it's r t it's three pm right now euro moscow my name is kevin zero in our top story this hour at least seven people have been killed and more than eighty 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 financial is there with the latest to speak to her now at home area how is the investigation for aggressive now this afternoon . and so continuing with what happened in the republican thursday has already been classified by local authorities as a terror attack so five least eleven people have been killed and eighteen more injured there were two explosions the first occurred when police stopped the car at one of the checkpoints in the capital city of much cut and drive it was a suicide bomb or police important later medically after that the fire began and emergency teams and real and says doctors five brigades have started coming to the scene as well as look all people trying to help those injured and this is when the

second blast happens killing and injuring even more people than the first one the scenario of the attack designed to kill as many people as possible is known in the war as the iraqi one it is a doll i think by international terry civilizations in the attacks all around the globe it's not new even today is tom last year two similar attacks in september in march score i have to say that the republic and the region this region in russia self have been suffering attacks by islamist terrorist groups for years and russian officials have linked many of them to international cells like and canada and this is actually as an ongoing battle on the robertsons from both sides but in two thousand and eleven al qaida leader in the north caucuses have been killed in the chechen republic and the clashes between russian forces and the terrorists have been continuing these here as well and in march and april in the last two months they have been lost in. stun and they've been reports that several

terrorists have been killed but of course we have been. for promptly. postmen but as a russian discussion is continued it's too early to say who is behind this particular attack here and dug in star no one so far playing any responsibility for that fact. you haven't boromir finished thanks for bringing saturday there for russia's republican druggists. the terrorism in the north caucasus has for long been considered a domestic issue but back at twenty ten the us included russia's top terrorist fugitive dr morrow of on its most wanted list dr wildfire as a counterterrorism advisor in the u.s. congress explains while wide of use now being taken. of all more information is coming both to congress and get restriction about the connections between those you hardly networks ingestion of drugs down to one hand and those present in north africa and in the middle number two because the evidence we're getting from

captured individual of afghanistan for example of the places whereby they do it need to be have to work with the caucus base to harness on the one hand and with what we see on the website that this information is available for all these museums together been interested in the sound on the international it's which is a good thing because that's the point of progress mom 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 great powers come together good arabs war rhetoric from washington towards iran is being ramped up again just ahead of the second round of high level international talks on the country's nuclear program he was mostly top brass claim they would need just three weeks to defeat the rounds armed forces and he's got it you can looks now whether it's just tough talk more or preparation for reelection. 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 a military presence we tried to put on the map those u.s. 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 position 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 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 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 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. a washington correspondent there this is artie still ahead in the program with me kevin owen the 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 united states there's growing concern among some in the u.s. who believe his prosecution is all about big corporations cashing in on the sites close you've got more nuts story coming up also to know it's a nuclear germany holds atomic power but some voice concerns that the green energy which will replace it may not be as friendly a solution as it first appeared to. us secretary of state hillary clinton's told chinese president hu jintao the relations between their countries are stronger than ever there is sure of subpoenas an

attempt to patch over mounting serious differences during a visit in the extremely delicate time between the two budging accuses the u.s. of meddling in its internal affairs after the american embassy briefly sheltered a chinese dissident activist it's also annoyed by washington's military buildup in the asia pacific in an apparent effort to contain china's growing original clout daughter called helen and from a foreign policy in focus think tank spoke to us and believe us china cooperation is being fierce going to those countries which is why it's very bipolar kind of relationship because in many ways not china is our number one trade partner. and they all hold the 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 only

a chinese are also very uncomfortable about the fact that about eighty percent of their energy supplies are arrived by sea generally through the yellow sea those two that 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. we're always eager to know your take on the story today we're asking what you think might ruin the u.s. chinese relationship just about half of your life telling us you believe it could be a major proxy war for african natural resources forty eight percent this third of you think that nothing will tarnish their alliances the countries depend so much on each other sixteen percent drop a little bit from the last sixty minutes reckon that american trade barriers will ruin the relationship six percent if you up a tad believe the bone of contention could be some breach of human rights discovered in china. your stay still at r.t. dot com. the founder of the popular file sharing website maker upload is starting

to get back his assets in new zealand after a local court ruled the confiscation of his fortune was illegal kim dotcom was currently facing extradition to the united states where he faces charges of money laundering racketeering and copyright infringement american authorities shut down make a load in january and had to call in his fellow executives arrested in new zealand but voices are growing louder in the u.s. prosecution of the website and its owners is 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 does 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. in about twenty minutes security scares over the new timeline on facebook's big story people of el takes it up in this debate show cross talk. there's going to be a lot of unexpected ways in which that information which you're 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 application 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. ok yeah. crosstalk on a very soon to the next the prison proposed to leave the kremlin as he finishes his term of office on monday handing over to vladimir putin although credited for liberal views of the push for reforms as well as steering a reset relations with the u.s. but his presidency also a source of the largest protests in russian history and he said this is no it takes a look at what legacy he leaves for russia.

you. one term in the kremlin was it too little time to make a dent mr medvedev is going to be remembered as someone who had genuine reform intentions and who was impeded on achieving all of those reforms through the political process through the structure of the political system. at the dawn of his presidency georgia attacked south is said here by the media and much of the world community blamed russia destress who was in this case that only but he did the actions on the georgian side led to deaths among them a russian peacekeepers children women the elderly a dying in south setting most of them are citizens of the russian federation 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 out that georgia launched the attack for months madrid of foreign policy was overshadowed by the war but it wasn't long before our warming in u.s. relations something many argue is his foreign policy legacy they were 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 change from 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 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 not. failed to continue. all initiatives all the strategists discussed. with him here you proved all the things the

government was a key vehicle to implement all the initiatives that are put forth by the by president medvedev but critics aren't convinced debates are buzzing over what might that its legacy will be and how his policies might be implemented with putin back in the kremlin but the fact remains mitt think it's moved as president would have only seen real results during or even after a second term in office if the question of how do you draw the line between what they did as president what he might do i'm. just now a r t. but ima put in returns to russia's top job in three days we will be bringing your special coverage of his inauguration of you can join me and the rest the team for the live broadcast from the splendor of the kremlin holes after seven thirty am g.m.t. on monday. this

is a japan is set to turn off its last working react to this coming weekend leaving one of the world's largest industrial powers without a source of nuclear power for the first time in almost fifty years the government's bow to public pressure after last year's disaster at the fukushima reactor and the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami dr howard hayden professor of physics at the university of connecticut told us he believes however it's just

a matter of time before tokyo goes nuclear again. they have fifty four reactors and they have one of them operating but it will be down for refueling as it is what they're doing is burning a lot of residual oil and the the pact on the price of residual oil has been felt awful as far away as whole y. e where the price for electricity now is very very high because of that that decision to shut the nukes and but it's costing them very dearly they haven't got nearly ill enough electricity and they have actually called on some factories to cut back their operations quite a bit they will probably go back to nuclear in due time it's because money talks it's. 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 its consequences to place can offer ports. 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. whole energy to make less. 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 get 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 week's tragedy with a country still battling to stabilize its volatile reactors germany is investing two hundred billion. 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 it's 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. let's take a look at some world news a brief now in egypt turns out to be true and so on and tahrir square again days after violent clashes left at least seven and possibly as many as twenty dead is the latest pictures went through. the deaths happened when a group of unknown assailants attacked islamist protesters staging a sit in the defense ministry over the banning of a candidate from the election supporters of the use of these factions that was the brotherhood and the salafist movement i believe to make a majority of the demonstrators. at least twenty people are dead in northwestern pakistan after a suicide bomber the police checkpoint the attack in the butt to

a tribal region was beside a crowded street market five officers were killed including one who's been given a presidential award for fighting is when this militant the pakistani taliban said it was responsible for the blast which also killed several children. balik clashes between doctors medical students and while police have been continuing in bolivia protests over the past month of demanding the resignation of the country's health when those two thought of longer working hours demonstrations in the past blocked traffic with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets to try to clear the demonstrators. it's a cover twenty four minutes past through the afternoon moscow time let's check out was out of the world of business every week it's all prices making the headlines in your part of the r.t.e. news room is now our investors taken out not well i guess in russia like i'm on wall especially in russia no well at all in fact was in the markets plunge by almost three per cent of what it's like to look at the latest figures now you'll

see that both the artsy as and the my sides are losing over it's going to have percent slowly heading towards a very present in the right of course the russian economy is always severely affected by any of the clients in the oil price so it's not surprising that we're seeing this picture right now but also we have other factors as well as the first we have investors being also is our heart of the. is that elections in france and greece and then another factor is the u.s. jobs they have which is expected to move east later today that's for the month of april and some analysts are saying that the figures that might be below expectations which of course isn't helping boost investor confidence of her take a look at europe and see the latest figures that europe is in the red as well but the loss of course aren't as significant as they are in russia was that both the footsie and the bags are shattered over a point or three percent this hour minimizing earlier losses ever so slightly and what we know there is that the composite p.m.i. report came out earlier in the day and it shows the losses in five analysts say

that the data suggest that they do yours owns g.d.p. zero point five percent in the second quarter not by european investors minute any more negative news but there you have it if we take a look at the current series will see that the euro is a drop in against the dollar and that's after as a statement its worse level in the soup weeks and of course the boost came after the european central bank said that the region the only is likely to recover this year but of course that didn't seem to help matters very much and then we have the ruble which is losing against both major currencies. mention the ruble so let's talk about some of the local news russia and japan are apparently in talks to build an underwater gas pipeline which will go from one country to the other and since the tsunami cast a shadow on this nuclear program japan has increased purchases over gas from russia a pipeline could be a cheaper way to ship gas but it would mean less flexibility didn't see long term

corn franks gas probably has recently completed a pipeline from suckling to floods it will stall in russia's far east and analysts suggest this could be extended so the link surfaces in japan. now as we've been reporting a new government will of course take office on monday you know russia after the inauguration of putin and. society caught up with the current presidential aides. and they discussed basically how they are what the challenges are for the new government as well as what can be done to sustain the current economic weight so we've been seeing in the recent years the main challenge is thought. modernization of the russian economy and this challenge is under threat given unstable demographic station we were able to stabilize relations last year we need to continue the same pace also we'll have to reform health sector education sector . pension system and finally you can petition and protection for property

rights creating a comfortable investment climate. or the top of the journal. and you can watch the four of our coverage on monday here on our of course or my colleague mr medvedev will be taken over next hour so that's it from me today about to have a lovely stuff very good afternoon. in a few minutes time facebook fury people have to break the new timeline introduced by the social networks cause a lot of firsts we hear about the public outrage around it in the risks of main tale before that i'll wrap up our top stories i'm kevin o. in thanks for joining us here at r.t. moscow.

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for more. stories. russia. has two powerful republican leave at least eleven dead dozens injured in a suicide attack. police checkpoint there was a second explosion then going off when rescue team. washington returns to war rhetoric against a rather as the u.s. military claims it could destroy forces in less than a month this comes as the u.s. continues to build up its military presence in the region. and. the last of its fifty operating nuclear reactors following the fukushima. year ago. because of public opposition to nuclear in.