twenty following us live from moscow this is the with me thanks for joining us fast at least people have been killed and more than one hundred twenty injured after two powerful bomb blasts in russia's republic of dagestan the terrorist attacks take place near a police checkpoint in the capital much carla thomas has more for us 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 at checkpoint and this is not new to the area in fact this is an ongoing battle in the russian caucuses of 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 a terrorist 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 dug a stand and in two thousand and eleven a terrorist leader with possible links to al qaeda in fact officials say that it was linked to al qaeda was killed but we know at this point is thirteen people have been killed and more than one hundred twenty people have been injured in this particularly attack and of course we'll keep you updated as more information becomes available. terrorism in the north caucuses has long been considered a domestic issue but back in twenty ten the u.s. included russia's top terrorist fugitive docket tomorrow and its own most wanted list dr wanted for arrest a counterterrorism advisor to the u.s.

congress explains why a wide of us now being taken to football and more information is coming both to congress and the administration about the connections between those you harvey networks in just your darkest hour on the one hand and those present in north africa and in the middle number two because the evidence we're getting from character of individuals in afghanistan for example or other places where by they do admit to be have worked with the caucus based your heart is on the one hand and what you see on the website this information is available for all these reasons together at the state decided to put them on the international routes which is a good thing because they're supported broad brush not between russia and united states we do not seem to eye on many things but at least on that one it's in the interest of everybody great powers come together against terrorists let's move on now the war rhetoric from washington towards iran is again being run top just ahead of the second round of high level international talks on the country's nuclear

program u.s. military top brass claim they would need just three weeks to defeat iran's armed forces and she's going to educate 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 u.n. 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 tensions to off 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 us has military presence we try to put on the map those us bases which have been reported about flashing blue here here you have the friendly arab countries right next to qatar 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 in all modern and united arab emirates the sounds of the iran. in turkey and israel to the west and afghanistan and pakistan in the east most recently the u.s. air force has this patch 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 the 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 at 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 with and his son was ahead for you in the program an accusing us of interfering in its internal affairs and continuing the hour over a chinese activist childhood briefly by the american embassy dominating hillary clinton's visit to the country. plus a long journey to justice the seizing of the assets of the fund old file sharing website mega upload is deemed illegal but he still faces extradition to the u.s.

there's growing concern among some in the u.s. who believe he's prosecution is all about big completion cashing in on the side closure. president amid a bit of prepares to leave the kremlin as he finishes his stand in an on monday of his office handing over to lead to a new position also credited for liberal views and a push for real swarms as well as steering a reset in relations with the u.s. but about his presidency also saw some of the largest protests in modern russian history and she's a nice and takes a look at what legacy he leaves for russia. but he didn't but i c's gave you get out see did meet the other told each medium one term in the kremlin was it too little time to make a dent in 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 destroy goes in this case that only but even the actions on the georgian side led to deaths among them a russian peacekeepers children women the elderly a dying in south. most of them are citizens of the russian federation those responsible for the deaths of our citizens will be punished mr. wright the misconception that russia attacked georgia put serious strain on international ties into an independent council of europe report up held that georgia launched the attack for months madrid of foreign policy was overshadowed by the war but it wasn't long before a warming in u.s. relations something many argue is his foreign policy legacy they were the

russian president at the time of 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 cut both country's nuclear arsenals by a third. with a year as a result of hard work we've created a treaty that fully complies with the interests of both russia and the us back home medvedev wants reforms focusing on the justice. system and rule of law. one the people behind bars. this persecute. business people or just special justified persecution. corruption and i think that he has managed to start some cases jump start the process. but little changed on high profile cases like mikhail khodorkovsky russia's 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 ask 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 had seen hears. in december after claims of vote fraud in the parliamentary election medvedev came back on line in laid out changes but his response was too little too late yet but

if i propose complex reforms to our political system. i don't disguise that i hear the people who are demanding changes and i understand i can with you. he outlined a series of measures including the easy registration for political parties and direct polls for regional leaders made his administration continues to show us how much work is left as he prepares to step aside as president and take over as prime minister i have not done. because it will be continued under president bush and all initiatives all the strategy has been discussed with him here you proved all the things the government was a key vehicle to implement all the initiatives put forth by the by prison for me to be different but critics aren't convinced debates are buzzing over what mitt with its legacy will be and how his policies might be implemented with blue chip back in

the family but the fact remains midriff moved as president would have only seen real results during or even after a second term in office would the pressure not be a problem mark between what i did or did as president what he might do i'm. used to now a r t. and later today for you an exclusive peek behind the kremlin walls with else he's sophie shevardnadze meeting some of those who do you need 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 he's going to meet some real kremlin insiders although they may not be the usual news makers you see on t.v. . eat.

sleep. so don't miss sophia later today now u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has told chinese president hu jintao that relations between their countries are stronger than ever her assurance appears an attempt to pacho the mounting serious differences during her visit as an extremely delicate time between the two beijing accuses the u.s. of meddling and if the internal affairs after them american embassy every fish out of a chinese dissident activity and it's also annoyed by washington's military buildup in the asia pacific an apparent effort to can try to reach out and dr kahn hallinan from the foreign policy in focus same time as it believes american policy towards china is like the cold birthrate which is. sort of bipolar kind of relationship

because in many ways one of china's our number one trade partner. and again a whole trillions of dollars in u.s. bonds we are all kind of locked into an international market so on the one level the cooperation is kind of forced on us by the fact that we're so into a 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 are arrive by sea generally through the yellow sea those to the energy supplies are basically controlled those waters are controlled by the u.s. fifth fleet and the u.s. seventh fleet and that makes the chinese nervous. the timeline on hillary clinton's visit to china is also covered in our website on t.v. dot com and we've got plenty more in store there for you to like will go along with

missiles and how the head of this year's summer olympics for the first time since the second world war find out why london as a concerned about to move on life. last a pot luck for athletes and well put some at any rate with the top of the new moves to lives the ban on mariana spots may discover why it article. the founder of the popular file sharing website mega upload has started to get back his assets in new zealand after a local court ruled the confiscation of his fortune was a legal claim dot com is currently facing extradition to the u.s. where he faces charges of money laundering racketeering and corporate infringement

american authorities shut down mega upload in january while dot com and his fellow executives were arrested in new zealand at the u.s. request but horses are growing louder in america that the prosecution of the website and its owners is unlawful so a law professor eric goldman argues that the shutdown was simply a gift to the intertainment industry. there are very tight linkages between the government and the content industry so for example many of the people who were in the government worked in 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 first in addition the content industry contributes a significant amount of money to be administration and to other politicians who are decision makers as a result they get a great deal of influence over what the government and that's part of the reason why. we're wondering if that megaupload prosecution is really the beginning of the

content industry being able to tell the government to do its dirty work for it and so the battle be never be content owners will always want more control but the battle without the turn out well for us because we have consumers will lose at least one if many of those other four and next our security has over the new timeline on facebook. crossed. there's 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 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 well actually the guy so i'm going to be smiling ok yeah the guy is very much like regular. japan is set to turn off at last working reacts to this weekend leaving one of the wild the largest industrial powers without a source of nuclear power for the first time in almost fifty years the government has about to public pressure following last his disaster edification reactor out of the catastrophic have quake and tsunami and dr howard hayden professor of physics at the university of connecticut believes however it's just a matter of time before talk it turns the reactors back on if 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 fact on the price of residual

oil has been felt for as far away as hawaii where the price for electricity doubt 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 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 and do try it's because money talks. in the wake of japan's crisis germany decided to scrap its atomic plants replacing them with a north sustainable and greener energy sources but the rush to scale back nuclear energy has had consequences to what his ego has gone off 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 and take the place of. the restructure the whole

energy to make a less. important oil along with solar power and biofuel five thousand new winter bines 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 of 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. what's more the turbines track record has energy analysts 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 earthquake tragedy with the country still battling to stabilize its volatile reactors germany is investing to. one hundred billion euros to replace 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 consumer in the european union and three nubile energy plans are truly among the most ambitious projects off the decade as long as the state of the art wind farms don't end up bringing the country's economy to a grinding halt. r.t.

germany. and a lesson to take a look at some other stories from around the world this hour at least sixteen people are dead in northwestern pakistan after a suicide bomber to police checkpoint that type in the bashar 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 although islamist militants battling for control of the ark and border region are so expect suspected. also violent clashes between doctors and medical students and riot police are the continuing in believe you're protests over the past month have demanded the resignation of the country's health minister has brought in longer working hours or inspirations in la paz and blocks traffic with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets to clear demonstrate. on prosecutors a former liberian president charles taylor suggests he should get eighty years in prison for war crimes during these here early on civil war the lawyers at the hague

the international court which found him guilty last month say the extreme magnitude of the offenses warrant such a long sentence terry labonte 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 in this month's. time to check what's happening in the world of business with marina claudette marina so the russian markets just opened what are the first figures that. wall the figures are actually all in the row there are some markets have failed to reverse thursday's losses and basically what we have here is inverse is reacting to comments made by the european central bank on thursday and also of course today investors are will be watching the west because we're expecting the monthly jobs report for the month away toward so come out later today and of course if that falls those figures fall below expectations that it will be a sea of red across the board but for now we're going to that the artsy as i've

said in over half a percent why the law so it's. it's dropping about a third of her science moving on to asia which is also trading right now than they came as close because japan is celebrating a public holiday but when it comes to china we can see that hindsight is still shedding no change whatsoever from the previous hours though dropping point seven per cent this hour and that's after a week or commodity prices as well as the losses on wall street now when it comes to exchange rates with the euro has managed to bounce back from two week lows although at this hour it's losing against the dollar ever so slightly now the boost in this really came from the european central bank saying that the euro zone's economy is likely to recover this year when it comes to the ruble updated figures there it's losing against both major currencies and all the news we have more details about folks initial public offering and the company has set the share price between twenty eight and thirty five dollars per share value in the entire company

between eighty five and ninety five billion dollars this i.p.o. is of course said to be the largest ever for it and that for an even bigger than google's back in two thousand and four and it's all expected to begin only eighteen of may. the united arab emirates has completed a new pipeline to pump oil bypassing when that all is strange up or move the neurons will be able to supply around two thirds of the country's crude output and currently almost all of the u.a.e. is or oil and twenty percent of global deliveries transported through the straits of hormuz which is of course controlled by iran earlier the country threatens to block it as a reaction see sanctions from western countries over its nuclear program. now going back to russia itself course as they before president like that in the upwards in takes over and there's been a lot of talk already about the new members of the government the current prize then the medvedev has already spoken of the goals you would like to see achieved

and his new role as foreign minister and was spoke to the head of the russian school of economics and he outlined what should be done in order to make sure that those goals are fulfilled the recent speech agreement 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 this is . 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 the is whether if a ministry or a minister fails to achieve the target will this mean it's going to be. fired and this is exactly where the culture of physic you shouldn't either works or it doesn't so i think in the year or two we'll see how serious maybe it was government . or as the next hour the european markets will open so i have updated figures for

that for now all right looking forward to it thanks for that update marina and coming up in a few minutes a look at what's hot in the russian capital in moscow right i have to remind our top stories for. davis keep this inside he too can read the room. to.

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watching aussies great to have you with us the headlines. tween terror attacks hate the russian north caucuses as two powerful blocks of the republic of dagestan leave at least assess him dead and over one hundred twenty injured as the saga taka detonated a bomb in his car as a police checkpoint but a second explosion going off when rescue teams are right. washington returns to war rhetoric against iran as the u.s. military claims it could destroy terror on its own forces in less than a month this comes as. the u.s. continues to build up its military presence in the region. and japan is set to shut down its final nuclear reactor the last of the country's fifty such facilities the government move comes up to public opposition to nuclear energy for the last years to push him a design stop.