the u.s. isn't worried about some sort of low-scale provocation. but no movement towards large-scale combat, and very interestingly, for some hours at the end of the week, north korean tv itself was ratcheting back a little bit, just like the pentagon, not being so militaristic in its broadcasting, showing more about farmers and that sort of thing. a sense that maybe everybody might be getting ready to step back, but u.s. intelligence still carefully watch thing. >> everybody watching it very carefully, because the stakes are enormous. barbara, thank you very much. >>> let's get the administration's reaction. our white house correspondent breanna keeler is working this part of the story. how worried are they at the white house? >> reporter: white house officials are down playing there's any level of real concern here. they say north korea has been on the radar for a while, particularly since december with that ballistic missile test that was successful. but i'll tell you, the discussions here

u.s. power they don't think that u.s. power is coercive in japan and korea as the professor is saying this is something that they they they want as a check against chinese power i'm not saying that china is any worse than the u.s. i'm not saying that they're any more belligerent that there is a moral issue here or a normative issue it's simply the case is this if the u.s. were to withdraw all of its military troops tomorrow or the next day from east asia i can't i don't think that we're going to experience a period of complete peace and harmony and you have to think about how deterrence works and and that china with the largest military in east asia would behave very differently if they didn't have the united states there i'm not saying that this is necessarily a great thing but i mean the idea that the united states is the principal aggressor and is the only country with imperial interests in east asia is wrong china has interests as well in a sphere of influence that it wants to to to preside over and that's simply the

. >>> u.s. officials fear this could be the week north korea goes ahead with a provocative missile launch or something even worse. kim jong-un's regime warns the region is becoming a hot bed of war. tensions are only rising now that north korea is suspending operations of a huge industrial complex near the border jointly owned with south korea. our correspondents are covering this unfolding crisis and the u.s. response with tens of thousands of americans potentially at risk. let's bring in our pentagon correspondent barbara starr right now. she's following the renewed concerns about the north's nuclear ambitions. what's the very latest, barbara? >> well, wolf, at this hour we can tell you that the u.s. intelligence community, the united states military, slowing everything they have, satellites, eaves dropping systems, reconnaissance, surveillance, everything they can at the north korea problem, trying to figure out what the regime is up to and keeping a very close eye on that nuclear program. >>

u.s. military is ready to respond. >> our country is fully prepared to deal with any contingency, any action, that north korea may take or any provocation. >> reporter: the joint chiefs chairman, offering a grim assessment of how close north korea is to putting a nuclear warhead on a missile, a direct threat to the u.s. >> in the absence of concrete evidence to the contrary, we have to assume the worst case. >> reporter: u.s. intelligence indicates the regime in the last few days may have used several short-range missile launchers around the country. that's on top of the two intermediate-range mobile missiles it parked along its east coast. the u.s. worries multiple missile launches are the first of more provocative actions by the north. no one has forgotten the 2010 shelling of a south korean island by north korea. >> we may see a succession of things to try to make this point that they are a strong and prosperous nation. and try to coerce the international community back into negotiation

u.s. hinting intervention in syria is possible suspecting assad's regime used chemical weapons but struggling to find firm evidence. iceland there is heading to the polls in their second general election since the financial crash of zero eight when the country let its banks fail but later made a stunning turnaround to growth we take a look at success. americans tuning out a new study shows cable news audiences are dropping as analysts say viewers are getting burned out from too many viewers and not enough news. ten pm in moscow tries a good having you with us here on r.t. our top story while the u.s. is yet to decide whether a red line has been crossed in syria president barack obama is reiterating that the use of chemical weapons would be a game changer in the crisis in claims there is a growing body of evidence the arsenal was deployed by assad forces with some u.s. lawmakers now pushing for direct action in the country archies marine important as the details. u.s. president barack obama

exactly ten years ago a u.s. marine from new york city made international headlines for his actions in baghdad edward chen tied a large noose around a massive statue of saddam hussein wrapped the face of that statue of an american flag before that monument was eventually toppled right now i am joined by mr chen for a one on one conversation on thank you for speaking with parties about how are you welcome ten years have passed since that that that moment where you essentially became a symbol for the u.s. occupation and invasion in iraq you were twenty three at the time when you climb that statue what you know about the iraq war now that you do know that all army when i know dollars is not ten years longer than expected. they're still struggling to. rebuild their country to have a stable government are your feelings different now than they were ten years ago in terms of your intentions to motivate a personal. goal when you know really no we knew we were going to go to war in two thousand and three i did i thought.

u.s. secretary of state john kerry is headed to the region to lend his weight to diplomatic efforts. he wants to convince chinese leaders to use his leverage. kerry wants to encourage them to take advantage of their influence. on sunday kerry will move onto tokyo. he'll meet with japanese foreign minister. >>> foreign ministers from the group of eight nations have line ed up against north korea. they condemned the strongest terms of the the missile program. >> we made clear in the text that ministers supported the commitment to strengthen the courage regime and take significant missions in a further launch or nuclear test. >> they criticize the rhetoric. the talk will serve to only further isolate the country. >>> u.s. aviation experts say batteries on boeing 787 dreamliners could be a fire hazard if the design is still flawed. six experts spoke at a hearing in washington, d.c. investigators are looking into what caused fires on two dreamliner jets and whether they could have been prevente

u.s. has evidence that chemical weapons have been used in syria he also said it would be a game changer as he put it for the u.s. although only if it is proved the end of the day the arms are being used by the government and you of course what i'm reporting is across this forest marina hi there ok so that would be a game changer he says if assad that used it what happens if the rebels may be used to go into their hands and they use these at weapons what then. well i think that is what u.s. intelligence officials are trying to figure out now u.s. president barack obama said that his team doesn't know how the chemical weapons were used in syria when they were used who used that meaning was it the syrian government or was it members of the opposition group obama says his administration doesn't have a chain of custody that establishes exactly what happened in syria when chemical weapons were allegedly used he says that of washington does confirm that the syrian government used chemical weapons

how is it that the u.s. can have total disregard for international law in this regard that we're really good at preaching to others about their. havior but not very good at practicing ourselves so you know we condemn other countries for doing things that that we do so we just ignore the u.n. you know there was a report recently on drone strikes there was one about the waterboarding and torture in the past and now this one about guantanamo and we just tend to ignore it but the u.s. is kind of in a damned if you do damned if you don't position if they let the detainees starve themselves to death in the b. oh my god the detainees are dying if they force feed them then they're condemned for abusing them physically so it's a no win situation because we've created this legal black hole where we let people sit for over a decade and just abandon them. you've said quote president obama doesn't have the balls to close the gap now to make it very clear for our viewers who are saying that obama can't do this is hands ar

u.s. releases the so-called 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. also a blinding doubt stephen over cypresses economic revival and 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. while cyprus faces severe 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 to follow through on his campaign pledge to close the detention camp. breaking news this hour as i said the u.s. has released a list of russian officials banned from entering america because of alleged human rights violations moscow's

but they can potentially attack u.s. bases in the region there are twenty thousand u.s. troops just across the border in south korea so could we see the worst nuclear standoff since the cuban missile crisis between the soviet union and the u.s. even though the rhetoric is probably as hostile as it's ever been no one really believes that north korea is actually going to carry out an attack north korea itself knows that if it did tack the united states it would be committing national suicide the united states would retaliate in a tremendous fashion north korea does not want to commit suicide i believe north korea is doing all this so it can get to a point to actually negotiate some kind of peace agreement with the united states in the u.s. media to you have all pundits basically saying the same thing that north korea is not going to strike because they know what. they want to. kind of a deal with washington but they're not going to get it you have former officials x. brits all saying that but with all this war talk from north korea and with u.s. military buildup in the reg

it seems that the u.s. is doing those things to make correct evaluation on king john so that the nuclear problem doesn't see it and i'm putting stress with south korea with the joint military drills but i don't think it is really helping in terms of interfering in peace. while i'm on the advisory board of the korea policy institute things that are well as the u.s. can never have enough of us military presence abroad and the korean conflict is no exception. the united states has hundreds over one hundred bases throughout the military throughout the world. if north korea collapses united states stablished military bases right on the border with china and then circumvent of that nation. also because of our middle east deposits in north korea which would be useful for exploitation by u.s. corporations and the united states. has never tolerated a country that won't put its economy at the service of a foreign corporation they want to know that about north korea and know that if their approach diplomatic we don't

the u.s. accounts for thirty percent of global arms sales russia twenty six percent germany friends china seven six five percent respectively the figures are provided by the stockholm international peace research institute they cover the last four years of arm sales by the way this global. is worth around seventy billion dollars and four out of five of the world's largest stakeholders in this business happen to be permanent members of the un security council two out of which abstained from the vote that is russia and china they cite a lack of clarity in the language of the treaty in the part where it says arms transfers should be subjected to risk and human rights assessments first so it's supposed to tie arms sales to the buyers record on human rights which sounds like a very good idea but then this raises all kinds of questions like do brain or saudi arabia have a perfect human rights record so the treaty leaves lots of room for all kinds of interpretation is russia being actually supportive

like u.s. officials at least the grinning hunger strike could go on tunnel a bay now in place of a pub the detainees that lawyers have insisted to gaze upon high at will and on. russia and wrong the wall this is aussie with me. hello and welcome to the program . according to investigators the surviving suspect in the boston marathon bombings says it's america's wars in iraq and afghanistan that led him and his brother to carry out the worst u.s. base to tog since nine eleven after questioning nineteen year old john hartson knives police believe the bombers were our own initiative and no slinks to any foreign terrorist group all seasons to citric and i reports now from boston. as the nineteen year old boston bombing suspect joe hart's her naiads condition improves from serious to fair he's beginning to reveal information to investigators from what we're hearing on the ground according to official star ny it has said that the motive behind the two bombings that took place on monday april fifteent

u.s. officials claim to have sketchy and unconfirmed intelligence the damascus has used a chemical agent on its own people she is right you know partner has the latest. 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 syria is civil war now according to white house press secretary jay carney confirm that military force is one of many options that president obama is currently considering carney said as a general principle the united states retains the ability to act unilaterally now these revelations of course come ju

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 have a negative impact on ties and promises to come up with a similar response it's a main story tonight we bring you live comment on that from washington d.c. and our correspondent there in just a couple of minutes time meantime let's continue and take a look at the eurozone and cyprus eurozone finance ministers have said that with no extra cash for cyprus beyond a ten billion euro international bailout the mood been grim then at the ministers meeting in dublin as it emerged that the island nation needs around six billion euros 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 too over the president has been set as artie's tests are of si

a u.s. army veteran has been charged with conspiracy for fighting alongside a syrian rebel group linked to al qaida eric harroun known to syrians as the american as appeared in numerous videos of members of the own nusra front designated by the u.s. as a terrorist organization but his father claims his son was working for the cia and would never join a militant group well he's going to charge account examines now where the u.s. draws the nothing between terrorists and so-called freedom fighters the u.s. army veteran eric karun posted the speed on line while fighting with the rebels in syria. the former c.e.o. eric karun has joined the al qaeda linked group gentleness were the only rebel group in syria that the u.s. has designated as terrorists while in syria erik actively posted photos and videos of himself holding various weapons spraying about the rebels latest attacks and calling himself a freedom fighter charlotte your days are numbered you're going to die no matter what where you go we

last quarter walmart u.s. ceo bill simon says his consumers were most worried about jobs followed by inflation, taxes and gas prices. consumers may have concerns, but a number of analysts aren't worried. >> i think walmart right now is running as well as walmart has ever run since i started watching them in 1968. they are doing a fabulous job of bringing product at the price to the customer. >> reporter: and the stockholders are reaping the benefits. walmart sharesgained 27% over the last year, better than the s&p index and the broader s&p 500 over the same time period. for "nightly business report," i'm courtney reagan. >>> and tomorrow we turn our attention to housing and the one company to watch this earnings season. >>> so many american companies including many walmart suppliers move manufacturing out of the u.s. to plants in china, looking to save money. but things have changed. rising costs for labor, material and shipping has forced a lot of companies to consider bringing some of those jobs back home. p

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 but as yet it could not come from the total dead duraid was app

until late two thousand and eleven the u.s. embassy in kabul did not process a single visa a single visa and then in two thousand and nine since two thousand and nine i should say more than fifty seven hundred afghans have applied under the program and only thirty two have gotten visas here so why are we seeing so few few visas being not being given to these people why why are we holding back i really think that you know the state department you know issues these programs unfortunately there are they are large and diverse it takes a lot of sort of manpower a lot of a logistics to be figured out and sometimes the create these programs without sort of having an infrastructure in place to see them out to carry them out unfortunately it's not only people that are you know people that have been waiting for years to be approved there are people that are flat out being denied of the people that have applied there are a lot that have been denied because the u.s. is saying that they have terrorist ties for example these are people that

u.s. officials admitting the scale of the protest is rising ninety four detainees now said to be involved. eight pm in moscow i met très a good to have you with us here on r t we begin with some breaking news this hour u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel has said his intelligence services have quote some confidence that the syrian government used chemical weapons on a small scale he said it's thought that the nerve agent sarin was used against civilians and rebel fighters these comments the first confirmation by the u.s. of alleged use of such weapons but only on tuesday hagel had said that he doubted similar concerns that were raised by israel president obama has long said that the use of chemical weapons would be quote a red line we'll bring you more details on this as they come in. russian president vladimir putin says he was always appalled when western nations supported insurgency and russia never considered them as terrorists that was just one of the messages from his nationwide q. a

terror group so u.s. officials have revealed after investigators interrogated the surviving suspect. in hospital. has details from boston official complaints in the presence of a judge and a lawyer have been filed against nineteen year old boston bombing suspect just hearts or nine of this took place at his hospital bed here in boston where he has been kept under strict guard ever since his arrest friday evening we do know of course that he suffered several serious injuries and was unable to speak for this entire time sunday evening he finally awoke and was able to answer several questions and writing and finally today he was conscious and able to react to the charges being brought against him at his hospital bed these charges of course include the use of weapons of mass destruction as well as the malicious destruction of property resulting in death now the penalty that's her knife is now dead facing as a death penalty or any term of years behind bars including life he's also facing a fine of up to two hu

in the u.s. united states are proven to have the least amount of work or debts the safest environment for workers is there any sort of movement going on in bangladesh and to unionize and organize within these factories there is there certainly are efforts and i'm glad you pointed that out because in this country many people may be familiar with the triangle shirtwaist factory fire that happened more than one hundred years ago in this country and it really galvanized a movement among female garment workers in this country to improve conditions and lead to the formation of a number of labor unions towards that end and workers in bangladesh have tried similar strategies but in bangladesh there is an extreme level of oppression that exists towards workers who attempt to exercise these rights about a year ago. the labor union organizer by the name of islam was found tortured and murdered in an apparent retaliation for his efforts to support workers' rights to speak out and that's the kind of attitude

a u.s. official says it has moved missile and launch components to its east coast amid signs it could be planning a launch. north korea says the united states is pushing the region to the brink of war. the obama administration now trying to answer with some diplomacy. let's go straight to our white house correspondent working the story and has the latest. what is the latest? >> reporter: wolf, you talk to white house officials and they'll tell you consistently dealing with north korea there is sort of this ultimate desire to be the grownup in the room and they feel forced to do that at times. this does appear to be an effort to give kim jong un a bit of a diplomatic offering in what has become this escalating war of words. the white house insists their recent show of force and the rhetoric you've seen and also some very real actions like those b-2 bombers with nuclear capabilities participating in those joint exercises with north korea moving two u.s. warships closer to the north korean coas

right this hour will bring you the latest developments in the u.s. state of texas was a mess of blah says through a fertilizer plant police say up to fifteen people have been killed in a g.'s a hundred and sixty injured but emergency crews fear as many as seventy may have died. during the break i think we're getting here but the explosion had the force of a minor and quake and destroyed several buildings in suing blazers spread to two nearby apartment blocks and schools the fire has since been brought under control but several firefighters and a police officer feared to date officials have shut down policy applies and evacuated half the town amid concerns that another fertilizer tank at the facility could blow up because of the tragedy is not yet known police say i will begin an investigation once rescue operations are over but that so far there's no evidence of foul play r.g.s. romano is at the scene. that's right the mayor of west texas spoke to was just a few minutes. just to confirm some of the facts of the disaster that we've seen here sixteen h

u.s. military officials admit to hunger strikers try to commit suicide as part of a desperate act of defiance which has dragged on for over two months. and britain says farewell to the controversial on lady margaret thatcher a figure who continues to divide the nation even in death our top stories. online on screen around the world twenty four hours a day this is live from moscow activists and families of palestinian detainees kept in israeli jails are running across the palestinian territories to mark prisoners day they're calling on the international community to intervene to release some inmates especially those on hunger strike let's get more details now from middle east correspondent paula paula just how big are these protests. well we did witness a large scale protests across the palestinian territories palestinian prisoner day is an annual commemoration and it marks the almost five thousand palestinian prisoners who are currently in israeli jails off that number of the five thousand

a slick u.s. town struggles to remove rivers of oil from its streets after a pipeline spews more than ten thousand barrels of crude. just under one reasonable u.k. government widely criticized housing benefit leaving millions with a spare room out of pocket. deadly printer american firearms and p.c.'s on the verge of creating a three d. printed began raising fears that getting a weapon will simply click and print. news on much more twenty four seven year with kerry just. the streets over us town in the state of arkansas have been deluged by over ten thousand barrels of crude oil after an exxon mobil pipeline burst on friday around two dozen homes have been evacuated with some residents forced to stay away for several more days when a cleanup operation continues auntie's washington correspondent and has the details now. exxon mobil is naturally trying to downplay environmental concerns they're not saying exactly how much oil spilled onto the streets of that neighborhood in arkansas but the company

u.s. military says the guards at guantanamo have fired four rounds at prisoners from non-lethal weapons they say the detainees covered surveillance cameras windows and partitions to prevent the guards from observing them during the ongoing hunger strike the guards allegedly clashed with the detainees which military officials say led them to move the captives from communal to single cells the military says the detainees used improvised weapons to resist the transfer they say that's when the guards started shooting at the captives as if now we have one side of the story that of the u.s. military very soon we'll hear from the lawyers of the detainees and what they have to say that is of course if they have by now managed to get in touch with their clients it's not clear if having moved them to single cells prison officials have also not imposed other restrictions on the prisoners too we don't know that guantanamo prisoners have been starving for more than two months now trying to bring public

sanctions meanwhile the u.s. moved to military hardware closer to the north coast including a warship and a sea based radar platform south korea says it will retaliate if it's attacked south based seoul based correspondent joseph kim believes that america's geopolitics in the region is firing up rhetoric. in terms of people in the capital in salt there's not much reaction or much alarm as these threats and the rhetoric from north korea has been continuous throughout the years we've seen. annual drills with south korea and the u.s. that north korea has continuously condemned and denounced them but the u.s. and south korea continually do these drills so we can see that a lot of the rhetoric these harsh rhetoric that are coming out of north korea in pyongyang are in response to these these military exercises as we mentioned a warship has come on the korean coast and now north korea has said that it will restart its run and nuclear reactor so we see that a lot of what the threats that are coming out of kenya are in r

gets out of the u.s. can purchase you know the political loyalties of countries and their condition of economic destitution and i think it would certainly those meester in europe after the collapse of the socialist war let's recall twelve new members of nato in the post cold war period all incorporated into nato within one decade from one thousand nine hundred two thousand nine hundred thirty year and these are countries that have been forced to send troops and an act of war zone the individual armed forces of each nato nation are going to become less and less national more and more international more and more sort of subservient to brussels and ultimately to washington a more designed for expeditionary adventurous abroad such as those in libya afghanistan in the indian ocean on the mediterranean sea in the balkans and so forth there and to protect their own lands sixty thousand people signed a petition for the u.k. to speed up the granite sand afghan interpreter afghans who helped british troops are now

interventions are the u.s. needs to stop its sort of half assed you know support of the rebels selected rebels you know them through this vetting process and they need to pressure the saudis and the qataris to stop. funding other elements of the rebel groups that sounds reasonable don't you think mark well i disagree somewhat with what john said here the problem is it's not two sides the problem is that we have multiple sides here and speaking i think it's not just in the us now. interest by i think it's in frankly the regional and global interest that extremists you take a look at the. at the nusra front and this is a proclamation that now we have a broader a rocky syrian. sponsored movement that's going to somehow free the syrian people that's ludicrous that's not what the syrian people want and that some elements in syria have been very clear that this is a they want this to be a syrian rob and they don't want interference from from al-qaeda they don't want interference from outside forces but where i would

forces to the u.s. is not at war with honduras yet we have hundreds if not thousands of troops that there are a large air force base and we're conduct operations raids in conjunction with the drug war this global war on drugs that we have launched that have resulted in and many civilian casualties and it's unknown an exact number of courses all kind of operating under this black budget what interest does the u.s. have in policing honduras well that's that's actually a great question i don't know the answer to that the united states wants to maine says that they want to keep a foothold in central america because it's such a. a key place for them to be in terms of counter-narcotics and in terms of you know keeping their presence against a growing you know leftist movements in latin america but what's going on is that the united states just like the police forces in honduras just like narco traffickers and government officials that are corrupt they get just as much impunity so the united states has even be

arrives in the u.s. somewhere around the year two thousand settles down in boston by the way and receives political asylum despite russia's pleas to treat him as a clue criminal at the beginning us federal authorities appealed the boston course decision on granting him asylum then they withdrew their opposition after a number of political heavyweights in the us tuned in to support the chechen militants including former sector of state albright so when questioning u.s. federal authorities reaction to the alleged russian intel on the middle of it is important to keep in mind the mindset perpetuated in the u.s. for many years in favor of the militants in russia and against the russian government's actions to stop them new york city's former mayor rudy giuliani spoke to the confusion that many americans had as they learned about the background of these brothers the chechen revolution against russia is an islamic based revolution they want to islamic state in russia. not inherently anti-american right anti ru

u.s. stocks or japanese stocks? >> actually, i was thinking of u.s. stocks, but i love japanese stocks, too, that's a great play. how about u.s. stocks? >> i'd be a buyer, why not be a buyer of japanese stocks, right? there is an inflation story you can live with. these are guys who will ine improve their lot, they're reverse. >>-2 or 3% cpi, you want to get them positive, we're at 1.5. >> that's a complete regime change. that's a turn-around. >> do you buy both markets? curious? japan is pumping out a lot of money. it's probably good for world growth. would you buy the u.s. market? >> yes, i would. specifically sectors, not metals. >> not commodities. >> honestly, i think the leaders of the first quarter which has been the so-called pensive stocks, i think they're grand jury to continue to be leaders. the reason why is every time bernanke and yelin prints another dollar, it takes money out of the market, if money comes out of the bond market and has to go into the smashing, where does it go? it goes into the most conservetive bond-like stocks. it's b

u.s. officials forced to admit the scale of the protest is rising. worldwide news a live from the heart of moscow this is. a welcome to the program. president putin says he was always a poles when western nations supported insurgents and russia and never considered them as terrorists and that was just one of the messages from his worldwide nationwide i should say question and answer session certainly being listened to by the world the event went on for hours and forty seven minutes beating the previous longest by a quarter of an hour. joins us live here on out so you get to see you certainly a lot of issues addressed by the russian president his first national q. and a since being reelected one of the issues he touched down upon the boston bombings. well surely of the recent tragedy in boston and the events was folded right after that were watched by the whole world and russia is no exception especially after it was established that the two suspected terrorists were of chechen origin and t

u.s. navy, and he retired as a 30- admiral after a nearly year career serving as navy chief of chaplains in his last position. he has earned doctorates in both philosophy and ministry. his biography "from the hood to the hill" recounts the story of overcoming unpromising beginnings in the inner city of baltimore. his more recent book "the blessing of adversity -- finding your god-given purpose in life's troubles" distills the wisdom he has gained from 30 years as a counselor, theologian, and psychologist, for addressing the many trials in life. ,arry, we have plenty of those so i appreciate you coming and sharing with us today. [applause] >> thank you so much. i am extremely nervous today because members of my staff are here. [laughter] and they are critiquing me. a lady approached me some time ago and said, dr. black, if they permit prayer in the legislative branch of government, why have they removed prayer from our schools? that i wasconfess rather flippant in my response. it was a refl

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 long as there are provocations underway such as those continued u.s. korean south korean military actions sizes this this is this crisis is going to continue if

the u.s. has pn poring over the latest satellite images of north korea and the intelligence assessment is, they likely completed all preparations to launch. an administration official says the missiles have probably received their liquid fuel, even though the u.s. has no way to confirm that information on the ground, the military is sending a clear message to kim jong-un, it's not when you launch the musudan missiles, but where. if a test missile flies out over the water, the u.s. pacific commander does not want it shot down. >> i would not recommend that. if we have any pre-determined, we should have a sense of where it's going to be aimed. >> if it's aimed over land near japanese territory, interceptor missiles could be used to destroy it. >> i would recommend action if it's aimed ought our allies. >> reporter: this launch could be different from previous tests when the u.s. had significant indications on what was about to happen before liftoff. >> i would recommend action if it's aimed ough

the tragedy in texas has highlighted a risk management failures in the u.s. are raising the question of the threat posed by aging infrastructure right let's cross now to new york with marina live there who's going to talk to us a little bit about who's been reporting in america's distress in week so far marina we have reports on regulation inspectors and agencies to control such sensitive facilities like this what's being done to heighten up safety. the problem is that nothing is being done and it is no secret that america's crumbling infrastructure is considered the most dangerous domestic circumstance lurking in every corner of the country for many many years the american society of civil engineers has given the u.s. grade d. plus when it comes to its infrastructure and there's many reasons that the first first and foremost is because the u.s. is not investing in fixing its infrastructure its bridges its tunnels its airports its security system environmentalists also are saying that safety inspectors are going in and inciting certain facilities such as the

interventions are the u.s. needs to stop its sort of half assed you know support of the rebels selected rebels you know them through this vetting process and they need to pressure the saudis and the qataris to stop. funding other elements of the rebel groups that sounds reasonable don't you think mark why i disagree somewhat with what john said here the problem is it's not two sides the problem is that we have multiple sides here and speaking i think it's not just in the u.s. national interest but i think it's in frankly the regional and global interest that extremists you take a look at the. at the nusra front and this is a proclamation that now we have a broader a rocky syrian. sponsored movement that's going to somehow free the syrian people that's ludicrous that's not what the syrian people want i think that some elements in syria have been very clear that this is a they want this to be a syrian problem they don't want interference from from they don't want interference from outside forces but where i would

u.s. dave it would never accept north korea as a nuclear problem just a couple of minutes we take a look at why washington may be interested in provoking conflict in the region. to the moon and bag-o. we report on the construction of russia's state of the spaceport and the country the bigger plans are relaunching its lunar program. anger over the hunger strike at guantanamo bay detention center that has just been activist on the streets across the u.s. protesting against the mistreatment of detainees and the continued operation of the camp area an open letter by twenty five human rights organizations was delivered to president obama urging him to keep his campaign promise and close the prison arches marina but may i was at the demonstration in new york. times square is considered one of the best places in the us to advertise a product or message or our brands and that is why civil rights attorneys human rights groups and many activists and protesters are out in the streets of times square

for now the u.s. secretary of state john kerry is due in israel hoping to restart stalled peace talks between tel of event. this follows renewed turbulence between israel and palestine sparked by the death of a former hamas member in israeli custody marina portnoy found the ever high tensions in the middle east have spilled over into a full on propaganda war this time in america. as the international community continue searching for the best path to a middle east peace agreement the issue has sparked a contentious ad war in new york are proposed to mean group recently unveiled an ad campaign that calls on the u.s. to stop sending three billion dollars in aid to israel every year the poster compares israel's policies to the south african apartheid and also includes a quote from dozen to two who led the fight against the apartheid now this campaign is being sponsored by the american muslims for palestine national grassroots advocacy group now in the meantime grow really a group called the american freed