people talk about collecting the dots. there are a lot of dots. how do you know what are significant dots? i think what needs to be looked at here is whether somehow somebody missed the significance of the initial warning and then the six-month trip to russia and then the return and didn't follow-up. >> right. so one of the things that also struck me going into your areas of expertise, nick, have people said it was from the russians. it's not as though it came from pakistan or afghanistan, some place where we were used to saying watch this guy, this may be a terrorist and then it probably wasn't treated with as much seriousness perhaps as it should have been. what is your take on the u.s./russian sort of intelligence interchange? >> well, russia's a double-edged sword for us. they are once a victim of terrorism as we have been. remember the moscow theater abductions in 2002. >> chechnya. >> from chechnya. they have been victims and they've wanted to work with us. but on the other hand the russian methods are brutal and savage and at least in this

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dot com we've got opinion on the standard u.s. portrayal of armed chechen groups as freedom fighters and how it has changed overnight to depict them new now as ferocious militants. in the boston marathon attacks were not the only tragedy to hit the united states this week a powerful blast ripped through a small texas town on wednesday after a fertilizer plant caught fire at least fourteen people lost their lives most of them emergency responders and almost two hundred were injured. well you know i think you. know the explosion which is believed to have been an accident flattened entire neighborhoods in the town of west leaving several schools and a nursing home in ruins a spokesman for the texas department of public safety was at the scene and described what he saw. i can tell you i was there i walked through the blast area i searched some houses earlier tonight massive just like iraq just like the murray building in oklahoma city. exploded so you can imagine what kind of damage we're looking out there. the disaster is believed to

dot com has those interesting details for you. and in america the f.b.i. is doing all it can to sneak a closer peek a personal online communications r.t. dot com tells you how much the f.b.i. . wants to be paid to spiling in. the u.s. our secretary of state john kerry said that talks with north korea are only possible if the country agrees to end its nuclear weapons program and during a visit to seoul he reiterated that america won't accept the north as a nuclear power and one pentagon intelligence report suggested pyongyang may already be able to fire a nuclear weapon well that was published mistakenly and then downplayed by the white house meantime is want japan that could become a target if it shoots down any of its test missiles has warned that it will intercept any rockets in its own direction a former pentagon official michael maloof believes a full scale war is possible japan and like not like the others like south korea in the united states should be keeping a very low profile keep their powder dry but not make any provocations. and i think that. a

these are all individual dots that, at some point, will make sense. but right now, the federal bureau of investigation, the boston police, others in the u.s. government, are really in the process of collecting all of these dots. the date, potential groups that might have made threats before, the forensic information. looking at overseas intelligence. and it's really only after all of those dots are collected, that you very slowly and methodically start to connect them slowly. so, it may very well be that april 15th had some consequence here. it could turn out it had nothing to do with it. this was simply the boston marathon or simply an attack of opportunity. a factor, do we know if it's positive or points in one point or another? not less than 24 hours later. no, we really don't. >> you talk about the dots that need to be connected. and one of the conversations that was had, certainly within the anti-terrorism community and in the halls of congress after 9/11, was cooperation and sharing information. and changing, basically, the culture and the ways

dot com. i tried to do we visited to a community in the rushes year old that was stunted by a massive meteor impact this year. with oil pipes bursting in arkansas people across the usa are starting to realize that they are moving towards what the atlantic calls the infrastructure cliff in short america's infrastructure starting to get a bit old and according to infrastructure port org the us needs about three point six trillion dollars of infrastructure spending by twenty twenty to turn things around the site sponsored by the american society of civil engineers gave all aspects of american infrastructure like bridges and drinking water and schools cetera some pretty bad grades except for solid waste removal for some reason in their opinion everything in the us is going to crap except for america's ability to throw solid crap away i'm not trying to sit here and scare you there is nothing to fear this is a big challenge but it is a very possible one to accomplish according to cost of war dot org

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lawyers and human rights activists and they were lined up for you in a special section at our teens dot com. averting default and rescuing slime prince is back on top of the e.u. to do list and will be tackled at a meeting of the blocks finance ministers on friday the ruth graham with revelation that nickel c.l. will need billions more than a really thought still partly under financial quarantine it's now up to the islands of fourteen's to come up with thirteen billion euros which is twice as much as just a few weeks ago officially the rise is due to delays in getting a bailout deal but there's speculation that billions leaked out of from shot to banks are both illegally and through loopholes that may be the least of the eans worries them in comparison to the president of that incentives artie's tassel syria . it dominated headlines for much of two weeks a year reserved nation on the brink of bankruptcy the banks were closed cash rationed and capital controls put in place cyprus of blows heavy losses which could rise to up to sixty percent on wealthier depositors in order to clinch a te

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this is with lines rather than dots. you can see that instantly that it's a very beautiful wall. but we think equally handsome. this is again why we brought the large gloss because it's hard to appreciate on the screen, delicacy and unique pattern. it's slightly more dense, this is a bit more metal in this version than there is open but it's also quite beautiful. once again that's what you see in this panel. one question is what would this be like inside. one shows the previous glass version and bear in mind that previous forms, the wall was 60 percent transparent versus 40 percent in the pen rows pattern is the issue being looked at here. this is interior view when the the building is wrapped in the per forted metal skin. it's what one finds in a theatrical stage, it's a very beautiful kind of warm presence and a very unique place to be inside of, particularly the bus deck which is where this view is taken from. we also saw other opportunities in the change from glass to metal that come about because once again this is a less transparent wall, this is like a theatrical set which

dot com. sale in cyprus if at least three million euros have disappeared from your account to pay for the e.u. bailout all is not lost you can now claim citizenship is compensation for story on our website. there will be no criminal investigation into israel's air strike on gaza last november that killed twelve civilians nine of them members of one family israel's military concluded while the deaths were regrettable the attack was justified because it was targeting a senior hamas militant but the decision was slammed by human rights organizations who want a criminal investigation into what they call war crimes more than one hundred fifty palestinians most of them civilians are believed to have been killed during israel's eight day operation in gaza last year. martin from the palestinian center for human rights as israel has dropped other possible criminal cases too so instead of warn you you may find some of the following images disturbing. there were two cases which were closed in this way th

that's what i mean by not connecting the dots. as much talked about, and that is the from what i understand in will all the reports coming out of boston the state and local police were not informed about what the fbi the cia, immigration and customs knew about this case. in other any dots. therefore, they weren't able to participate in this. now, if the fbi decided it wasn't really worth them following up it's very possible --now, and it's too late to ever know -- that feltsomething that since it in ick that they would lon. one of the advantages of connecting dots and fas passing that informatid!on on, you get and more possible asn't followed up. and the main reason for that, and i here will be very critical of the fbi, among the federal the fbi has been known for many years for being the most reluctant to share information with state and local officials. and i have in my in government spent many years talking and working on t issues and continually there were expressions of sincere frustration on the part of state and local offic

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dot com. in venezuela the campaigning has all fishy wrapped up with the mess rallies ahead of sunday's presidential election hundreds of thousands marched in the capital caracas same support of interim leader nicolas maduro while the opposition rallied in the north of the country but here as a political success it too late to lead a good time and who died from cancer on last month today on our t.v. we'll hear from american musician then prominent street activist in mosul take me who believes that keeping a bit of vesey legacy will be a toss. he's not god you know to me he's somebody who was in a position of power who decided to troll the united states infinitely and very well in fact you know and really made his case in front of. the rest of the world and said a lot of things that they probably thought but didn't want to ruin their relationship with their foster daddy here to be a champion and gain venezuela chooses you president chavez choice runs against a free market poster boy for possible

web site r t dot com and cast your vote online. well fears for the lives of more than half of the hunger striking guantanamo bay prisoners are finally being shared by the u.s. authorities the military sending additional medical personnel to the camp where a growing number of inmates are refusing food in protest over mistreatment and indefinite detentions dr stevens in our case the retired army medical corps officer and former senior advisor to the fans department says it might not be long before the strike turns lethal typically people get very sick after about fifty days in which they've not had any food but are taking water so they may be getting very sick and i think there's a fear that a number may die within the next several weeks but all the world medical associations are categorically and ethically against force feeding the reason being is that it in fact disrupts what is most important which is establishing a constructive relationship were poorer with the hunger strikers and being able to discuss the terms of their protest

dot dot fifty nine dollars. so michael krieger starts out remember we got off the gold standard in one nine hundred seventy one after which the federal reserve could print as much as they wanted and distribute it wherever they wanted and they have david cay johnston points out that between one thousand nine hundred eighty and two thousand and five more than eighty percent of the total increase in income went to the top one percent of american households the vast majority averaged a mere fifty nine dollars more in two thousand and eleven than in one thousand sixty six so that's the point as well as that unless you're in gage an insider trading and can pay the small fines of six hundred sixteen million dollars you're in a no win situation where you're the only jobs available are every declining because you're working more and more and more and more of your wage and productivity growth is going to the likes of these hedge fund managers who are insider trading paying to pay off their fines and buy their broken dream

dot com on our home page today what you think this crisis between moscow and washington could lead to it's on our home page you can vote on our online poll r.t. dot com this is what you think so far the majority feel that this really won't lead to much of a major problem perhaps a few more to attack measures in the future and right about a fifth say it will not affect major cooperation between the two countries while the remainder are a little less optimistic we can see that eighteen percent believe that this could severely affect the relations between the two countries while nineteen percent say could be the death knell for that so-called resetting of diplomatic ties between moscow and washington there is no we think you haven't done so already dot com it's on our web page. up ahead for you that's. a nation in despair a decade since the fall of baghdad we look at iraqis crushed by the uncertainty of war brought in that fear is for the future. and the death of controversial former british prime minister margaret thatcher has provoked scandal in the u.k. as the song ding dong the witch

dot com has the full story. for now behind bars without charge and starving for justice hunger strikers at guantanamo bay have been engaged in a desperate act of defiance for two months now at the risk of their health continues to grow but u.s. officials continue to downplay the scale of the crisis federal public defender carlos warner a lawyer for guantanamo bay detainees he told r.t. that the government's dragged itself into a no win situation. the military is underestimating the number by at least two thirds i think we have at least one hundred thirty men on hunger strike in guantanamo as we speak today the resolve has not changed in a week the military can force feed them they are playing a game of chicken with an opponent who is ready to die and you can't do that you will lose that game of chicken the military doesn't seem to grasp this logic at this point it's premature to even ask that the president close guantanamo we're just asking that he charge somebody with with the responsibility just one person if

dot com. north korea's want tokyo that it will be a prime target in case of war if japan maintains its hostile stance or tries to intercept any of pyongyang to test missiles that threat heavy response to japan's warning that it would shoot down any north korean missile heading towards its territory meanwhile the u.s. has reiterated it would never accept north korea as a nuclear power the comments came from secretary of state john kerry was visiting seoul earlier mistakenly published pentagon intelligence reports suggested pyongyang may be able to deliver a nuclear weapon on a ballistic missile washington's been trying to downplay that assessment but many experts believe nonetheless the u.s. might be benefiting from keeping the situation right on the knife edge. there is another game being played because the united states is ramping up its military facilities in southeast asia obviously for seeing that china will become a super power and all the time kim jong un has repeatedly said and he said

or dot org thank you tons thank you know how they screwed news last week's e.u. and i.m.f. sponsored bailout ensured that cyprus will remain in the euro zone for now but some commentators think staying in the e.u. is a mistake and a recent article for the atlantic monthly matthew o'brien argues that the bailout is just the beginning of an oncoming wave of austerity measures that will sap the strength of that island nation's biggest industry finance a depression for them anyway he warns is on its way o'brien urges cyprus to leave the euro to save itself from collapse while some sort of economic decline is all but inevitable a eurozone exit according to o'brien at least would allow cyprus the freedom to devalue its currency in exchange short term pain for long term gain so should cyprus leave the e.u. . let's ask ann leigh adjunct professor of economics and finance at new york university and author of the book what the u.s. can learn from china and openminded guide to treating our greatest competitor as our greatest teacher and lee welcome but welcome to the program. thanks f

dot com. russia is celebrating cosmonaut extent today marking the first manned flight into orbit by yogi guarin back in nine hundred sixty one i'm fifty two years later the country still has a big space agenda from building a space port from scratch to reviving the main program the details from. this now only looks like a pit dug in the middle of nowhere but in just two years time this will become one of russia's top priority facilities tucked away deep in the tiger forest in the russian far east this is the construction site of russia's brand new spaceport. an ambitious project worth ten billion dollars it will become the main and the sole launching pad of all russia's manned space ships starting from the year twenty eighteen but the first test launches are expected to start in just two years time and will replace in many ways the baikonur cosmodrome which certainly belongs to kazakhstan and the geographic location of the drum is much more convenient. baikonur it's understood that when a spac

you can check out on dot com for more information related to this wiki leaks video of course the storm which followed its release. foreign embassies in pyongyang are staying put for now despite warnings from the regime that to evacuate the north korean government says it can't guarantee the safety of diplomatic enclaves citing tensions and the threat of war and the north has primed at least two ballistic missiles in response to u.s. sound south korean warship encroachments let's get some more perspective on the standoff now with the geo political analyst at twenty first century. patrick henningsen joining us live here on our team good to see you today do you think do you take any stock or any substance to the embassy warning or is this just a bit more hype. yes it is a very real danger for the embassies in north korea as as is the danger for south korea and the countries around the big question is how this hyped up at the beginning had to do with a nucular threat from north korea and there's a series of things that have gone on in the last month to get us to that conclusion and i can't

john glaser an editor at antiwar dot com says it is no surprise u.s. mideast policies are driving people to violence. the fact that they cite us foreign policy as a motivator in fact for their attack shouldn't be really surprising every attack that wasn't an f.b.i. hatched sting operation since nine eleven has had that component all of these terrorists that want to attack the united states and commit heinous violence on us have in their mind some motivation of u.s. foreign policy u.s. aggression in the middle east you know in a rocky mountain and it's there in pakistan and yemen israel palestine conflict and on and on and on a lot of what obama has done in terms of trying to be less aggressive towards the muslim world to simply make his actions secret the bush administration is quite open obama has chosen to make all of this covert he's done the drone war which is a secret war that nobody will admit to in pakistan and yemen and somalia a lot of this is still going on and he's still generating fierce hatred from a lot of people who resent u.s. aggressio

dot com and tell us what you think.some of the rowing the world the main news right now here on r g north korea warning foreigners evacuated from neighboring south korea in case of war breaks out the latest escalation of threats are from that country in japan when one has deployed missile interceptors around tokyo as a precaution against possible north korean police tick missile tests the u.s. early obviates a military presence in the region causing. the rhetoric in what is building into one of the worst crisis in the area since the korean war in one thousand fifty three. a sixty year old man has gone on a deadly shooting rampage in a village just south of the serbian capital all of his thirteen victims were neighbors and relatives and one was a young child the suspect then attempted to shoot himself and his wife they are now both in hospital the police say the man had no prior criminal record and that the motive for the killing is unclear. u.s. officials have begun notifying the lawyers of hunger striking prisoners in

dot com. the book about international and world in the very heart of moscow. welcome back you're watching r t a human rights have become the latest battleground for china to challenge the u.s. in addition to trade economy and regional military supremacy regimes slammed washington's approach to people's freedoms in its own report released on the heels of america one infringement of rights abroad increased electronic surveillance and a spike in gun violence are just some of the issues china has criticized the u.s. for. cesky brings us more. after years of swallowing accusations of violating human rights beijing is fighting back after last year the us published its scalding human rights practices report now china held a mirror back to washington and its role of international human rights judge. let's take a look at where the two clash the u.s. again accuse china of limiting internet freedoms the so-called great firewall of china where beijing has long being under scrutiny for blocking many wester

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dot com. right. now syrian rebels and government forces have been firing in damascus near a complex linked to the country's chemical weapons program this comes a day after american and bahrain accused of resorting to chemical weapons something washington considers the red line reports can be confirmed though as the u.n. said there was no solid proof republican senators have nevertheless urged obama to weigh in on the conflict in syria calling for a strong on air bases with deploying troops. well online today at r.t. dot com we're asking our viewers what those alleged chemical attacks could mean let's now take a look at the site word that we have so far so more than a half of you think it's all part of a u.s. undercover plot to justify an invasion well twenty one percent says rebels are using such reports to get western help to oust asad about seven percent and think the reports will hardly change anything and just six percent believe president assad has crossed the red line this time so you can also

and any time on our web site r t v dot com. russian officials have recently black recently blacklisted by the u.s. have spoken publicly for the first time since the ban went into force the average of the allegations against them washington accuses those on the list of being linked to the death of lawyer sergei magnitsky and he's custody more than three years ago r.d.s. medina cochin of a has more. they say that the publication of this list was a politically motivated decision and that the u.s. side was not objective and making its decisions as it couldn't be possibly aware of all those documents that surround this case as the documents are still in court and never became public and that the magnitsky law was to drop to the beast on political motives and that the law has no legal force and no legal consequences and the country and only represents an additional political pressure on russia now the u.s. magnitsky list was published on the twelfth of april and includes eighteen russian officials who are banned from the united state

dot com. icelanders drifting away from the e.u. to a skeptical position parties one worries for use in a parliamentary election this week now it's not expected to form a ruling coalition the opposition's victory is likely to put an end on iceland's assertions talks with the european union that had been desperate to join in the aftermath of its financial collapse but enthusiasm has since waned the rage of rekha is widely seen as a textbook example of efficient recovery and the out of self populate comics dot com says iceland has nothing to gain from e.u. membership. i believe it's because they are against joining the euro and i believe that's what the icelanders are voting for now is not to get into the euro which is which the socialists were doing they were cheating there was some sticking points but i think the senators just said they don't want to join the euro they're doing quite fine with their own right now they get almost all the benefits of belonging to the european union i think they belong to their trade already their thei

dot com. washington is trying to downplay a classified but mistakenly publicized report which states that north korea already has nuclear capable missiles but the report sanctioned by the pentagon brings into question the reliability of any such weapons north korea's missile forces have also been observed to be increasingly active these past few weeks u.s. south korean and japanese warships in turn have surrounded the north territorial waters president obama had earlier personally called on pyongyang to end its bellicosity but r.t. contributor afshin rattansi says the reclusive state has good reason to beef up its security. john kerry the united states government. is spreading all this fear and we must remember that it was united states who sought to bring stealth fighters in guam just destroying the six party talks and also just remember the context of the united states in the fifty's killed twenty percent of korea's population twenty first century has proven time and time again that nuclear

dot com. for now though thousands of gathered in the west bank city of hebron for the funeral of a former high ranking palestinian security officer he did die from cancer while serving a life sentence in an israeli jail and more violence is feared after his death triggered riots and clashes during which two palestinian protesters were killed by israeli forces this is in addition to a massive hunger strike palestinian prisoners have been staging across israeli jails and rocket exchanges go on going between hamas and israel. was at hebron small square the funeral has been taking place. i just thought he has been delivered to the have from moscow after which the funeral procession will see head to the cemetery where we're getting here this morning actually will brady saw kids on the streets pelting stones at the idea forces down in hebron so we can expect i think violence to unfold still but for the wrong because hunt is numerous supporters here along with their kalashnikov rifles and they're fir

dot com you can cost your vote. for now the west bank city of hebron is flooded with thousands of those who came for the funeral of a former palestinian security officer. boreham dhea died from cancer while serving a life sentence in an israeli jail after allegedly being refused adequate medical care as death has triggered a wave of riots and clashes between palestinians and israeli forces which so far resulted in two teenagers being killed by soldiers this amid a massive hunger strike among palestinian prisoners across israeli jails as well as rocket exchanges between hamas and israel let's get all the latest now from the funeral and artie's arena filed this report. this body has been delivered to they have from moscow after which the funeral procession will see head to the cemetery where we're getting here this morning actually we're ready saw kids on the streets pelting stones at the idea forces down in hebron so we can expect i think violence to unfold still bit further on because the humvee has numerous support

dot com so be sure to tune in. now today marks another important day for the american military efforts nine years ago today the u.s. siege of fallujah began began this was mere days after four americans working for blackwater were beaten and killed in the streets of fallujah their corpse a suspended from a bridge and their images broadcast globally in response the siege of fallujah to the siege of lucia a city of more than three hundred thousand people west of baghdad and actually brought the full strength of the american military to the city gates scientists suspect that the u.s. used depleted uranium and white phosphorus as a weapon against the people there a claim that the pentagon still denies now those living in the city are dealing with the consequences since october of two thousand and nine the flu shot general hospital confirmed congenital anomalies in fifteen hundred fifty eight children eleven hundred fifty eight children excuse me the current rate of birth defects in fallujah is higher than those in naga

officials experts and activists a complete tired lot of events indeed waiting for you on a website www dot com. next in times of global financial uncertainty many people turn to alternatives to traditional banks and safe havens this is sparked in a wave of interest towards bitcoin the international cyber currency that stopped two hundred sixty million dollars a unit following the e.u. seizure of that cypriot banks set of accounts and later fell sharply following a rise in hacker attacks on big calling community sites and a slowdown on the exchange peter all of a spoke to the people backing the virtual cash that's decentralized and free from government control. these germans are sold on the idea big callings of the new gold. and if you're not involved you'll be left behind every day you decide not to use a free and decentralized currency like bitcoin to actually decide for supporting the existing financial system with its laws for yet another day created four years ago by an anonymous computer hacker these lines of letters and numbers can be traded to allow instantaneous global purchases wi

the spanish find out more visit actuality dot dot com. this is all she welcome bok the judge presiding over the a retrial of egypt's deposed president hosni mubarak has resigned and referred the proceedings to the khyber appeals court is that if felt unease in reviewing the case mubarak is in court again over the killing of protesters during the arab spring uprising in february twentieth love and has already been sentenced to life behind bars but an appeals court later overturned that ruling their original trial which began in august twentieth and was seen as a symbol of change in egypt but many supporters of the revolution were frustrated by the sentence they deemed too lenient they were trial comes at a time when the current president mohamed morsi is facing mounting protests himself and he's being accused of betraying the arab spring and only pursuing the interest of his muslim brotherhood i made the trail sectarian clashes are on the rise with coptic christians facing increased of violence on the believes say the police have done litt

dot com the news of the terror suspects capture sent a wave of public euphoria through the boston area those dramatic images are there in our special photo section where you can also see how the standoff itself unfolded sticking with this story in an exclusive interview on r t the mother of the two alleged bombers says one of her sons was hounded by the f.b.i. for several years she also claims that there is no way that either of them could have been involved in any terrorist attack he's admitting a question of a travel to pakistan where the mother now lives to find out more about the family's back story. the investigation into the background of this have knives brothers has brought us here to this part of the capital of dagestan now this is the house where their parents live however as we try to reach them this morning it turned out that they fled to the neighboring region of chain to their relatives to avoid all the attention meanwhile this morning i managed to speak to the mother of the two brothers and she told me how devastated she is and that she still can't believe that her sons

sets for the world i'm joined now by jason burma's independent journalist and host of unbound radio dot com jason thanks so much for coming on thanks so much for you. this is very alarming if you look at the terms that the i.m.f. is now setting for cyprus they're talking about going into bank accounts there and taking forty to eighty percent haircut although they're saying they're only going to go after accounts that are one hundred thousand euros or more but at the same time you read this article and it says that the poorest will be spared the worst cuts but not all of these cuts all of this the same time when they're saying they're going to have to retool their pension plan and actually raise taxes now going back to the levo california in two thousand and eight when they declared bankruptcy they were told within a few years they would be back in the black and not in the red and that just has not happened so now they're being asked to retool their pensions as well and the main focus in stockton california which is a huge micro cars and for the rest of the country at three hundred thous