breaking news and also a blaze at a psychiatric facility in the most courageous claims the lives of up to a certain age people with only three surviving the tragedy bars on the windows prevented some from escaping in time. unconfirmed intelligence from the u.s. point of the use of chemical weapons in syria and fuels war trick in washington similar to that seen as head of the invasion of iraq. the u.s. and to terror chief says hundreds of european volunteers and out fighting in syria and could pose a serious security threat when they return from the radicalized front.

this is on c coming to you live from moscow hello and welcome to the program and start with our breaking news story this hour a devastating fire at a psychiatric hospital in the moscow region has killed at least seventy eight people leaving only three survivors the blaze reportedly erupted in a wing providing special treatment to patients and small s.l. cross lines are also used on boston because of the scene of the tragedy told hello what's the latest. yes at the moment new developments trickling out from the scene of thirty's now consuming to constable lines of inquiry as to how this may have happened the first short circuits in the electrical wiring of a psychiatric hospital the second a possible safety violation when someone was smoking more than that isn't known at the moment the fire started

a three am at the hospital and the raman score about two hours' drive from moscow by the time his urgency services a ride in taiwan story building was a place a nurse managed to escape also saving two patients those were the only survivors draws on the windows of the hospital normally in place to stop patients scaping may have meant some of those patients weren't able to escape the fire it's also not known at the moment how many if any of the patients were medicated at the time which also may have stopped them escaping with full body so far being discovered near the doors of the hospital and eight more and signed the wards. could you probably tell us why that was so many. well this hospital there was a wing which also gave extra treatment some of those patients. the

psychiatric patients sometimes considered a risk for the mistake things as well as i said were attached to the windows of the hospital but in this case rather than the stopping them escaping. acts acted. like something of a truck with the fire closing in the details not known was whether those involved did stop people escaping or not also some of those patients may have been medicated heavily asleep in their beds when the fire swept through the building meaning that they weren't able to escape. come to life from the most courageous thank you very much. and this is not the first place in a russian medical facility to claim lives and have some role in the tragic history of hospital. paul schooled here with me in the studio so paul all this i mean all these things have been happening in russia many times before please bring us

this sad record here unfortunately your it's it seems all too common it's a war against disconcerting trend of the last the last decade or so with eighteen cases in the past seventeen years in medical facilities throughout russia is quite a startling statistic one of the most notable came in two thousand and nine in the russian republic of komi where a blaze in an elderly people's home took the lives of twenty three people on that occasion three people were saved three people did manage to escape again or people sort of a care facility within russia maybe this is just an is that the care facilities the buildings old derelict in a slightly neglected two years earlier in two thousand and seven there was a fire in the city of chula again in an elderly care home that resulted in a thirty two deaths but on that occasion nearly two hundred fifty patients and medical staff were able to escape i suppose this is a problem it was it was highlighted in

a rather tragic weekend in december two thousand and six this is when it really came to the public's attention i guess there were two incidents over one weekend the second one saw nine people killed and twelve injured a fire in a mental hospital in siberia again two hundred patients and fifty medical staff were on site nine people killed so around two hundred did manage to escape unharmed but as i say it was brought to the public attention really that weekend because twenty four hours previously forty five people killed all of them women and a drug treatment hospital forty three of them were patients and what happened there it's seems like it might be a similar story to the story that's emerging this morning of the patients the people who died suffocated suffered from smoke inhalation. again because the the exits were blocked and there were grills on the window which is a common thing and something we're hearing that might be might be the case with a fire this morning indeed so many similar things but what about other fires in russia to claim a lot of lives it's not just medical facilities it's

a rather worrying trend as i say in the last decade or so there have been numerous incidences of fires in public buildings in care facilities as we've touched on i suppose one of the most notorious came in two thousand and nine in december the lame horse nightclub which is a mob in part on that occasion it was is known to it was a one hundred fifty people lost their lives there were two hundred eighty two people in the club at the time now that fire was started when sparks from fireworks ignited the ceiling that quickly spread damage the buildings electrical wiring which is why the fire was so disastrous are not caged and there was an incident in january in two thousand and six where a fire occurred in very well stuck in a branch far east of russia of course we really don't know a branch of spare bank in which nine people were killed so far as in public buildings and medical facilities care facilities are unfortunately in the last decade or so all too common. core thank you very much indeed thanks for that update . and we'll be bringing you all the latest about the aftermath of the fire in the

moscow region and you can also find all the updates online as r.c. dot com. let's move on now u.s. officials claim to have intelligence pointing to the small scale use of chemical weapons by the regime in syria the data is said to be sketchy and difficult to verify washington has warned a chemical attack in syria could spark a u.s. intervention and some lawmakers now say that red line has been crossed but as aussies are enough work now reports now they drumming up a war rhetoric is reminiscent of a previous invasion. the u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel said at the white house and has informed members of congress that intelligence officials believe with some degree of varying confidence that syrian president bashar al assad's government has used chemical weapons against members of the opposition specifically sarin gas didn't provide any specific facts on when or where the alleged weapons were used and it was not even

clear what the freeze with some degree of varying confidence even means does that mean that one intelligence official is confident that this is taking place and one is not confident clearly that that language is either a good or a bit confusing now secretary hagel said that assad's use of chemical weapons violates every convention of warfare but what's interesting is that on tuesday israel's intelligence officials claim that syria the syrian government had used lethal lethal chemical weapons against rebels and at that time secretary hagel expressed his doubts about those findings now the u.s. is currently pressing for the united nations to conduct a comprehensive investigation into allegations of damascus use of chemical weapons but the united nations secretary general has previously appointed it seem of experts but the syrian government has been accused of blocking the team from doing its work now u.s. president barack obama has previously said that the use of chemical weapons by the syrian government would be a game changer in the u.s.

position opting in the two year old civil war in a letter sent to two u.s. senators a white house legal official did write that the assessment of likely coal weapons use in syria will not automatically trigger action including military intervention but the official also referred to a bad intelligence about weapons of mass destruction in iraq that led to the invasion the us invasion of that country in that case the intelligence was proved wrong everybody can remember just a decade ago when colin powell sat in the chambers of the united nations security council shaking a vial to try to to try to convince the international community to go along with america's in v. into iraq and a clearly his claims of iraq having weapons of mass destruction were proven wrong but nonetheless u.s. senators like john mccain are already calling for action mccain has said that if the u.s. now declines to intervene in syria it would send the wrong message to other adversaries in the region working to some experts what is proving positive or will hear is that

the current accusations against the syrian government is eerily similar to the accusations that were made against the iraq government proceeding america's two thousand and three invasion and so many experts believe here that all this talk can be leading the u.s. and its western allies to take military action against syria possibly without all the correct facts in place the u.s. and its allies have by rebels through the conflict which is now. but by standing strong damascus has the west to increase the pressure according to independent journalist. it's a lot of nonsense and everybody in the diplomatic well knows it but it is intended to create an atmosphere where america and its weston's satellite allies can begin to be more aggressive in their assistance to the rebels or terrorists or whatever you want to call them in syria because the reality at the moment is that the syrian

army is doing rather well and the rebels agree rather badly despite the thousands of tons of arms to the west and their gulf allies imported into syria i think john kerry said we must look at ways of quick pressure on russia our side and he was going for wants nothing but the truth. britain and france tried to persuade the european union to ease the arms embargo so that they could supply more weapons to the rebels that was actually side inside the surprisingly defeated in the european union they weren't able to do that so now as they see that their allies in syria are on the ground beginning to do quite badly they're looking for ways to put pressure on i think the west is feeling its way they don't know what to do this is last two years they have totally failed to overthrow bashar assad absolute nonsense they failed to discredit him as well. i have been closely following the chemical

weapons contrasting the syrian conflict and you can find the full account of events as that unfolded on our web site called the rebels themselves paul said late threatens to unleash them a chemicals on damascus last year they seized at talks in funk trade and released footage apparently demonstration of the use of poisonous gas on rabbits that's free to underline timotheus of a little that's. the way you and also in just a few minutes said a. surge of roscoe volunteers from europe to the syrian front comes fresh fears of a homegrown terrorist threats. to mumble the notorious pussy riot find a way to have parole hearing a central russia all the details are coming up. to

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this is also the welcome block the tired she was sounding the alarm over the number of young europeans going off to the syrian war hundreds of volunteers are already fighting alongside rebels and could pose a serious security threat when they return home according to her call of his doesn't see reports now europe is increasingly worried about the terror threat from within. syria's two year old conflict is already seen spillover so neighboring countries but now it is extended far beyond that it's estimated that hundreds of europeans from fourteen countries mostly young men have joined the levels in syria in fighting against bashar al assad london based international center for the study of radicalization put the tall figure at six hundred. well

here on tour bill should the media coverage of the radicalization of young people has recently focused on one specific story that of a father in search of the son dimitriy want to stop him short of radical islam his group had gone to syria to join the fight father had gone all the way they're hoping to bring this somebody. built planes are flying overhead all the time when we are on the streets or inside a building we have a bomb was dropped on us i haven't had a contact with a year and we shoot him he's here in aleppo we spoke with dimitris lawyer who is in constant contact with him and he says the father is hell bent on finding his eighteen year old son ulan we don't expect that he will send me to syria i think that's that's clear so that's also why didn't he. was eager to go in self he said i want to do something for myself

a son who started changing about three years ago the problem with the us that at a certain moment he was influenced by some radical list made contacts with some people on the streets and there was also a story about. told love you have a girlfriend and he didn't you didn't work out and there were some friends who say ok come with us and very slowly started it he was really influenced and really brave to us to that that are the words of my client to grow beards and. started wearing in order to. i preach it for every five times a day things like that so it was a little bit awkward for some a fifteen sixteen years old so he was really under the influence of radical of radical people this groupie you had come into contact with issue real for belgium a radical islam is a group whose leader followed belka some have been arrested for hate speech and

calls justifying the use of violence or there is a judgement day if you're if you're a muslim you will go to paradise if you're this believer or you will go to hell terrorism expert claude many cases the rise of radicalized youth is alarming many of whom are easy prey the first question is why they convert and usually they don't convert because due to me they convert because of a problem at one moment in their life most of them have no clear political ideas and they go to fight because the fact and their goal is to fight if there were they don't meet its mission to convince them they could be in a sect the could have trapped in the net of people who have just talked writing them and for a convincing them but to goodness thing they want to go to syria to sign or to commit another terrorist attack. authorities are paying even closer attention with

alert levels heightened while worried family members of some the youth fighting in syria have been calling for a clampdown on radical groups the best they can do short of going to give themselves although that may not be completely out of the question does or sylvia r.t. antwerp in belgium. the u.k. is thought to be one of europe's main supplies a volunteer fighters to syria the homegrown terror threat is well known in britain where three islamic extremists were jailed on thursday for plotting a series of times and earlier my colleague transit discussed the issue with l.t. contributor afshin rattansi. it is if the british government only just realised what's going on that there are these jihadi these homegrown as it were that are leaving after previous called previous battles in libya and moving in to work with the syrian opposition indeed which is name of

a name i haven't come across that much in the news even counterterrorism coordinator his comments about homegrown jihad he's from britain and a host of e.u. countries although britain makes the most of them according to a recent king's college london survey it's as if the british government only just suddenly realised it would william hague writing a letter to british m.p.'s warning about this and we had of the commons foreign select committee here saying that his presumably signalled intervention of a kind because now the british government can make a case for we have to intervene in syria because we have to stop these militants coming back to being trained by elements of the free syrian army or whatever opposition movement there is in syria and returning to. now the suspects in the boston marathon bombings all logically products of self radicalization and the survivor claim that they planned the attack alone without any outside help but were inspired by wars instigated by the west in muslim communities in

countries does this mean do you think that the u.s. and european allies should review international policies that we should understand the impact of nato and u.s. foreign policy and the disastrous consequences unleashed in afghanistan iraq libya mali who knows where next just just say that one understands that as a catalyzing effect on people that we must remember are in these environments where islamophobia is rife in their media where they are being stopped and searched by police forces and so forth just to say one understand that foreign policy may have an impact seemingly has to be accused you get accused in britain and in the united states of being some patriot. and so our threat just by expressing that viewpoint governments within europe they have to start making a much better effort making their muslim populations realize they are part of their societies and are not some kind of enemy and remember you can always check out all

of our news online by heading to our seat of home and his was there for you right now. let's turn violent in spain where they on employment level reaches a record of more than twenty seven percent petition line. on the ledge the boston marathon bombers were reportedly planning to carry out a terrorist attack in new york's times square got all the updates on our website. a member of notorious punk band pussy riot has a parole hearing in central russia shortly last august there's a guy was sentenced along with two other women to two years in prison they were found guilty of hooliganism following a stunt in the country's main orthodox cathedral a dictatorship ski house on. may actually be released on parole following today's hearings the main points given by her defending lawyers is that first of all she

has been behaving very good during her prison term after she was convicted of two years in prison here in central russia now also another one of the all the points made by the defending lawyers that she has a small child and also that she has already been offered several jobs despite being behind a bar switch from a legal point of view may make her alledge will for parole the point made by those protesting against her parole is that she has been she has had several misconduct during the time she was awaiting trial in moscow in detention and that could also prove to be a little in a possible negative decision some would say which has already been released on parole last year because the judge just ruled that she didn't approach the outtara during the punk prayer in the christ the savior cathedral in moscow the other the third member of the pussy riot she asked for a parole and her case will be reviewed at the end of may as far as we understand

the pussy riot members the rem members of the group wore arrested after they conducted a so-called punk prayer in the christ the savior cathedral twenty first twenty twelve later they were convicted to two years of prison one of them as i said earlier was released on parole definitely this issue has been making huge waves in russia and internationally with those with some saying that they actually violated the law and they offended the religious beliefs of many in the country that's why they have to serve such sentence others saying that such a long prison sentence of two years was unjustified for a crime which they committed also there has been some support which the band received from the music stars across the planet including the pop idols madonna rock band a red hot chili peppers and made. others so it's interesting to see what decision will come today whether to somehow temper all this speculation and all this

definitely this story has been receiving some huge media attention in the court session starts in exactly one hour from now and it will be interesting to see will probably be see some protests in the streets either for or against it but definitely we're in for a very long and interesting day and we'll certainly update our viewers with all the latest information as we get it in the wrong nearly fifty people have been killed in the northern city of mosul after fierce clashes between government and security forces on top of over one hundred deaths since tuesday when troops storming a city projects calls and rescue spread quickly and as there was a spate of violence since u.s. forces pulled out on december twenty seventh and there are fears the situation could get what is deepening political turmoil has left the government deadlocked and its efforts to rule a country made up of radically different groups ati's this account has just returned from iraq gave my colleague mark truss a take on the escalating violence. iraq is a country that is divided into three major areas you have for example over here

this is the largely sunni provinces over here is the semi autonomous kurdish region below which are certain disputed areas and this is the largely shia area of iraq now the incidents the latest wave of violence really began new york your kook this is close to the town of who we are where demonstrators have been camped out for several months now on tuesday things came to a bloody boiling point when the government forces had raided the area the government says that the protesters had opened fire the demonstrators meanwhile say that these security officials are the ones who opened fire first the result of which was at least fifty people killed and hundreds wounded now why the protests were in here in all these areas the sunni areas and sit back down now they've basically been protesting against the government based say that the policies of prime minister nuri al maliki this is the shiite led government has resulted in

their oppression this is what they say and news of the attacks there and how we had spread very quickly and that's what's behind this latest violence we saw attacks and those will in other areas north of baghdad in the anbar province and people feel that this was perhaps retribution perhaps basically just the straw that broke the camel's back with essentially largely peaceful demonstrations turning into now violent escalations and expressions of outrage in order for things to essentially deescalate there has to be changes in policies and we were in fallujah talking to the protesters they feel that the way the very structure of the government this is a sectarian government this is part of the constitution that has been written in large part with the help of the u.s. that divides iraq i mean it divides iraq constitutionally and these protesters say that unless there's a change in policies they're not going to stop coming out they're not going to go back to their homes and stop these demonstrations and the impetus for this violence right now has been the physical clashes that took place and i don't really see

a situation where the protesters will just say ok we're done we're going to go home now they want massive change. coming away we delve into the world of. technology up today. this is a mysterious c. m no this is not a fifty's beside fi movie slogan it is what a.b.c. news is trying to find out when they investigated how lean finally textured beef is produced this type of quote beef has become very widespread throughout fast food restaurants and supermarkets in the usa and has led to its south dakota based manufacturer posting profits in the hundreds of millions of dollars but so what's

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