by the nation president putin has held his first countrywide q. and a session since reelection saying he's always been appalled by the west's. skyrockets to more than twenty seven percent with austerity brewing across the e.u. while the trio of international lenders growing criticism among those suffering at the hands of austerity. and increasing desperation in the guantanamo bay prison inmates have been on a hunger strike now for seventy nine days with u.s. officials forced to admit the scale of the protest is rising.

worldwide news a live from the heart of moscow this is. a welcome to the program. president putin says he was always a poles when western nations supported insurgents and russia and never considered them as terrorists and that was just one of the messages from his worldwide nationwide i should say question and answer session certainly being listened to by the world the event went on for hours and forty seven minutes beating the previous longest by a quarter of an hour. joins us live here on out so you get to see you certainly a lot of issues addressed by the russian president his first national q. and a since being reelected one of the issues he touched down upon the boston bombings. well surely of the recent tragedy in boston and the events was folded right after that were watched by the whole world and russia is no exception

especially after it was established that the two suspected terrorists were of chechen origin and the president did comment on that reminding how critical the west was of moscow's anti terror efforts in the caucasus and how international media often presented terrorists as freedom fighters and the president said he hopes this would change now and actually russian and american security services would be able to increase their joint efforts in combat in terror. but you know we're going to show that ordinary american citizens are not to blame they don't understand what's happening i would like to address russian and u.s. citizens by saying that russia has been among the first victims in all the international terrorism i was always appalled when i was in partners and the western media labeled terrorists who committed bloody crimes in our country insurgence and almost never terrorists these groups received intelligence financial and political support directly and indirectly we said to declarations merely

proclaiming terrorism a common threat not a now we must get the job done. and you go to the recent death of the former exile tycoon boris berezovsky certainly it's been causing out of a stir in the media did the russian president say that he had had any contact from bears off the up until the recent days when he passed away. well indeed words were put in did confirm that he was to letters from bodies going to steal one when he was still alive and he said that the former. in the exiled state called admitted making mistakes which harmed russia he asked for forgiveness basically and asked the president to allow him return to russia where he was up to the latest point and to the end of the sickly of his life on of the most wanted list since he was found guilty of various crimes and while the president said that despite all the commotion in the international media about these the letters he still personally

decided not to publish them since he says even though they were not closely acquainted it was still a private letter with a private request to go to what about the trial of top opposition activists alexina valmy or so it'll be making headlines in the media that the russian president had anything to say about this ongoing trial. well the story around that it's in the wine is definitely in the headlines in russia and abroad so one of the questions was asked about one of the leaders of the opposition who is now being accused of organizing a criminal scheme to steal state property and that while the president commented saying that if you are openly fighting against corruption like an exit you know what i mean who is basically made his popularity through his online anti corruption project then you have to be absolutely clear and clean in front of the lot and if

any allegations emerge then it's tricky to go to the court to decide. that. because i'm bored it's a scope's of people who find corruption have to be completely clean themselves otherwise their actions become nothing more than self promotion to political advertising just because someone is trying to catch a thief doesn't mean they should be allowed to steal themselves that doesn't mean however that a person should be tried and locked up for any reason whatsoever just because his views may differ from those of the government but i'm positive that known these cases will be heard in the new object of manhattan. now for the first time since two thousand and one this a q. and a session was held the would follow up question so basically it's went from the ordinary question answer question answer scheme to a discussion which lasted nearly five hours and while really

a lot of the different issues were talked about including the recent law on foreign agents which basically obliges n.g.o.s with foreign sponsors to register themselves as foreign agents and be under state control and the law is widely criticised by the opposition and the president also commented on that saying that the law does not ban n.g.o.s. from operating in russia it just obliges them to report to the authorities where they're getting their money from and how they want to spend it and with which purpose and he added that a similar war exists in the united states since the mid one nine hundred thirty s. and actually talking about the relations between moscow and washington the issue of the money the act also came up and then i think that all the data that michael's reaction basically that itself is strongly one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the relations between the two countries and the president has named it once again an imperialist pick and two russian war which only harmed relations while right now

both russia and the united states really have to think more about how to develop ties rather than worsening them. you go to going on with the analysis on the russian president's annual q. and a address thank you. well with president putin urging more cooperation between the u.s. and russia to combat the terror threat in the wake of the boston attacks r.t. goes on the bombing trail with the investigation into the boston marathon attack in full swing we'll get the latest from the parents of the two main suspects after the break. u.s. officials are now admitting on an almost daily basis that the guantanamo bay hunger strike is on the rise but lawyers for the prisoners claim the real figures are still much higher with a majority of one hundred and sixty six of them said to be all refusing food now

the official numbers that we have here at r t started after prison guards try to break up the process to get moe efficiently saying ninety four detainees are now starving seventeen being force fed now we have a three they are currently in hospital there are several recent suicide attempts and the military's muslim advisor actually says he's worried that the protest would lead to deaths now many are held at the prison without charge but the majority believing they'll never warry artie's guy nature can reports. 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 inmate in solitary confinement authorities said they raided the communal living area and force 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 the different along out of one hundred sixty six want to animal prisoners eighty six have been cleared for release so the sole reason they're still held captive is their nationality i had a chance to ask the. 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 this has to be done in accordance with us in consultation with the congress so it has to assure you back to your statements to the white house and the spokesman that it's not about those who have been cleared for release but any other inmates have not been formally accused of anything defense lawyers say it's been a dead end for them trying to get their minds out whenever asked about these issues the administration gives the same response it were for congress what the lawyers say transcriptions in place the current law still allows for the inspiration use

waivers to release some of these men but they for some reason don't use those it's really not clear what can 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 by the name zack who goes only by his first name for security reasons he said quote there will be more than one death and then he added that the detail. squalled wanted to die out of hunger and thirst behind covered cameras and followed and the question many now ask is what if someone really dies in this hunger strike will it change something in washington. so ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital frustration with austerity is deepening among europeans with spain's unemployment jumping to a record of twenty seven point two percent and in neighboring portugal almost one

in five of the workforce have no job and people in the two heavily indebted nations are preparing for fresh protests against their governments and international lenders and let's get the latest now from marty's peter all of our he's standing by for us live in lisbon here peter good to see you we understand more and your spirit of protests are planned for today we understand that they are upset with austerity but isn't there anything new that's fueling this intention. well traditionally the twenty fifth of april is the day that the portuguese celebrate the start of their revolution in one nine hundred seventy four but this year there's a different element to the celebrations that take place here in the capital one hundred people are coming out to show just how upset they are with what they view as the financial mismanagement of their country not to mismanagement not only by their own government but a a financial mistreatment that many people view by the troika one of the dirtiest

words in portugal at the moment the troika of course the three main lenders the e.u. the international monetary fund and the european central bank now to mark this just over to my right as one of the main squares here important lisbon a large amount of people are gathered they're going to make their way down the street to the center of the city which is being close to them down to a nother square over to my left now traditionally that officially that is where the protest is supposed to end however it's believed that a hard core group who are so upset with what they see as. this financial mistreatment and mismanagement will take their protest further and take it all towards the paul newman building now in the past we have seen very large demonstrations here in lisbon early in march around four hundred thousand people took to the streets there to put that in perspective that's around half the population of the capital city here we are expecting not many today but certainly a fair few thousand coming out and they have been expressing their views or they say no love for the troika here peter as you're saying of the anti austerity

protests are now just gearing up where you are in lisbon but i also want to start here at r.t. there are also protests slated for spain as well. well that's right the demonstrations in spain certain to be for said to be far larger than we're seeing here in lisbon but they going to be fueled by those statistics that have come out today shocking statistics really that say that six million spanish currently without a job that's twenty seven point two percent of the population put that in a little perspective that's the highest level of unemployment that they've seen since the death of francisco franco in the end of the dictatorship there so of course that was a time of huge are people in spain and they seeing a similar type of future people but i find of a financial kind this time out over the last five years the unemployment levels in spain of risen by twenty percent and that's has caused extreme amounts of anger

among the people of spain and they're going to be out in the streets of madrid to vent the spanish police are prepared for any kind of unrest there one thousand four hundred right place of being deployed to try and keep the peace on the streets of madrid but it's certainly said to be very heated if there is people come out to show just how upset they really are indeed n.t.e.u. austerity protesting stage in spain and in portugal where you are there in lisbon auntie's peter all of us thank you. well the euro skepticism has been soaring across the e.u. fueled by banking crises are controversial bailouts and harsh austerity and the latest surveys show trust in the blood has plummeted to historic low levels let's have a look at the figures right here for you now as collected by the eurobarometer the e.u.'s polling organization in the u.k. for example well the the trust now has a lack of trust nearly seventy percent in germany as well there was a level thirty six percent not trusting of the eurozone

a year latest now it's up to nearly sixty percent and italy is well you see this massive surge in numbers from italy to germany to the u.k. to spain as well and as well as we were speaking to peter all of a sudden the tension and the frustration is making itself known on the streets of european capitals of paul hempel from the alternative for germany party he says the figures are no surprise given all the mistakes that europe's movers and shakers continue to make. the petition then the governments and the european union especially in the euro states has done such a lot of things wrong and has misused the treaties we made and which we swear had to be kept all the time that there is no face and a ball in in our exploits to stabilize all even to defeat the crisis some hundred years ago the german emperor williams a second said. the german spirit will heal themselves the world and. my impression is that we try again you know to convince europeans that you must do it

the german way but the other countries especially in southern europe vote you go to spain greece italy and france not to forget they count do it that way because they have a different economy and they have to fight their own their own too which is one of the most important tool is to get back to the old currency when they can reach to reduce the value of their money and can compete internationally once again i think these countries are more or less on their own they have to manage their problems first in their own country and and the troika. tools especially not internationally the two it could help countries like portugal spain or greece. i wish i had a few here on say that i have rising violence in iraq and the country suffers one of its bloodiest chapters since u.s. troops pulled out but the ethnic clashes and bombings leaving more than one hundred dead and more on that after the break.

the international airport in the very heart of moscow. thank you for joining us here on our. show you in moscow a father of the two boston marathon bombing suspects says he won't seek revenge for the death of his son tom arlen and sort of added that he wants to bring his daughter in law and and grandson back to russia artist on barton told me more about what was said by the brothers parents at a press conference in dagestan. in this press conference the mother and father said that they spoke about what their next plans would be and how their feelings were at this moment are they said that she was probably going to give up her u.s. citizenship she was very emotional in this short press conference she restated that she thought her sons were innocent that they've been framed was going to. do.

this he was alive why. why. why. the father and source says now that he wants to fly to the u.s. perhaps today perhaps tomorrow as soon as possible really to pick up the body of his son tom alon also lands widow and his grandson tomlin's son fly with them back to russia to help look after them the mother also adds that she is not quite sure whether she's going to go to the u.s. as well there is a shoplifting charge there she says she doesn't think that she did it but she's still nervous she may face arrest if she goes. he was very late on co-opt his brother in this plot converted into this war extremist or plan to plan the country's bombs the boston marathon. himself has also been put from anonymous

sources say on a cia database of people to most and which is added also to previous investigations by the f.b.i. so raises further questions as to why these two were not picked up the. artist on barton i spoke to him just a bit earlier in the program that the revelations about. having been in the cia database for over a year just some of the details that are now emerging with the investigation still in its infancy but some of the global media have already been jumping to conclusions and their portrayal of the suspects as artie's and i started. now reports of. a terror act that shook the u.s. the suspects in one thousand nine hundred 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. place nutrition despite the media reach these locations remain unknown to some a lot of people are confusing it with chalk with a vacuum and. yeah whatever it's called i know i did i can't assume that the majority of americans today even speak english young at the time of the bombings that's are now i have spent the last decade living in the us in the country with. us you know and while the origin and yet again religion are already largely blamed as the root of all evil the investigation is only in its first stages to. hammer just. plan those who knew the two brothers see the media is taking it over the top they can't all be trying to rush to be the first one to break a 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 the harsh name you would just assume that he was an american around here we have a very diverse community and it's normal to hear 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. extensive conversation i've had about about their background is them telling me where they're from that's it that's it and then after that all this talk about boxing let's talk about lunch. that said samuel went to high school with joe hart who has now been charged with the use of weapons of mass destruction so the media has a way of spinning things of course and with regards to his nationality to us it mattered . it shouldn't matter what his religion is either when i graduated there were 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 at a younger age you know from everyone 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 and 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 especially church in our party boston massachusetts and if he is going to live from moscow as getting into israel is getting harder as a new and controversial security check gets the state's stamp of approval at israel's ben gurion airport staff can even search your e-mail inbox so according to a recent decision by the country's attorney general a more of the story on our website dot com. and according to the head of the u.s. anti terrorist services five hundred young europeans have already upped and left the comforts of home for syria to fight. being on the frontline alongside the country's rebels the full story on our website. for now iraqi authorities have said a gunman have taken over a sunni town north of baghdad after a firefight with security forces a rising violence in iraq is spurring fears of more bloodshed and sectarian conflict some local said country could be on the same road as war torn neighboring

syria a clashes between the shiite dominated government and sunni gunman along with separate terror attacks have left more than one hundred dead in the past several days alone is the worst spate of violence since u.s. forces pulled out of the end of two thousand and eleven and it also comes amid a deepening political turmoil with the government struggling to get key power brokers to work together middle east expert lawrence davidson blames the u.s. for spock in the crisis by toppling the iraqi regime with no stable alternative lined up. in two thousand you're where. saddam hussein was the darling of the bad guy. nobody would go they do all. their area and show why woods or very very. removed a. place and no real.

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