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editorials chechen militants willing still kind as blamed for a car bombing in russia's caucasus region which left up to thirty people injured. facing up to the drugs that the russian president meets the leaders of afghanistan ijaz dam pakistan that many believe the problems impossible to tackle while the war rages on. i started to look at the american history and politics and realize that the way for the boy to. giving up on the american dream a growing number of us nationals choose to renounce their citizenship party asks why. the city coming to live from moscow with marina joshua welcome to the program police in moscow are on high alert as authorities fear more terror attacks could

follow a car bombing in russia's caucasus a chechen militant with links to al qaida is thought to be behind the blast in the town of pythagoras' which left up to thirty injured four have been brought to moscow for treatment and officials say scores would most likely have died if it hadn't been for a sudden downpour keeping people inside our correspondents on the control is on the scene. 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 white house is just across the blog so this trade is and did a very busy and crowded street their white car has been parked in front off that cafe just over there are there was no driver at the moment of explosion and the car contained up to forty killed. just to paint a picture it's ten times more than was used during the twin blasts in moscow metro

this march bad last left almost forty people died and many more injured actually we didn't have so many people injured because the rain has started just a hop an hour before the explosion and they saved many lives mass media has been reporting that security cameras have recorded a car from chechen republic and with two passengers inside that left this scene the cafe it just minutes before the blast but we haven't received any official confirmation so far and here we've got at night witness accounts for you. we were some distance away from the blast about seventy five meters but still 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

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. piazza is the center of the newly formed district in the north caucuses it includes chechnya dagestan investigators fear it but more terror attacks could follow and police in moscow is on high. alert investigators also believe that doll kumar if it could be behind this western pedagogues. is in the tourist chechen militants he is the one who claimed to be behind the twin blasts in moscow metro march and he is on international terrorist watch list. as a sign of the future reporting from the sea of fit of course for us here. terrorism and drug trafficking are what's on the table today and russia's city of sochi president is hosting a summit there with the leaders of afghanistan and pakistan are just getting in the city for us and let's get the latest from her so tell us how the summit is going

and any results so far. well several meetings have started already president mr medvedev has much we've got i mean karzai and as you just start drug trafficking and security one of the topics which to the front seat during these talks and we expect them to be the focus solve the four nation meeting which is due to start in less than an hour from now all by bringing the four nations together russia shows its kmita to see a prosperous and it's interested to see a safe prosperous peaceful afghanistan and the region in general and of course this meeting means that the four nations have made huge progress these four neighbors and they've made a first step towards. developing economic ties to the region all relations providing jobs for the people all of which are crucial for the people of these four countries and russia also shows it is committed to. restore financial support to

afghanistan in particular just several months ago it broke the last portion of of get us to and overall it was twelve billion dollars. or so you know russia firmly supports all efforts on the part of afghanistan to restore peace in the country but we also support the afghan government's fight against terror and they are ready to provide any help needed to tackle the problem with the bus leaving. well for russia central asia is their traditional sphere of interests and of course it has been always sensitive to instability of course by the afghan conflicts in the region drug trafficking and islamic radicalism is not a security threat and russia seems to be one of the countries which suffers most from these threats the recent survey shows that russia is the number one heroin consumer in the world and estimated thirty thousand people are dying every year of

abuse this is a third of the world's death toll of the death opium related deaths and that is of course a huge drastic figure and russia is now trying to take the lead in breaking up the channel all for opium coming from afghanistan through the so-called northern route it comes from afghanistan to stand then to russia and further into europe no visas are required to travel from the g q stan and russia which means that opium can flood in easily through the open door artie's correspondent went to the border between afghanistan and the g q stan to experience to see firsthand what challenges people who provide security at the border face every day turning up. is a tough task but getting him ready to go to one of the most borders in central asia is even more difficult than people had no thought about cobol know a lot of people in bone growth that's why training center. there is no time for you

when it comes to dealing with the center of the global heroin creed. 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 uniform 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 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 work into g. can 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 the sheet abdulla 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 global demand for opiates. afghan opium production has grown by a third since the us led invasion it's the billion dollar business brings more

money than all foreign investments put together that. it's unlikely even the most advanced water control system would solve the problem completely business is simply too good you got this going off. and i was out of survivor geopolitical acts but from moscow state university for humanity says the drug trafficking problem get only be resolved when afghans themselves take control of the situation. instead by twenty twenty fourteen again authorities will take control of their own country they will be responsible for regulation for stability and this is crucial for it is have to take control of their own over their own country without the help of the coalition and the second you know there is very little control of the periphery of the country so in the center yes there is control but at the periphery very little control the majority of drugs in the poppy fields are there not in the center so.

government central government takes control over the periphery as well i think we will see better results and the war on drugs has raged for more than four decades and people without his gas debate has actually been any notable success cross talks coming in an hour's time for that. the coke 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 and two years later a national name was repealing alcohol prohibition and i think the same is very much true certainly we respect to the provision of marijuana let's try to imagine even if we had some sort of. you could click your fingers to. cease to exist would do world be a better place. if

israel plans to attack iran's nuclear power plant in bush era has only three days left to do so that's the view of a former us ambassador to the united nations john bolton made the statement in an interview with fox news and he said the danger of releasing radiation would be too great once the plant is launched on august twenty first russia's state nuclear energy company says it will deliver fuel and the plant will go operational on that date moscow says the plan poses no threat as it will be operating for peaceful purposes under the control of the u.n. nuclear watchdog but investigative journalist and r.t. could be their way mattson 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. everything to this august twenty first date the bushehr reactor is a peaceful. the power reactor has nothing to do weapons production we hear that israel may be targeting other iranian nuclear facilities in tons and in coleman 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 and there are maybe now an as a land of opportunity but for increasing numbers it's an offer they are not willing to take last year alone over seven hundred people renounced their us citizenship three times as many as a year before arty's lore and i asked one explain 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 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 that 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 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 start the war coalition it steadily is that good will 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 senate 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 can 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 at a certain point it 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 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 oh. and just to remind you that we've got much more on our website r.t. dot com so log in to check out stories quizzes and top rated videos and you know also follow us on twitter which is updated twenty four seventh's now a look at what's waiting for you online. godgiven skills garion priest has been

showing off skateboarding prowess to parishioners. and be aware of the band just park visitors in china are being forced to pay this seeds are fitted with steel spikes that be tracked for a fee and should out when your time is up. now the world governing body is continuing its inspection of russia's stadiums and infrastructure officials hope to convince fifa that the country is the best place to host the world cup in either twenty eighteen or twenty twenty two and 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 sorcery is likely to play the biggest role in

influencing phaedrus decision progress towards breaking 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 forgive and player inspectors will have to because on where they will have a look at three new food build stadiums russia is set to meet at least five new arenas each costing around three hundred fifty million dollars. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and in the philippines least forty people have been killed after a boss pat with people plunged down a ravine the conductor who survived the buses brakes had failed as it was the go sheeting and downhill band he also said. driver battled to prevent a fatal plunge by trying to hit a lamppost but missed this is the third major accident involving a bus in the philippines in the past two months. former illinois governor rod blagojevich is corruption trial has come to a close resulting in a conviction for

a line jury was unable to now mostly decide on the most scandalous charge trying to sell barack obama's old seat in the senate for the palace said to be deadlocked at eleven to one which was found guilty of lying to federal prosecutors prosecutors promised to retry him twenty three on resolved accusations. pakistan has reassured donors that funds to help victims of severe floods will reach those in the international observers have worst fears of the money will fall into the hands of the taliban the u.n. says it has received less than half the necessary to provide immediate help to those in need twenty million people are estimated to have been affected by the country's worst ever floods. and the flooding in pakistan combined with extreme heat wave in russia the summer has spawn manny theories regarding what's to blame speculation ranges from a climate weapon to global warming but it's brahmans russian physicist alexander

ginzburg told r.t. there is no ground to any of those allegations he's fallen trees in an hour's time but here's a preview. where did just some of disasters in russia europe and pakistan come from well they didn't really come from anywhere the situations like this develop in the atmosphere once every few years we call them blocking situations they are characterized by a cycle and the side cloned 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. it is time now for a business update with danielle. well the business people it's an unsolicited thirty nine billion dollars bid for kind of this protest call was low just fertilize the mind of the offer was probably

rejected by the potash corp board as grossly inadequate and now the market is pricing in a higher offer the bid reflects the anglo australian mining giant's desire to capitalize on recovery in the fertilizer sector here in russia consolidation is also taking place kelly is widely expected to bid for rival sylvan it's this would create a new national champion and the world's second biggest producer of potash. chief will head sylvan it's on its way to. russia's largest steelmakers several still hasn't received any bids for three u.s. plans to put up for sale the company wanted to sell the mills combined but may now offer them separately that's according to news wire american metals markets as one of the plants in ohio could be bought by a raincoat group severstal acquired it four hundred forty million dollars two years ago. some of russia's biggest companies produce first half results this week but many of them reported to russian accounting standards for investors this can be

more confusing than enlightening but in a culture of reports. corporate results are supposed to provide to go into how well it companies deforming invest this invention companies 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 and. if the transactions are identical why would you get different reporting on this transaction most significant russian companies pull in the category of dual reporting including major banks energy companies and mine this can sometimes lead to. profit under one system suddenly turns into a loss in the other and vice versa so why the big difference one reason is who they are counting is 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 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 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 international standards that exist for a reason. my life a lot easier. accountancy market please believe russia's desire to become a global financial center will inevitably min why did optional are for us but until they do the reporting says an 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 outing. the stock markets are getting on here in moscow they all are for the first time in three days lower oil prices magnets of course buying of steel with two and a half percent. thankful for it says profits fifty three percent think quarter to compared with a year earlier or zero point three percent. over in europe the foot of fall in the opening hours that breaks yesterday's games called off the wind turbine joint call to twenty ten margin outlook. for mr how is your pacific markets are getting on tokyo. the last couple of hours trade coverage by the better than expected results in the u.s. retail sector. but shares of b.h.p. billiton in australia fell over a trade off a send off its takeover failed. china is taking another big step to replace.

its currency the yuan in trade for. a massive two trillion dollars chinese interbank market it comes off the russian move to be linked with neighboring states . and russia have risen to put the country in third place in europe for the first time since two thousand and eight. almost fifty percent more cars than in the previous months that's over one hundred sixty thousand vehicles germany remains in pole position despite their falling by a third is in second place. considering an unlikely proposal to diversify its business john has been offered the opportunity to try its hand chicken farming bellows once the company. which it hopes will produce one hundred thousand tonnes of meat a year that's roughly forty million birds. responded favorably to the

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