mountain quite a popular destination for tourists both in russia and abroad they were just on their way to the ski resort they were staying at and their van was pulled over by people were tending to be police officers after the driver stopped the then two men got out and asked for the one woman inside the van to step outside your refused with the men inside protecting the woman the gunman stepped back and opened fire at least three people have been killed on the spot with one man actually witnessing the death of his own son. as there is video. of those of that remain in hospital are probably still alive due to the quick reaction of the driver of the van who remained on harm 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 the night was very dark and the driver knew there was

a pharmacy in the village. in the girls gave them first aid. 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 as still alive the republic of combating the old 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 of 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.

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 left has been severely damaged the most already 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 attacks but he's covering those of a reporting there on what we know so far fred we're spoke to a cease from the christine symes monist he says it's common practice for us 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 close down all those service all those all that money that comes in with tourism stops that an amazing amount of damage that they can do president medvedev recently did announce. 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. still to come this hour on r.t.e. it was it's unlikely resting place. and. make a bargain. we visit the cemetery where harry potter himself is buried alongside instantly william shakespeare find out how their graves ended up in israel in just a few minutes time. russia would sing a crack down on the organized crime and a police cover up has been revealed behind brutal murders but some fear the corrupt

officials might still get away with. 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 so far in violence related to anti government to this in libya and 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 also trouble in bahrain their armored vehicles and troops have now moved away from the center of demonstrations in the capital beating one of the opposition's conditions for a dialogue that's now been proposed in full suggest what the sutra behind. some protesters use supplies made by british companies to clear the protest rights activist places a good reckless sometimes saying. 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 you both non-lethal and lethal equipment those will be used and. generally at some point 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 good overseas in case of bahrain. they are actively promote. the u.k. government and actively promotes arms sales to a number of repressive regimes this very weekend the u.k. government is sending representatives out to the large arms fair in abu dhabi it's called i desks. 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 protest this in the middle east at least where weapons are widely misused and the u.k. is a arms and export criteria which look good on paper very rarely applied with any record the mass outrage of the middle east erupted after a popular a people's in chief busier in egypt which brought about leaders and people gathered in cairo's tahrir square on friday to mark a week now since president mubarak was toppled middle east analyst james then slow told us it's too early yet to celebrate victory. this hasn't really been a revolution in a traditional sense mubarak's power structure his cronies are still really in a similar place as if they were before they say while the battle to oust mubarak has been won the war over the future of egypt has really yet to be force 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 reverberations from what

happened in tunisia and now being felt in every single state and i think that you know as the person 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. radios and film director alex jones told us that one fact of forcing people out onto the streets is dollar inflation and the self-serving policies of major banks. as the global economy is flooded with dollars as the private fellow 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 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. the media focus is now shifting across the protests sweeping through the middle east and later this hour we also people in new york whether the media is lost sight of what that means for the countries where the rest again. it's all about money and power in which of the media stories we're going to mean that's kind of the those type of journalists that 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.

this is r.t. from moscow the u.s. maybe the sulfur claimed land of the free but it also jails more people than any other country in the world he's an assistant to former inmate who is calling against a prison system which he claims is built for profit. the parking lot where the prison cell where the 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. and use the same

in the same area were. 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 thirty three thousand dollars a year. is like this come and. go. 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 the whole country and especially during the recession you know poverty is synonymous if you go poverty you want to have 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. crazy. where is the counterpart the money is a little bit of 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 a thought now we all in the hope is that the church party philadelphia planned for the two 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 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 out 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. twenty forty moscow time r.t. dot com is a place you can check out all the stories blogs and analysis whenever you like course talk watch the online field today find out how the russian president the

prime minister been checking out some soft snow or the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi with some not quite so soft rock music in the background let's talk about tito. the space where we've recently set foot brothers have begun their groundbreaking exploration of the simulated red planet now we've got the latest about that online tonight. japan's chief cabinet secretary has flown over russia's lesser look. to draw attention to tokyo's claim on the area the move comes after recent visits by russian officials to the easternmost region earlier russia described japan's radical approach towards the territories as a quote unacceptable move but announced reequipping the corrals military garrisons

the islands in the pacific ocean were handed to russia responded agreements at the end of the second world war however it seems that other parties are interfering in the dispute fueled the fire washington for its part once again underlined its position over the last chain saying that the territory belongs to japan political analyst put over says time here stance is shaky and leading will down a dangerous path. any diggin into their history might undermine their position if we start it is wise to go all the agreements that were taken at some point can you imagine what can start happening in the world so any agreement on their part to to do that would actually undermine their position and their position is more political determined by internal politics and also the total by their status as their country is there a limit to the summer that there is a way for compromise if the government changes because this one wouldn't be able to

go out of this. next while the dramatic uprising in egypt was unfolding us mainstream media gave it wall to wall coverage but once president hosni mubarak was gone so too it seems was the interest from t.v. and newspapers the resident show host laurie half an ist talks to people on the streets of new york them about the media's 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 and there's no money in that. it's about a war and i mean if it's all about money and power and which of the major 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 their job. and 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 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 eighty nine news and then like when i did that you know the three major major networks were at 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 and opinionated journalism i mean that's kind of the those type of journalists the foot 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 for moving on to areas that the people are

more interested in because that's any way they're going to make money and they're not going to survive but you know you guys here you have p.b.s. and we have stuff like that to heart and that's why we have to keep paying taxes so that we can have. motivated by making a profit whether or not you believe the media actually cares about the outcome of such uprisings the bottom line is that. you can make sure you get your information from the many media is there at that as. a major crackdown on organized crime has been triggered across russia authorities are targeting gangs protected by officials in small towns parties does polaski reports now on a brutal slaying the brought the issue back to 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's cell but investigators were even more shocked when they discovered that this brutal slaying is just the tip of the iceberg the crime where women. who are three years mass murder the boys were unable to wind though 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 their thoughts 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 both 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 says their crimes could have been prevented in

two thousand and five she informed local police above 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 question of scared triggered to crack down across the country on organized crime in the republic of bush good to 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 the man 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. it's all part of a wider government pledged to tackle organized crime and corruption. is a possible to put everything in order yes it is in half

a year's time it's possible if you 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 old good the brutality of the gangs and corruption of some officials can be overcome and russia it journalists and crime experts a listen to. just a lot skeet are crossing the region with news and briefing at least three people have been killed and more than sixty injured when gun death and even some stormed a bank in eastern afghanistan among the victims were civilians soldiers and policemen the president's office said the three suicide bombers were involved in that raid the taliban state sponsored military taxing a target of security forces. as united nations the us has vetoed a draft resolution which would have condemned the israeli building of settlements as illegal or fourteen other members of the security council approved a motion which insisted that israel stops construction in the west bank and east jerusalem it's seen as another blow to the mideast peace process with the

palestinians now saying they'll reassess their role in the talks is the first un veto used by the obama administration. but he suggests that the fight to gas abortive can and to prevent violence during an annual far right rally in dresden around a thousand people gathered for state approved that should be commemorated deadly allied bombing at the end of world war two many more leftist come to demonstrate is supported by civil rights groups and democratic parties attended the event some of them tried to attack the government by throwing rocks and bottles. well blockbusters and no to draw huge crowds a grave might see one unlikely tourist attraction unless the person buried there is one harry potter but it's not quite what you're thinking this in fact is the final resting place of a teenage british soldier killed decades ago which isn't stopping wizard firms from flocking to visit and that is part of slayer found that this part of story has anything but

a magic ending. harry potter is good and buried 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 pore through you signed up to the i'm going to british army when he was sixteen or seventeen years old 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 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. i pray god. the two parters are similar in name and age and both are heroes but

that's where it ends 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 driver it brought supply from jerusalem to have wrong and this is the way they got everything you couldn'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 for but the children from reading his tales they say it's pagan content is forbidden in judaism but it is and has nothing to do with her potter. except the hype. her brother contributed a lot to people interests in paganism and magic because it's cool and potter is not the only illustrious literature figure buried in israel's military cemeteries here interest in him is buried none other than william shakespeare like

parter 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 tombstones bring a smile of recognition the r.t. jerusalem. the story i want to work the water part of after the army of visitors now visiting his grave in twenty eleven coming up on a quarter of an hour on r.t. tonight sports news for you were russians for lawmakers in server will take on new world number one caroline wozniacki the final of the dubai championships lots more details on the mind i mean times kevin owen i'll update the headlines for you in just a couple of minutes here on our team from moscow this saturday night the nineteenth of february.

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hello thanks for being with r.t. tonight these are all top stories three tourists were killed in an attack on a van in the north caucuses just before an explosion reportedly hit the ski resort of the trouble. is that the government protests rage across the middle east britain gets slammed for supplying weapons which are being used to kill and injure demonstrate. and imprison its nation the us has more people in jail than any other country and some mix conflicts say that it's because big businesses are turning prisons into profit more on line twenty four seventh's. next this week's edition of moscow focusing on how to get by on a modest budget when you are in the russian capital known of course as one of the

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