twin terror attacks killed at least eleven in russia's north caucuses and what police say bear the hallmarks of al qaeda suicide bombings. depends a good draws up plans for iran boasting it could crush to run forces in just three weeks. three days before dmitri medvedev leaves russia's top post. presidential legacy and look at what's ahead when he becomes prime minister. also in the program japan flicks the off switch on its last atomic reactors a year after the fukushima disaster took the country to the brink of devastation.

hello there very good afternoon from moscow when i was kevin this is for moscow time our top story suicide bombers are thought to have carried out the two blasts that killed at least eleven people and wounded scores of others in russia's southern dagestan republic the terror attacks took place within twenty minutes of each other at a police checkpoint. in the north caucasus. and so continuing with what happened in the republican thursday has already been classified by local authorities as a terror attack so far at 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 makhachkala and drive it was a suicide bomber police important later medically after 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 happened killing and injuring even more people than the first one and this scenario of the attack designed to kill as many people as possible is known in the overall as the rocky one it's not new even to denniston last year two similar back in september and in march could score the caucasus region in precious 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 fact on the products it's from both sides discussion is continued it's too early to say who is behind this particular attack here and duckett star no one so far claimed any responsibility for that. north caucasus terrorism is just a battle for russia with the countries keep militants now on watch by the world community talk to world of fur as is a counterterrorism advisor to congress in washington and explains now why

a wider approach is vital. most of all and more information is coming both to congress and the administration about the connections between those you hire the networks in chechnya dagestan on the one hand and those present in north africa and in the mideast number two because the evidence we're getting from captured individuals in afghanistan for example or other places whereby they do admitted they have worked with the caucus based your highness on the one hand and with what we see on the website that this information is available for all these reasons together they understand decided to put them on the international routes which is a good thing because as appointed 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. you're watching our two live from moscow still ahead the lawyers loading up to protect an online pirates dot coms but uploaded for the full force of america's copyright crusade

legal experts say the moves against the site so are a deeply flawed and suspicious just a bit later we explain why. germany's foreign minister has labeled iran's nuclear energy program enormous danger in the. never be accepted despite the just sold israeli force nuclear missile capable submarine but it discovered a key concern though is whether the submarine could be used in a strike on iran an attack that the pentagon claims would be one in three weeks he's going to shoot you can reports 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 their 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 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 they are in flashing blue here here you have the friendly arab countries right next to qatar it's 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 dispatched a 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 at undisclosed locations also in the region u.s. officials say an enhanced presence in the gulf is meant to serve as a quote quick reaction contingency force not simply as a prelude to war but the buildup seems to exacerbate the hostile talk which may 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 you ran 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 going to check on our correspondent in washington iran also featured heavily in hillary clinton's visit

to china the secretary of state urged a reluctant to help pressure on to run as well as north korea she called the current american relations as the strongest of a big claim is already being put to the test with the accused accusing the u.s. of meddling in its internal affairs is also feeding tension is america's growing military presence in asia seen as an attempt to contain china's regional interests of those. in the foreign policy in focus think tank believes the two pose have no choice but to cooperate. it's very invite polar kind of relationship because in many ways not trying 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 elec 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 to the energy supplies are basically controlled those waters are controlled by the u.s. fifth fleet and the u.s. seventh fleet and that makes the chinese nervous. we've had to r.t. dot com our web site for more on that story while you're there you might be interested in the to the high rowing tale of a young man frozen in america and forgotten he was forced to drink is old urine to survive after being left without food or water for five days how did it happen you would read up more on our website our story to put the lump in your throat thankfully this man survived being pierced by an arrow outside we have got the details well he was just a few millimeters from that. good

have you with us today the man behind the mega upload file swapping site a fall in the side of america's online piracy crusade spin given some of his belongings back this property was seized in a swoop to shut down that a tourist website but then it was ruled illegal because police used the wrong warrant kim dot com most he's known seen here on the far right was arrested in january in new zealand washington's request he faces extradition to the states on charges of money laundering bacteria and copyright infringement least for now he gets some of his cash in his car back legal experts in america say it's clear the prosecution of the website and its owner is unlawful and that it has more to do with politicians and media moguls propping each other up. 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 megaupload prosecution it's really the beginning of that content industry being able to tell the government to do its dirty work for and so the battle be never happy and content owners will always want more control but the battle without the turn out well for us because we have consumers will lose saying we don't live matt is it may have just been a tweak on the home page but few of facebook's millions of users are rushing to like it to then it's a threat to their privacy and at fifteen thirty g.m.t.

today crosstalk the latest show us whether uses liberties of being punched. at the end of a. bit of an area of privacy being taken from us and to be honest i think about privacy taken from me in the bars and restaurants of london i have on facebook. and you explained i started oh yeah but to be honest you know my credit card has been cloned twice in london and that was involved to get no one's ever stolen my identity on facebook press i'm just not desirable enough i don't know. syrian rebels have reportedly begun undergoing to real or warfare training in kosovo there are alleged to be using the same training camps built for the anti serve kosovo liberation army a group previously designated as a terrorist organization by the united states and even the un as to whether this was foreign affairs or of u.s. based chronicles magazine is joining us on the line from this is of coverage hi

there just what might the syrian opposition at these camps these days do you think . well first of all i don't think they can learn much from the charolais bathrooms in terms of the christians because the charolais was singularly unsuccessful in its rebellion against the serbian security forces until the nato bombing they started their terrorist ambushes in ninety seven they intensified their ninety eight but all along it was atrocity management that they want one instance such though the famous case of russia where the comment to the teams were presented as innocent civilian deaths by the serbs but even during the bombing was serbian forces maintained full control over all of the population centers and even the roads are open it's only that the caylee came in after the serbs started drawing under the

terms of the cease fire with nato and even then they were not engaging in combat they were acting as marauders weekly cleansing normal beenie so the first point is that there is nothing to learn in terms of conduct of fish and sea and in terms of actually organizing a successful were real words though that have been associated with the k.l.a. assassinations terror bombings is that really the kind of thing that the syrian opposition wants to be associated with you think will have it seems that they don't fear because they don't care because i understand there are moderate. one of the syrian opposition leaders who came to the united actually spoke to an a.p. reporter we are here to alert now this should be a huge wake up call for those syrians who are not supportive of the opposition

especially the minorities the alawite the. christians either orthodox or cattle. the shiites the kurds they and also the moderate sunni muslims should remember that even the syrian rebels learned from the caylee that means there will be a bloodbath parked at the end of the fall of assad and there will be little room for anyone but the majority group which should describe. its extremist creed or whether it is that greater albania in kosovo all are on. brotherhood offshoot syria also looking back in the recent history books and trying to refer to today and whether anything can be learned of me looking back at kosovo a lot of people say it showed the dealing with thousands of men trained as we were talking about a guerrilla warfare to fight authorities then turns into a peace time night where i mean one the turn kosovo and the regional crimes center

the same thing happened in syria. well first of all caso is well positioned to be the prime send for the whole europe which is the main distribution point erin it is the main point from which networks of people smugglers christie touche and rings and so on reach out to equally to germany to great britain and even across the atlantic ocean syria probably will not be that syria will become a hotbed of islamist six phoebe's because let's face it after all the talk about beautiful things that the new democratic syria will turn into it will actually turn into another post. where when the dust settles all of the yuppies square have disappeared and the muslim brotherhood emerged as by far the most popular and the most group but i would also add that what is happening in prishtina

with the syrian rebels and the caylee getting together and the auspices of the united states should be a wake up wake up call for third countries such as russia because it is obvious that the united states remains fell back on talking to us even though it hasn't received even. your own security council now we see that the security council with russia and china is the opponents of the intervention are being bypassed by. the american intelligence services which are obviously behind the arrangements that are being to pay it possible so your affairs editor of the u.s. space chronicles magazine thanks ever so much taking the time to be today. a massive liberal drive a reset in russia u.s. relations and a push for internal reforms but also some of the largest protests in russia's

modern history as president of bennett prepares to leave the kremlin before vladimir putin takes over and he's innocent now it takes a look back at his term at the top but easy it really sees give you know if you did meet did he not believe it did you. 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 destroy those 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 so those responsible for the deaths of our citizens will be punished. them right 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 a 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. as a result of hard work we've created

a treaty that fully complies with the interests of both russia and the u.s. back home medvedev wants reforms focusing on the justice system and rule of law you want the less people behind bars. this persecution. business people. just especially justified persecution. less 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. 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 for having. the president all initiatives. discussed. hume here he proved all the things here the government was key mikal to implement all the initiatives put forward by the by president medvedev but critics aren't convinced debates are buzzing over what mitt it's like it would be and how his policies might be implemented with putin back in the family but the fact made it made its move this president would have only seen real results during or even after a second term in office if you the question of how do you tell the my sweet what my day did as president what you might do i'm. just now a r t. and does whatever putin returns to russia's top job in just three days time we will

be bringing you our special coverage of his inauguration of you can join me kevin now in the rest of the team for the live broadcast from the splendor of the criminals after seven thirty am g.m.t. on monday. japan is set to turn off its last working nuclear reactor leaving one of the world's largest industrial powers without atomic power for the first time in forty

years it heavily relied on the source but the government bowed to immense public pressure in the wake of the fukushima disaster physics professor dr howard hayden though thinks it's just a matter of time before tokyo goes nuclear again. 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 pact on the price of residual oil has been felt for as far away as hawaii where the price for electricity now is very very high because of that that decision to shut that nukes and but it's costing them very dearly they have gotten early enough electricity and they have actually called on some factories to cut back their operations quite a bit there will probably go back to nuclear in due time it's because money

talks. and we take you through some other international news in brief now and egypt's ruling military council is refusing protest and for an immediate power hand they were turning to him saying government is the latest picture to go through the general's insistent they will step down and say presidents elected these pictures there from tahrir square tens of thousands of demonstrating in tahrir square these are now live shots to bring you here and take this demonstration happening as i say today in tahrir square just days after several people died in anti military clashes today's mass rally witnessing there is believed to be mostly supporters of islam is political forces of dominate the recently elected parliament live event for you live pictures with people today on that front after the other news making the headlines now this friday afternoon a suicide attack on a pakistani markets left at least twenty dead including one who received a bravery and for fighting islam is militants most of the other victims were by

standards as the bomb bomber blew himself up as people were heading to work for the school run on thursday the u.s. released lexus or some of bin laden in time which showed he fretted about the level of civilian deaths at the hands of al qaeda. more news twenty four seven on our website r.t. dot com whenever you're not near your t.v. . speed now with the friday evening late afternoon early evening we want to call it business dimitris or the business desk hi there dimitri good to see russian markets just keep on fall and down this week bring us up to date well first of all there are external factors such as the problems in europe of course and where we're waiting the payrolls data coming out in the us and second of all we're in the holiday season and therefore we're seeing right now on the russian market is a steep fall of more than two and a half percent now this week only started trading only started on wednesday next week you'll only start on first day so therefore what we have right now is traders

rather than investors bringing the market down because nobody wants to move into long positions when you can't react to what's going on in europe or the u.s. you know monday through wednesday and look at what's moving the my six course financial shares are taking a beating but burbank is looking better than the market down one point three percent and gazprom lou poor are losing two percent of course on lower energy shares oil prices are not providing their family any support they've dropped two three month low one of dollars per barrel for light sweet crude because of stabilization of supplies of the same time you're saying world prices are rather high and of course the worries of what's going on in the u.s. and in europe speaking of which in europe we are seeing also another day of losses for footsie declining point six percent the dax half a percent as i mentioned the european and u.s.

investors are course awaiting a key jobs report coming up for the month of april it's due in around four minutes time. and in the currency market we are seeing the euro continuing its decline the small weak yet again it's falling against the dollar. as the ruble is falling against currencies since it's not going to bring much money when. new government will take office next week after the inauguration of bloody business r.t. caught up with the current presidential way that it got a chorus of talk about the challenges and what needs to be done to maintain economic growth that we've seen in the past couple of years. the main challenge is to continue diversification in modernization of the russian economy so this challenge is under threat given unstable demographic station we were able to achieve our goal to stabilize relations last year we need to continue same pace also we'll have to reform health sector education sector pension prices and finally

complete and protection of property rights creating a comfortable investment climate. or the top of the journal. make sure not to miss the full interview with because we've got a. c. on monday and that's all i have for you given this hour ali thanks for that in a few minutes we explore what russian capital has got to offer for a family who make moscow their home that's interesting surely after the next headline update here on r.t. just a minute and a half away. he

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