politics only on our team. bloodshed and tears six killed and dozens injured as a peaceful autumn in russia's volgograd is shattered by a suicide attack on a passenger bus we report from a city in mourning in the aftermath of the last cause by a career jihad. also in today's headlines demanding answers. the u.s. must explain why these people have been killed civilian casualties a lack of transparency and no justice for the victims and the steam to national lashes out of washington for its drone war in pakistan saying some of the killings amount to war crimes. and norway becomes the latest e.u. country to over its citizens joining the syrian jihad. which is

a global hunt for two teenage girls thought to have gone to syria to fight alongside the islamists there. live from studio center here in moscow this is r.t. with the 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 well we've just received new footage of the exact moment of the tragedy released from the investigative committee now as you can see here the bus is traveling along the road and this is the moment of the blast it's recorded by a dash cam on the car that was following the bus and now as we can see the smoke dissipating from the explosion strewn all across the road cars coming to

a standstill and then the passengers leaping out of the stricken bus either through windows or. through doors and all the other cause of no come to a standstill with their drivers clearly shocked well if he's lucky france witness the off the mouth of the tragedy in the southern russian city. at this point investigators according to four people involved in this case they point to thirty year olds i see all of us from dagestan a career jihad us as the suicide bomber in the case and three men also involved one dimitri sokolove 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 wounds 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 satchel 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 passes 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-terrorist police and what they're really trying

to piece together right now is why this bombing took place here involving bread and not as it was originally planned in moscow. also last night and islamic passenger was firebombed here in prague that brad's 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 that we discuss the issue of terror threats with alexander dahmer in who's a doctor of nor 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 channel divided what's happening in america in boston or in oklahoma city in one united five well we cannot separate it from what has just happened in volgograd or from what happened in may 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 and 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 bill 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 it to russia and 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. well i went to ms collating all the latest for you on the terror attack in volgograd for extensive background information eyewitness reports pictures and footage go to r.t. dot com. many of the deaths in u.s. drone strikes in pakistan are unlawful and amount to war crimes claims

international a new damning report released today looks at recent incidents and cites horrific examples of the killing of children and the elderly 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 barack obama became president in two thousand and nine and that was the year which saw the biggest number of killings one hundred sixty two in the next twelve months the strikes almost doubled there were 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 or other thousand civilians have been killed including two hundred

children the total number of deaths is more than three thousand more details now from. 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 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 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 wilson spoke to the head of the drones report and she says people in pakistan fear the unmanned aircraft the same way as they do the taliban and al qaeda. what we have done it's conduct painstaking research into a specific time period pakistan where u.s. house carried out drone strikes and that's a very recent eighteen months in a very particular part country in north waziristan this is one of the most

neglected remote areas. suffered abuse from groups also disappearances and torture obviously detention for the pakistan are. on top of out of the skies. they are being attacked by u.s. drone strikes. in some cases it is 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 to 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. the bank of america could be forced to pay six billion dollars to the u.s. government to compensate for risky management back in two thousand and eight the banks one of the major financial institutions hold responsible for the mortgage

crisis five years ago when the car 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 when it's the

u.s. federal housing agency which is leading the charge against the banks in funding the multi billion dollar lawsuits economist jeffrey a talker i spoke to a little earlier he believes the government's compensating for its mistakes. the banks that were responsible for the housing boom it was the government that's actually looting the banks right now this is a lot of attempt to find scapegoats and for the government to extract money wherever they can find it and to avoid responsibility i mean housing have been overinflated for probably half a century as a redirector result of washington policy is this is every u.s. president was like housing the housing thousands greatest thing ever the banking industry was there sort of riding the wave they were looking for willing buyers at the prevailing price and they found him mostly with a big surprise government backed agency it's you know i don't think they should have been bailed 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 are designed to recreate this problem but we're going to look at the same situation again three four five years from now. with not enough from moscow twenty four hours a day we'll be back after a short break with more including washington full sail with its age old ally for all its historic friendship undermined by the latest n.s.a. spy scandal suggesting millions of french people had their phones tapped the full details in just a few minutes. there's a media leave though so we leave the privacy motions to the play your part of the physical. issues that no one is asking with the guests they deserve answers from. politics. our team.

well into the future. thirty five. billion euros says to be one hundred million degrees with the. same piece going to france in search of the song. we've got the future. the number of european muslims joining the ranks of islamist militants in syria is

growing every month now no ways in order to hunt for two teenage sisters who have allegedly gone to the water and country to fight the regime alongside rebel forces . 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 believe 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 somali descent that they came to norway in the year two thousand they weren't particularly religious that impacted over the last few weeks they've been arguments between the the older sister and the mother of the family over the 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 while the numbers speak for themselves is 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. other than the earlier we spoke to middle east expert mark ullman about whether european muslims who join the syrian jihad present a tangible threat to their home countries. even if here zero point one percent of people risk being radicalized and we're talking now well over a thousand possibly several thousand people from new york in union countries have either conversely reordered volved in a kind of pipeline of radicalization and supplying people. we do have for a subgroup of others or for the has been a tendency to turn a blind eye to the problem that. blowback 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 handle but the hand is not the sort of 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. and do remember we've got more stories online for you right now including journalists united high ranking u.k. media representatives team up for a titian demanding the release of a british cameraman detained in russia over the greenpeace oil rig protest in the arctic. the russian sibling of santa claus meets the olympic flame on the later stage of the torch relay you can read more on the sporting symbols voyage at r.t. dot com. a qatari poet will spend the next fifteen years in prison after a court upheld his sentence today he's charged with insulting the country's ruler

and calling on people to overthrow the government in his poems mohammed supports the arab spring and makes fun of the arab rulers human rights organizations have condemned both the poet's trial and sentence or talk about it with nicholas mcginn from human rights watch nicholas the poet's lawyer called the court's decision totally political g. agree with that. it certainly seems to be as you said he was he was convicted with liam saving overthrow the regime and really from what we've seen of the pawns that were on board onto the internet but doesn't seem to be any say that he's you know guilty of these offenses and of course you know these offenses are country to international standards of freedom of expression and we saw it does seem to be a case that has a political slant to it yes so what was his political position then why would it have attracted this harsh sentence well i don't think he was a political figure i mean he was appalled. some of his poor three dead one

of the ruling family some of his poor tree did criticize out of the rulers and obviously this all you know didn't find favor with the royals of qatar and that's probably why he's and that's unfortunate position today there are reports he spent five months in solitary confinement before the trial even began and was denied access to a lawyer do you know anything about that you or i can see out of the mountain of materials treated pretrial here in addition to that he wasn't present for many of the original trial stations invite he wasn't even present for the final court of appeal decision which was yesterday morning that kettle's been accused of cracking down on dissent in a very brutal way despite this criticism despite what your doing human rights watch do you see anything changing do the authorities seem to care about the international perception of what's going on there. i think we do hear about the international perception of the care very much locking up one's artists is not

a very good saying many countries i've seen not very recently so it's difficult to know why why this decision has been taken you know a country which is short can sound of a good p.r. image and yet which is taken as action which undermines its stance on freedom of expression and undermines it it's a part and desire to be a leading figure in the auto. industries decision and go again that it does seem to be seen to be a bit more to it i think the it it in fact seems to be getting away with it doesn't it was hosting the climate change summit last year also of course winning the world cup bid we're not seeing a lot of international pressure are we really on the country over its human rights record or are seeing what pressure on both agree and we're not seeing a lot of pressure i mean a lot of emirates and and can't always doesn't have the same levels of domestic dissenters they do it's the same story the issue where they are getting pressures migrant workers' rights no point but generally speaking i think the international

community can be a bit silent where the goals can sound and obviously a da to some extent enables them to as you say to get away with some serious human rights violations nicholas really interesting to talk to you thank you nicholas began researching human rights watch live here not to thank you. an uproar in france over revelations the n.s.a. has spied on millions of its citizens as force washington to make one of its strongest admissions yet regarding its surveillance practices of a phone conversation between barack obama and president francois hollande the white house conceded the latest claims raise legitimate questions in just a single month the agency automatically intercepted more than seventy million calls while also looking text messages along with the general public businessmen and politicians were also targeted this prompted president all learned to join the cause of those urging tough previously laws in the european union well this discuss the latest n.s.a. scandal with such a main riff he's a prominent internet freedom advocate he's the vice president of the new america

foundation and director of the open technology institute joining us live from washington d.c. well the white house admitted france's concerns were indeed legitimate but do you believe the fallout from this scandal might actually lead to washington reviewing or curbing its surveillance methods. i should hope so it's clear that what the u.s. has been doing is not sustainable over time this has. created a massive reputational crisis for the united states this is a sputnik moment for the rest of the globe for the the entire populace is now in essence on edge about what is the united states government doing what is the n.s.a. doing what is being surveilled i mean we're not just talking about seventy million phone calls and france are talking about seventy million phone calls in a single month so in essence what we're saying is everyone's a suspect everyone is being surveilled and this is probably not just france and

germany and mexico and brazil this is probably globally but the reasons are quite clear secretary state just said yesterday protecting the world from terrorism why don't you believe him. well i do believe that there is a place for legitimate law enforcement and surveillance but it's clear that when we are hacking the phone calls of the entire populace of france when we're going after the the national oil company of brazil when we are in we were surveilling the e.u. delegation these aren't terrorists this isn't about terrorism this is about economic surveillance this is about political surveillance not to stop terrorists but to give us a leg up let's say in various negotiations and various information flows this is clearly far beyond just protecting the american people and is now into all facets of what the united states government is doing so all those countries that are being targeted particularly germany and france up in arms about this now but are you

seriously believing that these countries weren't in cahoots in some way some sort of cooperation with the n.s.a. all of a sudden it's been exposed and now they're putting their arms up in effect really to to keep the electorate happy yeah i think you're exactly right there is clearly a lot of complicit in this from a number of these countries and there's also some countries that would rather that they be the ones that are surveilling their own populaces you know in one way is a lot of what the snowden revelations have really made clear is that there needs to be an open conversation about this balance between law enforcement surveillance national security and our rights online does this really comes down to a normative discussion around what should be our fundamental privacy rights and how do we balance within a civil society the rights of the individual and the needs of society writ large and such just briefly washington's losing a lot of friends over this france

a very strong ally what is the diplomatic fallout not just for the countries france and the u.s. but the other countries involved to the diplomatic fallout here from washington. you know i think we're in midst histories of the diplomatic fallout is still to be determined but certainly we've lost a lot of credibility as an ethical internet steward where's that we would have been trusted in error in previous years to do a lot of the same things that we're doing today now as one of the chief architects and in essence stewards of the internet there's a lot of i think right full concern about the direction the trajectory that the united states has led us on and let's be clear this trajectory is rather bleak you know for those that would say well it's ok if the united states does it if we set an international norm we're every country on the planet has the right to surveil everyone else on the planet that is not the kind of civil society that we actually

want to promote ok a lot of this really comes down to what are the international norms that we want to see in the online world such a thanks so much such a man faith life aeronauts he thinks your thoughts my pleasure well up next stay with us for the latest edition of breaking the set with a remote in more news and often are. 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 fascist my opinion. with economic ups and downs in the final months day the on the deal sank night and the rest because i think he needs to be

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