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that powerful explosion in the soul of the russian resort c.d.o. has left up to thirty people injured joining us in just a few moments with the latest. facing up to the drug threat the russian president meets the leaders of afghanistan to stand in pakistan many 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 like to giving up on the american dream and growing number of u.s. nationals choose to renounce their citizenship our t. asks why. nine am in moscow you're watching our. welcome to the program up to thirty people

have been injured in a car bomb explosion and russia's southern city. in the caucasus the explosion strug just outside a cafe in a busy street. has the latest from. we are right now in the center off which is actually a small resort city in the solid and russia in the north this is the seat it's a cultural center it has a lot of students are coming here and many tourists are very to wrist explored and the street where that car was left and where the cafe was it's actually a very busy street is just five minutes from the local police station and near the central coast 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 luckily because a rain has started just

a half an hour before the explosion and they saved many lives also there have been some reports in the mosques media that people have seen and there have been security cameras that sort of reported their car coming from a chechen region with two people inside that area near the cafe just a minute before the blast but there has been no confirmation of this information so far and here we've got an eyewitness account for you. we were some distance away from the blast about seventy five meters but still we 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. up to a city people have been taken to hospital and six are in really bad condition the government has pledged to optus three solid and dollars aid. compensations for each of the victims the current act of terror could billing to oil. is the capital of the newly formed district in the north caucuses are stubborn polar region is bordering saabs trouble some respond as church not in good shape to take a stand where militants are really active there has been a lot of trains. and all these explosions the car belonged to a local r. who hasn't been found so far there has also been a member of poor but the car was stolen interest days before the blast but though we haven't received any confirmation of this yet. as our correspondent ali. the city of peshawar. terrorism and drug trafficking are what's on the table today in

russia city of sochi president richard if you had it was hosting a summit there with the leaders of afghanistan to stand in pakistan has your inner child reports from the city. president dmitry medvedev is bringing together the leaders of afghanistan pakistan and their neighbor to his stunning saw which is to try and spur economic recovery in the region this is a second four nation meeting of a climb to the first one was and last here and back then the leaders focused on cross border projects economical projects as well as on security issues this year's agenda is believed to be pretty much the same russia is reluctant to get involved in military action in afghanistan but it still seeks a role in settling the conflict with russia central asia is a traditional sphere of interests and it has always been sensitive to instability the afghan conflict is causing in the region drug trafficking and islamic

radicalism stemming from again a stand or the main security threats recently there's been an increase in recorded strayed the trade which is also the main source of financing or militants in the region and russia which is now the world's largest hair when consumers seeking to break up channeling of the trucks from a canister and as to made it thirty thousand people are dying of abuse annually in russia lou this is a third of the world's death toll of drug abuse opium is flooding into russia and further into europe through the so-called northern route to the afghan to just border no visa sort of wired to travel from did you could stand to russia which means that the drugs can float easily through the open door tightening security on the border will be one of the main topics of today's talk president medvedev is also pushing for an agenda transportation projects to boost economic recovery in the region last year russia built a major hydroelectric plant into g q stan the plant is set to provide twelve

percent of the central asian countries total and a cheap production is by far the largest russian project in the region will several similar projects ambitious projects what hundreds of millions of dollars will be discussed today but you know the cho reporting there i'll get to say as the world's largest opium producer and experts agree a regional approach is key to winning the global war on drugs artie's a group is going to office more on how securities maintain at the afghan border. turning a boy into a soldier is a tough task but getting him ready to go into one of the most tricky borders in central asia is even more difficult. work i don't know if the other people don't don't go and that's why at this training center in done there is 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 conscripts arrive continuing the cycle the stones water would have been to stand 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 than 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 the sheet of an independent analyst and the author of dozens of articles about the flow of drugs he's unlikely to stop. no matter how strong and demand the water. this problem may have various technical solutions but it will never be full of solved well there's fighting in afghanistan and global demand for opiates. opium production is grown by a third since the us led invasion it's thought the billion dollar business brings more money than all foreign investments put together that's why it's unlikely even the most advanced border control system possible would solve the problem completely

business is simply too good you've got this going on. now the war on drugs has raged for more than four decades but a spirit of valor his guests debate has there actually been and notable success coming your way in. 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 now two years later a national. 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 if we had some sort of magic power that you could click your fingers to my cocaine would cease to exist would do world be a better place still be a great demand for stimulants 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 how to effectively regulation and control that like we do with everything else. now if israel plans to attack iran's nuclear power plant in which sherrod has only three days left to do sell that's the view of the former u.s. ambassador to the united nations john bolton made the statement in an interview. with fox news you said the danger of releasing the. great once the bush era plant is launched on august twenty first russia's state nuclear. energy company has announced it will transfer fuel rods to the facility on that day the plant radisson will be operating for peaceful purposes under the control of you when you watch but that's a good journalist and our two contributor wayne madsen says this might not prevent israel from attacking the facility. 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. everything to this 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 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. 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. america may be known as land of opportunity but 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 laura and asked one of the most renowned expatriates why his american dream turned sour ken 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 keefe apply to the state department to stop being american claim political asylum in holland and burned his u.s. passport o'keefe knows that no so 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 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 not 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 commando used in may and following that he was branded a terrorist by israel the 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 realize that a certain point that citizenship was a social contract and i didn't agree to the charms 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. 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

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now football's world governing body is continuing its inspection of russia's stadiums and infrastructure officials hope to convince the fog that countries the best place to host the world cup in either twenty eighteen or twenty twenty two russia is competing against japan the u.k. and the u.s. among others to host the event officials have already been to moscow and st petersburg but today's visit to sochi is likely to play the biggest row and florence in faces evangel decision progress towards readying 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 org event later inspectors will have to because we're they'll have a look at three new football stadiums and russia is said to need at least five new arenas each costing around three hundred fifty million dollars. watching r.t. now let's take a look at what else is making headlines around the world the former illinois

governor rod blagojevich is corruption trial has come to a close resulting in a conviction for lying jury was unable to unanimously decided the most scandalous charge trying to sell it failed rock obama's old seat in the senate the panel was said to be deadlocked eleven to one bottle goys which was found guilty of lying to federal prosecutors and prosecutors promise to retry him on the twenty three i resolve to accusations that i feel strong and what i've got is. a palestinian man broke into the turkish embassy in israel and 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 attacked the embassy with a knife torrie gun and a can of petrol authorities said he 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 deny the claims. pakistan has reassured donors the funds to help the victims of severe

floods will reach those in need international observers have voiced fear is that the money will fall into the hands of the taliban 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 to have been affected rather by the country's worst ever floods. well the flooding in pakistan combined with extreme heat wave in russia the summer has spawn many theories regarding what's to blame speculation ranges from a climate a weapon to global warming but as prominent russians a physicist alexander ginzburg told r.t. there's no ground to any of those allegations his full interview in an hour's time but here's just a taster. where did just somebody in russia and europe and pakistan come from well they didn't really come from anywhere situations like this develop in the atmosphere once every few years we call them

blocking situations characterized by a cycle and the cycle and 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. after more news log on to our website r.t. dot com and we'll now turn to the world of business with daniel but how. am i hearing that you have elements in a creation of a global fertilizer giant help for us good morning to russian miners have become so ping executives to create the world's second largest company in the sector details in the program but first because people it's in his notes an unsolicited thirty eight point six billion dollars bid for canada's ports has called the was largest fertilize the maker of the office been probably rejected by the board of potash corp as grossly inadequate and now the market is pricing in a higher offer the bid reflects the angles trillian mining joyous desire to

capitalize on recovery in the fertilizer sector here in russia consolidation is also taking place where kelley is widely expected to make a bid for silver in it this would create a new national champion and the world's second biggest producer of potash sixty four head sylvan it on its way to a merger or kelley rose nearly seven percent on tuesday after b.h.p. billiton of what was declined. let's see how the stock markets are getting on shares appeared people in turn fell over three and a half percent of takeover traders in asia were encouraged however by better than expected results in the us retail sector namely wal-mart and home depot. and talk to close higher on. chouse day as oil rebounded metals a role in the outlook for key commodity produces the country's biggest mining company in north nickel increased one point seven percent some of russia's biggest

companies produce first half results this week among them gazprom service tell us burbank if you've been watching r.t. business you might be wondering what 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 enlightening but in a culture of reports. corporate results are supposed to provide to guide to how well it companies be forming for investors and russian companies which reported under russian accounting standards but also use an international standard usually i have asked the reporting system can be nothing short of bewildering numbers can look very different subtypes which makes you wonder why. that makes sense if if the transactions are identical why would you get different reports in this transaction most significant russian companies fool 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 towards 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 track to fit to international investors the global financial community the global financial. international standards that exist for a reason. my life and. my confidence in marketplace russia's desire to become a global financial center will inevitably men why did option of our for 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 question on business actually. considering an unlikely proposal to diversify its business the oil john has been offered the opportunity to try to hand chicken farming bellerose was the company to invest in the construction of poultry plants which he hopes will produce one hundred thousand tonnes of meats a year that's roughly forty million birds they're called to ministry in minsk reports that nuchal has responded favorably to the proposal and is considering the idea car sales 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's still in prime position despite sales falling by their while

france is the second biggest market. grain from russia's national reserves will not be used for exports at the beginning of this week the government imposed a blanket ban on producers selling grain abroad in response to the severe drought there 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 sergei levin says this will not be possible. at this point the intervention stock has nine million one hundred forty thousand tonnes 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 amount of grain 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 ministers approve said within the next two weeks. ago what is russia's current storage capacity to hear that 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 arrays and bonds dating back to pre-war times honestly i think that only about one third of the storage is up to more than requirements and when how has the drought. affected your strategy until two thousand and fifteen start to get known as 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 transfer shipment elevators as well as an upgrade of the existing facilities going forward to two thousand and fifteen of them and 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 gee. join us next they'll fall the opening figures from brussels that look it's.

extracting black gold is dangerous. but why demand pushes the limits to catastrophe. is the price. is it possible to prevent such disasters. and can be off to must be dealt with quickly come defectively. oil spills and thrills. more news today violence is once again flared up. in these.