their way from a moscow to a resort in the russian republic of congo to the mold 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 step 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. there. 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'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 the drama in the body of all heidi a local official was also gunned down this evening when he was at a nearby sports facility i 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 a ball carrier of course reflecting on the overall tense situation of course being in the north caucasus police are not ruling out terrorist activity but of course suspecting russia's most wanted terrorist doc will modify 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 that republic itself and the region of course as

a whole fred we are from the christian science monitor says it's sadly 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 people start coming hotels closed all those service all those all that money that comes in with tourism stops but that's no reason to go out 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 the region along with very magnificent peaks in order to encourage tourism well this is exactly the sort of thing that will deeply discourage it. almost one hundred 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

units were being deployed against protesters in libya's second city benghazi in algeria the president has offered concessions to add to the government protesters promising to lift a state of emergency that's been in force for the last nineteen years and in madre more than sixty people were injured in clashes with government forces reports claim riot police which were behind brutal crackdowns on protesters who supplies made by british companies to clear the ongoing protests human rights activists barney pace says the u.k. has been reckless and its arms sales. we can see across the middle east that the government is selling to repressive regimes that this could happen to any a a point in and we've got to be aware that when we selling both non-lethal and lethal equipment those will be used and. generally at some point that we 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 in the first place if you have selling someone weapons the weapons are going into be used it doesn't your chain of 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 diocese in case. they are actively promote sucked u.k. government and. arms sales to another for presses as reasons this is not new i mean they should know that these weapons all going to be misused if they choose to sell them. the mass air rage in the middle east erupted after a popular upheavals in tunisia in egypt that brought down the embattled leaders while people gathered in cairo's tahrir square on friday to mark a week since president mubarak stepped down middle east analyst james denzil o. says the root causes of the crisis have yet to be addressed i think there are certain structural problems facing all these states whether you talk about the fate

of their economy the high rates of youth unemployment some twenty four percent across the region the fact that the leadership has had very little freedoms and democratic choices given their people the fact that 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 firsthand and i think it's very interesting that in countries like iraq the government has previously planned to buy eighteen s sixteen but now that all they 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 anymore and i think it's a combination of new media and the internet as a social organizing tool that has allowed them to circle navigate traditional security measures and make these protests as they are so while the battle to oust mubarak has been won the war over the future of egypt has really yet to be forced

and we see when what happened next in terms of real constitutional change 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 could simply we don't know what will happen next radio host and film director alex jones says one factor forcing people onto the streets is dollar inflation and 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 shop basically with empty bellies they'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. stay with us here on our t.v. coming up soon no wizards unlikely resting place. you might make a bargain on you visit a cemetery where harry potter himself is apparently buried alongside william shakespeare find out how their braids end up in israel of all places if you minutes . show witnessing a crackdown on organized crime a police iraq has been revealed behind brutal murders but some fear that corrupt officials may still get away. first though the opposition and deloris will be quote bashed in the head on life that stops the stabilizing the country that according to the country's president alexander lukashenko comments

come just days after the first person involved in last year's mass protests in minsk silly parsing called was sentenced to four years in jail thousands of opposition activists took to the streets of minutes because the polls closed in the country's presidential election in december more than six hundred protesters were arrested more than twenty including several presidential candidates face trial political analyst from russia's ria novosti news agency dimitri babich says lucas shank zero points on tightening the screws on dollars. what happened in december was unique because people were no seem terrorists and they were jailed for 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 those in the eyes of some of the december what we need is for the west on the stand that we should more drawn you are and soon you will push is not isolate

anyone. opposition in belarus democracy in belarus rule north wind thanks to isolation it will win thanks to openness in the end although these united states may bill itself as the land of the free but it also jails more people than any other country in the world are he's honest i say churkin i met a former inmate who's calling against a 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 spend thirty hours. and even parts of his own. 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. . to him and his supporters are over two

million prisoners packing jails across the country. in the world. and used the same in the same area. in. the ex-con is now teaching children about the horrors of prison life to deter them. says one of the biggest is american prisons are big business. is like this. every rock you bring me. and in this diary. 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 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 will remain in his cell until the end of the month by which time he hopes his message will have hit until then look at us we all in the world. philadelphia. and you can always check out our t. dot com for the latest stories blogs and analysis whenever you like here's what's online for you right now. find out how russia's president and prime minister worth checking out some of the soft snow for the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi

. and the spacemen who recently set foot on mars have begun their groundbreaking exploration simulation of the red planet we've got all the latest about their travels on long. term now to some other stories making headlines across the globe at least three people were killed more than sixty injured when gunmen detonated explosives and stormed a bank in eastern afghanistan among the victims civilians soldiers and policemen 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 to fire tear gas and water cannons to prevent violence during the annual far right rally in dresden brought a thousand people gathered for

a state of the action to commemorate the 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 event some of them tried to attack the gathering by throwing rocks and bottles. a major crackdown an organized crime was triggered across russia as authorities target gags protected by officials in small towns artie's dennis blots you reports on a brutal slaying that brought the issue back into the public's attention. these graves a reminder of one of the most horrific crimes in russia and wealthy farmer his companion and ten others mostly women and children were killed one night last november in the village of russia's self 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 boys were unable through the.

act of murder rape and extortion but the. journalist who became with. 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 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 gets up walk and he's sort of gave us deputies of the local council and it is said there were also dozens of mafia thugs recruited from. perfectly legitimate security for the. says their crimes could have been prevented in two thousand and five she informed local police about the gangsters but they got away something that may happen again. it's not only. them and they have.

definitely had. the question of scared triggered to crack down across the country on organized crime in the republic of bush give to stun ninety three people were arrested on new year's eve on drug related charges the gang was supported by police and laundered more than one and a half million dollars a month also the murder of the mafia kingpin nicknamed han in the southern russian city of stubble may also lead to corrupt policemen local officials it is a. why is your government pledged to tackle organized crime and corruption. to get 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 difficult the brutality of the gangs and corruption of some officials can be overcome and russia is journalist crime experts to listen to. are.

while blockbusters are known to draw huge crowds and crave might seem an unlikely tourist attraction unless the person buried there is named harry potter but not quite the one you're thinking of this is the final resting place of a teenage british soldier who was killed decades ago but that hasn't stopped the wizard fans from flocking for a visit by his art he's possibly a discovered this potter story has anything but a magic and. harry potter is good and varied in israel but before you die hard part of france 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 forty'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 grave 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 ok i pray god. the two parters are similar in name and age and both are heroes but that's where it ends the real harry potter was from a village near birmingham england and was dispatched to bush mandated palestine a year after joining the army we know that he was a truck driver who brought supply from jerusalem to her bra and this is the way they got. mixed like as for the world's most famous boy wizard he's fallen foul of israel's rabbis after the last installment of his book was launched during the jewish sabbath many religious jews also for but the children from reading his tales they say it's pagan content is forbidden in judaism but it is and has nothing to do

with her daughter except the hype. her brother contributed 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 symmetries here in jerusalem is buried none other than william shakespeare like potter he was also part of the british army and served as a truck driver although he died a few years before potter was born both. bring a smile of recognition. and up next we speak to the head of the un office on drugs and crime in russia who says there should be a comprehensive approach toward fighting drug trafficking in afghanistan stay with us.

i'm here talking to mr you're if a doctor if he's 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 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 because a matter of fact refuse included everybody considers. that african. major global challenges everybody agree with that. as well as a particular direction that in many took from the territory of afghanistan as you know to see we're planning to launch assume a new regional program. and program for afghanistan the neighbor encounters way we're doing good because we want to focus on the gamest that but also in very general dimension you can try to direct. traffic and guns that are produced in afghanistan because only in broader regional bridge no context russia is a transit rate the drugs from afghanistan. to europe and on to the rest of the wild and the country has been insisting that these substances that he used to make drugs

that origin should be moltz chemically mocked on these substances to determine the point she says it's 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 stick doesn't get support us i think. in a real life with luke legs that have a. full control drugs which are used in medical for medical purposes and as there is a special special agent for a third it to. be which is doing it. for the practical purposes this drax which destined to be used as an authorized drugs because they can be done and the whole system of checks and balances. as it is used licenses. to produce. which are not allowed to produce illicit

drugs see if i understand you correctly and illegal drugs that illegal drugs are not chemically. martha but the. hey being distributed through legal channels. they're not smuggled to. the. illegally sort of borders but there's a ship to in a legal way and the quality and quantity of these legal drugs are strictly controlled by the relevant experts this is obviously enormously important for us if there are two million heroin and 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. land to be used for poppy production to be put on the un sanctions list why isn't the un acting on 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. corruption could be excluded from this process but those 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 if we combined efforts in doing this this way from upstream to downstream only 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 the recent us cooperation in which 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 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. short establish and own direct control agencies so that will be kind of a project. called financed by russia and the united states and sponsored by you know so it's a good synergy of international community and important by let the hopeless and hopeful next went on to see if it all to thank you very much thank you very much.

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three thirty am in moscow good to have you with us here on our t.v. easier headlines of these three tourists killed in that attack on a minibus in the north caucasus just before an explosion reportedly hit the ski resort they were traveling to police are now investigating a suspected car bomb in the same town. with dozens more dying in anti-government protests sweeping the middle east the u.k. comes under fire for selling arms used to quell the end of the u.k. as a revolt some arms export licenses after reports said riot police behind the brutal crackdown on protesters in bahrain for using british made women. and cash for convicts former inmates in the u.s. claim big business is responsible for the country having the largest prison

population in the world. up next spotlight takes a look at russia's relations with nato stay with us. hello again though welcome to spotlight the show on r.t. and 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.