and abroad they were just on their way to the spirit or they were staying at their van was rolled over by people were tending to be police officers after the driver stopped and 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 that actually witnessing the death of his own son. is. those of that remain in hospital who 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 wasn't very dark and the driver knew there was a pharmacy in the village so they got here before most 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 the bodies in the area is located in russia's all italian 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 bill for modifying 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 has been a severely damage 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 attack. a correspondent katrina czar of the bring you up to date on what we know so far tonight fred we 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 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 the reason the 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 mountain peaks in order to encourage tourism well this is exactly the sort of thing that will deeply discouraging fred where there are still to come in the program a wizards are likely resting place. a parent might make up for general the verity this summer tree where harry potter himself is buried alongside william shakespeare find out how their graves ended up in israel be just a few minutes time. russia's witnessing a crackdown on organized crime a police coverups been revealed behind brutal murders but some are fearing the corrupt officials might still get away a report on. public resentment against the ruling classes is growing in the wider

middle east amid bloody attacks on demonstrators as the region plunges into chaos at least fifteen people have been killed in libya and security forces opened fire on mourners attended the funeral procession friendly government activists that brings the total death toll to almost a hundred and one protester was shot dead in yemen's capital sun now when police opened fire on a much of thousands of demonstrators saturday marks the ninth consecutive day of protests in yemen and violence is also continued in bahrain though armored vehicles and troops have returned to the streets of the capital manama reports suggest what police which were behind. some protesters used supplies made by british companies to clear the ongoing protest human rights activist barney pace said so to say about that he says the u.k. has been reckless in its arms so. we can see across the middle east that the

government is selling to repressive regimes all over that this could happen at any a 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 that would 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 being licensed to be so good overseas in the case of bahrain. they are actively promote. the u.k. government and actively promote 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 debts. which the arms industry trade body in the u.k. claims ten percent of its exhibitors will be british and 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 a new case is arms and export criteria which look good on paper very rarely applied with any record. of the middle east a ruptured after popular peoples and should be easier in egypt which brought down their battled leaders but while people gathered in cairo's tahrir square on friday tomorrow a week now since president mubarak was toppled middle east analyst james denselow says it's too early yet to celebrate victory. it 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 they were before they say while the battle to oust 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 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 the radio host and film director alex jones he told us that one fact to forcing people out onto the streets is dollar inflation of the self-serving policies of major banks 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 we're 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. but of course the media's been watching all this very carefully very closely shifting across the protests sweeping through the middle east later in the program we asked people in new york whether the media may be lost sight of what that means now for countries where the end of the day the unrest began in egypt and tunisia. it's all about money and power in which sort of media stories that we're going remaps kind of that those type of journalist 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 will through to get the truth out and that's that's journalism.

the opposition in belarus will be quote bashed in the head and less it stops destabilizing the country that's according to the country's president alexander lukashenko those comments come just days after the first person involved advanced years mass protests in minsk of a silly percent call for sentenced to four years in jail thousands of opposition activists took to the streets of meniscus the polls close in the country's presidential election in december it was six hundred protesters were arrested and more than twenty getting several presidential candidates are facing trial to talk more about the story tonight across live to our political analyst from russia ria novosti news agency. evening to you david good to see you tonight so a peace activist jailed the west calling for the authoritarian leader to free political prisoners sends out doesn't it a bleak message to anyone hoping for political reform in the country. i quite agree with you i think not only there but were russian public but all saw

a lot of people in russia and in the west who are war chin they begin over these first dry also opposition leaders to see if mr will question be serious about repression what happened in december was indeed unique because people in. terrorists and they were jailed for pretty long time and the fact that the physician activist was sentenced to four years in jail i think it serves any value message midst of a question just trying to show everyone that he is serious about his promise to. the organizers of the december event will kill him a solution because law and is that the opposition the country's inconsistent and incapable and does not understand the people's needs now of course many people would say well he's going to say that anyway is need but does he have a point some along the line. i can agree with mr will question go on one point the russian position so far has been unable to formulate

their clear message to the electorate because it consists of some almost in compatable political forces there are the russian nationalists who actually represent a tiny minority of the population there are people who you know are poles who question the democratic slogans their economy is also full of people so in order to win their position first to formulate a more or less clear message she has to agree on the reform spake h. and on the foreign port assuring patient and to my mind that foreign port is sure invasion cannot exclude rashid cannot be anti russian if their opposition leaders are serious about winning any kind of election in belarus but can the rebel really be a strong opposition a better route if every attempt to go against the regime suppressed so as you see in this last week. well we remember that day in the soviet union after seventy

years of repression suddenly a very strong opposition appeared in a matter of one or two year us without. access to television so everything is possible where on the table until people heard their position and when people were . don't lose their habit to read because actually you can still have access to internet and to some the position newspapers in there with which i'm pretty outspoken about their attitude to risk the question kind of are their support their position so everything in the last go round depends on the people to be told just now about relations with russia that being one point of maybe the future for better or what oprah's ition does the country need there in your opinion what needs to change there. are well i think. their position needs a candidate for presidency who would be accepted by both russia and the european union unfortunately it's very difficult to find such

a kind of now not only because a russian attitude but also primarily because of their attitude of the european union even the european union and the united states drop their simplistic view all the posts of your space they still view russia is the root of all evil there if they drop the simplistic view i think it's possible to find a person who would be acceptable for both call and brussels and probably washington that guarantee that it is the all only possible option all their kind of that supported by all the major outside powers can challenge mr hu question for seriously focusing on the current regime the you say is preparing sanctions against look at showing the world what are they likely to be and indeed does it care at the end of the day health effects of could they be. since most of the arsonists drained is with russia and since the russian economy is not

dependent or are on. the west. to the same degree as for example poor and sick or in the me or calling of the czech republic sanctions even if they're introduced are not going to be crippling all be asleep mistook i shan't go we'll just have to. with more emphasis on his relations so you can on the relations with russia and russia is obviously there. is obviously going to capitalize on that i think economic sanctions against counterproductive on your side. must happen is more economic pressure is there reawaken in all the people and it's an agreement of russia and the european union and the united states or some sort of a candidate some sort of an opposition force to oust mr will question the one round here talk about the ineffectiveness there of the e.u. sanctions is that why in the past he seems to be not particularly afraid of any

possible sanctions or do you think that's just a bluff just a mass. well since there is always a possibility of behavior to have a liaison with their western with the european union via russia there can be no real isolation of which there was has never been completely isolated from the outside world it's not north korea it's not saddam hussein's iraq it's a much more peaceful civilized country and i would give you an example you know the way the russian activists travel to the west they first go to law school because there is a visa free regime between belarus and moscow. and russia and then from more school they travel to a new country of the world i think what we need is for the west on the stand there we should more drawn you are and soon you will which is not isolated anyone. opposition in belarus democracy in belarus rule north wind bench the isolation it will win thanks to openness in there and all of these. political analysts from

russia to musicians who thanks for being on the line from chile central moscow to. the u.s. may be the self-proclaimed land of the free but it also jails more people than any other country in the world next artie's innocence a church that meets 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. and use the same in the same area were. disgusting to me is not somewhere i want to be married to be . the ex-con is now teaching children about the horrors of prison life to deter them from crime in the future. the self-made convict says one of the biggest problems is american prisons are big business and thirty three thousand dollars a year. is like this. 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. cross the us 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 are now we are in the hole and there's a church in our party philadelphia and staying in the states 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 was the interested seed from t.v.

and newspapers so the resident show host lower half of us next talks to people the streets of new york and asked them about what they think of 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 i mean if it's all about money and power in which of the media stories 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. 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 it 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 used to be the yellow journalism of the eighteen ninety's and then like when they had to get 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 and 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 to moving on to areas that the people are more interested in because that sanny way they're going to make money and they're 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 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 part of. the major crackdown on organized crime has been triggered across russia most thirty's are targeting gangs protected by officials in small towns artie's there has been reports on a brutal slaying of 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 listener 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 when crucial 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 leaders sub believed to be sort of gates of pork and his aide sort of gave us death to diesel 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 above 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 doubt these times they'll end up in jail and get proper punishment definitely have serious connections the question of scared gays triggered a crackdown 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 style report may also lead to corrupt policemen and local officials it is all part. why are 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 hope that the brutality of the gangs and corruption of some officials can be overcome in russia if journalists and crime experts a listen to. just

a lot ski arctic cross in the region. while blockbusters unknown to draw huge crowds a grave might seem a very unlikely tourist attraction unless the person buried there is one mr 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 fans from flocking to visit and there's all these paul a slayer found this part of story as 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 are reporting 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 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 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 oh 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 forbid 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 daughter except the hype. her brother contributed a lot to people interests in paganism and magic because it's cool and potter's not the only illustrious literature figure buried in israel's military cemeteries here interest in him 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 tombstones bring a smile of recognition point three r.t. . the i wonder what the wartime reporter would have to say about the army of modern day potter fans now gathering at his grave or coming up on a quarter of an hour's time we were not see the sports news where russia's for the macos and so over said take on the new world no one caroline wozniacki in the final

of the divide championships you got more of that with kate my name those kevin o. in thanking you for choosing r.t. from.

this is our the globe musical culture from moscow these are all top stories. killed in an attack on a van in the north caucasus just before an explosion reportedly hit. a car with explosives has just been discovered. as anti-government protests rage across the middle east britain get slammed for supplying weapons which are being used to kill demonstrators. and imprison nation the us has more people in jail than any other country and some say that's because big business has turned prison into profit. twenty two thirty now here in moscow and time for this week's edition of focusing

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