international news and common to life for most criticisms he with me thanks for joining us fast at least if people have been killed and more than one hundred twenty injured after two powerful bomb blasts and russia's republic of dagestan the terrorist attacks take place near a police checkpoint in the capital in which carla thomas has. 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 of. 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 in 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 in 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 saying 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 caucasus has for long been considered a domestic issue but back in twenty ten the u.s. included russia stop terrorist fugitive doc omar of on his own most wanted list dr willett for as a counterterrorism advisor to the u.s.

congress explains why of wide of use now being taken first of all and more information is coming both to congress and the administration about the connections between those you hardly networks in chechnya dagestan on the one hand and those present in north africa and in the middle number two because the evidence we're getting from captured individuals in afghanistan for example or other places whereby they do admit to be have worked with the caucus based you harness on the one hand and with what we see on the web site this information is available for all these reasons together the united states 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 see eye to eye on many things but at least on that one it's in the interest of everybody that great powers come together against terrorists. that's changed is now the wall retreat from washington towards iran is again being ramped up just ahead of the second round of high level international talks on the country's nuclear program the u.s.

military told brass claim they would need just three weeks to defeat iran's forces to count looks at whether it is just more tough talk or preparation for re-election 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 rand 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 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 oman and the 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 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 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 undisclosed locations also in the region you. 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 iranian 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 new rand is in america's power but emily's 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. and here's some of what's ahead for you in the program. the us of interfering in its internal affairs and the continuing rout over the chinese activists sheltered briefly by the american embassy dominating hillary clinton's visit to the country. and the long journey to justice the seizing of the assets of the fund of sharing website a mega upload is deemed illegal but he still faces official to the u.s. that is growing concern among some in the dooars who believe he's prosecution is

all about big corporations cashing in on that site. later before that japan is set to turn off its last working reacts to this weekend leaving one of the world's largest industrial nations without a source of nuclear energy for the first time in almost fifty years the government has bowed to public pressure following last year's disaster the fukushima power plant after the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami and for more on the bunch of the shutdown when i joined live by james corbett editor of the colbert report cheney welcome to the program so shutting down its reactors is just pan taking an economic hit. that there is no doubt that it's taking quite an economic hit in a number of ways and i think we can see that reflected most obviously by the fact that they are now forced to import much more oil and light natural gas and and other energy materials in order to try to to power the economy but on on the other

hand there is actually some surprises coming out of all of this including the fact that the tokyo electric power company that operate that would be sheena daiichi plant is actually projected to have a four point five percent surplus in energy over the summer months due to a number of factors but including an increased use in geothermal energy so there are some surprising indications coming to us that's quite interesting but high energy costs due to the nuclear shutdown have led to the first national trade deficit for some time has japan going to deal with with paying more for more expensive power in troubled economic times generally. well in the short run i'm not sure there would be any way to really avoid that and i think that's not just japan i think a lot of countries are facing that will be given say sanctions on iran and other such things that are causing increases in energy prices generally but but at like every other challenge this does present a potential opportunity to japan to exploit some of its other abilities to generate energy including a geothermal power it's currently only generating about zero point five gigawatts

of power geothermal power but has a potential for up to twenty three point five gigawatts obviously a lot of that is in national parks and in hot spring areas that are currently being used for tourism but could could be converted to at least potentially two to more energy generation and japan's ocean. and its proximity to the ocean is actually something that could be used exploited for generating title power or even differential in temperature is in the ocean currents can be used to generate power at the experimental technologies at the moment but japan could become a leading nation in those types of generation techniques and also despite the public school for green energy solutions the tokyo government wants to turn from reactors back on how can they reassure people fear is about nuclear power. well that's a that's a very very important question right now i don't think there is an easy way to reassure a public especially because in the wake of the fukushima accident we've seen

a japanese population that's world renowned for being so reserved and so conservative on a lot of issues actually becoming motivated to to really quite a strong political protest over this and i think a silent majority that have been against a nuclear power in this country in the past or now are now actually becoming a vocal majority with protesters camping out outside of the energy industry ministry offices and people going on hunger strikes there was a large rally all around the country i attended one in osaka last month for the one year anniversary of the three eleven crisis so there is definitely an indication that the public is not going to to let the status quo continue very much any longer of course the japanese government now being pressured by the o.e.c.d. in the world economic council and other organizations to restart the reactors so i think we're going to see this coming to a head quite soon but but i don't think there's any sign that the public is going to let up on this or right james corbet at it so the colbert report thank you very

much for sharing your views with us thank you. and coming up next hour here and i'll see in the wake of japan's crisis several nations began to scale back the nuclear ambitions and how so with reaction on atomic power germany has had ten that consequence a. president that for paths to leave the kremlin as he finishes his town of office on monday handing over to vladimir putin all that credit for liberal views and a push for reforms as well that staring a reset in relations with the u.s. at about its presidency also saw some of the largest protests in modern russian history always any so now it takes a look at both legacy he leaves for russia. but he didn't but i sees caveat i have three dimitri and i don't leave 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 has said here 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 a settler 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 he was 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 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 you want the less people behind bars. this persecute. business people. just 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 me ski rushes 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 the secrecy and surprise of the smart added to the negative sentiment prior to the biggest protests russia has seen in years.

in december after claims of vote fraud in the parliamentary election medvedev came back on line and 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 discuss that i hear the people who are demanding changes and i understand. he 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. to continue to press all initiatives all the strategists discuss. hume here you proved all the things the government was a key vehicle to implement all the initiatives put forth by the by present need to

be different but the text aren't convinced debates are buzzing over what made the dislike if it will be and how his policies might be implemented with blue chip back in the family but the fact remains mitt video has moved as president would have only seen real results during or even after a second term in office even the question of how do you draw the line between what my day did as president what he might do i mean he's now a our team. and as my dinner person returns to russia stop job in three days we'll be bringing you our special coverage of he's on the ration john it's for the live broadcast from faceplant all the kremlin halls to sever says he am g.m.t. on monday.

u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has told chinese president hu jintao that relations between that countries are stronger than ever harish aarons appears an attempt to patch over mounting serious differences during her visit at an extremely delicate time between the two beijing accuses the u.s. of meddling and its internal affairs after the american embassy briefly sheltered a chinese dissident activist and it's also annoyed by washington's military build up in the asia pacific an apparent effort to contain china's growing regional plant dr kahn hallinan from the foreign policy in focus think tank leave us china corp is

focused on both countries which is its very bipolar kind of relationship because in many ways our china is 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 interlinked at the same time you get this growing military tension and look chinese are also very uncomfortable about the fact that about eighty percent of their energy supplies arrive by sea generally through the yellow sea those truth that 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 of hillary clinton's

visit to china is also covered on our website which is archie dot com and we've got plenty more in store that for you as well the games in london deploys missiles and houses ahead of this year's summer olympics for the first time since the second world war find out why londoners are concerned about the mood on life. and also that could last for athletes well for some at any rate with top of the new moves to lift the ban on mariano paul supports man discover why don't you don't pop . 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 illegal came dot com is

currently facing extradition to the u.s. where he faces charges of money laundering records hearing and corporate infringement american authorities shut down mega upload in january while dot com and his fellow executives were arrested in new zealand at a us request but voices are growing louder in america than the prosecution of the website and its own as unlawful law professor eric goldman argues that the shutdown was simply a gift to the entertainment industry. there are very tightly in kitchens 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 firsthand in addition the content industry contributes a significant amount of money to the 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 the mega upload 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 without them turned out well for us because we have consumers will lose . and in less than ten minutes security scares over the new timeline on facebook and. crossed. there's going to 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 we're. doing ok you know the guys are ready to. take a quick look at some other stories from around the world this hour police sixteen dead in northwestern pakistan after a suicide bomb 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 border region are suspected. plot of clashes between doctors and medical students and riot police have been believe year protests over the past month have demanded the resignation of the country's health minister who's brought in longer working hours. blocks traffic

with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets to clear demonstrate. prosecutors of former liberian president charles taylor suggest he should get eighty years in prison for war crimes during the sierra leone's and maybe the hague international court which found him guilty last month say that extreme magnitude of the. fences warrants national sanity and. 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 on. time to chat quilts happening in the world of business with marina now that. europe is now trading at the session. while the session is not going well in five and of course investors are still digesting the news we go yes they form the european central bank and that is that the interest rate will be kept change that one percent and also that governments must push for growth but not at the expense of bring them down deficit and also investors they will be waiting to

hear about the u.s. monthly jobs report for the month of april and if those figures fall below expectations then we will see markets plunge into the red as you can see both of the end of that are starting about a third of a percent this hour moving on to rush hour markets here are extended thursday's losses pretty much tracking the sentiment overseas and we can see that the arts in the us and m i six are shedding over one and a half percent the sour move in the age of the nikkei is still closed that's because japan is still celebrating a public holiday so we only have the hang signs of focus on and we're seeing losses there as well point seven percent in the red this hour and as follow we go commodity prices as well as the losses on wall street overnight when it comes to the exchange rate the euro has bounced back from a two week low although this hour it's a flat against the dollar and when it comes to the ruble it's losing against both of the major currencies and now we have other news the last relating to face spoke

new details have come out about its initial public offering and that is that the company has now set the share price between twenty eight's and thirty five dollars per share valuing the company between eighty five to ninety five billion dollars this i.p.o. is of course said to be the largest ever for an answer that for an even bigger. google was which was back in two thousand and four and it's all expected to begin on the eighteenth of may. the united arab emirates has completed a new pipeline to pump oil bypassing the straits of hormuz the new routes will be able to supply over two thirds of the country's food outlets and the currently almost all of the u.a.e. is or oil and twenty percent of global deliveries are transported through the strait of hormuz which is of course controlled by iran and earlier the constant blog it's as a reaction see sanctions from western countries over its nuclear program.

of course as they do for the prize the life blood of me upwards and sakes over and everyone is already talking about the new members of the government prize then the current prize the mood in madrid it has already set out some of the goals you'd like to achieve and his new role as prime minister and we spoke to the head of the russian economic school and he told us what needs to be done to make sure his promises are fulfilled the recent speech agreement there was already quite specific instead of saying that we will be doing modernization the innovation this is how many jobs you want to create this is called being the middle class should be this is how 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 the is whether if a ministry or a minister fails to achieve the target will this mean it's going to be penalized

fired and this is exactly where the culture of education either works or it doesn't so i think in the year or two we'll see how serious maybe it was government. all the markets are in there as always i'm the bearer of bad news awfully something will change next hour but for the. kids indeed thank you very much for that marina see you next ok i wouldn't show crosstalk is coming your way in just a few moments right out of the recap of today's headlines.

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but combine this is austria which had all the headlines. twin tower times had the russian north caucuses as two possible bloss and they republic of dagestan leave at least twelve dead and over one hundred injured associate a tonka detonated a bomb against cars a police checkpoint with a second explosion going off when rescue teams arrive to. washington returns to war a trick against iran as the u.s. military claims it could destroy to ron's armed forces in less than a month this comes as the u.s. continues to build up its military presence in the region ledger town is set to shut down its final operating nuclear reactor the last of the country's fifty such facilities the government move comes after public opposition to nuclear energy following last year's the shaman design stepped up to the catastrophic us quake and tsunami.