in the meantime to go back to sean thomas artie's correspondent who has lived in texas we've been talking to him just a couple of minutes ago he was explaining how an incident like this would devastate such a small community sean can you hear us again. we've just been seeing some local footage. local media trying to speak to residents there obviously people very distressed we can say strains of ambulances and fire engines also at the scene. just just from your perspective sean what would be the sort of response from america in terms of the given that we've had the boston bombings given that we've had another massive tragedy what do you expect. well i expect people not just in texas but from around the country to come together to show their support for the people of this small town in texas if you look at what happened in boston if you look at what happened with previous tragedies even with the sandy hook tragedy up in connecticut back in december the country does what they can to come together because this is a small town just north of waco is not unlike many towns all across the country

the inflow of patients many of which are believed to be in a critical condition we did hear from sean thomas there a man on r.t. correspondent who lived for a long time in texas he said that there are. people that have been injured will be lifted to major hospitals in this area went to houston and also one at waco who should be able to deal with the horror that they. with the horrific injuries that they will have to treat people for the cause of the blast isn't yet known to have said that mobile phones forty two may have seen just a couple of minutes ago gave an indication that there was an initial fire that's what we were hearing from local media and then firefighters were at the scene when a main just second blast took place and that is what has caused this devastation in what is only a small community something like only two and a half thousand people live in the town of west which is just north of waco in texas where the social media sphere is now bursting with comments on the tragedy eyewitnesses have been posting some of their footage in snapshots of the blast scene these images are fr

well we can talk more about this to our correspondent sean thomas he's in the studio now sean we have been hearing police initially were saying that there were sort of confirmed fatalities didn't give a number we now know that i think nine in the agency service workers six of those firemen have been killed in this this just really underlines the magnitude of the disaster that we're seeing at the moment and we expect the fatality. level to rise don't we over the coming hours indeed and those are going to be the first to fatalities that we do hear about because they are the ones who are connected with radios that are the ones that law enforcement and emergency managers know where they are while dealing with its emergency so when the explosion went off and they didn't hear from them and then they were able to go in and try and recover them they are the first people we're going to hear about as fatalities what we don't know about yet as we've heard about the managers going door to door home to home trying to pull people out some people might still be trapped we're not going to really know

blast and police and emergency services are still removing people from the rubble with me now is sean thomas he joins us we've been following this now for the last few hours sean. in terms of the emergency response it seems to be in hand it seems to have been a very coordinated response we've looked at the pictures they are devastating and yet there have been strains and i'm going to place how we coped as people are being airlifted to hospital is this was a coordinated response wasn't something that they had been prepared for certainly in this is what little towns big cities they do they prepare for these emergencies and they work together with other law enforcement emergency response teams and fire departments to make sure that they can handle any level of emergency so this small town of less than three thousand people doesn't have a very big force in fact they're the ones who are probably initially right there on the scene given the scope of that fire there was already probably other agencies responding to help them out because it was a large fire i mean you may have heard the term one ala

well i'm joined in the studio at the moment by sean thomas. correspondent who has spent many years in the states and is very familiar with texas we get that from that angle is that he believes there could be breaches in safety and security for new experiences that is an ongoing issue in texas well not necessarily i mean there you look at the situation of b.p. which he referenced there and there were clear violations of you know safety standards and what we're looking at a small town we're not looking at a big huge corporation this is a rural community with a small company that is dealing with basically fertilizer for their constituents in the area so i wouldn't i think it's really too early to say if there's safety issues of safety regulations of course we can point fingers as to this didn't happen this. did happen or in a way that it wasn't supposed to i think of it it's safer to look at what's happening in the larger investigation wait until they actually get in there take a look at what happened before we can see or make any kind of stateme

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.

their child was diagnosed with a heart murmur and was ordered to undergo immediate surgery michael sean thomas managed to catch up with the boy's parents. been shocked when they walked in the door and just they all of them in saying it's just let us see your son if he's ok and i said i'm holding him in my arms he is so ok you can take a look and they're saying give me your child and that's when they took away no paper and not so ever they've been providing and they just walked off the door was any reason given behind the nine eleven call from the hospital after you took your own child to another hospital or second to opinion i mean have they given you any reason whatsoever. they say that his and them urgency that he's almost dying then the needs medical treatment and that he needs that needs to get back to the hospital immediately. i do believe this. no he was fine he was laughing he was eating he was a normal child normal baby to go home and he was released from the from the other hospital that we took him to the doctor released to be do statements so the parents are basically good to go home

broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our team recapping the week's top stories i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us cypriots woke up on saturday to some very unpleasant news those with six figure bank accounts will see up to sixty percent of their savings seized by the government to meet the conditions of an e.u. bailout that's on top of the draconian capital controls in the country currently daily cash withdrawals are limited to three hundred euro's per person per bank no checks can be cashed and payments and transfers outside cypriots are cyprus excuse me are limited to five thousand euros a month while those travelling abroad are not permitted to take more than a thousand euros with them the restrictions have been imposed for an indefinite period and as artie's tests are silly reports families are already feeling the pinch. like many in cyprus later need us agreed this is simply stunned at the speed and manner with which the banking crisis in his country seems to be spiraling out of control he shows us his wallet yo cash a lean lottery tickets a single parent unemployed

in this part of texas well to talk more about this is sean thomas a correspondent who's lived in the states for many years and his is very familiar with with texas. we have talked over the last few hours about the response of the emergency services meet heard that this is still very much ongoing and we still don't know the full scale of this disaster but. you've praised the response of the emergency services. it has been coordinated the police authorities have said there's been a coordinated response from many counties and this is something that they would have prepared for isn't it indeed and we even heard when we talked to keep hopkins from the hospital there who had they'd seen sixty five people admitted twelve of these people with different types of injuries they might not know of what a specific event might be whether it's a chemical event or a fire or what have you but they say that they train every single day in some way to prepare for something like this and that's just one look into those but you know you have your initial response you have your wider response then you have

of the fourteen infected raising the alarm over a possible outbreak of the new flu strain of the sean thomas has more in the virus and the panic. there is evidence of a localized type or panic specifically regarding the h seven n nine strain of the flu virus if you look at what's happening in china twenty thousand birds slaughtered from one market there from a place where the birds tested positive live birds tested positive in hong kong the stock market shares dropped particularly in relation to chinese airline companies because they want to restrict travel vietnam bans poultry imports from china japan puts health posters up at points of entry from people coming from china taiwan raises the corn to level alert and us in canada they decide that they're going to move to develop vaccines specifically for the h seven n nine virus just to be on the ready now all of these moves are localized it's not coming from the world health organization in fact of the world health organization on the other hand they are saying they want a more measured watchful response in fact they are saying they're not goi

three o'clock in the morning here in moscow this is our team from russia i'm sean thomas quite have you with us now the u.s. has clear is growing evidence poison gas was used by a soft forces in syria and while washington admits the proof is not strong enough to provoke an immediate response president obama did it reiterate the use of chemical weapons would be a game changer. brings us more from new york. u.s. president barack obama was delivering some fierce words in the aftermath of tables comments he indicated that washington will conduct its own independent investigation into syria's alleged use of chemical weapons and a separate probe will be conducted in conjunction with the united nations america's leaders said the world can't stand by and permit the use of chemical weapons obama has previously stated that the use of chemical weapons by damascus would be a game changer in the u.s. position on military intervention into serious civil war now according to white house press secretary jay carney yes confirm that military force is one of many options that president obama is hardly con

broadcasting live from our studios in moscow these are two young sean thomas glad to have you with us and what has that claim to there is growing evidence poison gas was used by assad's forces in syria and while washington admits the proof is not strong enough to vote an immediate response president obama did it reiterate the use of chemical weapons would be a game changer. brings us more from new york u.s. president barack obama was delivering some fierce words in the aftermath of comments he indicated that washington will conduct its own independent investigation into syria's alleged use of chemical weapons and a separate probe will be conducted in conjunction with the united nations america's leader said the world can't stand by and permit the use of chemical weapons obama has previously stated that the use of chemical weapons by damascus would be a game changer in the u.s. position on military intervention into syria is through your civil war now according to white house press secretary jay carney he has confirmed that military force is. one of many options. carney said as a gener

a huge blast happen at a pm that local time right earlier my colleague and it's as you can and sean thomas a speck on the ramifications of the explosion. the fertilizer plant that exploded in west texas on wednesday night was fined by the mental protection agency in two thousand and six for failing to have a risk management plan that met federal standards according to the e.p.a. to the agency a risk management plan is designed to ensure chemical accidents don't happen by having safeguards in place to prevent them all according to construction permits submitted in november a fact here at this company west fertilizer valves to meet all standards expected for and i address ammonia storage tanks at one of those tanks as we know blew up this wednesday night officials are reluctant to give any specific information as to what caused the explosion we heard local police say they don't know whether it was a chemical reaction or a criminal look at tivoli but it got that kind of caution could be understandable because only after an investigation there will be. there will be they will be able to say an

and broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r t i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us news just in an oil tank at the marathon detroit refinery has exploded causing a huge fire there witnesses say the blast was felt ten blocks away firefighters medics and hazardous materials units were dispatched to the scene a mandatory exclusion area has also been established around the facility surrounding areas are being evacuated as well now there have been no reports of casualties so far but we will keep you updated on that as more information becomes . to us. now the u.s. has claimed that there's growing evidence poison gas was used by assad's forces in syria and while washington admits the proof is not strong enough to provoke an immediate response president obama did reiterate the use of chemical weapons would be a game changer. brings us more from iraq u.s. president barack obama was delivering some fears in the after minutes. he indicated that washington will conduct its own independent investigation into syria's alleged use of chemical weapons and a separate probe will be c

for that we'll talk to you again shortly i would like to bring in a correspondent in the studio sean thomas at this stage. we've heard about the speculation what could have caused it but let's talk about what we know i at the moment. at the same many many emergency services we believe local media have suggested that dozens of people have been killed by this but one thing is the toxic fear because this stuff can go on as you've mentioned to me as an ammonia what can you tell me about that and what would be the state's response to the how could the emergency services trying to tackle that what would they be doing that right well as we know a fertilizer is a component in many bombs that terrorists try and use so it is volatile if used in a specific way in just its regular state it is not necessarily very dangerous but an hundred somalia is very toxic it's a pungent suffocating type gas as described by the c.d.c. in the united states so they are very worried worried about this and getting out and being a secondary or even tertiary disaster if you will if you have the fire the explosion being th

that's it for me for this news block sean thomas here with more in half an hour's time but first max kaiser and kaiser report stay with us. this is mr. x. and i am no this is not a fifty's beside fi movie slogan it is. a.b.c. news is trying to find out when they investigated how alina finally texture produced this type of quote beef has become very widespread throughout fast food restaurants and supermarkets in the usa and has led to its south dakota based manufacturer posting profits in the hundreds of millions of dollars but so what's wrong with some processed before you might ask well the reporting showed that ammonia and other rough chemicals were doused on to the meat to kill equal i bacteria and make it safe for consumption although this product is for some reason legal the film is about to create public backlash and many companies gave up ordering and then mysteriously and finally took should be ok while the mainstream media for once actually did something valuable for society and what did they get in return sued yeah the pink slime crew decided to sue a.b.c. news and forced t

i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now at least ten 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 parts of mass land an air operations intended to temper a local taliban insurgency are. following the story for us. ten children's are said to be among the eighteen killed in the natl strikes in afghanistan's konar prevents according to officials there 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 run through and the were seen carrying. the bodies of children spend other words from the rubble the u.s. led coalition has gone to plan that it carried out the airstrikes on that area and in a statement about the spokes man for the forces acknowledge that they were aware of the reports that civilians had been killed also b

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i mean, when i -- colin powell, clarence thomas, i know the pain these people go through. >> sean: horrible. it's terrible. >> because they doubt who they are and they want to separate them from their community. it's not fair because -- this is something that came through your show last night, i was so impressed by it. the idea that there are real ideas out there. that if you're talking about improving the quality of public schools, how can you not be challenging the unions? if you're talking about the drug dealers, instead of talking about the crack cocaine and different sentencing, why don't you talk about the -- >> sean: every, every single solitary -- if you look at campaign that we run and we cover, you see the democratic party that they play the race card. they play rich versus old. they play republicans hate minorities, they hate la titos and blacks. they hate grandma. they want to kill her. they hate sick children. that's what they show in every campaign and i'll show you ads to back it up. >> i remember when george bush was running and he had 40% support coming into the national ra

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thomas me knee -- menino. >>> but let's go the cathedral where president obama spoke earlier this week and sean o'malley. byron pitts is there. >> reporter: george, this morning, for the first time this week, we're hearing more and more people talk about healing. part of that journey will take place here at the cathedral -- also today, the first wake for one of the victims. 29-year-old krystle campbell will be laid to rest tomorrow as her family and friends continue their grieving process. friday, boston was on lockdown. yesterday, the city came back to life. the epicenter, if you will, was fenway park, this is one of america's grand old baseball stadiums, and yesterday, it felt more like a cathedral. there was a pregame ceremony to honor the victims, survivors and first responders. also, one of the highlights during the eighth inning, neil diamond took the field to lead the crowd in his song "sweet caroline." ♪ sweet caroline ♪ good times never seemed so good ♪ >> reporter: red sox fans have been singing that song in the eighth inning of every home game since 2002. this week, diamond's song became ameri