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r.t. dot com and have your say. now another nato led campaign where thousands of civilians were killed was of course an iraq cross talk in the next hour if it's time for those who sanctioned that campaign to face trial. the way the world is set up is we prosecute developing leaders or rebels for war crimes but we don't we can't do it for major powers because they have too much power in the system and i guess that's what people think they're just simply too powerful the prosecute here is what happened the britain and the us invaded iraq and even killing rebels what we would call some terrorists. that was unnecessary so anyone who died in that war. died unnecessarily because it was aggression right so bush and blair killed probably hundreds of thousands of people the problem that we have in international affairs is that sometimes autocracies are not aggressive and sometimes democracies are very aggressive. israeli enjoy dain dorothy's have reportedly arrested several activists suspected of taking part in a large scale

r.t. 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

r.t. 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

r.t. dot com. wealthy shakes and billionaire ali guards are flocking to greece at the moment as it options off seventy thousand prime state properties national landmarks historic palaces and even entire islands are going under the hammer at a frantic pace athens has little to say about the matter but the fire sale demanded by the e.u. and the i.m.f. chief paymasters the fact that for one filmmaker shows how far greece has forward we have a soaring unemployment that in a few months we reach thirty percent and we have people committing suicide in the streets we have homeless all around the so we're living in a humanitarian crisis that we haven't seen since the second world war the economic elites that actually control the greek government at least some point to what a mess in d.c. the troika wanted to do now but the real now is that there is a problem that we cannot continue with this mystery policy unfortunately the sci fi doesn't happen for the greek government that beyond there is coming from brus

r.t. dot com and cast your backs. my. rusher is celebrating cosmonaut extended today marking the first manned flight into orbit by your a good guardian back in one thousand nine hundred sixty one and after fifty two years the country still has a big space agenda from building a space port from scratch to reviving the program the details now 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 taiga forest in the russian far east this is the construction site of russia's brand new spaceport the us and the vicious 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

r.t. dot com. north korea has warned japan that tokyo will be its number one target in case a war if that the island nation maintains its hostile stones old tries to intercept any of pyongyang test missiles the threat came in response to japan statement that it would shoot down any north korean missile heading towards its territory i mean while the u.s. has a range rated it would never accept north korea as a nuclear palm the comments came from secretary of state john kerry he's visiting seoul earlier i mistakenly published pentagon intelligence reports suggested pyongyang may be able to deliver a nuclear weapon well the ballistic missile from washington has been trying to downplay the assessment but many experts believe the u.s. might be benefiting from keeping the situation on a 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 re

r.t. dot com. so there's moved a step closer to joining the european union after the commission recommended starting talks on membership that decision comes in the wake of belgrade approving a deal with its breakaway territories kosovo the agreements been met with fury there were among serbs some of who. this tree is that thousands turned out in belgrade admit there in protest against the deal christine is ethnic albanian leadership control over kosovo while the serbian minorities will be granted autonomy is within the territory foreign affairs editor of public t.v. says the issue of kosovo's become a bargaining chip in exception talks. even though serbia wanted that also but not to become bargaining chip that was not what brussels had in mind the need in particular some major members of the european union like germany they clearly. had to belgrade that either you make a deal with cost of all or you will never. do your road towards the european union . the. union and they do not like. how they will

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r.t. dot com because to hear from me. asia focused but global in scope the twelfth but while forum held in china is into its stride with two more days to go and as europe and america struggle to boost their flagging economies national leaders and big names in business have gathered to talk about how to give emerging markets a shot in the arm professor and lee is the author of the book what the u.s. can learn from china and says the west has much to glean from asia in forums such as these white they can find out is obviously what he plans to lay out on china's i am and that could have certainly over for butterfly effect on the rest of the world and understanding how they're going to go about doing it and watching there are that does this as well their failure can be very. very very practical approach economics almost the same way that scientists would test out a theory in a laboratory and so they can use the economy and toss it out like a petri dish in different areas to see if they're going to get it peter ford salt. and

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r.t. 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

r.t. dot com we have an opinion on how the u.s. standard u.s. portrayal of arm to chechen groups as freedom fighters changed overnight to depict them now as fresh as militants. thanks. the boston marathon attacks were not the only tragedy to hit the u.s. 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. oh no i don't think i think they're very early to tell you. the explosion very powerful which you just witnessed is believed to have been an accident slammed 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 ou

r.t. dot com of course. now it's like israel's alleged cache of nuclear arms is in the spotlight again egypt's withdrawal from the nonproliferation treaty talks in geneva on monday over a failure to plan for a middle east free of nuclear weapons now is clearly referring to israel it's a merged indeed that israel simply get its fifth submarine reportedly capable of carrying out launching nuclear missiles as to whether so jeremy called but he's a british m.p. also vice chairman of the campaign for nuclear disarmament skorgen hi there this move by egypt one of the rather that you think. absolutely huge i was in geneva last week for the nonproliferation treaty review conference and i listened with great interest to the opening statement by the gyptian ambassador and he made a very strong statement concerning egypt's wish to live in a nuclear weapons free middle east and the failure of the leadership of the n.p.t. to act on the nine hundred ninety five nation for a nuclear weapons free middle east the dilatory be

r.t. dot com and vote on our online poll you'll find it on our home page at r.t. dot com well we've the results so far and most of you believe this will lead to even more tit for tat measures between moscow and washington forty six percent of you twenty one percent think this really won't affect the key political issues between the countries a slightly smaller number believe the end is actually now come for any dialogue between the two and perhaps scuppering those so-called resetting of political ties and the same number seventeen percent believe that this shouldn't really escalate or i should say could actually escalate and be blown out of all proportion so those the results so far r.t. dot com. in london hundreds of opponents of the late margaret thatcher have been celebrating her death chanting dong the witch is dead the words of all song is set to enter the national music charts as it's become an anthem for the former prime minister strongest critics this raises the question of whether b.b.c. radio should be allowed to play the song as many find it offensive an

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r.t. dot com. he became a symbol of the ninety ninety s. he personified the russian mafia in the kremlin. he was a twentieth century arrest buton. in just a few years he rose from junior multi-billionaire and senior politician. is decline was as rabid as his meteoric rise and ended in exile his death is now as mysterious as his life. on a c. international airport in the very heart of moscow. well again cattle is boosting its financial presence abroad amassing billions of dollars in deed in foreign assets and its economic expansion is not limited to out of countries either with cash from dough and now flowing to europe and the u.s. as well now while qatar says diversifying its economy is the main reason for foreign investments there's a growing feeling that politics is playing a major role in the strategy bell trues been looking at where catalyst money is going. as egypt's president mohamed morsi is struggling to mend the egyptian economy it's on i can't tell one of the richest countries in the world has said that it will buy three billion d

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r.t. dot com up ahead next program r.t. looks at an obstinate part of the u.s. is living by its own rules we've been to explore the southern republic of texas but after this break. all know who lays the bureaucratic and trivial censorship strikes again but this time in russia a bill has been signed into law that will put fines on individuals and legal entities for using vulgar or. in the media one major flaw of many with this is that they really don't know which words are going to be considered vulgar i guess these words are so awful that they cannot even write them down i'm not naïve there has always been and will always be censorship but this where word list is just silly there is a common expression on the russian internet that russian mainstream media connects up more and i is ation of society russian t.v. does have all the bloody violent action movies as well as scandalous talk shows which are kind of like freak shows and plenty of reality t.v. where young people pretty much act like subhuman animals in a cage they've got all that so the government is basic

r.t. 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. as

r.t. dot com. out of some other news making headlines around the world this hour united states has sent f. twenty two stealth fighter jets to a military base in south korea it's a joint ongoing military drills between the two countries which north escalating hostility in the region and same time south korean authorities will not shy away from a preemptive strike if they believe a north korean attack is imminent don young announced a state of war between the two countries on saturday just weeks after carrying out underground nuclear tests. gyptian political satirist a bus in new surf was met by mobs of supporters after being granted bail on sunday three cases have been lodged against him for broadcasting this is an uprising we just need to be. dorothy's recently instigating a campaign to crackdown on dissent in the country rants have been issued for five members of the opposition the protests and controversy rather than three quarters march. rebels who overran the central african republic have a ban

r.t. 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

r.t. dot com a website you can read an interview with r.t. contributor afshin rattansi on the lessons the iconic leader helped britain and the world to learn. and to euro sentiment is going mainstream in germany with the launch of a new party dedicated to pulling the plug on the struggling single currency the group called alternative for germany says it has already received thousands of membership requests and the political establishment is concerned about the newcomers popularity our correspondent peter all of it was at the party's first official convention. germany's political new kids on the block alternative for deutschland claim to be able to provide the german people with just an alternative to the current political status quo the main item on their agenda though regards the euro something which they say is being kept alive artificially for too long it's coming time to pull the plug the euro is dead actually the euro is dead what we do right now is we put under pressure surgery we give them drugs if you touch cigs but actually it's alre

r.t. dot com. authorities out of the guantanamo bay prison acknowledged this week of the hunger strike among the camp inmates is growing efficient number of those refusing food now stands at forty one the inmates lawyers however say the figures several times higher with three of the prisoners hospitalized and around a dozen currently being force fed the strike began two months ago and in protest over treatment and conditions jonathan hay fits who's represented a number of the guantanamo inmates believes it will be some time before the extreme action achieves anything. i think the more pressure may force the us to respond it may not come right away but i think that the pressure that's triggered from the hunger strikes and the international attention of the statement by the u.n. i think you know may have an effect on. time i think that it's going to force the united states to realize that it just can't simply ignore what zach want on a moa and that at some point it's going to have to come to grips wi

r.t. 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

r.t. dot com. and in america the f.b.i. is doing all it can to sneak a closer peek at. personal online communication at r.t. dot com you can find out how much money the agency wants to be paid in order to pry into the lives of its citizens. the u.s. has i once again hinted more is set to head to the syrian rebels as our secretary of state john kerry meets with the opposition for many this indicated washington's sticking firmly to the trend of supporting the loyal movements or governments at any costs as artie's guy and i can found out the u.s. doesn't limit itself to influencing just one country opposition leaders in many countries have sought and received washington's backing but u.s. support often comes at a price counting on money and arms from washington and its allies serious opposition coalition has elected a us citizen. to be the leader of an interim government we are serious have to take action we must action the syrian born i-t. executive from texas misty hito may have washington's blessing to form a new government in syria but even anti outside voices inside th

r.t. dot com we have an opinion piece pointing out several glaring inconsistency in the official account of the standoff with the suspects you can just log on to r.t. dot com and check it out at your own leisure. but for now though our server has moved a step closer to joining the european union after the e.u. commission recommended starting talks on membership and that decision comes in the wake of belgrade approving a deal with its breaker a territory that a cause of i think remit has been met with fury among serbs both in serbia and in cause of some of whom have branded it treason it grants pristina is ethnic albanian leadership control of a cause of zero serbian minorities will be granted autonomy is within the territory and the e.u. activist in coverage says brussels has blackmailed his country to push through its own agenda. e.u. officials said three hours before the election serbian president we were all there done is the new college is a winner it was a message to serbian people serbian politicians all the world choose the regime to finish the job the democratic party and under your

r.t. dot com we've got all the background information and all the key issues for you there as well r.t. dot com is where you get it. prostration with austerity is deepening among europeans with people in portugal and spain preparing for fresh protests against their governments and international lenders and the heavily indebted nations have been struggling to dig themselves out of recession and this under the strict terms of the e.u. and i.m.f. bailouts spain's unemployment has jumped to a record of twenty seven point two percent while in portugal almost one in five of the workforce has no job peter all of a far this report from lisbon. the. revolt of a different kind. on the streets of. to demonstrate against the current government in the country and against the three. given to the. nation. the e.u. the international monetary fund the european. one of the main targets. as well their own politicians isn't the only nation demonstrations take place. in spain around one thousand four hundred riot police. to try and make sure. as we have seen in the past now it's not just people. here in euro

r.t. dot com to find out more about that we'll read job and the history of the behind the protest movement. on the way in the struggle for independence and profit there were reports on khalid territorial dispute between the koreans and iran central government is paying for the fields by last oil reserves in the country's north all the details the solti. a clear image of iraq after inflation. twenty day taxi trip through the country. the road full of dangerous. clear evidence from north to south. the root of iraqi tragedy. after the war waiting for peace. talks e l r t wealthy british style it's time to. find. markets why not scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy cars a report on our. thank you for staying with us you're watching our n.t. back to our developing story now a manhunt is underway in the boston area for suspect in the marathon bombings he's believed to be armed and dangerous another suspect was killed during a shoot with the police let's not talk live. to teach you can't. we will we've just been watching this footage i'm sold what do you know what can y

r.t. dot com explains why the government is more into pampering than imprisoning terrorists. the checkered flag they come down on for me the ones behind the grand prix a razor which are just hours before it began so protests against the elite event to being hosted in the country it followed days of mass protests leading up to the race by activists angry that it was being used to mask the gulf condemns grave human rights abuses rallies for democratic reform ongoing for over two years often turning violent with more than seventy people killed on both sides a crackdown even extends to writing on twitter with the country's most famous human rights activist neville regev behind bars for posting and to govern messages i just put the boy to reports now on his struggle. not long before his imprisonment bahrain's most famous human rights campaigner was in london talking to another prominent activist and whistleblower julian a son so we came here to london's ecuadorian embassy which the wiki leaks founder has been calling home for some ten months now in order to have a chance about the

r.t. dot com to find out more about an appeal to jab on the history of the bahraini protest movement. monarchy fueling flames of the arrest and activist in pole position gridlocked nobody's asian was involved with the right to be seen to be credible. when there bureaus are to suppress a formula for controversy burning rubber on the streets of bahrain checker flagship weekend on our team. the fate of dozens of people is still unknown in texas where a search and rescue mission continues for victims of the fallen into explosion that ripped apart the time of west up to fifteen people are believed to have died more than one hundred sixty were injured when a fertilizer plant exploded on wednesday night and i'm on glinda reports now from the sing. several police departments from around texas cordoned off a large area around the fertilizer plant which exploded last night at about seven thirty local time now i just came back from one of the local hospitals which admittedly nearly one hundred people who were injured in the explosion last night overall we know that more than one hundred sixty pe

r.t. dot com. moscow's accuse the un of trying to undermine the investigation into the use of chemical weapons in syria syria's government claims rebels used illegal agents near the city of aleppo last month killing around two dozen the opposition though points the finger back at damascus sara flounders head of the international action center says the situation in syria is a repetition of what the west has already carried out in other countries. given the u.n. these loans and weapons investigations in the last no this is not only reasonable request because the un weapons investigators in fact worked hand in hand with the cia with the pentagon and in every single and nothing the entire industrial infrastructure in iraq and they want to do the same thing in syria you can certainly see the enormous chaos the loss of life that u.s. wars in the black mark on the stand in libya who gave it and when you look at libya today without an ounce of stability a completely unfunctional government the scenario the

r.t. dot com so far we can see the results here on screen the majority who voted online think that the spat would lead to more mine a tit for tat measures in the future from both sides but nothing major around a fifth believe it will not affect the country's ties at all meanwhile the rest are split between two less optimistic options here some say the relations will be some very hit while others think that is the death knell for the u.s. russia reset in diplomatic relations those are your thoughts of the moment submit your vote online or use our comments section if you haven't done so already for more thoughts on the story and good to hear from me. i. israel military prosecutors say the deaths of a dozen protestant civilians in a strike on girls are during last year's eight day war due north weren't a criminal investigation it was decided the killings were merely unfortunate it was from turkey which left to members of one family and two neighbors did was the result of a targeting era is under schmidt multan from the protestant so the for human rights told me earlier that she thinks is part

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r.t. dot com. thank you for joining us here on ars he today israel's under fire from human rights organizations over the alleged mistreatment of palestinian children in israeli custody and the issue was brought to light by the detention of a fourteen year old palestinian who also happens to be a u.s. citizen and claims to have been physically abused during a rest and interrogation. advocacy officer at a prisoner support and human rights association representing the detained palestinian child you share the details with me a bit earlier on arts. but how many is being held in all thought of military prison which is just outside of ramallah we have had limited access to mohammad since his arrest his father has not seen him except in the few minutes during his court proceedings but we do know from what he has told us in the court that he has been. potentially abused in the prison he has told us that he has been slapped in the prison his braces are broken off and we are very concerned that he is being mi

r.t. dot com. it's. a number of former u.s. officials linked to the legalization application of torture at guantanamo feature on a blacklist that russia put together this week moscow to release names of alleged human rights violated it was placing on the travel economic sanctions offer similar moves by the u.s. what if you got this kind of takes a closer look at the tit for tat action threatening ties between the nations. what we're witnessing now is really game of political pingpong first washington published a part of its so-called magnitsky a list eighteen russian official suspected there of being connected to human rights violations they have been subjected to various economic and travel sanctions including the ban for them to enter the united states and shortly after this list was published a symmetric reaction came from moscow which published a part of its blacklist of eighteen american officials linked to human rights violations at the guantanamo bay detention center and the violations of the rights of russian citizens o

r.t. dot com or you can use our common section as well if you have more thoughts on the story. well still ahead for you this hour here on our nation in turmoil a decade on since the fall of saddam hussein iraq convulses in rows of terror and a lot of scars left behind of years of occupation the past onto a new generation. for now the u.s. secretary of state john kerry he's in china on the latest leg of his emergency tour to try and diffuse tension around north korea's nuclear threats in a news conference he suggested that america could remove its newly bolstered missile defense in the region if pyongyang abandons its nuclear weapons program it's believed that often might encourage china to put pressure on north korea something it's been reluctant to do so far earlier this week a pentagon report released by mistake claimed the north already had the capability to launch a nuclear missile and the white house however quickly dismissed those findings as premature. nevertheless though america japan and south korea have continued to build up defenses with seoul saying it's braced for

r.t. dot com ultimately what's the next step if not what's the off the math in this exchange of blacklists between washington and moscow to spring up the numbers for this hour still though the majority of all voters from ati dot com forty two percent saying it's just going to lead to more minor tit for tat measures let's pay attention to the changing numbers though between the lower two coming in now and now the final fourth position the eighteen percent of all voters saying it will escalate tensions severely affecting ties and now the majority that was being lost all day with minimal numbers now up to nineteen percent saying this will be a death nail for the u.s. russia reset relations we are still taking your votes absolutely the numbers fluctuate every hour just head over to talk. thank you for joining us here on artsy it's a day this week tensions around north korea's nuclear threats reached a new high with pyongyang putting tokyo on its potential hit list japan was threatened after it said it was preparing to shoot down any missiles the north might launch and the u.s. secretary of sta

r.t. dot com and have your say. ongoing clashes between israeli forces and palestinian protesters in the west bank have resulted in the first fatality in the latest round of violence so a teenage palestinian was shot dead by the israeli military who fired live rounds in response to stone throwing and fire bombs so the killing is expected to further fuel tensions sparked by the death of a palestinian prisoner who was serving a life sentence on terrorism charges in an israeli jail. brings us the latest from the west bank. we're expecting more riots and uncertainty in the middle east so my sorrow who some d.n.a. is being buried today in his hometown of hebron now there was of course that there were protests in hebron as well as a lot for the ira west bank area on wednesday as well as on monday probably news of his death while in prison in israel and a lot of palestinians accuse israeli officials of not doing anything to help the sixty four year old man who has first complained about his illness in the summer of last ye

r.t. 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

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r.t. dot com and to participate in our online poll there. the backlash from the death of a palestinian prisoner in an israeli trailer increasingly threatens the fragile peace between the neighbors so these all are includes of thousands of hunger strikers in is really low carbs rocket exchanges between hamas and israel and now fierce clashes in the west bank that have already turned deadly a teenage palestinian who was shot dead by the israeli military who fired live rounds in response to stone throwing and fire bombs and. the west bank more violence is expected as. it will be laid to rest later on thursday. we're expecting more riots and uncertainty in the middle east as my sawzall some d.n.a. is being buried today in his hometown of hebron now there was of course six there were protests hebron as well as a low for the entire west bank area on wednesday lows in monday following news of his death while in prison in israel and a lot of palestinians accuse israeli officials of not doing anything to help the sixty four year old man who has first

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