or 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 this the men outside the minibus simply step back and opened fire at least three people died on the spot was 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 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 the drama in the mountain 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 the bulk area of course reflecting on the overall tense situation of course being in the north call. says 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. but 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's 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 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 sniper leaders were being destroyed again as protesters in libya's second city benghazi and algeria the president has offered concessions to add thai government 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 protestors are using supplies that made by british companies to clear the ongoing protests human rights activists barred repaying says the u.k. has been reckless in its armed services. 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 the weapons are going ang 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 bahrain . 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 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 well people gathered in cairo's tahrir square on friday to mark a week since president hosni mubarak was toppled middle east analyst james down as low says the root causes of the crisis have yet to be addressed i think there were certain structural problems facing all these states whether you talk about the state of their economy the high rates of youth unemployment twenty four percent across the region the fact that the leadership has had very little freedoms and democratic choices given that 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 africa 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 seems 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 anyone 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 forth 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 because simply we don't know what will happen next radio host and film director alex jones has one factor forced forcing people into the streets as 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 this hour a wizard's unlikely resting place. you might make a bargain when you visit a ceremony

a cemetery where author himself may be buried alongside william shakespeare find out how their grades ended up in israel in a few minutes. after our show witnessing a crackdown on organized crime as police has been revealed behind brutal murders but some fear the corrupt officials might still get away. first though the opposition in belarus will be quote bashed in the head unless it stops to 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 the back hill of a silly power from kabul was said to four years in jail thousands of opposition activists took to the streets of minsk is 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 analysts from russia's ria novosti news agency dmitri babich says looky shango keeps on tightening the screws and others 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 punish denies 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 anyone. opposition in belarus democracy in the north to win situation it will win them still open this is the end all of these. the u.s. may be billed as the land of the free but it also jails more than it more people than any other country in the world are he's an associate churkin and 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 michael spent thirty hours his prison cell. and even parts of his own. this 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 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 convict 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. is a little bit of a problem. across the u.s. but 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 home until then look at all saw him now we all in the hole in our t. philadelphia. number are t. dot com is where you can check out all our stories blogs and analysis also on line a few today find out how to run for president and prime minister i've been checking out some of the snow for the twenty fourth at the olympics in sochi. and the spacemen who recently set foot on mars have begun the groundbreaking exploration of the simulated red planet got the latest on our team dot com. a major crackdown in organized crime has been triggered across russia authorities

are targeting gangs that were being protected by officials in small towns or he's dennis' bought secure ports 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. 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 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 of bork and his aides 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 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. it's about. them and they have. definitely had. the question of scared gays 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 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 starr report may also lead to corrupt policemen local officials it is all part. why their 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 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 if journalists and crime experts a listen to. our chief cross and our region. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe at least three people of the billboard and sixty injured when gunman dead made explosives and stormed a bank in eastern afghanistan along the victims 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 to fire tear gas and water patterns to prevent violence during an annual far right rally in dresden about a thousand people gathered for a state approved the 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. and it's carnival time in venice with spectators invited to join in the toast to mark the first day a large crowd and horrible why inform the centerpiece of the opening ceremony carnival brings ten days of music and dancing to st mark's square and other venues around the city dates back to twelve sixty eight the christian festival merry making before the starts of lent and easter. finally in this news block while blockbusters are known to draw huge crowds a grave may seem an unlikely tourist attraction unless the person buried there

happens to be named harry potter 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 wizard fans from flocking to visit smarties policy or discovered this potter story as anything but a magic 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 pore through 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 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 map potter's grave attracts as much attention as ancient archaeological digs in the area ok by parade of bargain rugs 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 who brought supply from jerusalem to her bra 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 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 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 speak to the head of the un office on drugs and crime. comprehensive approach toward fighting drug trafficking in afghanistan coming your way next stay with us.

i'm here talking to mr pease 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. why do you think it's. everybody considers. a major global challenges. as well as

a particular drug in many. planing to launch a new original program. and program for afghanistan the neighboring countries where we're doing good because we want to focus on the game just to. show that you can try to put our. producer. and afghanistan because only in broader region no bridge no context russia the transit rate 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 these substances to determine the producers 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 initiative doesn't get support us i think. luke legs have a. system 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 this drugs destined to be used as a drug because it 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. illegal drugs are not chemically ma. market but they are being distributed through legal channels.

they're not smuggled to. the. legally sort of the borders but there's a ship in a legal way and the quality and quantity of these legal drugs are strictly controlled by relevant experts this is obviously an enormously important issue for us if there are two million heroin addicts in roster 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 oil. and it's to be used for poppy production to be put on the u.n. thanks why is 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 but we need to. do is to create a situation when the. corruption could be excluded from just 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 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 that us with 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 caught that can you tell me a bit more about that and the stance that russia and the united states. by 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 d.c. so it's a good synergy of international community and important bilateral players. thank you very much thank you very much.

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today please. it's seven thirty am in moscow good to have you with us here on our team using your headline a series of attacks have hit the russian republic of korea three tourists have been killed in a popular terrorist bomb blast later damaged a ski lift hotels were evacuated after police discovered it later defused a suspected car bomb in the center of the busy resort village. with dozens more people dying in anti-government protests sweeping the u.k. is slammed for selling arms used to quell the unrest. licenses after a court said riot police crackdown on protesters in bahrain reason british media.

and cash for convicts former inmates in the us claim big business is responsible for the country having the largest prison population in the planet. up next our special report about the damage oil companies are doing to the amazon rain forest and the indigenous tribes living there stay with us. would you believe the locals were affected by cancer letters letters. hygiene conditions are terrible actually all the drinking water in eastern ecuador is. we have a malicious results that show the water contains excrement residues meaning medic comes from the native stepha cations that is what causes cancer and all other illnesses.