international in the very heart of moscow. this week's top story plus today's headlines this is. russia's security services reportedly wired to one of the suspected boston bombers talking about jihad we look at how politics may have impeded the f.b.i. from. the u.s. and u.k. claiming there is evidence syria used chemical weapons against the rebels and made calls for intervention from lawmakers. allegations have not yet been proved. joining the european union. the outcome of this weekend's election in iceland is likely to put the country's membership as a recent poll shows. to all time lows. and the official number of guantanamo bay prison. to one hundred twenty of the detainees being.

hospitalized. in broadcasting live from a studio in moscow this is glad to have you with us. now the f.b.i. says it has received a recording of a boston bombing suspect talking about jihad with his mother russian security services alerted the u.s. back in two thousand and eleven that one of the brothers held extremist views but the bureau dismissed moscow's early warnings after making checks themselves. with commentary on why the f.b.i. might have failed to take 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 sinai 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 fly on i don't want to know where 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 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 russian report 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 ahmad if the white head of the internationally recognized chechen terrorists science was given asylum and now lives in boston. who rushes 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 putin and how far he's gone in dealing with so if anything they should be 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 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 hearts are not i if 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 the fact that they're heartless colette's but when federal authorities look at any intel on a potential extremist from a more 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 john glaser an editor at antiwar dot com says it is no surprise u.s. mideast policies are driving people to vote it's their fact that they cite u.s.

foreign policy as a motivator for their its power. shouldn't really surprising every attack that wasn't an f.b.i. hatched sting operation since nine eleven has had that opponent all of these terrorists that want to attack the united states and commit heinous violent on us have in their mind some motivation of u.s. foreign policy u.s. aggression in the middle east you know in a rock in a stamp in pakistan and yemen and the israel 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 part of this is still going on and he still generating fierce hatred from

a lot of people who then u.s. aggression the mother of the boston marathon bombing suspects was put on a federal terror watch list eighteen months before the attack american officials revealed that detail after she accused police of murdering her elder son. but i mean the only time he was alive when. you live. in iowa. she claimed the authorities a version of events regarding the manhunt for her son's does not stand up to public scrutiny you can see you can take a listen to what she said on her to dr. britton and the u.s. claiming they have obtained evidence that assad's government used chemical weapons president obama warned of the use of poison gas in the syrian conflict would cross a red line that says some american lawmakers are quick to call for intervention in the war torn country and u.n. however says there's no solid proof to back up the allegations as experts say eye

witness accounts do not coincide with the facts of the weapons historian gerald horne says we have seen this kind of rhetoric before and should be on guard it's deja vu all over again we will remember of the disaster as an adventurous so u.s. and british invasion of iraq in two thousand and 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 foul play or hanky panky with these samples and how can you show that the regime rather than the rebels actually used these alleged chemical weapons and since we already know the next six to read 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 want these chemical weapons so as to provide a rationale for intervention by london and washington these are difficult questions that must be answered. it of syrians are not the only fighters battling against president assad the e.u.'s anti-terrorist chief has warned that europeans traveling to syria to join the rebels could pose a threat back home after their return fears are growing throughout europe that its young muslims could get in touch with islamist factions among the opposition as are cilia 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 verticalization put the tall figure at six hundred. well here in our village of 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 want to excite him short of radical islam is a group that had gone to syria to join the fight father had gone all the way they're hoping to bring his somebody. built planes are flying overhead all the time when we are on the streets or inside a building we had a bomb was dropped on us i haven't had a contact with yeah you can reassure 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 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 work out and there were some friends who 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 rupie who had come into contact with the issue really for belgium a radical islam is a group whose. leader followed belka some have been arrested for hate speech and calls justifying the use of violence there is a judgement 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 claude many cases the rise of radicalized youth is alarming many of whom are easy prey the first question is why they convert. it

was that he didn't come back because. they can vote because of a program that's one moment if most of the if new political ideas are the go to fight because the fact if they were they don't meet listen to convince the. b. intersect. the people they have just fall quoting them and for the convincing them that to be good in the scene they want to go to the side and took a beating at the 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. some are parallels between the pre iraq invasion rhetoric and the current allegations of chemical weapons use in syria r t looks at how a decade after the start of the war in iraq in baghdad is still struggling to end the sectarian violence in the country as more than two hundred are killed in clashes that's still to come later in the program. the greek parliament has approved an emergency bill that will see over fifteen thousand public sector workers laid off by the end of twenty fourteen that's amid another troubled week for the eurozone with fresh anti austerity demonstrations taking place in a spain portugal and greece almost thirty people were injured in clashes with police as over a thousand people staged a protest in madrid they were left furious by the country's jobless rate which reached an all time high of over twenty seven percent that's as the government says it will take two years longer than expected to cut deficit this all comes as official numbers show that trust in each new institutions has reached record lows

the leader of the u.k. independence party told us that anyone with money invested in the single currency zone is now at risk. big investors should be worried all over the eurozone but. i've been pondering for years 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 euro how could this happen without huge american support help what cyprus has done is give us the template at what they will do in future. countries out there. 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 dollar situation so my advice to people is if you. if you've got money in bank account. get your money out before they come off to you because it's

perfectly clear that is their plan from here it's quite extraordinary that. these countries that are in trouble with the euro zone they would have to give up parliamentary democracy and have. a very arrogant troika. is going to break up 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. the big question what is the european union for. financial crisis still running hard. getting cold feet over joining. the island nation. but whose voters. and those.

who break the deadlock in this conflict comes to pass what are the possible outcomes.

and welcome back you're watching our team in iraq more than two hundred people have been killed in the sectarian bloodshed over the last week on tuesday the military raided a sunni anti-government protest camp that resulted in around fifty civilian deaths and a gun battle there later the iraqi government blocked ten news channels from operating inside the country including the qatar based al-jazeera broadcasters were accused of misleading and unethical coverage that stoked the religious violence with no sign of peace between the sunni and the ruling of shia communities iraq's prime minister warns the state is dragging itself into a civil war. s.o.s. iraq believes it's the terrible situation in the country as well as the government's actions that are driving people to violence. after ten years of

occupation because we consider distil an occupation there is still no basic services people are randomly arrested they are locked up without charges they are tortured women children and men are being raped that's why the protest started by the way and so this talk about sick darian is this is is totally wrong that these are not sick tarion protests these are protests against a situation that is untenable for a forty iraqi people. that there is poverty there is unemployment there is no health care that there is good education system has collapsed the media has been very weak until now in covering these protests have we seen images on television about the millions who were in the streets in in ramadi fallujah. mosul no we haven't because this acute of the forces didn't want them to go to these places

. parties lizzy caplan off has just come back from iraq and is keeping an eye on the developments there you can get the latest minute to minute details by following her twitter feed. your skepticism takes over in iceland on saturday opposition parties known for their and i used dance one of the majority of votes in the country's parliamentary election the victory of the center right is likely to result in iceland calling off its plans to join the troubled bloc the country has been steadily recovering from the two thousand and eight financial crisis and many say it is because reykjavik is not a part of the eurozone that it is done so well. from the bruges group think tank believes other debt ridden nations would only benefit from exiting the single currency. there was a bit of a wobble in terms of icelandic public opinion of the two thousand and eight financial crisis where force banks one after the other felt 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 managed on its own economy as it saw fit and it's recovered it's still got problems but of course the economy's growing and unemployment is falling dollar moved from the situation in southern europe in the euro zone where unemployment he's continuing to rise in the economies are continually continually contracting so we are stunned gives a wonderful example to those countries such as saw it burst so greece or spain or italy they ease like hell so i think you wrote that exciting the single common can actually help the euro and it's coming structure is not working and there needs to be a change of course the little old austin can do it other countries can do it as well . we have more international news on our web site r.t. dot com including a possible major breakthrough in the fight against hiv danish scientists say they

are on the brink of developing a vaccine that could kill the virus once and for all by boosting the body's immune system all the details are online plus. losing of their heads of police and staff of the area's mental health clinic engage in fierce clashes during protests against the demolition of the building find out what is behind the standoff on our website at r.t. dot com. one ton of mobile prison officials have acknowledged that one hundred inmates are now on hunger strike the figure has doubled since the military conducted a violent raid in the facility inmates who are refusing food are being put in solitary confinement and guards imposed a lockdown two weeks ago but the number is still far lower than some of the detainees attorneys claim these numbers show official figures here but as many as one hundred thirty people are taking part in the protest. against mistreatment and indefinite detention either way it's more than half of the one hundred six prisoners currently held at the detention center what's more twenty people are

being force fed and strapped to chairs with tubes and five inmates have been hospitalized although prison authorities say that their conditions are not life threatening carlos warner a federal public defender who's representing a guantanamo prisoner says his client tells 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 his nose a size ten instead of a size eight anyone who has been tube fed is and who's lost it at this point to them or more of his body weight is in a very dire position you have the military adviser 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 vocalist 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 end this strike the military has come around and it's amazing that they can't get a full scale strike duration and scope of which we've never seen the president has to intervene yesterday that the correspondents dinner making jokes while men are dying in ones on the most we asked that he has some attention. now let's take a look at some other world news in brief for you this hour in bangladesh a fire has broken out amid the debris of the building that collapsed and three rescue workers were injured and trapped woman who emergency crews were optimistic of saving died the fire was ignited by sparks from the cutting of quittin used to search for survivors at least three hundred seventy seven people were. when the building first came down and has already led to the arrest of one of the owners of the complex. two policemen have been shot outside the

italian prime minister's office in rome one is in a serious condition in the hospital this is spectate attacker was arrested at the scene of the incident occurred as the new prime minister enrico letta and his cabinet were being sworn in at the presidential palace interior minister called the shooting a tragic criminal gesture by an unemployed man. an apartment block in northern france leaving at least three people dead and over a dozen injured the blast brought most of the four story building down was most likely caused by a gas leak about one hundred rescue workers have been deployed to search for survivors built in the one nine hundred sixty s. the local authorities maintain the building was kept in good condition. gunmen in the libyan capital tripoli have seized control of the interior ministry and blocked access to the foreign ministry they've also forced employees out of the state run

t.v. channel which led to the cancellation of all the live shows the prime minister called the security situation in the country perilous following the attacks by about two hundred heavily armed militants there demanding that the government ban officials from taking up any public post. china has bitten back over america's global audit of inequality high crime and human rights violations the annual report highlights shortcomings in china so beijing has issued a report of its own. as the story. 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 of 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 the 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 single party political system and lack of democratic elections also came under fire the chinese report made its life back on 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 decides the winner is the largest part of the us report was dedicated to human rights as they are today from harsh labor conditions to poor salaries indeed china's status of being the world's factory is not 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. more news coming away in under thirty minutes time after the break our t. takes a look at the lives of rebel fighters in oil rich nigeria. and

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