two terror attacks in russia in one day one policeman killed and over twenty more people injured. taking matters into their own hands afghanistan's president wants to stop private security companies operating in the country prompting fears that nato troops will struggle to cope with them. the first steps to the stars all to the senses correspondent of course to prepare for spaceflight and this is to the

memories of those who helped lift america to the moon. and states of the football stadia suspended visa regime for players and fans and the country from. russia makes its move to host the twenty twenty twenty two world cup. from our studios here in central moscow twenty four hours a day this is. a car bomb blast outside a cafe in the southern city has left at least twenty three people injured investigators say the explosion which was the equivalent of thirty kilos of t.n.t. is being regarded as a terrorist attack a correspondent is following developments. we are right now outside russia's prosecutor's office and it has confirmed that the explosion was indeed an act of

terror a local policeman are saying that the court of exploded injured up to twenty three people who were stabbed in the coffee near to where the car was parked there was an explosion the windows were blown out for one fragment to move really close to me or the nearby cars were badly damaged. many people covered in blood which is just to give you an idea of how big the explosion was cars in the area one hundred fifty meters around that car were severely damaged as well right now a prosecutors are working on the scene there indeed to indicates it was an open explosive lift in the parked car some of those critical. investigative. piece presented to the community experienced investigators working at the site trying to identify type of the explosive its capacity. to remove the is what the russian president ordered an investigation and he also ordered to help

to be provided to all those people who were injured and pressed a person's voice to the region. born in the has reported that those who were suffered in the explosion are already being provided with another explosion took place earlier on tuesday on the border between north a said. when a twenty year old man exploded himself at the customs when he was asked to present his documents he killed one policeman and heavily injured another three rushed prosecutor's office is saying that they have information that two men from chechnya were heading to moscow and planning a terror attack in the russian capital one of them as i said before exploded himself at the customs and the other one was arrested later during the day and has confessed that indeed they to work together and were heading to moscow for a terror attack. in the area around the explosion was badly damaged by the powerful

blast according to eyewitnesses. some distance away from the blast about seventy five meters but still we all felt the blast wave it felt like something pushed me then we saw a lot of cars police cars among them drive past in the direction of where the sound came from we were at the office and decided to go there and see what happened the scene of the explosion was near the post office and across the street from the cafe we saw that the police had sealed off the area and the window. was shattered a lot of people were hurt since it was unlikely part of the city there usual a lot of people there the cafe there might not have been but still frankly people started panicking but then dissipated we still don't know what happened they have not let anyone inside the blocked off area. the owner of the car which was used in the attack has been identified according to local reports there are also suggestions two people have already been detained. who's lived in the go

to says the authorities are prepared for this kind of situation. to socal cultural center all this time ripple region because it's the place where all different if ounce festivities take place there or it's a place where a lot of students come in there to study and actually right now with the moment pedagogues host and all caucasian camp where more than solid and teenagers from all different republics caucuses republics come to get together the area where the blast happened is actually five minutes from the police station near the central post office not far from the local administration and the cafe is known to be a place where the local mayor likes to have dinners and lunches so it's a very touristic sport many people come there right now i know that the whole area is locked and are medics come very quickly at the scene i've received a couple of calls from my friend saying that they've been not far away from the

cafe they've seen a woman crying over here to kids who probably are. were there and actually went up last happened many people thought it was kind of an earthquake because it was so souvenir that it smashed in all the windows from. business centers so it's a hectic place at the moment but police is prepared. on the news now an afghan president hamid karzai wants to keep private security companies and replace them with local security forces the contract is mainly for western companies do everything from guarding supply convoys to providing personal security to diplomats and businessmen the government spokesman says the companies will be ordered to disband within four months all this comes as the u.s. increases its military presence in afghanistan in the learn from washington's independent institute believes that is targeting just to move towards more than security companies i think is probably playing the nationalist card maybe to get

rid of some of the try to get rid of some of the foreign contractors but in reality battling these private security companies that many of whom aren't registered with the government then operate like gangs around the country if they get rid of everybody in the timeframe that he says there will be more instability because a lot of the convoys that they use the embassies that satar the military structures and buildings need to be guarded because there's lots of violence and certainly the taliban would take advantage of that to increase their attacks on vulnerable places and also security companies have been accused of let their convoys go through the taliban territory so we have this corruption in there as well but they get rid of them i think there's probably going to be more taliban attacks the decree is really impossible to carry out any time soon. visa free entry for all that's one pledge from the russian government which is putting its weight behind the bid to host the

biggest football event the world cup international officials are the plans for the twenty. to find out what russia has been doing to sway the fee for delegation. russia is willing and able to fulfill all promises laid out in its bed that's according to prime minister betty who met with people delegation in moscow on tuesday and he says they're also. still promises that are not one of those guarantees is these are three to stay and. we provided fifo with guarantees from our government and we are ready to provide the organization with additional guarantees such as visa free entry for all the players and fans at the time of the event and free travel between cities hosting the world cup. russia has three major points and it's that first of all the fair bit you have

six million people who are players of the game of football they're big supporters of it so fan base is doubly number one also in eastern europe a country has never a host at the world cup so that could also be in russia's favor at thirty first interested in helping countries that have never posted to develop and having the games the world cup in a country would definitely help fifo reach that goal now though russia's bid also has the attention of the u.k. media british press quoting officials in that country saying that russia is probably the strongest competitor when it comes to sealing a world cup bid now the nation has a couple of days to woo the feeds i delegation as it heads to sochi and to the south from more on the russian bid and its chances is my colleague cuts arena but chose not to do with brazil with.

and sold africa. could know should be next its hopes of posting the twenty eighteen world cup a facing a key test this week is fifty inspectors arrive to assess the bit also in the running are england australia the united states and to join bits from spain and portugal and gold room and the netherlands but so the africa hosting this year's tournament and brazil in four years time it still would be europe's turn will be next in twenty eighteen and many see russia's chances and scrawny the chances are pretty good that russia can succeed and a lot of people say maybe you know i got more political decision than the football decision to give to a big country like russia or the biggest country in the world for a chance to the whole school. group between right also believes russia's biggest stroom and is helping to make it even so. he's the director of a commercial to be shown to the do you think it would feel to this suit chilling

trilobites compay in each issue russian if you loved it and the beach one incredible new stadia incredible new locations in terms of from some petersburg to sochi and kaliningrad and of course moscow you know there's a tremendous. respect to it on top of the games and again it's the first time that it will have been held in eastern europe and there's always a huge base of football fans in eastern europe who's never had the opportunity to show how much they love the game at home. to see the game until the government is ready to came up she's beating leeds designs for over a dozen new state of the old students with up to ten billion doing this what we've seen brand new stadiums are under construction currently it's only moskos luzhniki which fully matches people's standards and has had experience of costing major

international events but in fact the very need to build new infrastructure could be russia's major selling point the other contenders already have infrastructure in place but fever is interested in expanding it across the continent and beyond last small scale has successfully coped with a logistical challenges of several big tournaments in the past the people who are running this place are the same people who organized. the you for cup. in two thousand by making chelsea. were allowed in without visas for the first time and they all came in you know two different airports and it went very very smoothly and i think it will have a great time so people knew very clearly that russia was really tip top when it comes to organize and begin to marshal events like the. russia's grecian for the twenty people t.v. sochi olympics is likely to come under scrutiny by people team and the defense

results appearing to be impressive success could mean and not leaning go to russia in its world cup it exceeded their children r t skit. in the iraqi capital baghdad at least sixty people were killed and over one hundred wounded by a suicide bomber iraqi authorities say al qaeda was behind the attack the blast happened close to where a thousand people are gathered near an army recruitment center the attack is one of the bloodiest this year becomes just two weeks before the u.s. starts withdrawal from iraq leaving behind fifty thousand troops to train local forces iraq has been trying to build up its own security forces before the american people for more or less are now joined by carole turner from the stop the war coalition in london thanks very much indeed for joining us here on artie's this attack in baghdad iraq iraq a so actually this is a grim vision of what's going to happen when the u.s.

military pulls out isn't it. it certainly is i think it the fact that they chose an army recruiting center shows how they feel about the people of iraq participating in their own occupation so therefore you need american troops all the time. well i would say we need to get all of the foreign troops out of iraq the first claim to be a drawdown by the us and it's true that some troops will be going but i wouldn't call fifty thousand u.s. personnel remaining in the country a withdrawal but why do you want when we're seeing possibly the country suffering even more. incidents like we've seen today you can't just sit back and watch your country deteriorate kenny. i would not like to see it to syria i know but if the deterioration is taking place u.s. occupation the fact that a huge proportion of the population are extremely dissatisfied with what's happened

over the last period very angry and very resistance to a continued foreign presence that's the course of four taking place the best possible solution to that is to get foreign troops out of gaffa and allow the iraqis some people who will their friends in whom they trust to run their own country but the reality of the situation is you know is that the government is not at this point in time capable of doing that and the reason for that is that it's seen as participating in the u.s. project well even the iraqi army chief he says that the u.s. shouldn't be leaving yet he says it could take up to another ten years before the iraqi army is actually capable of running things itself so surely that's another reason why you do need these forces there. well i'll just simply tell you the gray i think you'll following a particular law. full says. in the chaos exists in iraq

because it's been the country has been destroyed by the war in the military occupation that followed it's the best way of rebuilding iraq to get its foreign troops out and to get real peacekeeping forces in and in those conditions where the population of iraq is comfortable and satisfied that rebuilding the country is going on then it will begin to fall down but the reality is not that the u.s. has created security but it's destroyed what little security fifty people the people there again you have to draw a thin line between a very clear line between keep peacekeeping forces and combat forces now if you do have peacekeeping forces there and we see a deterioration of the situation surely they would have to become combat forces and rectify the situation and death present. let me give you a parallel while appropriate to britain hopefully you'll few of us will understand

that the walls a wall going on in island. british. participants was seen by a section of the population as an occupying force and therefore the british army. is not capable of acting as a peacekeeping force the way in which. a subtle man to be is in the process of being negotiated is full the population themselves to take over running their own country ok without exactly what needs surely you must just finally must be encouraged from stop the war coalition to see the fact that there is going to be withdrawal of combat troops in two weeks' time yes there will be troops remaining there for support and training but the fact that it is going to be a withdrawal must surely be with some sort of encouragement but really honestly do you think that because of this troop withdrawal we will see a more stable country no i thought i wouldn't because i don't think this is

a troop withdrawal going on i think the troops that exist are being renamed and instead of being called troops being called train forces they are the same people with a different name the point is that the united states as a stamp wish to permanent present presents a permanent base in iraq it's hell bent on keeping that of course it wants to reduce the amount of u.s. personnel that of but the fact that it's reducing the number of personnel does is not the same and is not seen to be the same as withdrawal and therefore the situation will continue to be unstable carol turn a very interesting to hear what you have to say we appreciate your time here on r.t. from the stop the war coalition in london thanks very much indeed thank you you thank . other news now huntsville alabama played a unique role in the u.s. mission to the moon and still provides a unique insight into the space race today it boasts an extraordinary collection of

flight hardware and offers people a chance to step into an astronaut shoes literally and on tuesday i discovered even american experts say it was the russians who drove the nation to the moon. this is huntsville alabama vast space and a city devoted to just that the. in the deep south of the usa. is where it all began and this was the beginning of our manned spaceflight program it's where one man spatial vision when i was seventeen years old i had no doubt that man would land on the moon in my lifetime became reality he had always dreamed about space travel he was warner von brown a former member of the nazi party turned pioneer of u.s. space exploration given his past how did people here see him rocket scientists the gentleman who could take us into space but why huntsville we had more ph d.'s per

square acre than you could find anywhere in the country available land willing workforce a workforce that experienced history. and lived to tell about it back then i was in the in the manufacturing engineering department people like rocket scientists an engineer robert showing hammer what specific rock and. all of the super dirt do gooders the saturn one saturn five apollo story and dan brown's colleague and friend at buckbee we flew twelve or twelve astronauts to the moon in spacecraft like this and at the height of the cold war the real reason behind the space race i really believe that. the soviet union drove the us to the moon because there was serious competition between the two countries how can it be that the russians and do that we thought we were the technological

wizards of the world but then it turned out that here's somebody that already launched a satellite and here at the u.s. space and rocket center at competitions we have a zon and that's the only place in the. in a country that you can see all these vehicles including the space shuttle where you can see and experience everything that was good training for. fun. and they separating go down and land on the moon surface what does it feel like to go on the moon or the astronauts were actually very trained on a device just like this and here anyone could be a space traveler you want to be an astronaut here's what it takes to get your suit your helmet a frictionless environment let's go to space. but eventually you got to come back down. yes it's been a great ride. down to earth do you have a soft ski r.t.t.

alabama can you live from the russian capital this is all t still ahead for the latest of our special reports about the vietnam war thirty five years on before that we have the latest in the world of business that's was shot. hello and welcome to the business program here on r.t. all your diary pascoe may be collecting a war chest and his fight to take over a new role cynical russian daily voted last he says the boss of resell could borrow as much as six billion dollars from state run lend group the money would be used to buy the twenty five percent stake of rival nervous nickel shareholder value made proton and the two men have been locked in a heated fassel for control of the minor league accusing me of a mis managing the company. as reportedly agreed to pledge forty five percent of his and plus group as collateral for the v.t. to be learnt. president vegas called on russia's leading businessmen to help

rebuild villages destroyed by the wildfires. bloody miracle talent and you have to show cause have all been summoned to the presence black sea very sudden suppose there are systems terry pascoe promised to build fifty houses while you have to show called said he was ready to contract six hundred fifty thousand dollars the government has said it we rebuild houses worth up to sixty five thousand dollars each for all three thousand people left homeless. time check out the markets now russian stocks close high on tuesday as oil rebounded metals and financed boosting the outlook for commodity producers the country's biggest mining company neurosurgical increased one point seven percent. a worrying sign for the russian economy wagering as last month shot up eleven percent compared to do the federal statistics service says the backlog has now hit one hundred twelve million dollars

it comes despite president very of ordering bigger fines for employers who hold back salaries. b.h.p. billiton has launched an unsolicited thirty eight point six billion dollars bid for calendars potash corp the world's largest fertilizer maker the offer has been promptly rejected by the board of potash corp was grossly inadequate and now the market is pricing in a higher offer the bid reflects the anglo australian mining giants desire to capitalize on the recovery in the first lies the sector here in russia consolidation is also taking place or carly is widely expected to make a big for silvie it this would create a new national champion in the world's second biggest the juice of potash. grain from russia's national reserves will not be used for export beginning of this week the government imposed a blanket ban on producers selling grain abroad in response to the severe drought there have been speculation on the commodities markets the government would use its own reserves to fill some foreign contracts but speaking exclusively to our t.

the head of the joint grain company sergey levin says this will not be possible. at this point the intervention stock has nine million one hundred forty thousand tons of grain the intervention stock could be used differently depending on the situation last year and in the beginning of this year the country had excessive amounts of grain the interventions don't put pressure on the internal market that's why it was necessary to export this grain but the situation has changed drastically we cannot talk about excessive amounts of grain on the internal market now we are saying that we have a necessary safety net so we are not talking about exporting the intervention stock any more what we are talking about is the need to decide which of the internal consumers it should best be given to in other words to which of the affected regions it should go in the first place and in what scope this decision must be made by the government i think it will happen as of said within the next two weeks . what is russia's current storage capacity from here to if you look at the

statistics the federal service of states to sticks reports that we have a total storage capacity of about one hundred eighteen million tonnes but that includes all types of grain storage is both the modern ones equipped with climate control systems and the old grain arrays and bonds dating back to pre-war times honestly i think that only about one third of the storage is are up to more than requirements. how has the drought. affected your strategy until two thousand and fifteen that they get in and they get another company of a strategy of the united green company includes large scale investments into the green market infrastructure construction of new storage is and trans shipment elevators as well as an upgrade of the existing facilities going forward to two thousand and fifteen there will be significant changes in the grain distribution patterns inside the country because over the last few years there was quite a distinct distribution the southern region produce grain for export while the

central region and siberia produce grain for internal consumption this is going to change now and the grain from the south is going to be. internally as well and will certainly have to rethink i was trying to. finally lukoil is considering an unlikely proposal to diversify its business the oil giant has been offered the opportunity to try his hand chicken farming better response the company to invest in the construction of poultry plants which he hopes will produce one hundred thousand tons of meaty here that's roughly forty eight million birds that have a cultural ministry men's reports that new coil does respond favorably to the proposal and is considering the idea. update for now he can always find more stories on our website. business.

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