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family explosion in the southern russian resort c.d.o. categories because left up just thirty people injured joining us in just a few moments with the latest. facing up to the drugs read the russian president meets the leaders of ghana stand down pakistan but many believe the problem is impossible to tackle while the afghan war rages on. i started to look at the american history and politics and realize that boyhood to. giving up on the american dream a growing number of us nationals choose to renounce their citizenship our t. asks why. it is ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshua welcome to the program now up to thirty people have been injured in

a car bomb explosion in russia's southern city of petty wars in the caucasus the explosion struck just outside a cafe in a busy street well let's get now the latest on this from our correspondent who is in passing for us. some it looks like the bomber targeted the place that would potentially have a lot of people and it looks like it was a deliberate terror attack there give us some more details of this. we are right now at the exact street where their car bomb explosion took place and the police officers just five minutes walk from here their post office is in nearby and the local y. house is just across the blog so this tread is and did a very busy and crowded street as a cultural center it's also known as a city of students and base august many more come here as it locates earn all coke asian youth camp so the street is very busy and their white car has been

parked in front off a cafe just over there are there was no driver at the moment all the explosion and the car contained up to forty kilos of t.n.t. just to paint a picture it's ten times more than was used during the twin blasts in moscow metro this march that last left almost forty people died and many more injured. mass media has been reporting that security cameras have recorded a car from chechen republic and with two passengers inside that left the scene the cafe it just minutes before the blast but we haven't received any official confirmation so. we've got a knife in this 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 in 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 but still. up just said it people had been taken to hospital six are in really bad condition five of these injured have been transported to moscow for treatment it's one woman four men and actually one is a sixteen year old kid with a severe i injury all right excel us up now about the investigation how's it going are there any new leads. a criminal case has been launched and investigators believe that militants with possible links to al qaeda are behind

these acts of terror actually piazza is the center of the newly formed district in the north caucuses it includes such trouble some regions. where militants a very active and trains have been to rail is there are explosions but still overbold region has been quiet on the plaza and so far only but in may actually an insolvable there was a huge blast near the central or concert hall which left seven people dead and many more injured and now this act of terror in a quiet and cultural wars. ok it's on the thanks very much indeed for bringing us the latest from. car bomb explosion injured thirty people you're watching r t two other stories now terrorism and drug trafficking are what's on the table today in russia's city of sochi president dmitry medvedev is hosting

a summit there with the leaders of afghanistan to stand in pakistan is a country to her child reports from the city. president dmitry medvedev is bringing together the leaders of afghanistan pakistan and their neighbor to stand in sochi this is a second poor nation meeting of a kind 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 russia is reluctant to get involved in military action in afghanistan but it still seeks a role in settling the conflict but 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 a ghana stand or the main security threats recently there's been an increase in the record straight the trade which is also the main source of financing on militants

in the region and russia we choose now the world's largest hair when consumers seeking to break up channeling of the drugs from a canister and as to major 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 afghans to just border no visa several 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 talks 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 and to decrease the plant is set to provide twelve percent of the central asian countries total and achieve production and is by far the largest russian project in the region well several similar projects ambitious projects what hundreds of millions of dollars will be discussed today that her

child reporting there now ghana stand as the world's largest opium producer in aspirants agree a regional approach is key to winning the global war on drugs. as war on how securities maintain at the afghan border. 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 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 conscripts arrive continuing the cycle the stones border with afghanistan stretches twelve

hundred kilometers that's around seven hundred fifty miles dug border 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 work in town 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. is sort of 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 in demand that water. this problem may have various technical solutions but it will never be fully solved while there's fighting in afghanistan and the global demand for opiates. afghan opium production has 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 water control system possible 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 as people avail and his guest debate as there actually been any notable success rostock is coming your way in an hour's time. the

coke a cocaine 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 middle east repealing alcohol prohibition and i think the same is very much true certainly we respect to the probationer marijuana let's try to imagine even if we had some sort of. you could click your fingers to. cease to exist would the world be a better place still be a great demand for stimulus 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 it like we do with everything else.

and if israel plans to attack iran's nuclear power plant and bush era has only three days left to do sell and that's the view of 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 bush era plant is launched on august twenty first russia's state nuclear energy company has announced it will transfer a fuel rods to the facility on the day moscow says the plant poses no threat as it will be operating for peaceful purposes of the control of the nuclear watchdog but investigative journalist and r.t. contributor wayne madsen says this might not prevent israel from launching a strike. 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 bolton 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's in range for some iranian missiles they.

depending on how good their air defenses are they could be hit but i think would also react from lebanon and we would see a wave of rocket attacks america may be known as the land of opportunity but for increasing numbers it's an offer of they are not willing to take last year alone an estimated seven million people renounce their u.s. citizenship three times as many as the year before the war and asked why expatriate why his american dream turned sour. ken o'keefe grew up in america and had 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 that 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 it he did apply to the state department to stop being american claim political asylum in holland and burned his u.s. passport o'keefe 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 based economically and morally but according to carol turner from the stop the war coalition it steadily eroded 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 and 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 commandos in may and following that he was branded

a terrorist by israel but 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 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 and that's absolutely not the case at all i have a deep love for the american people and 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. oh. and just to remind you of got much more on our web site logon to check out stories quizzes and top rated videos you can also follow us on twitter which is updated twenty four seven now

a look at what's waiting for you online. god given skills gary and priest has been showing off his skateboarding prowess to parishioners. where all of them banned visitors in china are being forced to pay office if it was by that we tracked earth seen and shoot outs with your time. and doubles world governing bodies continuing its inspection of russia's stadiums and infrastructure officials hope to convince that the country's the best place to host a world cup 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 fishel have already been to moscow and st petersburg but today's visit to sochi is likely to play the biggest role in influencing fief as eventually decision progress towards readying the black sea resort to host the winter olympics in two thousand and fourteen is russia's chance to show first hand its ability to stage such a prestigious world sporting event later inspectors will head to cazan where they'll have a look at stadiums russia is said to need at least five new arenas each costing around three hundred fifty million dollars. tell us take a look at some other stories from around the world and former illinois governor rod blagojevich corruption trial has come to a close resulting in a conviction for allying the jury was unable to unanimously decide on the most scandalous charge try to sell barack obama's old seat in the senate panel was said to be deadlocked at eleven to one guy which was found guilty of lying to federal

prosecutors prosecutors promised to retry him on the twenty three unresolved accusations. a palestinian man who broke into the turkish embassy in israel and tried to take hostages has been arrested after being shot and one major security alert was sparked after the man who is said to be mentally ill attacked the embassy with a knife a toy gun and a can of petrol authorities said he only recently been released from prison after an attack on the british embassy in truth in two thousand and six some media reports suggest the turkish ambassador himself was held hostage although israeli officials denied the claims. and pakistan has reassured don't. the funds to help the victims of severe floods will reach those in need or national observers have voiced fears 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 by to have

been affected by the country's worst ever floods. well the flooding in pakistan combined with the extreme heat wave in russia of the summer has spawn many theories regarding what's to blame speculation ranges from a climate weapon to global warming but as prominent russian physicist alexander ginzburg told r.t. there is no round to any of those allegations useful in term used in ten minutes time but here's just a taste for now. where did some of disasters in russia in 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 circulation 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.

what we have to date and let's now see what's happening in the world of business day on joins us now in the studio morning good morning to you daniel so we're hearing that china is moving to make its currency a rival the dollar and how that is joining russia and shifting against the struggling greenback we'll explain why a little later but first billiton has launched an unsolicited thirty nine billion dollar bid for kind of this puts us call was not just fertilizer man but offer was rejected by the potash corp board as grossly inadequate and now the market is pricing in a higher offer the bid reflects the anglo strain in mining joints to capitalize on recovery in the fertilizer sector here in russia consolidation is also taking place or kelley is widely expected to make a bid for sylvan it is to create a new national champion the world's second biggest producer of potash. chief will head sylvan it's on its way to a merger. some of russia's co-exist companies produced first half results this week

among the gazprom service the burbank if you've been watching all of the business you might be wondering why this is the first you've heard of it that's because the results were knelt on the russian accounting standards and fruit verse does this can be more confusing than enlightening within a culture to reports. corporate results are supposed to provide to going to how well it companies performing for investors and 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 sometimes which makes you wonder why. that makes sense of. if the transactions are identical why would you get different reporting on 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 turns it into

a loss in the other and vice versa so why the big difference one reason is who they are counting as intangible 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 a conscience see 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 splitting its weight behind the move saying it will make the country more attractive to international investors russia is part of the global financial community the global financial community uses international standards that exist for a reason. my life a lot easier if we get rid of russian. accountants and market players believe russia's desire to become a global financial center will inevitably mean why did option of our for us but

until they do the reporting says and hang out will continue to be a swirl of confusing because unlike most people when confronted with too much information investors will await data they understand before making potentially coastie decisions my gosh no business i'll take. a look at the stock market's investors a cashing in this week's gains on the all tiers pushing it into the red in the opening minutes of trade and as you may just goes from. of the cross of light sweet hold on the seventy six dollars a barrel. asia pacific markets here has surged in the last couple of hours traders in. asia we're encouraged by the bits of an expected result in the u.s. retail sector namely wal-mart and. shares of p.h.p. billiton over there in australia fell over three hundred percent after the takeover failed. china is taking another big step to replace the ailing dollar with its

currency in trade for lenders can now access the massive two trillion dollars chinese into bank bond markets it comes off the russian move to ruble dealing with neighboring states. and 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 the list sold almost fifty percent more cars than in the previous month that's over one hundred sixty thousand vehicles germany's still in pole position despite sales falling worth their while france is in second place. 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 they had been speculation on the commodities markets the government would use its own reserves to fulfill some foreign contracts but speaking exclusively to out see 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 mr soup of said within the next two weeks. ago what is russia's current storage capacity from here to 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 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 and how has the drought. affected your strategy until two thousand and fifteen start to get beyond that 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 consumed internally as well and will certainly have to rethink our strategy. that's the latest join us in fifty

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