tonight a chain of explosions ripped through a city in eastern ukraine leaving dozens injured in what police say are terrorist attacks. and you cyber security bill slammed by internet users as an attack on privacy gets a step closer to the white but president obama threatens to veto it if it passes the senate. three man crew successfully lands in kazakhstan after six months aboard the international space station we bring you more from mission control in russia tonight. and the economic blows continue to rain on spain it's taking credit rating hits another hit now with unemployment reaching a critical twenty five percent we've got the latest from spraying for you.

eight pm moscow time this is r.t. very good evening for me kevin though in our top story tonight from russia terror has gripped ukraine today with a string of bombings that have left at least twenty nine people injured four successive blasts hit public areas in the eastern city of new process causing widespread panic several people suspected of organizing the attacks have reportedly been arrested. in the iranian ukrainian capital with more details. ukraine's interior ministry says that four bloss rocked the third largest town in ukraine to the city of get it off and those were for explosive devices put in fresh bins at tramway stations it's interesting the attack looks really coordinated because all those last happened at one particular line of the tramway in the pit at the office now we have a chance to listen to eyewitnesses who told us of the horror which they experienced

when the bombs went off. that we came to the park and on our way back the blast happened leave swirled off the trees we saw pillars of dust. really overcome by trying to explain to them and then within five minutes and seven thirty had to seen the listener through writing inside the fountain it was like using that wind to look around and notice might spend all night for this clan they were not seen because it was recess time and all these attacks happened hours ago but the city of the bit at the office still gripped by panic when to stand on many people are staying in their offices afraid to go home because fearing more bloss could happen could happen in the city reportedly several people have been detained in connection with these attacks it's believed that they could have been behind those attacks but this is the formation has not yet been confirmed by the officials what is confirmed by the officials that they are definitely considering this to be a terrorist attack and have already launched a criminal investigation into this rather untypical incident for

a typically calm ukraine we're only forty days away from the start of the euro two thousand and twelve championship an attack like that in a very populated city with a population of around a million people certainly puts a lot of pressure on the authorities and could even jeopardize the euro twenty two world championship in ukraine and poland certainly many concerns will be there among the football fans will be coming here in hundreds of thousands and the authorities are now trying to do everything they can they already organized an emergency meeting of ukraine's parliament but for now nobody has claimed responsibility for the attacks and we are waiting to hear from the authorities whether the. people who were reportedly detained were in fact those school masterminded this terrible attack in the pulpit of. coming up a real academic uprising running battles in montreal see eighty five all students arrested in the increasingly violent face off over rising tuition fees. and stealing the revolution from those who needed it most egypt's secular groups boycott the latest cairo protest saying that being hijacked by power hungry

islamists. soon americans may find every private email they write could be opened copied and inspected by government snoopers the latest cybersecurity bill called cissp has passed the house of representatives president barack obama has threatened to veto the move if it gets passed the senate and he's going to teach a kind of washington explains what alarms internet freedom fighters the most. 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 put tag 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 hold tons of copyrighted material anyway sopa was killed in congress largely because of the huge awareness campaign launched by internet service providers but from consumer's point of view whether it's sold pot 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 with sis but americans would be stripped of their last legal

means to protect their privacy on the web. you can assure use module covering two russian cosmonauts for the nasa astronauts landed successfully because it stunned the crew return to work after spending almost six months aboard the international space station 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 it so use it twenty two but also as part of the thirtieth international space station expedition there were some problems with the wing about 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 you're 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 there might be in fact this was the first soyuz capsule to launch after the shuttle program has retired on that hand there were airplanes fourteen

helicopters twenty two land vehicles and over two hundred personnel ready to make sure that these three space men these valiant heroes got to earth safely and that is that is exactly what happened. good to see them back safe and sound secular political powers in egypt have refused to take part in friday's show jewel demonstration against the military rulers called by the country's is the most parties the religious groups are accused of using the protests as a p.r. tool and monopolizing power does not see sarah first reports the ongoing political wrangling is pushing democracy in egypt into the sidelines. protests nation after the revolution toppled president barack gyptian 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 was a must be it's a great action but unfortunately after we had a lot of problems and the challenges we have to the stairs and do 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 no quid pulls but he's not given a clear answer. on forces and the. administration

. after. they get. in their lives in february. live in. food revolution we will we will give the people what you will 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 which is a democracy is the. source of course is a common complaint. an equally common answer. but the revolutionary me which can last indefinitely i can't say. but we will expect to know waves of. people against certain actions we should have a different more realistic to understand that there is this region it's not only

slogans or shoutings it's the economy the culture and the politics a view estimating of thirty and underestimating people has seen regimes across the arab world pull the announcement of the list of candidates attention turns to the policies they see might become the next president but they'll need to be careful not to allow power to churn out the voices of days who are determined that this time they'll be heard so r.t. . still to come this hour the toxic truth. he wrote to the mood was the rest of the father of russia's former security officer alexander litvinenko says that he knows who poisoned killed his son and it's not scotland yard's main suspect that. the euro zone's fourth largest economy has been stripped of its prestigious a credit rating the mark of

a top economy that's another blow than to spain which also saw its unemployment rate soared while most twenty five percent a figure dreaded by economists the ratings agency behind the move standard and poor's warned that things look set to get even worse too and social economic. can't help but agree. this is russian roulette well as we've just made referrals are the government has just made reforms to the labor market and to the economy with this are starting to cut we have to see how those play out but we're in a recession in spain officially when driving a recession of steady t. hese is a constant it destroys any chance that could exist of growth which is what actually got aunty's that you were paid your debt hence the problem with our with our sovereign bad judging from from the very first very slow and weeks and months of these reforms which should explain it was the fact that it passed and so far the

only is on his playing by the fact that obviously spain has a shadow economy of great proportions that is what. these massive run employ well part of it actually but sooner or later it will it will come to a very very difficult situation when we turn the broader picture the e.u. itself clearly tiring of austerity is calling for a new approach to resolving the euro crisis the european parliament president stressed the urgency saying the collapse of the union is for the first time ever a realistic scenario. a similar reports now 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 eurozone will implode a considerable number of economists admit as one of 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 as the main solution as she has identified in her campaign the fact that it's actually the cause of the problems much of the french press but also completely wedded to the euro project they cannot conceive of a foreign policy or domestic policy which is deeply. you know it is rooted in the whole european project one that finds itself an 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 is

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 end there amnesty international's recent report documents examples of prejudice in the block against muslims in education and employment ideas that were once very much on the fringe of this to a political spectrum on all being really mainstream in the right certainly able to sort of sort and so when the left we kind of see that people are more racist certainly not but there has been some sort of. reuther or wider or fortunately for people to express the hate and to also indulge in 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 in the past that set to achieve its vision and version of

europe the obstacles are getting bigger from voters rallying behind their to brussels candidates to oppose also putting back 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. one hundred sixty protests within just two months and kind of a student uprising continues unabated and with new clashes on thursday night 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 riot officers charged maced and detained dozens of protesters for the police chief probably complain that his forces were bored out there. students are incensed over it she wish and fees rise which the government says is necessary the journalist. says heavy handed policing will only

provoke the students further mistaken if. there were relatively minor incidents or windows broken. recalls 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 are peaceful protesters and people are becoming infuriated by the behavior of the police who were its peaceful protesters always fueling the fire. this has profound the ramifications 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 and it's only going to fuel more and more and more people are going to join actually

owes a lot more on our website it's a great resource all the latest stories videos and analysis for you live right now at our team go column from leading the country to leading the party russia's outgoing president dmitri medvedev accepts the reins of the ruling united russia party placing let him have putin in the post because like yesterday with all the details online and also the story about a teenage cancer sufferer who is forced to pay for illness she survived chemotherapy had the leg removed but one russian airlines. flying in find service of being an inconvenience claim she could die during the flight that's online as well from us tonight at r.t. don't call. the father of russia's executing 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 andre look a void is nothing to do with belief it's also been backed by the results of

a british led polygraph test of his a katrina has more on the revelations when you 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 written accuses russian state duma deputy andrey lugovoy of being behind the murder and wants him extradited six years after his son was killed seventy three year old while the litvinenko says it's time to speak out here boy should be used as a witness died in my arms he wrote important information on the tissue as he died because it might do you understand went through my gesture the room was bugged he didn't want anybody to hear and what was on that issue on me and the people he wrote to the murder was and the rest are all reveal it only in court as up with the

by the world the u.k. like the truth. it will leave the court a subject to go at it and russia it did we even more. the only accusation up to now from alexander litvinenko was that putin ordered the poisoning when you're. this statement revealed after he died never existed until the very last moment i was there and sasha believes he would recover also he hardly spoke any english and the letter was written in impeccable poetic english someone did it for him before now vulture was in line with the victims close circle all point the finger at former f.s.b. officer lovely saying he poured polonium in the victim's t. . void didn't kill my son to kill with polonium you need two to three grains it fits in a thimble but large quantities were scattered everywhere it was done on purpose and

lugovoy was used as a fall guy well there are you ready to say there's still a government directly if you call him right now. i will happily go. to the front of the day and today then he gave me two older bad things that i said about you i hope you can forgive me you realize of course what sort of people with dealing with here can you explain told viewers what exactly you are apologizing for . the slander under 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 your lawyer must mean that you understand them in person. thank you for that i'm ready to bring walter to court new hearings in london started several months important secret documents will have to be revealed by m i six and m i five

out run the court with her revelations and walter is doing the same they have no choice soon there'll be no more secrets left the vulture 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 children why didn't you disclose the information to them because if i had to do you really be sitting here talking to you you could integrate your van r t monday match channel eataly to world news headlines in brief an apparent suicide bomb attack in the syrian capital killed five and left twenty others wounded the blast happened outside a major mosque in damascus there have been a string of suicide blasts in syria which of mostly targeted government forces and supporters the attacks have drawn while worldwide condemnation with the opposition saying those using such violence must face justice no matter which side they're on . a major security alert in central london saw part of the city lockdown this

friday after a man stormed a building a threat to blow himself up snipers were deployed after the man threw computers from an upper window and took hostages of the driver training firm in tottenham court road in the city staff identify the man as having repeatedly failed his truck license test a miss demanding his money back. el salvador's become the latest country where the behavior of u.s. secret service agents has been brought into question the prostitute scandal rapidly snowballing with high level congressional and internal investigations now underway and as he is told barton is a juicy details on some misdeeds by american agents right here in the russian capital to. this is new our back street in the center of moscow it's famed for its entertainment venues its bars and nightclubs but there is a warm nightclub that achieve rather much more notoriety than others it was called the hungry dog and it's now being dragged into the scandal surrounding us secret service agents the wall street journal the us newspaper has quoted informed

sources are saying that in june two thousand head of the trip by then president bill clinton u.s. secret service agents attended the notoriously this nightclub it was famous for its wild parties including its ladies' nights with warm reported to have a strip tease by nine hundred twenty women this all feeds into the comptroller surrounding an incident in colombia recently twelve agents were suspended after reports that they use prostitutes and the investigation has also been expanded into a possible incident in el salvador in two thousand and eleven when agents may also have used prostitutes one hundred up close in two thousand and nine after years of problems with your forward to these stories are going to do nothing to calm down the scandal swirling around the u.s. secret service. or this cultural business circular thing strictly business like there of course these. are the shifter tonight no gas probably some good results

for us for say what you know yeah they have kevin actually investors are going to be jumping for joy because the company managed to earn forty five billion dollars and that's in the twenty eleven financial year now that's a gain of thirty five percent why will this thanks the high oil prices and growing production now the company also increased their market share in europe now that's their key market from twenty four percent to twenty seven percent but other lists are know now they're nervous because of government plans to raise taxes on gas probably. toast is also a prospect of greater competition coming from the u.s. as they become the world's top gas producer and that's due to. get booed so good news but. now let's get on to the stocks and see that gas sprawled

is indeed again we have a look at that in the moment with the russian markets they ended up while the well so that i could enjoy that weekend investors here whispering the sum is shining and it's my holidays as well and investors did rather well today as i say we had lots of corporate results coming out the all ts one a quarter of a percent of the mice at one another hauls percent today that's how they ended the week if we get into the stores as i say gazprom they weren't getting nearly three percent up in positive territory that so investors really showing their optimism pulled out his two thousand and eleven results we got last telecom as well today also post is. occurring results about two thousand and eleven report bucking the trend was them all as they two poses some encouraging results but not as good as investors has hope so that's ho starts finished up for today we'll see how the russian ruble got on it was a mix to form and i guess a basco occurrences it gains against the us. it was slightly weaker against the

common currency if we don't have the urge although you can says one doesn't see fifty a fine for today and not brings us into the european market is that coming towards the end of the day you know the big news coming out of the region was all to do with spain they have that credit rating with use by standard poles to triple the plus they also cited that growth is going to drop by one point five percent that really is a cause of as you can see investors remain optimistic you have the footsie around the hope of dissent up the dax edging towards a percent as well if we look at the u.s. there was also some slight disappointing figures come out because g.d.p. fell. short of what investors what i'd kiss the pacing they were hoping it to be three percent which is what it was october to december but it fell short of that at two point two percent is still gave but not as much as they had hoped but as you can see investors are showing their resilience towards that means so that if the market's been out that's going on and talk about phones if we can we talk about

funk sun also full of teen years of being the world's top mobile phone maker finished in north korea they've lost their crown not to some and now the south korean firm shipped ninety three million phones in the first quarter of the year ten million more than a not here not long ago those sounds and also over to our all as the world's biggest seller of smart phones my first five of us are not here actually so they were all. those years ago i can remember where that big. thanks very much if i was all the crazy and i covered with the news and talk about the sport we've got a partridge here in just over fifteen minutes time scott it was about probably the most shocking resignation in european football this season hope you can stay with us to find out more about that it's now coming up to twenty eight minutes past eight here in moscow we're back with the headlines in two minutes for them.

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