twin terror time taking the russian north caucuses as two powerful blast in the republic of dagestan leave at least thirteen dead and over one hundred twenty injured. also this hour washington returns to war rhetoric against iran as the u.s. military claims it can destroy tehran's armed forces in less than a month. they reset and russia you ask your nations they push forward storms and modernization and the rise of the protest movement across the country will look at the legacy of the truman bet its presidency as his term of office draws talk about its.

international news and current life from moscow this is us here with me you know thanks for joining us at least thirty eight people have been killed and more than a hundred and twenty injured after two powerful bomb blasts in russia's republic of dagestan the terrorist attacks took place near a police checkpoint in the capital much color that's now cross live to our own thomas for the latest so sean please update us on what the investigators are saying so far. well you at this point it is being called officially a terrorist attack let me run through the course of events late thursday night car that was stopped at a police checkpoint in the russian republic of dagestan in fact the capital. detonated itself and then in the ensuing chaos as emergency crews and firefighters came to fight the blaze that ensued a second bomb went off about twenty minutes later it is believed that bomb could have been hidden in a parked car near the same checkpoint now at this point more than

a dozen have been killed and more than one hundred twenty have been injured and again this has officially been. a terrorist attack and this is not new to the area in fact this is an ongoing battle in the russian caucuses region the region has been suffering attacks by islamist terrorist groups international cells that russian officials have linked to groups like al qaeda in fact in mid february group of terrorists or militants were killed in a gun battle with russian security forces that happened in mid february and then also in the past two months march and april there have been blasts in. as well as doug a stan and in two thousand and eleven just to kind of bring you up to speed as far as how this has been going on a terrorist leader with possible links to al qaeda in fact officials saying that it was linked to al qaeda was killed in the region as well so this is an ongoing

battle and as far as this particular incident we know that more than a dozen have been killed and more than one hundred twenty injured and investigators are now looking into who could have been behind this possible attack all right thanks sean and we'll talk to you later of course sean thomas reporting there live from moscow. and terrorism in the north caucuses has for long been considered a domestic issue but last year the u.s. included russia's top terrorist huge hit don't have on its own most wanted list and talk to late forensic counterterrorism advisor to the u.s. congress explains why and wider view is now being taken. first of all more information is coming both to congress and good nutrition about the connections between those you harvey networks in just your darkest on the one hand and those present in north africa and in the middle number two because the evidence we're getting from carrot individuals in afghanistan for example of the places we buy they do admit to work with the caucus because to harness on the one hand and with

what you see on the website this information is available for all these reasons together and this is designed for the international routes which is a good thing because they're supported from between russia and united states we do not assume you are on many things but at least on that one it's in the interest of everybody. i was going to go to give terrorists. they were a treat from washington towards iran is again being round top just ahead of this second round of high level international talks on the country's nuclear program u.s. military top brass claiming they would need just three weeks to defeat iran's armed forces and she's going to check out looks at whether it's just more tough talk or preparation for real action. the pentagon says they're just doing some contingency planning in case you're in attempts to close the strait of hormuz or attacks u.s. ships in the persian gulf but analysts say it's the kind of planning that drives the attentions of whole new level now it doesn't take

a rocket scientist to figure out that iran is encircled militarily here is the iran and here are the countries in red where the u.s. has military presence we've tried to put on the map those u.s. bases which have been reported about they are in flashing blue here here you have the friendly arab countries right next to qatar it's bahrain which hosts the u.s. fifth fleet that's forty ships sixteen thousand personnel two huge aircraft carriers kuwait which right after the drawdown in iraq the u.s. there has increased the size of standby combat force. america's air force army navy and marines are boldly positioned dana oman and the united arab emirates the sounds of the iran. turkey and israel to the west and afghanistan and pakistan in the east most recently the u.s. air force has this batch the number of f. twenty two raptor strike fighters to a base in the united arab emirates and here it is the brand new penetrating strike

fighter the move has caused backlash from tehran in addition to the hardware u.s. central command says there are about one hundred twenty five thousand u.s. troops in close proximity to iran not to mention new drone bases in undisclosed locations also in the region u.s. officials say an enhanced presence in the gulf is meant to serve as a quote quick reaction contingency force not simply as a prelude to war but the buildup seems to exacerbate the hostile talk which may at one point turn into an all out confrontation the military is of course no match to the american military might after all we're talking about the country that spends on its military more than the next ten top defense spending countries combined so crushing you rand is in america's power but analysts most analysts agree it's also in its power is producing the kind of instability in the region that would be far

worse than what came out of iraq and afghanistan. you're watching archie and here's some what's ahead for you in the program china q does the u.s. interfering in its internal affairs and a continuing run of a chinese activist sheltered briefly by the american embassy dominating hillary clinton's visit to the country. also to new plan germany holds atomic power but some voiced concerns the green energy which will replace it may not be as friendly a solution as it seems. that slater before that president medvedev prepares to leave the kremlin as he finishes his term of office on monday hunting over to vladimir putin although credited for liberal views and approach for reforms as well as steering a reset in relations with the u.s. made about its presidency also saw some of the largest protests in modern russian history and she's a nice an hour now takes a look at what legacy he leaves for russia very easy to. receive.

not only do. one term in the kremlin was it too little time to make a dent mr medvedev is going to be remembered as someone who had genuine reform intentions and who was impeded on achieving all of those reforms through the political process through the structure of the political system. at the dawn of his presidency georgia attacked south is said here by the media and much of the world community blamed russia destress who was in this case that only but he did the actions on the georgian side led to deaths among them a russian peacekeepers children women the elderly a dying in south setting most of them are citizens of the russian federation so those responsible for the deaths of our citizens will be punished mr got. them

right the misconception that russia attacked georgia put serious strain on international ties into an independent council of europe report up out that georgia launched the attack for months madrid of foreign policy was overshadowed by the war but it wasn't long before our warming in u.s. relations something many argue is his foreign policy legacy the words of the russian president at the time the reset button press and u.s. and russian relations dramatically improved over the next few years by twenty ten medvedev and obama signed a new start and cart both country's nuclear arsenals by a third. as a result of hard work we've created a treaty that fully complies with the interests of both russia and the u.s. back home medvedev wants reforms focusing on the justice system and rule of law you

want the less people behind bars. less persecution. businesspeople or just special justified persecution. less corruption and i think that he has managed to start some cases jump start the process. but little change from high profile cases like me skip press is former richest man still serving his sentence for economic crimes madrid has pushed for modernization and diversification could have been a highlight of his presidency and he still has a chance to if he presses on as prime minister and we can be sure that without modernization the russian economy has no future it may be based on vast natural resources but we cannot rely only on them the job swap with putin was the last straw for medvedev supporters who hoped he would run for

a second term but the secrecy and surprise of the smart added to the negative sentiment prior to the biggest protests russia has seen hears. heard yet in december after claims of vote fraud in the parliamentary election medvedev came back on line and laid out changes that his response was too little too late yet but if i propose complex reforms to our political system. i don't discuss that i hear the people who are demanding changes and i understand i can. be outlined a series of measures including the easy registration for political parties and direct polls for regional leaders maybe it is administration continues to strasse how much work is left as he prepares to step aside as president and take over as prime minister i have loved. all initiatives

all. discussed. hume here you prof told us. the government was mikal to implement all the initiatives put forth by the by prison for me to be different the good acts aren't convinced debates are buzzing over what made the dislike of it will be and how his policies might be implemented with blue chip back in the family but the fact remains with its move this president would have only seen real results during or even after a second term in office leaving the question of how do you draw the line between what i did as president what you might do as i'm. used to now a our chief of staff. and later today an exclusive peek behind the kremlin walls for you with all she's selfish of are not meeting some of those who do unique and unusual jobs and russia's center of power. join me on a journey to the heart of the kremlin to

a place is hidden from the tourists you're going to meet some real kremlin insiders although they may not be the usual news makers you see on t.v. . you leave. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has told chinese president hu jintao that relations between their countries are stronger than ever sure is appears an attempt at a pattern of a mounting series differences during her visit as an extremely delicate time

between the two beijing accuses the u.s. of meddling in its internal affairs after the american embassy briefly shoulder the chinese dissident activist and it's also noid by washington's military buildup in the asia pacific an apparent effort to contain china's growing regional clout and dr kahn hallinan from the foreign policy in focus think time as he leaves american policy towards china like cold war a trick of wishes for him bipolar kind of relationship because in many ways one of china's our number one trading partner. a whole trillions of dollars in u.s. bonds we are all kind of locked into international markets so on one level the cooperation is forced on us by the fact that we're so into link 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 those troops that lives are basically controlled those waters are controlled by the u.s. fifth fleet and the u.s. seventh fleet and that makes a chinese nervous. and the tylenol hillary clinton visit to china is also covered in our website r.t. dot com and we've got plenty more in store there for you to make a move against london deployed missiles on houses ahead of this year's somebody's summer olympics for the first time since the second world war find out why londoners are concerned about the mood online. class part lab for our flip so while some at any rate with talk of new moves to leave the band mariano for sports know this cold why at r.t. dot com.

they found out the popular sharing website mega apple out has started to get a new zealand local court ruled the confiscation of his fortune was illegal king dot com is connotate facing extradition to the us what you're facing charges of money no one train wreck a tearing and copyright infringement american authorities shot down in january while dot com and his fellow executed and sixty's were arrested in new zealand at a us request but the voices are growing louder in america than the prosecution of the website on its own is unlawful and little professor ari goldman is that the shutdown was simply a gift to the entertainment industry. there are very tight linkages between the government and the content industry so for example many of the people who are in the government work on the content industry and many of the people in the government will get jobs in the content industry after they're done as a result they understand each other's issues very well they've been there firsthand

in addition the content industry contributes a significant amount of money to the administration and to the other politicians who are decision makers as a result they get a great deal of influence over what the government does and that's part of the reason why. we're wondering if that megaupload prosecution it's really the beginning of that content industry being able to tell the government to do its dirty work for it and so the battle be never ending content owners will always want more control but the battle of the turn out well for us because we as consumers will lose in at least one if many of those other fora. and later today security scares over the new timeline on facebook and peta levels debate cross-talk. going to be a lot of unexpected ways in which that information which are being sort of encouraged to post is then used and it surprises you again new recent story which is that this is actually a russian location company i free innovations created called girls around me which

is polling publicly available information both from facebook and another company foursquare where you basically post your locations and created an app called girls around me where if someone was in a neighborhood they suddenly got a map showing them where young women are in bars and restaurants in their neighborhood right which is a kind of creepy right it's like. japan is set to turn off its last working reactor this weekend leaving one of the world's largest industrial powers without a source of nuclear power for the first time in almost fifty years the government has bowed to public pressure following last year's disaster at the fukushima reactor after the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami and dr khalid hayden professor of physics at the university of connecticut believes however it's just

a matter of time before tokyo turns their reactors back on. they have fifty four reactors and they have one of them operating but it will be down for refueling as it is what they're doing is burning a lot of residual oil and the the pact on the price of residual oil has been felt awful as far away as hawaii where the price for electricity now is very very high because of that that decision to shut the nukes and but it's costing them very dearly they have gotten early ill enough electricity and they have actually called on some factories to cut back their operations quite a bit they will probably go back to nuclear in due time it's because money talks it's found in the wake of japan's crisis germany decided to scrap its atomic plants replacing them with north

a stable and greener energy sources but the rush to scale back and you could energy has had consequences to this kind of explains. green energy or bust in just eight years the german government plans for the nation to generate more than a third of its energy from renewable sources and powering up at least eighty percent in forty years germany the place of. jamaica let's. go along with solar power and biofuel five thousand new winter bines in nearly three thousand miles of power lines are said to be built but the perceived eco friendly future is giving some here the shivers. up lives in a village that's right next to wind farm field he says the machines are so noisy many locals complain of sleep disorders in even heart problems and property prices

have already plummeted between thirty and fifty percent the low frequency sound waves are a big problem some may get a high blood pressure or high points many can sleep one man often drives five to ten kilometers away and sleeps in his car but what's more the turbines track record has energy analyst in a spin you have to have all this backup capacity you have to have her station so you can easily switch on and off when the wind isn't blowing and that usually means coal fired power stations or gas fired power stations and of course having all that capacity just lying there waiting if the wind drops doesn't mean of course added costs the public appetite for atomic energy nosedived a year ago when japan was taken to the brink of nuclear catastrophe by the week's tragedy with a country still battling to stabilize its volatile reactors germany is investing two hundred billion euros to replace its seventeen nuclear reactors but even some

officials there agree counting on renewable energy could be too much of a high voltage risk for the economy with germany being the biggest energy can see. maroon the european union is renewable energy plans are among the most ambitious projects of the decade as long as the state of the order don't end up bringing the groceries economy to a grinding halt your god was going to. germany and then let's take a look in brief at some other news from around the world this hour at least sixteen people are dead in northwestern pakistan after a suicide bomber at a police checkpoint that type in the tribal region was beside a crowded street market one of the officers killed in the blast had received a presidential award for fighting the taliban no group has admitted responsibility that islamist militants battling for control of the are going to border region are suspected. violent clashes between doctors medical students and the riot police have been continuing in believe you are protests over the past month

have demanded the resignation of the country's health minister who's brought in longer working hours transformations in la paz blocked traffic with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets to clear demonstrators. and prosecutors of former liberian president charles taylor suggest he should get eighty years in prison for war crimes during these here a long civil war the hague international court which found him guilty last month say the extreme magnitude of the offenses warrant such a long sentence taylor bank sierra leone rebels have killed tens of thousands of people in return for diamonds and he was also convicted of rape and murder and will be sentenced this month. time now to check will top me in the world of business with marina outside of hyde emery know what's in store for. how you know basically in terms of markets today all eyes on the u.s. because we're expecting to get a monthly jobs report for the month of april that is and if it falls below

expectations we are expecting to see markets go into the right across the board by the end of the day so we'll be looking out for that as well as investors often alice take a look at currencies the euro has managed to bounce back from two week lows and there's a gain in against the dollar and that's of course after the european central bank did say that the region's economy is likely to recover this year when it comes to the ruble it lost against both major currencies on thursday and of course we're going to the update in figures for that when the russian markets open which is in less than an hour from now on the third day and that the trade in session in the red the artsy has lost over half a percent of all of them i said slow is just under a quarter of a percent basically tracking some of the losses that we saw overseas and it was pretty much a volatile session throughout i have to say ok moving on to asia which is a very only one trading at the moment when it comes to the next day it's close because japan is celebrating a public holiday but when it comes to the hang sang and still shot in point seven

percent of this hour we have basically investors reacting to weaker commodity prices as well as the losses on wall street well in all the news we have tell us about facebook's initial public offering the company has set the share price between twenty eight and thirty five dollars per share value in the company between eighty five to ninety five billion dollars the i.p.o. is of course that's a b. the largest ever for and something that for an even bigger than google's i can see thousand and four and it's all expected to begin on the eighteenth of may. the united arab emirates has completed a new pipeline sapulpa oil bypassing been the warrior. strait of hormuz the new routes will be able to supply around two thirds of the country's crude outlets and of course currently almost all of the u.a.e. soil and twenty percent of global deliveries are transported through the straits of hormuz which is controlled by iran or any other country through absence of blockage

as a reaction to sanctions from western countries over its nuclear program while back to russia for hours just days of course before president elect glad the upwards and takes over and there's already talk about who will be the new members of the government the current president of course for his in the has already set out his goals for his new role as prime minister and the we spoke to the russian economy school had sygate gritty of and he outlined what's been done in order to make sure that president medvedev this promises are achieved the recent speech by me was already quite specific instead of saying that we will be doing member musician or innovation this is how many jobs we want to create this is called being the middle class should be the high the life expectancy should be this is how much we want to grow the productivity of russian companies so he gave numbers but then the next

question is whether if a ministry or a minister fields in the bargain will this mean it's going to be. fine and this is exactly where the culture of. either works or doesn't so i think in the year two we'll see how serious maybe it was government. and that's are all have the update it figures for the markets for you when they open fantastic thank you very much indeed marina we'll see you next hour and coming up in a few minutes almost eight hundred military bases a quarter of a million of the army personnel america is enriching the globe with a weapon of war they dangers of which we explore in our special report that's after remind our top story.

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