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israeli who planes and a syrian as space and take out a shipment of alleged game changing missiles heading for hezbollah in lebanon. a trace of terror boston bombing investigators focus on the window of the code suspects after discovering it was a pro islamist material on her computer. on the training face of u.k. politics and i'm t.e.u. policy moves from the margins to claim a stunning result in local elections leaving the governing conservatives to wonder how to win bought last support of its. international news life from the with me you lash above all of us thanks for
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joining us. israel has carried out an asse trike inside syria will play is that said to have struck a shipment of advanced missiles heading for lebanon is the second such attack and less than five months of his middle east correspondent policy here has the latest from israel for us now the official is speaking on condition of being anonymous because he is not also wise to speak about a secret israeli military operation we had r.t. has been in touch with the israeli foreign ministry but as of yet they are not prepared to publicly consume at least not to us that such a strike indeed was carried out by the israelis what is interesting is that the strike happened late tuesday into the early hours of friday morning and at that same time the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu called for a late night emergency cabinet meeting now we don't have information as to what was exactly the purpose of the goal of that meeting but it certainly does raise on val's the lebanese are complaining that israel has violated. spaces that israel
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does do this on numerous occasions and has been doing it recently with quite a bit of consistency is well in the past has said that it will pull out all the stops to make sure that there is no transfer of weapons to his been of course the israeli concern is that hizbollah would use any kind of weapons against the jewish state the second time this year that israel has carried out a strike inside syria you remember the first was back in january when israeli fighter jets targeted a sophisticated convoy of missiles that israel believed were on their way to has been that israel and syria share a common border you have the disputed golan heights which israel occupied some syria back and nine hundred sixty seven and in recent weeks we've witnessed a flare up in violence and intensions along that border. and hot and contributing observer you are saying talking foreign policy in focus believes it's unlikely the embattled syrian government would have risked provoking
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an israeli tague. i think the idea that the syrian government would be shipping arms to has below in the midst of a civil war or to be a very dubious kind of project i don't i don't see what the logic of that is i think the israelis are intervening it just quietly us is is thinking about intervening because they don't think things are going. exactly the way that the insurgency wants them to go israelis can pretty much a strike as they will in syria what's the effect of that is on the wider arab world i think is the key question here and the israelis may find that while they are able to basically strike it will again syria
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that also means that it places a very different view so to speak of the civil war in syria and i think at this point the syrians are going to not going to do anything physically but i think they are going to say politically that the israelis are to be go over throw the us a government and therefore anybody who supports the overthrow of the also the government is in alignment with tel aviv and that may be a pretty hard sell for israel and let's not get more on the story from china list and middle east analyst christiane so he's joining us live from brussels chris very well welcome to the program how loud is so why from your point he did israel carry out this latest that's hot. yes indeed this morning i woke up with the news about israeli attack on syria although i'm not sure if any confirmation gets dropped in from either side but let's speak about that italy that it happened and
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that according to the latest news it had been from lebanese territories so that the israeli air force was flying over lebanese territory as they have done many many times over the last period and there are some. there is some news that on the night of thursday and friday this military flights from the israeli air force multiple about sixteen sorties happened. what is the reason if the attack on syria happened to my opinion it has to do with the success of the syrian army the syrian national army during the last week against its operations. or during its operations against automatic groups you have to know that the reason israel and the western countries the united states is but in fort worth
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about military attacking syria is about a weapon transferred from syria to hezbollah weapon transferred of conventional weapons or chemical weapons whatever this is what they are saying but i think it's very dubious that at this point. the syrian government is transferred in weapons to hezbollah because from a tactical point of view it makes no sense but what i think we have seen. armored groups on the lebanese border in on the border thirty teres. do you think is are out will be held to account for yet another attack on
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a sovereign state. to be honest no. i hope yes of course but past experience lord knows that probably they get away with it as usual because they have the backing of the western states of the united states and its european european allies friends great britain. and. like usual they get away with it because there is no consensus in the united nations that this should start it happened in the past it happened probably now although we are still waiting for a confirmation and probably it will happen in the future too of course there will be some condemnation in warts but indeed no i don't expect to be happening something against israel and also if we have to believe the latest reports the air strike took place from lebanese territory so they didn't really enter syrian
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territory if it's true of course maybe this has a reason to that by not entering syrian air space to avoid a direct military confrontation so. i think yes i'm afraid they. get away with it all right chris young son journalist and middle east analyst thank you very much indeed for your thoughts thank you it's a pleasure thank you. there are fears that one of syria's neighbors could descend into a civil war on an even larger scale this has increased significantly in a wrong over the past month prompting worries that sectarian and rescued and gov the country got the details and expert analysis that had later here on r.c. for you. lou enforcement officials investigating people sort of
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martin bombings have turned their focus to the weed out one of the suspects radical islamic material was discovered on a computer belonging to the american wife of a middle luntz our knives who was killed when police time tried to capture him she is this a confident has more now. katherine russell she's a twenty four year old widow of tamerlan and she's been under investigation basically since the identities of the boston bombers were revealed she initially came under scrutiny when authorities discovered female d.n.a. on a piece of a pressure cooker that was used to construct a homemade explosive material she submitted her fingerprints and d.n.a. and authorities say they did not match the sample on the explosives that were found however investigators have also been probing her computer materials and what it turns now now is that authorities have discovered al qaeda is inspire magazine and other so-called radical islamic literature on the computer now the key question is whether this material actually belonged to her or whether it was downloaded by her husband or somebody else so that is the key question that investigators are looking
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into at the moment if we actually begin with katherine russell i mean she grew up in rhode island the christian daughter of an emergency room doctor and a nurse sort of the epitome of the all-american girl before she met in fact she graduated high school in two thousand and seven and according to one magazine report her yearbook quote had mentioned that she wanted to grow up and join the peace corps people who knew her said the girl with a passion for learning and travel but really radically transformed since meetings are not she ended up becoming a college dropout she married him converted to islam and stayed at home and took care of the children the same could be said of himself actually there was an interesting interview with an ex-girlfriend of his who said that the man she met and dated in two thousand and six had transformed from a pot smoking party boy to an anti american islam minister jihadi essentially that is how she described him it's unclear what prompted the transformation in case but we do know that much of his radicalization officials believe was inspired by al
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qaeda in the arabian peninsula there's reports that he has watched sermons by the american born cleric anwar all blocky and according to news reports sources of actually refer to inspire magazine as one of the materials found under the possession of. it's known to have published a bomb making guide and investigators have also uncovered other evidence of sort of radical material. this is it's eleven minutes past the hour and also to come but let's go outside to steal the show of the local u.k. elections the u.k. independence party and there was an impressive and unexpected results claiming around twenty five percent during supporters from the ruling conservatives. becomes a popular choice for u.s. demand for unmanned aircraft exploding despite our privacy and security and all that coming up tonight.
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call. this is also you live from moscow welcome bond they've been labeled as close under loonies but now they've picked up a cool song over the votes in bush's local elections the euro skeptic u.k. independent sponsor a full outside of one hundred forty seven seats in local council a surprise increase up from just prime minister david cameron rush out to those who once called a bunch of fred cakes saying it's no good insulting the pointlike a has been following the vote hailed as say china in british politics. that's been amended to stay for the u.k. independence party we've seen them come seconds in the south shields by election just behind labor and that's significant because we see a pattern emerging the past six months have seen you can't come second in full by
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elections some of the more we've had stunning council election results we've seen the ruling coalition parties the liberal democrats and the conservatives very sustained major losses in terms of council seats it's really you can't that have come out on top now this is a party that's been seen by many as the protest vote party the people a very keen for them if they feel too frustrated with labor conservatives liberal democrats the traditional status quo political parties but i think that a lot of people are going to have to be taking them a lot more seriously now and that a lot of people didn't take them very seriously just a few days ago the a senior conservative member called them clowns say they might have to have every think about that we're going to have you keep councillors across england and wales the conservative party chairman has said that clearly the tories are failed to get their message across and they're going to have to have a rethink about how they can change that now i'm joined by the city spokesman for
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the u.k. independence party stephen wolf stephen chances are all well and good but they're not m p's have as you can actually made significant gains today yes we have what we have done is created a seismic shift in politics in the united kingdom we have put a message down to the three political parties that there is a fool for all to hear on the block we are not keen on the door of parliament to use they have criticized us and said that we're a small party i'm not with voting for but you could be seen as the protest vote is that enough to make gains in a general election when it's a protest vote for the political elites if you want to put it in those terms they ignored us in the past and said they know we want. to listen to suppose we were a warm party want to shoot party and then they said we were just a one person party if we got significant second places across the country from east to start shields is a protest that is the photo approach that i want and i want to see is expand also
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every political party has to put down a mountain of saying here's our policy come on come on have a go and tell us whether you like them or not but he's quite right and we're ready to do that we're going to have to work the numbers we're going to have to show that we can afford it in a time of austerity but i believe that won't be such a policy how we're going to pay for it and we've got the right people to actually deliver it we're going to be moving forward at an even greater speed than you've seen today stephen will city spokesman for the u.k. independence party thank you very much for your comments well there you have it such a seismic shift taking place in british politics david cameron's already said that he's going to have to work very hard to try and win back the support will there is that a very tricky for you can't say for the past two days. a senior iraqi politician is expressing fears that the country is plunging into civil war which could end up being was then their own growing conflict in syria april was the most deadly month in the in the country in nearly five years highlighted by the death of such a sixty hour protest as at the end of the month meanwhile the funerals have been
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held for the seven victims of a sunni mosque a bomb blast on friday don't going political unrest has been bought fears that the situation could lead to a repeat of the maastricht terror in conflict with iraq seven years ago some of the country's parliament have been calling for the resignation of prime minister nuri al maliki as authorities struggle to maintain order and i've been even and as a you as a defense analyst and he believes that the conflict was quite funny that unless iran gets a centralized government installed with the help of the united states. we have ethno sectarian tensions which have been there since the sense a long time since decades but were unleashed when the us invaded in two thousand and three and of course played out in two thousand and six and two thousand and seven where you had sectarian warfare between she and sunni i think there's probably going to be an escalating conflict in iraq the kurds used to side
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with the shia government but i'm not sure that they would anymore because they have a lot of disputes with the government now that they didn't have before as you have plenty of guns that the u.s. bribed the sudanese to quit attacking the united states troops when they were there and so that all these guns are left over so essentially the u.s. . during a talk you patient is armed golf all three groups there with the government has always been used by one group to oppress the other groups and therefore a strong central government which the us left is a bad thing i think i think what should happen is decentralization what different groups run different regions with security and judiciary and maybe have a free trade area like a can fail loose confederation in these countries why keep it stable. maintaining gone tunnel way prison costs more than nine hundred thousand dollars per prisoner every year making it one of the most expensive prison in the world had to offer to dot com to find out where this money goes at
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a time more than two thousand the detainees are refusing food in protest of mistreatment and also that you can find a day by day timeline of the hunger strike as it nears its three month mark. and also take away as orthodox easter approaches believes all over the world are preparing to mold the resurrection of jesus christ head to our website to see how russians month vacation by having their possible cakes and eggs blessed and will also be bringing you live pictures of the midnight holy service late today so don't miss it on called. criticism over the domestic use of drones in the you are says mon ting while demand for them is skyrocketing the federal aviation administration predicts some one hundred thousand commercial unmanned aircraft will be american skies within the next five years and in this the situation has been finding out building and operating the prawns is becoming a coveted profession for many. unmanned aerial vehicles better known as drones are
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not only in the skies but might be taught at a college near you at least three u.s. schools offer bachelor degrees in engineering and flying dozens more offer drone one zero one courses and. the university of north dakota kicked off its four year program in two thousand and nine with just five students that number is now at one hundred twenty they've elected to major in unmanned aircraft systems and i believe the reason is that they see that as an opportunity for growth it's an emerging technology embry riddle aeronautical university in florida began training u.a.b. pilots and operators in two thousand and eleven and in fact the number of graduates to reach the hundred in the next several years is becoming and they use are becoming more prevalent in pretty much any time you can imagine the increased interest in the drone industry is largely fueled by post-grad starting salaries that are much higher than those for pilots flying planes or helicopters or an
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economy that's hasn't recovered ok so people see opportunities for jobs wherever there's money to be had of course but the problem is that universities are supposed to do something more than serve the military industrial complex. to widespread debate drones are notoriously used as weapons and u.s. wars abroad the one that's under heavy scrutiny right now is that i mean aircraft are in the past been used by the military therefore the logical leap is that i'm an aircraft we use militaristically in the united states the federal aviation administration says that ten thousand commercial drones could be used over u.s. skies within five years for surveillance and other purposes while controversy surrounding them is that a piece how dare day even talk about drones on a domestic guys that there are many many cities in the country that have already got rights to use these drones and they will be using them so without the laws that protect our privacy we don't. not how they're going to be used most people teaching
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and studying programs insist their use is much more varied than for military purposes abroad and surveillance at home. where doubt when need be an issue at all border security meteorological and environmental surveillance such as sending a drone into a hurricane without having to worry about the pilots are among the applications most commonly praised and you use still the most common association with drones at home is law enforcement and it's this aspect that's making americans very uncomfortable obviously there's going to be some regulations that are going to have to be put in place so that people don't run around or at least you know police or whoever doesn't just have the ability to run around and you know go unchecked looking at you know having a ever watchful eye over the public but i don't think that will it will be a deterrent or so it'll be a challenge to make sure that you know people are happy with the implementation of the aircraft into the national airspace system officials are yet to convince
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americans that there are more pros than cons to drones flying over u.s. soil it's time to say wait a minute hold up let's not move forward in this area without understanding where we're going and that's the problem here that's the danger the association for unmanned vehicle systems international estimates the number of american jobs in the industry will grow to over twenty three thousand over the next fifteen years. and. new york. and now to news making headlines around the world the saw in libya tension continues to rise in the capital in tripoli government looters have clashed was demonstrating militia members who were demanding gadhafi era officials be ousted from the government last week on demand laid siege to the country's foreign and justice ministries calling for a purge to the old regime as members violence and the stability are once again threatening the country two years after a nato led intervention on the overthrow of moammar gadhafi.
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belgian authorities have been forced to evacuate nearly three hundred inhabitants from a town over again and when a train carrying chemicals if you railed and bust into flames the farin photo led to a series of explosions no injuries have been reported our train links in the area have been suspended until further and which is. the president of afghanistan hamid karzai has asked the time to bond to stop destroying the country and hold defend the prosperity of the nation against what he calls foreign plots the call comes days after clashes on the border with pakistan left one are going to got dead and two pakistani soldiers injured at the same time hundreds of afghans protested near where they fighting to place against both pakistan and the united states. st petersburg is experiencing every nice songs as an international cultural capital by breathing new life into their we're now and marine schizo which has now got a modern high tech twin the spectacular opening of the new venue silence critics of
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the modernist building and kicked off a series of the events of his very own tongue let's say was there for. standing just outside the marines here to day to just live a canal here in st petersburg the theater was an open door for the public after ten years of waiting to get a seat in that there's a wonderful auditorium as well as see a piece of the theater now of course with all the critics say luring about we wanted to find out what of the people themselves or thought yeah yeah especially that you know i'm waiting for something you know building is beautiful but this one is going to be so sunny that's why i'm looking forward to something magical. i wish despite all the technical novelties of the new stage some of the directors kept the original staging of the classical performances surprising us with innovations and new productions will leave the classic pieces as they are.
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too soon for your condition is to. first of all i hope to see the ballet which is a jewel itself as well as the technical abilities of the new stage the conductor and the performers this is an amazing event in the lives of citizens of st petersburg the program from a fear to cheat day to consisted of the marines a ballet company the company is actually split into three parts the rubies and the diamonds as well as of the arrows and now the company wanted to stage a mixture of a piece of bytes a kosky servin ski and a four way a miniature that they called the jewel it was a performance that the stunned everybody which had everybody on their feet applauding with critics a silencer there's no doubt that this is a new mariinsky theater to space will become the amarillo of st petersburg.
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and in a few minutes max kaiser examines the problems facing the european central bank stay with us. secret laboratory tim curry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a dollar amount anything tunes mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and world events this is why you should care watch only on the r g dot com. they all see themselves as dying swans in their dreams. but only one in the cells and will ever make it to the top. they're ready
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to give their lives for the chance to die on stage if only once. not even broken wings could deter them. for generations at the marine ski theatre ballet sweat and tears. pretty free. free. free. free. free. video for your media project. i am max keiser welcome to the kaiser report round has gone crazy according to mrs
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wang americans are dumping paper gold and diving into the dow europeans are lining up for separate haircuts the acb is ready for a negative deposit rates the fed values to maintain its eighty five billion welfare spending for wall street and the bank of japan is flying the yen into the ground and israel australia and india pledge to follow great labors forward are being made daily and central bank and sanity while the real housewives of china are backing up the truck yes mrs away is fighting the fed and the e.c.b. and the bank of japan.
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