don't come. for the full stop we've got it from. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. of the. two people suspected of carrying out the minutes of metro blast on monday are detained better use more of the twelve people killed in the tragedy. world's fastest growing economies come together to have this say as it were to global issues. brazil russia india china and south africa put a united front as they strive to take an even greater slice of the world economy join me for the details in a few moments. and as the u.s. defense budget goes on touched off another series of sweeping cuts its social

programs are losing out in favor of the pentagon. on moving commodity prices have done a lot to support russia's not its in the first quarter of the year to more china's in about twenty minutes time. that's one pm here in the russian capital you're watching r t welcome to the program two suspects have been arrested by police and their roots following that monday's metro bomb attack wednesday has been declared a day of mourning for the twelve people killed in that trusting. in that which over has been meeting some of the survivors. i started to scream for help i was bleeding heavily a man and woman can't be outside into the fresh air they tied up my leg and didn't

leave me until the ambulance arrived that's man and woman might be unaware they saved not only irina but the life of your unborn child as well looking little xiv it's on the day i was going to the city center to buy vitamins it's terrible but i believe i got over not really there were people without eyes with missing legs and hands i'm six months pregnant so all my thoughts were about the baby. with you and i instinctively know huddled to protect her baby she was lucky people spotted here in the thick smoke and didn't trample here in the panic which others vividly recall . i view the train was full of parents and then there was this bang and all of a sudden fire ceiling collapsed lots of people lying on the platform older stepped over something and then i saw this was a girl's body. elian i was the closest to the epicenter of the last she was the

only to survive in her carriage again despite the panic others gave her a helping hand to escape the carnage from the city's busiest metro station this is where the two allies of the new york subway intersect and this explains why there was so many commuters touring this evening rush hour on monday i witnessed a save those hollywood at work carried out on to the street from this actress and many of those borders still remain in critical condition in hospitals across the city of the news of the tackle up to phone systems being flooded with people desperate to contact their loved ones for some delays in getting through or the longest moments of their lives. to should call me to say there was a terrorist attack and then the line bro. when we came to the scene and saw her we were shocked the jacket was all torn apart as if you'd been hit by shotgun pellets all of these hands and clothes were covered in blood and she was trying to ease or

shine from granny don't cry it's not my blood it's here the blood of others caught up in the city as the first funerals take place in minsk and elsewhere people have been flocking to the site of the tragedy to remember solemnly and to pray biblical messages laid around the subway station or in different languages but for some even the words are just too painful. has anything changed for you since monday. lost lives it hurts it hurts terribly people need to understand and value every moment of their lives and remember those who died. i'm sorry but i can't talk. the explosion in means to ground is the most tragic terrorist act which brother was has seen seems beyond the second world war completely unthinkable until the evening of april eleventh

terrorism is now agree more than day reality of these country as these days of mourning just hopes of course are rising in the country from around the world including the crash of the r t means below us. that could be a watershed moment for the world's largest emerging economies a gathering china to flex their muscles their starving for a bigger say overall financial architecture russia brazil india china africa also known as the brics group set to go beyond economics to the ongoing crisis in libya that's. to. start a sightseeing as there's a lot of work for me to do their charter is. yeah well certainly not enough time to have to have a look at the beauty of high note here but it's been a quite a busy day especially for the leaders this is the bricks of it now bricks because of the addition of south africa now in a nutshell what these five countries really want to do is to work together to push

for a new international financial model that will benefit the developing countries and what's interesting to note is that this summit is happening it coincides with the international monetary fund in washington certainly interesting to see what the two sides will come up with in terms of the solutions to the problems facing these countries economically not just a few quick numbers to see to show you how why this region this grouping of countries is becoming really an important part of the world is the world's dynamics first of all they do have to pass in clue two of the most populated countries of the world of course china and india and in terms of trade their volume has reached two hundred thirty billion in two thousand and ten that's about fifteen percent of world trade eighty percent of the world's g.d.p. now these numbers may not be at their peak at the moment they do admit that there's still a lot of room for improvement in this regard but the number the population itself and the potential that they hold is clearly not to be ignored by the by the world

in this case now for president medvedev he is it's how his day is definitely packed the actual summit will start to morrow but there have been meetings between the russian the president and the leaders of various countries today he's been meeting with the indian prime minister the south african president as well as chinese president hu jintao the russian and chinese leaders are definitely very happy to point out that this year is the tenth year of the assignee of the treaty on the good in neighboring relations and friendship and there are a lot of visits prime between the two leaders who just how is going to be a st petersburg economic forum so definitely a lot more cooperation in that regard and countries also in insists and refer to. there's the intended corporation not just in investments but it's space exploration for example in dealing with climate change in furthering technology and technological sectors so very interesting to see this not coming into this just another layer to that meeting about china as we know it does want

a greater say in the international monetary fund as well as more voting shares in the world bank of the also no india and brazil are pushing for a permanent seat in the u.n. security council no bs may not be on the table of the agenda of the brics summit but certainly being a part of this blog is going to be to their advantage well yes as you say the brics leaders are showing a united front on many nights as economic matters as well but what else are they focusing on. well as this is an economic forum big they cannot ignore the what's happening in the worlds of a conscious stick to economic problems of course they want to talk about for example the japanese crisis the the a failure of the nuclear the fukushima plant the nuclear failure over there the possibility of danger they want to talk about how to deal with are contained the consequences especially says china and russia are very close neighbors of japan this is one of the things that especially russia would like to talk about another issue of course is the issue of libya now we know that the four countries out of

five brazil russia india and china did have stayed for voting on resolution nine hundred seventy three which allowed the. air strikes on libya but south africa did vote in favor of that however still the consensus here is that they are not happy with what nato is doing it and libya now are we did hear from the chinese side that it may repeat may be raised that there are going to show a strong front against this move by the west and russia as a president dmitry medvedev did give an interview to the chinese media and here's what he had to say. was an opinion one should understand that the viability of the libyan state itself is now at stake what we i mean the international community and certainly the people of libya have a single libya or several states governed by puppet governments and even going nobody is going radicals extremists this strange point really stable but now we

should look into the future old politicians there should decide for themselves responsible decisions for the sake of the libyan people somebody will have to make such a serious maybe fateful decision to leave allowing his country to develop i think this would be for the good in every respect. and in fact it was a test australia they're not they've also we have a special report about this when we're in a political. while the old world order may be pumping money down the drain on war in libya the new world order is fighting battles that can be won on the world's money and trade markets brazil russia india china and this year's new kid on the block south africa have gathered on the chinese island of hainan to talk business and it's not just about economy it's about politics as well though the brics countries do put a heavy emphasis on the economic issues broader political questions such as the situation in northern africa and the middle east are also going to be hot topics

for discussions the recount to stare sold. or un resolution was very wise in terms of we're not going to get involved in this mess in fact when the french and the british were drafting the resolution there were serious objections from the for talks with countries brazil russia india china traditionally it was always the u.s. and major western nations like france and germany playing the leading roles in politics and economy but if you take into consideration the ongoing financial crisis and the fact that breaks countries comprise more than half of the world's population and pull in almost a quarter of the world's g.d.p. if it becomes obvious that a certain geopolitical shift in power is in progress or that there are several reasons these are the merging powers of the twenty first century europe as we all know all is absolutely dead economically politically has no leaves lawrence they

cannot even organize their own foreign policy it's a fearful continent pleaser car countries that are have been less affected by the crisis than have the european countries the united states and these are countries that are going to continue to grow. if not rapidly least moderately while the rest of europe and the united states seems to be mired in crisis european leaders in. selves admit to losing stable ground in recent years everything that we have taken for granted for two centuries american and european dominance to the point to which most of the world's manufacturing goods most of the world's exports most of the world's investment was done in these countries is no longer a fact so it seems europe and the us are finally beginning to understand the emerging power of the brics nations i think the western countries are already.

strained to greeks economies. expanding what was. now a g twenty and it is within the g twenty really the brics countries have been. structured thing which has been very effective i certainly think that there will be changes in the economic i think that's inevitable as these countries grow while the western powerhouses continue pounding away on regimes they find undesirable and a new economic and political architecture is emerging and these five countries are keen to prove these bricks are laying solid foundations it includes courtly sanya china and also the head of the south fighting for survival crews hands paralyzed nuclear plant resumed their work after another strong quake forces them to flee and getting tested for the space race. other than the us

is planning to spend around seven hundred billion dollars on the military and then this year lawmakers have decided on a thirteen billion dollars of spending cuts or none are coming out of the country's defense budget planning for the. plenty is on the u.s. chopping block this week health care education infrastructure. everything that is except for the pentagon my greatest fear is that in economic tough times the people will see the budget as the place to solve the nation's deficit problems i would be very reluctant to cut defense spending until we see really how these two conflicts were in her going to come out what this worldwide military spending increased by twenty point six billion dollars in two

thousand and ten and one thousand point six billion of that was the u.s. alone according to the stockholm international peace research institute a u.s. very much sees itself as a global military power it's the only global military superpower. so it perceives it security interests as encompassing the whole world in two thousand and ten the u.s. spent more on its military than the next highest countries combined both presidents bush and obama have read of the wars defense spending in the us has increased eighty one percent since two thousand and one that seems to reflect a bipartisan croyle replies ation of military and military conceptions of security even in the face of such difficult economic times and american earning the federal minimum wage and working forty hours a week fifty two weeks a year can expect to earn a little over fifteen thousand dollars that's here well below the poverty line they can also expect to pay more than five hundred dollars directly to the pentagon and

american earning fifty thousand dollars a year will see their income. over two thousand of them go directly to america's wars they call the control and employer fields and all of them from. just. those tax dollars also go to maintaining over one thousand u.s. bases insights the world why as well as the pentagon's two hundred thirty four golf courses that. means children poor wimmin homeless you know take care of the needs of our population to spend enormous amounts of money on the pentagon budget while we are every program is being cut is just fraudulent in obscene try to put it on the ground bring it out. that the four cents of every dollar americans pay in taxes goes to funding past and future war and for all the tough talk by president obama about making hard choices

cutting the budget and closing the deficit gap many americans are wondering when it will be the pentagon's turn to tighten its belt and ford r. t. washington d.c. . where engineers at japan's struggling through the she went nuclear plants have resumed efforts to remove radioactive water it comes after a powerful of the shell crews to leave the area tuesday japan raise them on the ground the facility to the maximum of seven spots across is on the disaster decision was based on new dates or showing more radiation had leaked from whatever previously thought but officials say the upgrade does more to me the situation has become more lethal meanwhile the terms to restore committing systems at reactors appear to be close to success and you know i don't understand the things the japanese government has downplayed the extent of the disaster. but the japanese are really committed to nuclear and so there was a lot of a lot of vested interests that wanted to downplay it and i study the three mile

island accident and i study chernobyl and now this one and it's pretty standard practice that when when things are breaking you seem to look for the best alternative as opposed to the most realistic one and i think the japanese wanted a nice outcome and believe whatever instruments gave them that indication if they don't have power to the fuel pool cooling systems that any of the reactors in uniform is the worst because that will has the freshest fuel it's the the most physically hot and on in addition unit floors got a crack in the side of it so they can even if they have water to cool it it's going to run out the crack that's the toughest the toughest problem on site right now. right going to follow all the latest developments on japan's nuclear crisis on our web site at r.t. dot com including a man who braved through the famous evacuations that the japanese tourist trains

will run in the hope condolences of the script and passivity document the dangerous levels of radiation that you can point out and also online. social networking websites say the russian man of the eight years of slavery want complete darkness to provide more jobs. let's have a brief look now at some other international news making headlines this hour an order has been given to detain the gyptian leader hosni mubarak as well as his two sons fifteen days it comes ahead of an investigation into corruption start again sions america's currently tense of care after court and he suffered a heart attack form a leader has been under house arrest since he was overthrown in the uprising in february. london and paris both criticized late head of a meeting of e.u.

foreign ministers of luxembourg with libyan rebels i say the security organization needs to do more to destroy its arsenal. urged a televised tense acquired operations because it appears to be heading for a stalemate is when the government one of the alliances generals hit back whether saying they were doing a great job. in ivory coast french and u.n. troops have seized i mean mission from forces loyal to former president's own. waters collins and rockets were found in a cache and sitting at home and comes out he surrendered to french forces who supported the internationally recognized last november's elections there was a criminal investigation into his actions and those of his own suraj resulting conflict between the two opponents has claimed. a thousand lives. tested human derrius further ever been gone before sun even paid the ultimate price

was all about achieving the ultimate goal. to the stars something to achieved regarding office and think of this one to his therapist as a star. he went through hell on earth to put the first man in space john an unusual name for a russian was a volunteer could trust of equipment only to reach orbit any dip in to the limits of human injurious. normal in the world has ever experienced what i did nineteen g. on the centrifuge that means my weight increased nineteen fold blood was losing through my paws plate i was forbidden to even mention it back then everything was a secret in nine hundred fifty nine when the original became a test volunteer no one knew just how humans would be edited by zero gravity extreme stress or even the sense of endlessness space was the great unknown and many questions needed answering. any emergency that could happen to

a cosmonaut during a flight and in reality they really experience all this i had to endure one string attached to find a safe angle for an emergency landing seat i was thrown from a fourteen me to height just like that freefall another time i spent thirteen hours in ice cold water to test a spacesuit on the state commission came to check on me in the morning someone said surprised look he's alive. experiments using humans what top secret in the soviet union and it wasn't thing at all in tears were often are. we were brought up that way we weren't afraid of extreme situations there's simply no fear as the space program developed this thinking more sophisticated the imitation of weightlessness or international was invented and soon preceded many trials. one of the most unpleasant quests is being stuck in this gap so after the martian. been

battered by the waves over the open sea. and i kill cos my old friends a maximum of three hours in this position as part of their training while the test engineer has had the last four days in forty degree heat or cold. big bear in the last the longest of all three days while his seasick companions the one after another but. not everyone survived those tests and we never thought of ourselves as heroes we bled and hurt but told no one we needed to prove humans could do it and after all those years and over three hundred experiments i came to the conclusion my input was maybe even more important for space science than if i went into space once or twice. nowadays the cosmonaut survival course is based on

their work except the potential cost models are not pushed to the limit and they do have a chance after they displease one day. many of the tests engineers wanted to become astronauts but that's exactly their tragedy and they simply sacrificed themselves or their names may be lost in history but in many ways it was them they are no heroes who made the dream of space a reality. r.t. story city just north of moscow. nasa news just in this our correspondent in belarus says there's been another explosion in the capital minsk as yet it's on clare there been any casualties reports suggest an explosion occurred on a passenger bus comes just two days after a terror attack on the city's metro station but killed twelve people and injured around two hundred of course we'll keep you updated as we get more information on that happen r.t. . timed out there for the business with. larry

hello welcome to business cell c. thanks for joining us commodity prices of the have done much to support russia's not the first all metals and such a sure to have all been setting records and there's been speculation the rally will continue and result in a commodities super spike ali. so explains why on the energy sector we actually have the rising of the year the rising prices over the last few months to two to synchronise growth but also more importantly we've got the rest of the middle east and north africa mark is kind of driven on by fear right now a fear of a conservative but it could spread to other other countries in the in the middle east we could easily run into a situation that we saw back in two thousand they were prosperous by quatermass ago and if we turn to recall first we had a really bad weather last year which left the global stocks of cultural products very completely levels again if we should have

a repeat of the place where the food we had last year came could cause price shocks and some of these some of these markers or something like corn and soybeans were surprise are already very low levels. russian helicopters is planning to stand for him in the remote as you know that supposed initial public offering in london next week the state run aircraft maker resigning up to five hundred million dollars in the i.p.o. as the government steps up its bid to raise funds for the defense industry russian helicopters which produce of revenues of two point two billion dollars and twenty ten is a holding company for eleven regional manufacturers and was formed by the stage where to tell the company's had to be true trump says his company hasn't she smiles for the future. currently we are going faster than our competitors and we are not afraid of such competition already last year we successfully entered into the latin american women african market one of our main goals is to cement all position among the top three leading helicopter producers in the world. let's look at how the

markets are performing asian markets closing the block and made easing concerns about the post posed great production recovery as a tokyo electric jump twelve percent after reports saying that japan make up love billets into as little as twenty four billion dollars for damages coming from its proposed nuclear plant in europe the markets are gaining this hour as traders buying into mining stocks which were sold off in a stop to client i'll choose day shares a french telecom equipment giant alcatel in the center grows by nearly three percent after a broker rate. and him last may the markets are standing yesterday's it also says the correction continues he also has a zero point three percent down this hour with a litter and let's talk some of the main concerns. now here are the markets movers on the my sex this out as burbank is down zero point four percent despite announcing it nearly doubled net profit in the first quarter or majors are also trading in the red for the in the recent decline in korea prices that's in addition

to news they will reportedly tykes exemptions for certain fields here and bucking the trend is called why that restaurant scare which is gaining on better than expected this i. saw a response go more than doubled its net profit last year reaching two hundred forty four million dollars the bottom line was given a boost by coal prices which rose through which they can. just breaking news coming in it's sixteen a billion dollar shortfall between b.p. and vol staff appears close to hitting the rocks of washington state who are also best the stars days deadline for the deal has not been extended says it's still waiting for b.p. at its local russian paulina's to resolve their differences and you're up to date join us for more business news next hour and you can always log on to our website or to dot com slash business.

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