the man organizing the trip posted a notice on his blog ask a four company to a for a trip to the elbrus 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 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. they asked us to show that. 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 so they go 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 is still alive the republic of her body in the area 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 terrorists who are 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 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 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 of course media services reporting that it was indeed a potential terrorist attack catherine is out of the reporting there with the latest that we know fred wearies from the christian science monitor he says it's common practice for a terrorist to target to restrain. 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 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 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. head of the program or a wizard's unlikely resting place. might make a bargain row if we visit the cemetery where mr harry potter himself is buried alongside william shakespeare to find out how they graded up in israel in just a figment. of russia's witnessing a crackdown an organized crime

a police coverup spin revealed behind brutal murders but some fear the corrupt officials might still get away we report. first though public resentment against the ruling classes is growing in the wider middle east amid bloody attacks on demonstrators as the region plunges into chaos algeria's opposition leader was badly injured when police dispersed an anti government rally than did libya of at least fifty people killed saturday and security forces opened fire on mourners attending a funeral procession for and to go back to it brings there the total death toll for almost one hundred also one protester was shot dead in yemen's capital some now when police opened fire on a march of thousands of demonstrators saturday marks the months consecutive day of protests in yemen and violence is also continued in bahrain to is armored vehicles and troops have returned to the streets in the capital reports suggest what police which are the hundred tractor engine testers used supplies made by british

companies to clear the ongoing protests and human rights activists but the pace says the u.k. has been in its sound 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 and you can't govern at least. seriously reconsider how approaches arms sales in the first place not only have these arms be licensed to be so good overseas in case of bahrain. they are actively promoted to 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

good idea. 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 at least where weapons are widely misused and the u.k.'s is arms export criteria which look good on paper very rarely applied with any record. in the middle east after a popular upheavals and should be easier in egypt which brought down the leaders of those countries and while people gathered in cairo's tahrir square on friday to mark a week since president mubarak was toppled mideast analyst james denselow says it's too early to celebrate victory this hasn't really been a revolution in a traditional sense mubarak's power structures his cronies are still really in a similar place as they were before this so all the battle to our smooth barack has been won the war over the future of egypt has 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 let out of the bottle and the reverberations from what happened in tunisia are 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. radio host and film director alex jones has some thoughts about it too says that one factor forcing people out onto the streets is dollar inflation and also 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. 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. the media focus has been shifting across the protests that have been sweeping through the middle east and later in the program we asked people in new york whether they think the media's lost sight of what that means for the countries where the rest again egypt and tunisia. is all about money and power in which that the media story is totally gone remits kind of 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. next the opposition and bella roosts will be quote but in the head and that's it stops destabilizing the country that is according to the country's president alexander lukashenko the comments come just days after the first person involved in last year's mass protests in minsk the city of franco father was sentenced to four years in jail thousands of opposition activists took to the streets of minsky's the polls close in the presidential election in december of the six hundred protesters were arrested in time i'm twenty two and several presidential candidates are facing trial spoke to political and some russians. we know this to be his agency to me that should tell you that you can keep song i think screens but that's. what happened in december was indeed unique because people were not seen terrorists and

they were jailed for pretty long time and the fact that the position activist was sentenced to four years in jail i think it's a very bad message. to a question of this trying to show everyone that he is serious about his promise to punish those in eyes or solve the december what we need is for the west on the stand there we should more drawn you are and soon you will push is not isolate anyone. opposition in belarus democracy in belarus rule north the wind tends to isolation it will win thanks to openness in the end although this the us may be the self-proclaimed land of the free but it also jails more people than any other country in the world he's honest in-situ could have met 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 enslaved 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 where i want to be mad 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. the self-made convict says one of the biggest problems is american prisons are big business thirty three thousand

dollars a year. is like is coming. 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 the whole country and especially during the recession you know poverty is synonymous. poverty. 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. 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 home and they see church r.t. philadelphia blend full 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 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 whipped up a and hysteria which is really a racial hysteria and the numbers show it around mainly drugs and you create a profit motive for people to vote to incarcerate masses and masses of black people and it works and that's why we have by far the worst imprisonments record on the planet. just take a look at what's at r.t. dot com fit in i was a further of stories there blogs an analysis chance you'd have your say is one of the stories you see at r t online or r.t. dot com find out how the russian president and prime minister in checking out some soft snow from twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi preparations they're continuing apace of course you can track the latest online at r.t. dot com. this space move recently set foot on mars have now become a groundbreaking expression of the simulated red planet we've got the latest on that and how that campaign from the other team called.

you watching our team from moscow and 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 seemed was the interest from t.v. and newspapers so the resident show a story half of us next talks to people on the streets of new york about the b.t.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 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'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 go just the way it is has 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 on the i did you know the three major major networks with the f.c.c. regulations and i got more normalized now with you know like anybody can publish anything they're going to go after sensationalism again an opinionated journalism i mean that's kind of the those type of journalists the 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 here you have p.b.s. and we have stuff like that to harm 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 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 are reports now 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 listener in the village of short stay in russia itself but investigators were even more shocked when they discovered that this brutal slaying is just the tip of the iceberg the crime where when crucial to go thought it was worth years mass murder the boys were unable to why and go through sponsible 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 bush and at one particular local gang all suspects were also well respected members of the village situated in the cross in the region oleksandr called each officer of the organized crime fighting unit of the local police reportedly provided to cover up for the gang its leader sub believed to be sort of gates of pork and his aide

sort of gave us who did produce of the local council and it is said there were also dozens of mafia dogs recruited from. perfectly legitimate security for that young above all square says their crimes could have been prevented in two thousand and five she informed local police 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 and get proper punishment definitely have serious connections the question of scared case triggered to crack down across the country on organized crime in the republic of bush give the star ninety three people were arrested on new year's eve on drug related charges the gang was supported by police and laundered more than one and a half million dollars 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 in the pool is a possible to put everything in order yes it is but 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 if journalists and crime experts to listen to. just a lot ski are to cross the region. to world news a brief note at least three people were killed more than sixty injured after a gunman detonated explosives and 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 the raid the taliban's planned responsibility for the attack saying they were targeting security force. base in germany had to fire tear gas and water cannon to

prevent violence during an annual far right rally and president around a thousand people gathered for a state approved action to commemorate a deadly allied bombing at the end of world too many more leftist come to demonstrate and supported by civil rights groups and democratic parties attend them some of them tried to attack the gathering by throwing rocks bottles. while blockbuster busters known to draw huge crowds graves might seem unlikely tourist attraction unless of course the person buried there is one mr harry potter but it's not quite what you're thinking this indeed 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 nazis paula slayer found out this particular part of the story as anything but a badge you candy. 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 reported 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 met if there was. 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 push mandated palestine a year after joining the army he was

a truck driver brought supply from jerusalem. and this is the way the. only thing you can 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 their 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. i think. 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 bush 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.

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nineteen forty five don't r.t. dot com. this is the r.t. news channel from moscow these are all top stories for you sorry to receive killed in an attack on a minibus in the north caucasus just before an explosion reportedly hit the ski resort they were traveling to and also it's not a car rigged with explosives has been discovered. as a government protest rage across the middle east britain gets slammed for supplying weapons which are being used to kill and injure demonstrate. and then imprison they shouldn't the us has more people in jail than any other country and some of these co-exist saying that's because big businesses to prison and to profit from twenty three thirty moscow time next let's look at russia's relations with nato with our

interview shows. hello again a welcome to spotlight the enter the show on r.t. and i'll bring up then today my guest on the show is james patterson. washington has published its new national military strategy the document shifts the political interests of the u.s. to former soviet countries in asia and the caucus 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 nato's deputy assistant secretary general. and security policy gen.