the victims of a suicide bus bombing. took the lives of six people with witnesses describing a scene of carnage. we report on the survivors condition from volgograd a city in shock also least in some cases they've clearly killed civilians in some of these cases. international. drone war in pakistan condemning the regular civilian casualties is nothing short of crimes against humanity. washington falls out with age old life. historic friendship undermined by the latest n.s.a. spying scandal suggesting that millions of french. in

one of the richest countries of the world are living in a type of war the u.k.'s most vulnerable are in danger of being left out in the cold the charity's protecting them threatened with closure. the world's top headlines live from moscow it's r t with me. and welcome to the program today three days of mourning have been declared in the russian city of volgograd after a suicide bombing aboard a packed bus eyewitnesses described a nightmarish scene of body parts and bloodied survivors left in shock unable to comprehend exactly what just happened. in volgograd for us right now bringing us the latest on this good morning to you we understand here at r t now that more than a dozen teenagers. well caught in this attack

a can you give us an update here how are the survivors and i suppose house the city coping in the wake of this. wellbore you many people here are just in a state of shock that something this dramatic to take place here and it was just an average ordinary day when a blast ripped through bus number twenty nine you see standing where it was stopped at around two pm local time there were many teenagers there's a local university here and the bus runs through near that near that campus now so far six have been reported dead eight critically injured and in total forty three injured many of those have been sent to moscow for intensive treatment but people who went to the local hospitals where the survivors were immediately taken reports of carnage that they hadn't seen since in chechnya people with separate

lives severe burdens a something that even its many people just had never never dreamt they would see in their own town so it's very it's a heightened state of alert here. right now still very much of the investigation still ongoing investigators have their tense up still convening here at the scene to gather as much information as possible and indeed the entire region is on a heightened state of alert for the foreseeable future lives here we understand that you know a lot of fear and panic early on certainly led to conflicting reports but do we have a clearer picture now do you know exactly what happened. investigators have told us that the blast ripped through the bus at around at around two pm when a female suicide bomber boarded the bus and made her way to the back no initial reports were that there was

a malfunction with the gas equipment on the bus the cause was. that it was it was soon after that second was the device fragments were found around the area and then word came through that a suicide bomber was suspected and we've got it eyewitness who saw the aftermath of this explosion which purportedly was caused by t.n.t. and river an eight let's listen to what they've got to say about what they saw after. the first there were many ambulances and police around people getting out from the coast to help they were pulling people out of the bus giving the water sharing their first aid kits what 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 also pulses near the university so the bus was full of hot patients and students.

shari please understand i think i'm just going to jump in very very quickly i'm sorry sir it's got a bit of a time delay here forgive me please we understand here to want to ask you quickly beginning rumors that this deadly attack. may have been intended. to think about. yes indeed investigators have actually mentioned that the woman who carried out this attack thirty year old. from dagestan had coconspirators to attack moscow in fact she was supposed to be on her way to moscow two other men from dagestan were waiting for her there reportedly and these two men are also wanted for twin terror attacks took place in dagestan back in may of two thousand and twelve another man dimitri love is also there also on the hunt for him he's an ethnic russian who were reportedly her boyfriend. she then

converted into islam and his parents are actually searching for him and they went on russian television searching for dimitri sokolove. looking for clues as to where he may be investigators say he was also supposed to be on his way to moscow to apparently carry out an attack there or the latest on this bus bombing here with aussies lives in france in volgograd thanks very much for that. one the meantime here on r.t. we did speak to. an expert on international terrorism a visiting lecturer also at several u.s. universities he says terror of this sort is a global concern not of any regional not zero. i can tell 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 i'm a city in the ninety five well we cannot separate it from what has just happened in volgograd or from what happened in they'd all be 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 you know about happens on the kind of irregular basis this is not first time this is not the last time but once again we're in the same boat and unlike just several years that you went ahead with school and you know this expression one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter i can see it now. no matter what if somebody had to do it to russia and the russian government will have a terrorist attacks in russia this is a terrorist attack not just that against the russian people it's against this is a terrorist attack against everybody in our team collecting and publishing all the latest for you on the terror attack involved a grad extensive background also including the identities of those allegedly behind it those details for you right now on the web site r t dot com. for now on

the program amnesty international is accusing the u.s. of committing war crimes through a drone program in pakistan a report from the human rights organization lists of recent incidents and says there's an almost complete absence of transparency and activists to challenge the obama administration to prove it is thoroughly investigated all cases of unlawful killings and they could be an awful lot to look at for example the program began in two thousand and four under that of the bush administration two thousand and six was the deadliest year in his presidency when almost one hundred civilians were killed but since two thousand and eight the use of drones in pakistan has actually escalated reaching a peak right. after barack obama was sworn into office in two thousand and nine about years sore one hundred sixty seven people not considered to be militants killed in the next twelve months of obama's administration saw a wreck or number of strikes totaling one hundred twenty two so far and the program

continues to take the lives of many innocent people so we can see the lion's share of drone strikes were actually carried out by the obama administration around one thousand civilians are being killed including at least two hundred children and just over one percent of the attacks were against a militant targets considered high profile and more details now from artie's off. the predator drone remotely controlled and heavily armed it's the weapon of choice in the cia's undeclared war in pakistan that's where the u.s. is believed to have launched more than three hundred strikes since two thousand and four the target suspected taliban and al qaeda militants the white house says better drones then boots on the ground and justifies the covert program as both affective and legal america does not take strikes to punish individuals we act against terrorists who pose a continuing an imminent threat to the american people not so according to amnesty

international and a damning new report the human rights group warns u.s. drone strikes could amount to war crimes documents recent killings in pakistan's northwest tribal areas and the lack of transparency surrounding drones this is a secret program in fact in our case we've found at least in some cases they've clearly killed civilians and some of these cases might be war crimes that really concerns us one such case is that of sixty eight year old man nama bibi killed by a u.s. drone last october she was picking vegetables with her grandchildren when that attacks took place a double strike the children miraculously survived. first it was so then i heard that. the first hit and the second hit my cousin. what her grandmother's body was pulverized these missile fragments are all that remain amnesty documents other such cases but its main point the need for transparency and accountability

the u.s. must explain why these people have been killed people who are clearly civilians must provide justice to these people compensation it must investigate those responsible for those killings the u.s. continues to give very little public information about the drone program but it will face more international pressure later this week that is because on friday the u.n. general assembly will be debating the use of remotely piloted aircraft now in a separate report a u.n. investigation looked at thirty three drone strikes around the world not just in pakistan that violated international humanitarian law and also resulted in hundreds of civilian casualties that report also calling for more transparency and accountability from the united states reporting from moscow i'm lucy catherine of you know we spoke to the head of the south asia program mr international policy truscott all about the specifics of the report and whether indeed the u.s. government is even aware of it here's what she had to say. what we have done it's

conduct painstaking research. time period in pakistan where u.s. has carried out drone strikes and that's a very recent eighteen months in a very particular part of the country in north waziristan this is one of the most neglected remote areas of the world. ordinary residents suffer abuse from armed groups also disappearances and torture which a detention for the pakistan armed forces on top of that out of the skies. they are being attacked. by u.s. drone strikes and in some cases it appears that some of those some of the killings have been unlawful that amount to extradition executions or war crimes we contacted the u.s. government in advance of our report being published. they referred us cia referred us to the white house and the white house referred us to u.s. president barack obama's speech of may twenty third teen which made promises of

transparency we've seen little change to date and the united states won't shoot itself in the foot with an investigation says phyllis bennis for the institute of policy studies so she wants an international probe into the u.s. as drone activities. the us has a consistent position in refusing to allow its highest officials whether political or military officials to be held accountable for the consequences of wars that are themselves fundamentally violations of international law international law in the united states unfortunately is too often only applied to other countries and not to ourselves one of the big problems with the drone war is that we don't have good information it may be that there are war crimes involved if there are. decisions made to use drone strikes when other options are available if decisions are made to use drone strikes against settings where there are known civilians they may well be

work crimes there needs to be a thorough investigation and what we've seen is that the u.s. government is not prepared to investigate itself so the question of international investigations whether it's in the context of the international criminal court to which of course the united states is not a member or whether it's in the context of amnesty international the united nations other agencies all of these need to be explored and used are still to come here on america's homeless shelter was filling up with yesterday's middle class. working. and still these. things about america is drastically changing the story. with an energy crisis looming the u.k. government strikes what being sixteen billion pound deal to build a new nuclear power plant the first in a generation. a quarter past the hour here in moscow thanks for joining us on r.t.

in the international arena sometimes even best friends fall out. alliance between powers and washington doesn't stop president calling his american counterpart to condemn allegations of a huge n.s.a. network spying on friends. reporting on the escalating eavesdropping scam. 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 third team 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 rolls from happening we've seen a reaction coming from individual entities across europe here and 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 war 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 at leats and also it would hope to subject a large a u.s. or foreign corporations its role of social media providers to follow laws or things seventy five's numbering in the billions as has been report. so we are seeing backlash from all levels even up to the highest levels here if you're up against the n.s.a.'s activities. and of the u.s. has now entered damage control mode with france with obama promising all and he'll work to resolve the spiral of american political cartoonist and columnist ted rall he believes the damage and so already been done it's pretty hard to under a listening to tens of millions of phone calls isn't it at this point i think what shocking the french is the not just the extent to which the united states is spying

on their people but also the fact that they consider themselves to be u.s. allies and if this is the way the u.s. treats its friends that well what's the point of being a friend this creates tension between two countries that like to think of themselves as allies and it's said it's difficult for for the french to know exactly to what extent what they're doing is being listened to watched spied upon so you know it it's hard to be friends with people you don't trust. and despite the p.r. disaster of edward snowden's revelations. irish member of the european parliament told r.t. that he doubts washington will take any lessons from its recent mistake. want to spoil a spy even though it already is outside of the law and it will make it more difficult because what's happened in terms of the massive spying that's taken place so far that's been facilitated by major multinational corporations like facebook like

google in contravention of any sense of the right to privacy the right to data protection and so if these regulations go through and i think they likely will the transfer of european data to all their authorities such as the u.s. authorities third country authorities will be made illegal i don't believe these spying operations are taking place in my interests in other people's interests in art and or across europe or across the world and i think what's happening it's there's a old hysteria and attempt to use that histeria to undermine the rights of people to privet see the rights of people to have their data protected. star wars it becomes reality for japan and it's not a no galaxy very far away tokyo is planning to send its first cannon into orbit to shoot down some asteroids all in the name of science so those details right now on

our website. at the russian sibling of santa claus meets the olympic flame on the latest stage of the torch relay read more about the sporting symbols voyage right now at r.t. dot com. i thank you for joining us here on the program today us homeless shelters are struggling to accommodate the growing number of poor americans and the face of the average tenant has certainly been changing in the past few years and sometimes even a full time job can save you from becoming homeless. in important points. the working poor have become among america's fastest growing demographic. charmaine works full time as a telephone data collector i make about two fifty a week depending on the hours that i work and many days the thirty year old eats a free dinner at the new york city rescue mission before heading to the place she's called home for the past five years i come here to eat at the mission then jump on

the train get back to the shelter for curfew at eight o'clock if you don't make it back to the shelter at eight o'clock they've already packed up your clothes a record high of fifty thousand people currently occupying new york city's shelters of those living in them city figures show twenty eight percent of families and sixteen percent of adults are employed the jobs are not paying you what they should be paying you first and everything is the prices are just on everything. you know it's just not affordable at all in two thousand and eleven forty six percent of new yorkers were considered either poor or almost poor the income gap in america's richest city is comparable to those of some sub-saharan african countries we see people coming in somewhat maybe embarrassed or ashamed or hardworking they didn't have to ask for him now but now through the day if you can put food on the table for your family what you can do in an effort to how supply meet demand the new york

city rescue mission recently began a run of the nations to expand its space from three floors to six next year twice the amount of people being brought in twice the amount of beds will be provided to the hungry and homeless many of whom are working americans former u.s. president jimmy carter has spent three decades promoting and building affordable homes he says america's income inequality is causing members of today's middle class to resemble those who lived in poverty when he was in office in the late seventy's compared to when i left the white house the difference is twice as great as it was between the richest people and for charmaine was once a freelance makeup artist for revlon and vantage to a cosmetics store life changed following the financial crisis of two thousand and eight when she lost her job so when she hears today u.s. officials brag about an economic recovery they're saying it but they don't really

take a look at it because it's not true i see more people struggling out here and they're working and they're on welfare and they still can't make it leaving millions struggling to find opportunity in the land that always promised it marina port ny r.t. new york or to some other global headlines in brief starting with another middle school student who killed a teacher and wounded two of the students before shooting himself of the two injured were immediately hospitalized one of them in serious condition the shooting took place in the morning as children were gathering for class but the teacher reportedly tried to intervene and drew fire from the boy the name and age of the shooter had not yet released. hard to brazil where protesters clashed with police outside a rio de janiero beachfront hotel where an auction to develop an offshore oil field was being held by striking oil workers and other unions invaded the cordoned off area despite tight security police used rubber bullets and tear gas as

demonstrators threw stones and overturned a car all the while accusing the government of selling off brazil's riches. plans to decontaminate the area around japan's fukushima nuclear plant has been delayed for another three years in recent months the facility has experienced several leaks of the toxic water used to cool the reactor and just on sunday water overflowed a contaminated barrier due to heavy rain and more than ninety thousand people remain unable to return to their homes. at the disaster fukushima hasn't stopped the u.k. from striking a deal with a french company to build the first nuclear power plant in almost twenty years it's expected to cost around sixteen billion pounds and could supply more than five percent of the nation's energy when finished britain's energy secretary has warned of a looming energy crisis as many of its nuclear plants will close within ten years and

former scientific advisor to the u.k. so david king says while nuclear energy does carry risks they can certainly be blown out of proportion. 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 awfully. worried about the scaremongering that goes on about nuclear energy nuclear energy per kilowatt hour of electricity produced is by far the safest energy historically that we have used to produce electricity we of course he knows the risks associated with nuclear energy but knowing the risks you can then manage them down to a very tiny proportion it's all to live from moscow more than thirty billion pounds are suspected to be carved out of the u.k.'s welfare budget by twenty sixteen and

with government child protection agencies struggling with their workload other subsidised companies are left to pick up the slack there was artie's laura smith reports many of these two could be forced to close their doors leaving the nation's most vulnerable with nowhere to turn. these are the children of kids company one in five has been shot at all stabbed hot have witnessed shootings or stabbings in the last year the lucky ones come to camilla batmanglij is charity to be pieced back together these children in one of the richest countries of the world are living in a type of war zone that is on estates they see people stepped outside their window they're afraid of firearms they go up on the staircase in their estate they don't know who's around the corner who's going to attack them they get trapped in lifts and get raped and so on children like that says camilla without the right help

become incredibly violent taking their revenge on themselves or on society by sixteen florence was a homeless drug and alcohol abuse she grew up in turn ignored and casually abused by her mother. i remember mark foley. hit me with a tree branch or something outside of school and my teacher saw and called social services. and then i don't know i think i cried i'm sorry in the me and when they were like checking me and i said i want to stay home and never have a. child line in school forced me to call child line because that lice or burns on the inside. and nothing happened after that only kids company pursued florence texting and phoning to make sure she was ok over a period of nearly a year a continuity of care that traumatized youngsters desperately need and getting from

the government mental health and children's social services hasn't changed since the victorian times we renew our railways we renew our airports we renew our hospitals but actually we have to renew really destruction that deal with almost one rouble kids and make them fit for purpose repeated requests for a government response to that yielded nothing about his company i probably would have five kids right now instead of twenty four florence is a graduate of oxford university articulate intelligent and ready to help the next generation. reckons a million traumatized children from the states like the going without any kind of help from an overstretched social services and still she has to beg for funding so now kids company can keep its doors open to help more vulnerable young people but

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