the good international airport in the very heart of moscow. coming up on our t.v. while the investigation of the boston marathon bombing continues more information on the al the suspect has emerged it turns out russia had contacted u.s. authorities about the suspect for the bombings now it seems that the two nations are cooperate ing more as they did before so will this terrorist attack lead to better relations between the two countries will question war. and the obama administration's then red line with syria the syrian government returns u.s. intel reports with some confidence that the syrian government has used chemical weapons under a people so does this mean the military action by the u.s. is possible find out just ahead plus a controversy all agag bell is making a comeback in the indiana legislature this bill would make it illegal to impose animal abuse at factory farms so what does this mean for animal rights groups and

how often does this try to expose horrible conditions from inside some farms that story later in the show. it's friday april twenty sixth five kim in washington d.c. i'm margaret held you're watching r t you well as the boston marathon bombing investigation moves forward new information is coming out about tomorrowland so live now the deceased twenty six year old along with his brother is accused of setting off the explosions it turns out both the f.b.i. and cia were contacted by russian officials on separate occasions about tomorrowland survive as early as two thousand and eleven after sometimes visit to russia now the f.b.i. says it responded to the calls putting on a u.s. terrorist watch list and even interviewing for knight and his family but turned up nothing. now the f.b.i.

says when it asked moscow twice for more information russia failed to respond but this is prompted some u.s. lawmakers to question the intelligence gap and others that are playing a part in laying blame on russia for not cooperating but russian president vladimir putin indicated yesterday to press the two countries had to unite to fight terrorism and at a time when relations remain somewhat frosty most recently because of dueling list of each other's alleged human rights abusers can you common ground between these two be forged i was to an earlier to talk about this with steven cohen and i asked him what the past contact between the nations unser knives radicalisation what it has to do and what it has to say about the state of u.s. russian relations well it's hard to know congress is investigating now whether there was a bureaucratic failure in the united states but quite a few warnings were received from the russian intelligence services and not only about. one of the brothers the older brother who died in boston but about the

mother and there seemed to have been at least three or four messages from the f.s.b. back to russian intelligence services not only to the f.b.i. as initially reported but to the cia one possibility is of course that it was a bureaucratic failure another possibility is that poor relations. between moscow and washington devalued the russian report and when i say poor relations i mean particularly the very anti putin and the cruel atmosphere because once that starts at the highest level in the media in the white house or in the congress it spreads to all american bureaucratic agencies so it is possible i don't know if it's lightly but it's possible that the s. f.b.i. just didn't take it seriously chalked it up to a human rights issue having nothing to do with terrorism but it whatever the original. reason to devalue the russian report they didn't follow up when the

brother returned to the united states after six or seven months in august and that really is inexplicable well stephen i want to take you to. senator rather florida senator bill nelson had this to say about the investigation let's take a listen the f.b.i. and all law enforcement responded very well and you know this stuff about russia warned us well we inquired of russia some will times and russia didn't respond so the f.b.i. and our intelligence community was all over that. ok stephen so what do you make of this because the reports show that the u.s. intel agency of both the f.b.i. and the cia both had families are not on their radar think the tips from the russian government and both governments were communicating what else could have been done to prevent that from happening. well if the congressman think that the

f.b.i. and the cia did a for an adequate job obviously we need a new f.b.i. new cia we're not safe at all i think that the problem and certainly we hear this coming from the congressman is the relationship between washington and moscow here's the basic problem. put in the criminal moscow have one narrative about what's going on in the world and washington the white house the congress have a different narrative and this extends all the way from the russian provinces of chips you know and august on to the middle east and the united states sees all this or most of this kind of rebellion and islamic areas as a kind of democratic insurgency washington thinks the arab spring is about democracy. britain and the russian leadership view this very differently partly because russia is also an islamic country with twenty minute million muslim

citizens the position in moscow has been beginning with the war in chechnya and now the anti terrorist operations in industrial and isn't about the markers in these people aren't rebels they're terrorists so the narrative extends all the way from russia to the middle east because putin's view of the middle east is the same that the forces that have been unleashed in the middle east the act the establishment forces aren't democratic therefore their extreme islamic forces are going to be more terrorism in till moscow and washington can resolve these conflicting narratives the kind of cooperation that you want from our intelligence services and the russian knowledge of services is going to be limited the problem is that we're in a kind of cold war situation and it's characteristic of cold war that you get conflicting narratives they don't have an opposite and i think the thing that's that's interesting so because russia gave our intel the

a step could they now say we told you so they could say it but it wouldn't be a good idea the best thing is to try to figure out what went wrong and fix the problem with putin said yesterday thursday in his marathon press conference he didn't speak at length about boston but he said but in kind of words we told you himself and he made the point about his narrative that i just mentioned he said the problem has been over the years that washington has looked at these areas in russia particularly chechnya and douglas tague. as having to do with human rights and democracy whereas the criminal has said no no no this is about terrorism it involves international terrorism and we should be on the same side of this to a solution that mixed in putin's yesterday said we told him show that he didn't rub it in the wrong hands and remember one other thing it's very very important after the events in boston it was not

a woman who called putin it was putin who called obama the same thing happened by the way when putin called president george bush after the attack on america in nine eleven the russian side has been urging war embracing your idea for cooperation in this area of fighting terrorism. whatever reason ideological bureaucratic we americans have dragged their feet since i want to talk to you about our counterterrorism strategies since nine eleven we've seen an increase in the efforts to strengthen counterterrorism strategy both here and abroad what do you think the events in boston say about those efforts that are we better off than we were twelve years ago i don't know i mean. clear i mean whether we're better off or not better off the fact remains we're all still in danger whether you live in in moscow where i often live or whether you live in boston or whether you live in new york anybody in

a large city anybody who gets on the subway anybody who flies people who take trains these are targets for terrorists now around the world it's happening in europe as well what to do about clearly first of all requires a major cooperation between russia and united states and they have the two most informed intelligence services that hasn't happened secondly it regards involves a completely different kind of dialogue which stripped of its cold war components where you go beyond that i think there's only one other place there's a debate in the united states and i think of a rather foolish debate i'm sorry it's distracting us from the main issue how did these two brothers you know its most of their adult lives become islamic radicals if that's what they were i assume that's what they were what the self radicalized did they pick this up on the internet did they go to russia what have. this kind of

radical jihadist terrorism is an ideology it's a religious ideology and we know from the twentieth century long before the internet that ideas margreet marxism came from france and germany and to russia there was no internet ideas trouble doesn't matter why these two guys how great their ideas they got why would they respect these people partly because maybe they came from the north call. but there's one other important thing which we're not discussing in the united states because it's all in states apparently they're going to that's i hate to cut you off but just really quickly you mentioned yesterday's press conference and russian president vladimir putin had this to say about the attacks were going to play out over terrorism in general take a listen common americans are not to be blamed they don't understand what is happening here i am addressing them and our citizens to say that russia too is

a victim of international terrorism i was always a paul when our western partners and the western media labeled terrorists who committed bloody cross of our country as insurgents and almost never as terrorists these groups received intelligence financial and political support sometimes directly and sometimes it rightly we said declarations merely proclaiming terrorism a common threat were not enough we must get the job done those two proven opposition all too we'll well see that a really quickly because we're running out of time but is this very a very different point of view normally that we've seen in the us so we've been told that kerry has a face yet this is the notion that the gates of fact does care indeed have a nationality. what putin just said is exactly the point i was making earlier there are two narratives about what is been called terrorism the american narrative has

been for fifteen years and showed that it's somehow about human rights and democracy and russian area has been that it's about terrorism whether we're talking about the north caucasus in russia or about the middle east that point made yesterday in this press conference it's a point of view it is not an early y.b. in the united states it may be the boston will make that point of view more widely known in america ok but answer cohen so are we if partly for an arctic interrupting so what are we going to see these two countries working more closely in the future to combat terrorism is that has this issue been an inadvertent reset of sorts they will fix some of the bureaucratic lapses that evidently occurred between the russian intelligence services and the americans but any long term cooperation in this area will require resolving other conflicts between the two countries and adopt that i'm not optimistic ok well thank you so much sir that was a steven cohen author and professor of russian studies that ready well the european

union and terrorism up in arms about the number of young europeans getting involved in the syrian conflict antiterrorism chordate or gayle the chertoff said that hundreds of europeans are signing up to fight alongside the syrian rebels though he was concerns about these for kreutz and that they may be radicalized and trained in syria posing a future threat to europe when they return home now the u.k. ireland and france are among these countries with sissons having a syria artie's tests are seal up brings us the latest. syria's two year old conflict has already seen a spillover some neighboring countries but now it has 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 a london based international center for the study of radicalization put the tall figure at six hundred. believing now to belgium media coverage on the

radicalization of young people has recently focused on the want specific story that of the father in search of the son dimitriy beyond excited to join a radical islamic school and have gone to syria to join the fight father i've got all the week they are hoping to practice son back. planes are flying overhead all the time when we are on the street or inside a building we have a bomb were dropped on us i haven't had contact with we should release here in illinois we spoke to me trees lawyer who's a constant contact with him and he says the father is hell bent on finding his teen year old son. 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 so i want to do something for myself a son who started changing about three years ago the problem with you was that

certain moment he was influenced by some radicalized be made contact with some people on the streets and there was also a story about. told love. girlfriend and he didn't it didn't work out and there was some francis say ok come with us and very slowly started it he was really influenced really braid was that are the words of my client we grew a beard. started wearing other clothes. pretty for every five times a day things like that so it was a little bit awkward for some of fifteen sixteen years also he was really under influence of radical radical people this group be you would have come into contact with issue real for belgium a radical islam is a group whose leader followed belka some had been arrested for him justifying the use of violence or there is a judgment day if you're if you're

a muslim you will go to paradise if you're this believer you will go to hell terrorism expert blood money case as the rise of radicalized is alarming many of whom are easy prey the first. question is why they convert. and usually they don't come back to be rude to me they can not because of a problem at one moment in the life most of the if no clear political ideas and they go to fight because the fight and their goal is to fight if they don't meet its mission to convince them they could be in a sect because the people there just talk writing them and for a little convincing then that to goodness team don't want to go to so you have to sign off to compete and i think that was the ticket authorities are paying even closer attention with heightened while worried family members of some 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 next up the latest developments from syria just yesterday u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel had some bleak nears in a press conference or dobby a call stated that the u.s. intelligence has some confidence that syria has used chemical weapons specifically seren gas on a small scale against both civilians and opposition forces the statement from the white house yesterday indicates that despite the information there are some still looking for more proof in order to assess their options and move forward r.t.s. marina portman has more. well white house press secretary jay carney says that military force against the syrian government is one of many options that u.s. president barack obama is currently considering this revelation of course is coming

one day after u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel claimed that the syrian president bashar al assad has used chemical weapons against rebels and now while fielding questions from the media during and after news press conference carney said that he could not speculate on what action if any president obama would pursue against assad but he said that as a general principle the united states retains the ability to act unilaterally now we all remember how back in two thousand and three washington acted unilaterally against iraq claiming saddam hussein was harboring weapons of mass destructions those claims of course proved to be false but forty five hundred u.s. soldiers and tens of thousands of iraqis died in the decade long war that followed a few months ago u.s. president barack obama did say that the use of chemical weapons by the syrian government would be a game changer in the u.s. position on intervening in syria now talking about just two words about hazels comments they came while he goal was addressing reporters in aboud dobby on

thursday the defense secretary that the set of the white house has informed members of congress that intelligence officials believe with some degree of varying confidence that assad's government has used weapons chemical weapons against the opposition specifically seren gas us officials claim that the attacks in question took place last month near a lot though and in the outskirts of damascus however a letter the letter that was sent to congress states that washington cannot confirm the origin of the chemical weapons allegedly used but the white house still believes that any of any use of chemical weapons in syria would very likely have been originated with the assad government now acting in lockstep with the u.s. british prime minister david cameron has come forward over. repeating his assertion then claims that the u.s. has a growing amount of evidence that the syrian government has used chemical weapons

members of the opposition according to reports m. sixteen agents that were operating in syria smuggled soil out of the country for it to be analyzed for chemical and biological contaminants however military scientists from the the u.k. have said the soil contains traces of some kind of chemical weapons that could not positively identify the type of weaponized chemical so what we have here is the u.s. and britain coming forward with very strong claims and allegations that the syrian government has used chemical weapons against members of the opposition but what's lacking in this story is a credible amount of facts well that was archies marine important i ever porting. still ahead here on r.c. it looks like indiana and they once again have an issue transparency that agag bill threatens to make it illegal for investigative activists to expose and distribute says like the kind found at the factory far more on that bill when we return.

looking for every dollar of the movie that while we won't find it here if you're looking for relevant stories you need perspective from tough questions and are. the worst to follow through the. white house or the radio for a minestrone they want. to give you never seen anything like this i'm told. a local intentionally deadly blizzard taking aim for the northeast it's expected to hit starting over is from new york to maine we have team coverage of the storm.

but what we're watching is the very heavy snow moving into boston properly or today it was very sticky you can see it start to become much more patrie down be a good one and there's still a lot of snow out here and the place for snowball fight lists. jason it is been a pretty incredible day there and even record snowfall throughout much of it might still be flooded three brothers listen submerging see here earlier exceptional. well indiana says you better put those cameras away if you know what's good for you despite public backlash indiana lawmakers have put the controversy agag built back on the table now today the state legislature is considering

a bill that would make it a little to secret court and distribute the operations of a business with the intent to make it look bad that means going undercover to expose animal welfare environmental or potential health violations in places like the factory farm or mining operations could be considered a crime now art he spoke with cody carson who went undercover to expose an ag farm undercover in serious issues of animal cruelty and unsanitary conditions now here's his take on the so-called ag gag bill obviously i think it's criminal you know these these. and i whistle blower bills are being discussed and our fraud bills but the real fraud that's going on here is is being perpetrated by these companies that are trying to deceive consumers into buying something other than what they think that they're buying i think most consumers knew about these very just conditions on these farms they would want anything to do with them. we've seen these bills pop up in other states and an effort largely backed by warred agricultural company is an

other big business but this will be the first state to pass an ag law that this year that extends beyond farms includes mining logging and other companies that would be protected supporter say that their footage of some illegal activity should go on to the police immediately and while there is a provision in the bill that allows for a forty eight hour window to hand over foot it put it to the cops opponents about law say that it doesn't allow enough time to document extended wrongdoing and could potentially shield bad actors and punish whistleblowers alike now additionally many activists turn to these undercover efforts because one force that and regulatory agencies don't respond to complaints now if this bill passes indiana's fracking industry and slaughterhouses alike are guaranteed a veil of privacy from the eyes of the media and the unassuming public. all this time heals all wounds george w. bush the forty third president of the united states left office with an approval

rating of thirty three percent now a new poll though shows that his approval ratings in hindsight have climbed up to forty seven percent now this new favor ability is just in time for yesterday's dedication ceremony from the opening of the george w. bush presidential library a five living presidents descended on dallas to share some kind of words about the former leader of the free world is this a rehabilitation of bush's image an instance of hindsight as twenty twenty or is this a rewriting of history the residence for harvest gives us her take. mislead time to iron president george w.

bush by dedicating his brand new presidential library call the presidential libraries even though they are for the books you know they are more akin to a pyramid to two lanes in training for all time everything residents want you to know about them the only difference is instead of burying the men themselves in the shrines we bury the truth about the marks they leave in history the library houses millions of paper records photos and e-mails from this president which is great because people have been dying to judge bush since before he even left office he started so many wars left the economy in ruins mispronounced so many words people can't wait to judge him so it's great we can finally read all of his official documents except that the last presidential records don't have to be opened to the public until twelve years after a president leaves office and even then layers of bureaucracy can make it

incredibly hard to access what you might really want to be as it stands today very little is even available at the clinton and weygand library. in addition to the twelve year law bush was well known for keeping things secret during his first year in office he signed an executive order allowing former presidents and their heirs to keep their records sealed for an indefinite period of time for any reason at all obama both said ordered but it. film might serve as a good indication of how forthcoming bush might be about showing his records to the public. no one instead of accessing the real information in bush's library you'll see over forty thousand tragedies from the presidency like the bowl already used to ground zero after nine eleven for the controversial voting ballot florida that helped him win in two thousand there's also an interactive touch screen experience

called decision points theater where you're told why he made all the right decision you only see proof of why he was such a great president in his writing just like any good pharaoh setting up his pyramid and his legacy so let's set aside whether or not you like to push as the president and take a look at another question that the library posed is how far have we really come from being free of tyrants pharaoh's and other absolute rulers america are we really the land of the free or are we just another layer end of manipulated history tonight let's talk about the bad by following me on twitter at the resident. polygamist snakes on a plane not to worry the folks at carnegie mellon mellons by robotics laboratory they have you covered using a series of excel or meters the robot snake seen here is able to mimic the

movements of its real life counterpart well financed in part by the u.s. army the robot is being used for a number of things in this case a case search and rescue no due to its size the robot is able to navigate tightly packed spaces equipped with a camera and a microphone in. also helped locate and communicate with trapped victims under collapsed buildings now this latest innovation has us asking the question what would be worse trapped under a building or being rescued by snake not the answer that one for yourself that's going to do it for now for more on the stories we've covered go to you tube dot com slash our team erica check out our website at r.t. dot com slash usa you also follow me on twitter at m underscore j underscore how please join me in a. wealthy british style. time to.

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