the international in the very heart of moscow. a pussy riot band members denied parole with a judge ruling she will have to serve her two year sentence in full for a performance at moscow's christ the savior could be drove. a deadly fire at a psychiatric hospital outside moscow kills thirty eight people leaving only three survivors we report from the scene. toxic uncertain t.v. u.s. says it suspects with varying degrees of confidence quote that the syrian government used chemical weapons now the u.k. joining allegations citing a limited but growing evidence. and terror alert and u.k. officials on the alarm over young europeans being recruited to join islamist rebel groups in syria claiming they pose a serious threat upon their return. eight

pm in moscow. good having you with us here on r t our top story this just into r t one of the jailed pussy riot band members has been denied early release from prison a judge in central russia ruled to keep. behind bars for the remainder of her two year sentence she got that term for hooliganism last summer after her group's impromptu performance at the christ the savior cathedral in moscow r t z x a alexei he has been watching the proceedings he joins us now live with the latest hello alexi so tell us more about the ruling in this case. well we actually expected a quick decision either way a negative or a positive one the whole process lost it for almost ten hours and the decision on.

parole lee has been next now the judge said that she considered every single statement coming from the defending lawyers which were mostly related to her having a rather good behavior during her prison term now in central russian prison and also the fact that she said she has a small daughter to take care of and the fact that she could get unemployment after she may get this parole but all this was negated by the accusations from the prosecution that she in fact had several misdemeanors during her time in detention and during her during her pretrial detention most going during her prison sentence here in central russia so these facts were according to the judge weighing much more and she until the member of the pussy riot punk band was denied her parole and now we already know that one of the members of the punk band if you can some would say which is on parole she was released because the judge ruled that she

did not approach the during this so-called prayer in the christ the savior cathedral mosco and the appeal here at the parole hearing of the third member of the group. i look you know will be will be reviewed as were understand later in may but for now we understand that an idea of the law will have to spend the rest of her prison term that is until march twenty fourth teen in prison unless the defending lawyers decide to appeal because when to stand there was a violation of the code when the judge did not let the defending lawyers have the final word and this may prove pivotal because when the sound from the defending lawyers that they will appeal this decision which was made today in this court in central russia now let's say you mentioned that the judge had cited some misdemeanors that she committed while in prison in making this ruling what was that . well she noted several misdemeanors she and the prosecution one of them was conducting letter exchange with people outside which was brought by the

regulations of prison another one was purely a behavioral misdemeanor that she refused to say hello to one of the officials of the prison which according to the prison regulations also entails some sort of some some sort of punishment. to basically points were considered not serious enough by the pending laws but eventually the judge's ruling was that. it was not yet ready to walk free and she has have to spend the rest of her prison term until march twenty fourth in prison all right and like sarah shahi live outside the courthouse thanks for that update. some of the day's other top stories now a massive fire tore through a psychiatric hospital in the moscow region killing all but three people inside thirty eight bodies found after rescue operations wrapped up the blaze engulf the entire building and reportedly erupted in a wing providing special treatment to patients are going off as more. it was around

half past one in the morning when a nurse at that tiny psychiatric hospital in the village located around eighty miles away from moscow noticed smoke in one of the hallways she tried putting out the fires self but the flames were spreading too quickly and of course we saw the front entrance catch fire we dashed forward and broke the door we saw one man line and cautiously we try to help others but there was too much smoke and we had to run away one view local saw was happening some of them rushed to the hospital to try to help with the fire was already too powerful for them to handle only two patients and that nurse made it out alive while dozens of others didn't and this is a psychiatric hospital and patients are given seductive drugs investigators say you know that could be one of the reasons why so few people made it out alive they say that most of the others it's very likely simply were not able to wake up when the fire started due to the heavy medication another problem is that the nearest fire

station is located around thirty miles away from here that combined with bad roads were the reasons why it took over an hour for the first rescue teams to arrive investigators say that some of the patients died from smoke inhalation but most simply burns to death in their beds. then there is who work that night is in stable condition in hospital that she is obviously shocked by this terrible and painful experience experts were already able to investigate the building where the fire took place and they see it's most likely that it started in a source for backing up rumors that one of the patients could have left a lit cigarette on it we're. not allowed to smoke there most probably someone lives a cigarette in bed and it all caught fire obviously right now many questions need answering there's lots of uncertain information and contradicting information as well but hopefully the ongoing investigation will. help shed some light on the

disease one of the worst hospital for years in russia in years you go to school or do you most of the region there have been similar deadly fires or russian medical facilities in recent years artie's lindsay friends takes a look back there is a troubling legacy of this sort of thing taking place in this country most recently in two thousand and nine in russia's republic of komi in an elderly care facility it was twenty three people that lost their lives in this blaze was very difficult to get out for many of these people being pensioners and relying on first responders to get out of the building in two thousand and seven in the city of tula at another elderly care home on november fourth thirty two people died now two hundred forty seven were able to escape with their lives in that blaze and then just a year earlier about in december two thousand and six there is a very tragic weekend here in russia actually in siberia on december ninth there

was a fire at a mental hospital nine people died in that blaze two hundred fifteen escaped now just twenty four hours prior to this fire there was a loss of life to the tune of about forty five people who died in a drug treatment facility in moscow and they were gross safety violations in that case many of them dying from smoke inhalation many of the windows were barred and the exits were blocked or locked so unfortunately in some of these cases there are gross safety violations but when you're dealing with the medical facilities some of these patients are sedated at night so in order to get them out there need to be huge amounts of first responders to get them out of the building so of course as this investigation proceeds in this this latest fire we're talking about today we'll we'll see if medication had anything to do with it or if they were gross safety violations. you know first hand accounts from doctors law enforcement and eyewitnesses along with the latest pictures from the scene of the boys on our web site all

a click away for you are two dot com. hundreds of young europeans having served radical militants there fueling fears of how the you should deal with them upon their return the block's anti terror chief said this worrying trend is posing quote a serious threat to european security belgium's launched a crackdown on islamist networks arresting several individuals suspected of recruiting fighters tessera cilia reports. seriously you will conflict is already seen spillover some 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 rebels in syria in fighting against bashar al assad the london based international center for the study verticalization with the tall figure of six hundred. well here and there were no shipping media coverage on the radicalization young people has recently focused on one specific story that of

a father in search of the son dimitri wanted son had joined a radical islamist group that had gone to syria to join the fight father had gone all the way they're hoping to bring his son. planes are flying overhead all the time when we are on the street or inside a building we have a bomb was dropped on us i haven't had a contact with youyou and we should meet here in aleppo we spoke with dimitris lawyer who's in constant contact with him and he says the father is hell bent on finding his eighteen year old son euan we don't expect that you will send me to syria i think that's that's clear so that's also why didn't he. was eager to go himself he said i want to do something for myself a son who started changing about three years ago probably tell us that at a certain moment he was influenced by some radicalized be made contact some people

on the streets and there was also a story about. told love you have a girlfriend and he didn't he didn't work out and there was some friends he say ok come with us and very slowly started that he was really influenced and really brainwashed that are the words of my client to grow beards and. started wearing other clothes. pritchett for every five times a day things like that so it was a little bit awkward for some fifteen sixteen years old so he was really under influence of radical radical people this groupie you had come into contact with shari'a for belgium a radical islamism 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'll you'll go to paradise if you're this believer you will go to hell

terrorism expert gload many cases the rise of radicalized these is alarming many of whom are easy prey the first. question is why they convert and usually didn't convert because they would come to me they convert because of a problem at one moment in their life most of the have no clear political ideas and they go to fight because the fact and their goal is to fight if they were they don't meet miss can you convince them. they could be in a sect because the trapped in the net of people who have just talked writing them and for the convincing them that to give goodness thing they want to go to so you have to sign no 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 could do short of going to syria

themselves although that may not be completely out of the question does or sylvia r.t. antwerp in belgium. well the u.k. has been pledging more support to syrian rebels are british volunteers are joining the battle have put intelligence services on alert u.k. foreign secretary william hague warned those radicalized while fighting alongside islamist militants could launch terror attacks if they were turned home let's take a look at some figures summed up by a report but out by king's college london now among all european countries the u.k. has seen the largest contingent of its citizens having to fight in syria since the beginning of the conflict in two thousand and eleven the numbers range anything from twenty eight to one hundred thirty four and from seventeen to seventy seven brits still there on the battlefield ross friended managing who's managing the network against violent extremism says the u.k. and other e.u. countries should focus on monitoring these returning with combat experience in a radical groups there is

a threat which emanates from those individuals who have been radicalized overseas and come back because they would be far more effective terrorist operators than individuals just radicalizing in their front room because they only receive training in terms of what they what the europeans can do to counter this threat and it's very important for them to monitor not just people who need it but almost more so the individuals coming back because we've seen this happen before and in afghanistan in the eighty's bosnia in the ninety's and iraq in the two thousand that those individuals have gone overseas receive combat training and come back. to go and do the same and also can provide training and leadership to the organizations which which wish to cause harm to europe there is this preeminence involved in people becoming extremists there's a grievance element there's an ideology element and then there is the complete actually carry out attacks and we've seen great work done in terms of capacity the security services take care of that and in terms of grievance we have seen some

work in europe to bring these communities closer to the stage but that middle section is missing. still to come on r t with echoing u.s. claims of evidence of syrian troops using chemical weapons we take a look at whether or not the statements have any basis after a break. the

back of the international airport in the very heart of moscow. thanks for staying with us sixty minutes past the hour now one hundred forty people have been detained in moscow suspicion of having ties to islamic extremist groups security services services say they swooped in on a prayer house that they believe was visited by people involved in north caucasus

militant organizations artie's marie if an ocean joins us now to talk more about this so maria what exactly happened in this raid that happened in the south of moscow. according to the information we have so far one hundred forty people have been detained in southern part of russia's capital today for suspected ties with extremist islamist organizations thirteen of them are reported to be foreigners although we don't know which countries they're coming from or what nationalities they are that's following a special operation by russia's federal security service that we are hearing still continuing at pace very movement in that part of moscow police but it's all happened at the time when believe or is gathered for friday prayers as we know the most important of all prayers for old whose names it hasn't been in a mosque a kind of a chapel in moscow well we don't know exactly what these place is but we know that it's in a sea change in the residential area of russia's capital so apparently it was kind

of an apartment where usually believers have been gathering and police is saying that most of those who have been regular attendance in this particular place have played to join the ranks of militant groups active in russia's northern caucuses and some of them as it's reputed to have even been involved in preparing and carrying out terror attacks in russia. this is a time when terror headlines are growing worldwide since of course the attacks in boston yesterday in his q. and a session russian president vladimir putin talking about the need for increased cooperation between russia and the u.s. on international security is that have anything to do you think with the timing of this raid i don't think that there is any connection between what happened in boston and what is what has been happening in the world and i mean a recent here is and they separation terry smith the global concern of course is among many countries in the world that's become

a victim of terrorists many people have died during in terror attacks throughout our country and obviously this operation. it has been continuing for some time because the people that spent it who have been detained today have certainly been followed by police it's been. continued for some time so i think it's only the case that is but it's but the end that only proves that terrorists than a week and a serious threat for for all for. the world all right maria for a notion of thanks very much for that update. britain has echoed claims coming from the u.s. saying that there is a growing body of evidence that syrian troops have used chemical weapons with london announcing it's extremely serious some in washington claim a red line may now been crossed by the assad regime this is damascus blamed syrian rebels for chemical attacks near aleppo this march and remains resolute that its

army has never use such weapons or to sarah ferguson more. it's got to be said though that as yet there is no hard evidence although that being these numerous accusations that what we saw very quickly the u.k. foreign office echoing the u.s. claims saying that they have limited but persuasive evidence that chemical weapons have been used here in britain there have been soil samples that have been tested one of the science laboratories and that there have been some results from that but of course there is growing questions over exactly what this hard evidence is it calls you can steal my back to what happened with iraq where the evidence that was provided was that at a later date showing to be insubstantial and of course i was a huge embarrassment for the u.k. government and not something that they're going to want to repeat now is serious of course the u.s. and the u.k. are going to be very wary of basing any decisions now on that evidence until the

stronger facts are uncovered if you know the u.k. again agrees to the u.s. view of chemical weapons which represents a red bybee as it's incredibly hard to know exactly what it is this being used the u.s. claim that they've got evidence of the nerve agent sarin that's been this been used but then you have damascus saying that they have evidence of the rebels are you saying that same agents we saw after the attack in aleppo this was a claim and counterclaim between damascus and the rebel groups we've had the syrian information minister say that in the attack that happened in aleppo that the the weapons that could have possibly come from take he then of course you have the rebels accusing the government you've got. given by a rebel commander recently saying that actually defect is within the syrian army of being asked by some of the rebel groups to stay where they are to ensure that all the vehicles in that chemical weapons weren't going to fall into the hands of

extremists and of course in light of the recent statements and the prime minister here in the u.k. echo. well the u.s. is that has put the sense that there is no hard evidence yet the chemical weapons have actually been used in the country and i think that highlights reading why it's a vital and why there's been so much action to try and get the u.n. investigated that only ground to trying to get some of this verification because of course very hard to base very important decisions about what will be the next steps that countries like the u.s. and the k. without the hard evidence to base these decisions on. stephen soon is a middle east expert in politics professor at the university of san francisco says the allegations by of us could be the turning point for the syrian conflict. there's certainly a lot of pressure on the obama administration not just from the republicans in congress but some from some of the more hawkish democrats as well some of the very people whose claim about being dropped a rocky chemical weapons and related of military power so led to the iraq war so

there's a lot of pressure on the obama strategy is to take the road for a cautious approach wanting to get more evidence on but certainly the war drums are beating louder than they were just a few days ago it seemed if there has even if it is verified that the syrian regime used. chemical weapons including sarin in on a in a couple of cases of that well that is a serious issue for the international community to to be concerned about. that he has the feeling to think hard and fast about whether military intervention is the way is the correct way to respond there are many serious footfalls of any kind of intervention not just in terms of of light the war of the human loss of actually hardening of the position of the syrian government emboldening rebels in ways that could could support some the more extremist elements within their ranks and there's

a whole lot of issues that need to be considered even if the reports of the use of chemical weapons are very. we've lined up the best stories and video for you on line in order to dot com here's what's a clear way right now this is specter the attackers of the boston marathon are reportedly planning to carry out another bombing in new york city's times square was. hounding file sharing giant pirate bay now seeking exile in iceland relocating its servers there in greenland the full story on our. taking a look now at some other news making global headlines this hour rescuers of located fifty survivors trapped in the rubble of the eight story factory building that collapsed earlier this week killing three hundred people in bangladesh meanwhile hundreds of thousands of mourning factory were mourning factory workers clashed with police over the tragedy security forces used tear gas and rubber bullets as roads were blockaded and textile factories attacked authorities have come under

fire for negligence after was real factories in the doomed building continue to run despite noticeable cracks in the structure. gunmen ambushed an election convoy in the southern philippines late thursday killing thirteen wounding ten local members daughter and relatives among the victims police say the attack carried out by fifteen assailants possibly from a rival clan during the country's two thousand and nine vote more than fifty died in polling violence including thirty to journalists. forty five people killed in afghanistan when a bus they were traveling on crashed into the remains of an oil tanker that had been attacked by the taliban a few days before ten more injured and women and children are said to be among the victims of the bus burst into flames after hitting the tanker that had been left on the road after police the area too dangerous to enter. or strike by any mates at guantanamo bay detention centers now or officially reached ninety seven and nineteen of them having to be force fed but lawyers for the prisoners claim the

figures are higher some inmates have been starving themselves for nearly eighty days over the abuse of their rights and indefinite detention without charge the obama administration recently announced plans to keep the facility open despite mounting reports of abuses there. and breaking the set coming up next stay with us here on r.t. . via . 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

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