officials said exports fell 3.5%. inports surged 11.5% as the weeker yen raised the cost of natural gas purchases overseas. japan has relied more on it's power plants, most of the facilities are offline. australia and china have agreed to allow their currencies to trade directly with each other. it is part of their effort to boost trade and investment. >> julia gillard announced the deal in shanghai. the deal means that australian and chinese firms and individuals can save on conversion costs. >> this is a huge advantage for australia, not only for our big businesses, but also for our small and medium enterprises that want to do business here. >> the chinese government is promoting the use already. last year the amount of trade reached about $120 billion. their business sentiment improved for a 5th straight month in march. cabinet office asked about 2,000 work ers what they thought abou the economy. the march confidence index stood up 4.1 points from the previous month. that's the same level set in march 2006. many wo

officials are preparing for various scenarios. they say the north could fire a single missile or launch several at once. north korean forces moved what appear to be a mid range musudan missile to the coast last week. south korean and u.s. forces have been on high alert ever since. south korean official says the missile could be fired east towards the sea of japan or south to the pacific. >> translator: we're not taking any chances. north korea has test-fired missiles at dawn to surprise us in the past so we are monitoring them 24 hours a day with the united states. >> government officials in seoul say the north koreans appear to be preparing to launch other missiles, as well. scud missiles have a range of several hundred kilometers. rodong missiles have a range of about 1,300 kilometers. south korean officials believe >>> people in the region are thinking about how best to respond to north korea. authorities are preparing for every possibility. some civilians are trying to carry on as usual. >> reporter: residents in south korea s

senior officials and china's leaders. he said his country will strengthen ties with china through diplomatic and military routes and that u.s.-china relations are very important for global peace and stability amid increasing provocation by north korea. >>> chinese authorities have revealed a plan to expand their navy. they deployed their first aircraft carrier last september, raising concerns among neighboring nations about a military buildup. now, a senior naval officer says another carrier is coming. the state-run xinhua news agency quotes the deputy chief of staff of the navy as saying the next carrier will be larger and accommodate more fighter jets. he said the navy will also acquire more j-15 jets. he said one carrier would be able to support at least two aviation regiments. song did not say when the new carrier will be built. he denied media reports that it's already under construction in shanghai. china has been reinforcing its navy to back up its territorial claims in the east and south china seas. >>> violence h

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airline officials say they need about five days to repair one aircraft. that means a month to fix japan's entire fleet. japan's transport ministry officials say they may give the go-ahead this week for the airlines to resume flying their dreamliners. the jets could be back in the air as early as june. >>> officials at one of japan's biggest heavy industry firms are looking for ways to stay internationally competitive. they're reportedly discussing a merger with a ship builder. sources say kawasaki heavy industries and mitsui are in talks to integrate their businesses. between them the companies made more than $18 billion in sales as of fiscal 2011. a merger would create japan's second biggest heavy machinery company after mitsubishi heavy industries. the talks are an indication of how tough competition in ship building has become. orders received before the 2008 global financial crisis have mostly been met. new orders are scarce due to a glut of vessels. kawasaki and mitsui hope it will help them remain globally competitive in ship building as well as oth

but health officials say they have found cases elsewhere. officials in beijing confirm that a 4 year old boy tested positive for the latest strain of avian influenza. they say he shows no symptoms but they're keeping him under observation. a 7 year old girl was the first case. her parents sell live poultry. three more cases appeared over the weekend. two why in beijing and now hunan province has one. the virus is hard to tackle. >> translator: chickens don't develop flu symptoms from h7n9. they look healthy from the outside. so it's hard to tell how far the epidemic has spread. >> he says chinese authorities don't seem to be taking appropriate measures, including culling the infected birds. he warns that if authorities can't contain the virus in birds, it may mutate and be able to transfer between humans. >>> they're working against a backdrop of fresh problems at the crippled nuclear plant. they started proceedings on monday. they asked tokyo electric power officials for details about the plant's clean up. the inspector's plan to examine th

and you have a justice department officials saying that soon they will put out an official stieatement refusing those reports. again, they have this video as we have all heard that could identify a man believed to be putting down a bag and they need to track that down possible -- >> okay, a senior administration official now saying no arrests. that's according to our peter alexander. i want to go to kristin welker who is standing by. kristin, let me explain to our audience, this video they are looking at. this is one of the images that authorities have been refusing that shows an individual running from the scene. jonathan is standing by. we are not saying this is a suspect. the upon the i'm making is that each and every piece has been reviewed and people have interpretations of things. is this a man running from the scene or someone that should be questioned? >> that is a man running from the scene. they tracked it down and he is a victim and you know, and why there's question about that or why was it of interesting at first? because everyone else is cowering and on the ground and in

officials are working to find out how it spreads. they have found no evidence that the virus can be transmitted from person to person. chinese officials say all of the infections to date are in people living in shanghai and three neighboring provinces. health workers conducted a survey of 621 people who came into contact with those infected. none of them have contracted the virus. chinese authorities have contacted a team of experts. they will try to pinpoint how it's transmitted. authorities will keep w.h.o. officials informed. nay will provide information to the public. in 2003 the chinese government was criticized at home and abroad for attempting to cover up an out break of sars. >>> experts from the international atomic energy will be visiting fukushima. they will inspect the plant from wednesday to friday next week. they will discuss with tepco and meet with the officials from the national energy agency. they're expected to suggest ways of dealing with contaminated water and they're checking workers for exposure to contaminatio

>>> officials in pyongyang have ratcheted up their threats. they're advising all foreigners working in and visiting south korea to leave. >>> workers at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant have reported another setback. they say a third tank for storing radioactive water may have a leak. >>> welcome to nhk world "newsline." north korean officials have made more threats after weeks of them in a broadcast on state media. they warned all foreigners to leave south korea. >> translator: we urge all foreign nationals at institutes and companies, including tourists, to take evacuation measures out of seoul and south korea for their own safety. >> defense officials in seoul are worried this could be more than just talk. they say on wednesday the north korean military may launch a missile. >> translator: we could say that the north koreans are expected to fire a missile tomorrow, although the schedule could change. >> the north korean military has reportedly moved a midrange ballistic missile to the east coast. kim said it's not known whether they have

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eighteen officials american officials were included on the list basically the russian response to the us i'm against gillis however the russian this really consists of two parts the first part consists of those people who are involved in human rights violations at guantanamo detention facility and who are also accused of legalizing torture now there are four names and for this part of the list there is a second part of the list another fourteen officials who are responsible for human rights violations of those russians abroad however there are reports these lists both of those this are just a short version of a longer list the both countries possesses and for instance those of the us. version of the list was never published. top governmental russian governmental officials. thank you very much indeed for that. while the e.u. has been beefing up support for the c word and rebels an influx of volunteers heading for the walls. fears of a grown terrorist threats officials say radicalized gangsters could pose a serious security threat when they return from the front lines hundreds of europe

officials say the process will be long. they plan to step up monitoring to make sure no water escapes during transfer. they estimate they'll be able to move more than 23,000 tons of contaminated water by early june. but the underground pools will continue to leak during the operation. crews will pump any contaminated water they collect back no the fool minimize damage to the environment. tepco officials say the volume of contaminated water is increasing by about 400 tons per day. they'll no longer use the underground storage pools and plan to install more above ground tanks. they're working on a way to deacon tam nate the water. currently only two of japan's reactors are on line and generating power. a group of citizens has been waging a battle to shut those down. a japanese court ruled there wasn't enough evidence showing the nuclear plant poses a risk. nhk reports. >> reporter: the plaintiffs in this case had hoped for a legal victory. now they're coming to terms with their loss. >> translator: the court decision is reall

this, we are in the hours where the officials, state and local officials and federal officials really don't know what they are up against. we're going to air on the side of extreme caution. you'll see streets shut down, airspace closed. transit lines disrupted. there will be all kinds of temporary regulation in place. they will tighten this down across-the-board an not just in boss be to. until we get a cleaáe9 picture an at that point they can open the valves again and letting things gets back to normal. we're still in the early going here. i would repeat what i said a couple times, to this point. there is no credible claim of responsibility. and there is nothing that i'm told in the threat pipeline before this event that signaled any kind of a potential targeting of the boston marathon. >> bob, thank you. threat pipeline, of course, meaning that there was nothing in the intelligence community, intelligence community hadn't picked up any kind of chatter or anything among known terrorist groups that might have suggested that something was coming. but what bob was describing as a sort

state department's bureau of democracy for an official take on the situation at the u.s. detention center. this is the state department only it's concerned about one total it is the fish so eighty six one hundred prisoners here with these given their choice would you agree that age thing like it but it shouldn't be on the show. i would say on this we hold ourselves to the same standards by which we assess others on the issue of on time the president has made clear his commitment to closing guantanamo but this has to be done in accordance with u.s. law in consultation with the congress so i'd have to refer you back to your siemens for the white house and the spokesman on that to give you some background the hunger strike began in protest over searches in cells and the conversation of the prisoners personal belongings including korans at least fifteen detainees are now being force fed by tubes in their nose will it r.t. dot com we've got the detailed timeline of the seventy four days of the guantanamo hunger strike including reports by the prisoners lawyers official stateme

officials say the pipes used in this process will be long. they plan to step up monitoring to ensure no water escapes during transfer. they estimate they'll be able to move more than 23,000 tons of contaminated water by early june. but the underground pools will continue to leak during the operation. crews will pump any contaminated water they collect back into the pool to minimize damage to the environment. tepco officials say the volume of contaminated water at fukushima daiichi is increasing by about 400 tons per day. they will no longer use the underground storage pools and plan to install more above-ground tanks. they're working on finding a way to decontaminate the water. >>> a "new york times" reporter in china has won journalism's highest honor. david barbosa was awarded the pulitzer prize for exposing the hidden wealth of the family of china's former premier. new york's columbia university announced the winners of the award on monday. the pulitzer also covers literature, drama and music. barbosa reported that relatives of then premie

or that official he felt it was very important for him to see the official in question after sitting in the waiting room for a long time but getting no concrete decision from him. of the inner circle created his image they would say for us just. bend the gunmen in the gangsters are all going to show up instantly look at him. they'd exclaim but actually he was a completely different person around the same time better off he was often seen in georgia with another eccentric multimillionaire. with. a handsome face and a liking for flashy ties. business friendship and a fondness for x. into. city promotion. i remember in my waiting room for hours on end. holding his hands like this when he brought bad dream to me for the first time he made a better impression. later that he'd been up to his ears in crime it was badgering who did the dirty work that the jewel was responsible for. really would die just as suddenly as. a heart attack his funeral would be attended by almost half of tbilisi's population. and even former president shevardnadze. he would not pay his last respects to his friend h

we had watertown officials, we had state trooper officials and other law enforcement officials, so, that's probably what's going to happen and i received the same information that scott did on this timeline. so, that may be what we get. what we may not get, still, unfortunately, is word that they have found this 19-year-old suspect. but we may be getting closer, though, to the completion of that door to door search that's been going on all day here in watertown. but yes, the level of activity is definitely picking up here in the last few minutes, maria. >> many people speculating this ends one of two ways. either he is caught and is brought to justice or he kills himself. we're going to take a short break. we've got much more of our live special coverage of the hunt for the remaining suspect in the boston bombings. stay with us on cnbc. you've known? is the n we gave people a sticker and had them show us. we learned a lot of us have known someone who's lived well into their 90s. and that's a great thing. but even though we're living longer, one thing that hasn't changed: the official retir

officials knows about it. they see north korea as a kind of unpredictable, very provocative country. on the other hand, the united states is quite sure about the effectiveness of their deterrence capability against north korea. if you look back more than 60 years of the history of north korea, that country has never taken any suicidal option, which can lead to the devastation of their country. so, if u.s. continues to deter north korea by its force together with cooperation from its allies, north korea will not take a really, really stupid behavior. that's, i think, the conviction of the united states and that's behind the recent announcement that they will deploy missile defense system to guam. i do not believe that the united states, people in washington, believe that there's a real danger of an immediate clash between the two countries. so i think as long as the united states, together with south korea, japan, other countries in the region, maintains the effective deterrence against pyongyang, they will be

officials are going door to door. they are searching for survivors this morning. >> we are all over this story for you this morning with live team coverage. it's a very fluid situation on the ground there. that's where we find cnn's martin savidge in west, texas, for us. good morning, martin. what's the latest? >> reporter: good morning, john. yeah, this is the command post we're standing at. it normally is a cattle auction site. it's far from normal here in this community. this town has had its heart ripped out as a result of that massive explosion that occurred yesterday evening. let's be clear, this is still an ongoing operation. there are still threats, still dangers, still rescues and evacuations that are taking place. this town may be small, but the impact has been huge. stunning video. the west fertilizer plant in the small town of west, texas, exploded. the blast and the massive fire followed leaving dozens of homes and buildings destroyed. the town's mayor telling cnn what it felt like. >> i've never experien

russian officials blacklisted by the u.s. have rejected all delegations against them calling them politically motivated well the key is the people on the list of being responsible for the death of lawyers sergei magnitsky in police custody will the three years ago and let's not get the. culture good morning so will els have the russian officials on balance you as a block list sad about the case against them while the reactions coming from of those of russian officials who are included in the so-called us magnus gillis are practically similar they say that the publication of this list was a politically motivated this decision and that the u.s. side was not objective in making its decisions as it couldn't be possibly aware of fall those documents that surround this case as the documents are still in court and never be key public and that the magness kill law was a 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 press

afghan officials quoted in this new york times report said a number of senior officials in the afghan national security council are individually on the cia's payroll there was an interesting story with the administrative mohammad. mr saleh he was arrested in two thousand and ten in connection with the sprawling american led investigation that tied together afghan cash smuggling taliban financing and the opium trade president karzai heading released within hours and the i then helped persuade the obama administration to back off its anti-corruption push possibly because they didn't want the cia connection discovered in the alleged corruption scheme because that would be a story of a dog chasing its tail in washington. well antiwar campaigner richard becker says the billions of dollars that washington has already poured into afghanistan have in no way helped the country's people it's really amazing when you look at the cia operations in afghanistan which really began that in two thousand and one of the one nine hundred seventy nine and the nine hundred eighty s. the cia lie just after i

as city officials in new york, city officials now believe the bombing suspects intended to go to newt to party as police commissioner ray kelly had indicated yesterday, by also perhaps to try to set off whatever remaining devices they had in times square. again, we've heard this now from congressman peter king who says he has talked to a number of law enforcement officials in the city of new york. and that is their understanding or interpretation of the comments being made by dzhokhar tsarnaev. again, we don't have a transcript of what he said. so this is the interpretation we're getting from congressman king. it's also based on gloria borger's reporting based on two officials that she has spoken to. we are awaiting as you see what will be statements being made by new york mayor michael bloomberg and police commissioner ray kelly. it's going to be made in that room you see on the side of your screen there. we're of course going to bring that to you as soon as it starts. want to give you all the latest information we can. also new today in the boston investigation, federal law enforce

senior officials and chinese leaders. he said his country will strengthen ties with china through diplomatic and military routes and that u.s.-china relaons are very importantor creang provocation by north korea. >>> asia wants to have an eu style economic community. leaders have begun talkings on forming a single market by 2015. the two-day summit began on wednesday. the prime minister welcomed the leaders at a banquet. the agenda is likely to include a plan to liberalize investment ps the the leaders will discuss how to get the plan on schedule. a major obstacle is the divide between high income asean members. singapore is much richer than myanmar and cambodia. the summit is expected to discuss disputes. observers are hoping they can establish a legally binding code of conduct. . >>> the two statues were best known of afghanistan antiquities. one more site is under threat. we have the sty. >> reporter: they're on high alert for armed militants who remain active in the part of the country. buddhists ruins is situated her

offici official citing intercepted communications. >>> a traffic accident leads to a parking lot scufflece in springfield, illinois say they had to use a taser on the woman when she was resisting arrest. they say it was safer to her child thanle a violent struggle would have been. >>> a man was attacked by a shark. a fell low surfer witnessed it. >> at one point i saw a large shadow come right underneath me. i really thought it was a seal. a few mints later i heard this kerr plunk. it hit me that was probably a shark. >> county lifeguards say based on the injuries, the shark may have been any where from 8 to 10 feet long. >>> take a look at this shocking footage. these prisoners have guns and drug and living in filthy conditions. we don't have any facts of what was going on. but the louisiana sheriff is to take the stand today as part of a hearing over proposed jail reform. cnn has more for you. >> reporter: an inmate with a gun in a cell packed with prisoners. another appears to be shooting up heroin, all caught on video, on a cell phone smuggled into the jail. inmates free to roam, eve

japanese officials asked for a panel last june over minerals.hey took the move along with the united states and the european union. >>> competition to sell awe tra high definition investigations is heating up. now sony unveiled a 4k revolution. the new models come in two screen sizes, 55 and 65 inches. the price will be about $7500 for the 65 inch. last year they introduced an 84 inch model with a price set of $12,000. >> we're getting new models and lower prices. we hope to lead the try to make 4k tvs popular. >> data shows a total of 1400 4k tvs last year. toshiba also plans to introduce two 4k tvs by the end of this carry. here are the latest market figures. >>> protestors have taken into the streets in malaysia against a pact that says it is keeping them from geding affordable medications. malaysian protestors say the patents block their access to lower priced generic drugs. >> i'm standing in from of the the protestors here. through the tpp talks, 11 nations on the pacific are aiming to create a free-trade zone. they generate a third of glo

or that official he felt it was very important for him to see the official in question after sitting in the way. for a long time but getting no concrete decision from him. created his image they would say. just. the gunmen in the game all going to show up instantly. they'd exclaim but actually he was a completely different person around the same time. with another eccentric multimillionaire. with. a handsome face and a liking for flashy ties. business friendship and. promotion. i remember in my waiting room for hours on end. holding his hands like this when he brought bad dream to me for the first time he made a better impression. and crime. did the dirty work that the responsible for. just. a heart attack. would be attended by almost half of tbilisi's population. and even if. he would not pay his last respects to his friend he could be arrested. death was a terrible blow to. the ninety's they had together moved from being ordinary business to becoming rulers of destiny. as a complete surprise to everyone. i said i couldn't believe it. he would not be able to get them back off to bed

softbank officials made the remark after major u.s. satellite tv company dish network mounted a counterbid on monday. dish's offering $25 billion in cash and stock for sprint. dish officials say that's 13% more than softbank's proposal. softbank officials say though that their proposal would offer more benefits to sprint shareholders. they add that they're already at a stage where they can get necessary approval for its proposal. back in october softbank announced a plan to buy 70% of sprint for over $20 billion. softbank is hoping to expand its business by breaking into the u.s. market but dish's proposal may raise a possibility of a bidding war. >>> japanese entrepreneurs have had the chance to hear how to be successful from some of the best in the i.t. business. global tech leaders have urged them to expand their businesses with an open mind. executives of japanese i.t. firms organized an event under the theme innovation in tokyo on tuesday. their aim is to foster venture businesses in the country. the group invited leading i.t. pro

russian officials blacklisted by the u.s. have rejected all the allegations against them washington accuse the people of the list on the list of being responsible for the deaths of sergei magnitsky in police custody more than three years ago. the details now of the russian reaction on that . 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 a 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 april and includes eighteen russian officials who are banned from the united states and their asses now according to the version obvious sixteen of these officials are directly responsible for

talking to officials throughout the day and as of last night officials tell us they have alerted cuban are in close contact with cuban authorities. it appears that the mystery, at least part of the mystery has been clared up. there's a big question now what happens to this family. of course, these crimes are not political. they're not revolutionary. and the government may decide to send them back. but what we're getting so far is that cuban and u.s. authorities are working very, very closely to try to resolve the situation, which is something of a rarity here where certainly these two governments almost never see eye to eye. >> and it just seems like such an odd way to end this journey, or at least thrush from justice to just sort of be sitting on the boat in a marina. does that appear that's where they're staying? that's their home? they're not looking for cover on land anywhere. >> this is it? this is where we're going to stay for now any way. >> they were very much hunkered down in the boat. the child playing on the boat. it was such a peaceful scene. and if josh hasn't been so aggr

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intelligence officials believe with some degree of varying confidence that the syrian government has used chemical weapons against members of the opposition specifically sarin gas u.s. officials claim the attacks in question took place last month in new york and in the outskirts of damascus however a letter that the white house has sent to members of congress states that washington cannot confirm the origin of the chemical weapons allegedly used acting in lockstep with the u.s. british prime minister david cameron has come forward insisting that his government has limited but growing evidence of the use of chemical weapons by the syrian military according to reports m i six agents operating in syria smuggled soil out of the country to be analyzed for chemical and biological contaminants however u.k. military scientists reportedly said the soil contained treece is of some kind of chemical weapon though it could not positively identify the type of weaponized chemical now in an interview with the b.b.c. cameron said he worries that western leaders might fail to opt into. syria because o

high level top russian government officials. u.s. officials claim that russia's security services that wire tap to one of the boston bombing suspects as early as two thousand and eleven the conversations reportedly involved one of the brothers take talking about jihad with his mother critics say that this information should have been released earlier however new york university professor stephen cohen says it was not a lack of intelligence that prevented the f.b.i. from taking action before a tragedy star struck what if you warrants were received from the russian intelligence services and not only about. one of the brothers of the older brother who died in boston but about the mother and there seemed to be at least three or four messages from the f.s.b. to russian intelligence services not only to the f.b.i. as initially reported but to the cia one possibility is to bureaucratic failure another possibility is that poor relations between moscow and washington devalued the russian record and when i say poor relations i mean particularl

well unfortunately we are not able to bring you that report of the official tarmac if you can hear me now who or what is thought to be the cause of the fire who's to blame basically at the moment you'll hear that is very much up in the air the fire spread very fast in the early hours of the morning by the time emergency services arrived the whole single story building was ablaze so they're having to really pick through what remains of that building a lot of wood inside it which really helped to feed the fire as i said the the theories possible electrical fault possibly someone smoking there has also been some rumors floating around of arson none of the spokesman we've spoken to have said anything about that at the moment they remain just rumors but at the moment it's very very wide open possibilities as to what could have caused all of these people to die in such a such a fire of course this is a story and of course well keeping a very close sighted tom barton there reporting from the moscow region tom many thanks indeed for that update. this is not the first blaze in a russian medica

so far officials are not officially linking the two crimes. >>> atlanta educators, including a retiredndent are expected to start turning themselves in to the county jail this morning. 35 former principals, teachers and other public school employees indicted on racketeering charges for allegedly changing students' standardized test scores and then covering it up. investigators say top school officials got bonuses based on bogus test results. >>> so just last week you remember karl rove saying he could imagine a republican presidential candidate supporting same-sex marriage? now, a republican lawmaker is taking that sort of a step further. senator jeff lake of arizona is saying he doesn't think there's any avoiding it. >> i think that's inevitable. there will be one, and i think he'll receive republican support, or she will. so i think that yes, the answer is yes. >> and senator flake added that he personally thinks marriage should be between a man and a woman, but the supreme court considering two same-sex marriage cases, of course, right now. >>> we're expecting 338 million dollar pow

officials say an m.i.t. campus police officer was responding to reports of a disturbance when she was shot multiple times. he was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. there were no other victims in that case. officials now believe that around that same time those two suspects whose photos were released yesterday by law enforcement as the suspects in the boston bombing case, officials believe those suspects carjacked someone around that same time in cambridge and then led police on a chase through the towns of that area. they stopped in watertown where they began to shoot at one another. they engaged in a lengthy fire fight. it was during that time that the suspects began throwing explosives at the officers. we spoke to one eyewitness earlier this evening who saw the whole thing from his apartment window. he says that they were throwing what appeared to be hand grenades and even a pressure cooker bomb. i want to bring this sound up if we can for just a minute. this is video of that fire fight.

but as of yet we're not hearing any details officials are not revealing any details in terms of the answers that is giving them of course all of this comes after he was arrested friday night after a mass lockdown took place in boston after unprecedented manhunt that took place here and a several hour shootout between law enforcement and this nineteen year old suspect we do know that he suffered injuries to his throat and was unable to speak and this is precisely what officials have been waiting for to be able to communicate with him to find out the motives to the boston bombings as well as the participation of any per possible further accomplices apart from the two brothers that have been hunted by of officials here throughout the week nineteen year old dzhokhar and twenty six year old to milan and of course we have to note that the miranda rights have been revoked the rights he has to remain silent as well as a right to a lawyer are being denied to him because officials are interested in being able to question him without being able to use this right and the fact that his miranda r

magnitsky list naming russian officials banned from entering america for alleged human rights abuses moscow says it amounts to interference in his domestic affairs and promises a similar response. steep an oversight for his economic survival as the bailout price tag doubles bringing fears of an even greater burden on bank depositors and setting a dangerous precedent for europe's other struggling nations. and while cyprus faces a bit of pressure from international lenders we look at the example of another european country where the public refused to foot the bill for bankers mistakes. plus american protesters voiced their outrage over the mistreatment of prisoners at guantanamo bay and urged their president of follow through on his campaign pledge to close the detention camp. just after eleven pm here in moscow or even choose kevin zero in here tonight at r.t. and say the top story the u.s. has released a list of russian officials banned from entering a matter of america because of alleged human rights violations this was released earlier on moscow has already warned the measure would

officials many are saying there will be many more just given given the impact of the explosion and how messy it was local media reports dozens and dozens of fatalities nothing confirmed as of yet two deaths confirmed and there could be more and we know again we know that the explosion you mentioned earlier when we spoke to you it happened at around seven thirty local time in the evening is that do we know it was the planned manned that time is a twenty four hour planned and or i don't know that and into it was operating at that moment but it it did it did explode near a residential area at the plant was in this in a small town of west texas so it did affect a lot of people although maybe at the time there were fewer people than there could have been if it ripped through the plant in the middle of the day any clearer into the events leading up to this explosion on oh it's too early to say exactly what caused the blast but there was this initial report there was a fire the firefighters attended and then there was the secondary blast we heard any more about that and that's it that's all y

and homeland security officials. us inside that room. inside that meeting. what is the nature of things that will be discussed there? >> going into that, we know president obama has been briefed on a regular basis by homeland security adviser, lisa monaco, and fbi director bob mueller, what happens as he gets these updates, he pulls his cabinet together and they will, one, give them a common view of what the situation is, what the risks are, what they know and what they don't know what are the key questions they are trying to get answered right now? the president will give clear direction to cabinet members how they can support bob muller and the department of homeland security in aiding state and local officials and helping to reach out to international allies who have information. it really isn't means for the president to show leadership in his cabinet. give direction and make sure that every one of the cabinet members understands what the roles and responsibilities are to assist the united states in solving the i

there was support meetings with the senior officials. after the meetings, he told reporters that japan secured support from ten countries, but he addedhat the canadian officials needed more time to make a final decision. tpp is aimed at promoting free trade in the pacific rim. let's take a look at the latest market figures. >>> after years of debate and political wrangling, japan finally approved online election campaigning on friday the upper house has agreed to revise the public offices election law. people in the country will get their first taste of online campaigning, starting with this summer's upper house race. nhk world has the details. >> reporter: the bill was passed unanimously by the upper house. from now on, political parties, candidates and voters will be allowed to enlist public support on websites and social networking services. japanese law has long limited the number of paper documents that can be distributed during official campaigns. the rule was meant to keep candidates with a financial edge from getting an unfair ad

has released the last few minutes a list of russian officials banned from entering merica because of alleged human rights violations washington imposes sanctions over the death in prison of a russian lawyer give magnitsky back in two thousand and nine the move cause a diplomatic row at the time between the u.s. and russia that came up with a tit for tat law against american officials now moscow's promised meantime going to publish now its own list in retaliation to the u.s. measure we've got more details coming up on this said developing breaking news story in a couple of minutes time. next the euro zone finance ministers have said they'll be no extra cash for cyprus beyond that ten billion euro international bailout the mood been grim at the ministers meeting in dublin as it emerged that the island nation needs around six billion. more than originally thought to avoid bankruptcy the cypriot government will now have to raise the extra funds without external help and after the recent raid on bank deposits there are now deep concerns over the president has been set as artist has receiv