only in story now at least twelve people have been killed and more than one hundred injured after two powerful bomb blasts in russia's republic of dagestan the terrorist attacks took place near a police checkpoint in the capital of. show thomas has more. 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 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 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 a terrorist leader with possible links to al qaeda in fact officials saying that he was linked to al qaeda was killed what we know at this point is more than a dozen have been killed and more than one hundred 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 long been considered a domestic issue but back in twenty ten the u.s. included russia stop terrorist fugitive. on its own most wanted list and talked about her as a counterterrorism advisor to the u.s. congress explains why and why did he take to fall and more information is coming both to congress and good instruction 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 east no good to be close to the evidence we're getting from captured individuals in afghanistan for example places where by they do it mr . we have worked with the caucus based your 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 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. i was going to go to give terrorists. the war rhetoric from washington towards iran is again being run 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 or he's going to take our looks at what is just more tough talk or preparation for real action. the pentagon says they're just doing some contingency

planning in case you ran 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 a 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 in the 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 or me 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 one point turn into an all out confrontation the military is of course no match to the american military might after all the talk. 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 analysts most analysts agree what'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 know with his son what's ahead for you in the program a long journey to justice the seizing of the assets of the founder of file sharing website mega upload is deemed illegal but he still faces extradition to the wise and there's growing concern among some in the us who believe his prosecution is all about a big corporation cashing in on the site's closure. but also noting new pair germany holds atomic power but some voiced concerns the green entry which will replace them may not be as friendly a solution. that later before the 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 patch up the mounting serious differences during her visit as an extremely delicate time between the two beijing accuses the u.s. of meddling in its turn affairs after the american embassy briefings sheltered a chinese dissident activist and it's also annoyed by washington's military buildup in the asia pacific and apparent effort to contain china's growing regional clout dr khan hunt from the foreign policy in focus think timers alludes to us china corp it's forced of both countries of it's very bipolar kind of relationship because in many ways not china is their 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 linked 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 to the energy supplies are basically controlling those waters are controlled by the u.s. fifth fleet and the u.s. seventh fleet and that makes the chinese nervous. and we're always eager to know your take on the story and today we're asking you what you think might ruin the u.s. chinese relationship and just talk about yours believe it could be as major proxy for africa natural resources while about a third saying that nothing will tarnish their lives at the country's depend too much on each other so seventeen percent of the opinion that american trade barriers will ruin the relationship and only five percent believe the bone of contention could turn out to be a breach of human rights in china so please log on to r.t. dot com and cast your vote. 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 kim dotcom is currently facing extradition to the us when we facing charges of money laundering racketeering and corporate infringement american authorities shut down mega upload in january while the dot com and his fellow executives were arrested in new zealand at a u.s. request but voices are growing louder in america that the prosecution of the website and its owners as unlawful and law professor eric goldman all these that they shut down were 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 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 it started work for it and so the battle be never ending content owners will always want more control but the battles of the turn out well for us because we as consumers will lose. later today a security scare over the new timeline on facebook and peace 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. you know the guys are ready to. present that if prepares to leave the kremlin has he finishes his term of office on monday handing over to vladimir putin all the credit for liberal views and a push for reforms as well as steering a rest at recess rather in relations with the u.s. and that of the presidency also sort some of the largest protests in modern russian history he's and he said now it takes on the legacy he leaves for russia. but he didn't but i c's gave you get out see the meet the other story that should be the

video of 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. 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 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 medved 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 the words of the russian president the reset button press u.s. and russian relations devoutly and for over the next two 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 for justice 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 me ski presses 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 swan added to the negative

sentiment prior to the biggest protests russia has seen hears. 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 i can with you. 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 loved. says it will continue to under president bush and all initiatives all the strategist discussed with him here you proved all the things

the government was key mikal to implement all the initiatives and put forth by the by present need to be different but could exist aren't convinced debates are buzzing over what made it looks like it will be and how his policies might be implemented with blue chip back in the family but the fact that made smith made its move this president would have only seen real results during or even after a second term in office even the price will not be a problem by between what my day did as president what he might do i'm. just now a our team. and as much as any person returns to russia job in three days time we'll be bringing you our special coverage of his inauguration john is for the live broadcast from the splendor of the kremlin halls after seven fashion and g.m.t. on monday.

japan is set to turn off its last working reactor this weekend leaving one of the wildly largest industrial powers without a source of nuclear power for the first time in almost fifty days the government has bowed to public pressure following last year's disaster the fictional reactor at a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami and docked at home but hayden a professor of physics at the university of connecticut believes however is just a matter of time before talk it turns their reaction as back on as they have 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 one of the price for electricity is very very high because of that that decision to shut the nukes but it's costing them very dearly they have got nearly enough electricity and they have actually called on some factories to cut back their operations quite a bit there will probably go back to berkeley or and do try it's because money talks. and in the wake of japan's crisis germany decided to scrap its atomic plans replacing them with nor sustainable and greener energy sources but the rush to

scale back nuclear energy has had consequences to this kind of explain. 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. the restructure the whole energy to make less. oil 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 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 but 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 swish 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 tragedy with a country still battling to stabilize its volatile reactors germany is investing. hundred billion used 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 or that you can meet with germany being the biggest energy consumer in the european union its renewable energy plans are among the most ambitious projects of the decade as long as the state of the art one forms don't end up bringing the country's economy to a grinding halt you've got risk on all of germany and let's not take a quick 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 tribal region of beside a crowded street market one of the officers killed in the blast had received a presidential award for fighting the taliban their group has admitted responsibility the islamist militants battling for control of the are going to border region are suspected. violent clashes between doctors medical students and drive police have been continuing in believing protests over the past month have demanded the resignation of the country's health minister has brought in

longer working hours to australians in the past blocked 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 this year only on civil war lawyers at the hague international court which found him guilty last month's a big stream market shoot of the officers weren't such a long sentence taylor back to sierra leone rebels were chilled tears of thousands of people in return for diamonds and he was also convicted of rape and murder and will be sentenced this. a time not to check what's happening in the world of business with marina so if it's too late feel read over that marina yes it is everyone is deepening their losses if we start with europe and take a look at what's happening there first of all the main focus today for all investors is the jobs report that will come out from the u.s.

so that will have to do with the month of april we've heard analysts say that they're expecting those figures to be below expectations so it's probably why we see markets plunged into the red when it comes to europe and the situation is not as bad as it is for example in asia or russia which i'll get to in a moment but as you can see the footsie and the banks are starting over half a percent there now if we move on to russia they are extending that thursday's losses plunge and deep into the red both the artist and the my section is in over one and a half percent and of course the russian economy is also severely affected by oil prices and since are heading south that's i haven't and the fact on the market i'm talking about oil the russian government introduce new stimulus measures to boost the country's oil production and in particular it's introducing tanks breaks to companies extracting energy from heart sewage deposits in western siberia now these this callus will be from fifty percent to one hundred percent depending on the

difficulty of the deposit and after years of production in western siberia is still rich in the oil but the companies are not rushing to develop it because of the high cost the government expects that these new benefits to help produce up to one hundred million tons of oil more a year which is around a fifth of the country's current production levels and this move comes after experts are warning that russia could face at the climb in oil production in several years if companies do not invest in the production of new hard to get the process. or let's continue and look at some other international markets asia there the nikkei. it's close because japan is of course celebrating a public holiday but we do have the head sank and it's still dropping the point is seven to seven percent this hour and that's after the main breaker commodity prices and investors are affected by it all says on the wall street that we saw over night now when it comes to the currencies the euro has bounced back from

a two week low although this hour we see that it's moves in against the dollar and that's mainly after the european central bank did say that it's likely that the euro zone's you call them you will recover this year and when it comes to the ruble it's the news in the against of both major currencies now in other news we have new details 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 entire company between eighty five to ninety five billion dollars this i.p.o. is of course to be the largest ever for an even bigger than google's back in two thousand and four and it's all expected to begin on the eighteenth of may. also the united arab emirates has completed a new pipeline so pump oil bypassing the corniest strait of hormuz the new routes will be able to supply around two thirds of the country screwed out currently almost all of the oil at twenty percent of global deliveries transported through

the straits of hormuz which is of course controlled by iran and earlier the country is right since a blockade as a reaction to sanctions from western countries over its nuclear program. all of that's what i have for you this hour back to you know many thanks indeed for that tom de marina and in a few minutes we'll explore the whole its possible the russian capital and moscow that's after a lot of headlines stay with us. leaves

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you're watching and see thanks for being with as the headline. the russian north caucuses as two powerful blast in the republic of dagestan leave at least eleven dead and others injured so side a top had detonated a bomb in his car as a police checkpoint but a second explosion going off one rescue teams have arrived. in washington returns to war rhetoric against iran as the u.s. military claims it could destroy tellings own forces in less than the moments this comes as the u.s. continues to build up its military presence in the region. is set to shut down its final. the last of the country's fifty such facilities the government move comes after the comic opposition to nuclear energy falling last year it's a disaster after the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami.