news for russia under around the world this is aussie with me. thanks for joining it's a major quiet down on terror is in full swing in the north caucuses with security forces saying they've killed more than fourteen middletons over the past month at the weekend twelve terrorists and six security officers were killed in a time by gunmen on the home village of the president of russia china republic ramzan kadyrov north caucasus correspondent acts on the little children how small. during the operation twelve militants were killed because of skin cells headed their own to terrorist operation actually his kids were asleep in a house just a couple of blocks from the street where the operation was going on and this is how could their himself describes what happened and how it happened if he did gunman came into the village joining the night with the men to reza group because this was

the most convenient place to destroy them was surrounded them and shot at them and then with you hand grenades here's where it all ended we had been expected to lose our officers but it was inevitable but no syrians were injured titular sources have already promised around so to stall than dollars in compensations for the family is that lost their relatives during the counterterrorist operation five offices are were killed and many more injured actually of terrorists a couple of houses on fire and they burned down several cars and drums on cause they're also promised that these will be arranged tourist no the situation in chechnya is calm and stable but the chechen president runs on could do of things bad militants will continue their attempts their terror attacks and this is the reason why the government's leaders are broods their people like bin laden they want to destabilize the situation in russia that's one of them keep sending them

here will keep shooting and blowing things up and you could destroy them and preventing them from achieving their goals this is not the first recent and a terrorist operation in the north caucuses just a couple of days ago ten militants were killed and i just on and covered it in the overall war to militants were eliminated in the north caucuses it's just an organist and russian federal sources say that now they have proof that the killed militants have links with al qaida and they must mind behind them or school board. these smarts. was also killed in one of these operations during the moscow metro bombings wanted people were killed and many more injured these was a blast carried out by suicide bombers. the reporting there from the capital of russia's chechen republic. a string of violent attacks on hispanic

immigrants in new york last prompted fears of a new wave of racial hatred the victims say they've been targeted by african-americans who want to clear mexican people from their neighborhoods luring this to reports now on how frustration is a boiling of. the united states has always been a country of immigrants but they're not always welcome we've seen mexicans targeted in the western state of arizona which passed a tough law targeting undocumented immigrants there's many many people that come to this country and they go through the proper channels to do the proper thing and and the people that don't do that they're breaking the law despite a backlash. now we're seeing more signs this sentiment is making ripples across the country far from the mexican border in one area of new york city. there has been a string of a dozen attacks on hispanic residents in recent months like were helio.

infidel you can literally find them simply walking through the neighborhood and the suspects unfortunately most of the most recent in the acts against which according to these victims they were targeted by teens while minding their own business when i was right here in the back of my head. and then they hit my arm. for no other reason than being mexican they were appears to be a divide between the minorities sharing this poor area of new york. despite this when you go through these statistics you want education and drawing the ring at the bottom the blacks and hispanics before the show before we have one common in we don't have a problem but here the rift appears to be growing but the influx of hispanic immigrants city blocks that used to be vacant are now flourishing appearing to leave some behind you see a lot of mix if you're working you know let's work here this is the main

thoroughfare of this neighborhood it's where many of the mexican shops and markets like this one have popped up it's also where many of the anti mexican attacks have occurred now the police presence across the street as a result is new but residents say the issues are not or was he just. uses up to forty. years. when i was in high school i was really getting sick so because i was mexican some argue now blacks are unfairly targeted by all the attention the blacks feel slighted they feel mexican share in the blame too and i hear legally. they commit crimes here is an argument being made from this talk to a new york town to the streets in arizona so in a country of immigrants does this point to a pecking order that has always been looking really good and the latest of why we always has to go through is the tension among races simply evolving to a new era like the ones you something that was you know was that wise you can win

the war secure and has america always been a melting pot where someone's getting burned we leave. lauren lyster r.t. new york. and coming up later in the prior driving force the russian foreign minister took time out during his trip of russia's far east to discuss foreign policy. more u.s. troops are preparing to leave iran despite a recent wave of violence in the country american soldiers are almost at the end of their combat mission after seven years of fighting however about fifty thousand will remain in iraq to provide training and support for local security forces a move president obama highlighted as think fitting his profits but some antiwar activists i'm convinced this troop withdrawal means to the. we see

a rebranding occupation if you leave fifty thousand heavily armed soldiers backed by all sorts of aircraft the latest aircraft of course all the naval destroyers the submarines the aircraft carriers that are all throughout the region that have cruise missiles and all sorts of means by which to intervene in iraq we see the end of an occupation by a certain diminishing of the occupation in terms of some of the troop numbers but are we branding of the occupation so that instead of calling it combat troops they call it rise of the troops they still have guns they still shoot those guns when they're shot in their head they die it won't be sufficient to tell the iraqis on september first or second or american families who have g.i.'s and loved ones there who may perish after the so-called end of the war that their loved ones indeed are not dead because the war has been officially ended i believe the occupation of iraq will go on for many years afghan president hamid karzai has we need his criticism

of coalition forces he's at the counter to help aeration in the region wasn't ineffective and only cause civilian deaths other than that he's military analyst believes the afghan leader is trying to block u.s. efforts to beat corruption and drug production. in the standoff between. general betray us. president has scored again. in his incipient battle against the american anti-corruption efforts first time scored when he completely blocked and stalled the investigation all his chief of the national security council and the second time just recently when he consulted they did his momentum again the american anti-corruption drive in afghanistan and he not only if voided the american pressure but in a way to go there in afghanistan and instead of reversing his decision against

the handed. corrupt officials instead he fired one of the senior prosecutors in afghanistan demonstrating to afghans to americans and to the whole world that he is in charge not only of drug production but corruption as well right now this standoff is coming to a head again it's opened up an opportunity to brush off an old idea which i erred one year ago that is to regain the initiative and momentum fighting the corruption in afghanistan general petraeus has to be appointed as a governor general again a stand so he could introduce the martial law and to disband the presidential institution in again a stand once and for all and to call for the loya jirga to postpone the

constitution and to disband the presidential institution altogether so he could exit q would the palace coup and to appoint himself as a governor general this is the only way to wrest the runaway flagrant corruption that threatens to implode the whole social fabric of ghana stand corruption and drug production in afghanistan actually of the two parts of a binary weapon that threatens to implode the evan society and totally and completely discredit any notion of democracy in afghanistan. check out other top stories about website available twenty four seventh's are you and here's a taste of what's online right now it's on t.v. . and so they've been told they have out staged the welcome of the country which ones gave them sanctuary from violence in the balkan conflict find out who they are and why their way to retaliate. on the motor industry leaves its troubles

behind as an international show in the russian council opens its doors to behold we will not small talk to the. u.s. president barack obama seems sincere in his desire to improve relations with moscow but u.s. policy is could be telling the opposite that's the view of russia's prime minister vladimir putin who gave an interview to the como sun newspaper in unusual circumstances he was driving at the time in the country's far east and so. on the boy. a very interesting interview these time around it hit sixty really a rare these days for journalists to get a chance to chaffetz got to me to wonder why and this interview was very unusual not only in a way to was conducted with but if we can see the other wheel of a car driving through russia stories but also in the questions in the questions that he was asked now i'm trickle last week of commish sonthe reporter who was

sitting at a passenger seat is known for his sort of tongue in cheek style and many of the questions he asked for it posed in his joking way but at the same time they were very very serious for example he asked his logic which in a box by their own not he believed in the use in time since to reset relations with russia and he stuck that personally he would very much like to believe but he also sad that the actions of the current administration are in conflict and with some of its declarations imagine for example years continues africa to arm georgia and the regime of me feels that this really shows assad that if the united states wasn't sounding bobbins to georgia they were a bit south as to chair in two thousand and eight that would have happened he also mentioned hughes continues to have plans. sad that it's missile defense system in

europe as another store in the south so to speak at moscow's side but at the same time he mansion that personally speaking he thought that the rock obama's. first sincere ingenue but at the same time he did say that the white house was not doing what it preaches but many years political parties and political opposition in russia have been accusing largely or put it off stifling political freedoms and denying about the right to gather peacefully both in moscow and in hotter russian cities but it wouldn't brushed of the criticism saying that. everybody is free to gather as long as they have the sanctions from the local authorities the deep sidestep the fact that it was extremely difficult for political opposition to gather any sort of thirty's vision from local authorities just and he defined it as having handed police action to disperse these protesters in fact he said

that. as long as they have their mission it was a kid but if they go out without permission they'll take the bait and to have it very straightforward isn't it and i was speaking about one of the most prominent opposition figures in russia me put our policy for his current case santa is still serving his sentence on tax evasion charges he's sad. personally but important. have nothing against what are called speak that he was surprised to hear that prosecutors open a second case against him that many critics say read on the very same charges that he was already serving his standard song but he did say that as soon as. mikhail khodorkovsky settles his problems with the lawyer he will be able to work as a free man. on a boycott reporting there from moscow and you can find more and more flooding if

you have to say by logging on to our website on t. dot com. a fire at a nursing home in central russia has killed nine people and left to injured is sold the blaze was started by an elderly resident who committed suicide by setting setting himself alight emergency crews managed to evacuate almost five hundred people from the home office he stated to be those with full snow from of the twelve region. or early morning panic strikes the central russian nursing home as fire and golfs a third floor apartment killing nine and sending hundreds more on a dash to safety. we woke up and heard somebody screaming we're in fire at first we didn't even believe it but then i saw smoke coming into our room i started to cough i opened the door to the corridor but because of the smoke i couldn't see anything there. i followed the smell of smoke it was spreading down the corridor and i heard the residents groan i opened the door and saw the whole room on fire i was

instantly surrounded by smoke a man was lying on the floor all charred and he was burning like a torch and i attempted to grab him but there was nothing to get hold of he was burning all over the alleged arsonist was nicole i didn't and eighty six year old world war two veteran and a resident of the home it's believed that he was trying to set themselves on fire in an attempt to commit suicide if that was his aim he succeeded he died in the blaze but so too did two of his physically disabled roommates the flames were confined to the apartment but the toxic fumes were not six others died due to smoke inhalation the motivation behind didn't the parent actions are not known initial reports indicated anger over having to wait for government housing may have affected him but a social worker affiliated with the home says dieudonne had no plans to move described as a man of difficult character didn't call this third floor apartment home for four

years however during that time it's reported that he made no friends and was a stranger his family still despite his social struggles monday's death and destruction come as a surprise. is to deny the medical nurse on duty made the round of all the wards and everything was normal if someone heard anything amiss he would have been given additional attention for us it's unexpected. russia has had several high profile nursing home fires in recent years and march two thousand and seven more than sixty elderly residents died when they could not escape the flames and the smoke and a facility with a record of substandard safety procedures and more than twenty people were killed by a fire in january of last year and a home in the country's northwest the common denominator and both incidents was poor fire safety planning and slow emergency response last year as deaths pushed president medvedev to call for sweeping reforms and for the firing of all regional nursing home officers the difference between then and the now was in preparation

and response that's according to fire investigators this home past the march safety inspection and firefighters arrived to the scene three minutes after they got the call rescuing four hundred eighty people officials believe the handling of this incident shows signs of visible progress compared to previous cases even so investigators will continue to see if yet more improvements are needed stacy vivants r.t. . and now to some other world news in breve this hour at least seven people have died with fifteen more injured after a gunman went on the rampage and they slid back in capital bratislava a three year old child among the victims the fifty year old male attacker then committed suicide at our school surrounded by police the country's interior minister said at least five of the victims were members of one roma family who lived in their apartment where the month started shooting. the u.s. has imposed french sanctions against north korea targeting supporters of the regime

all individuals companies and organizations especially the links with pyongyang have had their assets frozen tundra has soared with sources the sinking of a south korean warship in march and the loss of forty six crew blamed on the north which it denies has reiterated its concern over pyongyang's nuclear capabilities as international efforts continue to get the country to end its atomic program in return for aid and concessions. and the eleven year old boy has been killed why twenty while twenty two people have been hurt in demonstrations against indian rule in kashmir as news of the child's death spread thousands of protesters from the town of un and now we're joined by others from neighboring iran is forcing government troops to retreat sixty people have died in continuing and rest since june protesters want an end to indian rule in part of the kashmir region with the other part controlled by pakistan. the moment political scientist you know all

iran's a russian built nuclear power plant. today we are joined by a mr vyacheslav nikonov he is a political scientist and he's also the founder and president of the polity foundation thank you very much for joining us. now the first question i'd like to ask is iran has now launched its first nuclear program it's

a first in the middle east and russian engineers were a big part of that now what is the implication on russia and relationships and how can russia be sure that they're really pursuing this for peaceful purposes actually russia provided a. nuclear reactor at the same time americans who are supposed to provide to north korea to prevent them from having nuclear weapons this is a light water reactor which is not capable of providing any weapons grade uranium. and all the fuel will be provided by russia and all the waste fuel will be taken away by russia so it is safe facility which is very important which is the first nuclear power station in that part of the world which i think is extremely important and as you may know russia was the first. to build a nuclear power station which is the first to build nuclear power station in in the

middle east which i think is so important. if you follow the reactions of the major countries on bushehr opening. we should by the way is not yet their station will produce electricity only. december the reaction is quite neutral or even positive the only country which reacted negatively was israel but interacts natively to whatever happens in relations with iran any other country since they are for isolating iran i don't think russia is on the position of. the russian government saying. with iran diplomacy. still can work so all the controversy with that we've been hearing in the past few months with major west europe reacting to iran sat.

wanting to build nuclear power stations all this is unfounded if you're saying that technically speaking it will not be possible to produce nuclear weapons not this station isn't capable of producing weapons grade uranium iranian nuclear program which war is americans and europeans and russians is not about to share it's about some other facilities which are on this. look to stress that. russia being very critical of iran north korea leaf falling all the procedures of international atomic agency still does not agree on whatever is in washington to london or paris or berlin as far as iran is concerned because russia has its own agenda with iran which is somewhat sometimes different

and sometimes not related to nuclear energy at all russia and iran. difficult history of relationship. at the same time they have quite a while agenda. economic agenda including. the development of the riches of the caspian sea. we have some common strategic interests since for as international terrorism is concerned in iran is very. the us is. in certain aspects of. fighting terrorism so we have some interests in common we of course in russia north supportive of your rainy and nuclear military program at the same time there are also though it's whether iran is really up to

a bomb. or just a capability which of course is a big difference. say germany or japan countries with nuclear weapons capabilities they just do not have any bombs and that is their choice so as far as i read the situation iran is not in a suicidal mood and i don't think they really want to bomb they want to keep ability and a capability is harmless the capability is harmless if the government is responsible. it depends on whether these government really. wants to. keep peace with the neighbors or has some aggressive inks things before we quite

sure about the things of the iranian leadership so we should be cautious of course but at the same time iran is an important country it's a country with great history it's civilization itself persian civilization. with self-esteem which with growing economy. and they or russia's partner for quite a few issues moscow has said that it will ensure that iran does not pursue. peaceful means how does russia intend to do that in terms of bushehr there is no way it can be perceived for non peaceful means in terms of general policies over on the russian proposal is quiet clear we are not against iran developing peaceful nuclear program that's their right including their rights in the nonproliferation

treaty to which the member. of course it is very important to. to make sure the iranian program is peaceful one of the ways to do it is to go in with. russian and french proposals to provide. to iran. to iran for their research purposes but. all this. should be under control and should be returned to the countries france russia so there could be a proposal we could really engage those two purposes. develop their nuclear program and to make it peaceful.

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this is also you coming here live from moscow the heavy. security forces have cleared a success is claimed for the success rather in russia's troubled north caucasus killing over a system of thousands in august alone twelve terrorists six security officers died at the weekend after an atomic bomb the home village of the president of russia's chechen republic runs on to. a series of attacks on hispanic immigrants has raised fresh racial fears in new york the victims say they have been targeted by african americans. defied a central russia has killed nine people and left soon severely injured besta gators say they've been started by a mob who set himself a light to commit suicide.