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powerful explosion in the summer the russian resort of people has left up just thirty people injured joining us in just a few moments with the latest. facing up to the drugs threat the russian president meets the leaders of ghana stand to take a stand pakistan but madam believe the problems impossible to tackle while the afghan war rages on. i started to look at american history and politics and realize that my whole life i've been lied to. giving up on the american dream a growing number of us nationals choose to renounce their citizenship our team asks why. it is eight am and. russian capital you're watching r t with me marina josh welcome

to the program two thirty people have been injured in a car bomb explosion and russia's southern city of pythagoras in the caucasus explosions struck just outside a cafe in a busy street was good now the latest from our correspondent who is in the gorse looks as if the bomber row was deliberately targeting a place where there were a lot of people give us the details of this terror attack. we are right now in the center off me just actually a small resort cd in the solid and bought of russia in the north caucasus and this city is a cultural center it has a lot of students are coming here to many tourists a very to risk to explore and the street where that car was the left and where the cafe was is actually a very obese district is just five minutes from the local police station near the central boylston and just a couple of blocks from the local white house so it is really

a business trade and actually we didn't have so many people injured and it largely because the rain has started just a half an hour before the explosion and these could have saved many lives as well or. also. a big car which has exploded i was left there by a driver he was a local and the axe but say that it contained thirty kilos of t.n.t. which is ten times more than our boys used to in macho moscow metro twin blasts also there have been some reports in the media that people have seen and there have been security cameras that sort of recorded their car coming from a chechen region with two people inside that area near the cafe just a minutes before the blast but there has been no confirmation. this information so

far and here we've got an eyewitness account for you. you know 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 and 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 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. are up to city people have been taken to hospital and six are in really bad condition the government has pledged to optus three sound and dollars in compensation for each of the victims. already sign tell us how the investigation is

going on. actually this act of terror i could believe to al qaeda and because it is the capital of the newly formed district which and the whole area of the saturable region is bordering such a tribal some republics as church. where militants are very active at the moment and as we know the car belonged to a local or hasn't been found so far there has also been reports that the car was stolen just days before the blast but we haven't received any confirmation of this yet. well actually the supper bowl region has been fairly quiet up to may when. there was a huge blast near the cafe near there. for all. of that laughter

almost to town people killed and many more injured ok exxon of thanks for bringing us the latest from russia southern city of pittsburgh wars were the car explosion where a car bomb explosion injured thirty people thanks very much for bringing us the latest. now on terrorism and drug trafficking are what's on the table today in russia's city of sochi president is hosting a summit and there was the leaders of ghana stand adric a stand pakistan afghanistan is the world's largest opium producer and experts agree a regional approach is key to winning the global war on drugs are going off reports . turning a boy into a soldier is a tough task but getting him ready to go to one of the most tricky borders in central asia is even more difficult. work i don't know the other people don't don't go out and that's why at this training center in done there's no time for games

when it comes to dealing with going to stand the center of the global heroin trade . classes are held every day despite the time of year and weather conditions right now it's extremely hot here but as you can see the troops are fully dressed in their uniforms have to get used to it since this is what they'll have to wear on the job after six months trained soldiers are sent to guard the border while new constructs arrive continuing the cycle stuns border with afghanistan stretches twelve hundred kilometers around seven hundred fifty miles water guards are being trained by the russian federal security service under a deal signed back in two thousand and four the use of different weapons physical education combat deck ticks and survival techniques are all poured over the course . terrorism drug and arms smuggling and human traffic have put this region in the global spotlight that's why there are currently over twenty international

organizations including the u.n. in the working to educate stand alone. afghanistan produces over ninety percent of all people in the world according to the united nations the death toll from opiates in the two countries is five times more than all the needle soldiers who died in afghanistan since two thousand and one and in russia alone the government says afghan heroin kills more people in just one month then during the whole ten year long soviet military campaign in afghanistan during which the u.s.s.r. lost around fifteen thousand people but according to russia an independent analyst and the author of dozens of articles amount to the flow of drugs he's unlikely to stop. no matter how strong and advanced the water. this problem here various technical solutions but it will never be fools solved well there is fighting in afghanistan and global demand for opiates. opium production has grown since the us

led invasion the billion dollar business brings more money than all foreign investments put together that's why it's unlikely even the most advanced water control system would solve the problem completely business is simply too good you've got this going off. and the war on drugs has raged for more than four decades but it's brutal about his gas debate has there actually been any notable success cross stocks coming your way a little later. the coca-cola the opium heroin the marijuana in fact we haven't had a control system we've had a global prohibition regime reminds me of a senator more a shepherd in one nine hundred thirty one was asked if alcohol prohibition would ever come to an end and he said i think the chances of alcohol prohibition ending in america are about the same as a hummingbird carrying the empire state building on its back to the moon two years later a national name was alcohol prohibition and i think the same is very much true certainly with respect to the probation of marijuana let's try to imagine even if we had some

sort of magic power that you could click your fingers to. cease to exist would do world be a better place still be a great demand for stimulus and possibly we would move to something worse like methamphetamine so i think this idea of getting rid of substances is really not the way to go it's how to effectively regulation and control the way we do with everything else. if israel plans to attack iran's nuclear power plant and bush air it has only three days left to do sell that's the view of a former u.s. ambassador to the united nations john bolton made the statement in an interview with fox news. he said the danger of releasing radiation would be too great once the pushchair plant is launched on august twenty first russia's state nuclear agency company has announced it will transfer fuel rods to the facility on that date and moscow says the plans poses no threat as it will be operating for peaceful

purposes under the control of u.n. uclear watchdog but investigative journalist and r t container wayne madsen says this might not prevent israel from attacking. if the israelis decide to attack iran it doesn't matter whether. there's civilian volunteers over there the new york yankees happen to be into ron none of that's going to matter they're going to hit iran and people like john bolton from want to he's one of these old neo con types they're the ones who lied about intelligence to get us into the iraq war and they continue to hype up intelligence. they provide false information and is keeping everything to the august twenty first date the bushehr reactor is a peaceful power reactor it has nothing to do weapons production we hear that israel may be targeting other iranian nuclear facilities in tang's and in coma and

and in toronto itself so the fact is that radiation would be a big problem with monsoon rains coming from the central asian steppes winging south picking up radiation and possibly dumping this radioactive rain on on three hundred nuclear powers pakistan india and china this could get out of hand very very rapidly we know that israel is in range for some iranian missiles they. depending on how good their air defenses are they could be hit but i think it would also react from lebanon and we would see a wave of rocket attacks. american maybe known as the land of opportunity by. for increasing numbers it's an offer they are not willing to take last year alone an estimated seven million people renounced their u.s. citizenship three times as many as the year before arty's lauren asked one of the most renowned expatriates why his american dream turned sour can o'keefe

grew up an american in a nation that he believed was the greatest in the world a bastion of freedom and democracy in order to protect those ideals he joined the marine corps and went to fight for his country in the gulf war and that's when the american dream became a nightmare i was punished for speaking out about something that my superiors were doing and my life became extremely difficult upon my return with a different perspective i started to look at the american history and politics and realized that my whole life i had been lied to and i believed in those ideals you know i believed in them and when i found out that these ideals were really the way america was presenting itself in the world it became clear to me at some point that i would renounce citizenship and renounce if he did o'keefe applied to the state department to stop being american claim political asylum in holland and burned his u.s. passport o'keeffe knows that not everyone will agree with what he's done some maintain

he could have exerted more pressure from inside the system but however they choose to do it middle east commentator alan hart says americans must do something i have a love hate relationship with america. on one level americans are the most uninformed misinformed dumbest gullible people on the face of god's earth that's the bad news deep down they're also the most idealistic so i say and americans didn't mind me saying it if they were properly informed about the causes and effects of things in the middle east. they could become engaged to make their democracy work it hasn't always been this way at the end of the second world war the us was leading the world both economically and morally but according to carol turner from the stop the war coalition it's steadily it rooted that goodwill because it's failing to give its ethical lead now attorneys it's

increasingly forced back to using its military power to impose its will can o'keefe is committed to changing that sense since giving up his u.s. citizenship has made it his mission to oppose u.s. military action wherever he can he was on board one of the gaza bound aid ships raided by israeli c'mon days in may and following that he was branded a terrorist by israel ken o'keefe now an irish citizen giving up his country wasn't an easy decision and he insists it wasn't one borne out of hatred you know i realized that a certain point at citizenship was a social contract and i didn't agree with the church of the contract obligations you have rights and you have obligations among your obligations is paying taxes those taxes are being used to commit mass murder i don't agree to that a lot of people misinterpret renounce your citizenship or hate america and that's

absolutely not the case at all i have a deep love for the american people i wish that the ideal of america became a reality until that dream becomes a reality o'keefe and others like him will be staying away from the land of the free and the home of the brave. it. just to remind you we've got much more on our website so log in to check out stories quizzes a top rated videos and you can also follow us on twitter which is updated twenty four seventh's so now let's take a look at what's waiting for you on the line god given skills garion priest has been showing off his skateboarding prowess to parishioners. where all of the band shows park visitors in china are being forced to pay up seats are fitted with steel spikes that we track four feet and shoot out when your time is up. you're watching are the live from moscow

football's world governing body is continuing its inspection of russia and infrastructure officials hope to convince the thought that the country's the best place to host the world cup either twenty eighteen or twenty twenty two russia is competing against japan the u.k. and the u.s. u.s. among others to host an event in either twenty eighteen or twenty twenty two officials have already been to moscow and st petersburg but today's visit to sochi is likely to wind the biggest role in influencing eventually decision progress towards a black sea resort to host the winter olympics in two thousand and fourteen as russia's chance to show first hand its ability to stage such a prestigious world sporting event well later inspectors will head to cazan the where they'll have a look at three new food bowl stadiums and russian is said to me at least five new stadiums each costing around three hundred fifty million dollars.

all right let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world and former illinois governor rod blagojevich is corruption trial has come to a close resulting in one conviction the jury was unable to now animals will decide on the most scandalous charge of trying to sell barack obama's old seat in the south the pal was said to be deadlocked at eleven to one noble goal which was found guilty of lying to federal prosecutors prosecutors promised to retry him on the twenty third resolved accusations of. a palestinian man who broke into the turkish embassy in israel tried to take hostages has been arrested after being shot a major security alert was sparked after the man who is said to be mentally ill tapped the embassy with a knife. a can of pepsi so what he said he'd only recently released from prison after an attack on the british embassy in two thousand and six some media reports suggest the turkish ambassador himself was held hostage although israeli officials

denied the claims. pakistan has reassured donors the funds to help the victims of severe floods will reach those in need international observers voiced fears that the money will fall into the hands of the taleban the u.n. says it has received less than half the funds necessary to provide immediate help to those in need twenty million people are estimated to have affected by the country's worst ever floods. well the flooding in pakistan combined with extreme heat wave in russia the summer has spawned mannie series regarding what's to blame speculation ranges from a climate weapon to global warming but as prominent a russian physicist alexander ginzburg told r.t. there's no ground to any of those allegations is for interviews in ten minutes but here's just a taster for now. god. where did the summer disasters in russia europe and pakistan come from well they didn't really come from anywhere

so situations like this develop in the atmosphere once every few years we call them blocking situations characterized by a cycle and the pair of equal strength facing one another my point is that there is nothing extraordinary about what we are seeing this summer from the meteorological point of view. well brings up today here on our team remember that for any of the stories that we cover here can always log on to our website which is r t dot com and in just a few minutes we'll bring you the business update of the bush also don't go away. i'm great for the food we've got it. the biggest issues get a human voice things to say so with the news makers.

welcome to business b.h.p. billiton has launched an unsolicited thirty eight point six billion dollars bid for kind of this puts us corp was largest fertilizer maker the offer has been promptly rejected by the board of potash corp as grossly inadequate and now the market is pricing in a higher of the bid reflects the anglo australian mining joyous desire to capitalize on the recovery in the fertilise the sector here in russia consolidation is also taking place or al kelly is widely expected to bid for sylvan it this would create a new national champion and the world's second biggest producer of potash well

kalie rose nearly seven percent on tuesday of the b.h.p. billiton offer was declined. let's not check out the stock market shares of p.h.p. pits and fell over three point five percent after the takeover failed traders in asia were encouraged by the better than expected results in the us retail sector namely wal-mart. and russian stocks closed higher on tuesday as oil rebounded metals prices advanced boosting the outlook for commodity producers the country's biggest mining company no rules nickel increased one point seven percent. some of russia's biggest companies produce first half results this week among them gazprom service still imes burbank if you've been watching r.t. business you might be wondering why this is the first you've heard of it that's because the results were announced on the russian accounting standards and for investors this can often be more confusing than lightning in a culture of reports. corporate results are supposed to provide to guide to how

well a company's performing for investors in russian companies report under russian accounting standards but also use an international standard usually i have asked the reporting season can be nothing short of bewildering numbers can look very different subtypes which makes you wonder why. that makes sense or. if the transactions are identical why would you get different reports in this transaction most significant russian companies full in the category of dual reporting including major banks energy companies and minus this can sometimes lead to a profit under one system suddenly tensing into a loss in the other and vice versa so why the big difference one reason is who then counting is intended for the russian standard is for the local tax office to determine how much money should be handed over to the government while the emphasis of iowa for us is more to was protecting investors accountancy the difference

amounts to one of satisfying legal obligations versus revealing economic health plans to move the russian standard closer to the ira for us have been in the pipeline for some time the finance ministry spitting its weight behind the move saying it will make the country. to international investors of the global financial community the global financial. international standards that exist for a reason. by life and. confidence in marketplace russia's desire to become a global financial center will inevitably men why did option of i have her us but until they do the reporting says in hand will continue to be a swirl of confusing ficus and like most people when confronted with too much information investors will await data they understand before making potentially coastie decisions. now you should business. now lou corliss considering an unlikely

proposal to diversify its business the old john has been offered the opportunity to try its hand chicken farming better response the company to invest in the construction of paltry plants which he hopes will produce one hundred thousand tonnes of meat a year that's roughly forty million birds their culture ministry in minsk reports that lucas has responded favorably to the proposal and is considering the idea. because those in russia have risen to put the country in third place in europe for the first time since two thousand and eight in july dealers sold almost fifty percent more cars than in the previous month over one hundred sixty thousand vehicles germany is still in prime position despite a thirty percent fall of sales for france is the second biggest market. grain from russia's national reserves will not be used for export at the beginning of the week the government imposed a blanket ban on producers selling grain abroad in response to the severe drought that had been speculation in the commodities markets the government would use its own reserves to fulfill some foreign contracts but speaking exclusively to r.t.

the head of the joint grain company sergey levin says this will not be possible. well guardian what do you mean at this point the intervention stock has nine million one hundred forty thousand tons of grain 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 interventions that 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 ministers approve said within the next two weeks. the going rogue what is russia's current storage capacity to

hit if you look at the statistics the federal service of states to six reports that we have a total storage capacity of about one hundred eighteen million tons but that includes all types of grain storage is both the modern ones equipped with climate control systems and the old grain or ease and bans dating back to pre-war times honestly i think that only about one third of the storage is up to more than requirements and how has the drought. affected your strategy until two thousand and fifteen start there given that another company of a strategy of the united grain 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 consumed internally as well and we'll certainly have to rethink our strategy. so for this although most stories on our website that's all true dot com such business.

news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are on the day the be. the for. culture is that so much you are going to try to build on already the muslims believe that they know nothing less than us and after forty years the so-called war on drugs has achieved precious little.