this week's top stories plus today's headlines this is the weekly on our team russian security services reportedly wiretapped one of the suspected boston bombers talking about jihad we look at how politics may have been the f.b.i. from acting on the. u.s. and u.k. claim that there is evidence syria used chemical weapons against the rebels calls for intervention from lawmakers the u.n. says these allegations have not yet been proved. join the european union no thanks the outcome of this weekend's election in iceland is likely to put in the country's pursuit of a new membership as a recent poll shows trust in the blog to an all time low. and official number of guantanamo bay prisoners on hunger strike rises to one hundred with at

least twenty of the detainees being force fed and some even hospitalized. in broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is. good to have you with us the f.b.i. says it has received a recording of a boston bombing suspects 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 dismissed moscow's early warnings after making checks on their own fears are going to church again 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 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 in there 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 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 warships 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 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 russians 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 what if 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 this 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 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 killings 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. john glaser an editor at antiwar dot com says it is no surprise u.s. mideast policies are driving people to violence. 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 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 mountain and it's there in pakistan and yemen 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 actions 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 u.s. aggression the mother of the boston 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. was that he was only one. hundred. she claimed of the authorities a version of events regarding the manhunt for her sons does not stand up to scrutiny you can take a listen to what she said on our two dot com. britain 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 the u.n. however says there is no solid proof to back up the allegations as experts say i

would as a council do not tally with the effects of the weapons historian gerald horne says that 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 u.s. and british invasion of iraq in two thousand and three based on. weapons of mass destruction that proved to be faulty therefore we must ask some very difficult searching questions for example what was the chain of custody with regard to the samples taken from the full field 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 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 they expect syrian divisions within the military is driving 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 of fighters battling against president assad that is anti terror treif has warned that europeans traveling to syria could to join the rebels could pose a serious 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 parties to us are silly reports. syria's two year old conflict is already seen to spill 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 london based international center for the study verticalization put the tall figure at six hundred. well here and there were bills for the way to cover a shot the radicalization of young people has recently focused on one specific story that of the father in search of the son dimitri bonded son had joined a radical islamism group and had gone to syria to join the fight father had gone all the way there hoping to bring this up. real 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 contact with youyou 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. we don't expect that he will send me to syria i think that's that's clear so that's what

we're 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 certain moment he was influenced by some radical list he had to go faint and he didn't he didn't work. there was some francis a ok come with us and very slowly started it he was really influenced and really brave to us we grew beards. started wearing other clothes. reaching for every five times a day this group you had come into contact with issue ria for belgium a radical islam is group whose leader followed belka some of 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 go to paradise if you're this believer you will go to hell terrorism expert claude many cases the rise of radicalized is alarming many of whom

are easy prey the first question is why they convert. and user didn't converts because. they can vote because of a program that's one moment and don't know if most of the new political ideas are the go to fight because the fact if they don't meet mr will convince the. b. intersect. the people who live just talk and for a little convincing then that to be a good misnamed they want to go to so you have to sign over or took a beating at the doors to take. 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. and as some are drawing parallels between the pre iraq invasion rhetoric and of the current allegations of chemical weapons use in syria archie looks at how a decade after the start of the war in iraq baghdad is still struggling to end of the sectarian violence in the country as more than two hundred are killed in clashes that's still to come a little bit later in the program. the greek a parliament has approved an emergency bill that will see over fifteen thousand public sector workers laid off by the end of two thousand and fourteen that's amid another troubled week for the eurozone with fresh anti austerity demonstrations taking place in spain portugal and then again in greece almost thirty people were injured in clashes with police lines over a thousand people staged a protest in madrid they were left a furious up 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 the deficit this comes as official numbers show that trust in each new institutions has reached record lows the leader of 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. southern europe i 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. help what cyprus has done is give us the template of the what they will do in future as they went by 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 own property i mean if you've got money in bank accounts in the eurozone get your money out before they come off to you because it's perfectly clear that is their plan heading on from here it's quite extraordinary that. these countries that have been troubled with the euro zone they would have to give up parliamentary democracy and handed it over to a very arrogant troika ultimately is going to break up the economics that break it up it may be civil disobedience and violence on a very large scale that eventually get some of those mediterranean countries out and off the bat i think the big question that is well what is the european union for. the financial crisis still running hot getting cold feet over joining when we come back we report on the island nation that bounce back but who's voters have turned decidedly euro skeptic.

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to shut. down the house muhammad. show. and if you know show him. all right you are watching us in the united states a run couple is battling to get their five month old boy back from child protection services which took the baby on wednesday authorities intervene when alex and ana nicholai a facade a second opinion after their son sammy was diagnosed with a heart murmur police were called by the first hospital but let the couple go after seeing doctors note saying that the baby was more on this we're now joined by the parents of the child for their perspective on what happened thank you very much for

joining us alex and. now why did child services take sammy from you did they give you any reasons when this happened. the reason this all we been shocked when they walked in the door and just they all of them in saying is just let us see your son if he's ok and i said i'm holding him in my arms he is so ok you can take a look and they're saying give me your child and that's when they took away no paper not so ever they've been providing and they just walked out of my door now were there any reasons given by the nine eleven was any reason given behind the nine eleven call from the hospital after you took your own child to another hospital or second opinion i mean have they given you any reason whatsoever. they say that his and them or didn't see that he's almost dying then needs medical treatment and that he needs that needs to

get back to the hospital immediately do you believe this. no he was fine he was laughing he was eating he was a normal child normal baby to go home now and he was released from birth from the other hospital and we took him to the doctor released to be did a statement said the parents are basically good to go home with their baby the baby safe and their arms very interesting now taking a step back facebook and social networks they are a way for you to get support and you said facebook shut down a page that you set up to get support for your case did they give you any reason why they closed down this page. no i think it has everything to do with the government we got a lot of support got a lot of us a lot of people who were just praying for us and all all saddam the first facebook

page a blog called facebook basically my sister in law called facebook no answer every question that she was asking them there was no answer coming back we opened a second facebook page for support same thing happened again just like in half an hour ago interesting you know as parents what what are you feeling right now i mean on one hand the government is basically saying they're trying to help your child on the other hand you believe that your child is safe at home or better off at home and your child hasn't been a lot home in four days what's going through your mind it kills me i don't have my baby of me at night time i just visiting him like been visiting him three times today for an hour and you're leaving at seven o'clock of again the hard going home you baby snot though if you you're just feeling empty this missing something here and were just waiting for tomorrow's day just to you

know like coming in this court hearing good news taking your baby going home or going to a different hospital all right well we appreciate your thoughts on a subject you just mentioned you do have a hearing on monday we expect to hear more information on that after that hearing thank you very much for being with us alex and nicholai of parents of a baby boy taken into care by child protective services in the united states. now 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 in a gun battle there later the iraqi government blocked ten news channels from operating inside the country including the al-jazeera broadcasters work used of misleading and unethical coverage that stoked the religious violence there was no sign of peace between the sunni and ruling shia communities iraq's rest of the state is

driving 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 laila. 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 door to 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 the lucky people. there is obviously there is unemployment there is no health care that it there is a 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 and in ramadi fallujah. mosul no we haven't because this acute the forces didn't want them to go to these places. are cities and 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 . euro skepticism takes over in iceland on saturday opposition parties known for their anti e.u. stance that won 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 in the trouble bloc country has been steadily recovering from the two thousand and eight financial crisis and many say it is because rain event is not part of the eurozone and that is why it is done so well robert director of 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 of course icelandic banks one off to the other fell like dominoes but course of. since then because it's outside of the e.u. it has its own currency its nose in the euro of course it then what it been banished 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 which he's full of a move from the situation in southern europe in the eurozone where unemployment he's been to new enterprise the economies are continually continually contracting so we want to spend a wonderful example to those countries such as soy greece or spain or italy eastleigh fell so i think that exiting the single common see can she help the euro and he's construction 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 website r t v dot com including

a possible major breakthrough in the fight against h.i.v. 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 their heads the police and staff of a mental health clinic engaging in fierce clashes during protests against the demolition of the building and find out what's behind it the standoff on a website are two dot com. one ton m obey 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 attorney with the official numbers given but they believe 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 sixty six prisoners current held at the detention center here is a breakdown of the detainees there. one hundred sixty six they're on. in the center one hundred on hunger strike five of those are in the hospital and up to twenty are being before spent up to this point nine the conditions are not life threatening though because carlos warner any 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 more 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 it 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 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 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 ducked three rescue workers were injured and a trapped a woman who emergency crews initially were optimistic of saving died the fire was

ignited by sparks from the cutting equipment used to search for survivors at least three hundred seventy seven people were killed 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 serious condition in the hospital the suspected attacker was arrested at the scene the incident occurred as the new prime minister and rico and his cabinet were being sworn in and the president. palace interior minister called the shooting a tragic a criminal gesture by an unemployed man. an apartment block has collapsed in northern france leaving at least three people dead and over a dozen injured the blast that 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 that the building though was kept in good condition . in the libyan capital tripoli have seized control of the interior ministry and blocked access to the foreign ministry they have also forced employees out of the state run t.v. channel which led to the cancellation of all live shows the prime minister called the security situation in the country perilous following the attacks by about two hundred heavily armed militants they are demanding the government ban officials from taking up any public post. and that does it for me my colleague will be in the studio in a little over half an hour but before that we take a look at the daily lives of. found a home in one of the southern republics that's on away from the bombs.

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