today's news in the stories that shaped the week. the f.b.i. reported to get some russian why a top one of the alleged boston terrorist talks jihad we look at why the u.s. might have dropped the ball then on russia's warnings to me as a go. britain site evidence of the syrian government using chemical weapons amid accusations the rhetoric sounds all too familiar with what preceded western intervention in iraq. no job no hope new grim figures from violence in spain while the e.u. why despair leave islip cool and joining the struggling. one hundred one time the most prisoners and the one hunger strike the official number more than doubling since the military tried to break the months long protest by.

watching the weekly roundup of the big news stories of the last seven days with me that are t h q this morning after one am here it is now russia is reportedly giving the f.b.i. the tape of a phone call between the one of the boston bombing suspects and his mother where they discussed jihad it's thought to be in secret recorded in twenty eleven the year russia warned the u.s. about one of the brothers radical religious views the u.s. though for i think suspicious after making checks is out he's got you can why the f.b.i. might have failed to take the proper action. 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 warrant not only the f.b.i.

about tamerlan son i have did they drop the ball the f.b.i. . dropped the ball there's pressure but 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 a flare put on him or the russians right and did the united states ignore their warnings to 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 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 war she devalued the russian record something that the russian president says has to be fixed if we truly

undertake a joint effort we will not suffer these blows and take such losses if one 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 science 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 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 politicise their heinous acts but that doesn't change the fact that there are heartless killing 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. joe because confession of the boston attacks were motivated by america's actions of the muslim world in this regard to debate about u.s. policies abroad the other servants who believe the getting involved in foreign conflicts has increased the terrorist threat back at home. the fact that they cite u.s. foreign policy as

a motivating factor in their attack shouldn't really surprising every attack that wasn't an f.b.i. hatched sting operation since nine eleven has had that component 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 in a rocky mount and it's there in pakistan and yemen is real palestine conflict and 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 of this covert 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's still generating fierce hatred from a lot of people who resent you aggression the mother of the boston marathon bombing

suspects was added to a federal terrorism database eighteen months before the attack american szell's revealed that details after she accused police of murdering her eldest son. but i began only this time he was alive why. do you think you know me on r t they'll call me tonight find out how she bases their accusations and inconsistency is in the authorities account in the manhunt for this brothers in . britain and the us said there's growing evidence that the syrian government has used chemical weapons the u.s. had warned that the use of such arms crosses the red line israel's already called for intervention that the un said the assertions do not meet a standard of proof while arms experts say witness accounts don't tally with the effects of the weapons storage at home says we've seen this kind of rhetoric before it's deja vu all over again we will remember of the disaster as an adventurous the

u.s. and british invasion of iraq in three based on allegations of weapons of mass destruction that proved to be faulty therefore we must ask some very difficult and searching questions for example what was the chain of custody with regard to the samples taken from the battlefield of syria to laboratories of london and in washington was there or was there the possibility of contamination or file play or hanky panky with the samples and how can you show that the regime rather than the rebels actually use these alleged chemical weapons and since we already know the next secretary of divisions within the military is driving the conflict in both syria and iraq how do we know that some renegade soldier in the syrian military was actually collaborating with the rebels watch these chemical weapons so as to provide a rationale for intervention by london and washington these are difficult questions

that must be answered. native syrians are not the only fighters battling against president a sad the terror chief has warned that europeans traveling to syria to join the rebels could pose a threat back home after they return there's a growing threat europe that is going muslims could get in touch with islamist factions among the opposition to sort of similar reports. syria's two year old 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 london based international center for the study of radicalization with the tall figure at six hundred. will hear an outward belch of the media coverage on the radicalization young people has recently focused on one specific story that of a father in search of the son meechie want to stop him short of radical islam this

group that had gone to syria to join the fight father had gone all the way they're hoping to bring this somebody. built planes are flying overhead all the time when we are on the streets or inside a building we have a bomb was dropped on us i haven't had a contact with a year and we shoot him he's here in aleppo we spoke with dimitris lawyer who's a constant contact with him and he says the father is hell bent on finding his eighteen 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 most eager to go himself he said i want to do something for myself a son who started changing about three years ago the problem with to us that at a certain moment he was influenced by some radical list. girlfriend and he didn't

he didn't work out and they want to 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. preaching for every five times a day this ruby who had come into contact with a shari'a for belgium a radical islam is a group whose leaders. followed belka some have been arrested for hate speech and calls justifying the use of violence over there is judgement day if you're if you're a muslim you will you will go to paradise if you're this believer you will go to hell terrorism expert glowed many cases the rise of radicalized g.'s is alarming many of whom are easy prey the first. question is why they convert and usually they don't convert because due to make 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 if they don't meet listen to 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 get good misnamed they want to go to so you have to sign or to commit another terrorist attack. authorities are paying even closer attention with alert levels heightened while worried family members of some the youth fighting in syria have been calling for a clampdown on radical groups the best they 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. the euro zone's had another troubled we protest taking place in several countries in spain almost thirty people were injured in clashes with police when over a thousand protesters voiced their anger of a new record high unemployment figures the jobless rate there is no twenty seven

percent and just thirty protests were also held in greece and portugal to discontent comes as official polls show that trust in e.u. institutions as reached an all time low later the you can depend as party told us anyone with money invested in the single currency zone is now at risk. big investors should be worried all over the euro zone particular southern euro zone i mean i i have 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 how could this happen without huge american support or 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 bell them in and they'll 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 is a truly a staller shing situation so my advice to people is if you own property if you have

money in bank accounts in the eurozone get your money out before they come after you because it's perfectly clear that is their plan heading on from here it's quite extraordinary that. these countries that are in trouble with the euro zone they've effectively given up parliamentary democracy and handed over to a very arrogant troika ultimately euro is going to break up. break it up it may be civil disobedience or violence but a very large scale that eventually gets some of the mediterranean countries out and after that i think the big question then is well what is the european union for. the crisis still running hot iceland getting cold feet over joining when we come back we report on the island nation that bans bag. but whose voters of this suddenly you are of skeptic now.

syria and those red lines with allegations damascus is use some kind of chemical weapons u.s. nato and the gulf countries me up the ante to break the deadlock in this conflict if that comes to pass what are the possible outcomes.

of international airport in the very heart of moscow. drifting away from the e.u. after your accepting opposition parties what most votes in saturday's parliamentary elections it's now expected to form a ruling coalition in opposition victories likely to put an end to iceland's talks to join the european union then it will be desperate for a while to become a member in the immediate aftermath of its financial collapse but seems enthusiasm since wait. for the euro skeptic bruised group think tank told me he thinks iceland may be a good example for the struggling gave states now there was a bit of a wobble in terms of our standing up like opinion of the two thousand and eight financial crisis where of course. icelandic banks one after the other fell like dominoes but of course since then because it's outside of the e.u. it has its own currency it's not in the euro of course it then what it been

banished of on its own economy as it saw it in its recovered it's still got problems but of course the economy's growing and unemployment is pulling ball removed from the situation in southern europe in the euro zone where unemployment he's continuing to rise and the economies are continually continually contracting so really i stand to do wonderful example to those countries such as site but the source spain or italy they ease life else so i think that exciting the single currency can actually help the euro and its current structure is not working and there needs to be a change of course the little old iceland can do it other countries can do it as well. online from us kind of just plain to call it in with a new digital dollar online we've got details of how the government there is considering topping up state coffers. coins the renegade online currency we've been talking about lately also tool reporting on the presidential perks of former french leader nicolas sarkozy sent barack obama some lavish gifts worth forty thousand

dollars including a designer golf bag and crystal lamps at r.t. dot com we tell you what other goodies made it onto the gift list. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are all today. the number of hunger strike in guantanamo prisoners acknowledged by jail officials has risen to one hundred the figure is double than since the military conducted a violent raid in the facility in made sewer. fusing food or being put in solitary confinement guards are imposing a lockdown two weeks ago but still far lower than some of the detainees attorneys claim they believe as many as one hundred thirty people are taking part in the protest against mistreatment and definite attention either way it's more than half

of the one hundred sixty six prisoners currently held at the detention center what's more twenty eight people are being force fed strapped to a chair with chub still on the nose and throat and five inmates have been hospitalized although prison authorities say their conditions are not life threatening but a sport of colors warner he's a federal public defender representing a grand turn of a prisoner he told me his clients telling him a different story. he's in terrible condition i talked to him on friday by telephone he indicated that they are using a large tube in its nose a size ten instead of a size eight and one has been tube fed is and who's lost it at this point to him or more of his body weight is in a very dire position you have the military advisor in the press saying that there are going to be multiple deaths because of this and that's just that's the fact that's what happens when you have hopelessness and that's when what happens when you have this terrible situation that's being aggravated by the military now the

military is not has fault here they need to negotiate and end it not just try to exert their will on these hopeless men but ultimately the moves have to happen in washington is you here is with the president again president obama pick up the ball and this right the military has come around and it's a meeting that they can't it's in a full scale strike duration and scope of which we've never seen the president has to intervene yesterday's at the correspondents dinner making jokes while men are dying in guantanamo we ask that he has some attention. over two hundred people have been killed in a week of sectarian violence in iraq it started with a deadly firefight in the north with the military raided a sunni anti-government protests more than fifty civilians died in chooses a type there is also block ten television channels now appear in the region including al jazeera a key voting violence with no sign of peace the between the sunni and ruling shia

communities iraq's prime minister is warning the state is dragging itself into a civil war as one of the story go live to political analyst and blogger. morning to you it was a week of terrible bloodshed there the government apparently unable to do anything about it it begs the question with the might of the american military that was. unable to do a thing about it previously what hope as baghdad. well the situation is a dire situation in iraq and it has been since the american army left iraq although when and even when they were in iraq iraq wasn't perfect under violence we're still . there since two thousand and three and even before that so you can go back and if not remember that says american army left the tendency of the current prime minister maliki there to more authoritarian and marginalizing the other factions in iraq this sinise in particular are not likely to occur and given all the problems with the kurds over the oil sharing and the cost you too can count their

constitutional interpretations and so on so the problem now moved on to a different phase where the majority of sunni's where. protesters have been camped out for the last few months and they've been having some legitimate demands and some of them and reasonable but. the government has ignored these demands and since the local elections happen about. the last week the straight after the elections the government has. been trying to stop the process by force and at the violence or in how much elsewhere even as you mention your report that's when the whole thing started and. the reality on the ground is very difficult at the moment the violence especially in the sunni areas in the sort of the north and middle of iraq it's spreading to other

cities where sporadic violence in cities cities don't care law cities like mosul where you have. areas where it's been controlled by gunmen and there are various tribes and various groups even al qaeda isn't got so they are various elements and you can't just brush it in one with the same brush so as the core as the cause of the trouble kind of morphed since the that the biggest american presence left over when when american troops were there they were blamed for. provoking the militancy if you like that was the cause of the trouble then well we're saying now is something different here. while i was in iraq has a. problem it's since two thousand and three i mean if you if you get a past and we go everyone knows what saddam did and our problems then but since two thousand and three the legal process in iraq has not been working. without the three major factions in iraq we have the kurds and then you have the sectarian

within the sunni and shiites the sunnis have always been in charge of it for a long time and the marginal i this year us and the one in two thousand and three that i was there and took control they in some ways been marginalized in the sunnis and in trying to control them by force so. it didn't work for the sunnis we know what happened in two thousand and three and all there and now is the same thing is happening and it and politician need to realize that the only way to bridge this violence and find a solution is to sit down on the table but them sadly one thing the iraqi politician have proved to be to be very unreliable and the they just can't agree on anything which is a process forward i can't see how this. impasse will be resolved i are. pessimistic about the outcome of the next few days even the violence might

even get worse which which is very likely because this various groups who said they're not willing to do any more peaceful demonstration where they were as peaceful before not that they they they they declared war on the government and they want to bring down the current of make sure it's a grim picture outlining their short we've got to leave it there but thanks for the thoughts were of course watching this story closely we appreciate your input sean schiller political analyst and blogger there on the line thanks. china has been back over america's global order of inequality high crime and he will rights violations the annual report highlights shortcomings in the country so issued its own report right back like seriously asking target. after years of swallowing accusations of violating human rights beijing is fighting back after last year the u.s. published its scolding human rights practices report now china held a mirror back to washington and its role of international human rights judge let's

take a look at where the two clash the u.s. again accuse china of limiting internet freedoms the so-called great firewall of china where beijing has long being under scrutiny for blocking many western websites such as facebook google and you tube but those criticizing china are no saints sounding people and cispa bills to control internet data have made waves across the atlantic lately and the u.s. government approved interception of private text messages and e-mails for security needs are hardly contributing to online freedom china's single party political system and lack of democratic elections also came under fire the chinese report made its wife back at america's multi-party system saying that in what seems to be a democratic process it's really not the people but the amount of money spent on complaints which really decide the when is the largest part of the us report was dedicated to human rights as they are today from harshly work conditions to poor salaries indeed china's status of being the world's factory is nothing new and the

cheap labor force concept has long been debated beijing hit back with a scathing claim that in the country where racism and discrimination officially do not exist after american and hispanic employees earn forty percent less than the white population in the united states and that's through the glass ceiling for women who earn a twenty percent smaller salary than men the u.s. report also lashed out at the treatment of prisoners and members of opposition in china contrast that with a country which runs notorious guantanamo prison and the allegations of multiple human rights abuses within its walls with china highlighting full statistics on all deaths in u.s. prisons and the use of brutal force against peaceful demonstrators in twenty twelve it is no secret that china has a checkered human rights record but by countering the claims of those who it believes should get its own house in order it is quite clear that beijing no longer wants to see a monopoly in the market of examining human rights. thanks for watching tonight show thomas mcculloch over here live the latest international just as well as

a review of the week's top stories about half an hour ago and meantime we know this take a glimpse into the world of tomorrow and they just technology update and so every couple of minutes after the break. most people in the western world would agree that having laws that officially create second class citizens is totally unacceptable we can look at the way jews were treated in nazi germany or blackstar in apartheid in south africa and the slavery jim crow errors in the usa as examples of legally dividing society by necessity i think most people he you with their modern sensibilities would find these practices be bob written backwards but my question is that why is there to this day officially sanctioned second class citizens in certain e.u.

countries or to be more accurate i should say non-citizen residents of the two million people in the last year around three hundred thousand of them are considered non-citizen residents who can neither vote nor hold public office these non-citizens are russian speakers of various ethnic backgrounds whose children also by birth bearer of the non-citizen status not happy being on the bad side of apartheid the non-citizens have logically decided to vote for their own parliament because they can't elect or participate in the left field what even if the parliament has no power whatsoever it will be their chance to shine light on the issue which the mainstream media has been keeping quiet for years you know you'd think that people would be outraged over segregation but what happens to russians and russian speakers is just not cool or hip or trendy or convenient enough for the mainstream media to take notice but that's just my opinion.

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