president putin says. the western media never label those who attack russia as terrorists he was speaking about last week's boston bombings during his annual q. and a session with the nation. and. more. protests people direct their anger at the three international financial institutions accused of demanding but offering very few solutions. and the u.s. again increases the number of detainees that it meets are on hunger strike at guantanamo bay as the official figure edges closer to that claimed by lawyers since the very beginning.

from the international news live from moscow this is r t with me rule received show you a very warm welcome to you today. president putin has blamed me he says that western support terrorists who attack russia and he's currently holding his annual q. and a session where russians pose questions on any issue they like and let's find out what he said. going off and joining us here live on t.v. or you go to good to see you on one point mr putin president putin was calling blaming the west that they were calling chechen terrorists and rebels are basically freedom fighters so why was he talking about. well the tragedy in boston and especially in so which took place right after that in the united states we're going to modify the whole world and russia is no exception

especially after it was found out that the two suspects behind that terrorist attack are of chechen origin so there were questions about this issue and the president did comment reminding that earlier russia's actions in the caucuses meaning that if the two end to terror campaigns were widely shown to the international audience with a lot of criticism while the terrorists and the foxes were widely presented as freedom fighters let's listen to what the president had to say. you know we're going to show the most ordinary americans don't see the big picture but well i have a message for them as well as for anyone else who's interested in these global issues but i believe russia itself is a victim of international terrorism it was one of the first to be victims i always found it disturbing when our western partners and their media would call the terrorists the ones who committed horrible atrocities here in russia they called

them rebels time when they even provided them assistance through informational financial kind of political both directly and indirectly the support was always a bigger stunts and all the time we always asked our western partners to back up their words about a common war on terror with action with closer cooperation and now the actions of these two criminals of the boston have been that we were right all along that if you know. you go to president putin also had a kind of things to say about the late exile titan boris berezovsky working it tell us about that. well indeed the president confirmed that he can from the rumors and speculation in the media that he did receive two letters from the former and deceased exiles tycoon. personal letters to the president which were passed over to him by because your skis former business partner support for one from

russia and one from abroad and while the president did confirm that bodies because of the admitted making mistakes in the past which damaged the situation inside of the country and he did according to the president ask him for forgiveness and ask him to give them the opportunity to turn back to the country and was going to put in said that it was his personal idea not to make these letters published not public rather he said that it was even though the weren't close acquaintances it was still a personal kind of a personal thing a personal request which i didn't want to put into the masses sort of the mass audience but he did say that the reason why he didn't reply is that that would have needed lots of time lots of analysis especially in the legal spear how even legally that could have been possible so this bit is off he was found guilty in absentia of

various various crimes and you go to among the q. and a with the nation today of the russian president address the issues of corruption across the country. well of course unfortunately corruption is still one of the in russia and it's on everybody's mind so a lot of questions related to corruption were addressed to the president including the recent high scandal high profile scandal involving the former now former defense minister should you call for basically got tangled up in this. possibly. broadly related scandal involving millions of dollars and while the president stressed once again that everybody. who is to blame for this will be established by the court will be punished but it's strictly up to the court to decide that and not speculation in the media he did promise to lead this case to

the final end he also supported the initiative to ban officials from having foreign bank accounts saying that well first of all that would create extra dependency of them from other countries other states and financial systems but it was also would also mean that they simply don't trust the russian banking system so that is one of the other steps to battle corruption in the country and on t.v. that there's going to live right in front of the kremlin thank you. well you can now watch other live footage of the president's q. and a on our website dot com in the meantime though coming up here in just a couple of minutes we take a look at the brothers believed to be behind the boston bombings on the way there for trade in the global media. and now here on a massive protests. as people revolt against government cuts off around one

billion euros is the latest public demonstration of resentment towards the three international bodies known as the troika who decide which nation is deserving of financial help the protesters say they are simply making heavy demands on people but changing nothing. this report. twenty fifth is the day that the portuguese celebrating nine hundred seventy. revolt of a different kind. to demonstrate against the current government in the country and also against the three. given to the. nation troika the e.u. the international monetary fund the european central bank one of the main targets. as well as their own politicians that this isn't the only demonstrations take place . in spain around one thousand four hundred riot police. to try

and make sure that demonstrations there don't boil over as we have seen in the past now it's not just the people of europe that have been voicing their displeasure against the. power here in europe with senior members of the european parliament voicing their displeasure against the way that. the seemingly endless financial crisis. very same. way that the situation in cyprus as neo colonialism. must be an inquiry into just who came up with the idea of placing a. about so much tension and lost respect for the e.u.

markets the politicians say. again and they want to make sure that it again and also find out just who suggested that it was a good idea in the first place so another day another round of demonstrations in europe people come out. with the way things are going that they want change and they want that change to come quickly. he's put a lot of it right there and he's a correspondent. spoke to a known euro skeptic the head of the u.k. independence party nigel for raj he believes the days of the eurozone are numbered and the people should pull their money from the banks before what happened in cyprus happens to them. big investors should be worried all over the euro zone particular southern europe i mean i. you know what would happen when spain finally went back how would they possibly deal with the sheer scale of the bailout would be needed which perhaps would be five or six hundred billion how could this happen

without huge american support for what cyprus has done is give us the template what they will do in future is they won't buy all countries out there belgium in a little do it by stealing investors' money by taxing properties and by forcing central banks into the holdings of gold i mean this is a truly. situation where if this plan is giving the green light to all the people who are affected will actually accepted what in a sense they may not have much choice because if their money is in bank accounts and literally that money is stolen from them without their having to give their consent then it's difficult to see what they can do so my advice to people is if you own property if you've got money in bank accounts in the eurozone get your money out because it's perfectly clear that is their plan heading on from here mr ferrars we've heard some harsh criticism coming from some european parliamentary members against the troika conglomerate some of them saying that this entity should

be even disorder would in your opinion that fix the problem it's quite right that there should be criticism of the troika really it's quite extraordinary that into all these countries that are in trouble with the eurozone they've effectively given a parliamentary democracy and handed it over to a very arrogant troika but it's all well and good but members of the european parliament to criticize the troika given they make up a third of that troika and i would much rather see rather than hot air from parliamentary colleagues i'd much rather see them supporting my plan which is to get the european commission next month in this building let's have a motion of competence debate in the way they behave as part of the troika mr ferrars my final question just briefly do you think this current. economic crisis in the euro zone could somehow lead to a hypothetical callet of the whole european union there is no way that the euro zone can last they may keep it going for a few more years by invoking ever more extreme measures but ultimately the euro zone is going to break up the economics that break it up it may be civil

disobedience or violence on a very large scale that eventually get some of those mediterranean countries out and after that i think the big question then is well what is the european union for and i think that the alternative model that a growing number of people in the e.u. were talking about which is a europe based on cooperation a europe based on trade a europe based on nation state democracy i think that vision is one that can only grow in support as the years go by. and as we reported earlier here on our two year the tough economic times are hurting even the most vulnerable. yeah i feel like i mean a laying on a good scene and the blades bad i don't know how he's going to jump or not thousands of disabled in the u.k. could soon be forced to prove to the gulf and they are disabled enough to get the money they need to know.

about international landlords in the very heart of moscow. thank you for joining us here on our. show now the u.s. military is being forced to admit almost daily that the guantanamo bay hunger strikers are increasing in number but the official figure is still lower than that claimed by lawyers who say the majority of one hundred sixty six detainees have been starving themselves for nearly three months now the official figures rose exponentially after prison guard tried to break up the prison as protest against more official say ninety two detainees are now refusing all food with seventeen being force fed two of them currently in hospital and have been several recent suicide attempts and the military's muslim advisor says that well he's he's worried the protests will lead to deaths detainees have grown desperate over the indefinite

detention without charge some believing them never leave the facility as a disguise nature can reports. u.s. will now acknowledge that ninety two detainees source starving themselves of guantanamo the military has been updating the numbers since the middle of march saying at the beginning that there were fourteen people on strike the detainees the fence lawyers have been saying all along there were many more around one hundred thirty they would say earlier this month the president tried to put an end to the strike by putting the inmates in solitary confinement authorities said they raided the communal living area and forced the detainees into individual cells to prevent them from covering cameras did help the number has doubled since then according to the officials again the numbers that we've been getting from defense lawyers were different all along out of one hundred sixty six one tunnel prisoners eighty six have been cleared for release so the sole reason they're still to help captive is their nationality i had a chance to ask. assistant secretary on human rights about this collective

punishment based on nationality here's what she said the president has made clear his commitment to closing guantanamo but he done it coordinates with u.s. law in consultation with the congress so it has to really use back to their statements try the white house and the spin that it's not just about those who have been cleared for release but many other inmates have never been formally accused the defense lawyers say it's been a dead end for them trying to get their clients out whenever asked about p.c. issues the administration gives the saying responses were first to congress the lawyers say even with the transfer restrictions in place the current law allows for the administration to use waivers to leave but they for some reason don't you know it's really not clear what to change the status quo at this point an advisor for the pentagon who visited guantanamo last week came back and said that he predicted the ongoing strike would lead to death so a long time muslim advisor at guantanamo who goes one in

a czar who goes only by his first name for secure. reasons he said quote there will be more than one death and then he added that the detainees called wanted to die out of hunger and thirst behind covered cameras and followed and the question many now ask is what really dies in this hunger strike will it change something in washington i'm going to check out. and we are bringing you in-depth coverage of the developing crisis one ton of mowbray you can also head to our web site on to dot com for a full timeline of the events. now the investigation into the boston marathon bombings continues with journalists hunting for every new detail. going to looks into the background of the two suspects and the way they're being portrayed by the global media. a terror act that shocked the u.s. the suspects a nineteen and

a twenty six year old that's our naive brothers joe hart was a u.s. citizen to milan on his way to becoming one but both of chechen origin the older brother to milan is said to have traveled to dagestan in russia for several months . the elder brother it was done just on the show to make these things again and didn't rush. place nutrition despite the media reach these locations remain unknown to some lot of people are confusing it with check with the back yeah and yeah whatever it's called i know i did i can assume that the majority of americans today beginning last year at the time of the bombings that star now i have spent the last decade living in the us in the country sure. because you know and while the origin and yet again religion are over ready largely gleaned as the root of all evil the investigation is only its first stagers somebody screwed up an innocent family they then become amber alert

is that was her mother and there are those who knew the two brothers see the media is taking it over the top they can't always be trying to rush to be the first ones to the big new piece of information local blogger luis vasquez knew both brothers while he was here since he was little and if you didn't know joe harvey's name you would just assume that he was an american around here we have a very diverse community and it's normal to here for someone to go back to their country he says over sensationalizing that's our knives background doesn't get any answers to the question why being answered temple and even from coaching with his brother they would never go around pounding their chest about their religion the most a. conversation i've had about about their background is them telling me what it from that's it that's it and then after that all this talk about boxing let's talk about lines that said samuel went to high school with joe hart who has now been. charged with use of weapons of mass destruction the media has a way of spinning things of course and with regards to his nationality to me it

doesn't matter. it shouldn't matter what his religion is either when i graduated there are forty five languages spoken just in my graduating class alone it is not unusual in fact it is very common to hear a foreign language he reminds us that the only suspect alive after the bombings has lived in america since the age of eight i didn't come here the younger age you know for doing that they will tell you and they have told me on certain occasions you know this person was part of the community the attack feels even more personal and devastating for samuel because he knew the brother is responsible but pointing fingers he says at places of birth or religion is far from crucial what is solving this case and bringing justice that takes time time and effort that would hopefully lead to innocent people feeling safe again security in this country seems like it's more for show than for anything a lot of times unfortunately. that needs to change while the media pick apart every

single detail they can lay their hands and ears on it seems that what should matter after the tragedy is tackling terrorism and global threats that has no faith upbringing or religion but has become the curse of the twenty first century not just here but all over the world and. boston massachusetts and you get all the latest updates on the investigation into the worst terror act on american soil since nine eleven just head to our website dot com let's get to some other stories now waiting for you right now on line for this hour a report from the e.u. antiterrorist chief says five hundred young marine radicalized and voluntarily joined a rebel fighting against the regime of president assad in syria have the full story on the website. and wiki leaks triumphs against the company the ones prevented donations being made to the whistle blowing web site with poor. deciding that every month. hundreds of thousands of dollars in.

life as a disabled person in britain could soon become rather a lot harder. to prove face to face that they deserve the help that until recently had been taken for granted. reports. lisa egan's bones break so easily she's already sustained sixty six fractures in her thirty three years she has to use a wheelchair and is one of three point two million brits claiming that disability living allowance or d.l.a. which helps those who are unable to move around freely because of physical disability this being a paste by a new personal independence payment the looming change will see stricter assessments for determining whether or not to sable people deserve tax payers money isa says she's terrified she could lose the monthly payments if i lost everything i'd basically condemned to a life of housebound that's my quote it would be better but the moment it's really

unclear d.l.a. currently comes in two parts a core payment of up to seventy seven pounds and forty five pence a week and i'm ability component worth up to fifty four pounds that mobility component means lisa is provided with a car which she says is the one thing that keeps her from being housebound whether or not she gets to keep what she calls her lifeline will become clear over the next year and a half as the new p.r.p. scheme is rolled out and d.l.a. is replaced it's scary. you know i feel like you're laying on a gate. and i don't know how to drop or not. just that. does that have meant. oh absolutely. yeah. i don't think i'm going to elaborate on that one on camera and yet the government is on a mission to drastically reform the welfare state today almost one pound in every

three spent by the government goes on welfare in a world competitiveness a world where no one is owed a living we need to have a welfare system the country can properly afford in order to do that private companies are toss health care and capita have been drafted. to run the assessments for the changeover from disability living allowance to. their reputation precedes them they've already carried out assessments for people receiving incapacity benefit from another type of welfare payment those who are suffering an illness that renders them unable to go to work many people out there really do worry that the assessments for paper got to be very similar to the woman so it's a currently held for pullman sportscotland so the work capability assessment we've heard of so many cases of abuses of people being treated badly medical people not being listened to. in so many cases where people have lost benefits as a consequence of one of these assessments they've appealed and the pill has been

over by a tribunal last month braindamaged m.p. team are kevin you can't walk or cork classified as fit for work after one such assessment the story is that the bust the government's own figures show that one thousand three hundred people died after being told they should go back to work by itself health care and now they're prepared to assess d.l.a. claimants a recent survey found one in five doctors say disabled had to commit suicide as a result of undergoing for fear of undergoing the assessments capability they aren't reading about mobile somedays i think. yes i am worthwhile human being and i you know. subsistence level benefits that keep me alive. now the days you're forced into question and you know i am i really worth it . whether or not the government thinks leaser is worth it she'll find out in twenty fifteen when her assessment comes but to critics the changes are about saving money

rather than making the system fairer my personal view is. compassion is not money first of all seeing these changes do not represent a compassionate society. london. and a more news with me and half an hour's time but up next on the untold stories of the militants albany's delta this is owens and.

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