as the investigation continues security forces already say they know who is behind this attack from or join me in just a few seconds. a reminder of a painful truth from the rocky american cheese memories in his own skin all those victims from both countries killed in the iraq campaign. and we investigate whether pharmaceutical companies are cashing in on aids patients while scientists from around the world put the disease under scrutiny in vienna. well i for one studios here in central moscow this is aleksey with you twenty four hours a day good to have you with us two security guards have been killed in an attack on a hydroelectric power plant in russia's southern republic of korea two generators were put out of action when several bombs were set off inside the station. is at

the scene. this is the hydroelectric plant main gate so it all actually started here police say that a group of unidentified gunmen broke through these gates having killed two policemen who were actually sitting here after that they proceeded through the to the administration building which you can probably see behind me allegedly the gunman tired of this stuff and started to torture them with knives trying to find out the location of the controls which is police say that after. the gunmen told you the generator room when detonated the bomb was destroyed two generators out of three and the one which you can probably see behind me we do survived later when security and police arrived at the scene they found an explosive device and defused did now the plant is still blocked police forensic team and investigators are still working on the ground searching every inch of the area looking for evidence about

who might be behind the attack despite the explosions paralyzing the plant the region's promise supply wasn't affected in the meantime security has been increased on all the hydroelectric plants across the russia's north caucasus region following that attack. it is a very emotional as following the investigation in moscow brings us the latest. the initial investigation has classified what happened at the bus hydroelectric power plant and rushed about to my car in north caucasus as terror attack but later on they rejected this version saying that was somewhat taj and a criminal investigation has been launched on the following articles sabotage first illegal arms production and possessing stealing weapons and attacking law enforcement offices although terror has been the least of the articles later national and to terror committee has confirmed that it's been carried out by

militants hold their public or put it in a book already they were saying that all the people being involved in this attack those who carried it out and the agonizes of this attack have all been identified although officially no name has yet been given so far the russian media has already suggested that amir abdul ought to be behind this attack this man is known as the leader all worked out in a book airing militants he became number one in the republic just a while ago and since then though the number of deadly incidents in the republicans well as in the region as a whole has increased dramatically and analysts say that now they smash and is trying to gain some popularity and to get some respect from midterms and most likely the main message the main goal of this particular recent attack on the plunge incompatible car was to attract their attention and to show to demonstrate how powerful is here and to demonstrate to strengthen his position as the

leader of the militancy in the republic with as i've mentioned the investigation that is see you and to go into is to be confirmed exactly who is behind this attack who is going to. be regularly carrying out anti terror training and russian regions this is necessary to issue to seize work together if you turn companies whose turn we have questions for the managers of the plant about security and the real. t.v. has gone to the investigation to show whether this facility was welcomed it. is most wanted terrorist still call moderate has been repeatedly threatening attacks on other countries infrastructure and looking at this recent attack on the plans incompatible carrier we can say that this could be the first abas successful attack on the country's infrastructure less not listen to what the abolitionists say it seems to me that the it can be very dangerous line of for the swedish truth

a current of good realists war where not only representatives of food storage is huge and the price is simply cannot make war jets are becoming targets for their obvious lampley it's much more complicated to prepare for all the soldiers from there. to rethink and to revise the whole corn syrup to deal with northern caucasus to think about how to move their place the up to it social political economic modernization of the region but we have to admit that the terror threat coming out from this particular part of the country remains rather high with reports about incidents deadly incidents happening in the region almost daily to start the republic of the gestalt. of it in about the area witnessed frequent attacks on local officials and politicians suicide bombings targeting law enforcement bodies or how become

a rather common thing they're adding to the worst thing about this region is that it is known as home to many so-called terrorist schools where the militants are being prepared to been trained to carry out terror attacks not only within the regime but also outside russian authorities are much concerned about that troy a number of measures to stop violence escalates in the region but as far as we're still reporting information like this recent about this recent attack we can admits that these measures are maybe not enough. well it is more a financial reporting from moscow. u.s. are still spending billions each month on its operations in iraq but these days it receives little attention at home well now a growing number of americans are accusing the media of burying the war and not giving its victims the recognition they deserve report not met the man for whom the issue is literally getting under his skin. the so in

a. a roll call of names you mean more if you're a painful scar for each one hundred thousand dots represent the iraqis casualties of war and it had to drawing attention to them. in a very difficult situation. the two can trees or belong to their war aggression. from one country to the motherland can treat and of course there is a huge amount of anger anger that will follow all has channeled into art in march the rocky american turned his back into canvas for an ongoing project called and counting. observers watch as below is scored with a borderless map of iraq surrounding the cities dots representing the deaths of iraqi civilians and american soldiers dots only seen under

a black light and the reason to have it in. invisible ink is to call attention to how there is gone and mark a death count which includes his younger brother haji how old is your. think that was close before he about twenty maybe before he died. it was two thousand and four in belongs hometown city of kufa haji and fellow iraqi civilians were demonstrating against u.s. occupation when a u.s. predator drone dropped a missile i felt. to engage people in some. art to be to use raney's awareness about what is going on since the media is not paying any attention. but last month the u.s.

media here to temporarily turn their attention to the other war and the scandalous mudslinging politics surrounding let's let's stick with stanley mcchrystal for a moment he has apologized for the comments that he made general mcchrystal has been ordered home to the white house to answer questions about his comments in this article a rolling stone article in which america's top commander in afghanistan hopped likely ridiculed the obama administration before star general tendered his resignation according to the pew research center mcchrystal drama filled twenty five percent of the u.s. mainstream news cycle how can the president let him get away with this the second most talked about story in june third was the rocky u.s. economy. while ironically the war costing america more than seven billion dollars each month yielded minimum coverage. leaving those. responsible for drawing a spotlight on

a party that run deep seven years and counting. r t. the us secretary of state says north korea will face new sanctions in the latest bid to stem its atomic ambitions hillary clinton was speaking in south korea after holding talks with the fence and military officials she said the new measures including the freezing of assets and to stop north korea or sending arms when it comes just days before a joint military exercise aimed at the turn pyongyang from any potential attacks the north denied accusations that it was behind the sinking of a warship but only to the south back in march of this year when i'm now joined by. the center for conflict analysis and prevention of the u.s. institute of peace thanks very much indeed for joining us there in washington now the u.n. sanctions in place against north korea they really don't seem to be doing much do they so will new ones really make any difference do you think. well right now the

consensus view among a lot of the korea watchers here in washington is that this is a very symbolic message to north korea two part message one is that north korea has a decision to make to go down this path of self isolation and more sanctions or come back to the six party talks negotiate denuclearization and get economic and diplomatic concessions and the second big message to north korea is that their sinking of the south korean warship to china has consequences and also to warn north korea future provocations. you talk about provocations isn't the u.s. being provocative in saying or certainly bringing up this alleged incident because in fact north korea said look if there's any element of punishment directed towards north korea for this alleged incident they will then go to wall now that is surely being provocative on the u.s. and u.n. . so there's a lot of differing perspectives we just came through the u.n. security council debates there in deliberations or produced a presidential statement that focused on the action rather than the actor so you

saw that statement condemning the sinking of the chart on but not referring directly to north korea now we're in this cycle where various countries are either objecting to the report or objecting to some of the actions and we're very frankly watching these types of actions and reactions very carefully right now can i ask about the social implications hillary clinton has said that these new measures need not directed against the people but surely further impact on an already impoverished nation is inevitable isn't it. well the administration the u.s. side as well as south korea they've been very careful to target the elites the leadership regime in north korea and so if you look at the freezing of bank accounts of things along those lines those are designed to again focus on a very specific group within north korea but when you look at the overall situation of the north korean people it's really a lapid economy the economy hasn't been functioning for decades now and so the idea

of more sanctions. directed at the leadership you know the main problem for the north korean people is this to credit economy you say one of the aims one of the key objectives as you said at the start is to persuade north korean leaders to return to the stalled six party talks but bearing in mind that they've been stalled for quite some time do you really really think that these sanctions will actually bring them back to the table it's right now seen as one mixture of different policy tools and you know if you look at the track record with the china in the reaction to the china and were frankly going in a different direction rather than the resumption of talks but it remains to be seen we will have to hear what china and russia have to say in response to the latest measures certainly think that when you look at the responses coming from beijing and moscow there is a hope that we can move past the chardon incident and try to somehow create a situation conducive to the restarting of the six party talks at this particular point in time and it does seem very interesting of course russia has been very much

involved and really has tried to help with this present position but hasn't done particularly well with its dealings with north korea but what about china you mention beijing and understand that you believe i've read in. one of your reports that you believe that china is deepening its relationship with north korea so if that's the case why didn't you tell everybody just leave it to beijing to sort out and not be involved. the concern is denuclearization that right now the chinese to the north koreans in their bilateral relationship it is that a deepening stance right now because frankly they're using their party to party mechanisms to deep in that relationship and there is a focus on economic development but the concern is if the chinese go down this path as much as they encourage the restarting of the six party talks how much of a priority is denuclearization and because of the concern i think there is an emphasis on measures like interdicting north korean shipments of arms at the high seas and so forth but right now we're we're in

a period where the countries are pursuing different national as well as international responses to dealing with north korea so the coordinating aspect of it will be key as we move forward join us from the center for conflict analysis and prevention at the u.s. institute of peace we really appreciate it tom thanks for joining us there in washington. we're just we're online for you twenty four hours a day also of course on screen for you twenty four hours a day but it's something you missed on screen that we always have those stories on our website dot com plenty of other features to. a couple stories there for you at the moment that might affect your attention russian traffic probably could save a billion dollars a year just by tackling that daily gridlock but the number of. keeps growing. and money to spare usually makes people happy but not one british woman you can find out why she can't even hold. those stories and plenty of other features on line dot com. an international aids conference in vienna may have been hearing about

breakthroughs in treatment but it's also had plenty of arguments scientists unveiled a new. gel which health officials are calling hope for women but human rights activists say the key to curbing the disease is access to universal a group of aids activists is full of a complaint with the u.n. against the united states president obama's policies favor multinational pharmaceutical companies raising the cost of treatment. one of those making the complaints. unfortunately the obama administration is continuing some bush era policies that said in fact that they were going to threaten countries with trade sanctions for simply trying to make medicines more affordable to their people including in medicine what happens is that the obama administration and the bush administration before them continue to threaten countries and what it does is it drives up the price of the drugs because unlike generic drugs brand name drugs cost thousands and thousands of dollars per patient per year if we restrict countries

ability to make those generic drugs and make them available to their people especially if we strictly ability to actually make those drugs which is ninety two percent of the drugs come from india if we're trying to push against them making generic versions of these drugs in order for drug companies to profit that's a violation of human rights. we can in fact prevent and treat and actually end aids if we work at it but we have to reach universal access to aids treatment and that means the prices of drugs have to come down so on the one hand we've got this administration huge supporters of pepfar and doing a lot on aids but on the other hand trying to restrict countries abilities to actually make those drugs affordable we have to reconcile those two policies that was aids and human rights activist matthew coming out talking to belittle. the former prime minister of kosovo is to be retried eight in the hague over alleged war crimes of the previous trial two years ago it was abandoned due to a lack of evidence however the president of the yugoslav tribunal since claimed

witness intimidation wants to blame. the most senior member of the kosovo liberation army to be indicted for the bloody war in the late ninety's with an expert on the bill. which thinks the ex prime minister has enjoyed protection from the hague while doing america's dirty work. we need to see the context in which this whole thing is taking place mr hardin i was a commander of the course of the liberation army and independence using terrorist methods and he was also supported by the united states and nato of the doing effectively dirty work for them to enable them to bomb themselves into kosovo and take control over the region let's be quite clear the largest military base of the united states in europe has been built in kosovo since then so mr hard to deny clearly enjoyed protection at the hague and i don't regard the hague simply as a you win partial tribunal i mean it is many people regard it as

a washington should be able there are now questions as to why this is this retrial is taking place well some of it is that the guy really. was if you like absolved of any guilt because as you said no evidence but the reason is essentially intimidation numerous people have been killed in kosovo as a result of this i think they now want to show that some kind of justice exists and that is why we are having the retrial. the meter country is dropping the equivalent to a free here oshima bombs in seventy eight days of war of aggression against of them for the republic of yugoslavia this is twisting fraying surround and it is coming essentially from nato countries i don't think that serbia is seeing as being guilty in russia or china at least two countries that still respect the charter of the united nations and a great many other countries especially not me lying to us but let's come back to this you have to bear in mind all that many of the things of which mr hardee night

has been accused of have taken place in kosovo when it was part of the fed the republic of yugoslavia and. since then during his trial a number of executions at play complaints and one possibility is to show that now that this is taking place under essentially may talk your patient and under crossover administration but they actually want to show that this is not all right . and that was balkans political expert. from london talking to me. with for a look at some other international news this hour in our world update scientists remain you have dug up what i believe to be the bodies of the romanian dictator. and his wife their children want to confirm they were actually buried at the spot in bucharest officials took samples from the corpses before repairing the coffins. remain there for twenty five years before being executed in an anticommunist revolt

. the worst flooding in more than a decade has left at least seven hundred people in china dead so far this year millions of been evacuated from homes and more than three hundred still missing due to continuing rainfall roads and rail line from a few to learn slow it's official say the rainy season will continue until the end of august at least. in france air traffic controllers are on strike protesting a plans to merge european aviation services a concern that major job losses could follow the plight of the can sort of the country's two main international airports charles de gaulle at the height of the holiday season industrial action is expected to last until thursday morning. as a team led by british scientists has discovered the biggest star known to man they say one three six a one is three hundred twenty times bigger than the sun and ten million times brighter astrophysicist say the star is twice as heavy as any previously discovered that dark blue background on this graphic we're showing you

now gives you an idea of its sheer size it's so big using the comparison to the sun we can actually put it on the screen we saw that a little bit earlier for you to find was made during a study of to start plus there's in the galaxy next to our own solar system. one hour ten minutes from now treatments for a go under the microscope of peter lavelle in these cross talk guests that's our special debate coming up shortly but first let's check the latest business now with . welcome to business the russian government's plans to raise the mineral tax may not be as punitive some companies first feared the state plans to increase the gas extraction levy by six percent in twenty twelve and five point four percent in twenty thirteen this will help raise an additional one point nine billion dollars during the first year and a further two point two billion the following year the all sector will also face

changes to its tax regime resource companies have been objecting to the new plans saying they would lead to reduced investment in the sector the finance ministry says it will offer concessions dulls and. broaden out a new mechanism should be created to help the worker new fields and provide tax breaks for them the fields of franco in taloqan will be included on the list of those receiving tax breaks that will also feel some changes starting from twenty twelve under the plan oil extraction tax will be raised to six point five percent to twenty twelve and five point four percent in twenty thirteen. sales of new cause in russia tipped to grow fifteen percent this year according to a cult p w c the company says the cash for clunkers program drove the sector's roys but it's unclear what will happen when the scheme ends meet paul reports russians are once again getting in line to buy new cars the way to get behind the wheel of a mercedes is up to three months and if it's

a new russian built do you want well that could take as long as one for a year in some regions so far overall sales were up three percent in the first half of this year however the market remains segregated with the most expensive and the cheapest shifting quickest but true cars are doing this and it's been a problem. so that people have got my ear still and. it's the segment in the middle that i was too. middle class. accomplishes by. general motors that segment for that the middle class is still struggling some more sales a russian orders a recent twenty percent this year price waterhouse coopers says the main driver has been the cash for clunkers program which has been more successful than expected it's clearly been very effective the question is how long the program will last and

whether there will be any modifications to the program at the moment it's aimed at the cheapest cars in the market it's possible that the program could be modified to target say the new modern cars that have been produced by russian producers in alliance with foreign promise to cash for clunkers program together with import duties on foreign calls boosted the share of mystic manufactures in the russian market to sixty four percent this year p w c believes the russian auto market still has tremendous potential for growth at the moment for every one thousand people there are two hundred thirty five because more developed markets the figure is two or three times greater. business. let's take a quick look at the stock markets in russia now both mean both is a strong day gaining some two percent with all my name at shell with almost five and a half percent off the revealing a big rise in metals output for the first half of the. also ended up off the

analyst said it. was less serious than feared. stress test results from european banks of putting pressure on stock markets worldwide managing director in the moon or international vic to schmitz explains what we have seen in the last two months is a significant derating of price earnings ratios across all markets to reflect expectation of slower economic growth rates as well as continued problems in the banking sector however the key with a stress test is a validity the rigor of those tests and we have to see on friday how rigorous those tests were now playmakers. a nine hundred million dollars deal to sell thirty aircraft to a bermuda based leasing firm it marks its third significant firm order secured at the show in as many days the super jet one hundred will be the first passenger plane built by russia since the fall of the soviet union earlier on thursday the company announced an agreement to sell ten planes to gazprom for three hundred

twenty three million dollars and kicked off the show by signing a contract to supply the two planes to an indonesian carrier the issue of the full featured air both sales worth around twenty three billion dollars. that's it for me you can always find more stories on our website at www dot com slash business.

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