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breaking news here on t.v. at least sixteen people have been killed in a car bombing at a market in russia's volatile north caucuses region around one hundred others were injured in the attack in the republic of north a city security is being tightened. we're

coming to you live from moscow and get us level where we're covering the global policy forum and shortly we'll check in with kevin and lisa now who are there for us but now to our top story car bombing in the city of la to cut costs in southern russia has killed at least sixteen suicide bombers believed to have carried out the attack which also injured around one hundred people our correspondent. has the latest. right now we are at the scene of the explosion just over there if you look you can see a building this is the market and in front of this market in logic of a car was packed filled with explosives the amount of explosives approximately forty kilos off t.n.t. they exploded and was so powerful that the locals say bed even the back windows in their houses were smashed out when this happened people were crying sjodin of course calling their parents and their family as they were trying to find out what has happened we've talked with some locals and one guy said his wife called him

just a couple of minutes after the explosion he could only understand she was crying please do not come to the market there was a bomb here and she was one of their lucky ones she survived this car that goes back to are at the low end turns off the market and if you can just look over there you would see that investigators are still there they're trying to. see what was inside the car the whole area is blocked and the moment the people who are still there they are the ones who want to find out more details the local house ministry says that at least sixteen people were killed one of them was a kid and want a half year old toddler and up to one hundred people were injured ten of them were soon faily in to the russian emergencies ministry has send an airplane here to. use all the necessary aid and they're also planning to take their severely injured to moscow to the hospitals they had of necessity air came to this scene and he said

that the blast was again eyes and was carried out by a suicide bomb or are some reports say that this man was identified by the police a criminal case has been launched and the investigators qualify that last as an act of terror tomorrow in logic of cross is declared a day of mourning and. witnesses have spoken of the turf moments directly off to a couple mixed blood. i didn't hear much we were sitting there talking and then we heard some debris fall on the ground that was it we came outside in saw dead bodies on the ground i didn't look at the time i think it was around eleven i told you i was in the pavilion i don't know anything else i told you everything it's all i saw. grandmother was killed along with one of her grandchildren my daughter in law went to the market and i still don't know if she's alive she hasn't called me i'm so sorry to lose them i was at home my house is on

the street nearby so i heard it i don't know what happened i came here in the told me that everyone died the people who had the fruit stand here the woman who sold greens they have all been killed. look we pulled this out of a woman's leg my friend works here is a jeweler they survived because they entered a shop across the street from the bomb and seen right before the explosion his mother happened to be standing behind a pillar when the bomb went off she survived whom it was standin in the doorway and this is what we pulled out of his leg well russia's top authorities have taken personal charge of the investigation into today's terror attack our correspondent sara first has details now from moscow. love to the explosion happened president with met with security officials ahead and must stay. with her the case is now under the control of the russians chief general prosecutor believe her cousin the

fate of asking emergency services to provide all necessary assistance they say be affected by this. but. i would first of all like to say to all the people of north to say that we are mourning the victims innocent victims of this terrible tragedy russia's people with the people of north asensio first priority is to give medical help to those who are injured and brought a calf cast must go anywhere it's needed and to offer moral and financial support to victims and their families. now the latest information from the general prosecutor's office is that the owner of the car the car the explosive has been established they know who it is and the number of places that were registered to the neighboring area in english but now there are unconfirmed to pools at the moment that the owner of that car has actually been called arrested and is being

questioned and he has said that he sold the car yesterday to an unknown person at this time and other also reports that the person who the car was sold to was stopped about half an hour before entering the public before the explosion happened and produce documents that what we're hearing at the moment could have potentially been fake documents now we know that the government has said that the families of those who died in the blast will be receiving around thirty thousand dollars in compensation for the time that we've heard prime minister putin saying as a division between multi-ethnic and multi-religious people here in russia if you don't see russia is a multi-faith country it is doing worse and that is the reason that strong muslims reside all across russia crimes like the ones that were committed today in very kind of cause are aimed at promoting amnesty between people we cannot allow them to be of course muslims must play a decisive role in this struggle. in the wake of the attack any cars that are now

entering the capital coming into moscow will be being very closely monitored and certainly security have really has been stepped up now the emergency ministry sends a plane down so that it have cars and does carry medical supplies to the local hospitals in the area they're treating the engine is also able to around twenty people to most guys the medical staff on board to the cause of these people before the emergency is minutes me saying that at least ten is the injured in that area in a very serious condition so at the moment hospitals are really prepared. into his seat then and see them here in another plane and preparing to go down there again with medical assistants that have facial they. well political analyst. says north asserting it has often been a target for islamic militants with links to al qaeda. said there has been a target for terrorist attacks for

a long time i would like to remind you of that charge when he was a wife called north i said to a russian girl recently in north caucasus because i said you have saw the only ethnic group in the north caucasus besides russians which is predominantly also the explosion so the market especially invited gulf custom are very very often used in the past i would remind you of that vial of the war stir a step back in the ninety s. was also an explosion at the market in logic of gas short in their base alarmist terrorist in north caucasus had connections to al qaeda they didn't make a secret out there with the western press doesn't report that very often the bought back asian lady of also hear stories that some way in afghanistan where people were taken prisoner or some terrorist camp was destroyed people from north caucasus were also present there unfortunately. old schools on kindergartens were also evacuated in light of this morning after

a telephone warning claimed that one of them would be bombed under a. news agency says today's event showed the terrorists have been waiting to seize their opportunity. around with i think terrorists want to seek revenge for the beslan school siege during this year's commemoration of into the security forces were on high alert so no terrorist attacks were carried out now security measures have been slightly weakened the terrorists attack people i'm almost sure that extremists are behind this blast probably with foreign support but of course we can say for sure which organization is behind the attack the terrorists which blew up the court just want to destabilize the situation in the north caucasus and discredit the current leaders in the area they want to show that the states of thirty's are feeling to provide stability in the region now in around twenty minutes time we'll be getting more analysis of the terrorism situation in russia's north caucasus when we speak to a leading political analyst so stay with us for that well just to remind you of our

breaking news story here at r.t. at least sixteen people have been killed in a car bombing at a market in the southern russian city of lot of calf casts a suicide bomber is believed to have carried out the attack which also injured around one hundred it's not the first time markets in the capital of russia's volatile republic of north have been targeted by terrorists the first and deadliest attack took place at the central market of logic of cast said march in one thousand nine hundred nine it claimed fifty two lives and left over one hundred people injured a year later a car bombing in the same market killed six terror return for the next two years although in different locations but each time with the same deadly outcome another thirteen people lost their lives and in november two thousand and eight a minibus exploded in a market square outside a cinema killing twelve and injuring forty one. well we will be keeping you updated on the terror attack throughout the day here on r.t. but now we're going to go to the russian city of europe's level for our continuing

coverage of the global policy for. yes so you're already well we're here in the ground as you can see behind me a very beautiful city over some of the best minds in the world are here for a two day brainstorming session. how to keep the world safe what makes a democracy work and how to modernize what's already in existence these are just some of the questions on the table and we'll be attempting to find some of the answers as we talk face to face with participants just to let you know where we are i'm up if you're not clear on two hundred fifty kilometers northeast of bosco in a city that proudly boast unesco world heritage status this weekend it marks its thousands year anniversary and we're also going to be following those celebrations over the next couple of days as well here on this channel. but let's get right into

let's get right into the heart of the summit of course this is the first day of the signature event in russia's political calendar our correspondent. is that the forum how has the opening day been pending out there. all the opening days been very intense and this year's global policy forum has turned into an ambitious role for an opinion exchange between politicians being tang sent all the world's top officials state officials from some thirty countries well despite the forum itself cannot. such an experience and cannot both such a date as the host city itself which as you've just said turns one thousand years on saturday the forum is relatively young it takes place in the studio. for the second time but many analysts claim that the u.s. policy forum alternately has all the chances to reach the us presently russia hosts

the annual assented economic forum but until risk. hadn't had. a political equivalent to that so many say a beer is lovely for him as all the chances to become these equivalent well journalists and officials from all over the world have come to the city of. among the top officials are a quote from the russian president who is the host of the forum on suitable school and italian prime minister south korean president former japanese prime minister now as for the official topic of this year's forum its standards of democracy and criteria of efficiency the full major sections of the forum is split in four major discussions the first one the state as an instrument of modernization a criteria of international law global security and also democracy and versified. different democracy experiences throughout the world now one of the

participants of these section of these discussions devoted to different democracy experiences is mr lord robert skidelsky who joins us now live for more on what the discussion has been about thank you very much for joining us mr. nutriment very evolved to russia's democracy should be more than eyes to what's the link between democracy and modernization well that was something we talked about and it's a very interesting question. do do societies need a democracy in order to become economically efficient more does economic efficiency make the more democratic. chicken and egg problem and we spend a lot of time discussing this without reaching any definite conclusion as you would expect in these discussions because they're quite difficult challenging and there are a variety of opinions well used in europe hardly any unique experience of building

new democracies to call. what's your impression impression of the progress in these countries so well it's good to but they had old democracies before they had communism whereas russia didn't really have an old democracy there made more progress towards the democrats eyes asian than russia. and. russia will be much more difficult i think russia is in a transition state at the moment i mean i don't know what you'd call it an incomplete democracy or a soft autocracy these are words that we use today but i think of the really interesting question is this i mean. can russia become a modern economy unless the political system is reform the are the the the the proposition is that the present elite with this system has no incentive to modernize the economy and it needs

a more competitive political system more pluralism more criticism a freer press proper rule of law before you can really move towards a modern economy that interesting work comes first modernization modernized economy democracy. empirically you know there's a lot of conflict about this some some countries seem to have established democratic institutions before they became rich and others become rich and then they establish democratic institutions and take china china's growing credibly farce but it's not a democracy it's a collective dictatorship if you like but what that what the chinese say is that once we have reached a certain level we can gradually increase the amount of freedom and we have more multi-party elections i think in russia that doesn't really work because the chinese had a big incentive to modernize the economy because they didn't have real natural

resources the russian. and we had these big natural resources it was an energy economy and so the elites could make a lot of money and enough left over for. good living standards without having to do very much in the way of political reform and i think because putin really doesn't believe very strongly that you need political reform in order to modernize and we better think well i think actually believes the opposite i think he believes you have to modernize the political structure in order to get durable economic reform diversification of the economy and and so on and i think that's a conflict that's it's never publicly expressed but they're different they use different language when talking about modernization of some of the eastern european countries that have become members of the european union. but some of the trends

which we can see in these countries cannot be can hardly be described as democratic like glorification of nuts what's your take on that and how can you or tackle the world tackle these trends when i don't think there's been much glorification of naziism really. i think i think most of them were awful victims of naziism most most of the east european countries so i don't think that's so that's an issue and i do think that when they're in the european union they have to be more or less democratic because that's the standard those are the norms of the european union they have to they have to just. they have to satisfy certain criteria and you know russia doesn't. so do. well it has it it has to reform its political system it has to move towards a more competitive political more plural political system and once and respect

human rights. be a bit more co-operative. and and sort of just to satisfy its neighbors but it hasn't got any real heart of horrible designs on them i hope this us love it will really contribute to this open and hopefully openness this question will contribute to building these open and truly democratic society thanks very much for your insight mr skidelsky participant global policy for life the article. below is our correspondent. speaking to award winning bridge historian economist robert skidelsky could have on the program by the way of course coming up for you we have an in-depth interview with lord sadowsky that's coming up later in this hour right here on. this. of could garner as much influence in world politics as doubles does a business so says political scientist adrian pups. i certainly see a lot of potential because i think the case of doubles makes very clear that

international economic and financial debate can be extremely influential babble started off as a small initiative and has grown into a global fixture and i think that's the same potential if the focus is on the bait i think it's important that we move away from just criticizing each other or lecturing each other or simply talking at cross purposes and really try and find the common mode and i think debate exchange critical questions and constructive contributions is what's needed and i think the format is gesturing in that direction and i look very much forward to seeing how about what i'm for the next two days. and we'll have more of live coverage from the global policy forum here in the beautiful city of your a small ball in the next hour and throughout the next couple of days so do stay with us that we certainly will look for to see you later bye for now. when the new season. when something really crucial when you want to get down to brass

tacks with special coverage. this time the latest news from the. former. special guest discussions on the modern state in providing security and stability of the present day world. question more. is just now turning twenty one minutes past the hour here in moscow you with oughts here let's get to some other of today's stories now and the pilots who managed to land a crippled russian airliner back in moscow all eighty one people on board miraculously survived after a mid-air failure of major electrical systems. reports. the pilots engineer just returned to save new cover airport in moscow they'll now go and talk to some psychologists for some deep breathes and counseling for any stress they may have undergone and what was a very tense landing they've also been helping investigators at the site trying to

work out what happened and that's what investigators will be doing in the next week to ten days trying to get to the root of this search engine actual failure they currently say in a preliminary statement that they think that three out of four of the plane's electrical generators failed but for the full story on this remarkable crash landing will go to my report. the heroes of the tiger these are the men the managed to land a crippled jetliner in the middle of the forest and not injure a soul that passengers a frank feel to be a line we see the most willingly ever in history and ended up in the woods the majesty crews arrived to find two weeks everything was organized very fast asleep new people if not for the professionalism of the crew we would not be standing here . the tupolev one five four was flying at ten thousand meters on its way to moscow from russia's far east when there was

a massive electrical failure the plane lost all automatic navigation and communication its fuel supply and wing flaps were crippled meaning i had to learn quickly and at higher than normal speeds even the lights in the cabin and cockpit went out by sight alone the pilots found an abandoned their strip in the depths of the forest and managed to land on the third attempt dozens then i thought was my plane was designed to land on a concrete airstrip at first we chose a restaurant in decided to land there but during the maneuver by a miracle we cut a glimpse of a concrete strip and all the shorter it would be much safer when we overshot the strip there were bushes but no trees and at that point we knew for sure that we're going to be safe despite overshooting and plowing through. two hundred metres of woodland before stopping all eighty one people on board were evacuated to safety right in the rich can is a former pilot and actually trained the heroes in question he says he's very proud of his former prata jase. up in the clothes they couldn't even tell their how to

chewed or where they were they only had enough fuel for ten minutes of flight in managing to land that plane he practically did the impossible as with the plane itself investigators are poring over interviews with the crew and witnesses black box recordings and evidence at the site that question what caused such a massive electrical failure providing that w one fifty four is not quite the brand you have to craft and i'm sure that that craft was manufactured probably at least twenty years ago when you were more. i believe there is a chance that the we plant was just war. now russell airlines which owns the plane says it wasn't aware of any issues before takeoff but added it would never fly together investigators are focusing on mechanical failure rather than pilot error or weather conditions but everyone is expecting the playlets to receive medals they're achieved. in time the technical details of this plane's malfunction will

join all of the others maybe ation history but one thing will always stand out courage and resourcefulness of the two men who brought it safely to thomas and artie hospital. the u.s. navy has delayed its plans to move more than eight thousand marines from their military base on the japanese island of okinawa the american presence is a bone of contention with locals after a number of high profile incidents sean thomas has more. since the end of world war two the united states has had a military presence in japan which some people living in okinawa are finding a nuisance i don't have they're making big. sometimes we have to. because of the. song. for. america. there was

a huge problem. around eighteen percent of okinawa's main island is occupied by u.s. military forces here a week we can hear the noise of the airplanes which interrupt the city the sounds and there are have been maybe some accidents or crimes not only with this base but with other bases but. as we know it's also. they also help the economy and people from now or into basis or depend on the basis leading some to believe that in order to provide a more stable future there needs to be less reliance on the basis. on the direction and to make more business. we need to be independent in kind of the station do you need to market represents okinawa in japan's house of representatives and is looking to bring about change. it has been sixty years since

world war two seventy percent of u.s. bases in japan are in okinawa know that there are security measures in programs in place in asian countries we want the u.s. to reduce their bases. aside from noise pollution and space concerns one of the arguments against u.s. military bases on okinawa is crime according to the treaty american citizens attached to the base can't be tried under japanese law now most of the crimes about ninety percent involve drinking and driving or are traffic related but there are a few high profile crimes which include rape and murder which have put a strain on japanese u.s. relations. with us and if crimes do happen the japanese security cannot deal with them directly they must go through the u.s. military base command then you have to simply trust them it becomes very difficult . the u.s. military declined an interview with r.t. but did give us this statement. we were isis.