terrorists are suspected in a bus explosion in the russian city of volgograd which is claimed six lives and left dozens injured. also this hour from six an explanation from the glass off seats revealed today and they say conducted large scale spying on french citizens claims that tire is shocking are seen backlash from all levels even up to the highest level here in europe against the embassies activity. because i said to a voter in new regulations that would on the pillow moses data transfers to the you asked a move seen as a first response to edward snowden surveillance revelations. international

news live from moscow this is all she was meek you nasha probably thanks for joining us and let's go straight to our breaking news story this hour an explosion on a bus in the southern russian city of volgograd has code six people with twenty injured and. has more details for us right now a lot of confusion so what's going on but what's been said. well as we know at this point there were about forty people on the number twenty nine boss when the explosion took place in volgograd according to preliminary investigations an explosive device went off in the bus which is why terrorists are suspected in this case now initially it was thought that perhaps a gas equipment malfunction had taken place however there wasn't a fire after the explosion which is now claimed six. lives and left many people

injured some of them very critically injured so a criminal investigation has been opened and obviously investigators are taking a very hard look at who may have been involved in this situation of course we'll be keeping a very close eye on the situation as it continues to develop throughout the day and this evening. of course. thank you very much indeed for that update and as the investigation into the blast continues we'll keep you updated on this story the story without. we know now france has become the latest country cool top in edward snowden's snooping revelations paris has demanding an explanation from the summer she's over claims the n.s.a. has been spying on millions of french citizens intercepting doubt phone calls on a sweeping scale. there how cities. is certainly not happy with the latest revelation tremendous a whistleblower edward snowden's leaks and the interior minister calling all of

this shocking and unacceptable especially the extent to which the spying was happening in a report that was a published in the newspaper it says that between december tenth two thousand and twelve the eighth of january twenty fifth thirteen the n.s.a. recorded some seventy point three million phone calls in france and what has angered the forty's even more is the fact that it's allegedly not just terror suspects remember this is the justification for the practice in the first place but also politicians and businessmen and some government officials and the fact that it's reportedly a systematic recording of targets communications a very similar reaction that you see coming from another country a high level call the nation of the embassies actions coming from mexico which alleges that the n.s.a. also had hacked into the e-mail of its of the president for me because there are you know two thousand and ten now we know that the u.s. director for national intelligence has been defending the legality of these practices but certainly it has not stopped these. diplomatic rouse from happening

it has also spilled over into a business such as the e.u. us trade talks of france certainly not happy about this having already summoned the u.s. ambassador in paris we've seen a reaction coming from individual entities across europe here and in the other countries that say for example in germany data telecom has been pushing to have all of the data communication just limited to local german servers in order to stop spying from outside specifically the united states and also brazil had planned on having a secure e-mail service also to thwart spies but on a broader scale be you with set to sign a vote on a new regulation essentially bans any transfer of the data from e.u. member states to the united states in reaction to all of this is the first major move really after the edward snowden leaks and also it would hope to subject a larger u.s. or foreign corporations as well as social media providers to follow laws or say

seventy five's numbering in the billions as has been reported so we are seeing backlash from all levels even up to the highest levels here in europe against the embassies activities. and among the future of the new e.u. rules just mentioned is limiting data collection to the absolute minimum necessary while also protecting an individual's right to raise any private information stored online under alexander merlin commissioner for data protection things this is a good thing to do but still not enough to prevent intelligence services from online snooping. well one has to be quite clear about this the european union has no jurisdiction to regulate the activities of intelligence services but if they agreed to to require a legal basis for transfer of personal data to third countries as has been proposed in the parliament now this would be a major step forward because then there would have to be

a political agreement between the governments also between the us and the european governments what intelligence services should be allowed to do in the future so it's a. two step process today is only this is a general measure which cannot directly influence the activities of intelligence services but it's an important step forward the repetitions from edward snowden's revelations are affecting not only governments but also journalists in today's crosstalk peter lawwell asks his guests what are the so-called war on whistleblowers has made investigative journalism a thing of the past and here's a taste of what's to come for you at four pm. i think that the obama administration is quite hostile to whistleblowers to transparency in government quite the opposite of what candidate obama campaigned on and toward independent journalism and freedom of the press is what accounts for obama's change

from candidate to being president right now because you know this is the most secret we i don't know every single president since richard nixon this is the most secretive president presidency we've ever had i mean how much more secret could it get i think barbara is has been is the most aggressive this administration in terms of whistleblowers and journalists in our history that's for sure control of information where by the worst governments historically is what they go out and the first group of people go there's really squelch that any kind of totalitarian state or the journalists and the information seekers. europe's top utilities are determined what they call their robin hood subsidies for green energy they've got to do otherwise the entire bill kristol and energy crisis they believe by financially encouraging the use of renewable sources politicians butchering europe's overall competitiveness the box their thoughts with

a simple comparison let's now have a look china's among the world's leading energy low cost is where businesses pay only seven cents per kilowatt the u.s. is just a few steps behind double that and you've got france where nuclear power holds down the ever growing energy bill but he is europe's main powerhouse germany saving energy at rates four times higher than china and public service companies say this is making businesses bear the burden of governments and asians in the booming renewable industry which has been forcing power grid prices has made chancellor merkel look for ways to reduce the amount charged but for now the unstable free sources like the wind and the sun killing the long standing energy production methods as artie's katie peel them explains. as consumers continuously see their utility bills rise the conflict between competitive business and the. us is

escalating the decisions to subsidize selected technologies have our energy prices so for example we rein in on germany for now and subsidies for renewable energy all running at around sixteen billion euros a year and that's rising and in total says the introduction that sixty billion there now the value of utilities on a global stock exchange is all over the e.u. have gone from around one trillion euros in two thousand and eight to less than hoth of that now so as a consequence it's perhaps not surprising to you that investors they are losing interest now german utility company they've seen their share price drop seventy five percent since their peak in around two thousand and seven and this is what we see of the company has to say about that and on impress the top so while the energy companies are losing patients money the environmentalists will they are pleased but

the question is can they go below economy and the average consumer afford renewable right now war can it afford not to. and fred rohde director of the young voices international advocacy group believes in these seemingly lucrative green business is a dead end investment. imagine you have various consumers going to a grocery store or a supermarket some of them just want to buy a bottle of beer for one euro and others say no actually i would like to buy a bottle of champagne for thirty euros in the german and energy markets actually different people what the champagne buyers would pay something like two euros and all that get by us would also pay to your to subsidize the champagne buyer and that's basic and the energy market if you buy energy from legacy energy kariya such as coal our nuclear power you subsidize those which demand energy for much higher price and that other renewable energy such as a winter in solar power it's a bulletproof investment at the moment to build

a wind well in your yard or to put some sort up on notes under your roof government is subsidizing the no you need to actually afford these things and then you get together and treat fries for every kilowatt hour you produce that's a bulletproof investment and a lot of people are doing this because it's a good way to make money but at the end it's us consumers paying for it. as an alternative the u.k. is pushing twenty six billion dollars into building the nuclear plant since the fukushima disaster of twenty eleven with the reasons why go to our web site r.t. dot com to read the full article that's coming up later this hour not to be trusted to a recent poll shows how little faith british people have and those of running that country that is held after the break. in syria stop at the state of broadcast to us who are free to appear on t.v. after their colleagues are targeted by rebels trying to stop the government's

message getting out the top to the shut brick. because it won't turn i save money to hire a hit man to shoot me dead from the next building or through the open window. i searched through the internet typing things like i'm looking for you i'm waiting for you before i wrote i'm waiting for you i'm looking for you i didn't care at all what this man would be like deprived disabled ill. you know you want the battery is right. i love everything about him i have grown to love every here everyone just fingertips to him actually be healthier than other guys who drink beer in a bench i've always promised that if she ever realizes it's too much for her and she decides to leave me i will accept her decision without criticism because it's

her choice. you're watching our sea welcome back and straight away tell breaking news story an explosion on a bus in the southern russian city of volgograd has killed six people and injured twenty and we spoke to one eyewitness that's now listen.

to. her her work and spoke i saw scattered all across the pavement. it was you know god oh. look and. i thought it was some kind of a traffic incident. but i didn't see any summation cars and then two hundred meters. down the road i saw the bus itself. it was just a regular bus i didn't see any suit or any traces of fire it must have been an explosion. because there was no fire in evidence and i saw lots of ambulance cars. as well as. police and many people from cars that had been passing by who had stopped

to help the victims and basically that's all i saw all right and of course we continue to follow this developing story for you and later this hour while discussing this story live here on r.t. so to stay with us. but we go now the british public things politicians rarely tell the truth and are unlikely to own up if they make mistakes a recent poll shows a politician is now the most mistrusted profession in the u.k. laura smith has the streets of london to find out. cash for questions selling access to the prime minister and of course m.p.'s abusing their expense accounts the story that just keeps on giving all of these scandals and more have come together to undermine the moral capital of politicians and the amount of trust the able to command with the public a poll done earlier this year said britons think politicians tell the truth less

than because it's all real estate agents don't to nicholas allen co-author of a new book on ethics and politics says this creeping loss of trust goes right to the heart of the just mystery of all governments and there is a perception i think politicians have. become less and less onerous less ethical in the way they conduct both state politics if people perceive politicians to be generally immoral and dishonest the politicians are going to lose a certain amount of moral authority politicians governments need a moral authority if they're going to lead the public lead society down quite difficult policy parts the times we live in to mond difficult policy poets raising the pension age paying taxes to pay off the deficits everything to do with. they all require real moral authority something politicians arguably just don't have as

i found out outside their offices over there in port house politicians. remember the wiser would be there with less food for the more i think it's a group of people away from the barman like a rabid frost you know the. pains became something on our world i come across or how. i suspect in general i know very much the government is trying to do something about it focusing on the greatest transparency with money how politicians spend misspent cash but don't surveillance for. falling on stony ground rather touchingly old people in the u.k. really wants is to know that when a politician says he or she will do something they'll do it and that could be the hardest thing of all for the political class. and as always you can go online for more stories including underground one way a scare at the moscow metro as

a driver was out of the train to his death leaving a dozen parked carriages hurtling on to the next station with no one at the controls. the doctors in england who have been getting regular financial bonuses for pushing patients on death lists to know how service costs involved a story at all to a doctor. because of human rights in strasbourg says it can't make a ruling in relation to the cartoon massacre and that's one more than twenty thousand polish officers imprisoned by the soviet union during the second world war were killed the court said it has no authority to decide whether russia conducted a full and fair investigation into the killings at a call did criticize moscow for not handling handing over a copy of the official order that ended a probe into the massacre which it was obliged to do for their people from the victims' relatives all still rejected the court decided

a failure to show the family's classified data did not constitute a violation of human rights watch. and to the some other world news and briefer unknown gunmen have opened fire at a christian wedding ceremony in egypt giving up to three people including an eight year old girl seventeen more were wounded in the incident that occurred just outside cairo as people were leaving a church is that it is increasingly targeted egypt's coptic christians since the overflow overthrow of president morsi accusing them of biking the military coup. and mourn rest as reported in iraq where a coordinated attack on the police headquarters in the city of fallujah has killed five offices to a blast targeting the buildings gate and a nearby checkpoint were then followed by a. shutout between security forces and gunmen. the incident happened just a day after explosions in baghdad shared districts left dozens dead the total

number of casualties in the country this year alone now exceeds six thousand. in pakistan a blast targeting a passenger train carrying people home after the holidays has claimed at least seven lives around twenty more were injured when three explosive devices planted on the tracks went off as the train approached it approached a station in balochistan province it's not clear who carried around that time by the areas known to be home to several insurgent groups including the taliban. the international community has finally agreed on the dates for the long awaited peace conference on syria the talks are scheduled to start on the twenty third of november where the assad government are willing to take part in a while certain rebel groups on the ground are refusing to join the negotiations and are instead stepping up at targets on loyalist forces at least associate people

have been killed in a suicide truck bombing and on a checkpoint outside the syrian city of hama despite an army installation being the target of most of the dead were civilians and as a policy of reports now even journalists are in the crosshairs of the opposition fight. these pictures were long time coming syria's state t.v. hit quarters in flames the attack occurred just hours after rebel groups were and they'd showered damascus with mortars. you know. i think their main goal is to intimidate people to stop us from working they want us to think twice about working for syrian t.v. like other employees of syrian state t.v. this woman is afraid to show her face she is one of the names listed in this. website set up by the rebels and each a name and photograph is the word wanted those with crosses through them are people

who have already been killed. the irony is that those who make t.v. are now too afraid to appear on it this video editor was given an ultimatum either come work for us the rebels threatened or we'll kill you he managed to escape but a few weeks ago he came home to the message wherever you are you dog of the regime we will find you painted on his front door this witness i've lost the feeling of fear after i saw a man beheaded in front of me and mortar shells falling all around you forget what fear is but the pain and heartbreak remain idea buses brother ali carmel was an editor in chief of the syrian news agency he was killed by four bullets shot at close range after a masked gunman broke into his home and got a victory rally the strange thing is that we were never afraid for him we were afraid for my other brothers quine the army without i believe the civilian will be safe but they kill him because they don't want anybody to tell the truth even just

those appearing on t.v. are being threatened they call a couple of time to adjust to it say that your body will be shot off from the head and they said we know who you are we know the location we cannot kill you we are going to cut your head from the body you are. this is what they say exactly the fear for many is that this list is long there were many names on it and scenes like this could well be repeated until every last one of them is deleted policy r.t. damascus syria. and now vauxhall breaking news story an explosion on a bus in the southern russian city of volgograd and france has more details for us all right now so please bring us up to date. well earlier today there are about forty people riding the number twenty nine bus involved

a grad when the explosion took place since then investigators have found remnants of an explosive device they believe went off on the bus that explosion took the lives of six people at this point injured dozens many of them very critically injured rigidly it was thought that a gas systems malfunction had taken place until the remnants of that device were found at the scene now someone who witnessed this take place so we've we've got there i wouldn't count of what happened let's take a listen. i was going along the same route as that bus proust i noticed the traffic congestion. then i saw some scattered all across the pavement. and then. twenty meters down the road. i saw the bus. at first i thought it must have been some kind of

a traffic accidents but then i saw the bus it didn't seem burned or scorched or it was a regular bus. to learn you know reckon it must have been a single explosion coming as one blessed because there was no fire in evidence and no signs of fire which not much and i saw lots of cars. as well as police officers. in many people from passing cars who stops to help the victims. i suppose that's all i saw. now obviously this situation has developed very rapidly today with investigators opening up a criminal investigation into the matter of course i will be keeping a very close eye on the details as they emerge and be bringing new details not only our team but also on our website and twitter feed. on the right of france with more

on base. case all right and of course we'll continue to update you on this developing story and coming up and online love that conquers all curious that's after a short break. it seems like politicians can get away with anything nowadays but not all of them the former mayor of field detroit has been sentenced to twenty years in prison after being found guilty of committing record tearing conspiracy fraud extortion and tax crimes while the mayor the prosecutor say he funneled millions of dollars to himself and family members all while detroit moved headstrong towards the bankrupt state it is in today this is big news not because some mayor took bribes but because he got punished the judge who could fix him stated why this is such an

important case she said at the very least a significant sentence will send a message that this kind of conduct will not be tolerated yes sending a message you see corrupt officials are usually cowards and they do what they do because they feel they can get away with it when you start to put the fear of god into them they start to behave much better so the question is will the mainstream media grab the story and really use the conviction of detroit's former mayor is an example probably not but it would really help the country if they would but that's just my opinion. more is how do you two and what's your name. since i was born i haven't been able to walk at all my body was slowly changing my spine was curving my ribs were tightening well i guess you can see for yourselves. at first the doctors told my parents i wouldn't make it to five years when we went

to hospital they'd say what if you're still alive. but despite my body deep inside i'm a worrier and i always wanted to die a different way not in a hospital ward no not because then this illness. at one time of do i save money to hire a hitman to shoot me dead from the next building where the open window with you. as of i mean i even told my parents and my brother about it they were shocked at first of course but then somehow resigned. i told them that if i saved enough money there but and then changed my mind i give them all the money to renovate the apartment.

and i can think what you could possibly do to make my hair beautiful. dress them up with things i was always the last girl to catch him inside and the ones who didn't notice me were mostly drunk men just didn't go for me. yeah my life seemed pointless i was twenty one and my peers all had families or at least boyfriends. everything was as it should be for them but nothing like that was happening to me the centers went outside i could hear people laughing behind my back i know under this stick insect requires more dawna cricket sees huish knows some serious this sort of had to withdraw. but i was always an ugly duckling. it was more or less fine when i was a kid but what kind of life is this for a grown man stuck indoors all the time i guess only prisoners know what that's like

. i can only go outside in summer because in winter if i happen to catch a chilled just getting a cold could finish me off. look with wonder. look at them they're not gays they're ducks ducks right geez have you ever seen gays at all yes. i've seen them on t.v. . and to be honest we don't often come here grigori hasn't been outside much has recently started going out because of me i always try to take him on that we want to spend time together visit new places sing at things and enjoy nature.