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it's just after three pm here in the russian capital. thank you for joining us today. according to investigators the surviving suspect in the boston marathon bombings says wars in iraq and afghanistan the lead him and his brother to carry out the worst u.s. based attacks since nine eleven after questioning. the police believe the bombers were acting on their own initiative to any foreign terrorist group. reports 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 started i have 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 militias destruction of property resulting in death and what this means is that your hearts are ny 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 talk 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 certain i have 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 especially if you're going to r.t. boston massachusetts. i'm a charlie mcgrath founder of the media that wide awake news says it's ultimately the war on terror it's so just breeds violence instead of coping. 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 some computer we've been waging a war on terror for over a decade 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 ken 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 it didn't 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. now those top military officer says european countries need to spend more on defense because they're free riding on american funding which was warned the u.s. led block is rapidly losing effectiveness and unity a crisis hit nato states forced to slash their spending have already chopped forty five billion dollars off the alliances treasury the equivalent of germany's entire

military budget now the number of european troops in the u.s. led bloc is also shot down from two point five million in two thousand now to one point eight six million and while the u.s. is also trimming is to fend spending its share of the budget has still risen to seventy five percent of the total and as all of these tests are still a report from brussels the rift between alliance members is growing of a paying for a rather unclear future. the nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen had actually come out and 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 he said that if this trend does continue to be alliance it could be in danger of moving into a military government so there's the question of whether nato will actually still

be relevant given the decrease in its capabilities and opinion also. echoed by the former u.s. defense secretary robert gates and there are signals coming from the u.s. that they are 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 so they're questioning the kind of the new line of 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 for instance was not very eager to contribute to any military operation so again. 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 that the alliance seeing it that there's not much enthusiasm from its members to contribute or to to give more into

a into the alliance moving forward. reporting their contributor. the multibillion dollar wars nato has waged in the past fifteen years only left a legacy of death and destruction to just about fuels instability around the world . 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 nato 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 of always better off now than it was before the yugoslavia still it is 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 different groups within nato countries seek to identify themselves with the dispossessed those murdered maimed or bereaved by nature's armies over the past ten to fifteen years. and artie's guy nature cannot execute a look at the looming crisis nato faces as he prepares to withdraw from afghanistan and the last war to unite all of its members. 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 suzi has to go global it 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 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 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 their 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 of aid that may never be fulfilled as the u.s.

is pivoting to asia there's talk among nato members about a wider 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 bypassed at the will of one or two a powerful countries in washington i'm going to. kind of still to come here on our team opposition activist back in court for the trial of a top anti corruption blogger. but alexina valmy says the impreza women charges are all part of a political stitch up also. bill robot fully autonomous weapons

are future systems that will operate without human control human rights watch a rages against the machines it refers to his killer robots all the details in the story in just a couple of minutes. about

international and world in the very heart of moscow. thanks for joining us here on our showing in the russian capital now 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 one hundred sixty six captives there have now joined the protest which is well into its third month sixteen detainees

are being force fed to prevent death from starvation and six are in the military hospital in a critical condition lawyers have said the total number of hunger strikers has been much higher all along the protests by alleged mistreatment by prison guards with some detainees increasingly desperate because they're being held indefinitely without charge law professor jonathan hafetz says the crisis won't end until the demands of the captives in that. the hunger strikes as military officials themselves have acknowledged are triggered at the bottom by the system of indefinite detention and the prolonged think about you know course aeration without trial of individuals and it's not surprising that the u.s. is stepping up its operations because it's no it doesn't want you know it doesn't want individuals to die at one time or because it's going to again i think you know throw into into light the real forward to start relief the real problems that want

to animal and the way forward though is to you know is two and a system of indefinite detention to repatriate individuals who. are not can be charged with crimes and the the the few that are going to be charged should be put up for a court and given a trial that's the that's the only way forward that's the only long term solution to the problem otherwise we're going to continue to see hunger strikes you know look again at and things will continue to happen unless the u.s. puts these puts these measures into place at this point it's just it's just politics that are politics and a lack of political courage a lack of commitment to principles the lawyer for the last remaining british detainee at guantanamo claims that his client schuchat ahmed suffers regular abuse by prison guards clive stafford smith says the u.s. legal system has washed its hands of violations at the facility. when a prisoner doesn't do exactly what they're told the six being dressed up you notice

if they're in their outfits come and basically beat him up to make him do it to the floor and check to describe how this one guy who's three hundred pounds to sits on and sometimes knees in the stomach and i've seen the bruises on him from this process this is happening to him all the time right now because they have a process where anything he asks for they won't just give it to him they said they have seen so if you want to bottle of water they send the goons in if he wants his medicine they send against him and what he told me last i took turn was it's just not asking for his medication at all because he doesn't want to get up to get it every time i'm there and this comes up i write to the admiral in charge of the general in charge i've never yet got a reply from them i'm in the best one can do is complain loudly and tell the world when you get out what you see in the hopes that this shames them because

unfortunately the federal judge who for all charge of the cases rule just last week that he has no jurisdiction to order the military to behave better under the circumstances. we've got many more stories for you online. including right now the twitter account of the associated press news agency. reports the last of the white house president obama website you can find out exactly what happened. on the. surprising extra for the price of admission to the skies by what looks like. the trial of one of russia's top opposition activists has resumed court almost nine hundred kilometers northeast of moscow. faces up to ten years in prison for

allegedly embezzling half a million dollars worth of timber from a state owned company but he was also a. corruption blogger he believes the proceedings are all politically motivated. picks up the story. well no one is lawyers have said and announced that they've taken on the tactic of delaying and stalling and attracting as much media attention to this case as well last week we were able to reschedule the hearing exactly for one week they have been saying that they're not being given enough time to properly study all the cases material so we've just asked the judge again but this time he rejected so they've also appealed for the case to be returned to the prosecutor's office claiming that there are various irregularities in the way it was put together but when it comes to media attention last week i was also and indeed lots of journalists came some of them had to camp out over the night in front of the courthouse in order to get in and we're hearing that this time the courtroom it's

packed again now only is one of the most controversial opposition bloggers in the country he became widely known through his online anti corruption project he's also if you are a critic of the kremlin and became one of the leaders of the opposition movement during the last years of protest he's also known to be a link to russian nationalists and after all these are accusing only of organizing a criminal scheme to steal around half a million dollars' worth of timber from a state company allegedly back in two thousand and nine when he was the duty a local governor there in cuba of if he's found guilty then you need to be looking at up to ten years behind bars but then his supporters have been rejecting all the accusations claiming that this is purely a political case. you're going to spin off reporting now after being cornered and captured by a two thousand strong police manhunt for the suspect accused of gunning down six people in the western city of belgrade has told investigators quote he was shooting

into hell he's really going to go has the latest. this is something that started off as a terrible tragedy and ended as a police drama you can say course that was actually even an international effort because they police in belgrade were afraid that thirty two year olds. will try and get out of the country and into neighboring ukraine it was for him to do at a train station but even though two thousand police were brought in was for people that have managed to apprehend the suspect at a train station where it looks like he was actually looking to get away they expected him to have an entire arsenal of weapons on him but he ended up only having a knife and yet he has inflicted several rather severe wounds to one of the police officers who was actually the guy who noticed him and decided to upper hand we do know at this point that the officer who has been wounded is recovering in a hospital right now but of course the entire town was on

a job for the past two days after six people among them two teenage girls were killed by the suspect in the middle of the day people were told to stay indoors not venture out until the suspect described and yet a lot of those residents of belgorod have chosen to go to the place out that the crime scene and lay down flowers and toys to to mark the memory of the victims and tuesday as well as today are official days of mourning in belgrade and of course a lot of people a lot of residents of belgrade which is a really tiny town are waiting to see how the criminal proceedings will actually turn out in case people manzoni when he was arrested and asked why he was shooting he said i did not shoot at children i was shooting into hell exactly what he's trying to say by that is not is not yet known but there have been various reports in local media and russian media coming from relatives and neighbors of sort of people monsoon of course saying that he actually is

a repeat offender he did serve jail time and was released in two thousand and twelve and after he was released from prison he exhibited signs. being somewhat slightly unnerve diff not to say mentally troubled and they said that this one of the versions of the events that unfolded says that he actually went into the hunting store on sunday to buy some ammunition was there fuse the point of sale and promised to come back and shoot the sales clerk which seems to be exactly what he did on monday afternoon so we have yet to find out whether or not he is actually mentally stable and that also could affect the criminal proceedings against the man but of course this does bring a little bit of relief to to belgrade shaken by this horrible tragedy. a russian soyuz rocket carrying supplies to the international space station has successfully blasted off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan and the progress resupply freighter flying with it is carrying almost three tons of cargo that includes a few all the oxygen water and clothes all top without it will also deliver parcels

to be i says crew from their families and relatives with the retirement of nasa space shuttle fleet two years ago soyuz spacecraft are the only vehicles currently capable of ferrying supplies to the station in the future nasa plans to rely more on private u.s. build cargo ships to resupply the i assess however right now no privately built ship can so for compete with government made profit. into the are there we go now some other global news for you a brief two suspects allegedly behind an al qaeda plot to deal rail a canadian passenger train a challenging case against them they say with already as are basing their conclusions on mere appearances the two men were arrested on suspicion of planning a terror attack on a train in two wrongs are now iran has denied claims the alleged plot was inspired by al qaeda groups based there a canada broke off its diplomatic links to terror ran last september over its

nuclear program and hostility towards israel. and a news just in from italy and the recall letter is expected to become the country's new prime minister after being asked by the president to form a coalition government a letter is currently filling the position of deputy leader of the center left democratic party his appointment could potentially end two months of parliamentary deadlock following an inconclusive general election. and clashes in northwest china have left twenty one dead over half of which are police officers and community workers and the fighting erupted when officials were conducting weapons searches in the homes of suspected gang members sporadic violence has erupted amid continuing ethnic tensions between two local communities . the whereabouts over syria's two senior off the docks christian bishops remains unclear despite reports they've been freed by unknown captors of the

clerics were seized while returning from the turkish border abductions are on the rise in a country torn apart by more than two years of bloody conflict which has seen over seventy thousand lives lost. campaigners in britain have declared war on the so-called killer robots fully autonomous weapons that do not require humans to carry out their assaults concerned activists have opted for a preemptive strike raging against the machines before they're deployed. as more. so perhaps not the most usual sight on the streets of london but this guy here is actually carrying quite an important message he says the launch of the stop the killer robots campaigns including activists impression critics who 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 able 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 time 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. 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 for really creative deals it is like this big dog throwing blocks of concrete to cause concern and little public debate 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 thinking . i think like this guy you're saying that you know what it looks like you know that all is more likely to be a small tank or a tiny. i mean the developments are the the dark 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 on the thomas submarine and over submarines but

cynthia's to this thing and then the planes in the air as well it's not robots kind of would fall over in a bottle 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 the something cold which is going to be tested. this year destry it's been a year and a half behind development but that's a fully a thomas intercontinental aircraft when it comes to fully autonomous weapons we're not there yet but this is all going for the band say that the more time this allows the possum the more money this planet into developing this type of technology the place the ma find. reality star say. that it's about time for tempos to fly with people of elon as guests on cross talk just a sack here on alt.