investigators say a blast in southern russia that injured thirty could have been the work of the

militants behind metro bombings police in the capital. russia brings together afghanistan and pakistan to discuss how to tackle drug traffickers and terrorism in central asia the afghan war scene is the major cause of instability. clashes are held every day despite the time of year and weather conditions right now it's on here you can see the troops are dressed in their uniforms to get used to it since this is what will happen where all the job takes you to the front line of drugs fights where border guards are put through tough training for the mission ahead. i started to look at the american history and realize that life. hundreds of u.s. nationals feel the american dream has failed them and choose to deny their citizenship.

live from our studios here in central moscow twenty four hours a day this is. police here in moscow being put on a high state of affairs a bomb in russia's north caucuses could signal more attacks on the capital a chechen medicine leader linked to al qaeda is suspected of being behind the blast in the town of which injured around thirty. people investigators know who owned the car which was loaded with explosives belt side a city center cafe the location of the man is unknown although he is not currently a suspect meanwhile doctors in moscow are treating four victims of the blast who were flown to the capital twenty five people remain in hospital from where a correspondent. reports. red ribbons divide the lives of people in p.r. tagore's the street full of cafes packed with visitors turned into militants target

only police and residents get through the cordon it was the backyard of lianas schaub that militants used for a part of luckily she wasn't inside by her friend just two trembles recalls a story of survival. my shoulder is near the site of explosion i don't have the words to express how i have just been there. know the glass is literally turns to dust that's a miracle it was persistent is that i assume her and her covered in blood and. she says when the blast structure ran out of the shop and lost consciousness and right on the tram line up to forty kilos of explosives left thirty injured and a huge hole is now where a cafe once wards because there was parked just over there are and you can actually see at this car if you take a closer look it is claimed that it's belongs to

a local guy wasn't dancer five but hasn't been found yet they have been also although reports saying that the car was stolen a couple of days before an explosion but we haven't received any confirmation of this so. takes a driver lived on is back on the streets the day after the bomb in this business treated as one of his regular routes he was looking for a parking place when the blast smashed windows but left his car untouched. the reporter found a place near the tree and there was a blue mosque. it was so big that my car had exploded when a car was pushed the way i understood it was a terror attack trying windows were smashed in although the road is blocked level isn't afraid to drive around town he says is his job but some don't shayla boss often they've started packing up their things saying they want to move away and leave the horrific sight behind oksana r.t.

. stopping terrorists and stemming the flow of drug traffickers are the topics being discussed in russia city of sochi present dmitri medvedev is that hosting a summit with the leaders of afghanistan tajikistan and pakistan. is following the talks there. providing security and fighting drug trafficking these were the two topics which took a front seat during today's summit in sochi where the route to this is not going to be easy russia afghanistan pakistan and the cheekiest on a well aware of the challenges they will need some in the world wonder whether success is even possible and if so whether all countries of the international community are committed to achieve it by bringing the four nations together russia shows its commitment to support a peaceful stable and prosperous afghanistan and stability in the whole region. probably trying threat is a common problem in the region i've already had a chance to discuss it with the president of afghanistan and pakistan and the

counter to this should be a joint effort afghanistan or russia or any other country is able to tackle on their own with as i've already sent this is a joint problem and we shall combat it jointly for this summit which is the second in a row is of course a significant achievement of the four countries and it will take a long way towards strengthening economic regional ties providing jobs all of which are critical for the people of these countries russia is ready to align resources behind peaceful goals of of ghana just recently russia signed off the last fortune of again assistance debt and overall debt was twelve billion dollars all this is done because for russia central asia is a traditional sphere of interest and it has always been sensitive to stability which the afghan conflict is causing currently it's drug trafficking and islamic radicalism which are the main so. curity threats opium comes all the way into

russia and farther into europe through to jake is done because no visas are required to travel from to the ticket to russia and this is why the truck was an easily through the open door so tightening security on these border was one of the main topics discussed today r t z corpuscle north want to see for himself what challenges the people who are providing security on the border on the tribal border between afghanistan and to a facing every day 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 north are both cattle know a lot of people don't go out and that's why at this training center in tajikistan there is no time for games when it comes to dealing with. 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 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 stone's border with afghanistan stretches twelve hundred kilometers that's around seven hundred fifty miles dodgy 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 part of the course. terrorism drug 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 sea working in his town alone. afghanistan produces over ninety percent of all opium in the world according to the united nations the death toll

from opiates in nato countries is five times more than all the needle soldiers who died in afghanistan since two thousand and one but according to. 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 into manson that water. this problem may have various technical solutions but it will never be full it's always well there's fighting in afghanistan and the global demand for opiates of 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 border control system possible would solve the problem completely business is simply too good you've got this going off. until live in a professor at the department of war stuff. it is a king's college london thinks it's important these countries are discussing

stability with the region's main player the us but perhaps the most interesting aspect of it is the development of a regional diplomacy which does not depend on the united states i think it's time that we began to look forward to a day when the united states will not in fact present on the ground in afghanistan and countries in the region will have to make their own arrangements to deal with whatever comes after the american presence three other countries are absolutely essential namely china india of course and iran and the problem is that the deep distrust between pakistan and india and to a lesser extent between india and china makes return of the great arrangements over afghanistan extremely difficult in the past and to a degree even today these countries have often played proxy wars against each other including in afghanistan over the past thirty years or so there has been only one

force only one force in afghanistan which has ever been able to control the heroin trade and that is the taliban for their own reasons in the long run that if we are going to control heroin production at least in the pashtun areas we will need to do a deal with the taliban because they are the only people as safe for a generation now who've been able to control countryside and therefore the production of heroin the former white house drugs policy spokesman robert wiener thinks the u.s. has failed in afghanistan due to a tactical and policy mistake he says the u.s. military should have made eradicating drugs in the region a priority. the u.s. military regrettably has determined that a policy should be had of not interdicting and not eradicating the drugs in afghanistan because it would destabilize afghanistan what a mistake of

a policy and it's a policy mistake both by the military by general petraeus by ambassador holbrooke because it's the drugs that that fund al qaeda which is the reason that the united states went into afghanistan in the first place what are we doing making happy farmers in afghanistan or is our job to secure afghanistan stop the drug trafficking create alternative economies and then stop the killing that goes around the world both by the terrorists and by the drugs themselves that as you've pointed out have killed millions throughout asia and europe because of coming from afghanistan and pakistan which transits thirty percent of afghanistan's drugs with creating crime we're creating addiction we are creating terror but it is a mission that can be achieved it's not going to create happy afghanistan farmers at first until they had to develop alternative economies but do they really want an

economy that's a narco state do they really want an economy that's building dramatically the addiction in their own country and around the rest of the world is that the mission that we want or do we want to achieve an economically successful afghanistan pakistan and at the same time stock the drugs that create the terror the crime in the addiction that should be the mission that should be far more important than happy farmers in afghanistan. a human rights group says the photos posted on facebook of a former israeli officer posing bound and blindfolded palestinian prisoners are the tip of the iceberg the group breaking the silence even went as far as publishing photos of other soldiers in front of palestinian prisoners israeli army had been defending itself by saying it was a one off and promised to investigate palestinian officials say this incident shows the true attitude of israelis. from the public committee against torture in israel

says the jewish state's army lacks discipline and psychological training. these incidents are not isolated these incidents are part of a of a trend or part of a i'm going situation in which particular in the case of palestinian detainees are seen as objects are seen as tools either for entertainment to pose with them and that's and that's only part of the problem and the major problem is that is that detainees particularly when they are handcuffed when they're blindfolded face physical violence face humiliation as a psychological violence on the part of israeli soldiers after they're arrested there is something fundamentally lacking in the training of israeli soldiers there are different factors that force people to go to go into the army took the army has as a career so in terms of the average intelligence or the average of capability capacity

mental capacity i think that they are all perfectly capable of making moral judgments the problem is that there is not enough i think not enough human rights training in the army to explain and to make it clear what is allowed and what is not allowed and then there's not enough accountability soldiers are not held accountable the number of soldiers who are actually prosecuted for violence is so minuscule palestinians are afraid to file complaints because they are one they're fraid of retribution and they know that there will not be sufficient prosecutions well for many foreigners an american passport promises opportunity and a better life bought an increasing number of u.s. citizens have become disillusioned with their country last year alone have a seven hundred people renounce their citizenship three times as many as the year before when auntie's nor emmett's has been asking one expert to why he did it. ken o'keefe grew up an american 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 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 plane 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. americans are the most uninformed misinformed dumbest people on the face of god 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 would be hasn't always been this way at the end of the second world war the us was leading the world economically and morally but according to carol turner from the stop the war coalition steadily in its not good will because it's failing to give its ethical lead now attorneys it's increasingly forced back on to using

its military panel to impose its will ken 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 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 at 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 the 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 ok and others like him will be staying away from the not to the free and the home of the brave nor any politic not to. and his first major interview poland's new president promise love coming off skis said he wants to improve relations with russia and has invited president inventive to visit warsaw this is all part of a new geopolitical triangle involving russia poland and germany well that's according to peter to a much a kocinski from the center for european policy studies. the relations between poland and russia improved we have moved away from the so-called cold war situation into more working clearly where both poles and russians were they importance of one another for example there's a new emerging triangle between call and germany and russia working closely to forming some sort of core group in the street in closer e.u. russia relations. polish exports are most going to continue to probe into the plane

crash which killed the previous president more than ninety other officials in the travelling to not simply years since the cutting massacre of twenty thousand poles by the soviets in russia's smolinski can cut in the seen as a major historical stumbling block but april's crash appeared to begin to kind of healing process as the two nations mourned together and political analyst anton despond of says there are many other areas of common interest beyond the difficulty street. my personal feeling is that the small and crush will be a topic discussed for years to come especially if it's not and if the investigations attended by the end of this year but there are surely more global issues and this is first of all the economy because the economy is the area where both sides have most for their mutual benefit and of course the different debates over history which has been discussed recently and will continue to be poland's grievances toward russia too deep to be swept aside within months so

surely it will have we'll see a lot of incidents very unpleasant for both sides. britain's first coalition government since nine hundred forty five is marking one hundred days in office since elections in may he gave no single policy a clear majority conservative prime minister david cameron heads the coalition along with deputy prime minister liberal democrat nick clegg its formation the coalition has unveiled sweeping public spending cuts to tackle the u.k.'s record budget deficit critics say the next to be too drastic an opinion poll show mixed support for the performance of the government and he's general secretary of compass a left wing think tank in london says it's only a matter of time the fall the coalition's popularity drops. the coalition government is inflicting huge huge cuts on public services here in britain cuts in public spending even deeper and mrs thatcher did in the one nine hundred eighty s. in this is going to have dramatic effect. on both lower middle

income. is meant and meant to be a leader of a party that stands up for fairness he also went into the election. campaigning again the conservatives plan his rise in value added tax he went into the election promising to scrap try to if he got into government and on all of those things he is broke his promise is a liberal democrat party would have been far better i'm going into coalition with labor and having a progressive coalition we've now in this country faced the real prospect of a double dip recession which is a direct consequence of the huge cutbacks the in part nick clegg is responsible for and as i say when these cuts really start to kick in really start people then we're going to have a hugely unpopular government. with r.t. we're live in moscow some other international news stories now making headlines

around the world we open ended strike has begun in south africa when my workers and public sectors employees are demanding higher wages despite the slow start organizers hope more than a million could join the action later in the week the government proposed a wage increase of up to seven percent. one percent. hundreds of villages and a highway in eastern afghanistan protesting against a night raid by nato and afghan soldiers two people killed in the attack in the city of jalalabad military officials say the two dead were taliban insurgents but it just took to the street shouting anti-american slogans the men innocent civilians. was told of sixty seven people missing after a landslide in the southwestern chinese province of being rescued they were trapped in their homes after heavy rains caused a massive mudslide with at least fifteen hundred people have been killed across the country in floods over recent months economic damages estimated at around billion hole would you well know in about to ten minutes from now we'll be talking to a renowned russian physicist about the causes of this summer's extreme weather

before that though we have the latest from the world of business with that's after a short break. for the feel we've got. the biggest issues get voice face to face with the news makers. are welcome to the business program hey on our way and we start with an l.c. business exclusive russia's biggest lend us bad bank says it's happy with its before with save the fed's haul and confirms its own course to achieve its full

year targets the deputy chief of bold under i don't think spoke to us about the results and where the bank goes from here. we should all know for years experiments performances follow the plan we set out and the results for the first half of the year meet the forecasts we made at the beginning of twenty turn looking forward we believe we will be able to achieve our plans for the second half of the year and reach an annual profit of around three point two billion dollars talking specifically about the loan segment in the first quarter we saw a decrease in the lending portfolio from a the trend turned positive in our lending portfolio has grown i can't say the trend is going to continue to strengthen but there have been signs of recovery. what about the un going posters of privatizing the bank will still be unused. russia's finance minister. has been saying it is time for some shares in state companies to be allocated for privatization while the markets are behaving

favorably and he also meant spear banks should be included when he said this we're not talking about a controlling stake here rather about the eight to nine percent that is in the hands of russia's central bank in excess of the controlling stake of fifty plus one share we see why the private ownership is a positive step it would increase the volume of shares in circulation on the market if this decision is made to go ahead we would support it but. time to check out the markets now here in moscow the r.t.s. unlicensed fish wednesday session in the red on low or in the metal prices by meter goth i s deal fell two and a half percent well then they lose out on the ottawa chatting more than one day. two of the country's most notable tycoons ago head to head for control of noelle's nickel all the paths for talent both own twenty five percent of the mile or so there are various companies it is accuse the other of mismanaging more nickel and also by their fellow shareholder out but neither wants to sell wyandotte of

specialized research and investment explains the conflict. when you look at the conflict i think it comes down to one basic issue and common sense says it's money so both patellar and both very possibly need money for their own ventures so. the resolution basically comes down to. who can take full control over else can they either take money out of the company in the form of a dividend which would be fantastic for money or investors that's what government which that incident. or they use the shares that they own rules as a deposit or as collateral to a bank for a major loan that they could use to prove that the business interests outside of the rules those are the two basic centers of a third circuit of course which is really the worst of all scenarios which would be just a legal battle but it was on and on and on and on and it was an investor would just sit and lose money while they sorted out their own problems so i think the issue is money the resolution will be

a decision that will allow with the winner take money out of the company either in the form of a loan or in a dividend and depending on which one they choose as a minority investor you could do very well or nothing at all. and finally ara fluffs become the first russian line to be included in the top twenty five leading carriers in the well industry magazine at transport world place the russian flagship carry a tenth place one higher than of tonnes the group that's just the airlines expresso financial dealings in two thousand and nine monkeys in also put eighteenth the net profit in two thousand and nine which is one hundred twenty two million dollars first place in both categories went to emirates. shop they face but you can always find most henri's on our website. business.

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