ross like he was trying to help us he said come here he had a rifle he was using to shoot at us it was total chaos i saw people being shot. down he shot indiscriminately shouting i'll kill everyone everyone must die and children were running jumping into the sea to were to escape hiding behind rocks hiding behind trees explosives have been found on the island just before the attack at the youth rally there was a blast here in the center of those low which blew out windows in the city center. right now i'm thinking about the cuts in my head and of course it's horrible nice things happened you don't really know what's going on but you can assume there's been a bomb because of the serious effects. it's being linked with the same man who's thought to be a right wing extremist with anti muslim views in on the seventeenth of july he still to have posted a twitter feed where he has said that one person with a belief is equal to the force of a hundred thousand who have only interests so he thought of posted radical tweets

leading up to this attack he's now been charged with both the bombing in the city center here in oslo and the youth come just outside he was a fundamentalist he's a fundamentalist christian and he says multiculturalism has always failed that's in his blog which has been found calls himself a nationalist he's also registered a gun club and around two years ago opened a farm called geo farm which gave him access to industrial fertilizer which is often used by terrorists for warmings like this one so it seems that it's an idea that he's been planning for a long time initially a group include helpers of the global jihad came out and said that they took responsibility for the mean but then they retracted that of course norway is is participating in the libyan and afghanistan war efforts as part of nato and the just last winter there were dozens of islamic militants arrested throughout western you. in connection with with planned bombings police have told people to stay out

of the city center to avoid using mobile phones the exits to the borders of norway were shot to meet italy after the blast and roads leading into and trains leading into the capital rules so hold to now we've we've heard that soldiers are on the streets with machine guns police also and it's being called the worst attack since world war two perhaps the worst shooting spree in history. well earlier we spoke to a laugh anderson a spokesman for the union of russian communities in the sudan and someone who knew adders prey vick personally well he says the news came as a shock to him although he believes break was surrounded by things that could potentially influence his actions. i could not imagine i even imagine that he must have been brainwashed or something he has had an ego and especially. in relation to girls for example the fairer sex

would for other more be like for example. you have. the. kind of older you are but they will still on a side show you knowing. on the other hand that you lose the circle also a very slight i don't know what you can be compared to but if there is any possible denomination let's say not a mainstream church and teach you them are at least trying to get in on the other hand there is just a lay of formulation who are very good at it and then you have spoilers so central oslo is basically like you just you know your values and. the wrong way you will never fit. or drowning me live from london to discuss always outrageous political journalists not be allowed on donny thanks very much for being

on the program now the the world cried jihad responsible no real killings this surprised her roots in the far right extremists turned out to be behind the atrocities. well i think what these tragic attacks have revealed is that governments tend to explore links with international terrorism first and especially as it relates to islamic terrorism. before even considering domestic cleans and in my opinion this is an unfortunate and direct consequence of the bush administration war on terror which has a very much contributed to frame the public debate on terror attacks in general along those lines so that's very unfortunate all right well initially a group called helpers of the global jihad first claimed responsibility for the bombing of course the retracted that but still does that mean that norway and perhaps even europe as a whole is now under

a double threat both from jihadists are extremists and right wing nationalists. you know i think you know especially when you don't have much information about. what's happened exactly it's very legitimate to speculate on who might be behind such terror attacks but as we've seen today the western media but also western newspapers have been dominated by headlines linking. very strongly. the attacks to islamic terrorism and that without you know strong information that's so i think that's unfortunate but i think the way just like europe has seen a shop rise in. right wing extremism lately and this has been heightened by economic recession but also in employment an increase in racism and an even stronger energies a mic feeling ok but aside from just as you mentioned there's

a quick blame on jihad is certain but then there are those so also blame the failure of multiculturalism for this polarization in society do you think it has failed and why. well i think we've heard. going to merkel's germany's chancellor lately who condemned the failure of the multiculturalism and this has been echoed by various governments across europe are putting the emphasis on europe's judio christian roots and i think the problems come when you have cynical governments or politicians trying to attract nationalist votes by highlighting what might be different about islam and i think that's where the danger not lies and for example in norway the far right sentiment is. wider than norwegians are ready to admit and there's a polite and respectful attitude towards that kind of views in mainstream media

but the reality is that fifty percent of norwegians are against multiculturalism and have very strong anti immigration is an immigration stance is for example and this is heightened by the fact that. norwegians are very disgruntled by the fact that the revenues from oil are not redistributed properly within norwegian society so it's a combination of economic gloom and indeed far right politics that creates that kind of situation unfortunately ok just last lastly how do you think the face of europe will be changed in the wake of these attacks and what will be the most significant change we've seen tighter border controls would it be in terms of policy and the immigration service as you had mentioned so what would be the most significant change. i think there will rightly be an end for seize on more security and security will be tightened in every shape or form but i think the more

the most effective also is a two is more democracy and i think the prime minister's approach in norway is very appropriate he said that you know you can defeat barbarism with barbarism itself and. the key would be to foster involvement with tolerance and respect would prevail and elections are coming up you know when september and it is hoped that very strong democratic forces will emerge in the wake of such horrible attacks ok well thank you very much for your insight your analysis political journalist and i thank you very much and again just to remind you the latest so our top story this hour at least eighty seven people are now confirmed dead after a shooting spree at a region a youth camp and police say they are continuing to search for several people still missing and that attack at the youth camp came shortly after

a powerful blast in downtown oslo which claimed at least seven lives just in dargon iran a research fellow with the dubai initiative says recent years have created the perfect environment for far right extremism to flourish. while this transnational zama terrorism has been on the radar for some time the very real threat of the homegrown right wing extremist has been overlooked within most western countries we have seen two things happening at the same time we've seen this type of ratcheting up of rhetoric anti immigration rhetoric this is happening to us and also western europe and there's also been this demise we can say multiculturalism so there have been individuals that have more or less become quite quite self radicalized due to vironment and also due to the idea that there's just been an influx of immigration then compound these factors is also the global economic crisis so you have the euro

zone crisis and you also have how the global economic crisis impacted united states so there has been a general type of environment which has encouraged individuals to take out their frustrations newly arrived immigrants so i think that this is something that is actually very very very very important for western policymakers to look at so i think that in the coming years we're going to see more of this right wing extremism . in light of the attacks in norway has reimposed the border controls denmark did the same over two weeks ago and this has been a move strongly criticized by all the e.u. members that are set aside from the moscow state humanitarian university says there are signs that a unified europe is falling apart. the european project is collapsing slowly collapsing you know their loss of life since coming. from the north africa and

some countries have a cancer raise fold is they have to support that very search and has control over immigration control and that's the only tells is that the european political lacks the you know kind of vitality the they want agenda and it should be shared by the people living in the people how it should be ready to actually while those people they have to say no to this coming to the country. the governments all those countries how to put it to buy the referendum or actually talk to the people rather than just saying we are going to bend this a plan that every stakeholder has to have a say in it not just the citizens of the country not just the migrants because you see there is a contradiction brave you could famous for all these anti's alarmists calls supposedly to the information shared by the media no wait and at the same time there is an islamized again ization that. they have taken responsibility for the

whole of the blast in the way that it's all you see those on tradition of famous well yes and he has a line as the calls and at the same time islamist organization fighters falls ability to meet their varies something deeply wrong with the communication well the norwegian attacks have sent a shock waves around the world and sparked passionate debate on what's really behind it and on our web site r.t. dot com we're asking what's the cornerstone of the region tragedy so far the majority of you think a share fanaticism is to blame fewer people thirty two percent say the tension stemmed from multiculturalism twelve percent say the reason is global terrorism which penetrates everywhere and the minority says it's down to the failure of security forces well what's your view on that just log on to r.t. dot com and have your say. a security analyst chrissy it's from manchester in the u.k. thinks europe should be looking into words rather than searching for the terror threats

overseas you know one of the key issues here i think. we're looking. right across europe european nations work to a threat from overseas is not necessarily looking to ourselves from the royals of right wing groups rather cross europe not just in the way that elsewhere across european nations. the question is why this is not done not been done before that our region prime minister said more democracy and openness is the answer to the violence but heller lure us from the region institute of international affairs believes is the country's policies of multiculturalism whether turned the gun back against his own. behind an increasingly. intense and heated debate about immigration. about both immigration is doing to no region culture or no to

culturalism is really not a debate to go forward to marginalize the region and feel their voices are not being heard in the political establishment. the reaching people have never been consulted democratically about whether a bump immigration on the north and the political establishment is a sort of of the elite that lives in areas which are all white and that it's low over the region and some who feel that immigrants are sort of getting into the territories removing them forwarded from the drugs lowering their salaries etc and there are no veiled playing the democratic groups i guess. so far seems to be the motivation of this person as well. although reminder of our top story for you the latest we have is that at least eighty seven people are now confirmed dead after a shocking shooting spree at a norwegian a youth camp and that attack came shortly after

a powerful blast in downtown all slow it's claimed at least seven lives a thirty two year old region man is being held in connection with both of us and it's reported he belongs to a far right movement now a second that was detained by special forces around an area where the victims' relatives had gathered but it's still not clear if he is a suspected second or at our own a correspondent daniel bushell is there at the heart of blaster going all slow bringing us the very latest as it happens and his firsthand experience is also on our twitter fees or just go on to twitter and in one of his latest tweets he says he witnessed demonstrations of extraordinary bravery wounded victims of the all slow blast return to ground zero to look for people still trapped inside despite the risk of another bob. and of course we'll be keeping you up to speed with all the latest developments in norway throughout the day and night and of course we'll have more expert comment analysis of the situation right here

on r.t.c. do stay with us for that. now to other stories iranian a media is reporting one of the country's nuclear scientists has been a shot dead in the capital tehran thirty five year old darg you should resign he was targeted outside his home by gunmen on motorbikes well he's the third nuclear physicist to be killed in iran in the last two years iranian authorities have previously blamed ease rail secret service mossad for similar killings and that could be again that the case according to qian mokhtari a political commentator in tehran. iran has just carried out an operation against the. backed. militia group in kurdistan pay jack which is really really very badly and iran has just taken over three of their bases so it was to be expected but whether it's going to in any way impede the run in nuclear program i don't believe that that is the case because knowledge is something you

can't kill at this is something that the enemies of iran will have to buy a trial a has not come up with a single speck of evidence that iran has deviated from its peaceful nuclear activities it is a nuclear energy program given the shia appetites of the east and the west for energy resources of iran wants iran's energy resources have finished we have to look to the future are we going to be dependent for our fuel rods on the west will be east of the going to chance it or not and we've decided not to do so. well european leaders breathe a sigh of relief as greece has provided with a bailout of one hundred nine billion to euros well that's the spike the threat of athens credit rating plunging into the dreaded default category and critics say of this second cash handout isn't nearly enough to get the euro back on its feet. president sarkozy has been saying in brussels you know greece is

a special case it's received this special support from the europeans and other countries won't receive that but of course. do we believe that i'm not sure that we do because it's inconceivable that the europeans wouldn't step in very and it's also i think inconceivable that even the resources now available to the financial stability fund the sort of nascent european monetary fund there i think they wouldn't really be sufficient in the end if it was a sort of battle between the bond markets and the italian government so sort of without wanting to paint nightmare scenarios i don't think you know we're out of the woods yet. well another debt crisis brews across the atlantic as washington struggles to decide on how to avoid defaulting on its debt and in a few minutes archie's very own new york resident laurie harford us asks people in

the big apple whether they are ready to pay more tax to save their economy. a little bit how much is a little better. a few percentage points more and that's about it and that's about it i believe everybody even if it's a dollar fifty everybody should be in the shared sacrifice if you have too much fix this you have a bit. like in the states it is better government to spend all the money increase your wars in iraq you know. so i would say first up if the war and there you don't need to tax increase. recovery efforts continue on russia's volga river following the country's worst ever voting disaster the sunken a pleasure cruiser the bulgaria has been towed to shallow waters now the next stage is to pump water from the sun going to haul to make the wreck light enough to lift experts are eager to examine the ship but to determine exactly why the bulgaria

cycle two weeks ago one hundred fourteen people are confirmed dead after the tragedy with eight still listed as missing the boat's owner is under investigation and two people have already been charged with a violating safety regulations. and now a brief look at some other international headlines this hour british pop singer amy winehouse has been found dead at her london home a paparazzi favorite at the trouble twenty seven year old diva won over twenty three awards for her music career has long been dogged by problems with drug and alcohol abuse the subject of her hit song rehab the police have yet to release further details at the cost of death remains unexplained. at least sixteen people have been killed and dozens injured when two high speed bullet trains collided in eastern china the impact sent two carriages off a bridge and reports suggest that one of the trains had come to

a halt after being hit by lightning it was then struck from behind by the other rescue workers are searching it through the wreckage for further victims. foreign ministers from north and south korea have held their first talks in three years the unofficial meeting took place at a regional forum in indonesia the two sides agreed to renew stalled six party talks over pyongyang's nuclear program however the us state secretary said in washington that will not back the negotiations unless north korea first starts dismantling its atomic facilities. and nato has carried out fresh air strikes on the libyan capital hitting colonel gadhafi his headquarters on friday a crowd rallied in tripoli in support of the colonel whose whereabouts remain unknown libya has been ravaged by civil war since february with the nato led coalition launching airstrikes in march the artes military contributor says there's

a growing credibility gap with the alliance over the intervention. there is been a lot of talk about. the u.s. policy or a delicate failure to regarding pakistan and afghanistan no less has been said about the nato operation or actually aerial intervention and bombing in libya take a closer look at how the nato air we'll bombing in libya is related to american tribe vies in afghanistan and pakistan on the technical bases yes they nato intervention and indiscriminate bombing in libya could be both for the united states and nato operation but technicalities aside it is not just attune a half wars for the united states in reality if not on the ground at least in the air over a levy if they're bombing is one hundred percent nato operation they're terming

nature operation against libya demonstrated not on the trust between the united states and pakistan and have good leadership it is also indicative of a huge credibility gap between june and united states of america and its european nato partners well you can always follow you of getting through shelves video blog and of course many others on our website r.t. dot com and among the stories you'll find there today georgia photographers convicted of spying for russia are released without colleagues convince their confessions were poorest find out why the local opposition believes the case had nothing to do with justice the very start. of foreign skeptics said it was ridiculous but a russian military innovation has bounced back and might just become a significant asset experts sing the praises and benefits of the so-called robber

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hours. and economic troubles just keep on plaguing europe and the u.s. greece's credit rating is. other threats are following the new agreement on a fresh bailout for athens and while america was closer to defaulting on its massive debts after lawmakers failed to agree on raising the debt ceiling. spotlight is up next in the side of talks to alexis crow from the royal institute of international affairs to find out whether the revolutions in north africa will lead to greater security threats in the future that's coming your way next. discovery. communicate with the wind. and become free.

on the. probable again of the welcome to spotlight the interview show on our t.v. i'm now going all of them today my guest in the studio is alex is. whether last year russia and the united states were discussing the big new start treaty they argued whether or not it would protect your approach potential through a near miss but very soon a different threat the marriage revolutions in warfare spread throughout north africa and the middle east toppling regimes and bringing instability. so what are the biggest threats.