apparently organized the trip through the internet by posting details of the trip on his blog basically looking for a company of people to go with him he found a certain amount of people that were willing to take the trip to go but as you know . there are of course quite a lot of ski resorts there perhaps not quite to european standards as of now but they were public is willing to push its ski resorts and have attract more tourists and of course a lot of money is being invested into the region as we speak but as they were on their way the van that they were travelling in got shot at by an unknown gunmen and a number of those tourists inside then were shot dead some injured all of them of course shocked and scared it was happening there had no idea what was going on according to one survivor it was it came out of nowhere and they had no idea what

to do. which. is. so a very tragic situation a regular tourist trip that turned deadly for those people reports on casualties are still conflicting coming in from the region the number of dead is still an unconfirmed and the wounded have been delivered to local hospitals where doctors are fighting for their lives the local witnesses say the situation was frightening . the night was very dark and the driver knew there was a pharmacy in the village so they got here foremost in the girls gave them first aid when. a very frightening situation of course for those tourists and a lot of effort from the investigative authorities is being pumped into finding out

who was behind the attack why those tourists war of course attacked and just hours after this attack took place the resort that those people were traveling to got attacked as well a detonation shook the resort where they were traveling to. a lot of the ski equipment that is used by the tourists there was targeted a detonation tore through all of that course an unprecedented situation almost for despite the fact that it is a in the troubled and volatile north caucasus region this republic is perhaps one of the most stable in the region and incidents like this are definitely not something that the people of the republic and the country are used to. well with in mind even more so investigators are probably seriously looking into who could be behind these incidents in the region do we know anything about that. of course investigators are right now focusing not only on finding who is who was pulling the

trigger and who was set off the detonation in the actual ski resort but also looking for masterminds behind those two attacks and of course the fact that the. but it is located in the volatile north caucasus has given investigators plenty to think about russia's most wanted terrorist. is of course a possibility according to law enforcement both local and general of the investigative committee and the prosecutor general's office are investigating a possibility of connecting russia's most wanted terrorist to these two deadly attacks we know that a lot of previously claimed responsibility for the deadly terrorist attacks on both the moscow metro system and the moscow them ideas of what airports those attacks of course deadly killing dozens of people injuring hundreds of others and investigators are considering the possibility that this is yet another dangerous

action undertaken by some of russia's most wanted man right well we will continue to follow this latest development for now live from moscow arties could he not as our. you're with are live from moscow coming up this hour for you. coming up this hour for you here in our two we have the story of another harry potter that's buried in israel you can find out more about that later in the program. now fred rare from the christian science monitor says it's common practice for terrorists to target tourist resorts. it fits a pattern all over the world where people terrorists who want to damage a country's economy they attack tourists because the when the word of that spreads people stop coming hotels closed all those service all those all that money that

comes in with tourism stops that that's an amazing amount of damage that they can do president medvedev recently did. a multi-billion dollar project to build ski resorts and hotels throughout that region along was very magnificent peaks in order to encourage tourism well this is exactly the sort of thing that will deeply discourage it. in other news public resentment against the ruling class is growing in the wider middle east amid bloody attacks on demonstrators as the region plunges into chaos the group human rights watch says at least eighty one people have been killed in violence related to anti-government activists in libya one protester was shot dead in yemen's capital sanaa when police opened fire on the march of thousands of demonstrators saturday marks the ninth consecutive day of protests in yemen and bahrain armored vehicles and troops have moved away from the center of demonstrations in the capital meeting one of the opposition's conditions

for dialogue opposed by the king report suggests riot police which were behind brutal crackdowns on protesters used supplies made by british companies to clear the protest human rights activist barnaby pace says the u.k. has been reckless in its arms sales. we can see across the middle east that the government is selling to repressive regimes that. this could happen at any point and and we've got to be aware that when we sell you but it's normally for and lethal equipment those will be used and. generally at some point that would be used on someone innocent the u.k. government needs to seriously reconsider however. in the first place not only have these arms be licensed to be so good overseas in the case of bahrain. they are actively promote. the u.k. government and actively promotes arm sales to a number of the presses. this very weekend the u.k.

government is sending representatives out to the large arms fair in abu dhabi it's called i debts. which the arms industry trade body in the u.k. claims ten percent of its exhibitors will be british at this spare and the u.k. actively encourages these companies to sell including the very equipment that is being used to protesters in the middle east because these weapons are widely misused and the. export criteria which look good on paper are very rarely applied with any rate. well the math outrage in the middle east a rapid after popular up evil in tunisia and egypt which brought down the embattled leaders and more people gathered in cairo's tahrir square on friday tomorrow a week since president mubarak was toppled middle east analyst james downs low says it's too early to celebrate victory. this hasn't really been a revolution in a traditional sense mubarak's power structures his cronies are still really in a similar place as they were before this wall the battle. has been won the war over

the future of egypt is really yet to be forced and we see what happens next in terms of real constitutional changes changes to the state of emergency whether political parties can rise out of the ashes of mubarak's authoritarianism the genie is well and truly been let out of the bottle and reverberations from what happened in tunisia now being felt in every single state and i think that you know as the persian tales go if there were to be three wishes from the genie out of the bottle the governments would wish that the populations would accept the compromises they've made the population seem to wish that their leadership disappeared and the international community seems to be busy wishing that it knew which side of the fence to sit on. well radio host and film director alex jones says that one factor forcing people out onto the streets is dollar inflation serving policy to ranks as the global economy is flooded with dollars as the private philip reserve hyper

inflates the dollar it's going to drive commodities and so in places like egypt and many other areas you're going to have people who are making on average two dollars a day or less. basically with empty bellies who are going to start rioting and protesting and austerity via globalism is also coming to western europe it's coming to places like ireland because everything is now going to the offshore private central banks the system hopes to use all of this new furor in the streets as a pretext to basically roll in another layer of intensified police states. media focus is shifting our cross the protests sweeping through the middle east later we asked people in new york whether the media has lost sight of what that means for the countries where the on rest began and tunisia. it's all about money and power in which the tomato story is totally gone it's kind of those type of

journalists in the field reporting journalist it seems like that's the story with all of them they love to kind of shine just as much of a peripheral light on what they will through to get the truth out and that's that's journalism. the u.s. may be the self-proclaimed land of the free but it's also one of the world's top jailers with its prison population a quarter of the world's total number behind bars are dishonest nazi churkin i met a former inmate who was calling against a present system which he claims is built for profit. the parking lot where the prison cell where the men inside it the inmate michael to bond moved in out of his own free will michael spent thirty hours building his prison cell made out of plywood and even parts of his own homes a roof top his generator strategically placed right here keeps the cell lit and

warm throughout this cold winter much the main goal of the man once convicted of armed robbery to bring down the number of prisoners in the u.s. slavery still exists in the united states of america to him and his supporters in sleeved are over two million prisoners packing jails across the u.s. a country with the highest prison population in the world yet the eat sleep and use the same verse in the same area. that's disgusting to me is not somewhere i want to be. if you are the ex-con is now teaching children about the horrors of prison life to. deter them from crime in the future. for the self-made convict says one of the biggest problems is american prisons are big business when you get in thirty three thousand dollars a year because the rate of human being is like it's kind of like a photo you go out in this parking lot for every rock you bring me i'll give you

five dollars how many rocks would you bring and in this diary khana meet many youngsters are stuck between a rock and a hard place you can't love the whole country and especially during a recession you know crime and poverty is synonymous if you've got poverty you want to have for michael also cites a flawed justice system for the high conviction rates especially of the poor with lawyers selling freedom to the highest bidder if you can't afford to pay for the case you're going to get crazy time with the counterpart the money is gone a little bit of time a problem across the u.s. but less than five percent of the world's population but almost a quarter of the prison population of the planet the man will remain in his cell until the end of the month by which time he hopes his message will have hit home until then look at us and now we are all in the hole if they see a church in our party philadelphia. glen ford the editor of the political magazine

black agenda report believes that imprisonment is a profitable commercial and political tool used to control social and racial unrest that people would insulate black folks and the people in my circles don't consider that the main impetus to mass incarceration is money it is a political tool to control folks but if you want to do that you have to get large segments of the society on your side you have to make prison profitable for lots of people lots of companies and you also make it profitable for little towns in upstate new york and. downstate illinois towns that would be suffering serious terrible unemployment if they didn't have a prison in their county so you you you you do two things you whip up a and hysteria it is really a racial hysteria and the numbers show it around mainly drugs and you create

a profit motive for people to vote to incarcerate masses and masses of black people and it works and that's why we have by far the worst imprisonments record on the planet. dot com is where you can check out all of our stories blogs and analysis whenever you like here's a look at one thing on line for you today the space recently sat front on mars have begun their groundbreaking your oration simulated red planet. and find out how the russian president and prime minister been checking out some fun for the twenty fourth olympics in sochi with some not so soft rock in the background. japan's chief cabinet secretary has flown over russia's lesser greil islands to

draw time to tokyo's claim the area move comes after recent visits by russian officials to the eastern most region earlier russia described japan's radical approach towards the territories that's unacceptable and announced real quick bring cool real military garrisons the islands in the pacific ocean were handed to russia as part of agreements of the second world war however it seems that other parties are interfering in the dispute adding fuel to the fire washington once again underlined its position over the last real change saying the territory belongs to japan well political analysts victoria says tokyo stance is shaky and leading the world down a dangerous path. any diggin into their history might undermine the position if we taught every voice all their agreements were taken and so my point could you imagine what could start helping me in the world so any agreement on the two to do that would actually undermine their position and

their position is more political determined by internal politics and also determined by this as their country was there a limit to the sovereignty there is a way for compromise if the government changes because this one wouldn't be able to go out of this. now while the dramatic uprising in egypt was unfolding us mainstream media that wall to wall coverage of president hosni mubarak was gone so too was interest from t.v. and newspapers the resident show host laurie harmfulness talks to people on the streets of new york about the media's approach. after the success of protesters in egypt and the media has quickly shifted their focus to other areas of unrest do they even care about the outcome or just their next big scoop this week let's talk about that i think the meat of the story is gone. but the meat of the work still has yet to be done right there's no money in

that. it's about a war and i mean if it's all about money and power in which the meat of the story is totally gone is that ok are we ok with that does that mean that the media is doing its job. i don't think they're allowed to be doing it. i mean basically it's you know governments and politics will control the media and about how you look at it and what people say it's just the way i go just the way it is but it's been like that for a long time will it always be like that will come and go i mean you used to be the yellow journalism of the eighteen nineties and then like on the i did you know the three major major networks with the f.c.c. regulations and they got more normalized now with you know like anybody can publish anything they're going to go after sensationalism again an opinionated journalism i mean that's kind of the those type of journalists the feel in the field reporting journalists it seems like that's the story with all of them they love to kind of

shine just as much of a peripheral light on what they went through to get the truth out and that's that's journalism is that more important than getting the truth out no absolutely not but i don't think you can blame the press from moving on to areas that the people are more interested in because that sanny way they're going to. money and then we're going to survive but you know you guys here you have p.b.s. and we have stuff like that on her room and that's why we have to keep paying taxes so that we can have. motivators by making a profit whether or not you believe the media actually cares about the outcome of such uprisings the bottom line is that if you care make sure you get your information from as many media sources as. a major crackdown on organized crime has been triggered across russia authorities are targeting gangs covered up by officials in small towns are. reports on

a brutal slaying that brought the issue back into the public's attention. these graves a reminder of one of the most horrific crimes in russia and wealthy farmer his companion and ten others mostly women and children were killed one. in the village of short stay in russia itself but investigators were even more shocked when they discovered that this brutal slaying is just the tip of the iceberg the crime where when crucial to go thought of war worth years mass murder the boys were unable to why and go through the numerous acts of murder rape and extortion but they have been a journalist who became with all wars and heard as they directed the earth bushman's at one particular local gang all suspects were also well respected members of the village situated in the cross in the region oleksandr called each officer of the organized crime fighting unit of the local police reportedly provided to cover up for the gang its leader sub believed to be sort of gates of pork and his aide sort

of gave us who did produce of the local council and it is said there were also dozens of mafia dogs recruited from. perfectly legitimate security for that young above all square says their crimes could have been prevented in two thousand and five she informed local police about the gangsters but they got away something that may happen again. it's not only birds of dogs people it's about the ones who protected them and i have doubts that these times they'll end up in jail or get proper punishment will definitely have serious connections the case triggered to crack down across the country on organized crime in the republic of bush give the star ninety three people were arrested on new year's eve on drug related charges the gang was supported by police and laundered more than one and a half million dollars a month also the murder of the mafia kingpin nicknamed han in the southern russian

city of starr report may also lead to corrupt policemen and local officials at. why did government pledge to tackle organized crime and corruption. is a pain should be to get everything in order yes it is in a few years time it's possible if you change the heads of the law enforcement agencies make the courts work and restore the system district organized crime units and there is little good the brutality of the gangs and corruption of some officials can be overcome and russia journalists and crime experts listen to. the region. well look now at some other stories dominating world headlines that the united nations he wants has vetoed a draft resolution which would have condemned the israeli building of settlements as illegal while fourteen other members of the security council approve the motion which insisted israel stops construction in the west bank and east jerusalem is seen as another blow to the mideast peace process with the palestinians now saying

they'll reassess their role in the talks this is the first un veto used by the obama administration. a military helicopter has crashed in the mountains in northeast colombia killing an army general and three soldiers and witness described seeing the helicopter spiral out of control before coming down and bursting into flames a military official at the scene confirmed all want to board have died there was poor weather at the time but because of the crash is still being established. western australia has been hit by fresh flooding following heavy rain several people had to flee their homes after a river burst its banks while roads and bridges have also been cut off more rain is predicted and water levels are expected to rise further the area was struck by devastating floods last december and huge swathes of the east are also recovering from a record breaking delhi years. now while blockbusters are

known to draw huge crowds a grave might seem an unlikely tourist attraction unless the person buried there is one harry potter but it's not what you're thinking this is the final resting place of a teenage british soldier killed decades ago which isn't stopping wizard fans from flocking to visit and just fall asleep or found out this potter story has anything but a magical ending. harry potter is good and varied in israel but before you die hard potter fans collapse from the shock we're talking about a very different harry and a somewhat different plot this hour we both of you signed up to be i'm going to british army when he was sixteen or seventeen. and he did it by lying about his age but he couldn't cheat death and died in battle near hebron in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine potter fans found the grave that will far as he's had long forgotten the metaphor but a few years ago we started getting all these phone calls we didn't even grieve

existed. but word spread fast and now the relatively little known israeli town of rambler is firmly on the tourist map potter's grave attracts as much attention as ancient archaeological digs in the area. the two parters are similar in name and age and both are heroes but that's where it ends that we'll harry potter was from a village near birmingham england and was dispatched to push mandated palestine a year after joining the army he was a truck rovio it brought supply from jerusalem. and this is the way the. as for the world's most famous boy wizard he's fallen foul of israel's rabbis after the last installment of his book was launched during the jewish sabbath many religious jews also for but the children from reading his tales they say it's pagan content is forbidden in judaism but the reason has nothing to do with harry potter

. except the hype. i think. her brother contributed a lot to people interests in paganism and magic because it's cool and potter is not the only lastest literature figure buried in israel's military cemeteries here in jerusalem is buried none other than william shakespeare like potter he was also part of the british army and served as a truck driver although he died a few years before potter was born both their tombstones bring a smile of recognition portier r.t. jerusalem. moscow says counter bill you have missed the top five most expensive cities in the world and that's often believe that if you want to enjoy yourself they'll have to shell out this week are days more in ender's discovers that's not always the case moscow out is focusing on from galilee and it's coming your way in just a few minutes. finally the film the red october chocolate factory in the heart of moscow is a historic sites and of course you can explore the complex for free you can also

find very sprit bees inside one of the recent stayman venues in this case and how big an area demba is a cafe and cinema land has a suitable inside we can watch various films some of them in english and yes three each of the schedule on the dirt website enjoy its house documentary and plenty of movies with no particular treatment. while the full program is coming up in just a few minutes we're going to take a short break and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories. street

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life. at six thirty pm last time that these are the top stories here on our team for tourists are killed in a van in the north caucuses just before an explosion reportedly hit the ski resort they were traveling to. as anti-government protests and waves of calls to the middle east britain got slammed first one weapons which are being used to kill and injure demonstrators. and imprison nations the west has more people in jail than any other country and some acts conflict saying it's because big businesses turned present in. next this week's edition of

focuses on how to get by on a modest budget fall in the russian capital known as one of the world's most expensive cities. hello and welcome to the program now moscow is famous for being one of the mess expensive cities in the world. and we see just how low we can find prices in the capital there are hundreds of thousands of deals office sales and discounts to be found here. with. the good old. times he didn't have to be a. wife to enjoy a shocking. case. to say she still has several locations around the capital they will just.