a 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 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 all 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 about in of all heidi a 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 in the 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 are for 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 then why did 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 closed all those services all those all that money that comes in with tourism stops but that's no reason to believe 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 are being deployed against protesters in libya's second city benghazi and algeria the president offered concessions to protesters promising to lift a state of emergency that's been in force for the last nineteen years in bahrain

more than sixty people were injured in clashes with government forces reports claim riot police that were behind brutal crackdowns on protesters you supplies made by british companies to clear the ongoing protest human rights activists barghouti pace's the u.k. has been reckless in its arms sales. and 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 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 had. 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 in case. they are actively promote such the u.k. government and actively promotes arms sales to a number of the presses and if this is not new i mean that 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 in battle leaders while the people gathered in cairo's tahrir square square on friday to mark a week since president mubarak was toppled middle east analyst james dennis low 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 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 s. it seems now scrapped that although 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 anyone i think it's a combination of new media and the internet as a social organizing tool that has allowed them to circumnavigate traditional security measures and make these protests as they are so while the battle to oust him about 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 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 out into the streets is inflation and self-serving policies of major banks. as the global economy is flooded with dollars as the private developers are of 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 you're on our team to wizards unlikely resting place. you might. revisit a cemetery where harry potter himself may be buried alongside william shakespeare find out how their graves ended up in israel if humans. are russia witnessing a crackdown an organized crime a police cover up has been revealed behind the brutal murders and some fear the corrupt officials may still get away with it. first though the opposition in belarus will be quote bashed in the head unless it stops to stabilizing the country this according to the country's president alexander lukashenko comments coming just days after the first person involved in last year's protests in minsk s.l.e. power from kabul was sentenced to four years in jail thousands of opposition activists took to the streets of minutes because of the polls closed in the

country's presidential election in december over six hundred protesters were arrested more than twenty including several presidential candidates face trial political analyst russia's ria novosti news agency dmitri babich says shank zero keeps tightening the screws in dollars. what happened in december was indeed unique because people are not cheap 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 year old in the eyes a soul to do something about 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 any one. opposition in belarus democracy in belarus rule nor do we do isolation it will. open this either and all of these the us may be billed as the land of the free but

it also jails more people than any other country or he's honest i see it sure could have met a former inmate who's calling against a prison system that he claims was 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 homes. 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. the country. in the world. and used the same in the same area.

the ex-con is now teaching children about the horrors of prison life to deter. future. says one of the biggest is 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 problem. cross 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 now we all in the whole. philadelphia number are to dot com is where you can check out all our stories blogs analysis wherever you like online for you today find out how the russian president and prime minister were checking out some of the snow for the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics in sochi. and the spaceman who recently set foot on the red planet in the start of their groundbreaking exploration of mars or a simulation of the latest. a

major crackdown in organized crime has been triggered across russia authorities are targeting gangs protected by officials in small towns or he's done this particular ports on a brutal slaying that brought the issue back to 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 last november in the village of course short skinned 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 to through the. acts of murder rape in extortion but the. journalist who became with.

the herd as they directed their things bush and 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 gates up bork and his aide sort of gave us. counsel 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 people it's about the ones who protected them and they have these times. and definitely have serious connections the case triggered to crack down across the country on

organized crime in the republic of bush good 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 style report may also lead to corrupt policemen and local officials and. part of a wider 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 the courts work and restore the system of district organized crime units. interesting. corruption of some officials can be overcome in russia journalists crime experts listen. trust each. other now to some other stories making headlines across the globe at least three people have

been killed more than sixty injured when gunmen detonated explosives and stormed the bank in eastern afghanistan along the victims civilian soldiers and policemen president's office so that three suicide bombers were involved in the raid the taliban has 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 an annual far right rally in dresden around a thousand people were gathered birthday to prove the action to commemorate the deadly allied bombing or the end of the second world war many more leftist counter-demonstrators supported by civil rights groups and democratic parties attended the event some of them tried to attack the gathering throwing rocks and bottles. as carnival time in venice with spectators invited to join in the toast to mark the first day a large fountain with pouring why uniform the centerpiece of the opening ceremony the carnival brings ten days of music and dancing to st mark's square and other venues around the city back to twelve sixty eight the christian festival all merry

making before the start of lent and easter. while blockbusters are known to draw huge discouraged crowds to the theaters a grave might seem like an unlikely tourist attraction unless the person buried there had the name how are you potter not 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 wizard fans from plot flocking to visit party's policy or found out 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 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 pharmacies 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 grief 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 brought supply from jerusalem to her bra and this is the way they got him. 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 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 and paganism and magic. because it's cool and is not the only illustrious literature figure buried in israel's military symmetries here in jerusalem is buried none other than 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. to the head of the. crime there should be a comprehensive approach toward fighting drug trafficking in afghanistan stay with us.

i'm here talking to mr you he's 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 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 a matter of. everybody considers. major global

challenges everybody agree with that. as well as a particular direction in many of the territory of. you know if she were planning to launch a new original program. and that our program for afghanistan the neighbor encounters way we're doing good because we want to focus not on going up against that but also a very gentle dimension you can try to drive. traffic and guns that are produced in afghanistan because only in broader regional. context russia is a transit rate for drugs from afghanistan. to europe and also the rest of the wild and the country has been insisting that these substances that he used to make drugs that origin should be mobs chemically mocked substances to determine the point she says 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 mystic doesn't get support as well i think. in a real life with luke legs that have a. system for control drugs which are used in medical for medical purposes and as there is a special special agency for it to. be which is doing. for the practical purposes these drugs which destined to be used as an authorized drug so that they can be done and the whole system of checks and balances. as it is a system of licenses. to produce lesa 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 so

they're not smuggled designed not to. illegally 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 strictly controlled by the relevant text. this is obviously enormously important for us if there are two million 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 taste and the increase in loans. to be used for poppy production to be put on the un sanctions list why isn't the un acting on that case 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 just proceed 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. combined efforts in doing 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 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 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.

on 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 into. national community and important. hopeful next went on the series fiddle to thank you very much thank you very much. stress nutritious and this is products on the price of healthy eating. we need to test these foods for toxicity allergenicity immune response lower nutrition in for environmental contamination don't you feel like. some consider the experiment in human treatment i believe significant differences between the g. have both at the cio. but they weren't treated so well themselves

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