from a moscow to a resort in the russian republic of got in the mail carrier 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. 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 the bomb technicians to or 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 sadly that is

not the end of drama in the body and of all nobody else local official was also gunned down this evening when he was at a nearby sports facility i joined 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 you know both kerry of course reflecting on the overall tense situation of course being 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 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 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 but that's the reason the bit 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 discourage it. almost a hundred demonstrators have been killed in libya in six days of unrest as government forces cracked out on demonstrations against the country's leader colonel moammar gadhafi it's reported sniper units were being deployed against

protesters in the libya's second largest city benghazi and algeria the president offered a concession stand government protesters promising to lift a state of emergency that's been in force for the past nineteen years and in bahrain more than sixty people were injured in clashes with government forces reports claim riot police that were behind brutal crackdowns on protestors new supplies made by british companies to clear the ongoing protests human rights activist barnaby pay says the u.k. has been a reckless in its arms sale. 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 sell the 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 to 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 it would i would seize in the case of. they are actively promoted as such the u.k. government and actively promotes arms sales to a number of the presses and if regimes this is not new i mean they should know that these weapons all going to be misused if they choose to sell them. mass air rage in the middle east erupted after popular upheavals in tunisia and egypt that brought down the embattled leaders and while people gathered in cairo's tahrir square on friday to mark a week since president hosni mubarak was toppled middle east analyst james dandolo 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

state 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 that people the fact the leaders have been in power for often decades some forty four million more people are being placed in food policy by rising food prices something that north african the 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 essex teams now scrapped that or 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 email 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 mubarak has been won the war over the future of egypt has really yet to be forced

and we see when 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 about 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 into the streets is dollar inflation and the self-serving policies of major banks. as the global economy is flooded with dollars as the private fellow reserve hyper inflates the dollar is 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 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. still ahead in the program a wizard's unlikely resting place. might make them. revisit a cemetery where harry potter himself may be buried alongside william shakespeare find out how their graves ended up in israel if you're minutes plus. russia witnessing a crackdown on organized crime a police cover up has been revealed behind brutal murders but some clear the corrupt officials might still get away. opposition in belarus who will be quote bashed in the head unless it stops in stabilizing the country this according to the country's president alexander lucas shank oh the

comments came just days after the first person involved in last year's mass protests in minsk icily park and called was sentenced 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 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 keeps tightening the screws in bellers. what happened in december was indeed unique because people are no team 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 one years old in the eyes of some of the do something about what we need to use for the west on the stand that we should more drawn you are and soon you will which is

not isolate any one. opposition in belarus. situation it will. open this event although the. united states may bill itself as the land of the free but it also jails more people than any other country in the world or he's honest and 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 michael to bond moved in out of his own free will michael spent thirty hours prison. and even parts of his own. generator strategically placed right here. 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. 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 yet the. in use the same in the same area were. discussed in the. in. the ex-con is now teaching children about the horrors of prison life to deter. future. says one of the biggest american prisons are big business. is like this. every rock you bring me. and in this diary khana 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. across 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 all saw and now we all in the hole in. philadelphia. remember r t dot com is where you can check out all our stories blogs videos and analysis it's all online for you there plus this find out how the russian president and prime minister will work checking out some of the snow for the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi. plus the spacemen who have recently set foot on mars or

a version thereof and start of their breaking exploration of the simulation of the red planet all the latest on that online and our t. dot com. major crackdown on organized crime has been triggered across russia stories are targeting gangs protected by officials in small towns are dennis block your ports are brutal slaying that brought the issue back to 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 push off stay in russia 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 years mass murder the boys were unable through the. acts of murder rape an 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 and across 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 gates up book and his aide sort of gave us death to 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 about the gangsters

but they got away something that may happen again. it's not only bad. it's about the ones who started them and they have these times. and definitely had. the question of scared piece triggered to crack down 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 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 stubble may also lead to corrupt policemen local officials the. part of a wider government pledged to tackle organized crime and corruption. with 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 and make the courts work and restore the system of organized crime units and

there's the hope that the brutality of the gangs and corruption of some officials can be overcome and russia if journalists and crime experts a listen. to this will all ski archie across the region. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe at least three people were killed more than sixty injured when a gunman 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's 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 write a thousand people gathered for a state approved action to commemorate a deadly allied bombing at the end of world war two many more a leftist counter-demonstrators supported by civil rights groups and democratic parties attend the event some of them tried to attack the gathering throwing rocks

and bottles. and it's part of all time in venice that spectators invited to toast invited to join in the toast to mark the first day a large fountain point and wine for in the centerpiece of the opening ceremony carnival brings ten days of music and dancing to st mark's square and other venues across the city dating back to twelve sixty eight the christian festival aus merry making before lent and east. while blockbusters are known to draw huge crowds of grave may seem like an unlikely tourist attraction unless the person buried there may go by the name harry potter but not the one you're thinking about this is the final resting place of a teenage british soldier who died decades ago but that's not stopping wizard fans from flocking for a visit but his art he's policy or found out this potter story has anything but a magic ending. harry potter is good and varied in israel but before you die hard part of fans collapse from the shock we're talking about

a very different harry and a somewhat different plot this are important to you signed up to the 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 forties 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 truest map potter's grave attracts as much attention as ancient archaeological digs in the area ok. by parade of bargain. 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 brought supply from jerusalem before wrong 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. her brother contributed a lot to people interests in paganism and magic. because it's cool and pasta is not the only illustrious literature figure buried in israel's military symmetries here interest and. then william shakespeare. he was also part of the army and served as a truck driver although he died a few years before potter was born both tombstones bring

a smile of recognition. with the head of the un office on drugs and crime in russia who says there should be a comprehensive approach towards fighting drug trafficking in afghanistan.

i'm here talking to mr uni for dr friese 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 that 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 production on to this list of international threats why do you think that it's. everybody considers. a major global challenges. as as well. particular direction that many took from the territory of afghanistan as a unit is planning to launch assume a new original program. and program for afghanistan the neighbor encounters way we're doing good because we want to focus not on going up against that but also in very general dimension you can try to direct. traffic and produce our own in

afghanistan because only in broader regional. context russia is a transit rate the drugs from afghanistan. to europe i don't see the rest of the wild and the countries being insisting that these substances that he used to make drugs that origin should be models 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 initiative doesn't get support us i think. in a real life with luke legs that we have a. system of for control drugs which are used in medical for medical purposes and as there is a special special agent or third it to. be which is doing it. for the practical purposes. drax

destined to be used as a as a authorized drugs because they can be done and the whole system of checks and balances. as it is used licenses. to produce lisa drugs which are not allowed to produce illicit drugs if i understand you correctly and illegal drugs. illegal drugs are not chemically. their market but they are being distributed through legal channels so they're not smuggled to. the. sort of a borders but there's a ship the illegal way and the quality and the quantity of this legal drugs are strictly controlled by the relevant experts this is obviously enormously important for us if there are two million of heroin and. according to official figures that the actual number could be high up and one measure put forward by moscow is the

elimination of poppy plantations and the increase in loans. to be used for poppy production to be put on the u.n. sanctions list why isn't the u.n. 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 create a situation when the money laundering and corruption could be excluded from just proceed but we need to address this process and 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 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 we sense that u.s. 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 it can you tell me a bit more about the. united states. by literally cooperating quite a closely not only in this kind of preparations are you conducted but also as i understand they plan to help some countries in very gentle. toward establishing their own drug control agency. much.

more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images seeing from the streets of canada. for asians rule today.

four thirty am in moscow good to have you with us these are your r.t. headlines a series of attacks russia's republic of. three tourists killed on the route to a popular ski resort. close to lift their hotels have now been evacuated after police discovered this expected car bomb in the center of the busy resort village. with dozens more people dying in anti-government protests sweeping the middle east the u.k.'s first selling arms used to quell. some arms export licenses after a court said riot police behind a brutal crackdown on protesters in bahrain for using british media. and cash for

convicts former inmates in the us claimed big business is responsible for the poor of the country having the largest prison population in the world. up next this week's edition of moscow out focuses on how to get by on a modest budget in the russian capital which is known to be one of the world's most expensive cities. hello and welcome to the program know moscow is famous for being one of the mess expensive cities in the world. and we'll see just how low we can find prices in the russian capital there are hundreds if not thousands of deals office sales and discounts to be found here. plus location the thirty six ruble store the good old. times he didn't have to do cheap.