city center in southern russia injuring at least thirty people hours after a suicide bomber kills one and three in the republic of. bushehr nuclear power plant before it's operational says america's ambassador to the u.n. john bolton. taking matters into their own hands afghanistan's president wants private security companies operating in the country that nato troops will struggle to cope with. a suspended visa regime for. a country full of. twenty eighteen

or twenty. 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 of has left at least thirty people injured the explosion which was the equivalent of thirty kilos of t.n.t. follows another terror attack that struck russia's north caucuses tuesday morning our correspondent has more about the two incidents. we are right now outside russia's prosecutor's office and it has confirmed that the explosion was indeed an act of terror there was an explosion the windows were blown out one fragment through really close to me the nearby cars were badly damaged windows broken many people covered in blood were taken out 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 as the preliminary data indicates it was an open explosive left in a parked car some of those injured are in a critical condition the investigative committee has opened a criminal case the representatives of the community experienced investigators working at the site trying to identify the type of the explosive its capacity and all the relevant data the federal security service has reported to the russian president ordered an investigation and he also ordered to for help to be provided to all those people who were injured and present a presence and voice to the region. born in the house reported that those who work suffered in the explosion are already being provided with help another explosion took place earlier on tuesday on the border between north a set. 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 persecutors 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. twenty nine of those injured in in hospital with two of them being treated in intensive care the owner of the car which was the attack has been identified according to local reports and it says a wide area around the explosion was badly damaged by the bomb. but we were some distance away from the blast about seventy five meters but still we all felt the blast wave it felt like something pushed me down 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 windows of the post office were shattered a lot of people were hurt since it was a lively part of the city there usual a lot of people there the cafe there might not have been packed but still. the former u.s. ambassador to the united nations john bolton has warned israel it has only three days left to attack iran's bush ship power plant that's because russia plans to start loading nuclear fuel into the reactor this coming weekend but bolton has always supported the use of force against iran and said if the plant does become fully operational israel will no longer be able to act well let's get the opinion of dr i don't ben meir he's a professor of international relations at the center for global studies in new york thank you very much indeed for joining us so bolton says three days to attack what do you make of this why is he encouraging your israel in this way do you think.

i don't think. bolton is correct in this regard. israel has known for some time that this. is going to be operational but also the russian also wanted to make sure that. the nuclear fuel in your rights that is the iranian have been obligated themselves to return if you the spent fuel back to russia which is suitable to produce you know nuclear nuclear weapons so there's an agreement to pick which of the united states are apparently satisfied with that arrangement with iran in between you know in the direction but nevertheless is international concern about iran's nuclear ambitions he's got a point here has any sanctions have not worked there for a minute to attack is probably the only option and indeed the u.s.

recently said a military attack could be in the planning stages i mean do you think that could be a chance. where there is always a chance of that but you have to look at the circumstances it prevails today for a reason why i don't think anything is going to happen the next three or four days or next month for that matter who is first of all iran did not. it's the breakout capacity that is preserved that will be the science but time has come to do something about it to the sanctions currently really working specifically in the area of technology fuel energy etc and certainly banking and iranian are hurting very very much three they have already agreed to sit down again next month after ramadan to negotiate with the five plus one again to restart the negotiation to see if they're each on agreement for the united states is about to commence to resume the negotiation between his own the public steenie and he is not going to take such

an action at this particular point and five of the united states have been coordinating the activities of iran i do not believe that iraq today is going to do you know that sort of actions without the direct involvement of the united states because no matter who does it whether it's. the united states that both countries would be implicated and i don't see that happening anytime soon all right well let's talk about russia's position here because although you said there has been a written agreement that the spent fuel rods from bushehr will be sent back to russia to ensure they cannot be used for nuclear weapons so that's a great way of in effect monitoring iran's nuclear program then but nevertheless is there still. a suspicion of russia's involvement with iran on this matter from an international point of view and perhaps could derail relations between russia and the u.s. and other countries. well let me let me be very clear i did not

say and i would not say that military action either by the united states or both has been removed from the table that has never happened and it is still very much on the table so to speak the question is the timing and the question is whether or not iran will eventually come to its senses and decided to negotiate a solution to the problem though. this is really the issue today but clearly the only thing it will be. is there naivety here because clearly iran is taking a very obstinate position here and people keep saying yes we'll give them time to talk let's have more negotiations but the longer you leave it in the bolton the same effect you're running out of time you have run out of time already within three days. well i don't believe this is the bushehr is only one. supervision by the russian themselves russia is not interested to see and taken against iran this point or even in the future they have

a very heavy investment in r. and r. and the tens of billions of dollars so due to the chinese what i am basically saying israel has never ruled out the possibility of attacking iran i'm also saying that from the israeli perspective you know from this very intelligence community as well as his defense. in iran is has not reached that point where a. serious exists. and his the israelis would be waiting and working with the united states to come up with a solution that's what we're saying the time is not. but that doesn't mean that it cannot happen in six months or eight months down the line very interesting to hear what you have to say thank you very much indeed dr professor of international relations at the center for global studies in new york and joining us live here on r.t. thank you. 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 had gathered near an army recruitment center attack is one of the bloodiest this year it comes just two weeks before the u.s. starts would fall 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 forces leave but carol turn to stop the walkout. there's no actual combat troop pullout anyway. false is all for her 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 is 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 that it will begin to subtle them but the

reality is not that the u.s. has created security but it's destroyed what little security existed before the invasion in two thousand and three i think the troops that exist are being renamed and instead of being called calm but troops are being called train source port forces they are the same people with a different name the point is that the united states as a stamp wish to permanent present presence 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 that the fact that it is 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. visa free entry for all that's one pledge from the russian government which is putting its weight behind the bid to host the planet's biggest football event the world cup during a meeting with fever officials prime minister putin said if russia host the event

players and fans will get easy access to the country inspectors started ensuite petersburg before traveling to moscow to see the plans for the twenty eight hundred two world and also visit other russian cities including pretty fourteen in the capital sochi a lot easier covering a job and looks at why russia thinks it's got a good chance of winning the big. vote thanks brazil thank you. and so jessica. could russia be next its hopes of posting the twenty eighteen world cup facing a key test this week as fifa 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 golden and the netherlands but so difficult hosting this year's tournament and brazil in four years time it's good europe's turn will be next in twenty eighteen and many see russia's chances as high pressure can succeed and

a lot of people say maybe you know i got more political decision then then football this is going to give a big country like russia the biggest chance in the world the chance to hold the. group between right also believes russia's bid is strong and is helping to make it even stronger he is the director of a commercial to be shown to the jury group it was the all told the suci winter olympics compay incredible new stadia incredible new locations in terms of from some petersburg to such a young kaliningrad and of course moscow you know there's a tremendous in our tourism spec to it on top of the games but again it's the first time that it will have been held in eastern europe and there's also a huge base of football fans in eastern europe. to see the game at home the government is ready to pay up to ten billion dollars what we have team brand new

stadiums are under construction currently it's only moskos luzhniki which for you matches people 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. class moscow has successfully cloaked with the logistical challenges of several big tournaments in the past the people who run in this period are the same people who organized. the you for cup champion. finals in two thousand and eight but listen if you between man u. and chelsea the fans were allowed in without visas for the first time and they all came in two different ports and went very very smoothly and i think it will have a great time so people you know knew very clearly that russia was really tip top

when it comes to organizing big international events like russia's group grecian for the twenty fourteen sochi olympics is likely to come under scrutiny by three for two and with the france results appearing to be impressive then such a success could mean and now the winning goal for russia in its world cup it exceeded the churchyard t. . natural beauty is locked in competition with the promise of miracles from plastic surgeons in russia women and some men flocking to hundreds of private clinics to enhance their looks but for some patients who ignore the risks they're not enjoying new wrinkle free faces but suffering endless legal battles with inexperienced surgeons. the ugly side of. despite being one of the most unregulated areas in russian health care plastic surgery is seeing

a boom in demand the idealists have been have had to those jobs liposuction my lips we press the huntsman's and older forth when i make money with this when people call me crazy i answer that in my house in florence i don't care what they think plastic surgery clinics easy to find in most cases and procedures cost less than you might think like. breast enlargement. the quest to becoming body beautiful three perfect surgery becoming more and more popular and more and more affordable can be even bigger with the real cost of going and the knife could be. far from people being put off by the dangers the plastic surgery crowd is getting younger russia's stance fits the months countries with the highest level of plastic surgery operations being a relatively new market many private clinics of any popped up in the last decade and there are still very few experienced professionals. through the system of

medical training different in russia and western countries it takes up to ten years to train as a plastic surgeon in russia if you're already a surgeon you just need to take a month long course in order to get a license to practice for one twenty seven year old girl who entered a mosque a clinic recently for a routine liposuction the risk cost her life when she had a suspected allergic reaction was done the local and. the legal repercussions in these situations are often and. more of the news corp there are no clear controls or sanctions doctors avoid punishment and a large number of cases one reason is that medical documentation submitted to the judge or the investigation officers are often falsified. today there is still no official statistics on the number of institutions providing plastic surgery. with recent tragic cases and little official. russians might start thinking twice about the risks involved the full going under the knife. sarah firth.

well time for a look at some other news from around the world at this stage of the day a high speed train from frankfurt to paris has collided with a truck carrying rubbish in germany. injured one of them seriously. about one hundred forty kilometers southwest of frankfurt happened after a truck slid down the which to the tracks police say it'll take at least a day to clear the area. a palestinian man has been wounded and detained in the shooting at the turkish embassy in tel aviv say the man entered the building seeking asylum but was shot by security when he threatened staff some media reports say the ambassador and his wife escaped on home after being held hostage by the truth the israeli officials have denied the. afghan president hamid karzai wants to kill private security companies and replace them with local security forces the contractors who mainly for western companies do everything from guarding supply

convoys to providing personal security for diplomats and businessmen a government spokesman says the companies will be ordered to spend within four months this comes as the u.s. increases its military presence in afghanistan i mean he learned from washington's independent institute believes that it is targeting unregistered local warlords the security companies. i think he's 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 many of whom aren't registered with the government and operate like gangs around the country they get rid of everybody in the timeframe that he says there will be more instability because a lot of these 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 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. well despite all the progress we're turning to an imperial society with a hunger for power and resources driving the agendas of major world powers and the current us invasion of afghanistan no different than the vietnam war while these thoughts and more are in our exclusive interview with veteran left wing journalist john pilger coming your way next here on.

today i'm in london speaking to a veteran journalist on the documentary right there who started his career chairing the vietnam war john pilger thanks very much for talking to now let's talk about morton media in general first if you don't mind recently the web site wiki leaks published tens of thousands of documents relating to the afghanistan war what do you think that is the biggest impact is that modern technology has had owned journalism well i think the wiki leaks exposed. look like they might change journalism altogether if not change. because what is wrong

is what journalists should have done. you know here is the dreadful litany. of disaster and killing in afghanistan. and i don't think. gotten a sense they've got a sense of the disaster but i don't think we've got a sense of the real the the political disaster the the behind the the human disaster in afghanistan that's what we can leak says has given us. i think it says to journalists. separate us separate yourselves from the world of authority and start becoming independent it's the extraordinary moment you have had a very long career and journalism do you think the world is a better place now than it was when he started yes look things.

improve progress is made. in spite of. the. the imposition of unaccountable power. on our lives i think socially in the way that people lead their lives and make their own arrangements in my lifetime and. there's been an enormous amount of progress that said there is also an enormous amount of regression we live in an imperial age again. i mean that that's quite extraordinary we have a technological version of what it was in the nineteenth century with great powers vying for strategic place in the world resources in the world we live in an age of what they call in washington perpetual war and i'm

quoting general petraeus permanent war i mean that's not progress that's regression and that we have to deal with and staying on that point what do you think is the best and most painless way for the u.s. and its allies to get out of iraq and afghanistan as so many critics have been calling for get out just get out i mean this this announcement by obama. would be the end of the combat mission next year is nonsense and that's another example of the of the media simply taking a face for something that told by authorities in fact there's going to be something like ninety four bases left and sixty thousand troops and the surge so-called that is an increase in the number of most families they call them contractors so far

from getting out it's consolidating its position in iraq and that's what people really should understand and what about the time since barack obama's been in power do you think that there has been a paradigm shift in america's foreign policy since the bush administration no. absolutely not there's been. i think we can put aside the word paradigm the paradigm has been changed since nine hundred forty five american foreign policy runs in a straight line goes up goes to sideways goes down a little bit but basically that line runs that trajectory runs in. direction and what are bombers is simply pick up. the policies of bush and pursue them i mean for example for the first time in u.s. presidential history and hasn't happened before our president has taken the entire defense department. bureaucracy and the secretary of state for defense

from a previous administration discredited one is the american foreign policy hasn't really changed since nine hundred forty five you were already reporting during the vietnam war what's the difference between the wars in vietnam in afghanistan in principle there is no difference they're both guerrilla wars. they're both resistances opposing an invasion. both becoming one because the. vietnam became a disaster for the vietnamese people two to three million of them perished and a smaller disaster but a considerable disaster for the united states the same thing is happening in afghanistan the same thing happened in iraq talk to me about america's increasingly

complicated relationship with iran there are now that they've refused to rule out sanctions and that's talk of off minute tracks and what do you think this is a nation to iran's nuclear program iran. doesn't threaten anybody it doesn't have a nuclear bomb if you look through all the international atomic agency reports of the last seventy is they saying basically the same thing constantly go she should with iran in the middle in the in the midst of this iran wrote to the iranian government wrote to the american administration and put a series of proposals they didn't even get a reply. a rom was. under the shah iran was a pillar of the american network the american empire if you like in the middle east that was swept away in nine hundred seventy nine when there was an islamic

revolution and it has been american foreign policy to get that back and finally how would you assess this reset that we've seen recently in u.s. russian relations u.s. russian relations are very interesting. it must be news people in russia. to be told that they're being threatened by missiles from iran. that absurdity is justifying the placement of missiles around russia even though obama made some spectacle of withdrawing some of these people they were was repositioned. russia has its own sphere of influence following the demise of the soviet union. i think that when great powers start doing deals together at the expense of.