news line from moscow this is ass he was me he thanks the chiding as at least eleven people have been killed and more than eighteen just after two powerful bomb blasts in russia's republic of dagestan the terrorist attacks take place near a police checkpoint in the capital much glad he's shown tamas 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. 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 say that was linked to al qaeda was killed so this is been an ongoing battle in the northern caucuses for russia for a long time. terrorism in the north caucasus has for a long been considered a domestic issue but back in twenty the u.s. included russia's top terrorist. on its own most wanted list haaretz a counterterrorism advisor to the u.s. congress explains why and why of us now being taken. first of all more information is coming both to congress and the administration 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 captured individuals in afghanistan for example or other places where by they do admit to be have worked with the caucus based you harness on the one hand and with what you see on the web site this information is available for all these reasons to gather been at this stage decided to put them on the international routes which is a good thing because they're supported for approach 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 going on now the war rhetoric from washington towards iran is again being run tab just ahead of this 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 he's going to check out looks at whether it's just a more tough talk or preparation for real action. the pentagon says they're just

doing some contingency planning in case you were 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 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 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 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 army navy and marines are boldly position oman and the united arab emirates the sounds.

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 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. we're talking about the country that spends on

its military more than the next ten top defense spending countries combined so crushing the 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 know without a thing so company and his so what's ahead for you in the program a long tyranny to justice seizing on the assets of the founder of file sharing website mega upload is deemed illegal but he still faces extinction to the u.s. there's growing concern among some in the u.s. who believe he's prosecution is all about big corporations cashing in on the side closure. and also he later that no to nuclear germany holds atomic power but some voice concerns big green energy which will replace it may not be as friendly a solution as it seems. but hold on it's 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 and attempts to patch of the mounting serious 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 briefed the shelter the chinese dissident activist and it's also annoyed by washington's military buildup in the asia pacific in a tense effort to contain china's growing regional clout and dr kahn had enough from the foreign policy in focus thanks tom i believe the u.s. china corporation is forced on both countries it's very bipolar kind of relationship because in many ways not china is our number one trade partner. and they hold trillions of dollars in u.s. bonds we are all kind of locked into international markets so on one level the cooperation is kind of sourced 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 a real cd those two to energy supplies are basically control of it maybe those waters are controlled by the u.s. fifth fleet and the u.s. seventh fleet and that makes the chinese nervous. and of course 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 and from our used believe it could be a major proxy wound for african natural resources while a third thing that nothing will tarnish their alliance as the country's depend so much on each other seventy percent of you are painting that american trade barriers will draw in the relationship and only five percent believe the bone of contention could turn out to be a breach of human rights and earth in china so please log on to r.t.

dot com to cast your vote. the founder of the popular find sharing website mega upload has started to get back his assets in new zealand after local court ruled the confiscation of his fortune was legal can dot com is currently facing extradition to the us 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 u.s. request but voices are growing louder in america that the prosecution of the website and its owners for law professor eric goldman argues 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 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 does and that's part of the reason why. we're wondering if the prosecution it's really the beginning of the content industry being able to tell the government to do its dirty work for and so the battle be never a contest or will always want more control but the battles don't turn out well for us because we as consumers will lose. and also later today security scans over the new timeline on facebook and. crosstalk. they're 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 she was. doing ok yeah the guys are smart ready to. present been vetted to leave the kremlin as he finishes his time of office on monday handing over to the team and putin all the credit for liberal views and to push for reforms as one that steering every section of relations with the u.s. and that it's a presidency also so some of the largest protests and modern russian history and he said now it takes on the catwalk a legacy he leaves for russia. but he didn't but i c's gave you get out see

the meet the. meet the video. 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 or said here the media and much of the world community blamed russia. that only but even the actions on the georgian side led to deaths among them a russian peacekeepers children women the elderly are dying in south. most of them are citizens of the russian federation those responsible for the deaths of our citizens will be punished. them 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 medvedev spawn 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 they were the russian president at the time the reset button press and u.s. and russian relations dramatically improved over the next four years by twenty ten medvedev and obama signed a new start and cut both country's nuclear arsenals by a third. with the 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 persecution. business people. just especially 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. precious 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 madrid it 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. to deal with because 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 not done. 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 a key vehicle to implement all the initiatives and put forth by the by present need to be different the good acts aren't convinced debates are buzzing over what made it it's like it will be and how his policies might be implemented with blue chip back in the family but maybe it's betrayed it's moved this president would have only seen real results during or even after a second term in office if the price you're not troubled by between what i paid you did as president what you might. miss now a r t moscow. and as you heard him returns to russia stop job in three days will be bringing you special coverage of his inauguration john is for the live broadcast from that splendor of the kremlin hole soft at seven thirty am g.m.t. on monday.

japan is set to turn off with the 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 their government has about to public pressure falling disaster edification a reactor out of the catastrophic african tsunami and dr who would hayden professor of physics at the university of connecticut believes however it's just

a matter of time before talk it turns their 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 solved before as far away as hawaii where the price for electricity 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 there will probably go back to nuclear 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 more sustainable and greener energy sources but the rush to

scale back nuclear energy has had consequences to just going 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 the place of nuclear power and they restructure the whole energy system 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 get the low frequency sound

waves are a big problem some may get a high blood pressure or high points many gun steep 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 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 tragedy with the country still battling to stabilize its volatile reactors germany is investing too high. 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 consumer in the european union its renewable 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 going off r.t. germany. and let's now take a look at some world news in brief this hour at least twenty people are dead in northwestern pakistan after a suicide bomber to police checkpoint that type in the tribal region or beside it was beside a crowded street market five officers were killed including one who'd been given a presidential award for fighting islam is the militants if i was tiny town about it says it was responsible for the blast which also killed several children. but it clashes between doctors and medical students and riot police have been continuing in believe you but the past month have demanded the resignation of the country's

health minister who has brought in longer working hours demonstrations in la paz blocks traffic with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets to clear demonstrators. prosecutors of former liberian president charles taylor should get eighty years in prison for war crimes during the sierra leone civil war lawyers or the hague international court which found him guilty last month say the extreme magnitude of the offenses were in such a long sentence taylor back sierra leone levels have killed tens of thousands of people in return for diamonds and he was also convicted of rape or murder and will be sentenced this month. time to check what's happening in the world of business with marina so what's in store for us this hour enough to lead the way now. wall this hour we actually have a new converse of p.m.i. reports on the euro zone and its science the falls which of course isn't helping matters because we saw that in the previous hours european markets are already in

the road so they don't need more and guardsmen analysts are suggesting that they had out good see the eurozone on track to see the g.d.p. drop by zero point five percent in the second quarter so not very positive news there and we can see that the policy and the bags are setting over a half a percent with the dax in fact losing over one percent this hour moving on to russia and here the markets are x. . standing their losses in the red losing over two percent at this point the fact that markets are of course tracking overseas also is we also have the russian economy is of course always severely affected by oil prices and they are dropping or sharply so of course we see in nevada in fact on the markets we're talking about oil the russian government is introducing new stimulus measures to boost the country's oil production and in particular it's introducing tax breaks for companies extracting energy in the hard to reach the poles it's in western siberia now these this council vary from fifty to one hundred percent depending of course

on the difficulty of the poles that after years of production western siberia is still really rich in oil but companies are not rushing to develop it and the high costs the government expects that these new benefits will help add up to an additional twenty percent of the country's current production levels and this move comes after more than that russia could face a decline in oil production in several years if companies don't invest in production of new hard to get deposits. and now let's take a look at the asian markets when it comes to the nikkei it's close and that's because japan is still celebrating a public holiday when it comes to the hang seng it's down point to seventy seven percent and what we have in fact investors despite the losses overnight on the wall street weaker of coolmore the prices moving on to exchange rates you know they do are has bounced back from a two week low we see that it's against the dollar and when it comes to the ruble it's also losing the gods of both major currencies now in other news we have new

details about facebook's initial public offering and that is that the company has now 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 such to be the largest ever for an instant firm even bigger than google's back in two thousand and four. it's all expect that begin on the eighteenth of may. also the united arab emirates has completed a new pipelines of pump oil bypassing the not moreas strait of hormuz and the new routes will be able to supply of around two thirds of the country's crude outputs currently almost all of the u.a.e. is or oil and twenty percent of global deliveries are transported through the straits of hormuz which is of course controlled by iran and earlier the country threats and to block it as a reaction to sanctions from western countries over its nuclear program. well as a sea of red here you see you heard

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welcome back this is a check of the headlines when terror attacks have been russian north caucuses as two powerful blasts in the republic of dagestan with least eleven dead and dozens injured associate of tonka doesn't make it a bomb when he's at the police checkpoint where the second explosion going off when rescue teams arrived. also washington returns to war 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. japan is said to shut down its final nuclear reactor at the last of the country's sixty such facilities the government's move comes after a public opposition to new to an untruthful in last year's fukushima disaster part of a catastrophic.