izing the trip has posted. a notice on his blog about organizing a ski trip in the republic of about in the area of course that's where the roost mountain is quite a popular destination for tourists in russia and outside of the country as well it wasn't his first trip he got a number of people to get there and they were just on their way to that location when their van that they were traveling in was pulled over by people pretending to be police officers when they were stopped two men approached their van opened the door and demanded that one woman who was in the van with the men step out when the woman refused and all of the men tried to protect them the. men outside the van from coming inside they just literally took a few steps back and opened fire three at least three of the people have been killed we know that one is in hospital doctors are fighting for his life the fate

of one more tourist remains unknown but it is of course huge drama especially for all of those in that then one man actually saw his own son died before his eyes. the. day is. that man was the father of the of the young man who actually organized the trip he of course is shocked by what happened but those of that remain in hospital are probably still alive due to the quick reaction of the driver of the van who remained unharmed he knew the area where the van was pulled over and he knew the location of the nearest pharmacy and that's where he drove to him and the pharmacist on duty doing their best to offer first aid to all injured. in

the night was very dark and the driver knew there was a pharmacy in the village for most individuals gave them first eight. we know that at least one tourist remains in hospital with doctors fighting for his life there have been reports that four out of the five tourists have died but that is still unconfirmed there is still a possibility that one other tourist is still alive with doctors doing everything they can to save him but the story certainly very much still developing are we hearing anything about who could be behind these incidents. well of course of the republic of combating the car is located in russia's volatile north caucasus region so. the local authorities and the investigative committee the prosecutor general's office are doing everything they can to find out not only who was responsible for attacking those tourists but also who was the mastermind behind

it and they are of course looking at those who are quite active in the north caucasus region of course that includes russia's most wanted terrorist or modify previously claimed responsibility for two deadly attacks in the russian capital the moscow metro bombings and the terrorist attack on moscow's them idea the airport authorities have stepped up. security in the region in the republic of korea as well especially with unconfirmed reports that a chairlift in the location where those attack tourists were actually heading to was. blasted with a detonating device as a result apparently there have been no injuries this is of course still unconfirmed reports but there have been no injuries but the chair lift has been severely damaged with over thirty of the lifts he sells falling down onto the ground local authorities have so far said that this has been to do to

a bad weather conditions but that is still debatable many of course media services reporting that it was indeed a potential terrorist attack so security has been stepped up in the region with a local law enforcement and a mobile force me here in moscow both mccain and doing everything they can to find those responsible for and we will continue to keep track of this developing story argues couldn't azara live from moscow. well fred we are 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 when the word of that spreads of 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. why from moscow you're watching are two still to come for you this hour a wizard's unlikely resting place. and. every night. we visit a cemetery where harry potter himself is buried alongside of william shakespeare find out how their graves and developed in israel that's me out in a few minutes. and russia is witnessing a crackdown on organized crime a police car up has been revealed behind brutal murders but some fear the corrupt officials might still get away. but first public

resentment against the ruling classes 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 four people have been killed in violence related to anti-government activist in libya one protester was shot dead in yemen's capital sanaa when police opened fire on a 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 proposed by the king reports suggest riot police which were behind. brutal crackdowns on protesters youth supplies made by british companies to clear protests 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 all over that this could happen at any

point in and we've got to be aware that when we sell the both non-lethal and lethal equipment those will be used and. generally at some point they will be used on someone innocent the u.k. government needs to seriously reconsider how approaches arm sales in the first place not only have these arms be licensed to be so dioceses in the case of bahrain . they are actively promote. the u.k. government and actually promote arms sales to a number of the press's have regimes this very weekend the u.k. government is sending representatives out to the launch. which the industry trade body in the u.k. claims ten percent of its executives will be british at this spare and the u.k. actively encourages is these companies to sell including the very equipment that is being used to protest this in the middle east at least with weapons all widely misused in the u.k. is a. criteria which look good on paper very rarely applied with any record but

of course the mass outrage in the middle east erupted after popular up peoples in tunisia and egypt which brought down the embattled leaders and all people gathered in cairo's tahrir square on friday to mark a week since president mubarak was toppled middle east expert. says it's too early to celebrate victory. this hasn't really been a revolution in a traditional sense mubarak's power structure is his cronies are still really in a similar place as if they were before they say while the battle to oust them about has been won the war over the future of egypt before 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. tearing isn't the genie has well and truly been left out of the bottle and the reverberations from what happened in tunisia and 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 and radio host and film director alex jones says that one factor of forcing people out onto the streets is dollar inflation and the self-serving policies banks. as the global economy is flooded with dollars as the private fell 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 we're going to start rioting and protesting and austerity 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. well media focus is shifting across 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 in egypt and tunisia. it's all about money about where in which the tomato story is totally gone i mean that's kind of the 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 went 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 parties anastasio turk and i met a former inmate was calling against a prison system which he claims is built. a parking lot with a prison cell with a man 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 rooftop his generator strategically placed right here keeps the cell lit and warm throughout this cold winter months 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 back in. the ex-con is now teaching children about the horrors of chris. in 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 cause or a to human being is like this kind of like you know of them is parking for every rock you bring me. 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 the recession you know poverty is synonymous if you go to 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 want to get crazy time where is 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 i saw him now we all in the hole and stacy church in our party philadelphia. glen ford 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 . the people who would in slave black folks and the people in my circles don't consider that the main impetus to to mass incarceration is money it is a 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 which is really 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. argue dot com is where you can check out all our stories blogs analysis and much more whenever you like here's what's online for you today find out how the boss and president and prime minister have been checking out some soft snow for the

twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi with some not so soft rock in the background. and the space men who have recently set foot on mars have begun their groundbreaking exploration of the simulated red planet. japan's chief cabinet secretary has flown over russia's lesser greil islands to draw attention to tokyo's claim on the area the 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 announce recouping the military garrisons the islands in the pacific ocean were handed to russia as part of agreements at the end 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 work real train saying the territory belongs to japan. victoria says tokyo stance is shaky and leading the world down a dangerous path. any diggin into their history might undermine their position it was thought everybody all the agreements that were taken and so my point can you imagine what can start helping in the world so any agreement on the japanese part two to do that would actually undermine their position and their position is more political determined by turn old politics and also the total by their status as their country is there a limit to the sovereignty to 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 coverage but once president hosni mubarak was gone so too was the interest from t.v. and newspapers the resident show host laurie harshness talks to people on the streets of new york about the approach. after the success of protesters in egypt 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 i mean if it's all about money and power in which the tomato story is totally gone is that ok are we ok with that does that mean that the media's doing its job. i don't think they're allowed to be doing their job. 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 it 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 used to be the yellow journalism of the eighteen nineties and then like when they had to do you know the three major major networks with the f.c.c. regulations and it got more normalized now with you know like anybody can file to show anything they're going to go after sensationalism again an opinionated journalism i mean that's kind of the those type of journalists the few 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 make money. and there are going to survive but you know you guys here you have p.b.s.

and we have something that her room and that's why we have to keep paying taxes so that we can have press who aren't motivated by making a profit whether or not you believe the media actually cares about the outcome of the uprisings the bottom line is that if you care make sure you get your information from the many medias there at that as part. of a major crackdown on organized crime has been triggered across the areas are targeting gangs covered up i have missiles in small towns. reports on a brutal slaying that brought the issue back into the public's attention. these griefs a reminder of one of the most horrific crimes in russia the world farmer his companion and turn others mostly women and children were killed one noiseless november in the village of russia's self but investigators were even more shocked when they discovered that this brutal slaying is just the tip of the iceberg the crime we

will go thought of before worth years of mass murder the boys were unable to why and go through sponsible numerous acts of murder rape and extortion but the ability of the local journalist who became with all wars heard as they directed the earth bushman's at one particular local gang all suspects were also well respected members of the village situated and across 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 up for eight sort of gives a perverse boot dip did use of the local council and it is said there were also dozens of mafia thugs 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 blue. police evolved to gangsters but they got away something

that may happen again. it's not only about suboxone people it's about the ones who protected them and they have doubts that these times they'll end up in jail or get proper punishment will definitely have serious connections the question of case triggered to crack down across the country on organized crime in the republic of bush give the stun 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 stop reports may also lead to corrupt policemen and local officials it is all part of a wider government pledged to tackle organized crime and corruption. is it possible to put everything in order yes it is in half a year's time it's possible if we change the heads of the law enforcement agencies make the courts work and restore the system of district organized crime units and there is the hope that the brutality of the gangs and corruption of some officials

can be overcome and russia if journalists and crime experts listen to get a lot ski are to cross in the region. a brief look now at some other major headlines from around the world at the united nations the u.s. has vetoed a draft resolution which would have condemned the israeli building of settlements as illegal all fourteen other members of the security council approved the motion which insisted israel stops construction in the west bank and east jerusalem it's seen as another blow to the middle east 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. police in germany had to fire tear downs and water cannon to prevent violence during an annual far right rally in dresden around one thousand people gathered for a state approved action to commemorate a deadly allied bombing in the end of world war two many more leftist counter

demonstrators supported by civil rights groups and democratic parties attended the event some of them tried to attack the gathering by throwing rocks and bottles. 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 sir also recovering from a record breaking deluge. 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 as wallace later found out this potter story has anything but

a magic ending. harry potter is good and varied in his role but before you die hard potter fans collapse from the shock we're talking of. not a very different harry and a somewhat different plot this are reported 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 but metaphor memories but a few years ago we started getting all these phone calls we didn't even know the greve 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

is the real harry potter was from a village near birmingham england and was dispatched to british mandated palestine a year after joining the army he was a truck drove it brought supplies from jerusalem. and this is the word you got everything you didn't explain 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 forbid 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. her brother contributed to a lot to people interests in paganism and magic because it's cool and potters not the only illustrious literature figure buried in israel's military cemeteries here interest in them 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 ports. we're going to take a short break here in arts and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories. on

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you're watching our team live from moscow our top stories for tourists are killed in an attack on a van in the north caucasus just before an explosion reportedly hit the ski resort they were traveling to. as anti-government protests rage across the middle east britain got slammed for supplying weapons which are being used to kill and injure demonstrators. and imprisoned may send us as more people in jail than any other country and some acts convicts say is because big businesses turn prison and. next we take a look at russia's relations with nato in our interview shall spotlight. hello

again or welcome to spotlight the interview show on r.t. and i'll bring up then today my guest on the show is james a pastor. in washington has published its new national military strategy the document shifts the political interest of the u.s. to former soviet countries in asia and the caucasus social asia is a valuable supply hub for nato forces in afghanistan while georgia could be a base for part of the american anti-missile shield but is russia's position on this considered in washington and brussels here's laitos deputy assistant secretary general public affairs and security policy james abaft. need to stand security and transparent.