ads 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 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 or this the men outside the minibus simply stepped back and opened fire at least three people died on the spot was 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. is. the drama didn't stop there are 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 in 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 arrive on the location you know that there is a gas tank inside. the car there is 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 old heidi a local official was also gunned down this evening while he was at a nearby sports facility i enjoy 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 of course being the north caucuses police are not ruling out terrorist activity but of course suspecting russia's most wanted terrorist still cool model previously claimed responsibility for two deadly terrorist attacks in the russian capital the moscow metro bombings and the very recent attack on moscow's dumb 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. fred we are from the christian science monitor says 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 close down 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 and now it's. a multi-billion dollar project to build ski resorts and hotels throughout that region along with very magnificent mountain peaks in order to encourage tourism well this is exactly the sort of thing that will deeply discourage it. almost audra demonstrators have been killed in

libya in six days of unrest as government forces crack down on demonstrations against the country's leader colonel moammar gadhafi it's reported that sniper you know for being deployed against protesters in the libya's second city benghazi in algeria the president has offered concessions to anti-government protesters promising to lift a state of emergency that's been in effect for the last nineteen years and in bahrain more than sixty people have been injured in clashes with government forces reports claim riot police which were behind brutal crackdowns on protesters you surprise me by british companies to clear the ongoing protest human rights activists barring the face says the u.k. has been a reckless in its arms sales. we can see across the middle east that the government is selling to repressive regimes that this could happen any a a point in and we've got to be a web that when we sell you both non-lethal and lethal equipment those will be used

and. generally at some point that will be used on someone innocent once you've handed over the weapons you have little control over how they use but that doesn't mean you can morally justify handing them over. if you have selling someone weapons the weapons are going into be used it doesn't your change more responsibility doesn't stop once you've handed over the weapons and frankly the u.k. government needs to seriously reconsider how approaches in the first place not only have these arms be licensed to be so seized in case. they are actively promote such u.k. government acts and promotes arms sales to a number of the presses and phrase this is not new i mean they should not do that at these weapons all going to be misused if they choose to sell them. the mass air rage in the middle east erupted after popular upheavals in tunisia and egypt that brought down the embattled leaders and more people gathered in cairo's tahrir

square on friday to mark a week since president mubarak was toppled middle east expert james dandolo says the root causes of the crisis have still to be dressed. i think there are certain structural problems facing all these states whether you talk about their state of their economy the high rates of youth unemployment some twenty four percent across the region the fact that the leaderships had very little freedoms and democratic choices given their people the fact the leaders have been in power for often decades some forty four million more people are being placed into poverty by rising food prices something that north african middle east has has witnessed first hand and then i think it's very interesting that in countries like iraq the government has previously planned to buy eighteen f. sixteen but now that all day it will place it with food subsidies for the poor so we're dealing with very basic problems that if these countries can't secure the basics for their people it doesn't matter how secure their police forces are these people are going to stand idly by and i think it's

a combination of new media and the internet as a social organizing tool that has allowed them to second navigate traditional security measures and make these protests as they are so while the battle to oust the bar has been won the war over the future of egypt has really yet to be forth 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 what the future will be for egypt so it's by no means any certainty that actually egypt is a model to follow because simply we don't know what will happen next radio show in a film director alex jones says that one factor forcing people out onto the streets is a dollar inflation and a 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. stay with us here on our team still ahead a wizard's unlikely resting place. and. i thank them for them ok we visit a cemetery where how the potter himself is buried alongside william shakespeare find out how their graves ended up in israel of all places if human. and russia is witnessing a crackdown an organized crime a police cover up has been revealed behind brutal murders but some fear the corrupt

officials might still get away. with the opposition and valor in bellerose will be quote bashed in the head on unless it stops in stabilizing the country that according to the nation's president alexander alexander lukashenko comments come just days after the first person involved in last year's mass protests in minsk a silly part of what is said and to four years in jail thousands of opposition activists took to the streets of minsk as the polls closed in the country's presidential election in december one thousand six hundred protesters were arrested in more than twenty occluding several of the presidential candidates are facing trial political analysts from russia's ria novosti news agency dmitri babich says president lukashenko keeps on tightening the screws that. yes. what happened in december was indeed unique because people are not sheep terrorists and they were jailed for a long time and the fact that the position activist was sentenced to four years in

jail i think it's a very bad message. trying to show everyone that he is serious about his promise to punish denies assault of the december what we need is for the west on the stand that we should more drawn you are and soon you will which is not isolate anyone. opposition in belarus democracy in belarus rule not to win thanks to isolation it will we open this either and all of these united states may bill itself as the land of the free but it's also the land that jails more people than any other country in the world or he's honest i see a churkin i met a former inmate who is calling against the prison system that he claims is built for profit. a parking lot with a prison cell with a man inside it the inmate moved in out of his own free will michael spent thirty hours prison. and even parts of his own. this generator

strategically placed right here. throughout this cold winter. the main goal of the man once convicted of armed robbery to bring down the number of prisoners in the u.s. slavery. in the united states of america to him and his supporters 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. to be. the ex-con is now teaching children about the horrors of prison life to deter them . says one of the biggest problems is american prisons are big business. is like this. every rock you bring me.

and in this diary con to meet many youngsters are stuck between a rock and a hard place. michael also cites a flawed justice system for the high conviction rates especially of the poor with lawyers selling freedom to the highest bidder. is a little bit of a problem. the u.s. with less than five percent of the world's population but almost a quarter of the prison population of the planet the man move 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 law and then we all in the world. philadelphia.

remember our t. dot com is where you can check out all our stories blogs on analysis whenever you like here's what's online for you today find out how the russian president and prime minister i've been checking out some soft snow for the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi. and this space men who have recently set a foot on mars and started their groundbreaking exploration of the simulated read by we've got the latest on line. right now to some other stories making headlines across the globe at least three people have been killed more than sixty injured when a gunman dead needed explosives and stormed a bank in eastern afghanistan along the victims were civilian soldiers and policeman the president's office said three suicide bombers were involved in the

raid the taliban claimed responsibility for the attack saying they were targeting security forces. police in germany had fired tear gas and water cannons to keep violence during an annual far right rally and president brought 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 the a that some of them tried to attack the gathering by throwing stones and bottles. major crackdown an organized crime has been has been triggered across russia thirty's are targeting gangs protected by officials in small towns are reports on a brutal slaying that brought the issue back into the public's attention. these graves are 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 shops in russia's south 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 through the. acts of murder rape and extortion but the. journalist who became. unheard as they directed. at one particular local gang all suspects were also well respected members of the village situated in the cross in the region alexandre hall the officer of the organized crime fighting unit of the local police reportedly provided the cover up for the gang its leader sub believed to be sort of gate support and he's sort of gave us the gees of the local council and it is said there were also dozens of mafia thugs 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 the bold to gangsters but they got away

something that may happen again. it's not only. it's about the ones. you. meant definitely had. the question of scared gaist triggered to crackdown across the country on organized crime in the republic of bush took the stand ninety three people were arrested on new year's eve on drug related charges the gang was supported by police more for 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 local officials it is all part. why is your government pledged to tackle organized crime and corruption. 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 decided we're going to use crime units

. and there's difficult the brutality of the gangster corruption of some officials can be overcome in russia if journalists climaxed listen. to the bullets are crossing. finally in this news walk while blockbusters are known to draw huge crowds a grave might seem an unlikely tourist attraction i was the person buried there happens to be one harry potter but not quite what you're thinking this is the final resting place of a teenage british soldier killed decades ago which hasn't stopped wizard fans from flocking to visit but his art his policy or found out this potter story doesn't have a magic ending. 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 hour we both know you signed up to be i'm going to british army when he was only 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 letter from a special name a few years ago we started getting all these phone calls we didn't even know the greve existed. but word spread fast and now the relatively little known israeli town of rambler is firmly on the tourist matt potter's grave attracts as much attention as ancient archaeological digs in the area. very very great of bargain rugby 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 we know that there was a truck driver brought supplied from jerusalem to her room and this is the way they got him. 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 her daughter except the hype. i think. her brother contributed to 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 portsea r.t. jerusalem. next we speak to the head of the. crime

says there should be a comprehensive approach to fighting drug trafficking in afghanistan stay with us. i'm here talking to mr to face the head of the u.n. office for drugs and crime russia has long been trying to get drug production included on the list of international security threats at mr pitt also thank you

very much for talking to us now the u.s. seems to have been hampering those efforts to get struck. why do you think it's. everybody considers. a major global challenges everybody agree with that. as well as. in many. new original program. and program for. why we're doing good because we want to focus on the game just to. show you can try to put our. producer in afghanistan rick and. only in broader region no bridge no context russia the transit route the drugs from afghanistan

they then case three to europe and on to the rest of the world and the country has been insisting that these substances that he used to make drugs that origin should be mocked chemically mocked on those substances to determine the produces if they chemicals 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. luke legs. for control drugs which are used in medical for medical purposes as there is a special special agent for thirty two. which is doing. for the practical purposes. the drugs destined to be used as a drugs as they can be done and the whole system of checks and balances.

licenses. to produce. drugs which are not allowed to produce illicit drugs if i understand you correctly and illegal drugs that illegal drugs are not chemically. martha but they are being distributed through legal channels. illegally sort of a borders but there's a ship in a legal way and the quality and quantity of this legal drugs are strictly controlled by relevant experts this is always an enormously important issue for us if there are two million heroin addicts in russia according to official figures say the actual number could be no higher and one measure put forward by moscow is the elimination of poppy plantations and the increase in. to be used for poppy production to be put on the u.n. thanks why isn't the u.n.

not saying all that ok so 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 this process but we need to address this process this problem from the. downstream. consumed we need to develop a more meaningful program of prevention and treatment of drug addicts and if we combined efforts in doing this this way from upstream to downstream owners then when. success isolated steps are measures targeted only one chain. of. supply can be effective but only at the short term and one of the positives in this situation is that we see u.s. cooperation there was a joint drug trade in afghanistan at 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 the stance that russia and the united states. by literally. 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. called financed by russia and the united states and sponsored by you know d.c. so it's a good synergy of international community and important bilateral players. thank you very much thank you very much. the stress is nutritious and this is products on the price of healthy eating and we

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two thirty am in moscow good to have you with us here on our t.v. see your headlines at least three terrorists killed in an attack on a minibus in the north caucasus just before an explosion reportedly hit the ski resort they were headed towards police are now investigating a suspected car bomb in the same town. with dozens more people dying in anti-government protests that are sweeping the middle east the u.k. is slammed for selling the arms used to kill demonstrators riot police behind a brutal crackdown on protesters in bahrain where using british made equipment. for convicts former inmates in the u.s. claim big business is responsible for the country having the world's largest prison population. up next this week's edition of moscow focuses on how to get by on

a modest budget while traveling the russian capital known to be one of the world's most expensive cities stay with us. hello and welcome to the program now moscow is famous for being one of the mess expensive cities in the world. and we see just how low we can find prices in the russian capital there are hundreds not thousands of deals offered sales and discounts to be found here. six. the good. times you don't have to be carrying illegal swine to enjoy a shocking. case you know why.