he. has a piece. on a passenger we report from a city in mourning in the aftermath of last caused by a career. in today's headlines. these people have been killed civilian casualties a lack of transparency and no justice for the victims international. war in. some of the killings amount to war crimes. citizens joining the syrian.

twenty four hours a day volgograd is mourning the victims of a suicide bomb attack on a passenger bus that claimed the lives of six and injured dozens witnesses described the war zone like scene of scattered body parts and blooded survivors unable to comprehend what had just happened. in the southern russian city. at this point investigators according to four people involved in this case they point to thirty year olds now you don't see all of us from dagestan a career jihad it as the suicide bomber in the case and then the revenge also involved one dimitri sokol love who is her reported husband was on his way to

moscow and then two men waiting for them there from dagestan both of them wanted for twin terrorist attacks in dagestan back in two thousand and twelve so police are on the hunt for those three men at this point the report states that she got on the bus shortly after that is when the explosion took place shop no t.n.t. and a grenade remnants were found at the site which six dead and more than forty injured many of them very severely local hospital inundated with very graphic who witnesses say that there were severed limbs and severe birds many of those cases were said to moscow for further treatment i we've got an eyewitness we spoke to who came upon the situation just moments after here's what he's got to say about what happened to her from 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 satele covered in blood and i couldn't tell whether she was dead or life 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 also a large bomb was found near a shopping mall in dagestan by anti terror police and what they're really trying to piece together right now is why this bombing took place here involve a grad and not as it was originally planned in moscow also last night and islamic prayer center was firebombed here in volgograd so investigators are looking at that as well so there are many pieces to this puzzle that finally need to come together before we get a clear picture of how. this was carried out and why it was done the france reporting that while we discuss the issue of terror threats with alexander dahmer in he's a doctor of law and a visiting lecturer at several u.s. universities and he told us terrorism is no longer a regional matter but an international concern i can tell you that you know we are

dealing with this kind of a terrorist international we cannot divide what's happened in america in boston or in oklahoma city in ninety nine to five well we cannot separate it from what has just happened in volgograd or from what happened in a or b. 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 a 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 ago when i had with skill 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 it this is

a terrorist attack against everybody. a web team is collecting all the latest for you on the terror attack in volgograd for extensive background information eyewitness reports pictures and footage go to dot com. many of the deaths in u.s. drone strikes in pakistan are unlawful and amount to war crimes claims amnesty international a new damning report released today looks at recent incidents and cites horrific examples of the killing of children and the elderly the human rights organization wants justice for the victims of unlawful strikes and calls for greater transparency and a thorough investigation and there could be a lot to look at it all began in two thousand and four when president bush was in office two thousand and six was the deadliest year in his presidency when almost one hundred civilians were killed by just two strikes two years later drones became much more frequently used and then became president in two thousand and nine that was the year which saw the biggest number of killings one hundred sixty two in the

next twelve months the strikes almost doubled the more than one hundred of them and the program goes on the latest attack in pakistan happened just over a month ago so we can see the lion's share of drone strikes were carried out by the administration around a thousand civilians have been killed including two hundred children the total number of deaths is more than three thousand more details now from artie's you see coming off. the predator drone remotely controlled and heavily armed it's the weapon of choice in the cia's under cleared 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. 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 am lucy catherine of we also spoke to the head of the drones report and she says people in pakistan fear the unmanned aircraft the same way as they do that and al qaida. what we have done

it's conduct painstaking research into a specific time period in pakistan where u.s. has carried out three 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 areas in the world. ordinary residents suffer abuse from groups also disappearances and torture which a detention for the focused on armed forces on top of out of the sky. being attacked by u.s. drone strikes. 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. here with r.t. live from moscow with the twenty four hours a day we'll be back after a short break with more including. children 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 as the charity is protecting them off threatened with closure. also still to come washington pulls out with its age old ally fronts the historic friendship undermined by the latest n.s.a. spy scandal suggesting billions of french people had their phones turned to the full details in just a few minutes. we

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has continued her naughty the bank of america could be forced to pay six billion dollars to the u.s. government to compensate for risky management in two thousand and eight the banks one of the major financial institutions held responsible for the mortgage crisis five years ago got a check on is in washington with the details. remember the u.s. government sued seventeen banks for misleading government sponsored mortgage agencies about the quality of mortgages they sold and the government backed those bad home loans it's now bank of america's turn to pay six billion dollars is the amount the government wants bank of america to pay for cheating during the housing boom earlier another giant j.p. morgan reached a tentative thirteen billion dollar deal with the u.s. justice department and other government agencies to settle investigations into bad mortgage loans of course compared to the revenues of the companies those numbers

don't look as big but then on top of government claims the companies pay billions more every year in litigation expenses and other charges linked to their bad mortgage bad subprime mortgages and still one would say it's peanuts compared to the damage that they caused to the u.s. economy and global economy for that matter because the u.s. financial crisis in two thousand and eight affected the whole world well it's the u.s. federal housing agency which is leading the charge against the banks and funding the multibillion dollar lawsuits to talk more joined by economist jeffrey a talk of we're talking about something like two hundred billion dollars demanded from these banks is it fair jeffrey. oster is the banks that were responsible for the it was the government that's actually looting the banks right now this is a lot of time. for the government to extract money wherever they can find responsible why weren't the banks responsible they knew the debt situation they

knew of overdue debts they didn't stop giving away loans did they many people say the crisis. sponsored by the banks is the result of that recession where you know here's the here's the thing i mean housing have been overinflated for probably a half a century as a redirector exultant washington policy is this is every u.s. president was like housing housing housing is greatest thing ever you know this you know every federal agency rose was it was trying to boost housing ownership you know there was a mania that hogan back decades and then over the you know the decade prior to the housing bust had just gotten out of control because of several several policies some of the banking industry was just sort of riding the wave and it looks like things are turning the other direction guess what they tried to offload their worst stuff that they happen to m.b.a.'s and of course that's what they did call a market an operation they were looking for well in buyers at the prevailing price and they found them mostly with big surprise government backed agencies or at the

banks that's where the free enterprise works ok but the banks still were bailed out don't they and clearly now flourishing and shouldn't they be owing something back well this is perfectly unsuitably repay their research so the federal reserve creates trillions of dollars to bail out the entire banking industry which is the how the fed sees this keep this whole sector inflated and i live so where as they should have gone bankrupt and pick a mistake and pay for the mistakes that they had under took and their own very best and part of that was the federal government and the fair bells mile up and now we're here we are five years later and the government wants its money back in the form of this kind of looting operations as a way of saying look you bankers you are responsible for everything that we have our eye which is that you can afford it jeffrey these banks will they be able to pay this back to little i mean you know there's a lot of money sloshing around in the financial system you get so whatever that set

the standard that a free country should do it's actually extend your forward to to be libya probably but it's just who are going to do. you know i don't think there should have been held out nor should they be looted today i'm against both these policies in other words this is piling error on error and notice that all federal policies today and federal reserve pulses of designed to recreate this how bubbles are going to look at the same situation again three four five years so you're saying if you're saying that no lessons have been learnt from the mistakes made five years ago we're going to see it happen again yeah. tempting to recreate the whole thing you know the government seems especially the u.s. government things that are capable of learning from it and there's a lot of it just dedicated to repeating them you know over and over and over again as long as the government gets to where its beak coming in and only to inflate bubbles and burst them and. extract whatever else they can along the way that this is this is a racket all the way through i find it outrageous the bank of america j.p.

morgan the rest of the target is that they somehow caused the boom and bust situation that is not true there are players and the game created by washington where the bankers got plenty of enemies but it's certainly interesting to get your perspective on this thank you so much jeffrey great to talk to you live here on r.t. good to be here thank you jeffrey i talk to life here on r.t. from the states well how did we discuss the fallout from snowden's latest revelations concerning the revelation concerning the crisis now between the u.s. and france over the revelations that the us were spying quite considerably on the french public the french politician. who served does the country's prime minister and interior i should say the country's prime interior and foreign minister says there's no justification for the u.s. spying on its nice. we knew that. some practices were existed but the search and overall system this came as

a surprise for everybody the importance of the spying into the private lives seems so big that it really looks something acceptable between friends between allies there is no argument no reason that can be given to explain to the thing of course fighting against terrorism is very important and we should try to find through corporation financial corporation intelligence cooperation but spying on the private life of citizen this is something we cannot accept. well the francis former foreign minister also told r.t. the current surveillance scandal exposes the dangers of one country dominating the internet in fact what we are seeing today is the incredible privileges of the us administration over the control of the world system we knew that the us were

controlling the financial system through the banking dominance of some big banks through the dollar currency reserve currency but controlling internet controlling the information in our world this is a privilege and monopoly that canard to be accepted because we know that if we are going to follow up in the same direction then confrontation might be electable remember we've got more stories online right now including journalists united as high ranking u.k. media representatives team up for a petition demanding the release of a british cameraman detained in russia over the greenpeace protest in the arctic. plus the russian sibling of santa claus make the olympic flame on the later stage of the torch relay with more on the sporting symbols voyage right now dot com. the number of european muslims joining the ranks of islamist militants in syria is

growing every month now norway has launched a hunt for two teenage sisters who allegedly go into the world torn country to fight the regime alongside rebel forces out of a looks at the dangerous trend. 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 haven't been 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 they weren't particularly religious that impacted over the past few weeks they've been arguments between the 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 that

area security offices working with the norwegian security services are saying this 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 and 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 as believe that or 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. all of them well earlier we spoke to middle east expert mark colvin about whether european muslims who joined the syrian jihad present a tangible threat to their home countries even if hero point one percent of people risk being radicalized and we are talking now well over a family possibly several thousand people from european union countries have either gone to syria or involved in a kind of pipeline of radicalization and supplying people. we do have for a subgroup that is a for the has been if you like a tendency to turn a blind eye to the problem that little black could blow back as they call it from afghanistan the west has supported radical groups in the past going back to the one nine hundred eighty s. in afghanistan overlooking that these groups do have their own agenda they don't

necessarily just want to do what the puppet master has asked them to do and they certainly bite the hand off but the hand is not the sort of that if the person who's helped to groom them and send them but ordinary civilians ordinary people in society whether people shopping in the westgate center in nairobi a few weeks ago or walking down the street in woolwich back in may in this country for instance. we're getting reports of an explosion here in the russian city of six military personnel are being killed off an unknown object detonated a military range on the outskirts of the city two other soldiers were injured the authorities have launched an investigation now this is not the first such incident in june an explosion in central russia killed and left almost forty injured. so that's news just in here on r.t. will bring you work for the news as we get the developments here throughout the day tens of thousands of young subjected to domestic violence in the u.k. with the government's child protection agency struggling with their workload in

times of biting budget cuts or tears visited normalisation that is trying to take up the slack but the doors could also soon be closed leaving the nation's most vulnerable with nowhere to turn or smith reports 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 batman 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 tried to take me away from my parents. i remember fully i heard my mom hit me with a tree branch or something outside of school and my teacher saw and obviously 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 never have. a call child line in school forced me to call child line because that lice or burns on the inside. and 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 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 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 norris myth r.t. . brings you up to date for the moment i'll be back with more news with the team in just over half an hour from now in the meantime finding love against the olds coming up next is a documentary about two very different individuals whose long. is simply 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 prosecutor 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. more news today. again fleda. these are the images.

from the street. child corporations are. 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 no not because then this illness. that i went time to

do i save money to hire a hitman to shoot me dead for the next building where the open window where do you . 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 there but and then changed my mind i give them all the money to renovate the apartment. and i can think what you could possibly do to make my hair beautiful. dress them up and then i was always the last girl to catch him inside and the ones who didn't notice me were mostly drunk men just didn't go for me yeah my life seemed pointless.