russia. lives of six people with witnesses describing a scene of carnage. at the center of it all also here. clearly kill civilians in some of these cases a. drone war in pakistan condemning the regular civilian casualties as nothing short of crimes against humanity. one of the. most vulnerable are in danger of

being left out in the cold. threatened with closure. thank you so much for joining us here on r.t. this morning now we're just after ten am here in the russian capital. world headlines for. three days of mourning have been declared in the russian city of volgograd after a suicide bombing aboard a bus that witnesses described a nightmarish scene of body and bloodied survivors left in shock unable to comprehend exactly what just happened. the city itself is on a heightened state of alert right now with investigators still on the scene combing

the scene and the bus that remains standing behind me for clues to put this piece of this pieces of the puzzle together now at the scene here six people lost their lives forty three were injured many of them very critically injured local hospitals were inundated with very severe injuries witnesses say it just looks like a war zone severed limbs and severe birds everywhere they looked many of these people were sent to moscow for more intensive treatment investigators arrived with the first light of day and they're now actually breaking through rubble on the side of the of the bus to see if they can find anything that would give them more clues as to what happened and why the loved ones of the bombing on says this point do we know exactly what happened on the bus well that investigator has told r.t. that if women boarded the bus yesterday afternoon and that an explosion then took place at the back of the box first call came into emergency at around him local

time and at the scene be fragments of that explosive device including a grenade t.n.t. and shrapnel was found but we found a witness who happened upon it just moments after the blast took place let's listen to what he's got to say. 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 home patients and students one of the theories it's been going around is the possibility this attack may have been intended for moscow if you heard anything about that that's right in fact investigators tell us that. woman we're sponsible most likely for this bombing is thirty year old from

dagestan her name. apparently she was meant to be headed to moscow to but i'm still waiting for her the two men are actually wanted when terrorist attacks in dagestan in may of twenty another man who was suspected to be on his way to moscow to help carry out the attack this is the law that you reportedly went missing in two thousand and twelve his parents went on russian television searching for him obviously now he is running from the police in this case and here at r.t. we spoke to alexander dahmer in an expert on international terrorism and there's a big lecture at several u.s. universities he says terrorism of this sort is not a regional matter this is a global concern. i can tell you that you know we are dealing with this kind of a terrorist international we cannot divide what's happening in america in boston or nickel enormous city in the ninety five well we can separate it from what has just

happened in volgograd or from what happened in there albeit just several weeks ago we seem boat and this is their own fortunate 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 on the way 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 now that no matter what if somebody is added to the russians 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 it this is a terrorist attack against everybody. and around the clock our web seems collecting and publishing all the latest for you on the terror attack in volgograd for extensive background including those are behind it and how their influences were

raised and that of the finances to those details at r.t. dot com. now on the program amnesty international's accusing the u.s. of committing war crimes through its drone program in pakistan a report from the human rights organization lists recent incidents and says there's an almost complete absence of transparency and activists to challenge the obama administration to prove that it has star really investigated all cases of unlawful killings that there could be an awful lot to look at the program began in two thousand and four under the bush administration two thousand and six though it was the deadliest year in his presidency when almost one hundred civilians were killed but in two thousand and eight over here. use of drones in pakistan escalated to reaching a peak after barack obama was sworn into office in two thousand and nine that was a total of one hundred sixty two people though many of them considered not to be militants now the next twelve months of obama's administration saw

a record number of strikes one hundred twenty two and the program continues to take the lives of many innocent people so we can see the lion's share of drone strikes was indeed carried out by the obama administration and around a thousand civilians have been killed two hundred children and the total number of deaths is more than three thousand people more details now from r.t. correspondent lucy catherine 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 and imminent threat to the american people not so according to amnesty international in 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 munnabhai 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. but her grandmother's body was pulverized these missile fragments are all that remain of 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 do. bating the use of remotely piloted aircraft now in a separate report a un 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 to seek out. the u.s. won't shoot itself in the foot with an investigation that's according to phyllis

bennis from the institute for policy studies so she actually wants an international probe into america's ongoing drone strikes the u.s. 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 rhymes 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. i was going to have you with us here on this morning now still to come on the program or not say that of america's homeless shelters the filling up with yesterday's middle class. a match is working five days a week and still not having a place to call home the biggest of america's poor is drastically changing that story from new york. also becoming the program washington for the age old life frogs his story of friendship undermined by the latest n.s.a. spy scandal suggesting millions of french had their phones tapped saw for the break .

germany's finance ministry has denied reports it is preparing its third bailout for greece. of course not you know there will be no third bailout for grains bailouts or so last decade this is the age of the bailiff by the john this is over the bandit's bankers and brokers all that you've got no dollar euro will be left behind and inflation deflation the competition will take every last nickel and dime. language or what i will only react to situations i have read the reports for. the know i will leave it to the state department to comment on your letter. to mr kerry is on the docket. thank you no more weasel words. when you need a direct question be prepared for

a change when you punch be ready for. freedom of speech. down to to freedom. if you are just joining us welcome to the program here on our. air live in moscow u.s. homeless shelters are struggling to accommodate the growing number of poor americans the face of the average tenant though has certainly been changing over the past few years and sometimes even a full time job doesn't mean that you can afford a place to live a more important story. 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 of all and everything is the prices are just up 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 or almost poor the income gap in america's richest city is comparable to those of some sub-saharan african countries we see people come 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 where 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 that and 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 to be a nice 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 poor charmaine was once a freelance makeup artist for revlon and vantage to 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 it still can't make it leaving millions struggling to find opportunity in the land that elise promised it marina port ny r.t. new york is star wars of becoming a reality for japan apparently so it's happening in a galaxy not very far away tokyo is planning to send its first cannon into orbit to try and shoot down some of. it's all in the name of science are those interesting details right now on the website and that over the russian sibling of santa claus meeting the limp explain that on the latest stage of the torch relay you can read more on the sporting symbols voyage on the web site right now. to the international arena sometimes even best friends do fall out the historic alliance

between paris and washington hasn't stopped president calling his american counterpart to condemn allegations of a huge n.s.a. network spying on france. reports on the escalating eavesdropping scandal. france is certainly not happy with the latest revelations from ennis 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 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 if you 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 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 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 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 data from e.u. member states to the united states in reaction to all of this is the first major

move really after the year edward snowden leaks and also it would hope to subject a larger u.s. or foreign corporations its role of social media providers to follow laws or seventy five's numbering in the billions as has been report. we are seeing backlash from all levels even up to the highest levels here in europe against the n.s.a.'s activities and now we're seeing the u.s. officially entered damage control mode with france with obama promising to work to resolve the spiral but still paul murphy an irish member of the unit european parliament he told us here at r t that he doubts washington will learn anything from its mistakes spies 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 is is there's a old histeria an attempt to use that is. undermine the rights of people to privet see the rights of people to have their data protected so rio de janeiro now with. protesters clashed with police outside a brief french hotel there are an option to develop an offshore oil field was being held by striking all oil workers in other unions invaded the cordoned off area of

the police used rubber bullets and tear gas as demonstrators threw stones an overtone to a car accusing the government of selling off brazil's riches. in nevada middles students killed a teacher and wounded two other students before shooting himself at the two injured that were immediately hospitalized one of them in a serious condition the shooting took place in the morning as children were gathering for class and the teacher reportedly tried to intervene and drew fire from the arm a boy of the name of the age of the shooter not yet released. and plans to decontaminate the area around japan's fukushima nuclear plant have been delayed for another three years in recent months the facility has experienced several leaks of the toxic water used to cool the reactor just on sunday contaminated water overflowed a barrier due to heavy rain still more than ninety thousand people unable to return to homes in the area. of disaster at the fukushima plant 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 advisor to the u.k. government 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. or in a moment i'll be martin's breaking the set but for now more than thirty billion pounds are expected to be carved out of the u.k.'s welfare budget by twenty sixteen and with government child protection agencies struggling with their workload subsidised companies are left to pick up the slack as artie's laura smith reports many of these two could be forced to close their doors of never 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 half have witnessed shootings all 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 so they see people stabbed 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 social services tried to take me away from my parents. i remember mark foley my mom hit me with a tree branch of science called my teacher so in office he 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 at home and never had. a cool child line in school forced me to call child line because that lice or burns on the inside. and then nothing happened after that conversation 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 haven't bothered to renew you really this structure 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 in the council. 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 estates like the are 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 for how long in eighteen months the government's again threatening to cut it off without a penny nor a smith. and a more news to come in half an hour's time here on r t but for now i'm stepping aside for abby martin breaking the set interest.

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 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 convicted 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. have you ever felt saturday that if you were in if a song lyric or posted a frowny face as your status that day both you've ever expressed any sort of feelings of melancholy and so. from media then you're a prime candidate for a new product called government surveillance c a new program funded by the national institutes of health is using twitter to spy on the mentally ill for whole population level depression monitoring yes that's right computerized algorithms

alone will be separating the crazy from the same if you don't want to take part in this exciting new study too bad you don't have a choice two thousand of your tax dollars have already been spent on it so keep up that tweeting and i'll see you in the padded room side effects include overwhelming chilling effects such as read the prosecution being the mentally ill is a way to never have standing in a court room gross paranoia never been able to make sarcastic remarks or jokes or gigantically bloated surveillance state let's go back to set. the book. it was a. very hard to take. lightly that he ever had sex with her but there are no. please.

please. please. please. look. crazy news to report guys obama's got a coke problem no i haven't been reading the national enquirer i'm talking about as unwillingness to make a final decision on keystone x.l. the pipeline that could rake in one hundred billion dollars for vulture capitalist brothers charles and david koch that's understandable why obama has officially signed off on the pipeline yet considering how much is already pissed off his democratic base but given his close ties to oil and gas executives many environmentalists aren't holding their breath so with the damage.