an f.b.i. agent who kills a church unmanned reporter dealing to a model on knots and i add one of the boston bombing suspects day during a firefight with police last month. hurting for cash and beating him dad to the e.u. turns its eye on the tax dodgers hoping to plug the trailing euro and will drain. the white house and look for a stay at american journalism or to reject media freedom which they believe was a victim to government yes some delegate facts and makes the face. and as of three friends of syria prepared to discuss peace between present our side in the opposition new as lawmakers give for a state approval to a bill that could allow direct weapons shipments to the rebels.

a very warm welcome to you if you've just joined us here on our t.v. a live with us from moscow with me would say about soon the chechen man who was being investigated over a possible meanings to last month's boston marathon bombings has been shot dead by the f.b.i. outside his home in florida if you know you must touch of allegedly knew that some live brothers the main suspects in the terror attack probe are granted she began and joins us live right now going to tell us more about who want to happened and why didn't the f.b.i. agent had to pull out his gun. well come on at this point it's still very sketchy the f.b.i.

says to but today's sheriff was being questioned as part of the f.b.i.'s effort to find and talk to anyone who had any contact with time or lunch or knive officials say if the agents were questioning to a doctor on tuesday he was cooperated first they say but late tuesday night he attacked the agent who shot and killed him now under what circumstances it happened we don't know the f.b.i. says they spend review team to find out more officials also say to doctors had some connections with radical chechen militants but they say it's not clear whether he had any role in radicalizing time or lone star neiers the f.b.i. did not elaborate on details but the friend of a doctor who was also questioned by the f.b.i. the same day in the same area in orlando florida. he added more details he said and the man who was shot late tuesday night had known each other for two years both did boxing he said the f.b.i. had been just questioning both him this friend and her daughter for several weeks

now and this friend also says that the da ship had tickets for chechnya but canceled his trip due to the investigation so another chechen men a link to the boston bombings all the clues lead to the russian north caucuses dumping. well tab on chechnya yes that's right and russia's north caucasus is again in spotlight there chechen by their background their ethnic background some sources told the media here to doctors had lived in the united states as a legal resident since worksome of the two thousand and eight and was come a long term highest family really they never really lived in chechnya he says family lived in kazakhstan and then they moved to russia as doug just on time on tour and i've arrived here in the us ten years ago but based on the connections that he preserved with that part of russia the russian authorities were able to warn the us about tamerlan and i have radicalization more than two years before the

boston bombings now u.s. authorities back then did not find him along sort of suspicious despite the warnings some say because. the officials the saudis might have taken him into account his chechen background looked at him from a more political rather than pure line for some point of view because it's no secret that the u.s. has for years seen the forces operating in chechnya not not as militants not as terrorists but as rebels and freedom fighters they still use the word rebels when referring to them also maybe that was the kind of mentality that went into the decision to grant asylum to time alonso and i his family for example and maybe also played a role when u.s. authorities failed to really keep an eye on time alone for an arab after numerous warnings from russia anyway following these tragic events in boston the presidents of both russia and the uighurs they call to the security services of both countries to cooperate more closely and especially there were calls from

moscow to stop seeing the problem as your terrorism my tears and really to start seeing it as a common problem french again live from washington give him an update on this ongoing story of the boston bombings. right a new torture scandal hits big new wells say mutilated bodies discovered in afghanistan as kabul like uses an american military machine of murdering almost twenty people are mysteriously went missing the details are just ahead. but is a looking to call since the attacks and that door wider over the continent today as leaders meet in brussels to plan the league's amounting to a trillion euros a year but it won't be easy top europe rats and monarchs alike have featured in a slew of recent tags avoiding scandals signifying just how widespread the practice

has become r.t.s. us earlier 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 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 have been 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. 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 scandals 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 of football clubs byron munich he's also want to investigation for fraud of about millions of dollars there now here in belgium macqueen 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 is 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. when estimates of puts the total sum of wealth stashed away in european tax havens alone at nine and a half trillion euros let's put that number in perspective and why something's only being done about it now with tech specialist twenty amanda is a from the consultancy firm age j c group or mr manders of eve's been quite soft on the offshore banking system for decades now why should others now pay for the home grown crisis i think all right i think we're going to move on from there will come back to mr manders as we're having difficulty with his son but all come back to that story at

the top of the hour right now e's later somebody comes on the back of another budding quizes but this time is of competence a new poll shows europeans are becoming increasingly worried for young people suture the picture is even gloomier 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 that hold the latest hope for the future something artie's peter oliver witnessed 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 zhao 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 opportunities given to you now the new model you have to make are an 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 need to find new nutrients to spring to. everyday full national. he's even found a good use for some of his old textbooks yeah. as the breeding ground for potential new mushroom it'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

a lot of springing up right in the heart of lisbon operating without proper planning commission the authorities turn a blind eye to their development. everything is just too expensive so i try to get everything i can't afford from 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 the snails from microchip when cooked right they can be quite testy in fact many think of them as a delicacy either grilled or in the soup 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 they ignore in their situation people in the north should look more close 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 jallow is somewhat more philosophical to be patient and things will turn that's. the best lesson learned with mushrooms peter all over r.t. portugal. for real people struggling there but what happens to that wealth of that stashed away in european or tax havens down to talk to us a little bit more about that as tech specialist one man does from the consultancy firm a.j.c. group we had him earlier on mr manders if you can hear me thank you for coming back with an air that is been quite soft on the offshore banking system for decades why should others not pay the home grown crisis for the ease home grown crisis. well they shouldn't i mean the trick that the politicians are trying to play on the taxpayer is they're blaming the taxpayer for their crisis in the crowd the cross

has been caused by politicians spending too much money and obviously taxes are high so taxpayers try to minimize their tax burden and now that the politicians are becoming very anxious because they're running out of money they're trying to blame the taxpayer they're trying to blame tax avoidance and they're trying to change the laws and they're trying to go after countries with a more favorable tax system with more favorable privacy laws and blame them for their crisis so what we should do is stand up for a right to for financial privacy and so not for low taxes and not so let the politicians get away with blaming others for the crisis they cost the bad and that this drive is quite an interference into other country's policies if you may say i mean even this saving that phase how could you how could that be justified well it cannot be justified and the whole idea of banning tax competition is to take

away individual country's rights to set their own tax rates in the only reason tax rates have gone down so much over the last thirty years is tax competition when reagan and thatcher dropped their tax rates from ninety seven percent u.k. to forty percent in the us from seventy to to twenty eight percent that's when start with started tax competition that's when other countries also had to lower their tax rates in order to to attract talent and capital and what the politicians are now trying to do is establish a cartel they're trying to to get rid of tax competition by having a cartel in place that agrees on one tax rate the same all over the new or even preferably all over the world if they could do that that the bigger the cartel the more tax they can levy and we should stand up for our right to. to not be bullied by these politicians ok so every country considering tax free will have lower tax rates so how is the e.u.

planning to go after them i mean how they planning to deal with this i mean this is a sort of things that have gotten them in the trouble that they are right now they're trying to get out are they going to deal with that. well with that what they're trying to do is. to have meetings with leaders so dozens of countries and all agree on one tax rates agree on tax her reservation one tax policy and get these tax rates closer together. and that's what you do when you use when you're trying to set up a cartel to try to make it as it is possible because if there are countries that don't join in a protel instead of low tax rates that's where the cap will go that's where the talent will go so there are locked in to start this unless they can first her very own board. they have to do the right they thank you very much said one i meant as i wish we had more time to talk to you about the attack specialist and spokes a med for consultancy firm age j c group.

but a body of an afghan man who had been cut off has been discovered near a former american military base not far from the country's capital kabul as investigators accuse us forces of murdering and torturing at least seventeen people in the one doc a province said by the who's writing widely on america's interrogation techniques are things the u.s. should take responsibility for the suspects actions regardless even if he no longer works for them i think the question should be raised is what kind of people are they hiring you know if they hired this guy in the first place what kind of texaco go to the sanity of this guy and i don't think that seventeen people are going to go missing because of the work of one person i think that you know maybe the special forces were involved in those disappearances just look at background a base where people looked up take to background tortured and been taken to you know we're going to animal brains people listed in the background and then one

hundred or which the pakistanis or anybody else and also for example in abu ghraib we saw those pictures that were released and showed torture of victims. when we come back u.s. reporters rise up against the washington media which under while on the syrian front president assad gets another ultimatum. speak your language because i think you might be well enough to do. programs documentaries in spanish more matches. that will turn into bangalore stories. i'll teach spanish find out more visit actuality.

thanks for staying with us you're watching our team american journalists not sounding the alarm but able what they say is a washington a witch hunt to prevent sensitive information leaks and to end the lie and all

other journalists themselves as well as the false news white house correspondent who was revealed to be under surveillance by the justice department was also the months long wiretapping operation against more than one hundred associated press journalists a white house is defending the method saying it was all a matter of national security my colleague and marina joshie discussed this with artie's news editor i will cross he says a bad fall from mug calling journalist to washington may be pushing them for 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 a question we should probably regard him as a publisher of information. as a journalist yeah it is about sense that bradley manning is the whistleblower in the case now they also want to charge sons 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 happened to be working for the state and that this approach to these individuals is being regarded under these nine hundred seventeen espionage act 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 have always defended their sources and shielded sources but now we're seeing it in a very vulnerable position 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 called strongbox. the code itself was developed by digital first amendment activists or code developed by r. and schwartz the late aren't schwartz he killed himself while under prosecution for releasing files. 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 anonymity to journalists who are facing an absolutely unprecedented threat in the history of american media let's get more thoughts on that from greg p. leslie who represents the reporters committee for freedom all of the presidents and leslie thank you for joining us on r.t. doesn't of the u.s. government have a duty to protect information which it feels could be of risk to the country's national security if it is released i think that there isn't the geishas to do that there they obviously have a very strong interest in protecting their information and we've always counted on the justice department to balance that interest against the first amendment rights of the reporters and it's that ability to balance that that's been called into question by the events of the last couple of weeks do you accept that sometimes journalist do cross the line while experiencing secret information.

there's never any guarantee that they won't certainly there are times when they have but we feel that most journalists can make the careful determination of when some confidential information is newsworthy and something that the public has a right to see and they can balance that against the risk of any damage that might be caused by the release of it i think most journalists if they knew the information would truly be damaging would be willing to hold back or you know report less of it or accommodate those security interests so is there any difference between the we can leaks case and the targeting of mainstream journalists that we're seeing right now well there's no it easy answer to the wiki leaks case because some aspects of that case involved a massive document dumps which you know isn't really journalism in the first place other parts of that case involved careful analysis and release of information while

looking at the you know the harm that it might cause in the interests at stake so i think some of the poorer parts of wiki leaks were very good journalism and other parts were somewhat you know allegedly dangerous document dumps although i'm not sure that there ended up being anything in those documents that truly was dangerous right let's go back to that we can leave thing is in hindsight should the mainstream media in the us have done more to put ted to weaken leaks in terms of what they expose what we all feel it was right for them to expose they sort of left them hanging but i think the mainstream. well actually i mean the new york times worked with some of the weekly leaks documents they worked with. for they were released and the other thing is you know there has been no action taken against assad officially obviously there's probably an investigation still in the works but there hasn't been any official action taken there haven't been any attempts to

arrest him related to the document releases so there hasn't been anything for at least the media lawyers in the you know defending the american media to jump in and fight over understood all right mr leslie we're going to have to leave it right there run out of time but thank you very much for your thoughts on this. francaise syria's president must handover for executive power to a transitional government wild turkey has totally rejected any role for bashar assad in peace negotiations these and the other so-called friend of syria nations are gathered in jordan a sensibly to discuss peace talks between damascus and the opposition one of the most vocal speakers at the gathering was you with secretary of state john kerry and some of his statements don't exactly tally with what he said just two weeks ago as alessio assess the reports. speaking at a press conference in amman the u.s. state secretary john kerry said and i quote if syrian president bashar al assad was

not prepared to discuss a political solution to end syria's civil war the united states and others would consider increasing support for his opponents and that along with increasing initiatives across the atlantic to arm the syrian rebels something again reiterated by the u.s. senate commission on tuesday is creating a feeling of uncertainty whether a peaceful solution to the syrian conflict would be found any time soon the latest statement by john kerry seems questionable especially after the meeting in moscow less than two weeks ago when john kerry and russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and the russian president vladimir putin agreed to hold an international conference by the end of this month to have both the syrian government and the syrian opposition at the same negotiation table and back then told john kerry that he saw clear signs coming from the syrian government that they were willing to take part in this negotiation while nothing like that nothing of the same sort was coming from the opposition this stance was reached rated again by the russian foreign

minister during his meeting with the deputy foreign minister of syria today. we are waiting for a reaction from the russian foreign ministry on the latest statement by john kerry and we know that the russian foreign minister and the u.s. states actually had a conversation over the phone today about the peace conference which is due to be held by the end of this month but the biggest question in the light of the statement by john kerry in amman is whether this peace conference would be held at all up next breaking the.

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