from around the globe. mourns are the victims of a suicide bombing. took the lives of six people with witnesses describing a scene of carnage there and we report from volgograd on the. career but. also on the program. death from the skies. the u.s. must explain why these people have been killed i'm going to be international slamming america's drone war in pakistan condemning the regular civilian casualties as nothing short of war crime. in one of the richest countries of the world. in a type of war the u.k.'s most vulnerable are in danger of being left out in the cold

with charities protecting them and now threatened with closure. here in moscow want to choose to live with me welcome to the program today three days of mourning have now been declared in the russian city of volgograd after a suicide bombing aboard a packed bus witnesses describing a nightmarish scene of body parts and bloodied survivors left in shock unable to comprehend exactly what just happened earlier in the program i spoke with aussies lindsey france she's in volgograd for us she told me of the horrifying injuries the city itself is on a heightened state of alert right now is investigators still on the scene combing the scene and the bus that remains standing behind me for clues but this piece this

piece 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 looked 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 are demanding on this point do we know exactly what happened on the bus well an 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 the first call came into emergency at around two pm local time and at the scene the fragments of an explosive device putting

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 them 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 and also pulses near the university so the bus was full of hot 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 the woman we're sponsible most likely for this bombing is thirty year old from dagestan her name what's naija i see all of us apparently she was meant to be

heading to moscow were two men from dagestan waiting for her and the two men are actually wanted for twin terrorist attacks in dagestan. may of two thousand and twelve another man who is suspected to be on his way to moscow to help carry out the attack is retrieve something off and that he will 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 an expert on international terrorism and a visiting lecturer at several u.s. universities he says terrorism of this sort is not a regional matter rather it's a concern of global importance 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 nicoll a home 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 the 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 if somebody is added to the russians the russian government will have a terrorist attacks in russia this is a terrorist attack not just them against the russian people it's against this is a terrorist attack against everybody in our web is collecting and publishing all the latest for you on this terror attack in volgograd for extensive background including health those behind it raise their finances those details are already up on the website right now or to dot com. it's all it's

a lie from moscow amnesty international is 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 almost a complete absence of transparency the activists now challenging the obama administration to prove that is thoroughly investigated all cases of wonderful killings although they could be an awful lot to look at let's bring up the numbers for you here on the program it all started in two thousand and four under the bush administration though two thousand and six was the deadliest year in that presidency and that was almost one hundred victims civilians as well but since two thousand and eight the drone strikes in pakistan have escalated here we have a victims of one hundred sixty two when president barack obama entered the white house and as you can see it continues throughout the next several months and the casualties continue to mount as well so as you can see here we get to the lion share of ultimately what's going on with the deaths and the statistics when it

comes to the obama administration the majority of the drone strikes happened under his watch many civilians killed out of many of them two hundred at least were children and the total number of deaths from the latest count we have are upwards of three thousand people that's got some more details for you here on r t with correspondent 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 effective 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 in 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. by 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 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 done. 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 lucy catherine of and here it out to you we spoke to the head of the south asia program at amnesty international. we talked all about the specifics of the report and whether indeed the u.s.

government is even aware of it is what you have to say. what we have done is conduct painstaking research into a specific time period in pakistan where u.s. has carried out drone strikes and that's 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 groups also disappearances and torture detention for the focused on armed forces on top of that out of the sky. 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 on may twenty third team which made promises of transparency we've seen little change to date or talk a couple of program on our two americas homeless shelters filling up with yesterday's middle class. imagine working five days a week and still not having a place to call the biggest of america's poor is drastically changing that story from new york. and washington falls out with age old ally brands the historic friendship undermined by the latest n.s.a. spy scandal now suggesting that millions of french had their phones tablets that's coming your way after the break. the interview.

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watching r.t. live from moscow thank you for joining us today us homeless shelters are struggling to accommodate the growing number of poor americans the face of the average tenant has certainly been changing in the past few years and sometimes even a full time job doesn't mean that you can even afford a place to live. the 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 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 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 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 it still can't make it leaving millions struggling to find opportunity in the land that old ways promise to marina port ny r.t. new york. so is a star wars of becoming a reality for japan could be and it's going to be taking place in a galaxy not so far away tokyo is planning to send its first cannon into all bit to try and. shoot down some asteroids all in the name of science those details for you on the website right now. on the russian sibling of santa claus reading be a live picture flame on the latest stage of the torch relay here you can read more on the sporting symbols vost voyage of course on our web site right now. now at the international arena sometimes even best friends fall out president obama has made an apologetic call to his french counterpart of allegations the n.s.a. has spied on millions in france an argument which is causing real friction in the

historic alliance between paris and washington. earlier reports on the escalating eavesdropping scandal france's 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 call the nation of the embassies actions coming from mexico which

alleges that the n.s.a. also had hacked into the e-mail of its of the president for the 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 rolls from happening 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 service in order to stop spying from outside specifically the united states and also brazil had planned on having a secure email service also to thwart spies but on a broader scale the e.u. with set aside a vote on a new regulation essentially bads 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 large a u.s. or foreign corporations as well as social media providers to follow new laws or things have to fives 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 and as a result the u.s. has quickly entered damage control mode with france with obama promising all and he'll work to resolve the spiral but american political cartoonist and columnist head of roll he believes the damage has already been done it's pretty hard to undo listening to tens of millions of phone calls isn't it at this point i think what shocking the french is 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 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 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. why world all the time with protesters clashing with police outside a rio de janiero beachfront hotel in brazil during an oil field auction the oil workers in unions invading the cordoned off area clashing with police rubber bullets tear gas used to disperse the demonstrators who responded with throwing stones and overturning a car. to decontaminate the area around japan's fukushima nuclear plant had been delayed for another three years just on sunday they had to deal with contaminated water that was overflowing a barrier due to heavy rain still ninety thousand people in the region are homeless . and the disaster fukushima hasn't stopped the u.k.

from striking a deal with the french to build the first nuclear power plant in almost twenty years at a cost of sixteen billion pounds it could supply more than five percent of the nation's energy and britain's energy secretary has warned of a looming up oil crisis an energy crisis nuclear plants will close within ten years and the former scientific advisor to the u.k. so david king says while nuclear energy does carry risks they do get 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 the new terror 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 know the risks associated with nuclear energy but knowing the risks you can then manage them down to a very tiny proportion and in other world news a nevada middle school student killed a teacher and wounded two other students before shooting himself but the two were injured immediately hospitalized one of them in serious condition it was a morning shooting as children were gathering for classes the teacher reportedly tried to intervene and drew fire from the armed boy who has not yet been identified now the latest shooting adds to the grim stats from the us of a head of the justice department said on monday there were five mass shootings a year on average from two thousand to two thousand and eight but that number tripled over the next four years and over two hundred people have died in such incidents of two thousand and twelve sore at least sixteen mass shootings eighty eight victims and now with the latest shootings two thousand and thirteen has

already topped those figures within just ten months. or an hour 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 are struggling with their workload other subsidised companies are left to pick up the slack but as are to use laura smith reports many of these as well could be forced to close their doors thereby 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 social services tried to take me away from my parents. i remember mark foley my mom hit me with a tree branch or something outside of school and my teacher saw an 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 home and never have. a cool child line in school forced me to call child line expect lice or burns on the

inside. and nothing happened after that conversation only kids company pursued florance 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. instead 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 again threatening to cut it off without a penny nor a smith. so perhaps britain should follow the advice of its financial chancellor and perhaps be a bit more like china cars are and stacy herbert discussing the possible motivations coming up next hour here on arts. but for the very immediate time being preview. for gaza point says second great britain must rediscover its can do attitude chancellor dismisses suggestions that china has a sweatshop economy and wishes britain would be more like the communist country yeah well you know he wants brits to work for lower wages that's why the bank of

england said they're going to keep interest rates low in so employment goes higher that means that they want wages to trend lower to be on a par with china so that you have everyone employed but making subsistence wages used to be here subsistence farming used to be the rigueur economic model here in britain under the lords and ladies and kings and queens of the feudal period now they wish to return to that as part of neil feudalism so george osborne can be piggly wiggly georgie porgie putting him up on his throne making all sides of commandments all day long and not doing jack nothing. because a report about him exactly got to be one hour from now for the meantime though here on the program finding love against the odds coming up next is our documentary about two very different individuals whose love is simply.

it seems like politicians can get away with anything nowadays but not all of them the former mayor of field detroit has been sentenced to twenty years in prison after being found guilty of committing record tiering 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. as in today this is big news not because some mayor took bribes but because he got punished the judge you 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 as an example probably not but it would really help the country if they would but that's just my opinion. the olympic torch is on its epic journey to such. one hundred twenty three days. through two hundred cities of russia. really by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand killings. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. a limbic torch relay. on r t r two dot com. tell us how do you tune and what's your name.

since i was born i haven't been able to walk at all my body was slowly changing my spine was curving my ribs were tightening well i guess you can see for yourselves. at first the doctors told my parents i wouldn't make it to five years when we went to hospital they'd say what if you're still alive. but despite my body deep inside i'm a worrier and i always wanted to die a different way not in a hospital ward not because then this illness. at one time i saved money to hire a hitman to shoot me dead from the next building where the open window with you. as if i may even told my parents or my brother about it they were shocked at first of course but then somehow resigned. i told them that if i saved enough money but that and then changed my.