russia mourns the victims of a suicide bus bombing at the time but took the lives of six people with the witnesses describing a scene of carnage the report from volgograd on the aftermath big career jihad is the center of it all. and also the deaths from the skies. the u.s. must explain why these people have been killed. and they seem to national slams america's drawing war in pakistan condemning the regular civilian casualties as nothing short of new crimes. in one of the richest countries of the world are living in a type of war zone the u.k.'s most vulnerable are in danger of being left out in the cold and the charities protecting them are threatened with closure.

this is coming to you live from moscow hello and welcome to the program three days of mourning have been declared in the russian city of volgograd after a suicide bombing aboard a park bus witnesses described a nightmarish scene of body parts and blood it survivors left in shock on a bill to comprehend what had just happened and earlier we spoke to our she is lindsey france who's involved the ground and she told us of the horrifying injuries there. 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 love 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 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 first call came into emergency at around two pm local time and at the scene the 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 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 have you heard anything about that that's right in fact investigators tell us. that's the woman response will most likely for this bombing is thirty year old from dagestan her name. i see all of us apparently she was meant to be headed to moscow were two men from dagestan waiting for her to bend or actually want when

terrorists attacked in dagestan in may of two thousand and twelve another man who was suspected to be on his way to moscow to help carry out the attack was retrieved sokol of a man who 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 then xandra don't rain and i explode on international terrorism and a visiting lecturer at several u.s. universities says this sort is a global concern rather than a regional. i can tell you that you know we're dealing with this kind of a terrorist international channel divide what's happening in america in boston or nickel at home a city in the united 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 were seen boat and this is very unfortunate and we need to deal with it this is

something you know but it happens on the kind of irregular basis this is not the 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 now that no matter what somebody is going to do to russia and the russian government when they have a terrorist attacks in russia this is a terrorist attack not just the against the russian people it's against this is a terrorist attack against everybody. that web team is collecting and publishing all the latest for you on the terror attack involved a grad more extensive background including how those behind it and raise that finance go to dot com. coming up in the program after a little later international alert as teenage sisters from norway had for syria

they could soon join the growing number of european muslims fighting alongside the rebels that part of the warring trend in the e.u. and it's going to turn over what happens when they come. on the same time national is accusing the u.s. of committing war crimes through its drone program in pakistan a report from the human rights organization a list of recent incidents and says there's an almost complete absence of transparency that. that actually is have challenged the obama administration to prove it has already investigated all cases of unlawful killings and there could be a lot to look at so the program began in two thousand and four under the bush administration in two thousand and six was the deadliest year in his presidency when almost one hundred civilians were killed but since two thousand and eight have

a look here the use of drones in pakistan has escalated reaching a peak after bronc obama or sworn into office in two thousand and nine that saw one hundred sixty two people not considered to be militants killed the next twelve months of obama's administration so a record number of strikes one hundred and 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 were carried out by the obama administration around a thousand civilians have been killed including two hundred children the total number of deaths is more than three thousand people more details now from the comfort of. 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 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. the most it was so then i heard

that. the first hit and the second hit my cousin. but her grandmother's body was polarized 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 were sponsored 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 am lucy catherine of . and we spoke to the head of the south asia program that amnesty international polly transcode about this specifics of the report and whether the u.s. government is aware of it and here what she had 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 where ordinary residents suffer abuse from groups also disappearances and torture of 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. in some cases and 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. referred us what cia told us the white house and the white house referred us to president barack obama's speech of may twenty third team which made promises of transparency you see little change to date. and coming up later this hour america's homeless shelters fill up with yesterday's middle class. a matter of working five days a week and still not having the least of the biggest of america's poor is drastically changing that story from new york. and also this hour washington for example with age all our lives frons their historic friendship undermined by the latest n.s.a. spying scandal suggesting millions of french had that far as time passed after the

short break. live. the. economic up down in the final. days the longer the deal and the rest because i think the case you believe is really. her lips. they all talk about language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports like. the no i will leave the state department comment on your letter play. list or carry out a car is on the job here in melbourne. thank you no more weasel words. when

you made a direct question he prepared for a change when you know you should be ready for a. critical stage in. the freedom to. live. this is all see coming to life for most welcome bank us homeless shelters us trying to accommodate the growing number of four americans the phrase the average tenant has been changing in the past few years and sometimes even a full time job doesn't mean you can afford a place to live. in now reports. 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 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 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 come in someone may be embarrassed or ashamed or hardworking they didn't have to ask for him now but now through the day he 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 nation's two would spanned 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 poor charmaine was once a freelance makeup artist for revlon and vantage to

a cosmetic 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 promised it marina port ny r.t. new york. becomes a reality for japan under it's in a galaxy not very far away tokyo i was planning to sunday profile just kind of into orbit to shoot down some asteroids all in. name of science more our website. on the russian sibling on santa claus with the olympic flame on the latest stage of the torch relay the sporting symbols of all age at all.

norway's security forces have issued an international alert for two teenage girls that sold to have joined the ranks of european muslims going off to fight in syria and he is on it with more. the two sisters age sixteen and nineteen left a message for their family saying that they were going to syria because they believed that muslims in the country were being attacked from all directions now the family who have been being named are cooperating with the authorities to try and track these two young women down now they've been it's reported that they are for all of somali descent that they came to norway in the year two thousand that they weren't particularly religious that impacted over the past few weeks that being on humans between the. older sister and the mother of the family over the older sisters want to wear the niqab so norwegian authorities looking into this to try and track down these two women who are believed to be in turkey trying to cross

the border into syria they say they have evidence that they've been spotted in the area security officers working with the norwegian security services are saying that we are seeing a growing trend in organized groups trying to to recruit and radicalize muslims muslim people in the in the west in europe across europe we have seen cases where by anti assad fighters have turned up with with passports from across the european union norway itself believes that around forty of its citizens are currently fighting in the area one of the largest groups from europe that's made their way to fight against assad troops have been from right here in germany it's believed that in the north of syria there's a camp that's been labeled the german camp by newsmagazine around two hundred german citizens most of them from the north rhine-westphalia area believed to be there the numbers well the numbers speak for themselves it's believed that are over one thousand european fighters currently battling assad forces in syria right now

and that's gone up from two hundred fifty from this time last year so if it does seem that if these these organized groups are recruiting that they're certainly getting more and more people to their cause. meanwhile the process to destroy chemical weapons in a series continuing international inspectors have visited seventeen sites where the country's toxic asset always produced and made fourteen of them inoperable the team arrived three weeks ago to oversee the design and a deal brokered by russia and the u.s. in the international arena sometimes even best friends fall out president obama made an apologetic call to his french counterpart over allegations the n.s.a. has spied on millions in france and on him and which is causing real friction in the historic alliance between paris and washington and in just a single month the agency automatically intercepted more than seventy million calls

while also logging next text messages along with the general public business that and politicians were also targeted this prompted all along to join the calls of those urging tough piracy a private symbol is in the e.u. and american political cartoonist and columnist ted rall things the u.s. will have a very hard time rebuilding its reputation it's pretty hard to on do listening to tens of millions of phone calls isn't it at this point i think what's 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 rooms well what's the point of being a friend this creates tension between two countries that like to think of themselves as allies so 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. if you want to know how countries are now trying to protect themselves from america's global data harvesting go to altie dot com to find out. some wild news for you this hour plans to decontaminate the area around japan's fukushima nuclear plant have been delayed for another three years and 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 more than ninety eight thousand people remain unable to return to that. other world headlines and not a middle school student killed a teacher and wounded two other students before shooting himself the two injured were immediately hospitalized one of them in a serious condition the shooting took place in the morning as children were gathering for class the teacher the teacher reportedly tried to intervene and drew

fire from the armed boy the name and age of the shooter hasn't been released. the latest shooting adds to the grim statistics from the u.s. administration the head of the justice department sent or said on monday there were five shootings a year on average from the year two thousand to two thousand and eight but that number tripled over the next four years and over two hundred people died in such incidents twenty twelve so at least sixteen that mass shootings were victims and with the latest shootings twenty to thirty and has already told those figures within ten months although thirty billion pounds are expected to be carved out of the u.k.'s welfare budget by two thousand to sixteen and with government child protection agency is struggling with their workload other subsidised companies are left to pick up the slack but is on his lower 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 i heard my mom hit me with a tree branch or something outside of school and my teacher saw an office 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 call child line in school forced me to call child line because their lives 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 child 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 right now instead of twenty four florence is a graduate of oxford university articulate intelligent and ready to help the next generation but 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. should follow the advice of its financial chancellor and be more like china skies and stays or her but discuss possible motivations coming up next hour here on our butt. he's approaching. george osborne 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 seoul 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 do regear 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 meal feudalism so george osborne can be piggly wiggly georgie porgie putting a pie up on his throne making all sides of commandments all day long and not doing jack nothing. finding love again coming up next that solid documentary about two very different individuals. and breakable. 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 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. dramas that can't be ignored the. stories of those who refuse to notice. faces change the world right now.

to picture. from a rose to. look to. me. tell us how do you tell 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 no not because then this illness. at one time of you i saved money to hire a hitman to shoot me dead from the next building where the open window with you. as ever i mean i even told my parents and my brother about it they were shocked at first of course but then somehow resigned. i told them that if i saved enough money there but and then changed my mind i'd give them all the money to renovate the apartment. and i can't think what you could possibly do to me.