all right thanks for joining r t first up let's bring you what we know of the breaking news here there have been two powerful explosions close to the capital of dagestan in russia and north caucasus at least twelve people are reported dead with scores of others injured near the city of my hutch cola more or less now a from. here got what details do you have about these attacks. well both the explosions happened so near a police checkpoint on the outskirts of modest dollar which is one of the largest cities in northern caucasus and the capital of the republic of biggest done according to reports the first blast was triggered by a suicide bomber who was in a car parks right near the checkpoint and around twenty minutes after that just one emergency services were already at the scene of this second blast occurred eight

people i'm sorry twelve people the figures are still fortunately growing twelve people are reported to have been killed half of form or policeman and reports suggest that up to eighty others could have been injured in the war are saying is most likely to be an attack and similar tactics are often used by terrorists in the call this is when there are several explosions in the same area with a short time span between them so that more people gather at the scene in time for the second blast unfortunately that is of course a region alvan ten security risk says that. unfortunately yes they just on is a hotspot for terrorist attacks unfortunately they do happen live there almost every month just day in mid april there was an explosion in which several officers of the federal security service were injured then i thought he's managed to disarm a bomb planted in a truck. also in the city both markets go up but there was also

a successful anti terror operation just recently in which authorities managed to eliminate a group of terrorists would suspect it links to turkish extremists right that's it we're going to school now of reporting there thanks for that live update of course we will bring you more developments as they unfold on the tragedy and here on our team. to other news now america's chief diplomat is origin china to help brain in tensions over iran and north korea's nuclear activities ellerey claim that clinton's in beijing right now and said both the u.s. and china should work together to restrain pyongyang from further provocation and prevent iran from developing a nuclear weapon clinton's visit comes at an extremely delicate time in their relations beijing hughes's the u.s. of meddling in its internal affairs after the u.s. embassy briefly sheltered a chinese dissident activist it's also irritated over washington's military buildup

in the asia pacific and an apparent effort to contain china's growing regional clout doctor called hollande on from the foreign policy in focus think tank believes american policy towards china is very close to cold war rhetoric. provide polar kind of relationship because in many ways one of china's our number one trade partner. and they hold trillions of dollars in u.s. bonds we are all kind of locked into an international market so on one level the cooperation is kind of forced on us by the fact that we're so into a look at the same time you get this growing military tension and chinese are also very uncomfortable about the fact that about eighty percent of their energy suppliers arrive by sea generally through the yellow sea so should the

visor basically be controlled those waters are controlled by the u.s. fifth fleet and the u.s. seventh fleet and that makes the chinese nervous i neither side would actually like to move to a point where there might be a potential war but the problem is that you have this military buildup sometimes mistakes happen and in this. world war we're talking about nuclear weapons except mistakes can be can be very major so this concerns me i thought i would be concerned about the arms buildup not just between trained in the united states but other asian cowers as well and that kind of growing feel that this looks a lot like the cold war is the main fifty's in the main nine hundred sixty s. with the sense of trying to kind of enclosed in contain china as the united states trying to contain russia all right still to come in the program a revolt through the ages the ancient city of aleppo largely untouched by the

conflict bouts tearing syria apart becomes the site of the latest a bloody the so between the pro and anti assad factions. and moscow warns it reserves the right to strike back if nato is planned missile defense system in europe breaches its security that's still to come this hour. two of egypt's leading presidential candidates are suspending their campaigning they blame the ruling military council for wednesday's brutal attack on protesters up to twenty people were killed and more than one hundred injured by unknown attackers sparking further clashes the rally was supporting a disqualified ultraconservative islamised candidate seen as one of the front runners and before he was banned various political forces accuse the ruling military for orchestrating the bloodshed party's sarah firth looks into the chaos

religious tensions have created in post-revolutionary egypt. taking phone in middle east a new sequence this is the leading edge of the man and his should seriously film the leader is just one of a number in which he's third that if you learned as an imprisoned offending islam is a ruling that's in real. aging of the public that this thread. was a god it's a case of i got really mad about this right that the process by not. listening to the race that it wasn't for the rest of the country and everywhere else was that freedom of expression. such convictions accosting a cloud a very artistic plans actions which the great and the good of the arab media industry a quick to condemn after being banned for years until a barrack hardline parties like the muslim brotherhood and the newly created new

policy have gained serious political clout having won the lion's share of seats in parliament and people here in egypt. has hope. to be and. will that new egypt look like the greeks like hell no it means imposing much strict muslim kinds who have no problem with. this system so who have our culture how does our culture of complaint form and out of a club and. we live in egypt so. i think the system. has to come from this culture and this culture means islamic world. many of these fishing for implementing shari'a law in egypt at least publicly that it could still be

a long way off but there are already signs that change is taking place a lot of people who are currently governmental candidates for president are being very cautious about the statements that they make with the growth of policy everyone is preaching moderate islamists but the same time there's an undercurrent like for instance we're going to change that you can curriculums likely we're not going to make schools but we're going to preach religion better at schools no matter how subtle the differences may be at the moment egypt's at a key cross trades in letting it each and the results of what happens right now keep the ferals for generations certain. kyrie. researcher saw her reality from the karo center for human rights says there are there are alarming similarities between the current unrest and that which egypt endured before the parliamentary election. there are serious doubts within the egyptian public outcry. even before the clashes have started and currently as getting there

the elections might be pushed forward the same the same concerns have been voiced recently by political different from the two groups and parliamentarians who were with even rumors seeing yesterday that has asked for it to postpone the elections due to the current unrest in front of advocacy. nonetheless in a press conference today have said that this is that these are rumors and the elections will happen in july it's important to mention in this context that during the previously before the parliamentary elections last november as similar clashes have started in mohamed mahmoud and so it's particularly interesting if we are to compare how. we need to immediately before elections a couple of months or a couple of weeks before elections i don't want our t. dot com where right now we're literally bringing you the widest of views. is this for a few shocking shots thrill seekers in russia's far east show their head for heights

with these dizzying pictures posted online all the local police weren't too thrilled. plus hunting fox the phone hacking scandal plaguing rupert murdoch's news corp sees high level calls for many of his american t.v. broadcasting licenses to be pulled. all right if you're just joining r.t. it's eleven minutes past the hour and russia warns it could launch a preemptive strike against the nato led defense shield plans for europe if divisions between them over the project to reach. a critical point the country's military chiefs have been voicing their concerns at an international conference on missile defense and moscow and he said now explains the missile defense has been in

a deadlock for some time now but certainly no secret between the u.s. russia and nato and once again russian officials today reiterated the center that the bad deadlock needs to end or else russia is going to take responsive action we've heard the phrase preemptive strike this is pretty harsh rhetoric we're hearing from russia they're very serious about their their concerns their national security concerns being taken into consideration by nato and the u.s. we also heard from officials that if some kind of compromise isn't made that they're warning of in fact another arms race so very strong words coming from russia what they're hoping to come out of this two day summit is first of all to prove that these so-called rogue states like iran and south korea which the u.s. and nato say this missile defense system which is well underway in eastern europe in poland romania even as far as turkey that russia has research and is giving

basically officials details on why they believe those two countries certainly don't have the missile capabilities to reach europe so a lot of questions surrounding the goals behind this defense system so close to russia's border and also showing a computer model of why exactly this missile system poses a threat to russia's national security in detail this is something moscow has been trying to convince the two of us through dialogue for years now washington continues to stress that the system is not against russia like i said that it's against iran and north korea but russia just isn't convinced oh let's not forget that hot mike that we heard in south korea where obama told medvedev hang in there i'll be ready to compromise after the election and of course it's an election year in a lot of countries across the globe in twenty twelve and officials certainly understand my. so what we're going to hear most likely as this two day summit wraps up is baby steps we're ready for dialogue but how far both sides are willing to compromise is

still very unclear. nato says the missile shield poses no threat to russia because moscow's intercontinental ballistic missiles are too fast and too sophisticated for the plant system to intercept but paris space political analyst john locke linda says it's not convincing enough. but i find it pretty rich actually that the americans should be saying this about their missile system when they refuse to listen to the iranians who say that they're simply a civilian nuclear program poses no threat whatsoever to anybody earth rates are a matter of perception but also reality and the fact is that as far as we know iran has no nuclear. weapons capability and doesn't plan one while the americans are planning a missile shield which although it may not be they may be telling the truth when

they say it's not directed against russia the fact is it's a new weapon system and it can be presumably directed against russia in a matter of seconds all right switching gears now spanish police have made a number of arrests at a protest in barcelona where the european central bank chiefs are meeting security precautions ahead of the talks have been heavily ramped up spain even going so far as to reinstate checkpoints along its border with france to try and limit the number of demonstrators arriving from within europe the fear was that a potentially massive protest could turn violent thousands of riot police were deployed with reinforcements on standby the e.c.b. chief's or resisted calls to begin buying up spanish bonds as investors abandon the country's debt auctions instead they're urging patience over are staring saying it needs time to work that spain reels from disastrous unemployment levels and millions strong austerity demonstrations business expert your home van over felt

the editor in chief of trans magazine believes cuts will only cause more problems the short term and even medium term results of these kinds of policies just as we have seen in greece is that the recession gets worse and that's a boyband problems in the budget. problems also get worse and they're absolutely not thinking in terms of a larger budget deficits to stimulate the economy you know what the european central bank and mr druggy are thinking of much more in terms of liberalization which constraint. deregulation in a lot of markets that's the way they are thinking but of course the e.c.b. can not solve the structural problems which are characteristic of this moment to the european monetary union coming up in a little over ten minutes time because a report goes gunning for the u.s. treasury secretary america's chief banker said in

a statement that the human errors that led to the two thousand and eight crash can't be cured by lawmakers but max and stacey beg to differ. timothy geitner you can't legislate away stupidity or risk taking greed it was just an accident i think that the global financial markets collapsed i don't see any crime here or there. has selective amnesia and he's purposefully blind to the crime in front of them he can't hear anybody they're committing crimes you can't see anybody even though it's presented the evidence every single day criminality no. ambiguity have bought it. an apparent protest against president assad and syria's aleppo university met a bloody end today leaving four dead and two hundred arrested on verified video

from the clashes show troops and students together attacking the demonstrators amarna shall be a senior columnist at the all akbar newspaper in neighboring lebanon blames much of the violence on arms proliferation and let's look at the situation in a realistic way there are so many that are all. around city in cities major city and cities there are gunmen you know and it's very difficult to they're not very well organized so there are different groups of armed men on the streets and it's very difficult for the army which army to withdraw from the cities and leave the ground for the governments or that's also making things more complicated what is required is that is that the government would actually crack down and the syrian army would withdraw the tanks from the cities and that's a very difficult to implement and there are weapons being smuggled into syria last week there was a shipment of weapons that were stopped by the lebanese army on the lebanese coast and there was

a huge shipment of some some heavy some some high caliber weapons and this could create a lot of damage and i think that the countries surrounding city are actually making put more pressure on on stopping the smuggling of weapons to syria because smuggling weapons to syria will only increase the violence and violence will lead to more violence and this is a vicious circle. let me remind you of the breaking news here are our t. twin deadly blasts have reportedly killed at least twelve people and injured more than eighty near the capital of dagestan in russia's north caucasus police say a suicide bomber detonated his car at a police traffic checkpoint and as officers attended the resulting fire a second blast went off twenty minutes later we'll bring you more details on the fatal bombings in the august sun as they come in so do stay with us. in the meantime here on r t china's booming economy is just one of the factors which have raised up the which have raised up the global influence rankings in recent decades

up next we take a look at what else is behind beijing's swift success. thank you very much for being with us today it's a pleasure sir thank you for everything to china has been

a mystery for scholars throughout centuries why is it such a challenge for thinkers these days up till these days everything is revealed now it's now it's a good challenge they were still in charge and so i was still in charge of well. you know first thousands of years there was such an insulated isolated place that others didn't come in and it's only been relatively in recent years that a lot of people tried to i myself have been going there for forty four years since nine hundred sixty seven. but that's new for westerners to spend so much time there were two did before but now they're all over the place although i think the western reported is not very good about china but there are a lot of people there and my wife and i have been going there for the last ten years and but it's still kind of a mystery because because of their language it's because it's a country now with no ideology and suddenly said there david history was the

religion of china and i think that's true. i sense that that's the only thing that really holds everything together now and not the only thing but you know. they have that kind of reverence for their history which they know so well through through all of the dynasties and so on and which the west has always a zero information about and that's why it's a big mystery you know regardless all the credit with china does face some major problems like gender inequality income inequality corruption and by mental issues could that undermine the growth well you know all of these problems and these these are the problems of china are talked about and written about papers and magazines and speeches all over china all the time this is totally open china says that their biggest problem is the growing inequality the growing income gap between urban and

rural. and the answer your question is no because it's so so openly talked about and we monitor it with our institute in india we monitor all of the provinces and in newspapers and all the provinces the two biggest issues that are in the pages and in the news pages are corruption and the environment and dealing dealing with both of those these are issues that are not hidden these are the most talked about face in china and the leadership the broad china this for their leadership that you have to imagine can and can continue to deal with those problems and can. do a little better job growth so long now let's talk and parallelism as china is slowly growing ties with weaker asia african countries the kind of the chinese to be entering into africa and to some other countries differs greatly from what the

west or the west was given it was it was a government to government. and you know who knows what happened in the money the chinese make a deal they say here's the deal we will build your airport we will be jewish sports stadiums and so forth and you agree to sell us oil and energy we need at market price. and it's the africans many africans describe as a win win. range meant versus what the west has been doing with their aid programs all these years so china is absolutely connected with africa as well as as well as asia because of how smart they've been in the arrangements they have to to create win win situations for those countries say its economy only and not their will to evolve into or encourage states to build an empire you know the china china it's

never been. acquisitional country to begin with but they're making their arrangements and their deal is not to acquire anyone or to build an empire but it's mostly on an economic basis to to to assure themselves of the resources that they need for the rapid growth they're experiencing and they are in our view will continue to experience so here's what also many people think that with this economic and military prowess china is poised to become the center of the new. world it's an all that lot of. all the world and by the way there they have been building their military but they're still you know the u.s. has a military that's equal to all the other militaries of the world put together and i've heard of we've heard a lot of talk about multi i told the world but last century it was a soviet union and us this century to be very simple minded about this century is

the us and china that bipolar for that world is going to be dominated by the bipolar. connection of china and us and people will make countries will make decisions and calibrate their their actions against what they perceive will be the response of the us and or china the there will be a bipolar world replacing they so be in your the us but very different bases so no knowledge of war or not or yes a cold war but sort of a cold war but with the soviet union on the nardil logical but basis with china on the economic very much thank you very much. wealthy british style decide it's time to.

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thanks for joining our two where we have breaking news that two powerful deadly blasts have struck near the capital of dog a stunning russian's north caucasus killing at least fifteen people and injuring dozens police a car driven by a suicide bomber was exploded at a traffic control post a second blast went off shortly after as officers struggled to put out the first fire. hillary clinton pitches for china support on north korea and iran but the u.s. military is asia pacific buildup and support for chinese dissidents believe beijing wary. cracks grow wider in egypt's troubled election the violence swells over band religious candidates but the ruling military seeming to be the only ones to benefit up next max and stacey pick apart the world's big money stories it's the call.