international at the very heart of moscow. the latest news in the week's top stories here in r t as u.s. investigators dig further into the details behind the boston blasts questions are raised over whether washington's reluctance to consider evidence from moscow prevented the f.b.i. from taking action against the suspects. warhawk said their sides on the syria amid rumors that the military there as been using calico weapons while damascus val's its arsenals are under a walk in key calls the charges a bare faced lie. clashes and protests as an employment records batterer of the euro zone with even brussels this weeks is sounding the alarm over the cost of its strategy. and the official

number of guantanamo bay hunger strikers reaches one hundred doubling over the past week and if the figure grows so does criticism of the harsh methods being used to force feed those who refuse meals. it is eleven am in the russian capital he watching r t with me marina josh. and u.s. media say russia has given the f.b.i. tape of an intercepted phone conversation between one of the alleged boston bombers and his mother the recording was made back in two thousand and eleven and reportedly contains a vague references to jihad at the time russian authorities notify the u.s. that it was concerned over one of the suspects extremist views artie's get it she can now reports on why mosque is warning failed to prevent the tragedy in the wake

of the boston bombings it's the f.b.i. now bombarded with questions how could they let the alleged boston bomber tamerlan and i have go off the radar after they've been warned about him multiple times over the last two years russia want not only the f.b.i. about tamil uncertain i have did they drop the ball the f.b.i. . dropped the ball here is no question they dropped the ball here there's no doubt about it she was on the radar and they want to go he's on the russians radar why wasn't he a flare put on him or the russians right and did the united states ignore their warnings disrespect repeated warnings from our lawns are now i have someone you tube page full of radical content friends driving a car with a license plate that reads their audience the number one all of this was missed it's possible that they were too down by some preconception of who would be a possible jihadi that they want to see something in front of them maybe they work

thinking well if these guys are chechen you know they hate the russians they don't hate us politics may have been the reason why u.s. authorities failed to connect the dots on tom along and i have another possibility is that poor relations. between moscow and warship devalued the russian record something that the russian president says has to be fixed if we truly undertake a joint efforts we will not suffer these blows and take such losses if you want more possible the us authorities politicized the intelligence given the fact that russia's concerns had been ignored before he'll yes amada the white head of the internationally recognized chechen terrorists. was given asylum and now lives in boston. for russia's accuse of heinous crimes against innocent people is still seen in the us as a chechen freedom fighter the odd part of this if anything we've been i'm not going to say sympathetic with them but we've certainly been critical of and how far he's

gone in dealing with. so if anything they should they shouldn't have this anger at the united states many ask whether tom airline may have learned about bomb making on his trip to russia but the answer could be much closer to home according to a senior government official quote they got their instructions on how to make bombs from the internet is newsworthy to know that nobody has to travel anywhere or get any specific in person training from some expert somewhere in order to access instructions for making explosives when joe parts are not i woke up this week he reportedly told the authorities that he and his brother were motivated by a desire to be fair and islam because of the wars in iraq and afghanistan many terrorists have tried to politicize their heinous acts but that doesn't change the fact that there are heartless killings when federal authorities look at any intel on a potential extremist problem or political rather than purely law enforcement point of view that could be a recipe for future disasters in washington i'm going to check on. how the case has

put the spotlight on america's aggressive policies abroad which may have served as a pretext for the boston bombings lazer editor of antiwar dot com believes the u.s. role in the conflicts around the world has greatly increased the terrorist threat at home. the fact that they cite us foreign policy as a motivator in fact for their attack shouldn't be really surprising every attack that wasn't an f.b.i. hatched sting operation since nine eleven has had that problem all of these terrorists that want to attack the united states and commit heinous violence on us have in their mind some motivation of u.s. foreign policy u.s. aggression in the middle east you know you know rocking out to an extent in pakistan and yemen israel palestine conflict in on and on and on a lot of what obama has done in terms of trying to be less aggressive towards the

muslim world to simply make his secret the bush administration is quite open obama has chosen to make all this work he's done the drone war which is a secret war that nobody will admit to in pakistan and yemen and somalia a lot of this is still going on and he still generating fierce hatred from a lot of people who resent u.s. aggression. now the you also faces the specter of homegrown terrorism and alarming number of young europeans have joined the uprising against president assad in syria and that sparked fears they could bring terrorism back home details of just to have . also navels top officer criticizes the e.u. for leaving the united states to bear the financial burden of keeping the alliance afloat as the fans' cards jeopardize its effectiveness. hawkish politicians in europe and the us are stepping up their game after accusing

syria of using chemical weapons against rebels damascus though damascus though calls the charges brazen lies reminiscent of the buildup to the invasion of iraq and its weapons experts who are now asking the questions first off they say witness accounts from an alleged saryan gas attack did not match the actual effects of the gas you origins of soil samples said to be contaminated in such a strike are also obscure and they form the basis of the accusations by washington london and paris remain undaunted demanding action now to secure syria's chemical weapons stockpiles independent journalist robert horan says a chemical scare provides the perfect cover for more aid to rebel forces. they clearly cannot do coding. in the united nations security council like they did we get iraq because everywhere you go about lofty. goals just to get your presentation the mainstream western media place already about how there might be even some small

amounts of chemical weapons used by others it's a lot of nonsense everybody going to do about it well do you see it but ease and loot creates an atmosphere where america and its weston's satellite allies can begin to be more aggressive in that assistance to the rebels or terrorists or whatever you want to call them syria. well native syrians are not the only fires battling the forces of president bashar asad the e.u. and the terrorists chief has insurgents over the number of europeans joining the ranks of the rebels the main concern is that europe could see all these people returning radicalized after the conflict ends are he says are still you know reports. if syria's two year old conflict is over he's seen the 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 fighting against bashar al assad a london based international center for those a ship of tough they the six hundred. full hearing that were built for the idiot coverage on the radicalization of young people has recently focused on one specific story that of a father in search of the son of dimitri wanted saddam short of radical islamism group and had gone to syria to join the fight father had gone all the way they're hoping to bring his son. 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's a constant contact with him and he says the father is hell bent on finding eighteen year old son we do expect you will send a lot of your writing that's that's clear so that's also why didn't he was

most eager to go in self he said i want to do something for myself a son who started changing about three years ago probably knows that at a certain moment he was influenced by some radical list. girlfriend and he didn't he didn't work out and there was some frances say ok come with us and very slowly started this really really boost to grow beards and he started wearing other clothes. preaching for every five times a day this ruby who had come into contact with the issue really for belgium rattles or followed because some have been arrested for hate speech and calls justifying the use of violence over there is judgment day if you were if you. a muslim you will go to paradise if you're there's a lever you terrorise the good glowed many cases the rallies is alarming many of whom are easy prey the first. question is why they convert and

usually they don't convert because you would complain envelop is difficult and at one moment in the life most of them have no clear political ideas to go to fight because the fact if they were they don't meet its mission to convince the insect to conduct trapped in the net of people who have just talked writing them and for the convincing them that to be goodness themed they want to go to so you have to sign or to commit another terrorist attack on the alert levels heightened while worried of some the youth fighting in syria has been calling for a clampdown on radical groups the best they can do short of going to syria themselves although that's out of question does our sylvia r.t. antwerp in belgium. a wave of violence swept across iraq this week leaving more than two hundred people dead and stoking fears that

a country could cross the brink of the civil war between sunni and shia muslims. allover the investigation into moscow region psychiatric ward fire that killed thirty eight people this week carol smoking and drugs are side as possible reasons for the high death toll. has been disheartening week for the eurozone with unemployment named breaking twenty seven percent and reaching a new high in france figure so grim in fact that they've left questioning the benefits of austerity the president of the european commission of minutes europe's drives last sam as its limit comes amid worrying signs of public unrest fresh protests have been held across the eurozone with official told showing this trust toward the two sions has been double the leader of the u.k. the panel's party nigel faraj believes that anyone with money invested in the

single currency zone is now at risk. they guessed should be worried all over the euro zone but it was. all i've been pondering for years you know what would happen when spain finally went back how would they possibly deal with the she needed which perhaps would be five or six hundred billion euros how could this happen without huge american support of local help because what cyprus has done is give us the template of the what they will do with it with a little do it by stealing investors' money by taxing people on their properties and by forcing central banks into selling their holdings of gold i mean this there is absolutely no way the euro zone can last forever they may keep it going for a few more years by invoking ever more extreme measures but also because i may not be the economics that break it up it may be civil disobedience or violence on a very large scale that eventually get some of those mediterranean countries out but off the bat i think the big question that is well what is the european union

for. now with the euro crisis raging on the clamor to join the union is dying down coming up after a short break we town till success story in iceland we're trying to wind down void buys and say you are p. and message. money ski theatre i'm a the second to be a.b.c. money in stevia to choose which is both a cultural contemporary i can tell you logically serve the auditoriums so join me to almost say honored c m a the second as we brew the glitz the glamour and the best of the best in the performing arts right here at marines to team.

the good international in the very heart of moscow. welcome back to what you are t. live from moscow top aides are now officially on hunger strike and that's the latest number recognized by the u.s. military and it's almost doubled over the past week but the figure is so far lower

than decided by the twenty's attorneys who believe that he is one hundred people are taking part in a protest and that's out of one hundred and sixty six prisoners held in the detention center now well as you can see on this chart twenty people are now being force fed by nasal tubes which is said to be truly painful procedure and five have been hospitalized although according to prison authorities their conditions are not life threatening while the strike began in february to protest against intrusive searches and the mishandling of prisoners khurana meanwhile retired army dr stevens and his says the practice of force feeding is unethical and doesn't help establish dialogue all the world medical associations are categorically against force feeding the reason being is that is in fact disrupts what is most important which is establishing a constructive relationship or poorer with letters and being able to discuss the

terms of their protest the this is a they if they have it also. really overrides their autonomy implicitly if one of our ethical principles so that by and large most organizations across the world feel that it is not acceptable and in this particular case it was it help resolve their grievances of conflict that we're having between the detainees and the authorities. the same parties that oversaw iceland's economic collapse in two thousand and eight are now poised for a spectacular return to power the skeptic in the house party has won the most votes and is now expected to form a ruling coalition the opposition's victories zero is likely to put an end to talks and iceland's accession to the european union that nordic nation was desperate to join in the aftermath of its financial collapse but if he is he as

a mass in swain reykjavik is widely seen as a textbook example of what happened with a tourist area because the editor of popular dot com harlan green says iceland has nothing to gain from membership i believe it's because they are against joining the euro and i believe that's what the icelanders are voting for now is not to get a euro which is which the socialists were doing they were to go shooting that with some sticky points but i think the senators just said they don't want to join the euro they're doing quite fine with their own right now almost all the benefits of belonging to the european union i think they belong to their trade already there their trade you again so they have all those benefits and they keep their own currency i would say. probably as it is they need to keep their own currency to recover just as all that is doing now in the last year i wore than two hundred people have been killed across iraq this week in a series of bloody sectarian tat two points and where journey or the northern city

of kook on tuesday when an intense fire fire broke out as security forces raided a sunni anti-government protest camp the clashes stoked anger between sunni and shia muslims that and drag iraq into civil war president nuri al maliki said on saturday the violence in neighboring syria is fueling religious tensions are just losing confidence has been taking a look at how the first tap swept across the north of the country. 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 some economists 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. camped out for several months now on tuesday things came to

a bloody boiling point when 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 and news of the attacks there in the region had spread very quickly and that's what's behind this latest spate of violence we saw attacks and rosell 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 escalation and expressions of outrage from these protesters say that unless there's a change in policies they're not going to you know 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. nato stop officer has called for financial help from the e.u.

in order to keep the alliance afloat and he's accused the block of getting a free ride with washington bearing responsibility for the majority of the fans spanning well nato has already suffered cuts amounting to forty five dollars which journey's military budget the military alliances popularity among european soldiers is also nosediving as their number and the blog has plummeted. well nato survival now depends almost entirely on u.s. spending which makes up almost seventy five percent of the budget hole gardner have the departments of international and comparative politics at the american university of paris gabbing the us in the e.u. is growing wider it's just a pool resources because of the fact that the europeans are so cutting so drastically and by the way so are the americans beginning to cut in europe and european send up twenty five percent of nato's overall defense so the idea is the pool resources but the there's a lot of problems in that and you have to come to an agreement as to which

resources should be american and which resources should be european. go back to the war in iraq in the one nine hundred ninety s. the problem was the intelligence satellites the europeans didn't have it the americans did that gave them control it was that the europeans were the develop their own area and satellite for example so finding areas to all resources that everybody agrees is already problematic now this week a fire broke out in a psychiatric ward outside moscow killing thirty eight patients and staff only three people made it all live our disease work is going off it was at the scene looking at the possible causes of the tragedy. it was around half past one in the morning when a nurse at that time psychiatric hospital in the village located around eighty miles away from moscow putting out the fires self but the flames were spreading too quickly and then 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 but local so 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 it's a psychiatric hospital and they are given drugs and 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 to be 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 investigate that some of the patients died from smoke inhalation but simply burned to death in their beds. the nurse who worked that night is in stable condition in hospital but she is obviously shocked by this terrible and painful experience or already able to

investigate the building where the fire took place and they say it's most likely that it started in the sofa backing up rumors that one of the patients could have left a lit cigarette worth of you're not allowed to smoke that much most probably someone lit is cigarette in bed and it caught fire obviously right now many questions need answering there's lots of uncertainty information and contradicting information as well but hopefully the ongoing investigation will help shed some light on the reasons behind one of the worst hospital fires in russia in years you've got this going off party. now take a look at my stories from around the world bangladeshi police have detained six people over wednesday's factory collapse which killed around three hundred sixty people were among those arrested are two engineers responsible for the building's construction and see owners of the rescuers with working rap rock since the tragedy say the voices of survivors still be heard from under the rubble but are getting

weaker nine hundred people are still missing trapped under the debris. in the u.k. hundreds of protesters have marched outside a royal air force base after it started operating on man the aerial vehicles in afghanistan activists are demanding an immediate and to the program because of the high civilian toll you linked to drone attacks the ministry of the fans has confirmed reports that the forest a man overseas fight was recently directed from britain and the missions are said to be mostly for surveillance although operators of using the vehicles on board weapons. all the up to date for now and stay with us for a special report the delta boys that's coming up next.

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news and force them not to divulge their company's secrets as well as punish them for def and against their product which lead to profit losses and guess what. they won the last obey making products that on mass could destroy the health of millions of americans is no blasphemy in my book but that's just my opinion. of the book about international and world in the very heart of moscow. so.