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 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 sadly that is not the end of 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 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 a ball carrier of course reflecting on the overall tense situation was being in the north caucasus police are not ruling out terrorist activity. but of course

suspecting russia's most wanted terrorist doc or 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 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 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 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 the six days of unrest as government forces crack down on demonstrations against the country's leader colonel moammar gadhafi it's reported out sniper units were being deployed against protesters in libya's second city benghazi that algeria the president offered concessions to and thai government protesters promising to lift a state of emergency that's been a force for the almost the past twenty 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 supplies made by british companies to clear the ongoing protest human rights activist marvi pace says the u.k.'s 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 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 and 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 it would seize in the case of the right. 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 the embattled leaders there 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 downes low says the root cause of the crisis have yet to be addressed i think there were certain structural problems facing all these states whether you talk about that 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 look at the leaders had been in power for decades some forty four million more people have been placed into poverty by rising food prices something that north africa the 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 f. sixteen s now. to replace 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 bad 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 is allow 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 force and we see when what happens 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 about no means any certainty that actually egypt is a model to follow because 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 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. 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 r t still ahead a wizards' on likely resting plans. might make up the demo that we visit a cemetery where harry potter himself may be buried alongside william shakespeare

find out how their graves ended up in israel of all places if you manage. russia witnessing a crackdown on organized private police cover up and then reveal behind brutal murders but some fear the corrupt officials might still get away with it. but first opposition in belarus will be quote bashed in the head unless it stops in stabilizing the country this 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 a bestselling powerful and powerful was scheduled was sentenced to four years in jail thousands of opposition activists took to the streets and that's because the polls closed in the country's presidential election in december more than six hundred protesters were arrested more than twenty putting several presidential candidates face trial a political analyst from russia's ria novosti news agency dmitri babich says the case schank zero keeps tightening the screws in other words. what happened in december was. 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 . hold in the eyes a soul of the december 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 democracy in belarus rule not to win thanks to isolation it will we open this either and all of these. united states made bill itself the land of the free but it also jails more people than any other country on earth our he's honest i see a church that i met a former inmate who is calling against a prison system that he claims is based on 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. 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. 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. and use the same in the same area were. discussed. in. the ex-con is now teaching children about the horrors of prison life to deter them from. the self-made says one of the biggest problems 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. a little bit of a problem. across the us with less than five percent of the world's population but almost a quarter of the prison population of the planet the men 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 whole. philadelphia. remember r t dot com is the site you can always check out for all our latest stories blogs and analysis here is what else is online for you find out how russia's president and prime minister are tracking out some of the snow for the twenty fourteen winter games in sochi bus. spacemen who recently set foot on mars have begun their groundbreaking exploration of the simulation on the red planet we've got the latest about that all the last. major crackdown in organized crime has been triggered across russia authorities are

targeting gangs protected by officials in small towns or he's dennis' bought secure imports 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 last november in the village of course short stay in russia's cell but investigators were even more shocked when they discovered that this brutal slaying is just the tip of the iceberg the crime where. the boys were unable to through the. acts of murder rape and extortion but the. journalist who became with . the herd 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 to cover up for the gang its leader sub believed to be said gates 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 above the gangsters but they got away something that may happen again. it's not only about. it's about the ones who did them and they have these times. and definitely have. the. trigger 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 starr report may also lead to corrupt policemen and local officials it is all part. 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's the hope that the brutality of the gangs and corruption of some officials can be overcome and russia it journalists and crime experts a listen to. r.t.e. across the region. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe at least three people have been killed more than sixty injured when a gunman detonated explosives and stormed a bank in eastern afghanistan among the victims were civilian soldiers and police president's office said three suicide bombers were involved in the raid the

taliban's claim responsibility for the attack saying they were targeting security forces. police in germany had to fire tear gas and water cannons to prevent violence that i knew will fall right rally in dresden about a thousand people gathered for a state sanctioned 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 event some of them tried to attack the gathering by throwing rocks and bottles. at its heart of all time in venice with spectators invited to join a toast to mark the first day a large fountain pour in the wine form the centerpiece of the opening ceremony carnival brings ten days of music and dance and to shape square and other venues around the city dating back to twelve sixty eight the christian festival allowed some merrymaking before the start of the lead. while blockbusters are known to draw huge crowds to theaters a grave may seem like an unlikely tourist attraction unless of course the person

buried there happens to be named harry 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 flocking to visit as archie's policy or discover this potter story has anything but a magical 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 hour we both of 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 far as he's had long forgotten the letter from his publisher 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 truest map potter's grave attracts as much

attention as ancient archaeological digs in the area ok. i pray don't bargain or argue. 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 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 harry potter except the hype. her brother contributed

a lot to people interests and paganism and magic. because it's cool and potter's 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 british 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. r.t. jerusalem. next we hear from the head of the un office. says there should be a comprehensive approach toward fighting drug trafficking in afghanistan that interview coming up next stay with us.

i'm here talking to mr 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 that most of it 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. rats why do you think that's a it's a matter of. everybody considers. a major global challenges everybody agree with that. as well as

a particular drug that in many took from the thirty third of ghana's to. blend in to launch assume a new regional program. and program for a neighboring country here's why we're doing good because we want to focus not only on the game but also in very general dimension you cannot fight the drug. trafficking guns that are produced. only in broader regional. context russia is a transit route to drugs from afghanistan they then 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 mogs chemically mocked on these substances to determine the produces its 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. this is to control drugs which are used in medical medical purposes as there is a special special agent for it to. be which is doing. for the practical purposes this the drugs which are destined to be used as a 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 ma. market but they are being distributed through legal channels . legally sort of a borders but there's

a ship the illegal way and the quality and quantity of this legal drugs are strictly controlled by a relevant experts this is obviously enormously important for us if there are two million heroin addicts in according to official figures that the actual number could be no higher and one measure put forward by moscow is the elimination of poppy plantations and the inclusion of loans and. to be used for the production to be put on the un thanks list why isn't the un 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. 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 and if we combined efforts in doing this this way from upstream to downstream only sentiment and 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 see 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 and can you tell me a bit more about that and the stance that russia and the united states are. literally cooperating quite a 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 a kind of

a project. called 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 bilateral players. thank you very much thank you very much. and.

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a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines you need to cause a report on. six thirty am in moscow good to have you with us here on our t.v.'s your headlines a series of attacks and it's the russian or a look at. three tourist board killed under two a popular terrorist scores or world bomb blast later damaged a ski lift hotels are now been evacuated after police discovered a suspected car bomb in the center of the busy resort. with dozens more people dying in anti-government protests sweeping the middle east the u.k. is selling arms used to quell the unarrest u.k. has revoked some arms export licenses after reports said riot police behind the little crackdown on protesters in bahrain were using british media 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 with this week's edition of moscow it focuses on how to get by on a modest budget while in the russian capital 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 not thousands of deals office sales and discounts to be found here. location the thirty six ruble store the good. times most.