it has columns there are no conflicts here any conflicts that exist or in western easy and not here the people in okinawa think that the strategic value of these bases has diminished for the u.s. . but with china growing stronger as a geo political force in the region and the instability of north korea still a concern it is likely that the united states won't be leaving okinawa anytime soon sean thomas r.t. okinawa japan. i'll be back with a recap of our main story in just a moment stay with us here on r.t. . hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers.

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. nine thirty pm in moscow thanks for being with us here on our to with our continuing coverage of breaking news at least seventeen people have been killed in

a car bombing at a market in russia's volatile north caucasus region more than one hundred others were injured in the attack in the republic of north a set three suspects have since been detained while security has been tightened across the region. following the attack we've spoken to a number of eyewitnesses those who were either in the market when the car bomb exploded or who live nearby one local told us she's sadly become used to living in fear. censuring key streets have been cordoned off i live in the city center who heard the blast but couldn't tell where it came from or who learned from our neighbors that there had been an explosion at the market national did not let my child go to school i heard that there might be a second glass this is often the case we are living in the tinderbox people are being evacuated from the building and i cannot answer it i don't know what's a way to meet i cannot reach anyone no connection is poor it's impossible to down a single number i cannot even get through to my own home basically the situation is very difficult it's impossible to get used to it but we have to live with it.

islamic leaders in russia have criticized the attack claiming it was a deliberately time to cause maximum insult to muslims what bit of a should know this act of terror is an attempt to scare the people and is aimed at the dinner gratian of islam as a religion of muslims around the world and in russia would have been waiting for the end of ramadan and these people who carried out this attack wanted to overshadow people's feelings ahead of this holy celebration and they have succeeded in doing this in or this area as it's now in mourning and these people must pay for what they've done yes you know if you were to give up i mean a security analyst alexander a cell on of says the militants behind the attack are linked to al qaeda and aimed her and aim to take hold on the region i see this is a loss it's just if that's the science it's the result and actually. it is no lead is a. pianist and the fact they are atheists to to

stabilize the situation says at inception age their choice to seduce european so that's first of all and they're trying to show that. they have ceased there but still there were attempts to destabilize the f.c.s. period russia is such a slow. political expert and editor in chief of slovo magazine victor lennox says the terrorist behind the attack had a bigger agenda than just wreaking havoc among the people what we're dealing here with is i think a sustained and determined effort on the part of some to create political instability. on the eve of the. presidential and parliamentary elections to which russia is moving very fast. and i think that this is impossible without money and assistance from from outside of russia. all schools in kindergartens were also

evacuated and vladikavkaz this morning after a telephone call warning claimed that one of them might be bombed on dreamer taz another rino is the news agency says today's events show that terrorists have been waiting for the moment to seize their opportunity. to round up with i think terrorists want to seek revenge for the beslan school siege during this year's commemoration events 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 they can see for sure which organization is behind the attack the terrorists which blew up the car 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 there are camera shot off from the international federation for peace and conciliation says the fight against terror can only be one through an international

effort. i think the all the people political the military the security forces they have to think together to get the religious. view the spiritual leaders move the to understand what was really good and its necessity to really unify the efforts in the in the contrie first of all and also it should be ariel international cooperation in the fight that gives the reason because this is not only the local routes which creates the opportunities for these struggle in going from the nation but also it has an international duty and just to recap today's top story a powerful blast rocked the southern russian city of lot of have cars thursday morning at least seventeen people were killed when a car bomb exploded near the central market in the capital of russia's republic of north a suicide bombers believed to have carried out an attack also injured more than one hundred some of them children three suspects have since been detained this

is the latest in a number of terror attacks that have shaken vladikavkaz for more than a decade the deadliest of which claimed more than fifty lives. we'll be keeping you up to date with the situation in the north caucasus but first let's get the business news update with kareena malik and stay with us here on r.t. . her welcome to business i'm queen malakand because i have you with us russia ranks sixty third as a competitive nation according to the world economic forum that places russia roughly in the middle of one hundred thirty nine countries on the list data space for measured competitiveness in twelve different ways among them education labor market efficiency and innovation so it's a learned took first place followed by sweden and singapore. and russia's credit rating outlook has been upgraded to positive from stable by fitch ratings the reasons for the boost are accelerating growth of stabilizing banking industry and a flexible exchange rate policy from the central bank which said it may further

raise russia's credit rating if the government reduces the country's vulnerability to swings in all places. politicians at least in some countries have given up the pretense of economic recovery president barack obama this week called for another round of public spending to prevent a slide into depression but the debate has finally balanced with others in europe determined to cut spending and bring down deficit's they have a bit less. there at the bottom wants to go one hundred eighty billion dollars into the u.s. economy after a data suggesting the economy from house prices to jobs is shrinking again given his mood is that debating whether more spending will end a decade of contraction in the land of the rising sun the russians to face a choice for the next few years we seem pretty sure and if. we see a combination of private increase spending which we believe. i believe to

be private capital will return to russia over the next twelve months in a meaningful manner secondly we do see increased spending from the government as well combination of two should be the base we believe to be five to six percent growth over the medium term the government plans to borrow more money this year but also spend their means of the stability fund domestic borrowing is already accounts for a sixty million dollars and russia will be read to you should be rebuilt in november according to finance ministry. same store will be boring a lot in any case a deficit of three point six percent is anticipated next year we also focus the twenty twelve deficit will be three point one and two point nine to twenty thirteen the current situation has forced us to borrow and we will be spending from the reserve fund next year. the reserve funds have shrunk to

a third of their former size when that runs out at a little hole in the russian budget unless the government can pump up its moorings or one buyers for every inch of state companies legs bear. and with presidential elections less than two years away analysts see politicians we spending cuts off limits you need to do business or to most. plunging interest rates of lead to a threefold rise in borrowing on the syndicated loans market by russian companies corporate loans have jumped to twenty billion dollars from just under seven billion dollars a year before for example local took an unsecured loan this year is about one percent above its a bank rate last year a similar but secured loan by the same company had an interest rate four times higher than. the russian markets ended in the black on thursday with the r.t.s. finishing up of wine a half percent and the last six just over a percent across telecom was the biggest gainer all of my six up over five percent

backing in energy shares were also high with the t.v. gaining three percent all the r.t.s. shares of spare bank of lukoil finished up two point four percent. gazprom will boost investment by thirteen percent in the final months of two thousand and ten it will take the total sum for the year to about thirty billion dollars the money will go on keep gas transport projects plants and russia's far east along with the north and south stream pipeline projects. now look out the rest of thursday's company news el dorado russia's electronics retailer says it will exceed its profits forecast this year helped by the opening of four more stores the group's vice president of marketing says the company wants to become a leader in europe. well goal over the next three years is to become the best in europe in the next couple of years we're going to rebrand the whole chain we've managed to recover and regain the confidence of both consumers and banks were quite

profitable and we've announced four percent ebit dollar year to date but we still have a lot to do we began the year with one target for profit but it looks like we'll exceed it but at least one and a half times also us to nominate his chief. of the board of norsk may kill the extraordinary election in october twenty eight the votes being repeated after accusations of cheating during and only a vote the two principal shareholders and enter ross have competed for control of the board a list of candidates will be submitted on september twenty first at the latest. spare bank could all for a four point six billion dollars loan to rosalba small banks have been graphed all reporters in. the island we have giant needs to refinance is debt to the national bank graft has also announced that the privatisation of nine point three percent stake in the bank won't happen this year turning to its operations he added that the bank expects its retail loan portfolio to grow ten fifteen percent in two

thousand. that's all the update but you could always find most always on a website that's r.t. dot com slash business. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations around. to live in a country that don't understand that there's more violence the streets of this country than there are in the streets in afghanistan or baghdad.

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is about to rio but makes the semifinals of all the years in the last grand slam the very first time. serves on song serbia stone reigning champion spain in the quarter finals of the world basketball championships. plus of the giants take to the last five or to seriously challenge the team here klitschko is dominance of the having that division samuel peter appears for some reason. here is on a real will wander into unchartered territory on friday the last russian woman standing at the u.s. open booking her nor girl appearance in the semifinals flushing meadows now the wimbledon finalist for all murder this year taking care of business against. that one was a straightforward affair for it's already over but. perked up in the second and this. on much point typically long baseline bottle the ball goes out eventually twenty sexual is into the semi's

a far cry from last season when the most rockets fall in the nation in the. murder trial and. the most important thing was to find the right balance between being aggressive and i think. she now faces carline wozniacki dane stopping dominic it's a book of straight sets a similar pattern to the last four clash this with was easing into the first set before facing a tough second unforced errors costing spoke of a deer in the slovak making a muscle forty three compared to what is much more conservative total. it's business as usual for roger federer over in the men's side of action the world number two in clinical form against one of the few players to ever be some on the courts robin so doing the swiss maestro seeing all that see six four six four seven

five with both men defying peel force wins york city. better out of this year's french open but any thoughts of a repeat performance were put to the sword early on twenty nine year old federer absolutely dominant on serve sealing the wind with a succession of aces its old foe novak djokovic next for him up to the serb rushed . in three sets. the third seed how to do anything but his own way in the opener only taking it tiebreaker the next two were a different story the man they called joker taking total control seven six six one six true how it ended up odds are things will be somewhat closer in the semis against federer. more. going to use the wing then use the spinning that kick you know they could kind of give you that this is the first easy ball in the rally and i was trying to think

about that you know think about. you know past what happened or what will happen just kind of playing in the present moment. now one day old on the third kontinental hockey league season has already thrown opposite champions are humbled by merger club. so i like this of course the cape charles only ever champions taking on a team depleted of star names but the squad. upset the odds courtesy of a superb opening third where they finished zero up we won was and giving hope to underdogs everywhere. let's stay with the league age is just a number as far as the els most high profile signing of the year dominic is concerned forty five years of age the czech native time hart trophy winner is ready to open a new chapter of his career here in moscow rich poor slate takes up the story.

pretty much everything there is to win in the world of hockey gold medal the stanley cup and even if. you can claim to be cheer. for missing for the golden age of trophy cabinet ok children grow income people arguing hey just completely made me think of. it was a difficult decision i. like. red wings. won the championship. in the czech republic and i felt something still inside. i also played hockey and to play a very big challenge. it's something new for me and i want to do for myself but i just i have probably gone a winner out of games and compete for the championship despite being at an age when most goaltenders let alone full can believe that their skates pushing since he's good and great to stand but you can pay me. across here when i was in shape.

to play like eighteen games but i don't know we will see. the war devoted cole says it's always his decision i would like to play i don't know let's say eighty percent of the games but we'll see it's going to be having been in most cases just under a mum and she is well aware that he has a tough season ahead of him fully admits being a change is still the world's strongest leader he says the cage show is growing in shrinking peculiarity especially around europe and its quarter i don't know how. that is a big. player said people stop and go about it more it's really big in russian and inciting to be because a number of also we don't broadcast it i could watch not only n.h.l. games on the chippy but also pay a child to go it's getting me push it will surely feel at home with this club in moscow they will have six players with all the chicks they want to hear i said his head coach mills leisure is one of the main reasons for him doing spot time. when

the favorite with this is going come together they did it he could produce good but bowed to a talented but improving group of players which of them will be don't see. that brings us on to the canvas where revenge will be very much in samuel peters mind this saturday night's the nigerian taking on i b s w b o b o heavyweight boxing champion in a rematch of their fight from some five years ago that night peter trouble the giant ukrainian more than any other fighter has done and to school is nine type of offenses to date pietersen a thirty four year old to the ground on three occasions before that score regained enough composure to win it on points to score younger brother of courage to leave the seat belt holder for tally of a tough twelve wrong clash last time out against every chambers i was in march and his team say they're expecting similar on september the eleventh. really exciting fight first time the second time around now same old peters again is mandatory

challenger and so everyone through looking forward to this fight lattimer how it's title defense and he's pretty much established himself as the most dominant heavyweight and most consistent heavyweight out there in the last decade. i think on where they'll be no winning repeat for spain the world basketball championships the holders knocked out by an opt for it serbian squad constantine to top off the story of the quarterfinals. troops where you get to eventually defeat at the hands of the spinners in the last two years you are a basket decider we. exult the twentieth of september last season. was much better killed. was a big opportunity just to see through our game and what we can do without them as players pulled years old and caustic a little on the reigning champions experience trouble from the solid shooting from

the minute and going it's a relief and the spinners which willing by the end of the first quarter at twenty seven twenty three said he'll lose with a pair of three shots got spain back into the twenty one twenty eight early in the second quarter blackmarket kashmir with a three point zero from the corner to the way once again forty one forty one to serbia top to spain produced to ten lasting one of the start of the third quarter to take this seriously to begin my news will hit it high arching fade away over man of steel in this period six months or points to get within eighty six eighty four with two minutes remaining. three point two all the way out straight sharma fernandes i want a bus to go for thunder was doing to take this court eighteen or with just twenty five point eight seconds left and them english the others he should run the clock out before hitting the killer effortful with gemma whosis sealing the one score at ninety two eighty nine to all their players with the catch the ball would follow them if not no because there were

a great great great great free throw sure there is they didn't catch it so we played with a while we had to go. nine meters. into the possession of such a great shot. meanwhile in the feature to continue to make history is the easily so slovenia to extend their winning streak to seven games the host dominie's into the game finishing the course would have twenty seven fourteen meet me into a jury and the turks increased the lead to double that the early in the second quarter the home side wishing the same influence of the championships for the first time following the routine eighty six week three how it tough it just as expected next time it still could be a serb it could place in the point of complaining about temple energy. to football or aston villa have finally named their new monitor former liverpool and leon head the man taking over the reins in birmingham their sixty three year old frenchman

takes over from kevin macdonald who had been in charge at villa park since martin left his post on august ninth clear who guided me on to to leave one titles knows english football well having spent half a dozen years at liverpool the length of his contract hasn't been announced with selig but it is known he'll be in charge of the side for monday's premier league game away to the spot. that wraps up all the sport but if you're hungry for more do log on to our team dot com forward slash sports for more world weather is coming up in just a tick hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.