you know tonight at devastating fertilizer factory explosion in texas up to fifteen people are dead and over one hundred sixty wounded a massive blast likened to a nuclear bomb leveled buildings four blocks in every direction now questions are raised over why such a plant was allowed near a school a nursing home and a hospital. in what's become a dark week for the united states in boston to now images are released which could show the suspect behind the marathon bombings while an envelope laced with toxic reisen is sent to president obama. and in the wake of those tragic events the u.s. house of representatives passes a bill authorizing internet providers to share data with the government to avert attacks but it's fueling criticism over the crackdown on privacy. reporting to tonight know to formula one protests in bahrain denounce holding a glamorous race while human rights abuses mount with fresh reports of police

firing tear gas and furious demonstrators. ten pm here in moscow this thursday night one story dominating our coverage tonight with me kevin and frank for being with us by the way the latest developments in the u.s. state of texas where that massive blast ripped through that fertilizer plant earlier today police say up to fifteen people have been killed and at least one hundred sixty are injured but emergency crews are still searching for survivors fear as many as seventy may have died. well thank you i think we. should have a force of a minor earthquake the experts say you destroyed several buildings totally the

ensuing blaze then spread to nearby apartment blocks and schools the fire the plants under control but several firefighters and a police officer a few dead officials shut down power supplies evacuated half of the town the cause of the tragedy that's the big question it's not yet known police say they're going to get an investigation once the rescue operations are over of course but this so far there's no evidence of foul play. reports from the scene. the mayor of west texas spoke to was just to confirm some of the disaster that we've seen here. have all had been damaged in this explosion and. we were in the few minutes. that near the other businesses which also seen some damage to the windows which were blown out. search and recovery situation

and we try to get as close to the fed if we can police put in a radius about a mile around which it still considered to be dangerous for people to approach however about half of the town of twenty six hundred people had been evacuated so far but the mayor gave a dire assessment of the extent of the damage here today and even before that when he was. trying to describe the scene of the explosion he described it as the nuclear blast sixteen other churches ponder's call it you know compared to iraq and one witness who i spoke to earlier this evening said that when he showed up at the scene. row of houses that were nearest to the fertilizer plant. not even recognize what had been leveled down to pretty much shit the rubble and garbage early on we had a conversation with the spokesman of a local hospital way patients receiving treatment do you mentioned the casualties as one does to listen to what he had to say and our facility we are one of two to

lead receiving to. the patients from the from the blast right now we have seen sixty five patients one of which is critical the majority of the ones we've seen and had the right even broken bones head injuries and a lot of them as bad bad and hydrous ammonia elation from the from the fertilizer plant we have had a massive. response from our medical our doctors our nurses are written torture. and they have been able to freakin released most of the one students who have had the exposure to the to the ammonia we have had twelve admissions of the sixty five patients we've seen there have been law enforcement agencies and first responders coming from throughout the state of texas to respond to this emergency so i can

tell you i was there i walked through the blast area a search some houses earlier tonight massive just like iraq just like the murray building in oklahoma city same town and how exploded so you can imagine what kind of damage we're looking out there. i know there was at least seventy five to fifty fifty to seventy five houses damaged there's apartment complex that has about fifty units in it that was completely. just skeleton standing and there's a nursing home there that one hundred thirty three people in the nursing home we've got them evacuated i don't know what their injuries are are there right now but all injuries have been removed from the scene and taken to local hospitals in a way. we had numerous agencies helping us all the way from the dallas fort worth area with clinton county law and stone your boss and all surrounding areas so we've had a great turnout. to come out to help us get through this tragedy that we've had in

this small community. one of the tragedies of course is early days but now the big questions are being asked why how did what went wrong the explosion at this plant was highlighting the shortcomings in the u.s. system of industrial risk management the fertilizer plant reported that it only held about twenty four kilograms of and hydrous ammonia that chemical we heard about earlier on far less than the twenty tons this believed to be ignited here and the report also states the no fire or explosives risks the worst possible scenario it's in visit it was a ten minute release of ammonia gas but without any casualties this blast that shook houses are up to eighty kilometers away resulting in a rising number of injuries and deaths a washington correspondent says safety at the plant had been questioned before. this fertilizer plant that exploded in west texas on wednesday night was fined by the environmental protection agency in two thousand and six full failing to have a risk legend plans that met federal standards so that was back in two thousand and six according to the e.p.a.

a risk management plan is designed to ensure chemical accidents don't happen by having safeguards in place to prevent them according to construction permits admitted a november that year this company west fertilizer valid still need all standards expected for and i had. ammonia storage tanks and he was one of those tanks that blew up this one saying i get the bad news is the way that the toxic chemicals that it's spreading around the area many of those surveyed hospitalized suffered from ammonia and whole asian here's what experts say about the spread of those toxic chemicals were fertilizer as we know is extremely combustible so it's been used in bombs and so it's manufacture is extremely delicate and can easily if handled wrong or if handled and safely can lead to explosion so we have to assume at this point that it's such a chemical explosion that's happened there at the plant when you're handling chemicals like this there is a possibility that there can be chemical contamination that could that would need

to be cleaned up in the aftermath of the explosion so they'll undoubtedly be extensive monitoring of the areas around the plant in order to make sure that whatever chemicals have been spread around can be cleaned up to reduce future toxicity to the residents with the kinds of winds that blow in such big intense fires there will be airborne distribution. so there's nothing that can be done while the event is happening what will be done is is assessment and cleanup in the aftermath currently people are being evacuated because of the dangers to for further explosions for fire to spread and also for spread around of some of the chemicals from the plant however those will almost certainly be deposited close to the plant and it will be possible to get in there make assessments and do cleanup of the area in the future so those are the primary dangers. it's all going to happen in time right now though it's the focus is on getting through that mess

trying to find any survivors and the people that have been injured now we've been getting scientists views on what could have caused the explosion at a fertilizer plant in texas professor chris of a busby's from the european committee on radiation risks he suspects another may be more dangerous compound was involved there let's take a listen and hydrous ammonia on its own would not be able to produce the kind of devastation that we hear is occurring over there it seems much more likely to me that like the other monium nitrate plant explosions in history particularly the one in one hundred twenty one in germany and there was one also in texas in one hundred forty seven is that somehow the ammonium nitrate itself the fertilizer material that was produced by this long to explode it now it's quite easy to detonate ammonium nitrate in fact ammonium nitrate was used in the war as am a toll as a as a war explosive and ammonium nitrate is a constituent of many explosives now so i do for the photo to start off with i don't i don't think that this was caused by an ammonia by an harder simonyan

ammonia tank exploding although probably that would have exploded. when the main explosion took place but of course ammonia itself is very toxic it's it's it's a respected tree irritant and it would cause lots of serious a. problem but then it cause it's also produced when ammonium nitrate itself is heated up so if you heat ammonium nitrate to about three hundred fifty degrees it dissociates into ammonia and nitrite acid and so these two things would be quite toxic fumes to anybody inhaling them but i as i say i don't think that that that that i don't think that that could be the cause of the level of explosive force that we have seen here i mean something very much larger has happened here. well that's what one of the experts has got to say because time will show exactly what happened when the investigations continue well let's take a look at a map and see where this plant is that we are that's the that's the whole fertilizer plant there you can see how close it was to the nursing home to the

middle school hey what if the kids were at the playground at the time thankfully we don't think too many were at the time because it was four o'clock in the morning the hospital everything very close to this plant the big question marks now was it being regulated properly there had been concerns about this plant before also it's a big business fertilizer i can tell you that it accounted for ten point eight million dollars last year of exports and thirteen million dollars imports let's take a look at how many of these plants and across the united states we are producing and dealing with my pigeon phosphate potash all of them potentially explosives if they're in the wrong conditions and many of these plants near like the one in texas now two communities people living there they could be at risk and other big question marks as well is the reporting right here are these plants properly reporting the amount of potentially very dangerous chemicals this story that's

could be got into of course over the coming weeks or months let's hear now from another expert on the matter. over and over again companies get cited for not having these risk plans in place and they get a small fine and then they don't do anything you know they they they maybe go through the motions of having a risk plan but the reality is that it makes absolutely no sense to even have a plant like this in a town but all over especially in the west where you've got fertilizer plants oil refineries and so on they are right in the middle of these small towns with houses all around them and schools and nursing homes the problem is that in the united states the entire regulatory apparatus that oversees these kinds of safety issues has been captured by industry by corporations through their control of the politicians that through their campaign contributions it's really not a lesson for the authorities it's

a lesson for the american people that we've allowed our country to be taken over by corporate interests you simply don't get any regulations and at the local level where the you know the state or local level where these permits would be issued as to whether a plant could even be built in a inside of a town they control over the regularities even worse so we centrally have a free for all in the united states for game tourists factories and producers of these kinds of explosive chemicals they can build them anywhere they want and you know right next to a hospital a nursing home a school what have you and there's no no control at all. soup of the tongue just now as well as talk about imports and exports of chemicals i said million of a billion the big industry they export ten point eight billion dollars import thirty billion dollars it's got it right jeffrey pattison is a professor at the school of medicine and public health at the university of wisconsin let's get his thoughts on what's happening here evening to you sir nice

to see you let's talk about the after effects on a small close knit community everyone is of course affected by it what's the immediate worry now about the chemicals that i guess have gone up into the air what's going to be coming back that is sort of thing to worry about is the danger over. well i don't think the danger is over by any means ammonia has been really and more nitrate continues to be in the air and certainly if that's breathed in gets in your eyes because burns etc and this can go on for days. that's the case for example in an accident that occurred in texas as well and. byron texas where eighty thousand people had to be evacuated because of the ammonia theorems so in addition to that prolonged. chemicals maybe get into the groundwater that happened in iowa some time ago so i don't think the danger both immediate and long over by any stretch of the imagination in the last hour or two we had texas governor rick

perry saying that his state has got the best emergency teams in the nation how prepared were they though to deal with this kind of thing i mean so there's an awful picture for these guys to go in and deal with we think a number of the dead the people that were there at the time the rescuers the police that this big explosion came what the we're still waiting to get more details on that but how prepared are they is that is the big question. i think a disaster like this. the event of a nuclear explosion a power plant going up the explosion of a plant like this there is no way to prepare for it and i think we see that in chernow what we saw in fukushima. and we're seeing it now that many people are going to die many people are going to be injured permanently by this so you can do all the preparation what and it really does not prevent the problem and perhaps governor perry would be better off looking at the regulatory tory agencies and

preventing accidents like this and physicians for social responsibility we have a saying that there is no cure only prevention and he may have the best prepared emergency agencies but in terms of the regulatory agencies perhaps not so well do you think that could have been something that was a full did you think it's something that closely needs to be examined now we've been talking about on this program over the last an hour or so at length do you think there was a failing that maybe all of that the general picture a big a failure across the states this kind of thing. i think it's a bigger picture there's been this montreaux that we have to deregulate we have to take away regulation so business can thrive and obviously we see examples like this or fukushima for example where when we do that we suffer the consequences in the end and so i think and we're seeing it with the environmental protection agency today where they are promulgating new regulations if there is another fukushima

that will allow the clean up to be a much more lax than it currently is and not for people to be moved out of the area because of radiation damage so there's this tremendous move. to to deregulate things to take away the powers of the e.p.a. and other regulatory agencies and i think that's a we're seeing now that that's a very dangerous precedence jeffrey professor that was comes in university school of medicine and public health thank you for your thoughts much appreciate it thank you. and as we've heard the tragedy in texas has highlighted risk management findings in the u.s. than and raise concerns over aging infrastructure and what's become a dog week for the united states you must forget boston to now the images have been released which could show the suspect behind the marathon bombings one of man's been charged over an ambush laced with toxic rice and it was sent to president obama. discussed the situation in the u.s.

with the new york correspondent report nine. it is no secret that america's crumbling infrastructure is considered the most dangerous domestic circumstance lurking in every corner of the country for many many years the american society of civil engineers has given the u.s. grade d. plus when it comes to its infrastructure and there's many reasons that the first first and foremost is because the u.s. is not investing in in fixing its infrastructure its bridges its tunnels its airports its security system environmentalists also are saying that safety inspectors are going in and citing certain facilities such as the one we're seeing in texas with failing grades for not having the appropriate risk management plans in place or not having the right upgraded systems we've seen that massive explosion in texas and of course a recently the boston met boston marathon bombings i let's talk a little bit about that how fall away all in terms of investigating and catching

the. all the best of bombing what federal officials say so far is that they are going in on finding a man who work that they saw in surveillance video that dropped a bag shortly before the bombs ignited that's it's been quite a dark week for the united states you know in texas we see a scenario where looks like a nuclear bomb was set off and then in boston it was similar to an i.e.d. bomb you know set off a one that you know iraq and afghanistan is quite familiar with scorning to two officials including secret service and the f.b.i. there was a letter that was sent to president obama but it was intercepted on tuesday and letter allegedly had a rice in in it which is poisonous ingredient and in addition to that there's also been reports that at least two u.s. senators both republicans received

a suspected suspicious mail which turned out to be. containing also mail that contained rice in it which tested positive for that rice and that's not something that is a paper clearly by members in washington to happen so quickly after the bombings that took place in boston that claimed the lives of at least three people and left more than one hundred seventy people hospitalized from every corner right now we are seeing a lot of. you know cautious and dangerous things happening to two innocent civilians and going up as high as the president of the united states lots of threatening events that. ok while online to see closely following what's been happening in boston and texas to that tragedy is the big news story of the day learning up footage from eyewitnesses gauging twitter reaction and pictures from the scene we want you to head to our web site www dot com to keep across developments minute by minute. the

controversial cyber intelligence sharing protection act been approved by the house of representatives one of the congressmen to vote monday's deadly bombings in boston as a reason to pass it the bill which encourages e-mail internet providers to share confidential data with the government well now the move to the senate after its six predicted approval it should then be signed into law by president obama but senior white house advisers earlier said they'd recommend that obama vetoes the act the authors of the bill also say it's an effort to combat attempts to steal america's trade secrets critics the wall that it's a gross violation of internet users previously leaving them open to be spied on by military intelligence agencies. the glamour of the grand prix is coming to bahrain but repressed island is a pleading race on our blood is coming up in the next to the pregnant demonstrators the struggling to draw attention to human rights abuses that.

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international airport in the very heart of moscow. again in bahrain protests against this weekend's four hundred one grand prix have turned violent demonstrators are furiously the saudis decision to go ahead with the elite event despite growing complaints of human rights abuses in the country let's get more on this snow for a middle east correspondent paula sli or other paula and i see it's not the first time for bahrain to or try again the host of the grand prix is it is this we're going to go ahead do you think end of the day or will we see a repeat of what happened that constellation back in twenty eleven going to go do you think. well the situation in bahrain certainly is tense on thursday the protests across the country turned violent head

of that country's hosting of the formula one grand prix this weekend the bahraini riot police used tear gas and stun grenades against the shiite protesters who were hurling petrol bombs at the taunt among the thousands of protesters on the street was no two blood formula and all race is a crime they are denouncing both the king and the prime minister they accuse them of using such a huge sporting event to bring in money which in turn they say the regime uses to buy weapons that it uses against the people at the same time they are denouncing the organizers of the event saying that they are turning a blind eye to the abysmal human rights record of the regime and that such a sporting event should not go ahead now there has been a number of arrests mostly by people who were burning cars by people who were blocking roads and general be causing public disorder the protesters have been on the streets already for week they've dubbed the past week the volcano's of fire

that despite this the government is pushing for the event to go ahead this despite the fact that there's so much anger on the streets and also the criticism from many human rights organizations who say that besides the human rights abuses by the regime in the past few days they've stepped up the repressive actions of the security personnel to quell any kind of criticism against this weekend's event of course paula the bigger picture here and russia's big going on for two years now all the demonstrators anywhere near or getting what they want for the people in charge. well it certainly doesn't seem as if the protesters are anywhere closer to getting what they really want as you say the pro-democracy demonstrations started back in early two thousand and eleven and really what the chant from the protestors is is for equality between the sunni ruling regime as well as the she at majority they want to transition to democracy

they want to transition to freedom they criticize the continuing repression by the regime against protesters and crackdown that is constantly seen if you look for example at just the past month they've been something like one hundred arrests and in the past week alone there were clashes at the high school for boys often a risk there led to clashes and that incident led to a police raid what is important to note is that the kingdom is supported by washington in america of course has been the headquarters of its that may be free there and as such a lot of these demonstrations receive very little attention in the mainstream media certainly the situation on the ground is it is tense it's very difficult to say what will happen ahead of this weekend's grand prix back in two thousand and eleven the event was cancelled but the government once it to go ahead this it's continuing to say that there will be

a big turnout and this despite the fact that we have seen a number of big sponsors indicating that they are going to reduce their support and their sponsorship here paula follow it closely with your help thanks for that for no middle east correspondent paula slee get some more shorts now from russian returns is joining us on the line from london a journalist because he's written much about the trouble part of the world the buyer should be kind of been here before which is sort of paulo the formula one clashes back in two eleven where dozens were killed and finally the cancellation of the race why would bahrain want to go ahead again and draw the eyes of the world at a time when there's so much social turmoil going on within its borders. i guess the easy answer would be to say that clearly for family the dictators that rule this thora tarion dictatorship there would say yeah they're just stupid but actually it shows a confident they are of the help of president obama to support the human rights abuses and i'm going to say of course britain's scotland yard's deputy commissioner is down there presumably handling the anti terror so-called devices actually crowd

control devices tear gas and so forth that he's been responsible for killing people and perhaps even torture equipment shock batons and so forth but having said that they were also not as confident perhaps because in the past year as i understand it they've arrested were these detained a british television crew from a mainstream media channel here so they're trying to stop the media covering what's going on and having said all that people like jenson button lewis hamilton i wonder if they saw anonymously anonymous organizations that because they're all under threat friday saturday sunday after the big race in manama parent you know all of this is threatening all of them and saying everyone better be aware for how are they going to hack and attack anyone involved in this rap sheet gross spectacle action obviously the formula one governing body putting a positive spin on it the defendant elite race as possibly having a healing effect they say didn't work last time do you think this high profile sport can have some positive you say i'm not. ironically toys in paris is the

had a very f. one regulatory authority he allowed it all to happen he's not even there that's for bernie ecclestone he is the latest comments where there are demonstrations what demonstrations it's very difficult to see who's good who's bad no and then he started to say oh i know and i understand politics and sport i stopped the nine hundred eighty five grand prix in south africa his biographer didn't say that he said ecclestone was trying to get a formula one race in south africa despite all the apartheid atrocities it was just a matter of money when media pulled out but if you look at mainstream media in this country is coverage of the grand prix in bahrain just the lead up to it everyone seems to be celebrating a great group rates going to be what's the view here generally is politics too close to a high profile sport in this case. it is of course political ecclestone in a sense admits that when he says look ninety ninety five south africa we didn't we didn't want the grand prix to take place what is interesting is that the corporate

sponsors that try to get associated with grand prix vodafone we have diaz you know the mass of drinks multinational they trying to not spend that much on it because the bahraini authorities they paid actresses people. millions of dollars tens of millions of dollars as all these people being detained and so forth and it's a loss leader they're trying to show off bahrain but ironically of course we could see major attacks of different kinds but but the khalifa regime seem confident we've got you on the line we told recently to wiki leaks julian assange about this he told us why he thinks bahrain's abuses are being ignored just listening. it's disgraceful and the british involvement is even worse you had the former. by the former organizational chief of scotland yard going over to bahrain to help them control the rain in the same way that london is controlled in relation to police.

control demonstrations. the united states. should be hated by the united states of course has to do with the u.s. naval base its people right and. critically bahrainis very close to iran. it's close the strait where a lot of oil shipping is the u.s. wants to keep a stable base in order to control this area. and that's all it's funny. and these are the people who will sell their soul to per murder to the bahraini regime and you see kim kardashian putting out a tweet after tweeting about how wonderful it has been training for next to the chic and so on it is disgusting these people are disgusting. everyone should know it a. little to. similarly with the former one exactly the same thing brain port but you know what to cover up its human rights abuses and it's bad

reputation as usual i should know he's not mincing is words about millions of us watch full well we talked about the positive spin maybe putting on it for me to want to put in on it what a budget for the protest is are they going to get any spin out of this is well you're going to let more people today apply. well the authorities are arresting everyone how ironic he had julian a son of the british police are outside where he's speaking ready to pounce on him for all given the extraordinary rendition the united states and the british police arrest advising the dictators of bahrain it'll be very interesting to see whether the protesters will be able to get near or whether other types of actions will have to take place but certainly if you're a racing driver handling high octane equipment and so forth in milan one of this weekend and certainly the possibility of violent protest you must remember that though the majority oppose this dictatorship and one arab spring in that country even in apartheid south africa the majority supported the violence movement nelson

mandela's terrorist profile with the african national congress let's see how violent the protests get against this money for a regime that destroys the lives of so many people course the irony here while the bahraini government suppressing the opposition at home has been supporting calls for democracy elsewhere in the region too isn't it i guess the longer this goes on somebody eventually is going to pick him up or not no. yes you do kevin don't you the irony yes david cameron is talking about the british the americans or the british supporting the free syrian army why didn't the british start a free bahraini army i don't think britain would ever think of calling or helping those trying to oppose the dictatorship in bahrain but they do in syria of course we know why about human rights british foreign policy u.s. us foreign policy is never about human rights it's about trying to control resources and the cost to the human beings is going to. how she would talk about

this for a full hour at times and i would thank you be on the program tonight or should the times you have to contribute in london right coming up to twenty five minutes to eleven o'clock pilbeam say ok pilbeam for the business news but scandal tonight someone yes i profile person has been traded this is just yeah i know the details what's going on well it's the sculptural innovation project the officer being raided i'm not going to tell you who i'm going to t.j. you know we love a scandal in business that we love the rich oligarchy we love all the murky real that are coming out you indeed i'm going to go see the markets as well of course i'm going to talk about the i.m.f. figures loss to come kevin after the break of course. i reckon cardiologist dr omar al claims that the war in iraq destroyed iraq's

environment even worse than dropping the bomb on hiroshima did dr. puts the data that the number of press cancer cases has grown in the country from fifteen to thirty times cases of congenital heart disease have become fifteen times more frequent case of leukemia have increased thirty fold the doctor puts the blame on the weapons used in the one thousand nine hundred one and two thousand and three invasions of iraq it which nato forces used white phosphorus depleted uranium rounds and other toxic gases and poisonous substances human rights watch and the world health organization have measured radiation levels in iraq and consider many places in iraq even some very far from the fighting to be contaminated naturally radiation is not racist and foreign soldiers in iraq are not immune usa today even published research results that found that depleted uranium was indeed in the lungs and other organs of navy vets who filed for health compensation claims yeah you know saddam hussein seemed like a pretty bad guy but there are always ways to get around the confines of

a dictatorship but there is no way to escape from radiation it is truly the present so for the invasions of iraq good for the iraqis well it doesn't seem to be doing too good for their physical health but that's just my opinion. download the official publication so choose a stream quality and enjoy your favorites. if you're. just doesn't matter with your mobile device you can see any time anywhere. i. mean this evening

here in moscow. now one of russia's richest man the victor of excel bug is under scrutiny the offices of the skolkovo innovation center which he heads as rated by the federal security service russia's innovation harvey suspected of embezzling government funds it is seen as another blow against midst of excel bug who as well as being head of skolkovo is the c.e.o. of the renault the group which sold its stake in the oil company team k b peter ross stepped over sixteen point five billion dollars helping to make the x.l. bug russia's fourth richest man he was hoped the mr would invest his cash from the deal back into our mobile group or has been spent here yet so one might speculate that he's being punished for his lack of spending this is called justice sumption and the case will no doubt follow it now something of that isn't speculation is the

fact that this man has a personal fortune of fifteen billion dollars which is quite remarkable such an apology is hey we're going to talk about rich russians and all sorts like fifteen billion dollars my my mouth is dribbling over a lot of this is see if we are here he is here he is the out of you know little brick wall it's fifteen point one billion dollars and you see almost made it to the top three reaches. of the three i hope right so you see he almost made it to top three rushnell richest man by not quite yet he's at the fourth place but obviously the ten k. the sale has helped him to move much higher so he was of the eighth place last year when on his fourth he's fourth year just a little bit behind these are the top three you see other shows a lot of he remained. he remains russia's richest man all on top of the same last year interesting. berg's partner and he was also

a colder of t.m. k.b.p.s. he also cashed in very well so you became russia's second richest man. wow but your figures just might be green with envy but ok so you think ab pay that was very lucrative that most of it i did these guys did really well clearly that's evident to say for their own pockets we're not sure about colorado ok ok there is another a thing or three should powerful which is our own today and i know you like them so three thousand time magazine has published its two thousand and thirteen list of the most influential people in the world top ponderous and you know who is the only russian on it right ok and i guess i got more if i was ok i would say president vladimir putin said i'm thinking he's the most powerful influential man in russia right. now you know there didn't make it there are various lows ally eager search. of russia's oil company eros now after he made it

there he's now at the thirteenth place in the section which is called thai towns you said you know what that is very surprising there because i think if you lost anyone on the street just in any country in the world who is the most influential person in russia they would be like glad i'm a pizza not so what if i have to impress one of these guys i'm going to snuggle up to this one right ok fine that really hard to relate to time magazine they explain their choice they say that it is extremely influential person in the russia's politics and economy is very close to putin he has been always at the very top positions in putin's government and now he is they have those russia's crossness and ropes and they have to they just completed the largest ever acquisition in russian history will they have bought all. british journal entertain now rosneft

is the largest oil company. i mean ok that's definitely an achievement i can see he's very rich bar still influence wise i would have definitely gone for peace i would put money on him being around tar but you know all these ratings about most the fish oil people they're very subject yet very often very strange if i did he would have been. talking to top who was on the top of those ok well let's see if you agree ok the top tight drum roll. american rapper jolly is a rock i know for becoming a very powerful very successful man being from very humble beginnings because he sings that song doesn't your heart not live not my heart not lie because i am going to do and i big fan of his wife beyond say as well. as in the american

dream there we are and it's an american magazine i suppose well congratulations jay is a very. rich powerful. rich powerful as well thank you very much for your time today. right now spring is often a sign of grace and that is exactly what will the world so do bankers will be discussing in this week's spring meetings of the i.m.f. the world bank and g. twenty but there is little signs of green shoots in the beginning instead the finger will be pointed at the over flooding of cash to artifices a boost the global economy is now earlier today i spoke to peter katter he's a global head of export credit his b.c. and i asked him about his concerns. the general consensus is that europe in the next two or three years of the euro zone i should say will be relatively flat at best but again most commentators for see russia germany and potentially poland as

the let's say the color of growth within that context and you set that against the asian markets which are already out of recession already growing and more recently having been in the in the u.s. and in the americas i see the u.s. coming out of its problems so i think it's fair to say that europe still has a lot of catching up to do but the rest of the world seems to be back on course. let's check out the markets and u.s. stocks are still the climbing at this hour now average a one month low that has earnings from the likes of united health and a disappoint investors see what europe's up to and actually today wasn't too bad a tour not because of sentiment around they improved spain had a successful bond auction with borrowing costs continuing to also want to mention that france is funding costs in five year government bonds hit a record low as well so the first two though pretty flat as you can see just the

measly one basis point just the glass klein. phone company vodafone as well. but pretty lackluster russian markets and see what happened here and again pretty flat out today will be able to see to be fair we've had some big losses earlier on in the week so it wasn't too bad at all the losses were a minimum of three basis points and five for the miser's that's really is oil begins to. say which is really helping out to the prices right here because they have been struggling this week and that's falling chinese growth data and i.m.f. for cause but now prices are indeed rising from a four month low as you can see just even as u.s. inventor is near their highest level since one nine hundred ninety the price is still managing to go north gold's upticks it's been in the spotlight but it's still struggling but it is getting investors don the commodity this week with the steepest today decline in thirty three years suffering a thirteen percent fall in two days it's really essential also as you can see it's

demonstrating a bit of resilience this hour a check of the current says and see what happened to the russian ruble which has also been struggling in recent times but you can see a different day today is actually managing to gain against the u.s. dollar and the euro that's how it managed to perform in the session. and that is the markets but i will indeed be back in less than two hours time for another edition but keep it here and i'll take heaven will be back with plenty more news about the state. the british. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy

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hi again kevin owen here live at the r.t.e. news h.q. tonight now washington is not yet ready to recognize the results venezuela's presidential election according to u.s. secretary of state john kerry sunday's polls in the all rich nation saw the designated air of his nicolas maduro win by a razor thin majority prompting large scale rallies across the country both for and against his victory meanwhile venezuela's supreme court ruled there's no legal basis for a recount which was demanded by a moderate opposition rival and the u.s. the newly elected president also played the washington's been trying to destabilize venezuela sociology professor dr william robertson says that's nothing new when it comes to u.s. tactics in the region. this is not a new tactic on the part of washington and the type of the owner not a new tactic on the part of the new the venezuelan opposition and generally the far right in latin america which aligns with washington the idea is you had an all out to start was in the civilization campaign this is simply another topic within that campaign there's been diplomatic isolation economic sabotage our military activity

the time to put it in two thousand and two the mess of u.s. financing for the internal opposition including for properties and for the organizations that he represents and so we see this very often when there's all the action which is very close and when the united states wants to get rid of a government in this case the little guy who moves around an election it will launch violence and trying create chaos and instability and the united states will not recognize the result and this is the belief that this is an incredible the focus is on the part of u.s. foreign policy because mexico just had elections in which there was massive for because mexico's a close ally of the united states is the u.s. media work recognizes the results in the group the charges by opposition of this court the result has no moral authority whatsoever to talk about that there was one of them elections. in challenging times many turn to the church for solace and support but in britain the growing number of atheists has led to the creation of an essentially new congregation in which religion is taken out of the equation artie's

polyploid has spoke to some of the nonbelievers about what drives them and to use the house of god anyway. if you want to britain's growing number of atheists a sunday morning might present itself as an opportunity to just sleep in and relax after all there's no sunday mass to attend well not exactly more and more of london's atheists are waking up on a sunday morning and going to church. the next year i come in. your. life but there's no talk of saints or sinners here we was listening to the stuff that caused me to show cause you sure. this is my. belief that it is indeed water. oh i wasn't living better in the sunday assembly sense of the term features singing i.

don't sing. moralistic tales told by stand up comedians i think that takes off probably takes a lot because it gets into our very basics of what we need as humans like being welcoming is a really big part of being liked is our main page because we don't want to have been forcibly damaged. by notions that we're forgetting sometimes to be well since its launch london as have been clamoring to attend with more non wash up as turning up than can fit into the venue i was relieved. to see she knew she could do it in the school or down to. the community coming together to see a soul was doomed. to apply to the show. that's a quarter of brits now describe themselves as having no religion and that figure is going up by three quarters of a million annually at the same time christianity is losing more than half

a million followers a year with trends as they are the number of atheists is set to overtake. number of christians by twenty thirty congregations are getting older and older and i think we're getting now to the stage where a second generation is a people who just never been in a church more and more people are finding the church is not relevant and particularly where we have the leaders of churches taking positions on women's rights and on on gay rights which are so clear variance from what the majority of people in the congregation think but these modern day atheists are still seeking out some sort of spiritual solace and we were really shocked at how many people were here we weren't expecting this number of people and i think it says something about how people feel that it would be easy for you because they're looking for

something i thought you know it be interesting to kind of be in a group of people. having a chat about how to live our lives which you don't going to get except in hopes that i mean in a church prayer few years first time we go back it is not crossing no cross except for their first aid cross over here that's the only one it seems of part i think just because you don't believe in god doesn't mean that you don't want to hear really interesting talks to think about improving yourself to sing with others and then to have a cup of tea with people at the end i mean this is really all the best things about church without the one thing which i'm uncomfortable with which is the religion part fourteen point one million brits now describe themselves as faithless a label that these known wash up as feel comfortable celebrating was. artsy london. well it's news rap so far this hour been more course about with more course was on in texas after that blast of the fertilizer plant there earlier today

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