breaking news this hour here on r.g.p. three explosions rocked the city of new appropriate off skin eastern ukraine a number of injuries have been reported. in other news the u.s. congress passes a controversial cyber security act that could give the government access to internet users personal information a motion heavily criticized by civil liberty advocates as an infringement on privacy. france threatens to pull out of the shutdown travel zone unless tough on border powers are granted within the e.u. an initiative critics say undermines the block's principle of european unity. and the roster of more than eighty university students rallying against tuition hikes in canada triggers warnings that harsh police tactics will only fuel discontent and national protests.

pm here in moscow one pm in kiev ukraine we have breaking news this hour here on r t four a powerful blast have hit the count in the city of new appropriate there also in eastern ukraine this friday morning let's get the details now from our ukrainian correspondent. joins us live on the line alexei tell us what do you know about what is happening in this eastern ukrainian city where we are we just needed conflicting reports or what's happening in the ukraine third largest city of difficulty we were just receiving confirmed reports that of course the explosion has rocked the city and previously we thought of three explosions the first one happened at the tri weigh station in the very heart of the city we understand that according to the authorities five people have been injured by. the explosion it is

not yet been confirmed as a terrorist attack but sources within the authorities are saying that this is definitely an explosive device which was planted into a trash can and nearby the transportation mixture we are in about forty minutes from the first explosion and second one a second last happened at one of the one of the cinemas an intense part of the city and then just thirty explosion all twenty within just twenty minutes on the on the second one that we are central train station in give it also right now the reports are conflicting as i said we've heard about the fourth block but it hasn't yet been confirmed as to where it happened or what are there any casualties or injured in this block we're certainly keeping an eye ear to the ground here and getting all the latest information will bring all the latest details as we get it you're like say a span of course a lot of time in ukraine this is something that is quite uncommon there find a stand correctly. definitely this is very much in common for ukraine it's not used

to terrorist attacks i mean i don't remember one last time it was something like that to happen here especially given that it's a string of explosion in one of the largest cities in this country but there was an accident like that last year in the very same city and he put it across square in. the same basically the same scheme or two that an explosion device exploded inside a trash can in central city and one person back then but definitely so many explosion in such a short time frame this is so much and difficult for ukraine and we just have to wait and see how the situation unfolds and who claim responsibility for these terror attacks should it because you're because part of the terror threat that's right and just within the past half hour the number of those explosions initially was a student three then four so we have course are tracking this breaking news as well as our course one on the ground. in the ukrainian capital stay with our team for more details. in other news from private e-mails to financial records

u.s. internet companies could soon legally share private user information with the american government the highly controversial cyber security action and this is now a step closer to becoming law following its approval in the house of representatives because a storm of reaction among internet users accusing it of infringing on privacy and civil liberties are. reports from washington. cisco would make it legal for service providers like google microsoft facebook to funnel private communications and other user related information to u.s. authorities it would provide the government with unhindered access to private correspondence of every american and mind you it's not just the americans using their services we're talking about your net users from all over the world so that would be done in the name of cyber security they called it cyber intelligence sharing and protection act critics argue who does protect is those providers the

likes of microsoft google and others and they are strongly lobbying for the law because analysts say it's not like the companies are not sharing information with u.s. authorities already and your correspondence cannot be monitored it can't but under existing laws the companies can still be liable for sharing private information of their customers so experts say the companies want legal protection for what they're already doing that's what the proposed law is about sopa was a different story for them service providers heavily lobbied against it because it would hit their businesses it would easily allow to shut down you tube for example they holds tons of copyrighted material anyway sopa was killed in congress largely because of the huge awareness campaign launched by even as service providers but from consumer's point of view whether it's sold or cispa it's seen as a blatant encroachments on privacy and freedoms socal would have given unprecedented tools to shut down websites cisco would allow to effectively legalize the big brother on the web again it's not as if private correspondence is not being

monitored already but with sis but americans will be stripped of their last legal means to protect their privacy on the web. for more on this story i'm now joined by five year reinhart from the pirate group of the berglund parliament with us on the line live via broadband thanks for being with us what do you is there's outrage saying it could allow the government to spy on them can you outline what exactly this law would mean from line users is it really as bad as critics are saying. he just said sr is different from soap or a. very very dangerous act for the citizens of the united states it's a bow that allows the government to spy on them and to give the gifts big industry their leader the legal rights to give away the data consumers and of the citizens that this is by the supposed by several citizen rights groups like the u.c.l.a.

and other groups and it's very dangerous not even for us citizens but also for. citizens all over the world because this my give precedence it may give pressure to other governments to act in the same way. the house of representatives has already given the go ahead all live now on the senate the upper house do you think they'll give the green light and pass this bill. from from now it's hard to say the house of representatives have given in the house of senate has not decided yet. but the situation is quite different from from the last internet. internet act like soap or. so the big industry like google and facebook is seem to be in favor of the so it seems quite likely that the senate will give in and then the act will finally be passed its should should give through the concerns of the president and

the house and the most of the parts of the gov the chamber giving in so easily right and the white house has already threatened to veto the bill i do think wealthy some kind of compromise. well there there have been different stories about what the white house says there's been. there's been voices that saying that . obama. will be two of the last saying that obama will not care so much of the. i think it depends very strongly on the question how much awareness we will. be able to create about the bill and how much awareness big groups. like websites and and citizen groups will be able to create in the next weeks i don't think that there is any need for compromise i think that the. this. is not

necessary and i don't think that we should work for a compromise we should work for. totally abolishing this bill because it is not needed what we should do a centrally work in the in the opposite direction we should ask right now what information facebook twitter google and other big companies giving in to the to the government and why are they so strongly in favor of this of this bill so we should work in the in the opposite direction right now. right having a reinhard from the pirate group of the birdland parliament live with us on the line from the german capital if you have broadband thanks for your input. well we're always keen to find out your take on our stories today are to dot com is asking how far you think the legislation will get let's take a look at what you think so far half of you think that copycat legislation will be

made law in other countries a fourth believe the u.s. government will propose a toned down version of the bill and the rest of you are almost evenly split between the two opinions that obama will veto it by after the senate vote or the bill will be passed after the presidential election log on to our to dot com and cast your vote today. france is talking tough either european that tackles illegal immigration or paris pulls out of the shotgun travels though that's according to president nicolas sarkozy the stance has already caused a stir among song some you members with belgium saying french electoral concerns are now playing a bigger role there sarkozy is facing a hard fight in the presidential run all vote a week on sunday or to his tests are silly reports. they say it's better to travel than to arrive but for european unity the ride has been bumpy to say the least

and where could it be headed. the eurozone will implode a considerable number of economists admit when the french of foreign that the eurozone is already dead it will collapse. so says the candidate who surprised france by securing almost a fifth of the votes in round one of the presidential race all the other candidates without exception regard the european union as part of the solution or is the main solution she has identified in the campaign the fact that it's actually the cause of the problems much of the french political polls are completely where due to the euro project they cannot conceive of a foreign policy or domestic policy which is. deeply. rooted in the whole european project one that finds itself in ever more shaky ground the shag agreement one of european integration sacred cows allowing border free travel

across the e.u. is under fire. germany and france want member states to have the option to bring back those internal borders for thirty day period if there's a threat to security and public order there's a danger and more and more people are also going to start attacking all the good us europe and divisions within the union don't and there amnesty international's recent report documents examples of prejudice in the block against muslims in education and employment by jesus or the ones that are much on the fringe of the sort of political support from going on the whole being really mainstream in the right so to me it was sort of sort and so on the left we kind of see that people are more racist so to me not to but there has been some sort of. reuther or wiser or fortunate you know for people to express to hate and to an indulgent to violent

behavior so where does that leave europe even the people who are against this kind of europe and against the euro in an idea that say they want a different kind of europe the e.u. may be trying to say the paths to achieve this vision and version of europe the obstacles are getting bigger from voters rallying behind ad to brussels candidates proposal supporting bad border controls some e.u. leaders have dismissed them as populist threats but the question is are they merely still threats or is this growing resistance already the tip of an iceberg tell us are still here r t brussels. so ahead for you this hour here on r t. russia and china would major joint military drills look at their significance in the wake of similar war games conducted in the region by the u.s. . but first cairo's tahrir square is expected to fill with anger again on

friday as egyptian islamists vent their frustrations towards the country's current military rule. over the same people who are condemning the current leaders for failing the demands of the revolution themselves stand accused of trying to monopolize power and as our first reports for many egyptians young going political wrangling is pushing democracy to the side by. protests nation after the revolution toppled president barack egyptians have continued to use people power as a way to force change the sights the sounds of protesters on cairo's tahrir square have become a familiar one more than a guess and president barack without the from power with presidential elections just around the corner and the activities here have once again taken center stage but if the last years taught us anything is a revolution alone is not a democracy make this why the upcoming elections appraising so important.

as a discussion group focused on a paced arab spring egypt we met a former members mubarak's regime now a prominent speaker here in egypt says the revolution was a must and it's a great action but unfortunately after we have a lot of problems and the challenges we have for the stairs and do we have to reach a vision for that not everyone will say positive and ask the panel how they'd feel about the outcome if they'd been one of the young revolutionaries there's no quid pulls but he's not given a clear answer. those armed forces and the. administration . of to. get. in their lives in february. eleventh. is a protection for volution. we will give the people what you want we'll give you.

freedom we'll give you a democracy he told us of the frustration of many people who turned out to tahrir but now feel they've been left represented with a new struggle for power killing many of the regimes old guard what is a democracy is the. true source of course is a common complaint. an equally common. relief but the revolutionary me which homes can last indefinitely i can see a second wave of lucia but we will expect to know waves of. people protesting against certain actions and this is the mcchrystal everywhere i'm sure. they would realize that we should have a different more realistic to understand that and to this region it's a more polished slogans or shoutings it's the economy the culture and the politics

they do the thing is us amazing authority and underestimating people seeing regimes across the arab world full with the announcement of the list of candidates attention turns to the policies as they see might become the next president but they'll need to be careful not to allow power to churn out the voices of face who are determined that this time they'll be heard i think we will. get right to choice right the right the right way and. evolution and business. and. yeah and then the revolution suits our. surf city. for next hour peter lavelle and his gas discuss the oil and power driven

conflict between sudan and south sudan and it seems a risky diplomatic game played by one of their leaders just threatening to trigger all out war. but i think someone is playing a very dangerous diplomatic strategy here i think is trying to appease the international committee of show that is a statesman and to show that he can get a lot of support and show that he's not the aggressor. the victim i think on the other hand who's who's been who has not really supported by the west specifically is seen as the aggressor and i think kerry's actually playing on this game plan which is why i think he he went into hadley there and if we must remember it was the south of twenty to the north. of course the rest that we're seeing now is history. and months of protests in canada boiled over as kastrup students clashed with riot

police over a tuition hike. oh ok. never spray along with other violence police tactics have resulted in many injuries since the movement began more than two months ago because back government has proposed to wish an increase for the next five years but wants to go see a chanst broke down on wednesday students again the streets to voice their frustrations one hundred sixty demonstrations have been healthy this february journalist bernard gang says heavy handed policing will only strengthen the students' cause. there were really only minor incidents our window was broken and then some very close but i realized the police is using that as a pretext to conduct massive repression and usually the ones who will break your window or another once you get caught the police those that have the run faster than the police the ones who get caught there are peaceful protesters and people

are becoming infuriated by the behavior of the police to where it's peaceful protesters fueling the fire it definitely is well known. this has profound around the fixations people are very unhappy about the way their political elites are behaving and the feel that the government is not serving the people at all it's only serving big financial interests this is all those are all very repressive minutes and it's only going to fuel more and more and more people are going to join those around sure we're. taking a look now at some other news from around the world this hour at the u.s. has agreed to move half of its marines from the okinawa base in japan air base situated in a crowded urban area along angered local residents with some troops and brought in incidents of violence and rape and marines will now be sent to other bases in the western pacific although some ten thousand will remain at the okinawa.

medical students in the bolivian capital of the power held mock christa vacations in. chris fiction's i should say in a protest over a new law extending a doctor's work day by two hours others calling for the resignation of the nation's health minister carried signs written in their own blood the demonstrations follow a month long protest by doctors which is forced the closure of several public hospitals over the past few weeks. to a russian cosmonauts and announced astronauts are heading back to earth after spending six months on the international space station over the team didn't lose touch with the event back on earth with the russian cosmonauts voting in the parliamentary and presidential election spacecraft undocked about two hours ago and is expected to land in kazakhstan at eleven forty five g.m.t. you'll be able to watch the landing live on our web site r t v dot com. the yellow

sea has become an area of international focus as russia and china stage military maneuvers it comes right after the u.s. and the philippines conducted joint war games in disputed waters not far from the chinese coast raising tensions with beijing. has been following developments. i'm standing on board the russian destroyer deadmeat all been a god of the just completed its mission as part of joint russian chinese maneuvers in the yellow sea the whole russian convoy for a large warships on to support together with a chinese convoy of about twenty warships several thousand sailors to floor to maneuvers there is a deeper meaning of course besides the obvious advantages of performing a large scale joint mabel mission these exercises have given more school in beijing and chance to fly their flags in the asia pacific where the growing presence of the u.s. navy has recently become a concern china and russia this time the drills concluded with target practice

which was by far the most impressive part of the whole of the five our crew was given special permission to film in detail what was happening. so the ships before can and at least two times before the guns were fired but was instantly up with a target detected by so in ours all these weapons proven extremely useful in the gulf of aden where the middle when the ground up has guarded civilian convoys we're told that it usually only takes a few warning shots before the pirates we interfere. and now on our breaking news this hour a series of blasts that hit the city of net profit off skin eastern ukraine on friday morning the latest unconfirmed reports put the number of explosions at four

the first blast occurred around noon at a tram stop five people were reportedly injured as a result the device is said to have been planted in a trash can some forty minutes later a second explosion struck near a railway station hurting seven people next to more blasts went off in quick succession also in the city center a criminal investigation has been launched into what police are classing as. terror attack now this is not the first time no proper cross caus been targeted last november one person was killed in similar circumstances when a bomb detonated inside have been released later called that a terrorist attack as well we are tracking this developing story on the ground in ukraine will bring you more and when we get it. does not check in at the business desk merino joins us on some impressive results for gas from yes that's right and he's actually it has beaten expectations with its full year results in fact russia's gas monopoly earned

a forty five billion dollars in the two thousand and eleven the financial year and that's a gain of thirty five percent and the company increased its market share in europe which is its key market to twenty seven percent from twenty four percent a year before but it's not all rosy in the garden analysts are nervous about government plans to raise taxes on gas from plus there is a prospect of greater competition as the u.s. becomes the world's top gas producer due to the shale gas boom of course. and staying with the energy sector after oil giants ross left of course signed agreements with two major international companies analysts are speculating what this will mean for russia and as tom barton reports he says that it will create a new way of doing energy business in the country. beneath the waves in the ice of the arctic upper helps the world's last great untapped reserves of oil and gas and russia is intent on extracting them the complexities of the project are causing

a revolution in the way russia does business in the sector apart from offering substantial tax breaks to investors there's also the prospect foreign firms will be allowed to own resources under the seabed no one really knows how much energy is there but the best guess is about one hundred sixty billion barrels of oil in the entire arctic region that's enough to satisfy global demand for around six years it's also thought to hold thirty percent of the world's gas reserves russian state oil giant ross nerved has brought into wealthy partners to help the agreements with foreign firms exxon mobil and any cover a range of projects in a number of countries will now have interests in the u.s. europe and africa serving its plans for international expansion but the real jewel in the crown is russia's far north initially expenses there will be limited to exploration three point two billion dollars with the american company exxon and one billion with the italian company any but if resources are found which seems certain

the figures will rapidly grow total investment on the x. on projects in the arctic is projected to reach three hundred or even five hundred billion dollars while on the any side of things around seventy billion dollars the cost reflects the hostile working environment it's thought the bulk of the energy is on russia's continental shelf in water five hundred meters deep which is often covered in pack ice and scattered with massive icebergs up to four million tons this is where the foreign firms will help with expertise in offshore drilling even then the conditions will require development of completely new technology ultimately this is difficult dangerous and time consuming work to see with exxon hopes to pump the first barrels of oil from the car of sea by the end of the decade and that would be quick. well when it comes to the markets and he said we're seeing the choppy trading session in both europe and russia but i'll tell you more about

that next hour we're not looking forward to see them. but next the latest cutting edge devices make their way towards consumers that's coming up in technology update before that bell and i'll be back with the headlines after this break.

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