and abroad they were just on their way to the ski resort they were staying at and their van was old over by people were tending to be police officers after the driver stopped the van 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. was destroyed. there is video. of those of that remain in hospital who are probably still alive due to the quick reaction of the driver of the man 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. and 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 cuba is in the old car is located in russia's paula taleb 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 bad 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 up security in the region in the republic of combating the bolt. 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 chairlift has been a severely damaged the most already have so far said that this has been to ju-ju a bad weather conditions but that is still debatable many media services reporting that it was indeed a potential terrorist attack let's go to south of bring you what we know at the moment about this story fred where is from the christian science monitor he told us 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 raising the amount of damage that they can do president medvedev recently did announce. a multi-billion dollar project to build ski resorts and hotels that region along with very magnificent peaks in order to encourage tourism well this is exactly the sort of thing that will deeply discourage it. fred we're still to come this hour a wizard's unlikely resting place. might make a bargain roadie. visit the set with a tree where harry potter himself indeed is buried along with william shakespeare find out how their graves ended up in israel in just a few months. and russia's witnessing a crackdown on organized crime and the police cover up has been revealed behind brutal murders but some fear the corrupt officials might still get away. from the

public resentment against the ruling classes is growing in the wider middle east a bit bloody attacks on demonstrators as the region plunges into chaos at least fifteen people have been killed in libya as security forces opened fire on nearly as attending the funeral procession for anti-government activists that brings the total death toll to the most one hundred 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 trouble too in bahrain the trouble continuing vehicles and troops moving away from the center of demonstrators in the capital meeting on the opposition's conditions for a dialogue proposed by the king reports suggest riot police which were behind brutal crackdowns on protesters used supplies made by british companies to clear the test rides out of this place told us the u.k. has been reckless and it sounds so. 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 normally for and lethal equipment those will be used and. generally at some point be used on someone innocent the u.k. government we seriously reconsider how approaches. in sales in the first place not only have these arms been 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 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 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 if these weapons are widely misused and the u.k.'s is arms and export criteria which look good on paper are very rarely applied with any record of rage in the middle east erupted after popular peoples and should be easier in egypt which brought down the about leaders there and while people gathered in cairo's tahrir square on friday to mark a week since president barack was toppled middle east analyst james dam slow says it's too early yet 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 to our sewer barak has been won the war over the future of egypt is really yet to be fought 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 has well and truly been left out of the bottle and the

reverberations from what happened in tunisia and now are 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 government 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. radio host and film director alex jones told us that one fact to forcing people out on the streets is dollar inflation and the self-serving policies of major banks. as the global economy is flooded with dollars as the private shell of 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 shop 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 and there's a lot of media focus on what's going on but it's been shifting with those protests sweeping through the middle east late in the program we asked people in new york whether the media is lost sight of what that means actually at the end of the day for the countries where the unrest began and egypt and tunisia. all about money and power in which that the media story is totally gone i mean that's kind of the those type of journalists the 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.

the u.s. may be the self-proclaimed land of the free but it's also jails bowl people that any other country in the world nazis and has to say could lead a former inmate who's 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 yet they eat sleep and

use the same in the same area were. disgusting to me is not somewhere i want to be back in the building here 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 kind of like. 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. 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 afford to pay for the. crazy. part. 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 are all in the home is that the church going up r.t. philadelphia ten folds editor of the political magazine black agenda report he believes that imprisonment is a profitable commercial and political tool used to control social invasion and arrest 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 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. take a look at our t. dot com tonight see what we've got there few as ever of course much more lost stories blogs you take a look at analysis have your say as well about the stories you see on our channel

well tonight you can find out how the russian president of prime minister of been checking out some soft snow over the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi. the space men who've recently set foot on mars have begun the groundbreaking exploration on the simulated red planet we find that are they getting online is not the whole story there. japan's chief cabinet secretary has flown over russia's lesser kuril islands to draw attention to tokyo's claim on the area that move comes after recent visits by russian officials to the east most region earlier russia described japan's radical approach towards the territories as a quote an exception move and announced reequipping curdles military garrisons the

islands in the pacific ocean were handed to russia was 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 for its part once again underlined its position over the lesser carol chain saying the territory belongs to japan political tore apart overseas tokyo stops though is shaky leading world down a dangerous path. any diggin into their history might undermine their position if we start it is wise it will all 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 determined by their status as their country with their limit of sovereignty 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 a folding us mainstream media gave it wall to wall coverage but once president hosni mubarak was gone so too was the interest from some t.v. newspapers the resident show host or a half from the stalks of people on the streets of new york 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 there's no money and. that's the bottom line i mean if it's all about money and power and which of 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 their job. and basically it's you know governments and politics will control media and about how you look at it and what people say it's just the way go just the way it is because 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 ninety's and then like when they had to do 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 in 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 to 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 who 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 press who are 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 get your information from the many media as. well from the resident next week a major crackdown on organized crime has been triggered across russia authorities are targeting gangs protected by officials in small towns. reports no in 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 night last november in the village of course 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 we go thought it was 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 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 dept of gees 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 bad to box 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 scared gays 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 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. 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 ski r.t.e. across the region some world news a brief few tonight at least three people have been killed more than sixty injured a gunman closes and stormed a bank in eastern afghanistan among the victims were civilian soldiers and police the president's office said the three suicide bombers involved in the raid the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack saying they were targeting security forces. at the united nations the u.s. says vetoed a draft resolution which would have condemned the israeli building of settlements is that the goal all fourteen other members of the security council approved the motion which insisted israel stops construction in the west bank in east jerusalem

it's seen as another blow to the middle east peace process with the palestinians now saying they will reassess their role in the talks this is the first un veto used by the obama administration. peace in germany had to fire tear gas and water cannon to prevent violence during an annual far right rally in dresden and around a thousand people gathered for a state approved action to commemorate a deadly allied bombing at the end of world war two many more leftist counter-demonstrators supported by civil rights groups and democratic parties attended to some of them tried to attack the gathering by throwing rocks and bottles. well blockbusters and no to draw huge crowds a grave might seem 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 teenager a british soldier killed decades ago which isn't stopping wizard fans from flocking

to visit and result is paula's slip found out for us this part of the story as anything but a match you candy. 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 are we both of you signed up to the 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 missed but a few years ago we started getting all these phone calls we didn't even know the grave 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 bush mandated palestine a year after joining the army he was a truck driver it brought supplies from jerusalem to her room and this is the way they're. looking at a mix plate 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. 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 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 point three r.t. jerusalem. we got a special report about how the oil industry is affecting the nature of the indigenous tribes in the amazon coming up in a few minutes time very interesting a report. ready it's here on the r.t. news channel from moscow this saturday night the nineteenth of february is coming up now twenty seven minutes past nine at night.

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