course located in russia's volatile north caucuses it has been perhaps one of the most calm and stabbed a stable republic so these events that have unfolded in the last. twenty four hours are certainly very stressful what originally started as an ordinary ski trip ended in tragedy when five people were making their way from a moscow to a resort in the russian republic of cuba in the vault on their way from the airport to the actual resort the minibus they were in was flagged down by what the driver thought to be police officers the minibus was stopped two men got out and asked for the one woman inside the bus to step outside when the men tried to protect her this the men outside the minibus simply stepped back and opened fire at least three people died on the spot with one still in hospital in critical conditions dr doctors are fighting for his life one of the men inside saw his son die in front of

his very eyes. they would refuse to show the. wheels that shows this is. the one man of course remains in hospital doctors fighting for his life he is perhaps still alive because of the quick actions of the driver of the minibus who was on harm because he knew the area where the attack took place quite well he was able to get to the nearest pharmacy very quickly and there he and the pharmacist on duty did everything that they could to offer help to the wounded until ambulances arrived and actually took them off to hospitals but of course the drama didn't stop there reports also came in of a bomb exploding in a cable tower where at the resort where those five people were heading there were no reported injuries so far but we do know that the. actual cable lift system was

damaged quite badly of course the tension only continues to grow as another detonating device has been found in that same resort in a parked car that is just outside a number of the hotels where tourists are staying of course waiting until early morning to begin their ski trips we already know that all ski trips have been canceled for tomorrow the officials and the authorities all of the republic of combat in the area have asked everybody to remain in their hotels they've closed down all the cable car lifts and authorities have now surrounded the car waiting for a bomb so the bomb technicians to a ride on the location you know that there is a gas tank inside the car there's also so wiring that could be seen according to eyewitnesses and of course the situation is growing tense as people are literally locked within their hotels waiting to see how the situation develops and sadly that is not the end of drama in about in the vault heidi

a local official was also gunned down this evening when he was at a nearby sports facility join his evening workout men burst into the building and opened fire he died on the spot from the wounds he received so indeed a very tense few days in combat in the ball carrier of course reflecting on the overall tense situation in russia's north caucuses on does the police begin their investigation to sue all want to be behind these words with. a local law enforcement have of course attempted to clamp down on boost security to figure out not only who is behind all these attacks. but ambushed by the gunman that killed three people the murder of a local official all of those events a local authorities and authorities here in moscow from the investigate. committee

from the prosecutor general's office are all trying very hard to figure out who is responsible not only for the acts themselves but also for the planning in the masterminding of these terrible deeds of course being the north caucasus police are not ruling out terrorist activity but of course suspecting russia's most wanted terrorist doc wal-mart of course previously claimed responsibility for two deadly terrorist attacks in the russian capital the moscow metro bombings and the very recent attack on moscow's them idea the airport they are of course investigating trying to get any leads talking to eyewitnesses doing everything they can to ensure the stability and security in the republic itself and the region of course as a whole the truth is i think she brings with it what you know the appreciative wilfrid we're spoke to says from the christian science monitor he says it's common practice for terrorists to target to choose from. 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 people start 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 it's. a multi-billion dollar project to build ski resorts and hotels throughout the region along with very magnificent peaks in order to encourage tourism well this is exactly the sort of thing that will deeply discouraging fred with the christian science monitor ahead in the program this hour a wizard's unlikely resting place. every. night great don't bargain wrote it but we do visit a seven percent tree where mr harry potter himself is buried alongside mr william shakespeare funded how their graves ended up in israel in

a few minutes time. rushes witnessing a crackdown an organized crime a police coverups been revealed behind brutal murders some fear the corrupt officials might still get away. 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 and in libya at least fifteen people were killed on saturday when security forces opened fire on mourners attending a funeral procession for anti-government activists it brings the total death number it will mr hundred. and one protester was shot dead in yemen's capital so now when police opened fire on a march of thousands of demonstrators indeed saturday march the ninth consecutive day protests in yemen and violence is also continued in bahrain as armored vehicles and. troops of return to the streets of the capital reports suggest police which are behind brutal crackdowns on protesters used supplies made by british to stay

clear of the ongoing protests human rights activists but the pace says the u.k. has big reckless in its arms. 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 they'll 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 seized and cases. 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 launch arms for an 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 is these companies to sell including the very equipment that is being used to protest this in the middle east because these weapons are widely misused and the u.k.'s arms export criteria which look good on paper very rarely applied with any record. about the middle east a ruptured of the popular of evils and should easier in egypt which brought down the about the leaders of all people gathered in tahrir square on friday tomorrow a week since president mubarak was toppled middle east analyst james dense low says it's too early to celebrate victory just yet. this hasn't really been a revolution in a traditional sense mubarak's power structure is his cronies are still really in a similar places as they were before they say while the battle to oust mubarak has been won the war over the future of egypt before and we see what happens next in

terms of real constitutional changes changes to the state of emergency whether political parties can rise out of the ashes. tearing isn't the genie has well and truly been left out of the bottle and 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 so what about the situation to radio host and film director alex jones who says that one fact forcing people out onto the streets is dollar inflation 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 lavish up basically with empty bellies we're going to start rioting and protesting and austerity globalism is also coming to western europe it's coming to places like ireland because everything is now going to the offshore private central banks the system hopes to use all of this new furor in the streets as a pretext to basically roll in another layer of intensified police states. next the opposition in belarus will be quote bust in the head unless it stops destabilizing the country as according to the country's president alexander lukashenko the comments come just days after the first person involved in last year's mass protests of means was simply a friend cough was sentenced to four years in jail thousands of opposition activists took to the streets of minsk is the polls closed in the country's presidential election in december over six hundred protesters were arrested then

more than twenty and thirty seven presidential candidates are facing trial a political analyst from russia's reno steve news agency dmitri babbage told me that look at chen could keep some tightening the screws in belize. what happened in december was indeed unique because people were not seen terrorists and they were jailed for pretty long time and there the fact that the position activist was sentenced to four years in jail i think it's a very bad message. this trying to show everyone that he is serious about his promise to punish all going to as a sort of the december event what we need is for the west on the stand there we should more drawn you are in sin you are which is not isolate anyone. opposition in belarus democracy in belarus rule not to win thanks to isolation it will win thanks to openness in there and all of these the us maybe the self-proclaimed land of the free but also jails more people than any other country in the world and he sent us

to sit at a met one 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 a roof top his generator strategically placed right here keeps the cell lit and warm throughout this cold winter much 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. discussed in the business where i want

to be married to. 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 it's come alive. 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 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 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 all saw and now we are all in the hole and r.t. philadelphia just. as well you can check out all our stories blogs an analysis whatever you like online today fact find out about the russian president and prime minister in checking out some soft snow for the twenty fourteen winter and lympics in sochi progress progress in their wealth fund of the later should keep track of the move to salty online the space men who've recently set foot on mars have begun their groundbreaking exploration of the simulated red planet we've got the latest on how they're doing that update on.

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. 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. the years mass murder the boys were unable to wind though through the numerous acts of murder rape in extortion but they have been

a journalist who became with all wars and unheard and 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 boot dipped a diesel counsel 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 and bugs people it's about the ones who protected them and they have these times they'll end up in jail and get proper punishment definitely have serious

connections the question of scared triggered to crack down across the country on organized crime in the republic of bush got 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 stubble may also lead to corrupt policemen and local officials it is all part. why are there 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 and russia if journalists and crime experts to listen to. just a lot ski are crossing the region. while blockbuster is known to draw huge

crowds grave might seem an unlikely tourist attraction and less the person buried there is one mr harry potter but it's not quite what you think of 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 as a tease paul is saying found that this particular part of the story is anything but a magic and. 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 reported you signed up to be 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. 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 we'll 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 it brought supplies from jerusalem. and this is the way they got. explained 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

harry potter except the hype. her brother contributed to a lot to people interests and 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 part of it 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. jerusalem. on the water the water mr potter would think of his more say that it's for my story. next on our team we speak to the head of the un office on drugs and crime here in russia who says it should be a comprehensive approach towards fighting drug trafficking in afghanistan.

i'm here talking to mr you're difficult to face the head of the un office for drugs and crime russia has long been trying to get drug production included on the list of international security threats mr but also thank you very much for talking to us now the u.s. seems to have been hampering those efforts to get struck production on to this list of international threats why do you think that it's think as

a matter of fact reduce included everybody considers illegal director african cause wilds of the major global challenges everybody agree with that. as well as a particular direction that in many took from the territory of afghanistan as you notice you were planning to launch a song in your original program. i'm for a new standard name but encounters why we're doing it because we want to focus not on going up against that but also very gentle dimension you cannot fire to direct. traffic and guns that are produced on in afghanistan because only in broader region no bridge no context russia the transit rate the drugs from afghanistan they then case three and to europe and on to the rest of the wild and the country has been insisting that these substances that they use to make drugs that their origin should be mocked chemically mocked on these substances to determine the produces if

they chemicals and the u.s. and britain are against the proposal but russia believes that that will reveal that the drugs all coming from afghanistan why do you think that the state doesn't get support us i think. in their life with luke legs that have a. system for control drugs which are used in medical for medical purposes and as it is a special special agency or third it to. be which is doing. for the practical purposes these drugs which are destined to be used as an authorized drugs because they can be done and the whole system of for checks and balances. as it is used to move licenses for countries which will allow to produce lisa drugs which are not allowed to produce illicit drugs if i understand you correctly and illegal drugs mocked that illegal drugs are

not chemically not on news they're martha but they being distributed through legal channels. they're not smuggled designed not to. legally sort of a borders but there's a ship to in a legal way and the quality and the quantity of these legal drugs are controlled by relevant experts this is obviously enormous. of course an ac for us if there are two million of heroin and addicts in the us or according to official figures say the actual number could be high up and one measure put forward by moscow is the elimination of poppy plantations and the increase in. land to be used for poppy production to be put on the un thanks list why isn't the un acting on that proposal i think we can be successful in fighting drugs if we do it in a comprehensive way we need to. do is to create a situation when the money laundering and corruption could be excluded from just

proceed but those we need to address this process this problem from the. downstream where the drugs are consumed we need to develop more meaningful program of prevention and treatment of drug addicts if we combine efforts in doing this this way from upstream to downstream owners then when. success isolated steps are measures targeted to only one chain. of. supply can be effective but only at the short term and one of the positives in this situation is that recent u.s. cooperation in which there was a joint drug trade in afghanistan are the first of its kind of drugs a big big hole if drugs were a cop and can you tell me a bit more about that and just russia and the united states. by literally cooperating quatre closely not only in this kind of preparations they conducted but

also as i understand they plan to help some countries in very gentle. toward establishing their own drug control agencies so that will be kind of a project. financed by russia and the united states and sponsored by you know the issue so it's a good synergy of international community and important by letter. thank you very much thank you very much.

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these are all top stories tonight. killed in an attack on a minibus in the north caucuses just before an explosion reportedly hit ski resort they were traveling to and also seizing a car rigged with explosives has been discovered there. as anti-government protests rage across the middle east britain get slammed for supplying weapons which are being used to kill straight. imprisoned nation the us has more people in jail than any other country and. it's because big business is turning into profit. next this week's edition of focuses on how to get by on

a modest budget when you're in the russian capital known as one of the world's most expensive cities. hello and welcome to the program now famous for being one of the mess expensive cities in the world. and just how low we can find prices in the capital there are hundreds if not thousands of deals. found here. you don't have to be a. swine to enjoy shopping. if you know this is still has several locations.