breaking news this hour a suicide attack on a bus in the russian city of volgograd claimed six lives and leaves dozens injured the authorities point the finger of blame at the wife of an islamist militant. an explanation from the u.s. it's revealed the n.s.a. conducted large scale spying on french citizens claims that. shocking. backlash from all levels to the. new regulations that would outlaw most data transfers to the u.s. a move seen as a first concrete response to edward snowden surveillance revelations.

this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day but we start with our breaking news story this hour reports say a grenade was detonated on a passenger bus in the southern russian city of volgograd here's the footage of the explosion captured by the dash cam in the car that was following the bus. yeah it was carried out by a thirty year old female suicide bomber from dagestan a wife of the leader of the radical islamist militant group at least six people were killed in the blast and dozens injured on he. brings the details but the grenade exploded at a bus number twenty nine as it was leaving a bus station in the city of volgograd at about two pm local time at the time reported there were forty people on board most of them a students of a nearby university as it stands winter stand that six people have been killed in that explosion twenty eight have been delivered to hospitals in most of them are in

severe condition twenty seven of them have suffered very serious wounds and the doctors are battling to save their lives as we speak one of those injured is a twenty month old child doctors also trying to save his life at the moment we also know from the investigators that several explosives were found on the site there was several blocks of t.n.t. and two hand grenades it is unclear what exactly which one of those explosives exactly caused the explosion which one went off but this will be more clear as the investigation continues but no the authorities are ruling out any other version but a terrorist attack it is confirmed by eyewitnesses and in fact survivors of the explosion that a female suicide bomber went into the bus and exploded and set off the explosive device just seconds after it left a bus station the i would to supports i've read online reports of

a hell breaking loose at the scene nightmare scenes indeed with mutilated bodies and blood everywhere we managed to acquire an interview of one of the eyewitnesses the one who was able to witness the aftermath of the explosion let's have a listen. the rules for i was driving along the bus routes there was a traffic jam and then i store a lot of glass on the ground first i thought. it was just a traffic accident i didn't see any cars 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 or shocks me is that there was one woman still inside the bus sat all 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 investigators have also revealed

to the possible identity of the female suicide bomber this is supposedly. from the dog a stun republik wife of one of the terrorist militants operating in the darkest on republic but that of course will be more clear when the investigation brings us results we do know according to several news agencies that blood blood samples from the mother of this reported suicide bomber were already collected by investigators and the d.n.a. the d.n.a. expertise will be completed in the nearest future also meanwhile can tell you that one of our crews is on their way to the city off volgograd and we'll have more news from them as they get to the scene of the horrible explosion and examine the dahmer and he's a doctor of lauren a visiting professor in several u.s. universities i spoke to manila and he believes in tech should be of international concern. well you that you know we're dealing with this kind of

a terrorist international we cannot divide what's happening in america in boston or nickel at home a city in ninety ninety five well we cannot separate it from what has just happened in the mall to get out from what happened in nairobi just several weeks ago we are in the same boat and this is very unfortunate and we need to deal with it this is something that you know about happens on this kind of irregular basis this is not sit first time this is not the last time but once again on the way in the same boat and unlike just several years that you went ahead with school and you know with expression one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter i can see now that no matter what even somebody has added to it to russia and the russian government when they have a terrorist attacks in russia this is a terrorist attack not just them against the russian people it's against it this is a terrorist attack against everybody when his investigation into the blast

continues we'll bring you the latest on the story you can also log on to our twitter feed for the update so to stay with us here at r.t. . right to see. first. and i think you're. on our way. france has become the latest country caught up in edward snowden snooping revelations paris 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 on these tests as soon as the details. france is certainly not happy with the latest revelations from ennis 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 fifth 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 targets communications a very similar reaction that you see coming from another country a high level condemnation 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 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 warn spies but on a broader scale deal 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 a swell of 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 n.s.a.'s activities . so silly that when it's discussed latest leaks now with benjamin some takis found over. the net a nonprofit organization advocating for internet freedom joining me live now from paris now the french authorities say they were shocked by the claims more than seventy million french phone calls were intercepted by the say in just one month benjamin did it come as a shock to you because you. know from paris. some of the. only confirmed what we already knew. and. the revelations of. the. world in our case from. the us and the prize is through.

which consists of the. security organs there is a drug the only argument for. troy so that the got to do something. the people whose calls were intercepted business politicians and indeed members of the government what why do you think the n.s.a. targeted these people. problem is. you know. things like that they're already. playing on industries on the big companies from europe so it's just the way.

that the french president. benjamin the french president e's going to react to this what he is reacting is saying that he's going to press for a new europe wide data privacy rules at the e.u. summit this week do you think though that some sort of regulation really would work . when the french president he's going to react to this. you're right at the moment the. protection of the british which is quite important because we have to protect our personal and sure that big company is. not spying on our daughter and that was prison. but it's clearly not enough because of course. those companies are. down to their own regulations.

gave them. the authorization to spy on us for the n.s.a. and not to be reliable. just like their contract doesn't exist at all so of course we have to do something and. that was one thing in the article of today we don't know whether or whether the french secret service was working within the say. they say was doing it on their own. about relations. for the story about just go to quickly ask you briefly talk about cooperation between the n.s.a. and the french secret services what about though the diplomatic fallout over this do you think that perhaps french american relations could suffer what happened with brazil. just quickly ask you briefly talking about.

the u.s. was spying on a big corporation for brazil. it was because brazil announced that they would take back their infrastructure mainly the internet. so it's pretty good we should think about it in europe but on the other hand we have to stay alert because they. should not be a protector for protectionism. putting borders on the internet because if this is what. should not be a pretext for something like we used to have on the internet in china or in russia or in iran. benjamin thank you very much indeed for joining us live there from paris good to hear your thoughts on this benjamin sontag founder of law. thank you . well the repercussions from edward snowden's revelations are affecting not only governments but also journalists and in today's cross talk a little eat pizza lavelle will be asking his guest whether the so-called war on

whistle blows has made investigative journalism a thing of the past here's a taste of what's to come at seven pm g.m.t. . 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 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 can it get i think that obama 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 and by the worst governments historically is what they go at and the first group of people who go there is really squelched in any kind of totalitarian state are the journalists and the information seekers.

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on our reporters. technology innovation all the developments around. the future. just turning sixteen minutes past the hour in the russian capital this is r.t. the news continues now europe's top utility companies are warning of an energy crisis if subsidies for green power are not scrapped they have believed by financially encouraging the use of renewable sources politicians butchering

europe's overall competitiveness of the firms have back their thoughts with a simple comparison china is among the world's leading energy low cost 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 here's europe's main powerhouse germany selling energy at rates five times higher than china public service companies say this is making businesses bear the burden of government's ambitions well professor bjorn lomborg of the copenhagen business school bullies the timing for transfer to green energy has been poorly chosen. a lot of people are saying that women solar is getting cheaper and eventually would be cheaper than fossil fuels what we then should do is not buy it now when it's incredibly expensive but make sure it gets cheaper faster as long as it's much more expensive which it is right now it's both hampering europe but it's also hampering us the energy giants pointed out deep can

traditional energy providers because solar and wind are desperately dependent on fossil fuels because what do we do when the windows and blower when the sun doesn't die and we use those fossil fuel power plants to make up for the shortfall if they can't make their credit limit if they're not actually profitable they won't be there that's what britain is now contending with that aren't looking very likely to get a blackout this summit this winter or next winter well to avoid that show fully ukase plowing twenty six billion dollars into building the first european nuclear plant since the fukushima disaster of two thousand and eleven in japan form advisor to the government said they became believes green energy is insufficient to keep the lights on in britain once solar energy solar electricity is cheaper than coal fired electricity we are beginning then to be able to solve the problem without even

a carbon price i think one has to be ruefully. worried about the scaremongering that goes wrong about the image of nuclear energy per kilowatt hour of electricity produced is by far the safest energy historically that we have used to produce electricity because we of course know the risks associated with nuclear energy but knowing the risks you can then manage them down to a very tiny proportion. well you can go online for more stories including underground runaway scare in the moscow metro as a driver falls out of a train to his death leaving a packed carriage is hurtling on to the next station with no one at the controls. plus the doctors in england who've been getting regular financial bonuses for putting patients on death lists to cut national health service costs.

the british public thinks 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. smith hit the streets of london to find out more. 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 has said britain's thing 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 based on 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 demona difficult policy poets raising the pension age paying taxes to pay off the deficits everything to do with. the old require a real moral authority something politicians arguably just don't have as i found out outside their offices over their import colorist house politicians. i mean girls otherwise it wouldn't be there with food for the but i think that it's a group of people away from the barman. will force you to be pretty stuff depends

became something on what i come across or how i say 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 misspend cash but don't. findings. on stony ground rather touchingly all people in the u.k. really what it 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. or a smith reporting from london there some other world news now for the shooting at a middle school in the us state of nevada has left two people dead reports say one of the fatalities was the suspected shooter believed to be a student at the school two more people said to be minors have been transferred to a hospital in a critical condition meanwhile officials have stated that the school and surrounding area are now safe or sort of thousands of attended the funeral of poor

people who were killed in an attack on a christian wedding ceremony in egypt government on motorcycles opened fire the guests as they were leaving the church is a missive increasingly targeted egypt's coptic christians since the overthrow of president morsi accusing them of backing the military coup. with economic uncertainty prevailing in large parts of the western world members of the brics group of emerging economies are turning to each other for stability the indian prime minister has met with president putin today in moscow and china will be his next stop on tuesday. discuss this with. 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 centrally standing for brazil russia india china and south africa and these countries are covering more than one quarter of the planet's land 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 it 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 they have already decided that they should be doing business in local currencies as most people know many certainly that india is a surging economy in the world one of the biggest importers of oil to 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 afghanistan and pakistan so obviously the two issues which are on the table is fighting terrorism and of course battling drug trafficking that is something that moscow and new delhi will put their heads together on and hopefully come up with a huge solutions in that regard as well. news continues in just over half an hour from now with me in the team in the meantime multis if you have a not so discusses the prospects of bahrain's uprising with

a prominent human rights activist. 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 tearing conspiracy fraud extortion and tax crimes while mayor yeah the prosecutors 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. welcome to sophie. shevardnadze brain seems to have remained on a. fact is by the arab spring however local activists say it's because of governments have a hand that puts down any dissent what's really going on in

a tiny al kingdom how do you back rein managed to stay out of the media raiders and what is in store for them. in the world gripped by revolution wars few countries have remained on effective watch cost already seen protest dissidents jailed in opposition to the norms. to stability political oppression in the middle east who fight for freedom are sure . which sucker force is worth again which will break shoes. and 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 even when it comes to the

form of rule one some say it's a dictatorship even entire any other 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 full power to the king that means it's not really a constitutional monarchy yes there's a constitution but just the presence of a constitution within a monarchy system doesn't make it a constitutional monarchy we're looking at a situation where we have a parliament and behind and made of two houses but they don't have legislative or monitoring power so overall you can call it an absolute monarchy which is a process of so you would say it's a dictatorship or you wouldn't go that far. yes definitely say it's a dictatorship and people don't have the right to vote they don't have the right to influence the legal system when there is no fear an independent judiciary when the

ruling family basically decides the ins and outs of everything in the system whether canonically politically or socially then yes you can definitely call it a dictatorship but you say protests never stop in bahrain does it mean people aren't afraid of consequences. and i think the consequences are very real and people know that the consequences exist but it's because people know that stopping now and stopping the protests now would mean going back to a situation that was worse than what existed in two thousand and ten before the protests started in behind and so people also believe in the demands that they're calling for they're calling for human rights they're calling for an elected government and many of them are calling for the stepping down of the ruling family and that's why they continue to protest almost on a daily basis so sensitive mentioned human rights human rights activists have alerted to the ongoing human rights violations in bahrain.