warplanes carried out strikes inside syria israel's defense ministry refuses to confirm or deny widespread reports of jets carried out the attack on alleged game of missiles heading for hezbollah. a trace of terror bombing investigators focus on the widow of be killed the suspect after discovering radical islamist material on her computer. changing face of u.k. politics and. party moves from the margins to claim a stunning result in local elections leaving the governing serves to wonder how to win back supporters. believers with millions of celebrating jesus's resurrection throughout the world. remain

a ceremony was held at moscow's feet all of christ the savior. broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r.t.m. sean thomas good to have you with us now warplanes have carried out air strikes inside syria and it is widely reported that they were sent by israel the target was allegedly a shipment of advanced missiles heading for lebanon but the israeli defense ministry says it has no knowledge of the anonymous officials who confirmed the attack the second of its kind in less than five months artie's middle east correspondent paul sleazier has the latest from israel. but official is speaking on condition of being anonymous because he is not also wise to speak about a secret israeli military operation we had ought to have been in touch with the israeli foreign ministry but as of yet they are not prepared to publicly concern at

least not to us that such a strike indeed was carried out by the israelis what is interesting is that the strike happened in late thursday 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 live unease all complaining that israel has violated. spaces that israel does do this on numerous occasions and has been doing it recently with quite a bit of consistency as 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 but 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 believes were on their way to has

been that israel and syria share a common border you have the disputed golan heights which israel occupied from syria back in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven and in recent weeks we've witnessed a flare up in violence and intensions along that border. beirut suggests israel is expanding its military activity over lebanon's territory officials say israeli military aircraft have penetrated the nation's airspace in violation of the u.n. security council resolution but they insisted the flights would do nothing to ensure israel's security we spoke to freelance journalist ziad he says that recent events only added to the tension in the region while israeli planes are constantly carrying out flights over lebanon usually they coincide precede or follow a military ground operation all these are surveillance flights to israeli jets violated the airspace above the syria lebanon border and headed north for four

consecutive days the israeli air force has been carrying out intensive flights over southern regions for the first time several planes carried out simulated attacks on several areas anyway tension is growing this is shown by the intensity of israeli jets flying over lebanon especially in recent days. israel has a drawn a red line of its own according to officials and will not let the game changing weapons reach of lebanon's hezbollah at any cost conn hallinan contributing editor for u.s. think tank foreign policy in focus so it's unlikely the embattled syrian government would have risked provoking an israeli attack i think the idea that the syrian government would be shipping arms to has billa 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 u.s. is is thinking of 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 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're able to basically strike it will again syria 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 attempting to overthrow the assad 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 for israel. law enforcement officials investigating the boston marathon bombings have turned their focus to the widow of one of the suspects radical islamic islamic material was discovered on a computer belonging to the american wife of tamerlan sort of naive who was killed when police tried to capture him or he's lucy captured off as more. 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 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 that this bright girl with a passion for learning and travelled really radically transformed since meeting 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 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. well they have been labeled the clowns and the loonies but now they have picked up a quarter of the votes in british local elections the euro skeptic u.k. independence party a former outsider has grabbed one hundred forty seven seats in local councils a surprise increase from just eight they even came in second in one byelection prime minister david cameron reached out to ukip which he once called a bunch of fruitcakes now saying it's no good insulting them trying to benefit from

the u.k.'s recent popularity and win back voters who demanded to referendums on europe with the first one let's bring cameron's upcoming speech outlining the government's legislative plans will focus on the main issues of new tips program you membership and immigration earlier my colleague bill died i asked the deputy leader of the u.k. independence party. whether they're getting worried. david cameron is committed to the european union we know that because he said if there is a that friends and he will campaign to stay in and if you're members of the european union you can't control your own borders so we have a problem in this country where we have twenty two percent youth unemployment a million kids in britain who are going to weigh every day and what about open borders or to twenty nine million remaining in a bulgarians when restrictions fall on january the first income earners are permitted that is not a good can do about that so quite frankly we're not worried that he's going to park

his tank on outside because he simply can't see how you're going to gain momentum now because surely most governments at the time of these midterm elections always lose popularity you've got to keep the momentum up now but really to aim for part of parliament now is that that's is that really realistic for you keep it it's early stages well i think we will take a seat in the house of commons if not two seats before the general election in two thousand and fifteen if we continue on our put trajectory in byelection zameen we are finishing seconds and a lot of by elections now particularly in the north of england. and i think that we can eventually take a seat in a byelection but let's not forget that a big elections next year the european elections take place in june two thousand and fifteen these at elections that we will win i genuinely believe we will send more only peace but so brochures than any other party and then in two thousand and fifteen ukip will be standing in every single constituency and we will be putting up a good fight if we enter the election on double digits ahead of the liberal democrats

we have leadership debates in this country and nigel farage will be on those leadership debates and he would wipe the floor with clegg cameron. for large mania will start just finally back to immigration policy people do perceive you as racist how are you going to overcome that challenge just briefly well quickly we have a blanket ban on anybody who's been a member of a political party ever joining you that has nothing racist about discussing immigration and wanting british jobs for british workers. well we've got more news for you online including public fury against the muslim brotherhood in egypt it reaches a boiling point with the islamist leader's son lynched for a shocking murder he's accused of committing head to r.t. dot com for the full story. plus china's breakneck pace of industrialization may not comply with people's hopes for

a green and environment friendly future hundreds rally in the city of against a government plans to build another factory producing hazardous materials more details on our website. criticism over the domestic use of drones in the u.s. is mounting while demands for them is skyrocketing the federal aviation administration it predicts some one hundred thousand commercial unmanned aircraft will be over american skies within the next five years and as artie's an associate has been finding out building and operating the drones is becoming a coveted profession for many. unmanned aerial vehicles better known as drones are 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 in class. at 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 hundreds in the next several years is becoming and they may be as are becoming more prevalent in pretty much any time region 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 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 p how dare day even talk of bad drones on a domestic guise 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 do. not how they're going to be used most people teaching and studying you wave your 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 even 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 their craft into the national airspace system officials are yet to convince 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.

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and welcome back you're with our team now thousands of gun enthusiasts from every corner of the u.s. have gathered in houston to explore everything at the gun industry has to offer this year's meeting of the national rifle association is likely to be the biggest

ever despite all of the recent shooting tragedies in the united states citizens are still committed to asserting their rights and oppose obama in his attempt to strengthen gun laws in the country are important as in houston with the details. the national debate over gun control maybe among the most divisive issues in the united states but it's also proving to be a p.r. success for america's largest and strongest rights organization approximately seventy thousand people turned out for the national rifle association's annual meeting taking place here in houston texas you could understand the things yes i mean the strength behind the n.r.a. so many families here have brought their their children now was those in attendance are not allowed to fly any of the weapons or admonition but they certainly are allowed to pick up the guns hold them in their hands aimed them for the kids there are air guns that the kids are allowed to shoot also virtual gods to play with and

many in the crowd told me that they come with a feeling of victory because in recent weeks u.s. president barack obama's effort at furthering gun control legislation failed in the senate that effort of course was for strengthening the background checks when you hear from the people that turned out they say that they will stand behind the n.r.a. to continue to fight any efforts washington makes and furthering gun control legislation to make it shows americans feel good about our freedom to own guns is second amendment and most of the starship boarding the n.r.a. because there are backbone for believing in fighting for our rights i didn't explain well i didn't look. good it's wonderful i look to you like the ones with the n.r.a. there would be no more i think a lot of people came this year because. president obama was reelected and we know

we have a tough fight to just keep our rights former vice presidential candidate sarah palin and texas governor rick perry are among a long list of me. pro-gun conservatives that addressed crowds throughout this three day of all those that spoke accuse president obama and new york city mayor michael bloomberg and even the mainstream media leading a vicious attack against the second amendment but that fights includes a very hefty financial investment according to reports the n.r.a. spent seven hundred thousand dollars in the first quarter of this year to fight any efforts made by washington to strengthen gun control now ironically as the us leader has been making his efforts to strengthen gun laws gun sales have been a creep increasing and membership to the n.r.a. has been expanding so far in this ongoing political battle the n.r.a.

is clearly proving itself to be strong enough to go up against and defeat the president of the united states reporting from houston. r.t. . more international news in brief for you this hour seven u.s. service members have been killed in two separate attacks in afghanistan a roadside bomb killed five men in the southern province of kandahar two other american troops have been killed during an insider attack by a rogue afghan soldier in the country's western province this comes just hours after president hamid karzai asked the taliban to stop destroying the country and help to defend it against what he calls for and plots. three people have been killed and dozens injured after two blasts went off within minutes of each other near an election office of a pakistani liberal political party in karachi the taliban claimed responsibility for that attack militants earlier promised to target three secular political

parties ahead of the general elections in a week's time more than seventy people have been killed in the ongoing insurgent attacks in the run up to that may eleventh poll the vote is expected to mark the first ever democratic transition of power in pakistan. in hungary hundreds of the far right protesters rallied on budapest's martyrs square a day before the world jewish congress opens in the country judges came under fire for authorizing what is widely seen as an anti-semitic protest for the victims of zionism in a country with the largest jewish community in europe it was organized by the drover party who ran a campaign called hungary for hungary and in two thousand and nine. two soldiers are dead and four more were injured in an attack on a mali an army patrol near the northern city of gal a suicide bomber and armed militants provoked a clash that left to mali and troops killed three of the attackers also died in the

fighting the attack underscores the challenges that the country faces following a french led military intervention to liberate the three main towns controlled by al-qaeda linked groups in northern mali northern mali has been rocked by several suicide attacks targeting military forces in recent months. in tripoli government supporters have clashed with demonstrating militia members who were demanding to be era officials to be ousted from the government last week armed men laid siege to the country's foreign and justice ministries calling for a purge of the old regime members violence and instability are once again threatening the country two years after a nato led intervention and the overthrow of colonel gadhafi. millions of orthodox believers are celebrating easter in church ceremonies around the world it's one of orthodox christianity as most important services and marks of the reservation rection of jesus christ thousands of people gathered at russia's main vigil at the

cathedral of christ the savior in central moscow artie's medina coach no one has the details. christ is free send us the phrase our two dogs believers read each other with us the celebration continues early on saturday you believe. in the church of the holy sample in jerusalem and the fly is described by our two dogs believers as a miracle that happens alfre year on the eve of the easter celebration later that fire is distributed to the r. to doc's countries including ballo russia serbia georgia and many others and it was also brought to russia. in moscow's of nuchal the airport and was a later delivery to the christ to savor that which is really a bit louder and more arch adox cathedral in the country and that's where the a main easter service was taking place now this service to began shortly before midnight on saturday chris and believers holding candles and carrying on around the

cathedral rideout true midnight glory following the resurrection of jesus christ and that service lasted for several hours and did so well into the early hours of sunday it was also a time to buy the russian president vladimir putin and prime minister meet the need to be safe and really despite what about a lot of this day as it was pouring with rain throughout saturday still hundreds of people here to this special night service easter is the presidio it's a by quite a long period of fasting b.g. verse abstain from meat ax fish and do you read products for forty eight days which they tend to stunting praying and this is a night service is then followed by the easter sunday that's one of those give each other colored folks that they've prepared and special russian easter brad which is called beach it is really a very special moment and

a special day for millions of our two dogs to believe worst around the globe as they celebrate the most important date and they are the docs calender. sergei chapman editor of the russian orthodox church magazine explains why easter is the most important orthodox celebration of the year the easter service is the one of the strongest evidence is that christ is risen and brought us to everlasting life is to service consists of three main parts on the mountains which is the service after follows the easter procession around the church people are coming to venerate the resurrected christ and to sort of. joyfully see. to him.

and of course the right place to do it is the church so that's that's why people are gathering of the church many people couldn't just physically and to the church because there isn't enough room there. limit is only the space that the churches have are next to max kaiser discusses gold hungry chinese housewives and central bank revolutions that's after the break right here on r.t. . famous american political figure ron paul has decided to create his own liberty oriented homeschooling curriculum at ron paul curriculum back to give parents not turn it into standard public education you know when i was a kid homeschooling was only for like the kids of wacko's and cultists if you met someone who was homeschooled you always look at them with some sort of suspicion

like what's with that kid with what's with his parents i mean who would home school their kids well let's look at it this way who would grow their own food when american supermarkets are stocked with pure healthy and natural food the problem is that food in stores is now loaded up with all sorts of mystery chemicals and g m o's and it makes perfect sense that nowadays people are intro starting to grow their own food and this logic applies to education too when public education becomes so dismal it is perfectly logical and reasonable to try to educate your kids yourself the no child left behind program did a fine job of making the american education system lower the bar down to the very basement of the lowest common denominator i mean if you think there should be more in a high school graduates had besides reading right now to richmond that homeschooling might be for you as art sports and music and science programs all across the nation that total lack of funding is wrong post libertarian curriculum what's best for your kids hate i can't say but it's definitely worth taking a look at other alternatives given the d.

minus quality of public education nowadays but that's just my opinion. i am max keiser welcome to the kaiser report round has gone crazy according to mrs wang americans are dumping paper gold and diving into the dow europeans are lining up for separate haircuts the e.c.b. is ready for a negative deposit rates the fed values to maintain its eighty five billion welfare .