and f.b.i. agent kills a chechen man reportedly linked to tom one of the boston bombing suspects shot dead during a firefight with police last month. turning for a carriage and bleeding in debt the e.u. turns its eye on tax dodgers hoping to plug the trillion euro and you'll drain. the white house and the fourth estate american journalist move to protect media freedom which they believe is falling victim to government fears that some delicate facts may surface. and as the friends of syria prepare to discuss peace between president asad and the opposition u.s. lawmakers give the first stage approval to a bill that could allow direct weapons shipments to the rebels.

six pm in moscow you're watching r t with me marina joshie welcome to the program a chechen man who was being investigated over a possible links to last month's boston marathon bombings has been shot dead by the f.b.i. outside his house in florida to dosh of allegedly knew the turnout brothers and the main suspects in the terror attack probe well are just going to count joins us now live for more hello to you guys what more can you tell us about this case and specifically what we'd like to know is why did an f.b.i. agent resort to using a gun. well maureen at this point it's all very sketch of the f.b.i. says it was being questioned as part of the f.b.i.'s effort to find and talk to anyone where any any contact was time alonso and i are the older bombing suspect

and social say so he was not he was not a suspect he was not a suspect in the connection with the boston bombings and fish as far as we know at this point officials say if the agents were questioned to the ship on tuesday he was cooperate if at first they say but late tuesday night he attacked the agent who shot and killed them there fishel so also say to that ship had some connections with radical chechen rebels but they say it's not clear whether he had any role in radicalizing the middle on star knife but the friend of productive who was also. there that that night he was also questioned by the f.b.i. met late tuesday night hussein camara promise is his name. that he added some more details he said naive and the man who was shot late late tuesday night had known each other for twenty years both did boxing he said that

the f.b.i. had been questioning both both him and the deceased man for some time now for for several weeks to their ships friend also says that the dash of tickets for church now but canceled his trip due to the investigation that's that's all we know at this point ok thanks very much indeed for this update of course we'll be waiting to get more details as this case progresses they're going to town for now thanks very much indeed for this now and new torture scandal hits the u.s. and mutilated body is discovered in afghanistan as kabul accuses an american military chief of murdering almost twenty people who mysteriously went missing but the tales are just ahead here in our team. now the easy use looking to cast its tax net wider or the continent today's leaders meet in brussels to plug leaks amounting to a trillion euros

a year but it will be easy top euro grads and motor alike have featured in a slew of recent tax avoidance cowles signifying just how widespread the practice has become as are silly reports from the summits venue. tax evasion no that's a hot topic right now here in the e.u. especially as e.u. leaders have decided to go ahead and talk with the likes of switzerland so-called tax havens but are non e.u. members to establish some sort of a more transparent exchange of relevant to banking data and this also comes at a sensitive time for citizens there those who are asking at a time when they are having to pay higher taxes and deal with job losses those belong to the top one percent of the very wealthy of the countries get away with tax evasion and tax fraud nowi leaders of his speaking quite loudly about this clampdown on so-called offenders and a number of scandals have arisen in various countries starting with france on the former budget minister there had to step down from his post he's been accused of

having a secret swiss bank account we're talking about an amount of six hundred eighty five thousand euros there and also another politician over in greece a former minister of finance there has been accused of being involved with one of the country's largest tax cattles us about one point two million dollars we're talking about here now over in germany the boss of one of the world's biggest a football clubs byron munich he's also want to investigation for fraud of about millions of dollars there now here in belgium queen fabulous' has been accused of trying to hide her wealth from tax authorities so that her heirs don't have to pay a seventy percent tax putting all these together it's just a fraction of the want to trillion euros of the european commission says it's lost to tax evasion and tax fraud each year the e.u. commissioner for taxation anti-fraud has expressed disappointment at the lack of progress made by the bloc there's still a level of opposition coming from a couple of countries namely austria and look some work both of which are keen to protect their own banking secrecy laws now this commissioner also pointed out the

rather than relying on third party countries or non e.u. member countries like switzerland are more nicko the bloc should take bigger steps in imposing a tougher tax avoidance laws now today the summit is going to show whether leaders are willing to take that step or if. all of this is just talk reporting from brussels i'm tests are cilia now the latest summit comes on the back of another budding crisis by its of confidence and new poll shows europeans are becoming increasingly worried for young people's future while the picture is grim when we look at people's opinion concerning employment with block wide pessimism over job security and pensions what's notable here though is that of all the respondents it's the young to hold the least hope for the future well something our despair all over witness across portugal. with unemployment on the rise the portuguese of facing a new set of challenges if you don't want to be

a statistic if you don't want to be a number you have to. be committed with their own responsibility of making your own job joe has done just that turning his back on an education in sociology and a job in advertising he moved out of the city and now teaches people how to grow mushrooms you are used to a model in which the opportunity is given to you now the new model you have to make your own opportunity. drawn towards fungal farming juta the mushrooms recycling abilities he says portugal's politicians could learn a thing or two from his project we really really define nutrients to spring to. read a full national. he's even found a good use for some of his old textbooks yeah as the breeding ground for a potential new mushroom that's easy to grow by anyone but it's not only in the

countryside that new agricultural projects are under way with the portuguese facing rising prices and ever decreasing wages urban farms like this one becoming a very important way to make sure families can put food on the table small allotments are springing up right in the heart of lisbon operating without proper planning permission. turn a blind eye to their development. everything is just too expensive so i try to get everything i can't afford for my little garden sometimes there is a good crop so i can sell it for extra cash. nothing goes to waste here even garden pests can have their uses if you know how i collect this snails from my crop when cooked great they can be quite testy in fact many think of them as a delicacy either grilled on. in the suit unemployment is at a record high in portugal with pessimists suggesting it's only

a matter of time before it passes the twenty percent mark economists in the country are accusing portugal's european partners of the ignoring their situation people in the north should look more closely to the direct human consequences of these policies and if they have a better knowledge of what's happening in those fields they will change their mind about what needs to be done in the near very near future joel is somewhat more philosophical just be patient and things will come at their time that's. it's the best lesson that i learned with mushrooms peter all of the portugal. now three years into europe's debt crisis with unemployment rampant and europeans in despair we want to hear what you think may lie ahead for the blog so today on our website r.t. dot com we are conducting a poll and here are some of the choices that we have for your on our website today

so is a financial collapse ahead of the question we're asking or an end to the dad crisis well the poor estates be forced out or will german economic in germany guarantee it control of the block so these are the questions that we're asking you today and feel free to answer them by logging onto our website r.t. dot com. american journalists are sounding the alarm over what they say is a washington which done to prevent sensitive information leaks and in the line of fire are the journalist themselves as was a fox news white house correspondent who was revealed to be under surveillance by the justice department there was also the month long no wiretapping operation against more than one hundred associated press journalists the white house is defending the harsh methods saying it was all a matter of national security but artie's news editor i'm across he says that far from journalists washington may be pushing them to new extremes altogether. the

news that broke over the weekend caused an absolute sensational reaction right across the news media and what commentators. right across the american spectrum have said are now identifying a trend where what people see starting with wiki leaks a couple of years ago with the prosecution of mr manning bradley manning but also the prosecution and the attack on wiki leaks is now seeping through people are calling the main stream media and the media that previously would have regarded manning as an out or salvage as an outlier is now finding itself suffering the same kind of attacks that have suffered from the american government it's also interesting where you actually draw this line you know because now we're seeing the journalists being called whistleblowers yeah well i guess the most important thing to point out to her here though maria is that whistle blowing is not illegal in fact whistle blowing is a venerated position under law whereby a person privy to information will release that information in the public interest

. be the most notorious whistle blowing case of recent years is the wiki leaks case and julian assange is seen as a whistleblower whereas in fact i think for the part was the purpose of this is question we should probably regard him as a publisher of information. as a journalist yeah it is about sense bradley manning is the whistleblower in the case now they also want to charge. with the same charge that they are trying to put on mr rosen at the moment which is that a a reporter in going about their job fulfilling their job description going about their daily beast solicits information from individuals these individuals for a national security reporter happen to be working for the state and that this approach to these individuals is being regarded under these nine hundred seventeen espionage as coconspirator see to aid and abet espionage but speaking broadly about the media in this particular context i mean we know that the media always defended their sources and shielded sources but now we're seeing it in a very vulnerable position no absolutely but interesting enough coming from the new

. yorker is that they've introduced a digitally encrypted environment they're taking steps to protect their sources it's called strong box. the code itself was developed by digital first amendment activists or code developed by r. and schwartz the late r. and schwartz he killed himself while under prosecution for releasing files from dumping files in public domain that were previously owned by the mit if i'm not mistaken i guess the idea here was that they would guarantee on a name as he took whistleblowers into sources but. the other side of that now is that this is an environment like that may serve to guarantee an immunity to journalists who are facing an absolutely unprecedented threat in the history of american media now a body of an afghan man whose feet have been cut off has been discovered near a former american military base not far from the country's capital kabul investigators accuse the u.s. forces of murdering and torturing at least seventeen people in the war doc province

lives to have ganesan now and doubtful and so a political analyst and former afghan m.p. joins us now for more on this thank you very much sir for joining us here on r.t. what seems like the united states feels somewhat impenetrable when it comes to accusations of torture or when it comes to having secret prisons a broad why is that. i think this is a gruesome act of us that was revealed but also we have to look at this there's a history behind this that goes as far back as two thousand to even the late two thousand and one and in those days if you remember the then minister of interior of the afghan foreign interim government was keeping a private prison who was being run by a former special forces guy who was doing a freelance work for the minister so there's more than one side to all these

stories and these have to be investigated but it would not be farfetched if there are some freelancing going on and these kinds of situations who use or or take advantage of a cover of a special force but having said that i think the american government and the afghan government should be answerable to the people of this country but what's interesting in this case though is that human rights organizations seem to be very quiet about this case i mean usually they're react immediately but why has there been no reaction so far to this case. it is very suspicious of the whole situation but because of the various stories that are being told. many are trying to take advantage of this the afghan government at least and the leadership of the government we cannot rely on their on their jockeying and the

on their posturing because they're taking advantage of every situation to be for their own specific interest we have to rely on independent sources mr karzai has been taking advantage of these kinds of things for his own purpose but the afghan justice system has to be so reliable that they can do an investigation independent of any political influence and the military also and the u.s. military should show that they are trad transparent and that at least in the cases of human rights abuses they will show that transparency that human rights requires well as we know couples investigators accuse u.s. forces of murdering in torturing at least seventeen people and also speaking of this particular case i mean could the u.s. army really go that far specifically i mean i'm talking about the mutilated body of a man that's been found. i think the u.s.

army may act slow but based on the records they were visually have to act there's no other way for them in order to keep their credibility in a foreign country they need to answer the questions while we may grind slowly but there will be demands of. good answer and i believe as they have to provide that. well we also know at this point that afghanistan afghan investigators claims. claim to have video proving u.s. forces staff or tortured the man so do you think this evidence is enough to have a justice done you know for me to judge it without knowing the details or without seeing any tapes it would be professional to for me to dig into it and say anything that is that is of any meaning but all i can say is

an investigation professionally and done by professionals is a must and it has to be done so the people of this country can host our allies in this country with the reliability and where there is a process of trust by delton so a political analyst and former afghan m.p. thank you so much for joining us here on our team. now the pentagon is expecting the government to fork out millions of dollars to finance the long term work on wind tunnel prison even though president obama says he wants the facility close the report on that in just a few minutes. also syrian rebels attacked a village in israeli occupied territory stirring a local community into action and a few minutes we speak to volunteer is ready to die fighting the opposition to protect their loved ones.

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spanish find out more visit. welcome back you're watching our team on the pentagon is requesting almost half a billion dollars of funding for guantanamo bay some of it's to upgrade temporary facilities. which could take up to ten years to complete calling into question just how serious the obama administration is closing the prison more than a hundred inmates who are being held without charge are now three and a half months into a hunger strike over their detention one former guard at the prison told us his guantanamo experience has psychologically scarred him some of the some of the tactics that i saw practice in guantanamo i just never really want to wish to relive again omar kotter and a number of other detainees that they were privileged to something we called the frequent flyer program or even essentially moved them every two hours whether

removing them from camp delta camp echo or moving them from bravo block to charlie block be it a little move or a big move the idea of a scent every two hours they would be removed and they wouldn't be able to sleep this was essentially thought to wear down their psyche and make them more. probable to give up information during interrogation i think it speaks volumes about the conditions at guantanamo of obviously sink to him if suicide through starvation is prefer able to. staying alive and then going through the monotony of guantanamo existence the only reason the detainees are being force fed is the the u.s. military or rather the powers that be are scared that these men have enough conviction to to literally starve to death and they know that if these men do starve to death it will make the u.s. look bad in the global global perspective if the pentagon wants four hundred fifty million dollars more to maintain and restructured one ton of i think that's

basically just preparations for the next batch of people are going to fill you know as it stands right now the weeks to so many millions of dollars of taxpayer money and one ton of no it's just ridiculous and absurd to think about but if we just devoted another four hundred fifty million i think that's just perfect evidence right there there's no intention to close that one where the. how equality may be one of france's three cornerstones but tragically not for one writer a renowned historian shoots himself dad at the altar in cathedral siding a same sex marriage law as a threat to france's identity their report online. and song and dance as ever john is russia lashes out over a suspect in your vision of a blunder. as more. the friends of syria group of nations is preparing to meet in jordan to discuss peace talks between damascus and the opposition it's a joint u.s. and russian proposal although american lawmakers are keen to push

a bill to arm the end to us and rebels a senate committee has already voted it's true but it still has a long way to go before coming into force historian and political commentator gerald horne believes washington has a lord nothing from its past mistakes the pressure has really been ratcheted up in washington with regard to these rebels the israeli lobby in particular has been quite energetic and quite active with regard to lobbying for aid to the rebels which is quite curious since these rebels come to power i daresay that israel will have many sleepless nights the implications are quite ominous obviously the u.s. authorities have not learned the lessons of history for example we recall that in afghanistan of the one nine hundred eighty s. the united states supported extremists and then on september eleventh two thousand and one those extremism those allied with them attacked new york city and washington we recall that the u.s. authorities backed extremists and libya and then also to bring eleven two thousand

and twelve those extremists killed the u.s. ambassador chris stevens in benghazi and it's plunged the obama administration into the ground the investigations sadly and tragically it seems that they would like to see history repeat itself. now the syrian and israeli army's have exchanged fire in the disputed golan heights a region along annexed by tel aviv front line attacks have become more frequent in recent months with israel reportedly launching airstrikes towards damascus but as policy or explains there is at least one community in the area that's ready to defend president asad. we're ready to die defending our people strong words from a chef preparing young men to go and fight in syria except his recruits are not rebel fighters or soldiers in damascus they're israeli jews a minority islamic offshoot ready to go help defend the community in syria and president assad. we have relatives there are people are there and they were

attacking them in the name of islam. the tipping point came after rebels targeted the druze village of near the israeli syrian border and killed seven people by the hundreds israeli druze volunteers started signing up short of i would be ahmed to be the first man who crosses the border to defend the druze community simon wired he works in an israeli factory but feels it's only a matter of time before he'll be asked to cross the border into syria. i hope that they won't need us but you can't know what will happen now the situation in the druze villages is stable but if this changes we will go for it we are waiting for the orders from our shakes and we are totally ready israeli jews who live in communities in the gulf and the golan heights after the forty eight and sixty seven war they found themselves cut off from their families in syria after israel occupied the heights those who live here on the israeli syrian border are residents

of israel but see themselves as syrian they're loyal to the alawite regime who they see as a minority lock themselves they live in fear for their families in syria after the rebel assault on the druze village of their adware. we're under attack we're under foreign attack they're using foreign soldiers to fight inside syria and some syrians are helping them. some have other ways to fight back this man goes door to door saving his book about a respected to share all the proceeds go across the border. the druze community in israel collected one million dollars and sent it to the syrian druze from my village but can we collected one million shekels people paid what they could in order to help their relatives in syria the call to fight has not yet been made but as the conflict in syria starts to spread beyond its borders more and more communities are being torn in so many allegiances here by nineteen and when

a relative is killed the test for tat. is likely to last for years. we are just waiting for an opportunity to help and we are ready to give our lives. on the israel syria border well stay with us as frankenfood in the us is put under the microscope focusing on the humble chili pepper a special report is next. well with. science technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got this huge you're covered.

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