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you want. the battery is true. i love everything about him i have grown to love if you're here everyone if you. 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 your decision without criticism because it's her choice. breaking news this hour a suicide bomb attack on a passenger bass on the russian city of volgograd allegedly carried out by the wife of the islamist militant plane six lives and dozens injured. france takes an explanation from it's revealed the n.s.a.

conducted large scale spying on french citizens planes that paris calls shocking. are seen backlash from all levels even up to the highest level here in europe the embassies active. e.u. lawmakers are set to vote on new regulations that would outlaw mo's data transfers to the u.s. a move seen as a fast concrete response to edward snowden surveillance revelations. russia and around the world this is a see was nice thanks for joining us and we'll start with our breaking news story this hour a regular day in the southern russian city of volgograd has been shaken by an explosion a grenade was detonated on a passenger bus killing six people and leaving dozens injured he's an executive

chef ski joins us now live with more details hi there looks a lot of confusion that so what's going on there please bring us the latest. information that explosive device whether that was a self made slow device or a grenade is still yet to be determined but it exploded in a bus in a public bus in the city of volgograd at about two o'clock local time we do know now according to the investigative committee of the prosecutor general's office of the russian federation that six people at least have been killed twenty eight more have been delivered to hospitals with different injuries some of them are severely injured i would you know that at the time the bus was carrying forty people on board they have been investigative procedures at the ground but right now the main version of the events is that it was a terrorist attack a suicide bombing before and by a suicide bomber a female allegedly a thirty year old. from the republic of supposedly she is the wife of one of the

militants of a terrorist cells in the republic of dagestan the i would reported something of a nightmare at the scene when the bus exploded we managed to talk to one of the he was not the direct eyewitness he witnessed the aftermath of the explosion. from i was driving along the bus routes there was a traffic jam and then i saw a lot of glass on the ground first i thought it was just a traffic accident and i didn't see any cause around and about two hundred meters down the road i saw the bus with no windows they were clearly blown out by an explosion but it didn't look quite the explosion triggered a fire of any kind there were many ambulances and police around people getting out of their cars to help they were pulling people out of the bus giving them water sharing their first aid kits for shocks me is that there was one woman still inside the bus satele covered in blood and i couldn't tell whether she was dead or alive

the bus route starts at the city's heart center and also passes near the university so the bus was full of hot patients and students. version of a terrorist attack a suicide bombing is supported by the testimony of one of the eyewitnesses in fact this one of the women who survived the blast on the bus she said that she saw a suicide bomber exploding setting off the explosive device inside the bus but certainly we'll know more as the investigation continues and we will also be trying to get our crew on the ground to have more info from the city of volgograd of course thank you very much indeed. live from moscow thanks again who appreciate it and to discuss the blast and vulgar grandfather when i joined live by a poll last and also and investigative journalist has extensively covered terrorism paul thank you very much indeed for joining us here on r.c. so what do you make of this blast and particularly the target of this blast i mean

a bus carrying mostly students and patients of a conduit hospital well the child just looked like a bus really i suspect you kill more than just six people maybe that more people will die but obviously it would seem to have a large public transport. terrorists in charge. but probably the message you know the public transport is not safe. right and it's quite interesting because the woman who blew herself up in volgograd had been apparently suffering from a deadly bone disease and have been apparently collecting money for treatment on social networks it's quite interesting so how unusual is that i mean terrorists living among those are not hiding. well that is very unusual but. gosh that makes it complicated they seem to be complicit in reports here because this is just she's

the wife of a well known islamic militant so exactly what's going on here isn't clear i think what is interesting is that it's been quite it's been kind of quiet in the north caucasus for a while in comparison to the past but of course we've got the such a winter living coming a live picture coming up shortly and i wonder if it's related to that. and also interesting the woman was also apparently married to a russian mine who joined the terrorist cell underground that was some way in caucus says what do you think make people makes people change their religion change that place of a living and become involved in terrorism gosh well that's a very big question but i think it's almost you have to take it to the individual the reason that people do it i mean sometimes in the u.k. we get people from parts of society that feel that they being alienated gets in

a bowl with islamic movement the terrorists because they feel that gives a purpose and meaning to life and you know it depends on the local circumstances i think and i know it's been the relationship a lot of terrorist cells are led by very powerful people who bring in other people who are such strong personalities. right and the woman came from the north caucuses as well and were heard that militants from that particular region are involved in the bloody conflicts and fighting in syria for instance just how big a threat do extremists from from russian regions presents to the international community while in the past they appear to be much more problematic and it seems that the security measures taken in more recent years going to have died down terrorist action but i mean this is a one in good at this point. it is a few months ahead of the sochi winter olympics and the question is will we see a second or third if we see

a second then we'll begin to notice some kind of pattern here emerging which is the design to embarrass president putin in world are eyes and pictures of public transport. you know a good way of the stabilizer the population break in the public go right to get on public transport all right author and investigative freelance journalist who has reported extensively on terrorism mr paul lush martinkus very much indeed we appreciate it as the investigation into the blast continues we'll bring you the latest on the story and i want our twitter feed for the updates just with us. right to see the. first story. and i think. on our reporters.

on the. france has become the latest country court tarpon edward snowden's snooping revelations pirates is demanding an explanation from the u.s. authorities over claims the n.s.a. has been spying on millions of french citizens intercepting their phone calls on a sweeping scale see there has the details. france is certainly not happy with the latest revelation tremendous a whistleblower edward snowden's leaks 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 limo newspaper it says that between december tenth two thousand and twelve an eighth of january twenty turned thirteen the n.s.a. recorded some seventy point three million phone calls in france and what has angered authorities 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 target's communications a very similar reaction that you see coming from another country a high level called the nation of the n.s.a.'s actions coming from mexico which alleges that the n.s.a. also had hacked into the e-mail of its of the president felipe calderon in 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 roles from happening it has also spilled over into a business such as the e.u. u.s. 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 there are other countries that say for example in germany 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 warn spies but on a broader scale the e.u. 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 largely u.s. or foreign corporations as well as social media providers to follow you last 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 the alexander dix a building commissioner for data protection and things the new e.u. rules tessa just mentioned is a step in the right direction but still not enough to prevent the 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 repercussions from edward snowden's revelations are affected not only governments but also journalists in today's crosstalk be to love our asks his guests whether the so-called war on whistleblowers has made investigative journalism a thing on the past here's

a taste of what's to come for you at four pm chante. i do 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 it counts 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 can it get i think obama is has been is the most aggressive this administration in terms of whistleblower history that's for sure control of information where by the worst governments historically is what they go at in the first group of people who go there is really squelch that any kind of totalitarian state or the journalists in the information seekers.

europe's top utilities are warning of an energy crisis if subsidies for green power are not scrapped they believe by financially encouraging the use of renewable sources politicians butchering europe's overall competitiveness the farms how their thoughts with a simple comparison let's now have a look china is among the world's leading energy low cost is where businesses pay only seven cents per kilo world the u.s. is just a few steps behind and you can double that and you've got friends here where nuclear power holds down they have a growing and energy bill he is a europe's main powerhouse excuse me germany is sending energy at rates four times higher than china and public service companies say this is making businesses bear the burden of government's ambitions. we moving a renewables industry which has been forcing our power grid prices has made

transfer market look for ways to reduce them on charged but for now be unstable free sources like the wind and the sun a killing the long standing energy production methods as archie is key to people being explained 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 of 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 global stock exchanges 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 our german utility company eon they 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 tsunami impressive talk so while the energy companies are losing patients money the environmentalists will they are pleased but the question is can they global economy and the average consumer afford renewable right now war can it afford not to. and fred road director of the young voices international advocacy group says for some green power is a lucrative source of income but it's costing many germans. 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 work the champagne by us would pay something like two euros and

all the beer by us would also pay to your to subsidise the champagne buyer and that's basic and the energy market if you buy energy from legacy energy kariya such as coal or nuclear power you subsidized 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 it'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. this is all coming up later this hour not to be turned that i was some fellow shows how little faith british people have and those are running the country the details after the break.

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this is all see live from moscow welcome bok there were fish public things politicians already tell the truth and all unlikely to own up if they make mistakes a recent poll shows a politician is now the most mistrusted profession in the u.k. lower smith hit 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 legitimacy of all governments and there is a perception i think that 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 dimona difficult policy poets raising

the pension age are paying taxes to pay off the deficits everything to do with austerity they all require a real moral authority something politicians arguably just don't have as i found out outside their offices over their import calloused house politicians. remember the girls otherwise they would be there with a few for the more i think of each group of people away from their former rival frostiness be. the pain these big brains offering on how i come across or how. i suspect in general i know very much the government is trying to do something about it focusing on greater transparency with money how politicians spend misspend cash but don't to alan's findings show those efforts are 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. for the

political class. always you can go online for more stories including underground of running away in the moscow metro as a driver falls out of the train to his death and leaving a dozen punks carriages hurtling on to the next station with no one at the controls . and also that the doctors in england have been getting regular financial bonuses for putting patients on death lists to cut the national debt health service costs will go to the story at all to do. with economic uncertainty prevailing in large parts of the western world the greeks group of imagine economies that turning to each other for stability the indian prime minister is in the russian capital to further cement relations between moscow and delhi and china will be the next stop for him on tuesday my colleague discussed

this with our. we're talking about the possibility of moving away from this so-called auld world order enough of the cold war rhetoric are saying a lot of political analysts out there and as well as leaders of the brics countries what are these countries well let's look at the letters they're essentially standing for brazil russia india china and south africa and these countries are covering more than one quarter off the planet coverage and people living in these countries comprise almost half of the world's population it's forty four and a half percent so definitely countries and people to be contended with and to listen to so the members of these countries came together and said hey finally it's about time we stepped away from the germany of the united states and the old europe really have already decided that they should be doing business in local currencies as most people know many certainly that india is a economy in the world one of the biggest importers of oil just showing the effect

of that economy but when it comes to today's meeting though can you give us a broader scope what's india's role here india's role should not be underestimated in fact just recently there has been reported by transparency international which said that out of all brics countries as a matter of fact india has placed at the top as the most open country when it comes to corruption and actually business dealings so that is one thing to keep in mind another thing to keep in mind is china which is also india's neighbor is just centrally issued a very large statement when it comes to de americas of americanization of the world essentially what beijing is saying is that the dollar isn't helping the economy the currency in fact is dragging the world economy down and it's time to step away from it and look for other options as the ministers get together here and those from india and of course there with their russian counterparts here and in the capital economic speech discuss but of course politicking as well now absolutely you are there we cannot get around that of course and if you look at the map you look at

india and then you see other. countries next and we're talking about of dallas and in pakistan so obviously the two issues which are on the table is fighting terrorism and of course about laying drug trafficking that is something that moscow and new delhi will put their heads together on and hopefully come up with a few solutions in that regard as well thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of the bahraini capital once again this time over the death of an opposition activist protestors claim hussein demanding her baby had been sentenced to fifteen years in prison for speaking out against the earning money shot dead by her dream forces bahrain has been experiencing and restless february twenty in lebanon with the authorities responding with a massive crackdown on protesters. not to discuss the human rights situation in the gulf country with four men barring accidents tomorrow. and here's a taste of what's going on. what's what is anarchy i mean if we're looking at the situation right now where we have a crackdown almost on

a daily basis where we have people getting arbitrarily arrested from their homes during night raids where we have children being picked off the streets where we have people attacked with tear gas inside their homes where torture is from that is that not in itself it's a form of anarchy we don't really have a system that is you know governed by a legal system there are no laws basically the police or free to do what they want government officials are free to do what they want in my opinion that is anarchy in itself. and this promise to sophie and co is an extra.

it seems like politicians can get away with anything nowadays but not all of them the former mayor of failed detroit has been sentenced to twenty years in prison after being found guilty of committing record tiering 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.

will come to sophie. shevardnadze brain seems to have remained unaffected by the arab spring however local activists say it's because of governments having hair that puts down to send what's really going on in a tiny out kingdom how is that rainman is to stay off the media raiders and what is in store for them. in an arab world gripped by a revolution. wars few countries remain unaffected what cost bahrain as you protest dissidents jailed an opposition groups to ignore.

the stability mean political oppression in the middle east because the fight for freedom. which sucker flies is worth beginning which will break shoes. in our guest today is miramar howard jaya human rights activist whose father is a prominent bahraini dissident currently jailed following anti-government protests in two thousand and eleven we are great to have you with us today so to be honest it's really hard to understand what's going on in bahrain you when it comes to the form of rule one some say to dictatorship even a tyrant and others say it's a legitimate constitutional monarchy committed to reform with certain democratic values how do you see it. well i think that you know describing it as a constitutional monarchy is very problematic when the constitutional law and actually gives up school power.