east west never told moscow center. air force. from some mysterious libyan skies insulters historical hotels of its culture in the city and sky called small. media as a good club district for leicester to become the hurtado. breaking news this hour the best soul grows even better for an explosion at a metro station in the capital of maids and. also russia in poland mark a fatal accident the toll the two nations of pot put the time zone unite. presidents to meet that image did influence logical middle school have paid their respects to the victims of the fatal plane crash that killed the polish president and many of the countries in this because it is on the anniversary of the canteen mouth. piece in libya depends on the rebels as the african union suggests

a resolution to the conflict but the opposition says they'll be no truce until colonel gadhafi is at. nine pm monday night or in moscow it is eight pm right now in minsk watching the t.v. news channel from moscow welcome tonight breaking news eyewitnesses say people have died in an explosion at a metro station in minsk the capital of the latest pictures we've got through at least seven people have been killed according to one eyewitness says they are not officially confirmed figures among as i say these the latest are pictures released online by some of the eyewitnesses who let the mobile phone camera roll if you see the metro station after the blast people were. away

a lot of panic and confusion and naturally that station is near the offices of president alexander lukashenko at the moment and not for there's any particular salissa link between that and also we don't know of course so one thinks when one sees an explosion like this of a bomb but we don't know if that was the case the certainly has been an explosion we do know from eyewitnesses that it was according to reports anyway on an escalator and maybe that escalator of her lapsed as a result of it but you don't know at the moment what may have caused. we do know it happened during russia just before six pm people making their way home. to the op to brusk metro station a very busy time of the day of course most unfortunate there's never a good time for anything like this to happen but an awfully bad time for that happen when it's rush hour of course as most people are down there be a state news agency belters saying the word fight teletubbies well we're being

reporting that as well they have not said how many we're getting from eyewitnesses but it could be up to seven at the moment we're also hearing that fifty could be injured we're hearing the explosion happened when the two trains arrived there. the reason obviously news agency reporting it happened at seventeen fifty six local time thick fumes have been reported above the station we're in traffic incidentally in the vicinity is moving ok that and really problems there despite of course the fact that emergency teams and the fire and rescue teams have been making their way there as quickly as possible i would this is reporting smoke rising from there also saying look the blast to rupture this person just was stepping off a train. station where two underground railway lines intersect. there latest pictures coming through. we've been looping those for you turning

around for you stay with this because we're updating this on our you choose page you also want to find it r t v dot com and we will bring you the latest as well we've got a lot of guests lined up to talk to because this may have happened here or maybe behind it and let's now go to an eyewitness we've got a report from an eyewitness who saw what happened down there at the metro station no indeed we won't we'll bring you that eyewitness little bit later let's get some comment i promise you that lit give you again is from i.h.s. global insight in london thanks for being on the line with this or your thoughts about what you're seeing now unfolding in that metro station tonight the blast happened during rush hour lots of people were there in the metros and mention could we possibly be talking about a terrorist attack do you think. it is a natural question to ask especially. russia and neighboring countries recently

commemorate the anniversary of their metro bombing that left about forty people dead but he. concludes. analysis of the of events to start with unlike russia belarus hasn't got any terrorist organizations or have they haven't been any terrorist organizations operating outside of the bedroom that would claim or or aim to bring harm to the russian people so while some. unique case in some say is older some me compare this event with another explosion in two thousand and eight in july which went unclaimed and there weren't again conclusive results of the investigation back in two thousand and eight certainly here in moscow we witnessed earlier on this year the bombing in madrid of last year the suicide bombings

at the moscow metro and people here in this city. most of europe a kind of brace for the sort of thing the general public in berlin one very good thought and it's what i'm trying to say is basically you can look for a possible problem when you go on the metro these days anywhere in europe is this the same thing in the general public we all go against potential acts of terror. well as i said russia is a different case russia has an internal conflict and ongoing conflicts the suicide bombers they have. it's an organized group it operates across. north caucasus and they have they haven't made a secret that they are planning attacks on russian infrastructure however we hasn't seen any video messages that are of the leader of the chechen rebel group regularly

releases we haven't seen any of the videos where he would make a point about attacking belorussian infrastructure and belarus and russia politically they haven't been that close recently so two things by extension by being a staunch ally of russia would become a target it's also not such a valid point this time but obviously. a blast happened whether it's a terrorist attack or something technical or has to do with another group well we have to wait and see. just really wondering how you are used for yourself you know the station and can you describe for us what it would be like during rush hour is this busy obviously it is much smaller. does it comparatively get as busy as say the moscow metro one of the busiest in the world. and i haven't the metro myself.

being one of the central stations and peak hour as in any c.t. i can imagine that it has been quite crowded at the time of the explosion. whether it was a calculated move to target people when they're at the explosion when when he was picked hour or it was just a coincidence we will again we will have to wait and see all right sure. from my global insight thank you know i mentioned just now before talking there that we first eyewitness reports coming through i gather we can now go to that this is somebody that was down i think in the metro station at the time we saw what was going on whether above or below it let's take a listen. station. and all. the traffic has stopped in that part of the city there's an explosion took place at

a piece of metro intersection in the underpass witnesses say they saw rising and black. people were carried out of the station in temple and that's all i know at this moment. all right but an eyewitness the first we've got coming through the saving stay with us of course we will bring you up to date all the very latest our correspondent is across the details coming through as well thick and fast now sara first hi again could see the latest unofficial test so we have called in two eyewitnesses i must say this must stress again this is not confirmed seven dead fifty injured what more can you add what more do we know about what's going on down to the matter of the last few. well of course the explosions happening at five fifty six ten local time. at the met a station. in the center of the palace. that a lot of people would have been traveling three much

a station at the time the trains were said to just come in and the i wish it was i think that there were people that he would despite the day coming out although they felt that there wasn't much conflict with people coming out with injury some of this despite this quite serious and deed in that place having been the plot and playing placing as well and now because the emergency services are on the scene police have called at all some of that area and the emergency services. dealing with bass players have been injured now because the fix place is. a need that we all think that we know that happened only as the later in the make a station of play the style rush has a lot of people traveling to a little bit off to the place and i think as the later colossi that would decide for me contributed to the injuries and as we said emergency services like no other thing at the moment here we're getting small reports through from news wires that heavily wounded people seem to be carried out from the. station including one very

graphically described as. having no legs it looks like a very severe injuries from eye witnesses coming through. probably the metro station. a judge has issued two lines it's the old brisk i love star subway stations where that explosion happened getting news i would use is saying a big crater can be seen as the site of the explosion we gathered. maybe all know underneath an escalator yeah. yes possibly been faces coming through the maybe it's like that it was the last place in the escalates a bank collapsing up i'll take a style your station is in the center of the capital actually located near and to the galleries president alexander lukashenko pace main office added he did numbers of people travelling through that met face to face instead i fifty think. russia

and he's number of positive bids as he said the eyewitness accounts of the coming in of the pitches i believe being of little slices each with a you can see some of the injury as he said people think that not to permit me to be very shocked at the end of this week and make clear that this time you know i did backing vocals. i think they are also hearing now the delegates are looking showing herself president bush and his says that he said personally going to take the situation and resign personal control following this plasty will head up the investigation and so sarah ferguson now thank you for bringing us up to date with what you know as we continue taking a look at these pictures there the latest we got through from you tube filmed as this unfortunate event happened just about said two hours ago tonight thank you sarah now i spoke

a bit earlier on to fred ware from christian science monitor he told me he suspects political tensions inside better roads may have led to a terrorist movement behind this metro explosion bellerose is not a country that has. normal or for lack of a better word terrorist take problems it's not the usual destination for terrorists it doesn't have a chechnya or some related internal problem that would make a charge for that but it does have escalating political tensions within its own society you know that there was the elections in december. there's been constant talk of the president look to shake i mean rigged election they keep it put there on demonstrations and protests rather rather brutally arrested over six hundred people so if this is the internal proficiently look at. turning

to these kind of tactics it would represent a radical p. parchin from peaceful means of protest to the. right used in the past so that may suggest insurable political party centers going over to terrorist tactics. russian poland a marking one year since the plane crash that killed the polish president and most of the country's political elite remembrance ceremonies are underway in western russia at the site of the tragedy where ninety six people died last april and it's there for us. to me that amid their lives bronislaw komorowski are in smolinski today to pay their respects to the victims of that fatal plane crash that killed the polish president lech kaczynski a year ago sunday april tenth that marks one year exactly to the day that that steeple of one five four crashed in the trees just behind me killing all ninety six on board those included the polish president his wife the chief of the air force

and poland's military chief making the situation even more poignant is the reason why that plane had taken off from warsaw or not was for the polish delegation to attend the seventieth anniversary of the canteen massacre when over twenty thousand poles were killed by soviet secret police something the soviet union had previously denied so the event was to be a real milestone in the symbolic easing of previously tense relations between poland and russia but since that plane crash we have seen a very public and very united to splay of grief from both poland and russia and today underlined that with both presidents here together attending a small poignancy and a quiet ceremony here at the exact size hole of the plane crash here by the splint skaf eales before moving on to the site of the canteen memorial where mores related

press said. the interstate aviation the commission all i.a.c. was set out on my president dmitri medvedev delivered its report on the twelfth of january and it concluded the pilots error was mostly to blame obviously severely compounded by very pool weather conditions dense fog and reduced visibility and psychological pressure being exerted on the players from certain passengers to land the plane as soon as possible many in the poland refer. those conclusions and say that more investigation needs to be done to the conditions of the n.f.l. here and smear lance and also into the role of ground stuff here could they have done more perhaps to prevent the plane from landing in such dense fog poland will conclude its own independent investigation into the causes of the crash and after asking for a six month extension we are expecting that independent polish investigation to

deliver its final conclusion sometime in october. well just bring it today on the breaking news stories but an explosion earlier on the seafloor mattress trace of the belarusian capital minsk the explosions that have happened on the escalator during rush hour i witnesses say at least seven dead and more than eighty have been injured that's now being reported on bellerophon television tonight. it's unclear whether they were killed in the blast or from the collapse of the escalated is the latest pictures we've got from you. the services are at the scene thousands have already been taken to local hospitals for treatment evaluation president in the last exam to look shanker is expected to hold emergency talks over the instant results and said he will take the investigation into what's happened at his own personal control you can see these pictures of what was happening in the metro moments after the explosion a lot of panic and confusion with people running from the scene we will of course we'll bring you the latest on this as soon as we get the details if you stay with

us rules of dating in the course of r.t. dot com and so it's a feed and facebook page. the united states is said to approve its annual budget which will slash over thirty eight billion dollars in spending and sales is the largest cuts in american history but that's not stopping washington from dishing out billions in aid to israel let's talk about that one tries to tell of even talks the garden goes it is a research fellow at the jerusalem institute for market studies thanks for being with us now you've closely followed this story why this difficult time for the u.s. is the u.s. gifting so much money to israel when the american economy is on the verge of taking a nosedive doesn't make sense does it. i do believe that you can't hear me sir yarden goes it can hear me just checking

communications with you. yes oh great i think you missed the question there let me put it to you again you've been following this story closely about the u.s. gifting a lot of money to israel right now at a time when the american economy is on the verge of taking a nosedive why is it doing it. i think we're going to have to churchill later i think was a problem with your son doesn't it we'll try one more time yarden does it it's kevin owen in moscow here can you hear me now we can hear we will go back to little bit later hopefully i'll skip those questions again ok. a preliminary child abuse hearing is being held in alaska after american woman appeared on a t.v. show using harsh punishments against her adopted russian son and other cases sparked calls for better adoption regulations between the two countries russia set aside and agreement with the u.s. in the next months to ensure the safety of children adopted into american families

at least seventeen adopted russian children have died in the us since one thousand nine hundred two are things going to change you can reports on this worrying trend . what is what makes me. want such a tape which caused outrage across america and beyond an american mother recorded a video of how she punishes her adopted russian boy and sent it to a popular t.v. show. but running hot sauce into seven year old christophe's amounts did not seem enough for jessica beagley a freezing shower was next. and right now. cold winter and a lot of different things to punish the kids spanking we've learned does not work because it was only after the television troll that authorities looked into the well being of the adopted russian war jessica beagley was charged with child abuse the adoption system in the us is such that once a child is adopted by american parents the government does not provide any

oversight as to how they are doing some believe because of the absence of supervision the suffering of many adopted children remains on her adoption agencies in this country are set up as a business because of the fact that they are dealing with human lives here and they're not selling cars or toasters it certainly seems it should be a lot more oversight more than sixty thousand washing children have been adopted by u.s. parents since one thousand nine hundred one fortunately most of these children live in. new american families however sealing to children dozens current and hundreds who disappeared. which cannot be just a lot one of the recent incidents that sent shock waves throughout the world was the killing of the seven year old even scarred by got of was beaten to death by his american adoptive parents last year the russian authorities suspended options are

you as parents after an american woman took the russian boy she did not get on a plane back to moscow on his own with a note saying. uncle wanted him now russia and the u.s. are working towards an agreement which would provide better government oversight on the wellbeing of adopted russian children in american families something that would mean regular visits to the family's eisel workers from both countries some say the biggest obstacle to an agreement is the overall secrecy surrounding adoptions in the u.s. in the united states of america once an adoption is finalized that child is considered the same as if born to the adoptive parents a birth certificate gets three years shute the adoptive parents they never even have to tell the child that they were abducted but russia says americans privacy issues should not be an argument for leaving thousands of adopted children without any oversight and protection and you were of the stance that you cannot transport

you will put the across the border result in the continent but small children will be by thousands without any agreements in the u.s. people wanting to adopt pay private agencies or assessments as to their suitability as parents this of course raises questions as to how objective those assessments can actually be and once a child is abducted there is no follow up on how they are doing in jessica bigley had not sent her a video to a t.v. show would have never known about her punishment methods just as we don't know about how many other adoptive children are now subject to domestic violence in the u.s. i'm going to shut down r.t. washington d.c. . to get to our guest in tel aviv just remind you the story we're just now the united states to improve its annual budget slashing thirty eight billion dollars in spending hailed as the largest cut in american history but it's not stopping washington from dishing out billions in aid to israel or yard and soon television

if we could speak to him just now i gather he can hear me no mistake is a very good evening to you can you may. great now you've been following this story closely why is the u.s. gifting so much money to israel at a time when the american economy as i've just been saying is on the verge of taking a nosedive what's the reasoning here. we'll go over there and i'm not an expert on american politics more an expert on the israelis. on the israeli side the question should be why should we. country with a high growth rate with excessive tax revenues beyond what the treasury had expected this year should be taking money from a country who is in the middle of a crisis as you suggest a good point so answer that one for me then why. when there are many. industries that benefit on both sides but on the home i would argue

that american aid is a net loss to israel as it is tied to the american economy seventy five percent of the granted by congress to israel must be spent in the us thereby supporting the us arms industry and that's. as you well know is a strong lobby within the us and damages the israeli arms industry. and other damage to their industry is the restrictions on exports that come from our own with the usa congress requires that israeli exports through third third countries must be approved by the us picking up on something you say that you claim israel in fact is said to lose out financially by accepting over the exception is one in this to the million dollars in funding from the us to produce a new missile system why wouldn't lose money by accepting this money i don't get your reasoning here. so indeed he's going to get ok well we had some we had some

thoughts from tel aviv tonight anyway i. hope our viewers at home caught up with what we were talking about all right and let's move on and. bring you the latest on of course the breaking news story the explosion at the net frustration in minutes correspondents across from the very latest that we've got. the latest information about the explosion we're hearing. twenty five has been hospitalized eleven are in a serious condition we're also reporting as well the other russian t.v. saying tonight. eighty seven are dead and belarusian president is on his way now to that nearby metro station nearby his office is do we know. the further east president alexander looks like he has actually arrived at the scene where that explosion occurred other than just let's say in the capital not that much a station actually locates is his main. thing is responded to this by thinking

under his control and it's expected that he'll be holding emergency tools that within the hour i've done this is he serves as a cool on the scene had to do with the engine lid of the police have cordoned off the area as he said the official figures not out yet but the eyewitnesses to say that the. least eighty people injured in the pictures and information we're getting clothing in from the eyewitnesses i certainly say some of those injuries. we've heard from the eyewitness the people would panicking but lots of people think coming out of that much space station i looking days with playing plaything with the clubs. have happened only at school later in the military station at rush hour five fifty six yes a lot of people would have been travelling feeders to the teach like i just quoted to say to the pilot later collapsed after the. it's still not clear exactly what's

it called that explain the reasons behind it again nothing good and there's a little bit lacking and it calls. for the think it will be holding in its final status exactly what happened. ok so. thank you for bringing us up to day with the latest as that you know it we're also hearing that the moscow police series has also been informed officially of what's happened there say at the moment the police are pains to point out we don't know what's happened there has been an explosion may know that much they're not saying it in specifically saying it has been a terrorist explosion it's obviously something that they're following up these are the latest pictures we've got through if you just joined us this is r t the international news broadcaster from moscow here main news this hour is that there has been an explosion over the past few hours at one of the minsk moscow rather the one of the. metro stations in hundred the.

metro station which joins into the subway station the bomb exploded just before six pm moscow time and. that's the latest we know we will of course bring you up to date with the latest on our home page r.t. dot com latest on facebook as well. and as i say these are the latest pictures we've got coming through which is looping through for you now from you tube you can see people there. now quite sure what's happening. trying to get out of that metro as best they can and as quickly as they can should have been just another day home from work it's obviously turned into something very very different for them ok let's talk now telephone to political analyst here in a cobra in the sky. even to as you're watching the news is you'll see.