the surviving suspect. by the u.s. in iraq. well investigators arrived here in russia to get more information on his brother. feels the pinch with financial troubles the military budgets of its european allies the u.s. is struggling with a disproportionate responsibility to. the u.s. . thank

you very much for joining us here today. live in moscow with your global twenty four hour news america's wars in iraq and afghanistan motivated the worst attack on u.s. soil in more than a decade that's what the surviving suspect in the boston marathon bombings has now told investigators. also claim that he and his brother acted alone in carrying out the twin blasts reporting now from boston. as the nineteen year old boston bombing suspect joe hart's are 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 certain i have just 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 so for article 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 they were talking earlier about the possibility of trying him in a military tribunal 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 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 this story develops and especially if you're going to r.t. boston massachusetts. u.s. officials meantime have traveled to darkest on where they interviewed the suspects parents and of gathering information about tamera landes visit there in two thousand and twelve meanwhile a local resident was able to cut sure the dramatic shootout between the two boston bombing suspects and police. used another pressure cooker bomb engulfed in the street in smoke before he was shot dead tom allowed to run towards police while his younger brother was able to speed off in the opposite direction. it was eventually

found hiding in a boat in a residential neighborhood after a wide scale manhunt for the founder of independent media outlet wide awake news charlie mcgrath thinks that washington is creating enemies because of the way it conducts its war on terror. 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 us in the future 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 in fact the columbia law school's human rights institute six months ago came out the report showing a that obama has exponentially increased the number of drone strikes since he's been president but they don'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 the cameras are off the drones why and people die. so what exactly separates an act of terror from any other type of violent attack that's the question posed to his guests on cross talk of course in the wake of the boston bombings here's a preview. why is passing the whole terrorism but aurora sandy hook to sign in columbine not the muslim community in america today in fact is asking the same very question that why are some things labeled terrorism or says another which is not but more importantly the discussion that is going on in the dinner tables on the dinner tables these days among muslim families is that why is it that always a non muslim when somebody goes to war or. that they're all is insane but when a muslim commits an act of terrorism that they're always perfectly fine

psychologically i completely disagree the definition of terrorism that we get here to certainly in north america is three forward first it should involve a non-state actor that is an individual or a group secondly that targeting the violence should be directed against civilians some kind of a civilian target and third third should be some kind of a political aim and it's the very last point that last part of the definition which separates the boston attack from the other ones which you just mentioned. what are the full edition of cross talk here on r t fifteen thirty g.m.t. . as european countries wrestle with their budget deficits and slash their military spending it's becoming harder for nato to stay afloat and the alliances top officer

has slammed the e.u. allies for quote getting a free ride with the u.s. ultimately washington left to bear the burden of the defense finances now crisis hit nato states have already chopped more than forty five below. dollars from the treasury that's about the equivalent of germany's entire military budget and the number of european troops in the u.s. led bloc is also plummeted from two point five million in two thousand down to one point eight six million while the u.s. was trimming its own military costs share of the budget is still risen to seventy five percent of the total. of reports from brussels concerns over nato's viability continue to grow. 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 this opinion was also echoed by the former u.s.

defense secretary robert gates 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 nato will actually still be relevant given the decrease in its capabilities and there are signals coming from the u.s. that they are not keen on continuing the 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 lion the kind of partnership that they have especially with european countries moving forward they're also facing some lack of enthusiasm from the european members of 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 in tune into the alliance moving forward. artists are on syria right there now defense budgets have been steadily declining across the nato alliance its overall average shrank to one point six percent last year with few allies meeting their own goal of spending two percent of g.d.p. on defense auntie's guy nature contacts a look at nato as initial ambitions and its fading perspectives. 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 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 of ghana's stand 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 the 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. and looking back at all the wars nato has been waging in the past fifteen years r.t. contributor afshin rattansi believes the impact of the alliance's policies around the globe or they've been all but positive 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 one only has 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 yugoslav or still if he started so perhaps the worst fears would be that the nature of 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 i still ahead for you here on r t that of hunger for freedom of one tonne of a hunger strike all found one indeed it moves into its third month with top of the detainees involved this is lawyers say inmates regular abuse by prison guards. also ahead for you here on out c activists think in the u.k. declare a war on kid of robots which could independently decide who to kill breaching a moral and ethical boundary which critics say should never be crossed more about just around the corner. wealthy british style sun. sometimes. markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy

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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 are now have joined the protest in effect sixteen detainees are being force fed to prevent death from starvation and six are in a military hospital in a critical condition lawyers have said the total number of hunger strikers has been much higher all along the protest sparked by alleged mistreatment by prison guards some detainees increasingly desperate because they're being held indefinitely without charge a law professor jonathan hafetz says of the crisis won't end until the demands of the captors of met. 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 the way forward though is to you know is to and the 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. and a lawyer for the last remaining british detainee at guantanamo claims his client shaka ahmed suffers regular abuse by prison guards clive stafford smith says the

u.s. legal system has washed its hands of violations of 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 be to not to make them do it to the floor and check to describes how this one guy who's three hundred pounds to sits on and sometimes in these 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 want to just give it to him they said. so if he wants a bottle of water they send the goods in if he wants his medicine and they send against him and what he told me last i talked to him was it's just not asking for his medication anymore because he doesn't want to get to get it every time i'm there and this comes up 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. for all charge of the cases ruled just last week that he has no jurisdiction to order the military to behave better under these circumstances. this is r.t. russian opposition leader alexina valley has refused to plead guilty to the charge of investment his lawyers lotion objection to the judge claiming he's supporting the prosecution the valley faces up to ten years in prison for allegedly stealing half a million dollars worth of timber from a state owned company insists the case is purely political parties able to pursue an office following proceedings. 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 possible 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 they've just asked the judge again but this time he rejected so they've also appealed for the keys 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 there in 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 courtrooms backed again no one is one of the most controversial opposition bloggers in the country he became widely known due to 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 mass 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 aid to the 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 go to piss going off right there and into the world up there we go starting with dhaka bangladesh where around one hundred people one hundred were killed when an eight story building collapsed police and volunteers are still working to find victims trapped under the rubble at least at this point zero seven hundred were injured there are reports to say two thousand people were in the building when it came down only the ground floor which housed a mall and several factories remains intact the cause of the collapse is on. tribes in western iraq are being called to soft to choose days killings in ca to cook which left twelve dead and they were killed when iraqi troops stormed

a sunni anti-government protest camp the speaker of the iraqi parliament has called the military's actions quote a flagrant violation of the constitution of the perceived to marginalize ation of sunni muslims by the shia government has sparked protests and bloody violence nationwide. within the next twenty to thirty years a fully autonomous weapon deployed on the battlefield could confuse a young girl with an ice cream or a soldier with a gun and decide to kill that's what campaign is in britain claim declaring war on so-called killer robots activists say lethal robots should be banned before they're used in warfare reports. so perhaps not the most useful site on the streets of london but this guy here is actually carrying quite an important message for the launch of the stop the killer robots campaigns increase the gating activists impression critics have 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 the thank you very much for joining us what is the 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 will allow the robots the machines to make decisions about what to target on the battlefield and when to pull the trigger no human involvement and of 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 what we want to stop are armed 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 what to fire at it might all sound a bit hollywood but it's not as far off as you might think many campaign is still a 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 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 know what it will look like an overall it's more likely to be a small tank or a time. i mean the developments are the the darpa thus the research wing of the pentagon has got the question for instance as a research platform for this and

a seven and a half ton six we've probably read it's quite extraordinary piece of technology they also have a project which is called developed an autonomous submarine and over submarines that's two testing and then there's some there 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. and leading the way with this well we've got to be a systems is on their second one we've got to something called which is going to be tested. this year industry of spent a year and a half behind development but that's a fully autonomous intercontinental combat aircraft but when it comes to fully autonomous weapons we're not there yet but they. say that the more time this allowed to pass and the more money this play. add into developing this type of technology a closely mugs from fine fiction for its reality. london

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white house or for the. radio guy and politico minestrone. i want you to watch what we're about to give you never seen anything like this i'm told. ok guys i'm having much in the spirit in 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 have a novel idea why he just started following it and then he went on to say that america needs to give big brother more power and how well by increasing the old.