broadcasting live from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories this is r.t. glad to have you with us now first a development in the boston marathon bombings we're getting here at r.t. joe. the younger of the two suspects is reportedly awake and responding to the authorities questions in writing he's currently being treated in a medical center in boston under armed guard artie's honest.

for moscow this is r.t. glad to have you back in iraq more than two hundred people have been killed in the sectarian bloodshed over the last week on tuesday the military raided a sunni anti-government protest camp that resulted in around fifty civilian deaths in a gun battle there later the iraqi government blocked news channels from operating in the country including a guitar based al-jazeera the broadcasters were accused of misleading and unethical coverage of the religious violence was no sign of peace between the sunni and the ruling shia community iraq's prime minister warns the state is dragging itself into a civil war it transcends iraq believes it's a terrible situation in the country as well as the government's actions that are driving people to violence. people are randomly arrested they are locked up without charges they are door to women children and men are being raped that's why the protest started by the way and so this talk about sick darian is this is is totally wrong that these are not sick dari

and live from our studios in moscow this is r.t. glad to have you back with us this week saw a dramatic escalation on the korean peninsula with pyongyang threatening a preemptive nuclear strike on the u.s. a response was it not left wanting with u.s. and south korean war ships and aircraft swarming into the north coast japan is now reporting that its warships have also been deployed ahead of a potential missile test by pyongyang washington though has canceled a planned intercontinental missile tests to avoid further inflaming the situation michel chossudovsky director of the center for research on globalization says north korea is just another country pulled into u.s. war games. every single year the united states and south korea hold these war games and the war games this year is a nuclear attack. i guess no korea i've been reviewing scenarios of walking. i tell you that the pentagon identified the so-called axis of evil as the target them both korea loss of the percent of its population during the korean war and how on earth under thos

and that live from moscow recapping week's top stories here with r.t. glad to have you with us now this week saw a dramatic escalation on the korean peninsula with pyongyang threatening a preemptive nuclear strike on the u.s. their sponsors not left wanting though with u.s. and south korea in a war ships and aircraft swarming to the north's coasts washington though canceled a planned intercontinental missile tests to avoid further inflaming the situation meanwhile a south korean official said pyongyang may be setting the stage for a missile test. or another provocative act after claiming to be unable to guarantee security of foreign diplomats michel chossudovsky director of the center for research on globalization says north korea is just another country pulled into the u.s. war games every single year the united states and south korea hold these war games and the wall games this year is a nuclear attack against against north korea i've been reviewing scenarios of walking and i could tell you that the pentagon identified the so-called axis of evil as the tar

r.t. i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us. now u.s. law enforcement officials say russia warned the f.b.i. of two years ago that one of the boston bombing suspects was a follower of radical islam.

r.t. i'm shawn thomas glad to have you with us. u.s. law enforcement officials say rochelle warned the f.b.i. two years ago that one of the boston bombings last.

r.t. i'm john thomas certainly glad to have you with us the investigation into the boston marathon bombings is now working on what triggered two young suspects into carrying out the worst u.s. terror attack since two thousand and nine eleven the.

r.t. i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us. at least eleven children are reported to have been among eighteen people killed in the latest air strike by u.s. led forces in afghanistan the raid was allegedly called in by troops on the ground after bitter fighting nearby all part of mass land and air operations intended to temper a local taliban insurgency. is following the story for us. ten childrens are said to be among the eighteen killed in the national strikes in afghanistan's konar prevents according to officials there are reports say it all happened actually when and that two airstrike hits the home of a suspected taliban insurgents in a small village at the same time his family was inside taking shelter from the ingoing strikes after the house was hit a local running through hope and the were seen carrying. the bodies of children spent other tools from the rubble the u.s. led coalition has gone beyond that it carried out the airstrikes on that area and in a statement about the spokes man for the forces acknowledge that the

r.t. good to see you today the iron lady has been laid to rest some shed tears others celebrated are you glad or sad. or move personally an academic observer so i try not to take your line either way on that but you are absolutely right to say she's a polarizing figure and the debate in britain since she died a few days ago has certainly i think been testament to that well you know so i suppose you leave me to my next point because we saw crowds partying after her death was announced and what is there truthfully to celebrate with the passing of the only female prime minister. well you have to think about margaret thatcher's performance while she was in power while have a policy is really liberalize the british economy it also a great deal of harm as some see it anyway to britain's manufacturing sector and that was concentrated in particular parts of the country as you mentioned the miners it wasn't just the miners it was also people who worked in steel and shipbuilding etc and there's a great deal of resentment in those parts of the country that the economic restructuring that took place took