the latest news in the week's a top stories here on our team as u.s. investigators dig into the details behind the box and last questions are raised over whether washington's reluctance to consider evidence from moscow prevented the f.b.i. from taking action against the stuff that. one holds us at the sites on syria made rumors that the military there has been using chemical weapons on damascus while the arsenals are under lock and key because the chargers bare faced lie. clashes and protests as unemployment records the battle of the eurozone with an even. this week sounding the alarm over the cost of its austerity strategy. and the official number one ton of a hunger strike goes reaches one hundred doubling over the past week and as the

pick of road goes so does criticism of the harsh methods being used to force feed those who refuse meals. and three pm here in the russian capital you're watching artes of the week with me to mom would say the u.s. media says russia has given the f.b.i. a tape of an intercepted phone conversation between one of the alleged boston members and his mother the recording was made back in two thousand and eleven and reportedly contains indirect references to jihad at the time russian authorities notified the u.s. that it was concerned over one of the suspects extremist views are just gonna cheat again reports on why most schools 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 let him go he's on the russians radar why wasn't he if we don't want to know where the russians right and did the united states ignore their warnings disrespect repeated warnings tom 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 own east 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 were not able 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 washington devalued the russian record something that the russian presence has to be fixed if we truly undertake a joint effort we will not suffer these blows and take such losses if you have more possible the us authorities politicized the intelligence given the fact that russia's concerns had been ignored before you yes amada the white head of the internationally recognized chechen terrorists. was given asylum and now lives in boston. or russia is accused 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 far making on his trip to russia but the answer could be much closer to home but according to a senior government official quote they got their instructions on how to make bombs from the internet it 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 defend islam because of the wars in iraq and afghanistan many terrorists have tried to politicize their heinous acts but that doesn't change 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 stick on. the chechen ethnicity of the suspects has sponsored one spread speculation that the bombings

a well a direct result of terrorism spreading abroad from russians and of course is region but that's not the case called into eurasia analysts clemence. the chechen nationality or ethnicity of the two prime suspects is actually somewhat misleading for instance they have not actually lived in russia for the last ten years that actual time they spent in the north caucasus appears to be relatively small and there's some disagreement about that and i actually think the most likely outcome is that these guys are probably going to be self radicalized rather than having direct links to militants in the north caucasus details surrounding time alone and his younger brother are somewhat sketchy the moment so to go into too much detail would be to speculate too far however there does seem to be some signs around the older brother tamerlan in particular to suggest that he was struggling to adapt to life in the united states which is a sign of previous people who become radicalized in this sort of a way indeed this kind of disengagement with society can often lead people to for

alternative sources and indeed radical islam can be one of those kind of factors which people can turn to as as a means to sort of direct their lives. the e.u. also faces the specter of homegrown terrorism and alarming number of young uns have joined the uprising against president assad in syria and that's raised fears they could bring terrorism back home details just ahead. also nato as a top officer criticizes the e.u. for leaving the united states to bear the financial burden of keeping the alliance salute as he plans cuts jeopardize its effectiveness. or his politicians in europa and the u.s. are stepping up their game after accusing syria of using chemical weapons against rebels damascus calls of the charges of brazen wise reminiscent of the buildup to the invasion of iraq and weapons worse who are now asking the questions first off

they say witness accounts from an alleged sarin gas attack do not match the actual effects of the guess the origins of soil samples said to be contaminated in such a struggle also obscure and they form a basis of the accusations but washington or london and paris who remain on daunted demanding action now to secure syria's chemical weapons stockpiles independent journalist robert heinous says says a chemical scare provides the perfect cover for more aid to rebel forces. they clearly cannot do colin powell stunt in the united nations security council like they did with iraq because everywhere you go for the last thing that this is my choice to stick a good piece of news presentation the mainstream western media to tell you the story about how there might have been some small amount of chemical weapons used by us or other so it gets a lot of nonsense that everybody in the diplomatic world knows it but he is going

to loot 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 syria well native syrians are not the only fighters battling the forces of president bush and the e.u. m.p. tara cheap has wife concerns over the number of europeans joining the ranks of the rebels the main concern is that you could see all these the people returning radicalized out of the conflict and artist has affiliate reports. syria's two year old conflict is over the scene is still over 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 a london based international center for the study vatican position put the tall

figure at six hundred. well here and there were billed for the media coverage on the radicalization of young people has recently focused on one specific story that of a father in search of the son dimitriy wanted son had joined a radical islam his group and had gone to syria to join the fight father had gone all the way they're hoping to bring this somebody in a little planes are flying overhead all the time when we are on the street or inside a building we have a bomb why drop 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 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 getting that's that's clear so that's also why i didn t. want to go as i was eager to go himself he said i want to do something for myself

a son who started changing about three years ago a problem with to us that at a certain moment he was influenced by some radical list. girlfriend and he didn't he didn't workouts and there was some frances say ok come with us and very slowly started it he was really influenced and really brave to us to grow beards and. started wearing other clothes created for if we five times a day this rupee would have come into contact with the issue really for belgium a radical islamism group whose leader follow. because 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 glowed many cases the rise of radicalized us is alarming many of whom are easy prey the first. question is why the growth and usually

they don't convert because to reject they convert because of a problem a moment in the life most of the have no clear political ideas and they go to fight because the fact if they leave they don't. listen you can believe. they could be a sect because the net of people who just talk writing them and for the convincing them that to be put in the scene they want to go to such a sign or to commit another terrorist attack. authorities are paid even closer attention with alert levels heightened while worried family members of some the youth fighting in syria have been polled 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 yes or sylvia r.t. antwerp in belgium. a wave of violence is swept across the rugger this week leaving

more than two hundred people dead man stoking fears that the country could cross the brink into civil war between sunni and shia muslims that's coming up. and a look at the investigation into a moscow region psychiatric ward fire that killed three people this week tell us making and the dative just cited as a possible reason for the high death toll. it's an it is heartening week for the euro zone with unemployment in spain of breaking twenty seven percent and reaching a new high in fronts figures so grim in fact that they've left to brussels questioning the benefits of austerity the president of the european commission admitted on monday that euros a drive to slash spending has reached its limit it comes amid worrying signs of public on rest fresh protests have been held hostage the euro zone with official polls are showing distrust towards each institution has more than doubled the leader of the u.k. depends party nigel ferocity that anyone with money invested in the single currency

zone is now at risk. big investors should be worried all over. europe i've been pondering for years you know what would happen when spain finally went back how would they possibly deal with the sheer scale of the bailout that would be needed which perhaps would be five or six hundred billion euros after this happened without huge americans old global help because what cyprus has done is give us the template or what they will do in future is they won't buy all countries out there but i will do it by stealing investors' money by taxing people on their properties by forcing central banks into selling their holdings of gold i mean if there is absolutely no way that the euro zone can last forever they may keep it going for a few more years by invoking other board street measures but also a bit easier to break the law which that break it up it may be simple this. to be beautiful by loads of very large hail that eventually get some of those little

traded countries out but off the bat i think the big question that is well what is the european union for. where the euro crisis raging on the climate to join the union is dying down coming up after a short break which enjoys success story not slept away the opposition is poised to win the general election by its empty european message. machine steve on may the second to be ab money in stevia to two which is both a cultural contemporary i don't technology to serve the auditoriums so join me to almost say on i would see a second as we bring you the glitz the glamour and the best of the best in the performing arts at marines do you see a team. of

international and world in the very heart of moscow. thanks for staying with us here on our team one hundred. guantanamo bay detainees are now officially on hunger strike that's the latest number recognized by the u.s.

military and it's almost doubled over the past week but the figure is still far less than the slight to one by the detainees lawyers they believe as many as one hundred thirty people are taking part in the protests that's out of one hundred and sixty six the prisoners held at the detention center now as you can see on the chart here those hundred sixty six detainees who are now officially one hundred of them are on hunger strike and only twenty percent of them are being force fed and five of them are hospitalized as it has been an extremely painful procedure for most of the lawyers who are dealing with them now according to prison authorities their conditions are not life threatening that's why began to protest intrusive searches and the mishandling of korans but law professor jonathan hafitz believes the true reason is deeper than that the hunger strike says military officials

themselves have acknowledge or triggered a bottom by the system of indefinite detention and the prolonged you know course aeration without trial the way for it and the system of indefinite detention to repatriate individuals who. are not could be charged with crimes and the this youth that are going to be charged should be booked for court and given a trial or that's the that's the only way forward that's the only long term solution to the problem otherwise we're going to continue to see anger strikes. continue to happen things will continue to happen unless the u.s. put cities which these measures and where's this morning it's just it's just politics there are politics and a lot of political courage a lack of commitment to principles. more than two hundred people have been killed across iraq of this week in a series of sectarian attacks one of the deadliest place in how i just near the northern city of kirkuk going to stick when intensified fighters broke out i

figured it was raid a sunni end to government protest cab the clashes are stoked anger between sunni and shia muslims that analysts warn could drag the country to civil war president nuri al maliki said on saturday that violence in neighboring syria is hearing religious tension political analyst dan glazebrook says the wave of violence comes as a direct result of the occupation of iraq. i think what we need to understand what we're seeing here in iraq is that we're seeing the fruits of this policy that was adopted about six years ago by the u.s. and saudi arabia in particular if you look at the way that the occupying powers are behaved ever since two thousand and three since the start of the iraqi occupation they've done everything it seems possible to try for many sectarianism the constitution introduced was completely based on confessional identity not on national citizenship sunni militias were to be equipped financed and armed by saudi arabia and qatar in order to wage basically sectarian war against shia muslims and

we know that these two powers say that saudi arabia and qatar and the forefront of representing imperial u.s. and british interests in the region so nothing gets done without the say so of these other powers. and you can go to our website for lots more news including of the canadian government is considering topping up all of the state coffers by slapping a tax on because it's the renegade online currency you can get the details on our t.v. dot com. and delaying it all they can make it so cozy has been sending us president barack obama lavish gifts are worth forty thousand dollars including a design of golf bag and crystal lamps or find out what other gives me to the white house on our website. today violence is once again. these are the images the world has been seeing from

the streets of canada. joint operations room. the same parties that oversaw iceland's economic collapse in two thousand and eight and now poised for spectacular returns of poem the euro skeptics independence party has won the most votes and is now expected to form a ruling coalition the opposition is a victory there is likely to put in the end on iceland's a session told with the european union the nordic nation was desperate to join in the aftermath of its financial collapse but enthusiasm has since waned regime big is widely seen as a textbook example of efficient recovery and it all happened without any major us city cuts the editor of popular economics dot com holland green says iceland has nothing to gain from even membership. i believe it's because they are against the

euro and i believe that's what the icelanders are voting for now is not to get into the euro which with the socialists were big they were to go shooting back at the some sticking 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 they get 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 almost better fits and they keep their own currency i would say that the main problem is this is that they need to keep their own currency to recover just as all that is doing now in the last year it's just you nato secretary general has called for more financial help from the e.u. in order to keep the alliance of flow he's accuse the bloc of getting a free ride with washington bearing responsibility for the majority of defense spending nato has already suffered cuts amounting to forty five billion dollars

which equals a germany's entire military budget the western alliance of popularity among european soldiers is also no stopping us then them but end of the block has plummeted they to survival's that now depends almost entirely on us spending which makes up almost seventy pop five percent of the budget but i t. contribute to afshin rattansi says the alliance's of global activities actually do more harm than good. journalists from all over the world seem to be covering the straight line that nato is this complex system of fine military generals and military armor when of course every time a day goes into a country it ends up in either disaster or blowback disaster as it has been in libya which is given power to however many militias and of course one only has to look at afghanistan to see what it's done there not many people actually covering the aftermath of the war in yugoslavia to see where the costs are always better off

now that perhaps the worst fears would be that the nature of drone attacks on that killed so many children in the outback border regions and so forth will result in profound blowback this week a fire broke out in a psychiatric ward outside moscow killing thirty eight patients and staff only three people made it out alive r.t.c. got to be going up was at the scene looking at the possible causes of the tragedy. it was around half past one in the morning when a nurse of that tiny psychiatric hospital in the village located around eighty miles away from moscow noticed smoke in one of the hallways she trying putting out the fire itself 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 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 alive while dozens of others didn't and this is a psychiatric hospital and patients are given drugs and investigators say 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 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 burned to death in their beds. the nurse who worked that night is in stable condition in hospital but she 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 the sofa backing up rumors that one of the

patients could have left a lit cigarette on it worth of you're not allowed to smoke that much most probably someone loses a cigarette in bed and it 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 reasons behind one of the worst hospital fires in russia in years you've got this going off r t moscow region. to some other stories making international headlines now bangladeshi police have detained six people over wednesday's factory collapse which killed around three hundred sixty people among those arrested are two engineers responsible for the building's construction and two owners of the factory rescuers who have been working round the clock since the tragedy so the voices of survivors can still be heard from under the rubble but i'll get weaker nine hundred people are still missing trapped under the debris. in the

u.k. hundreds of protesters are marching outside a royal air force base after it started operating on men to aerial vehicles in afghanistan activists are demanding an immediate end to the program because of the high civilian death toll in the drone attacks the ministry of defense has confirmed reports that the first unbend overseas flight was recently directed from britain the russians are said to be mostly for surveillance although operators have the option of using the vehicles on board weapons. two explosions rocked or pakistan on sunday in a surge of violence ahead of the may levon general election one blosser targeted politicians office of the northwestern city of partial killing still exists of his supporters and another five were killed in the city of call heart outside the headquarters of a local election candidate that follows a series of terrorist attacks and corruption said today that killed at least four people no one has so far claimed responsibility for the taliban recently threatened

political parties that it sees as too secular excluding those targeted in the attacks. i behold our keys a special report. is a mystery to. him 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

wrong with some processed before might ask well the reporting showed that ammonia and other rough chemicals were doused on to the meat to kill equal i bacteria and make it safe for consumption although this product is for some reason legal the films have power to create public backlash and many companies gave up ordering and then mysteriously and finally took should be ok while the mainstream media for once actually did something valuable for society and what did they get in return sued yeah the pink slime crew decided to sue a.b.c. news and forced them not to divulge their company secrets as well as punish them for defamation against their product which led to profit losses and guess what they won the lawsuit well the faming products that on mass could destroy the health of millions of americans is no blasphemy in my book but that's just my opinion.

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