royal marital ruin renaissance could go on mary wells holiday encircled the holiday inn holiday inn ski hotels. in the region country club savoy sure to find this piece of the first book convinced the swiss are closing the whole. golden oldie teco to. russia's leading man don't rule out taking part in the next presidential election. kill a kid. president that they did and the prime minister have commented on the place the club great for the president a. letter was to clare's of the suspects linked to monday's terrorist attack on the capital's metro system have confessed it comes as the country is the twelve people killed in the tragedy. and the global power structure could be shifting the political experts warning europe and the u.s.

to watch their backs as the world's fastest growing economies gain ground. until 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. it's eleven pm wednesday night here in moscow you're watching the artsy international news channel my name is kevin oh and thanks for being with us the top story with the russian presidential election less than a year away public interest in who will be running for the top seats higher than ever the country's two most powerful politicians have spoken there for about the issue explaining their positions sarah furthest got the details. they present it better than five minutes to have touched on the twenty prime minister. when he attended

a medical workers for. nothing seafoam there was nothing really given away but he did say that nothing's being ruled out. i repeated the president didn't know i don't rule out the possibility that each one of us will run for the presidency our decision will be made taking into account the economic social and political issues in the run up to the election this decision will certainly have to be made but we have almost a whole year before the election and this election related force doesn't help us carry out our work a little bit ambiguous on the wording not clear whether he just insult and present . that really running potentially maybe. we have. missed a piece of press secretary. to be speculating really on the possibility of running the consensus is. the power in two thousand and eight speaking about the fact that they've reached that decision themselves and come to

a consensus about it or not. you know it's russia's party's position as well the days to come to the decision. the president. gets me relates to a chinese journalist is currently visiting china at the moment and he was asked about the elections and he said yes of course there is a list speculation everybody wants to know the question that he thought a lot and the same thing nothing clear at the moment but that's all everything still to play for the moment. i don't rule out the possibility of my running for a second term presidential elections if the decision will be taken very shortly since the elections. this decision however should be fun. and second should take into account the existing social situ. i should count the environment and most importantly the attitude of people before making any such decisions one has to weigh their chances of actually mechanic and. with

a clear understanding of the situation. in that same interview. himself in private as to peter's personal relationship is that they need each other if it's the decades they have one relations he did specify that they both have different positions of very different roles so that they can start the prime minister putin today when he commented that that was really if they could see him over the elections are less than a year away that's still a good amount of time in the focus really needs to be in the minister to start kids as a people to be focusing on never always not getting too caught up in this election of course speculation around this sort of thing always going to be right but the commentary that i think basically as we said nothing at this time being ruled out. by the way in a programmer's washington decides to slash thirty eight billion dollars in spending we discussed so far the u.s. can justify its large military budget we can all become certain.

the first fatal terror attack has been solved less than forty eight hours after it was happening according to president three suspected in connection with the london metro bombing of confessed to the explosion but he's a country which over reports. the april eleventh terrorist attack has been solved the president of belarus asked that they got people behind the deadly blasts at nine pm on tuesday in a sting operation police arrested suspects belorussian origin of the responsibility for this atrocity after long hours of interrogation that was investigated say they also confessed they were leading to two other similar terrorist attacks in the country's recent history in two thousand five hundred two thousand and eight and investigators say the breakthrough was in the c.c.t.v. footage which they got shortly after the bloss the video shows one of the suspects answering the metro station of leaving

a bag there which of that exploded i mean all else word means the full speed and rolls have been taken place as the country tries to come to terms with the human ports of this atrocity. i started just green asking for help i was bleeding heavily a man and woman karen to be outside in the fresh air they tied up my mat and didn't leave me until the ambulance arrived that's mine and hooman majd be unaware they saved not only irina but the life of your unborn child as well. on the day i was going to the city center to buy vitamins it's terrible but i believe i got off lightly when people without eyes with missing legs and hands and i'm six months pregnant all my thoughts were about the baby. why 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. of

euthanasia 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 i stepped over something and then i saw this was a girl's body. yulian a 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 music subway intersect and this explains why there was so many commuters cheering this evening rush hour on monday i witnessed a save those hollywood at work carried out on to the street from these answers many of those waters still remain in critical condition in hospitals across the city the news of the tackle up to phone systems being flooded with people desperate to contact their loved ones for some delays and getting through for the longest

moments of the lives one is for you on the bus with the monks who she called me to say there was a terrorist attack and then the line broke up when we came to the scene and saw her . shanked jacket was all torn apart as if she'd been hit by shotgun pellets almost face hands and clothes were covered in blood but she was trying to ease our shock around you don't cry this is 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 are in different languages but for some even words are just too painful as there was that has anything changed for you since monday. lost lives. it hurts

her terribly people need to understand and value every moment of their lives and remember those who died. i'm sorry but i can't. the explosion in minsk underground is the most tragic terrorist act which bell was has seen since the end of the second world war completely amping kabul until the evening of april eleventh terrorism is now a grim was a day reality for these country as these day of mourning rathore just pours out logic in the country from around the world exiting the crash of the r t means below us. coming up in the program fifty years after you're a good guy and first flight we investigated i would all became possible the first. electoral cross when all expense a maximum of three hours in this position as part of their training while the test engineers have to last for days and forty degree heat or cold join our team as we dive head first into some of the heart stopping tests salvi volunteers have

a go through the time to make sure that spaceflight could be achieved. the world's largest emerging economies are in china to take part in a series of economic and. political talks russia brazil india china and south africa all known as brics nations are striving for a bigger say in the global financial architecture but they're also said to go beyond economics and respond to pressing international issues to tessa riseley reports. what these five countries really want to do is to work come together to push for a new international financial model that will benefit developing countries not just a few quick numbers 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 pass include two of the most populated countries in 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 every potential that they hold is clearly not to be ignored by the by the world in this case the actual summit will start to morrow but there have been meetings between the russian 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 to as this is an economic forum they'd be they cannot ignore the what's happening in the world so they can't just stick to economic problems another issue of course is the issue of libya now we know that the four countries out of five brazil russia india china did have stayed for voting on resolution one hundred seventy three which allowed the 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. now we did hear from the chinese side that maybe it may be raised they're going to show a strong front against this move by the west all the countries here do agree that cooperation is needed not just in terms of the economic solutions they are to find but also the political arena especially before they go to the g. twenty that will happen in november in france that definitely is a show. if the global politics the dynamics of the world moving away from the western countries to those countries in the regions that make up the brics while the old world order may be pumping money down the drain on warring 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 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 all. 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 four countries brazil russia 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 the brics countries comprise more than half of the world's population and poland almost a quarter of the world's g.d.p. it becomes obvious that a certain geopolitical shift in power is in progress or that there are several reasons these are the emerging powers of the twenty first century europe as we all

know he's absolutely dead economically politically has no stake you know even organized foreign policy it's a fearful continent these are 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 at least moderately. the rest of europe and the united states seems to be mired in crisis european leaders themselves 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 at 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 way some countries are already. the strength of the greek economy is. expanding what was the g eight. twenty and it is within the g twenty really the brics countries have been playing. strategy which has been very effective i certainly think that there will be changes in the economic architects i think that's inevitable as these countries grow while the western powerhouses continue pounding away on regimes they find undesirable a new economic and political architecture is emerging and these five countries are keen to prove they're not just another bricks and the wall here goes court sonia china. u.s. president barack obama's outlined a package of tax increases and spending cuts to reduce the country's crippling debt

it comes as washington's defense department's funding shots above last year's level bring its annual budget to rome seven hundred billion dollars well as they did speech obama said the pentagon budget should also be reduced alongside slashes in domestic spending less skits and thoughtfulness and across the florida show ross is ready to speak to us he runs the antiwar news service let's get your views are on a bomb as proposed deficit reduction plan and u.s. military spending plan so if the u.s. is scaling down just tell me how this works if it is scaling down operations in both afghanistan and iraq why is there such a large military budget necessary also the reasoning there. road built in so that military budget is planned obsolescence the people who are terry industrial complex or forests they are going to maintain as much the balance related spending is going on a nice corporations are making enormous profits while much of the rest of you are an

economy is starving and we have twenty two percent of our workforce of our of we're you know what we have an average of what does your average american think of . you know you've got that debt of the head some four trillion dollars that needs to be richest what i think it is so they behind obama. well i don't believe so i think that american opinion on or on the war is in our down the center in iraq have been changing rapidly against obama position the american people want peace they don't want these wars going on you're out. there to. bring peace and the. reason they had libya without even telling the congress is going to just run ahead and do it without congressional record. showed

bucket oh i'm in america where you are the republicans of course have also come up with a plan to a try and save a lot of money or what how do their plans from what i've got on the table and indeed what he decides. well they're worse than obama's whammy caused. by medicare and they would if they could they were privatized social security they would take it out of the government hands and put it into the hands of wall street and all who were writing in the new york trying to. promise said on monday that it couldn't. poor million americans a lot of medicare and medicaid who. are recession there is a growing. a lot of suggestion of pence a good cut thought he didn't is that likely to go through do you think. well let me

go through because there are so many comics that you can believe in the pentagon budget it's a trillion dollars a year the pentagon's war her war when all. the united states world. and world were people and you could put twenty thirty forty billion dollars out of the pentagon budget for my or my. almost a trillion dollars out of the pentagon budget the pros don't need a war should be going to pass all right but it is unfortunate fortunately our reality is well if those deep cuts go through as you're suggesting as well that how would they affect washington's foreign policy. pentagon and the central intelligence agency which including the two of them are who are going in there are foreign policy change and all they are out of control re your oil resources in the

world. and foreign policy including the chair is all about and it's going home and then. put them over these ongoing wars need to be paid for how damaging all the in the domestic cuts. are going to pay for the average american while the money is drugged up to carry on these conflicts. while nobody saying it's all becoming the end when you've already got fourteen percent of the public going. it's only going to go worse when you go fourteen crew so. you know fourteen percent and i'm going to just you know. this is not a. question of the. chair with ross like you being on the program. appreciated thank you being on the say international news channel. sort

soon from professor joseph stiglitz sees a claimed economist at columbia university he told us the u.s. financial problems lie with the fact that money and power is in the hands of the few. weeks happen in the last couple decades is. twenty two most a quarter of all the income goes to the upper one percent around forty percent to twenty are you measure of the wealth goes to the upper one percent if you have a very split society. they're going to be very different views about what's important if the rich can buy their own parts they don't need to have public parks if the rich can buy their own education we don't have to public education if the rich can buy their own health care we don't have to have good health care for most americans and that's where we're winding up today so the people at the top that one

percent are using their political power to try to preserve their wealth and meanwhile making sure that the government doesn't do what is necessary for the prosperity the functioning of our entire society. i did watch the full interview with economist joseph stiglitz here on r.t. throat thursday now as the world marks russia's achievement of sending the first value of space fifty years ago we look back at how it all became possible soviet volunteers rest their lives to gauge what humans might experience from space back then artist area pushed over one such person who lived to tell the tale. he went through hell on earth to put the first man in space john an unusual name for a russian was a volunteer who trusted the equipment needed to reach all beat any two came to the limits of human insurance but no one in the world has ever experienced what i did

nineteen g. on the centrifuge that means my weight increased nineteen fold blood was using through my paws later i was forbidden to even mention it back then everything was a secret in one nine hundred fifty nine when the little became a test volunteer no one knew just how humans would be affected 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 enjoy once during it has 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 when 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 the volunteers were out there. we were brought up that way we weren't afraid of extreme situations or simply no fear as the space program developed this became more sophisticated the imitation of weightlessness or immersion was invented and soon preceded in many trials one of the most unpleasant tests is being stuck in this cab so after the national. been battered by the waves although you can see. an actual cross roads burn a maximum of three hours in this position as part of their training while the test engineer has had the last three or four days in forty degree heat or cold. there in last the longest of all three days while his seasick companions gave up

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 point was made even more important for space science than if i went into space once or twice. nowadays the cost of survival course is based on their work except potential cost when odds are not pushed to the limit and they do have a chance after going to space one day. many of the tests engineers wanted to become astronauts but that's exactly the tragedy and they simply sacrificed themselves or their names may be lost in history but in many ways it was them the unknown here is made the dream of space a reality erebus go r.t. stories if they just north of moscow let's catch up on the latest business that

like arenas here. carol welcome to our business updates the third member bloc of the world's largest emerging economies is gathering this week in china the meeting of the so-called brics that is brazil russia india china and south africa is seen as an attempt to develop and unified approach to global economic challenges but i think they're different but they do have some things in common they're all growing fast they're all big and they're all to a certain extent else soit the institutions of economic governance that we have in the world the g seven in particular i think that what they can do is they can coordinate positions they can understand where they're coming from and they can put unified positions to the g seven and to the u.s. which will make them more effective in achieving their objectives. sixteen billion dollars shortfall between b.p.

and close to collapse the russian state run oil for him has confirmed that thursday's deadline for the deal has not been extended it's to make an announcement concerning a spate tomorrow b.p. has been trying to rescue the share swap and augsburg exploration venture would have strongly opposed by its russian partners in tank a.t.p. the wall street journal reports b.p. is now considering selling out of its highly lucrative tanky venture. the us take a look at how the markets are doing wednesday stocks in the u.s. declined on news president obama plans to cut spending and raise taxes to reduce the deficit boring and alcoa dropped at least one point four percent leaving the losses in one thousand of the thirty companies in the dow jones and j.p. morgan chase slipped one percent reversing an earlier rally triggered by higher than talk last earnings the bank has said it will not use dividends in the next two quarters. beauty and stocks games rebounding from the biggest drop in four weeks before the finish point seven percent higher while the dax ended up over eight

percent a.p. rose point six percent on wednesday in london valuing a proposed share for the swap with rosneft at seven point one billion dollars. here in moscow the us yes and its lot in the mines explain his tough reset higher let's look at some of the share movers of the isaacs declined eight percent valuing it's taking about nine billion dollars your company will also reportedly lose tax exemptions for certain peals here in russia where bank ended higher on music nearly doubled net profit in the first quarter and coal miner parts games are better than expected first quarter results. and that's all from me in the business team here in our team but stay with us for headline news with kevin next.

question is that so much ally people at muriel their little. difference of prince brazil russia china india and south africa their plan is simple be an alternative to the western centric world is hungry for the fall slump we've got it for. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers on the party.