charge of the murder of prominent russian journalist anna politkovskaya says the killing made people go straight to london by a fugitive russian businessman and a suspected chechen terrorist our top stories this hour. international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. within twenty four hours a day a source in the syrian military says the army is now reestablish control over the battle torn city of homs is also reported various rebel groups that fled the city have been surrounded near the border with lebanon it follows a claim by a senior rebel general that his militia group have been supplied with french and american weapons and even anti aircraft missiles on the diplomatic front u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton compared syrian leader bashar al assad to a war criminal but stopped short of directly making the accusation and latest rhetoric aims to downplay the reform adopted by syria to make the political process more democratic and give the opposition a voice and as marie financial reports from syria there are fears that outside interference is fueling further blood

in the meantime a man charged with murder a prominent russian journalist anna politkovskaya says the killing. them a fugitive russian businessman and a suspected terrorist those are top stories this hour. international news and comment live from moscow this is twenty four hours a day. syrian military says the army has now reestablish control over the battle torn city of homs it's also reported various rebel groups that fled the city have been surrounded near the border with lebanon it follows a claim by senior rebel general that these militia groups have been supplied with french and american weapons and even. on the diplomatic front earlier u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton compared syrian leader bashar al assad to a war criminal but stopped short of directly making the accusation his rhetoric aims to downplay the reform adopted by syria to make the political process more democratic and give the opposition a voice and reports from syria there are fears that outside interference is fueling further bloodshed. doors and windows to a state despite international isolation syria's b

charged over the murder of russian journalist anna politkovskaya says the killing a may have been orchestrated in london by a fugitive russian businessman and i suspected terrorist. and in business the european central bank has a lot to do almost five hundred feet. into the bank and i have all the details join me in about twenty five minutes type of business me. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at r.t. moscow i'm sure i'm not satisfied and still intent on seeing out u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has now compared assad to a war criminal but stopped short of directly making the accusation her latest rhetoric to downplay the new course of reform adopted by syria to democratize the political process and give the opposition a voice and washington is adamant even pending a new resolution that would place all responsibility for the entire crisis on assad giving the rebels free rein. now reports from washington. secretary of state hillary clinton says syria's president bashar assad fits the definition of a war criminal she was testifying at a senate hearing on tuesday take a li

charged over the murder of russian journalist anna politkovskaya says the killing may have been orchestrated in london by a fugitive russian businessman and a suspected terrorist. the markets closed up in the day that the president is going into the market is have all the details in about twenty minutes time. it's good to have you with us here in our. live in moscow a source in the syrian military says the army has now reestablish control over the battle torn city of homs it's also reported various rebel groups that fled the city have been surrounded near the border with lebanon and follows a claim by a senior rebel general that his militia group had been supplied with french and american weapons even anti aircraft missiles on the diplomatic front earlier u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton compared syrian leader bashar al assad. war criminal but stopped just short of directly making the accusation the latest rhetoric play the reform adopted by syria to make the political process more democratic and give the opposition a voice and as artists where for national now reports from syria ther

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may be linked to the murder of a celebrated russian journalist anna politkovskaya the revelation comes from a former russian police official currently on trial and charged with masterminding the killing laura smith now reports on the latest twist in this case. the man who is making these allegations is a man called colonel dmitri. who is charged with organizing the killing of a political he is a former senior police official he is supposed to have planned that killing but the people who he say ordered it now are bodies but is the oligarch who is living in london akhmed zakayev who is a suspected terrorist who is also living in london now russia has requested the extradition of these two people on numerous occasions. on charges of terrorism on charges of fraud now that extradition has never been granted by britain and more public this former senior police official is saying is that politkovskaya who of course was a prominent journalist. and it's believed that. journalism that in fact in particular revelations of human rights offenses in chechnya what. people saying is that quarreled wit

from the manhunt for those behind the murder of prominent russian journalist anna politkovskaya may stretch beyond the country's borders a new lead in the high profile case emerged after one of the men charged with masterminding the crime test to testify that a fugitive russian oligarch and a suspected chechen terrorist both living in london are involved artie's laurus with our jaws of life in the u.k. capital details on this are laura good to see you so tell us more about this latest development in this investigation. well this is a big development and these are all names that you will have heard before with the exception possibly of this man who is making these allegations the man who's making the allegations is a man called colonel dmitri. who is charged with organizing essentially. an appellate court back in two thousand and six the prosecutors say that he formed a group to carry out the killing he planned the whole thing he delegated tasks he even provided the gunman with the gun with which. was shot he is a former senior police official he is supposed to have planned that killing the

charge over the murder of prominent russian journalist anna politkovskaya says the killing may have been orchestrated. by a fugitive russian businessman and a suspected chechen terrorists. but more on this story developments in less than a half an hour from now in the meantime the moving story of a child swap family tragedy that saw special report next here on r.t. stay with us for that if you can. twenty years ago there was a maternity hospital in this building victoria gave birth to her first child here. through this window i showed my husband terrorist on three for the first time. after a long sleepless night of heavy labor and dry it was born he had a small injury from the difficult birth so he was brought to his mother for breastfeeding already wrapped up after which doctors wouldn't allow her even to hold her own child. i looked at the dawn and the strange thoughts came to me could it be that they had brought me a different baby. a mother of three sons victoria has never really given much thought as to why her eldest child is so much unlike his parents and siblings victoria the mai

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the man charge of the murder of prominent russian journalist anna politkovskaya says the killing may have been orchestrated in london by a fugitive russian businessman and a suspected chechen terrorists. i'll be back with more on this story as more of. the meantime on cross-talk peter navarro and his guests get hot under the collar of a what the global economy thinks it should do about war torn syria heated debate next on altie. well the perks science technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. and if you. want to. know him well come across talk i'm futile about the right to protect or the right to penetrate as syria continues down the path of destruction and civil war there are loud voices on the international stage demanding some form of outside intervention to end the violence and death is international are moving from sovereignty is right to sovereignty as responsibility. to. cross-talk the possible intervention into syria i'm joined by philip kahn lived in london he is a lecturer in international conflict at the university of k

this former senior police official is saying is that politkovskaya who of course was a prominent journalist. and believes that it was journalism that in fact in particular revelations of human rights offenses in chechnya what what people saying is that quarreled with. his old ski in london and that that is what led to that essentially ordering. lots of people have been arrested for having organized the killing but nobody has so far had the finger pointed at them for ordering it so this could be a key development but certainly particularly for betty is obviously this is not the first time that his name has come up in connection with the murder of public it's come up lots of times before. with reporting there from london where you want your life from the interpol website is reportedly become the latest target of the so-called activist anonymous a group which advocates internet freedom and the time came as into poland now instead arrested twenty five suspected hackers from the movement in europe and south america in brussels reporting is. interpol it said the twenty five allegedly members of t

and charge over the murder of prominent russian journalist anna politkovskaya says the killing may have been overstated in london by a fugitive russian businessman and a suspected terrorist. i'll be back with more on those stories in full in half an hour from now in the meantime we return to the earlier in the show is its estimate the possibility of israel attacking iran. among other topics. all right so like we told you earlier in the show the media is focusing or rather obsessing over the primaries today in arizona and michigan and mostly michigan it's all about romney versus santorum and romney does a better job of connecting with the one percenters say the nascar owners than he does of the average american meanwhile his main competitor rick santorum has made himself the darling of the social conservatives and we just couldn't help but show you why. well that's ok you know. it's not ok it's a license to. do things in the search. that is counter to what things are so president obama once said he wants everybody in america to go to college what a snow day and the opportunity to read th

and a man charge of a murder a prominent russian journalist anna politkovskaya says the killing may have been orchestrated in london by a fugitive russian businessman and a suspected chechen terrorists. attempting to take for the moment i'll be back with some of those stories in half an hour from now in the meantime on a show looks at israel's possible plans for iran and whether a strike could happen behind everyone's back including america's. welcome to the lunar shell where we get the real headlines with none of the mersey to live in washington d.c. now it's not going to take a look at new reports that say the israeli officials don't plan on telling the us if they choose to strike against iran so how's that going to play the week before netanyahu comes to washington then yet another death row case where guilt has not been proven beyond a reasonable doubt we'll speak to radley balko about the case of thomas arthur and the u.s. supreme court is soon going to decide if corporations who let's not forget they consider people if they can be held liable for human rights abuses to look into al