a chain of explosions ripped through a city in eastern ukraine leaving dozens injured in what police say are terrorist attacks. here as congress waves through the new cyber security bill that will let internet firms hand over people personal data to the government president obama has threatened to veto citing privacy concerns. but a three man crew successfully lands in kazakhstan after six months aboard the international space station we bring you more from mission control. and back to the future of france and germany call to resurrect all borders in the e.u. . staunch euro crowns change sides of the big risk a voter fury. you're

watching live from moscow on news from now with breaking news this hour terror has gripped ukraine today with a string of bombings that have left at least twenty seven people wounded four successive blast hit public areas in the eastern city of new appropriate throws causing widespread panic several people suspected of organizing the attacks have reportedly been arrested it live now to the ukrainian capital kiev where are these alexy yourselves joins us with more details on this developing story like the ukraine is not a frequent terror target give us more details on what happen today. we have it confirmed by the country's interior ministry that four bloss rocked the ukraine's third largest city in the east of the country and for now we know of twenty seven people who were injured as a result of those bloss illogically there were no people killed in those explosions twenty five of those people have been hospitalized nine of them are children and

some of the people hospitalized believed to be in very serious and very severe health conditions with very severe wounds now we understand that four explosions all happened in trash bins at tramway stations across the city and it's interesting that all those explosions happened at one particular tramway line in the central part of the we also have the possibility to listen to what the eyewitnesses had to say on what exactly happened in the morning and. the turn explained to them and then within five minutes as everybody had to seemingly listen must try again in the fountain it was like you ring around and there was speculation this clan and also. soon there were not seen because he's released a statement he was sitting on sixteen must have been talking to people who seek to . meanwhile this city with a population of around one million people as been gripped in panic we understand

that people are staying in their offices afraid to go home afraid of more bloss to happen in the city public transportation has been partly suspended in the central part of the area as well as the cell phone connection also down in the central part of. probably because authorities are afraid that further bloss could happen that's where they're jamming the cell phone connections in the central part of the city so also we know off internet literally exploding with different information different speculation that possibly ten explosions in fact happened in this city not four as it has been officially confirmed by the authorities and sirens rocking the city ever sounding everywhere around the city probably adding more to this claim to this speculation but right now the official line is that four explosions and twenty seven people injured. what could be the possible implications of attacks like these . well ukraine is not known for having any terrorist cells moreover it's not

known for terrorist attacks in the past only just several cases but we do know that the authorities are already have already started a criminal investigation on terrorist attack and we also heard that reportedly several people have already been detained being suspected of performing this attack on the city or. definitely it is too early to say whether this was in fact a terrorist attack a full scale terrorist attack we are waiting for confirmation from the authorities but as it is as it stands right now this attack certainly has serious implications because ukraine will host the euro twenty twelve championship in just a little more than a month and definitely such a horrible attack and one of its biggest city certainly put serious concerns about the general security during the football championship and may even jeopardize the whole tournament we are waiting for more explanation from the authorities and watch keeping our ear to the ground here on the developing story. here is have

a live from the ukrainian capital thanks for the details. still lined up for you this hour here on r t a real academic uprising and running battles in montreal see eighty five more students arrested in the increasingly violent faceoff over a rise in tuition fees. for stealing the revolution from those who needed it most egypt secular groups boycott the latest cairo protest saying they're being hijacked by power hungry islamists. but first a sign of modul carrying two russian cosmonauts and a nasa astronaut has landed successfully in kazakhstan though her return back to earth after spending almost six months on board the international space station sean thomas has been following events from mission control the launch happened in november two thousand and eleven mid november they spent about five and a half months in space as part of so use twenty two but also as part of the

thirtieth international space station expedition there were some problems with delaying that launch because they were supposed to launch as early as september but as you may remember there was the problem with the progress rocket which delayed this rocket as well but then there are also some problems in that delaying their landing as well they had some problems with the pressurization of the command module so that actually delayed their landing fact this was the first so use capsule to launch after the shuttle program has retired on hand there were airplanes fourteen helicopters twenty two land vehicles and over two hundred personnel ready to make sure that these three spacemen these valiant heroes got to earth safely and that is that is exactly what happened. so when americans may find every private e-mail they write could be opened copied and inspected by government snoopers the latest cyber security bill called sis has passed congress president barack obama has threatened to veto the paper and it's

a can in washington explains what alarms internet freedom fighters. 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 there 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 correspondents 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 company's one 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 hold tons of copyrighted material anyway so paul 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 so who 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 would cispa americans would be stripped of their last legal means to protect their privacy on the web. well most. aspects of bounces spy is the fact that it potentially has the power to eclipse existing laws that protect people's privacy that's according to declan mccullagh a correspondent from c. that news. the most controversial section of cisco is the language that said

notwithstanding any other portion of law companies can share in for what they want as long as it's for what they call a cybersecurity purpose now we have laws on the books that like from privacy laws federal education records laws medical records laws laws protecting the privacy of gun owners perhaps all these laws exist for a reason and so it's kind of weird to say we're just going to ignore each one of this becomes kind of this law that trumps the other ones a super law and let's let's at least have more debate about that at the end of the house leadership than even while amendments you know moments were proposed to get rid of that language that by itself is the most worrisome section but we want to know what you think about this story today at r t dot com we're asking how far you think the suspect legislation will actually get so far most voters nearly forty percent or so think cisco will eventually spread its influence beyond the u.s.

with other states adopting similar laws a third say washington will adopt the bill only after the presidential election the rest are almost equally divided between thinking that obama will veto said spot after the senate vote or that a toned down version will take effect let us know what you think drop us a line vote today at our t. dot com. thank you our political powers in egypt have refused to take part in friday's scheduled demonstration against the military rulers called by the country's islamist parties the religious groups are accused of using the protest as a p.r. tool and monopolizing power is r.c. sorry for of reports the ongoing political wrangling is pushing democracy in egypt to the sidelines. protests nation after the revolution toppled president mubarak 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 back 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 post arab spring egypt we met a former member of mubarak's regime now a prominent speaker here in egypt the revolution also must be it's a great action but unfortunately after we have a lot of problems are the challenges we have to discuss and do we have to reach a vision. not everyone will say positive one man asked the panel how they'd feel about the outcome if they'd been one of the young revolutionaries there's an

awkward pause but he has not given a clear answer. on forces and the. administration . after. in their lives in february. we order. food revolution we will 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 creating many of the regimes old guard what is a democracy is the. promise of course is a common complaint with an equally common. belief but the revolutionary me which homes can last indefinitely i can say. but we will

expect to know waves of. people against certain actions we should have a different way more realistic to understand the real interest this region. logan's or shoutings it's the economy the culture and the politics of us in a single thirty in underestimating people seeing regimes across the arab world full now with the announcement of the list of candidates attention turns to the policies that they see might become the next president they'll need to be careful not to allow power to drown out the voices of days who are determined that this time they'll be heard surface r.t. . for the year zones fourth largest economy has now been stripped of its prestigious a credit rating the mark of a top economy becomes a spain's unemployment rate sourced almost twenty five percent figure dreaded by

economists the rating agencies behind the move standard and poor's warned that according to its figures things were excited to get even worst for the start austerity but madrid the e.u. itself is calling for a new approach to resolving the euro crisis the president of the european parliament even said the collapse of the union. is for the first time ever a realistic scenario artist as are sillier now reports on the source of the cracks snaking through the once formidable bloc. 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 euro is and will implode a considerable number of economists admit as well the french of four and that the eurozone is already dead it will collapse. oh. so says the candidate who surprised france by securing almost a fifth of the votes in round one of their 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 her campaign the fact that it's actually the cause of the problems much of the french press catullus are completely wedded to the euro project they cannot conceive of a foreign policy or domestic policy which is more than deeply. you know yeah rooted in the whole european project one that finds itself in ever more shaky ground the should get 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 aspects of 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 ideas that were once a very much on the fringe of the political spectrum and on the whole being really mainstream in the right so to me it was sort of sort and so when the left would come and see the people more racist certainly not to but there has been some sort of. a wider or fortunate for people to express the hate and to also indulge in too violent behavior so where does that leave europe even the people who are against this kind of europe another against the euro in an idea that say they want a different kind of europe the e.u. may be trying to say in the past it's to achieve its vision and version of fear of the obstacles are getting bigger from voters rallying behind anti brussels candidates to oppose also putting back border controls to some e.u.

leaders some dismiss 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. still to come this hour here on r.t. the toxic truth. the road to the merger was in the rest of the father of versus former security officer alexander litvinenko says he knows who poisoned and killed his son and it's not scotland yard's main suspect in the murder . one hundred and sixty protests within just two months and kind of a student uprising continues on. the bait and new clashes on thursday night with the standoff over tuition fee hikes is turning increasingly violent centering on the country's second largest city of montreal clashes resumed after talks collapsed between student leaders and authorities right officers charged maced and detained dozens of protesters while the police chief publicly complained that his forces

were worn out students are incensed over a tuition fee rise which the government says is necessary but journalist but not just a song yeah sent heavy handed policing only provoke the students further. there were relatively minor incidents or windows broken and then some very close but i realised 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 are being they 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 who were it's peaceful protesters always fueling the fire definitely it will not stop this has profound around if occasions people are very unhappy about the way their political elites are behaving and the fuel 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 and it's only going to fuel more and more and more people are going to join those eventually. there's always more on our website including all the latest stories video analysis and much more here's the bottom line for you at the moment at our dot com from leading the country to leading the party dresses outgoing president to me that image of accepts the reins of the ruling united russia party replacing by the american legion in the post. and its teenage cancer sufferer is forced to pay for her illness she survived chemotherapy and having a leg removed by one airline for better from flying and finds her for being an inconvenience claiming she could die during the flight that and more at r t v dot com. the father of russia's executed officer alexander litvinenko

poisoned in london six years ago claims he knows who killed his son he says the u.k.'s prime suspect russian deputy on the day of the gulf war has nothing to do with a murder that belief has also been backed by the results of a british led policy polygraph test r.c.c. catherine mcgrath show has more on the revelations polonium can poison a man and relations between two countries in two thousand and six former russian spy and fierce kremlin critic aleksandr litvinenko was poisoned with polonium in a top london hotel britain accuses russian state duma deputy andrei lugovoy of being behind the monitor and wants him extradited six years after his son was killed seventy three year old litvinenko says it's time to speak out your boy should be used as a witness. that he wrote important information on the tissue as he died because

they might do you understand when you might gesture the room was bugged he didn't want anybody to hear what was on the t.v. shoot me on the piss he wrote to the moon and the rest. there are revealing only in court as up of the by the u.k. like the truth. about it and russia. even more. the only accusation up to now from alexander litvinenko was that putin ordered the poisoning when your will and you could. stay in and it revealed after he died never existed until the very last moment i was there and sasha believed he would recover also spoken english and the letter was written in. english someone did it for him before now but sure wasn't line with the victim's close circle all point the finger at former f.s.b.

officer. saying he pours polonium in the victim's t. . didn't. get away with polonium you need two to three grains and a thimble but large quantities were scattered everywhere it was done on purpose and lugovoy. i was there i read up to see this through the government directly if we call him right now. i will go. to the heart of the. things that i said about you i hope you can forgive me you realize of course what sort of people with dealing with you can you explain told viewers what exactly you are apologizing for. the slaughter is not guilty these guys have nothing to do with this they were in danger too because the polonium was scattered on them as well. and. that you

understand in person. thank you i'm ready to bring water to court with new hearings in london start in several months with important secret documents will have to be revealed by m i six and m i five. with her revelations and walter is doing the same they have no choice soon they'll be no more secrets left of ultra promises to reveal more secrets in court and makes it clear his son's once close circle of friends won't like many of. the should disclose the information to them. as if i had. a talking to you and you could sit in a great show of r r t month or match channel. and also explain to our to you why he thinks his son's death was the result of a ground spine game you can watch the full interview with him by logging on to our dot com. a look now at some more of friday's world news for you syrian

anti-government rebels have turned to kosovo for advice three high ranking activists are on a visit to the breakaway republic they aim to hold meetings with kosovo's former rebels and learn from their separate war with serbia late one nine hundred ninety s. the anti also opposition has been criticized for its inability to present a unified front having a number of splits since the start of the thirteen month long upright. a major shopping street in london has been cordoned off amid reports a man is holding four people hostage inside and also block police are at the scene at tottenham court road after claims that a man was throwing furniture out of the window for the reports are just that he entered the building with gas canisters threatening to blow it up. pakistan's prime minister as challenge the opposition to unseat him a day after his conviction for contempt of july told parliament he had no intention

of resigning he was convicted for refusing to reopen a corruption case against the country's president and was given a token sentence of just a few minutes when i. was not taken with katie and the business does my all day you bring us good and bad news always starting with the good give us the bad news first let's let's do the bad is to get out their way and now it's been a disappointing first quarter for russia's biggest calm after a vast this was because of sales of its laws because i fell by fourteen percent and that was in the domestic market now this led to a nine fold decrease in profits now there was some bright spots and one of these was exports which grew to fifty percent now the head of after a vast says the company now plans to cash in on demand from c.i.s. countries. we forecast a further growth of sales in kazakhstan. joining customs union

we try to stimulate seals and then make a special programs to promote our cause in this market we see huge potential we forecast the sales almost seventy thousand cars i think may increase. twenty twenty five percent. and now on to the good news that russia is a gas export monopoly gas from now is beaten expectations with its full year results they managed forty five billion dollars in the twenty eleven financial year with a gain of thirty five percent and that's thanks to high prices and growing production now the company increased its market share in europe which is its key markets increased to twenty seven percent and that's from twenty four percent a year before but analysts on nervous thailand nervous because the government plans to raise taxes on gas problem classes also prospects of greater competition and

that's coming from the us as they become the world's top gas producer due to shell gas. i kate are sticking with good news the russian market is all set to close up on a high this friday afternoon here in moscow got the r.t.s. over a percent up on the most it's an even better than edging towards one and a half percent off in positive territory if you look at the russian ruble was it slightly weakening against the basket of currencies there is weaker against the bark on the common currency and the euro dollar is one third to fifty six there's been lots of news coming out of that region today easing up all the headlines i was spain when they had their credit rating downgraded by standard and poor's to triple the plus they also cited negative growth in the future as well which is very much a concern for the region now let me tell you as well that investors on the european bourses are now turning their attention to the u.s. news their g.d.p. has come out at two point two percent sounds good but it's not as good as investors

were hoping for so indicates that the economy growth is actually down despite consumer spending at a high now what the first. let's move on we've got some news about phone ins now after fourteen years of being the world's top mobile phone maker finnish nokia has a lawsuit tied so and its lawsuit. just some said on the south korean ships ninety three million phones in the first quarter of the year ten million more the nokia and up not long ago some sun also over to apple was the wilds biggest seller of small fives like us markets and he's off with the us i mean figures shortly all right katie thanks for that update we'll see you back here next hour and coming up for you next the latest cutting edge devices making their way towards consumers and technology update for that though a short break and then the headlines. wealthy

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