armies over the past ten to fifteen years and again as you can now takes a closer look at the looming crisis nato faces as it prepares to was draw from of gonna stand the last war to unite its men. the organization was created to counter the soviet union with soviet union long gone it has to keep easy over the years

nato has gone from being a defense organization to becoming an offensive force with a missions that go far beyond north america and europe they refer to those ambitions as out of area operations which have included of ghana's stand in libya now part of nato the very powerful part which includes the u.s. the u.k. and france pretty much see those out of area operations as the future of the organization but the zest and enthusiasm to go global doesn't sync well with all twenty eight members of the alliance who know they will have to foot the bill the lack of consensus showed when germany by far europe's strongest nation refused to provide resources for nato as lead bombings two years ago back then nato has gone beyond its un mandate which was to protect civilians it has effectively created a power vacuum in which all kinds of extremists have flourished since then not to mention the destruction of the country's infrastructure but it was not just the un mandate with nato has gone beyond its own charter the core principle of the

organisation which is to stick to protecting its members the long war in afghanistan has made europe question the alliances mission there time and time again even now as nato forces prepared to withdraw many feared that what they are leaving behind is a security vacuum with promises it of aid that may never be fulfilled as the us is pivoting to asia there's talk among nato members about a wide of partnership like to get japan and australia more involved both have already made significant contributions to nato and not just those countries so with the organization growing there is another concern that nato may eventually be tempted to present itself as the whole of the international community when it's not and it may set grounds for lateral actions in the future ignoring the broader international community the president is there and nato bombings of yugoslavia in the one nine hundred ninety s. some believe that campaign contributed to the mindset that led to the war in iraq

the kind of mindset that the international community the you when can be bypass at the will of one or two a powerful countries in washington i'm going to check on. coming out or not see opposition activists back in court trying to hold on to corruption that receives but alex a nonviolent says he's only on trial for embezzlement thanks to a political state trial also. the robots are fully autonomous weapons are future systems that will operate without human control. the human rights watch rise against the machines in. interference as the killer robots get all the details on this story in just a couple of minutes. the u.s. is sending more medics to tend to the rising number of hunger striking detainees at guantanamo bay officials say more than half of the one hundred sixty six captives there have now joined the protest which is well into his said month sixteen

detainees are being force fed to prevent death from starvation and six are in the military hospital in a critical condition the strike was sparked by alleged mistreatment by prison guards with some detainees increasingly desperate because dad being held indefinitely without charge and law professor and a half it's as the crisis is one and until the demands of the captives are met. the hunger strikes as military officials themselves have acknowledge are triggered at the bottom by the system of indefinite detention and the prolonged about you know course aeration without trial of individuals and it's not surprising that the u.s. is stepping up its its operations because it's you know it doesn't want you know it doesn't want individuals to die want to animal because it's going to again i think you know throw into the light the real killer wanted to start relief the real problems that want to animal the u.s. is certainly. early on been trying to you know keep the hunger strike down but the

fact that they're your doctor continue to go in there is a recognition i think of how pervasive it is and the how serious it is the way forward though. you know it's too and a system of indefinite detention to repatriate individuals who. are not going to charge with crimes and of the few that are going to be charged should be booked for court and given a trial that's the only way forward that's the only long term solution to the problem otherwise we're going to continue to see anger strikes. continue to happen things will continue to happen and most of us put. these measures and players this morning it's just it's just politics that our politics and a lack of political courage a lack of commitment to principles i would go even more stories for you online including facebook and fails the latest project on the way to while domination as ends to create the most technologically advanced datacenter in the world for more

details. on the crowd at a concert in argentina i got a surprising extra for the price of admission as the sky is listen via what looks like at least for the details at onset of. the trial of one of russia's top opposition activists or is used today in a court in north east of moscow alexei navalny faces up to ten days in prison for allegedly embezzling of a five hundred thousand dollars worth of timber from a company advised back in two thousand and nine but now finally has also a fiery anticorruption blogger believes the proceedings a place can be motivated that's now crossed our correspondent he full not footage you go it doesn't look like a we'll see a conclusion today about. well frankly it's very unlikely that this case will close

today it's only the second hearing in the first one lasted just around one hour exactly a week ago back then the defense asked the judge to reschedule saying the award given enough time to properly get ready and after that. said that it was a tactical move the argument try to prolong stall and attract as much media attention as possible to this case i was there in cuba of last week and indeed lots of journalists came some of them even had to camp out in front of the courthouse overnight to be able to get inside since the inside it is quite small now explain to us how much how come there's so much attention to say now. not only is one of the most controversial opposition bloggers in the country he became well known due to his online anti corruption projects he's also if you scored a critic of the kremlin he became one of the leaders of the opposition movement

during the last years mass protests and the controversial side is his connection to the national authorities are accusing him of being a criminal scheme to steal around half a million dollars worth of timber from a state company this was back in two thousand and nine when he was the aide to the local governor. and if found guilty that he is looking at up to ten years behind bars but now and his supporters claim that this is purely a political case. for posting that many thanks indeed for keeping us up to date on some domestic issues thank. our russian police say they've captured the man suspected of killing six people in the western city of bell sergei pumice had several previous convictions for stealing cars and was released from prison in twenty twelve during the rest of police officer reportedly received severe head wounds. has more now now that the manhunt has successfully concluded we

can talk about truly gargantuan efforts that went into its more than two thousand police. brought in not just from belgrade itself but also from neighboring regions as well especially riot police came in from moscow to it turns out that hunting store where the carnage began actually belonged to. father and he went into that store on sunday asking for ammunition actually intending to buy it but it was refused service but one of the clerks he said that he'll come back the next day and shoot distills person obviously that wasn't taken seriously by the sales clerk unfortunately indeed he was shot the next day by the killer along with the sils clerk he also shot two people who were inside the store then went outside and proceeded to shoot people whom he believed to be witnesses among them of course were two teenage girls people were advised to stay inside because it was not clear where exactly the shooter was at the time still they have come out to the place

where the shooting happened they laid down flowers put down to ois a lot of people actually went on several went out of their way to try and help the investigation in locating the man. some news in brief now and and two suspects allegedly behind and all kinds of banks plot to do rail a canadian passenger train are challenging the case against them they say authorities are basing their conclusions on mere appearance is the true lack of one a united arab emirates national the other two knees ian were arrested on suspicion of planning a terror attack on a train in toronto iran has denied claims that later plot was inspired by al qaeda groups praised that canada broke its diplomatic links to terror around last september of its disputed nuclear program and hostility towards israel. the whereabouts of serious two senior orthodox christian bishops remain unclear

despite reports they've been freed by an unknown cutter's the clerics were seized while returning from the turkish border abductions are on the rise of a country torn apart by more than two years of bloody conflict which has seen over seventy thousand lives lost. police in pakistan have defused a cart full of explosives close to where the military ruler pervez musharraf is being held under house arrest it was reportedly wired with a remote control due to major is the taliban which threatens to kill my child shortly before he returned from four years of self-imposed exile deny any involvement he is due to appear in court and made connection with the sacking and detention of several judges in two thousand and seven as well as decimation of former prime minister benazir bhutto. complain isn't britain have declared war on so-called killer robots fully autonomous weapons that do not require human involvement to carry out at least lost souls concerned activists have opted for

a preemptive strike rising against the deadly machines before they're deployed artists after a small. so perhaps not the most usual sight on the streets of london but this guy here is actually carrying quite an important message he's. for the launch of the stop the killer robots campaigns including activists impression converged in london to launch the campaign calling for a preemptive ban on fully autonomous weapons let's tell us more about this i'm joined by steve for human rights watch thank you very much for joining us what is a killer this guy's a killer obviously but what's it all about this friendly robot that is not armed killer robots or fully autonomous weapons are future systems that will operate without human control this is the scary part you're taking the human out of the loop allow the robots the machines to make decisions about what to target on the battlefield and when to pull the trigger no human involvement i love this is

gaining a lot of interest this is obviously what you want people taking out the message what information do you want to get out there what do we not know about because a lot of people say this is advancing technology and it's all good we're not against technology we're not against robotics we're not against the movement towards greater autonomy in robots but we want to stop our arms systems killing systems that have full autonomy where you take the human out of the loop always in every case what has to be the fundamental principle is that a human must always be meaningfully involved in the control over decisions to launch weapons and to fire at it might all sound a bit hollywood but it's not as far off as you might think many campaign is fearless science fiction like arms race is already quietly getting underway with developers standing to make huge amounts from recruited deals it is like this big dog throwing blocks of concrete to cause concern little public debates yet being had about the implications of the development of this type of technology people

think of fully autonomous weapons they think of the terminator they think by something like this you're saying that you know what it will look like you know the hall is more likely to be a small tank or a time. to develop. we saw the the top of us the research wing of the pentagon the courser for instance us a research platform for this and a seven and a half ton six we reduce quite extraordinary piece of technology they also have a project which is called developed in the thomas submarine that can go over submarines but cynthia's to testing and then the planes and there is well it's not negative robots that kind of would fall over in a bubble and this is being launched in london how big a road c.-k. have to play in comparison to say the u.s. instead leading the way with this well we've got to be a systems is on their second one we've got both something called with us that's going to be tested. this year distributes but a year and

a half behind development but that's a fully a thomas intercontinental combat aircraft that when it comes to fully autonomous weapons we're not yet but these are all getting through the ban say that the most time this allows the pos in the moment of this ploughed into developing this type of technology a place that we miles from science fiction towards reality. it's a monday. and that's next on the militant delves into the latest news of the lives by the mainstream media states which are breaking.

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white house or the radio guy minestrone. what clothes were about to produce never seen anything like this i'm telling. you guys i'm having much in this is breaking the set you know there's been a lot of reactions across the country in the wake of the boston bombings but none has made me more terrified the new york mayor michael bloomberg said in a recent press conference bloomberg said quote the nation needs to change how it interprets the constitution to give government greater power to protect citizens really really change the way we interpret the constitution i am novel idea what you just started following it and then you went on to say that america needs to give big brother more power and how well by increasing the already massive surveillance

state and giving law enforcement more the power own the name of national security or i because the n.y.p.d. is invasive surveillance against muslims proves the police want to be use their powers given the opportunity right i can't say i'm too surprised that girl this is the same nanny state mayor that has been pushing bills to keep tabs on how much so do you can drink is currently working on a bill that would change the legal age to purchase cigarettes twenty one apparently bloomberg things that in order to preserve our freedom we need to have a government that holds more authority and concentrated power than ever before but . you and i both know that freedom won't come on of the lens of a surveillance camera so let's break that. well guys the boston bombing.