all female suicide bomber kills and six people on a bus in russia city of volgograd were reported from the scene of a monday's bombing but. whatever happens i will not leave my house again could not be worse than this are jihad to the front lines of the syrian civil war where palestinian community is fighting to protect its homes and families. more revelations from n.s.a. leaker edward snowden with reports claiming germany's chancellor has been spied on for over a decade as thousands of protesters gather in washington united in anger at the country's global surveillance program and. this in some cases they've

clearly killed civilians and some of these characters might be able to cross and i miss the international research also our bodies a new damning report on america's so-called rescission strikes in pakistan. you're watching our chief for this week's the weekly as well as today's top stories on to bomb would say let's take a look at a stop top story on monday a powerful suicide blast hit a boss in the country southern city of volgograd killing six and wounding dozens i mean witnesses were unable to understand what had happened describing the scene as a warzone lynsey friends met some of the saliva us. october twenty first started just like any other monday here in volgograd people woke up with places to go and

things to get but heavily using bus stations just like this but for several people needing bus number twenty nine they could never have foreseen how quickly their lives would change when they took that ride. the route ran without incident from morning till afternoon it's a one person got on board thirty year old why you don't see all of that is when things took a tragic turn anastasio the bar on the boat was on her way home from classes at the university laughing and talking with the other students crucially it was being in the middle of the bus which saved her life. when the blast hit everything around me when flying and from that moment i don't remember anything on there equal being thrown onto her window then suddenly finding myself on the street and in a panic i realised something had happened to my hands i was covered in blood. it was right here at about two pm local time that a blast ripped through bus twenty nine filled with about forty people first

responders thought it was perhaps a malfunction of the buses fuel systems but aside from the shop they felt to ask themselves if this was a gas explosion was the fire. that broke the city or that everybody in the blast was touching their faces and heads asking what happened what happened there was a lot of blood on them and a lot of flesh everywhere i was very afraid i got out of my car and i saw the head lying there i mean my friend took a young boy and his father to the hospital the remnant of an explosive device told the tale shrapnel t.n.t. and a grenade the accident site became a crime scene while r.c. oliver agee hardest from republic of dagestan became the central focus of the investigation and then the story took another twist the attack wasn't meant for volgograd at all bessie oliver had apparently taken a detour. she had purchased

a ticket to moscow and boarded an intercity boss that passed through volgograd when the bus was almost at the city limits i see all of our gado and went back to downtown belgrade right now investigators are trying to find out whether this move had been planned in advance or are altered the plan along the way looking for a place packed with as many people as possible also under suspicion or three men believed to have helped in the plot to attack the russian capital two from dagestan wanted for twin terror attacks there in two thousand and twelve were said to be waiting for her in moscow on his way there was an aussie all of us husband dmitri sokol of an ethnic russian convert to islam missing since two thousand and twelve some reports suggest the couple had an argument shortly before the attack which may have caused a last minute change in her deadly plans authorities will be keen to find her husband in the hope he may have the answers lindsey france r.t. in volgograd. to talk to an expert on international terrorism money he believes

it's time to put differences aside on and combat a disease which is plaguing us on a global scale. 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 a nickel at home a city in the name of a five well we cannot separate it from what has just happened in volgograd or from what happened in there albeit 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 that 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 we're in the same boat and unlike just several years ago when the head was still in 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 to russia and the russian government will have a terrorist attacks in russia this is a terrorist attack not just against the russian people it's against it this is a terrorist attack against everybody. and on saturday a large cache of suicide belts and explosives was discovered in russia's southern republic of dagestan that's after police detained a man carrying a grenade and several blocks of t.n.t. on abbas going to moscow you can learn more about these and other anti terror upper ations here in russia on our website dot com. syrian minority groups are becoming increasingly active as the conflict spirals deeper into civil war kurdish militants have beaten back islamist rebels in the country's north east taking control of a key crossing on the border with iraq that is policia as in syria for us with more on the trials and tribulations of another minority the palestinians. this is young walk south damascus ten months ago it was home to one point two million

palestinians today ten percent remain the price of world this is how it's acutely here where it's divided families and pitted brother against brother. they betrayed us we cannot trust them anymore eight days ago abu movie and his wife came home for ten long months they'd lived on the streets not once giving up the hope they'd return this is what way to them and the welcome we are coming to kill you bashar scribbled on the walls. whatever happens i will not leave my house again i would like to destroy the walls and build them again it could not be worse than this for one year syria's palestinians managed to stay out of the conflict but the infiltration of foreign fighters with big dreams and even bigger promises of money forced the residents of young to choose sides and take up arms against people

they've known their whole lives. from friends fighting on the other side they're not friends anymore the ones who displace those from our housing and destroyed our homes are not our friends. with. each day abu movie leaves to fight them but not before he struck furniture high against the windows to protect his family from snipers life inside these bullet riddled wards is as dangerous as it is outside his two sons as vulnerable as their mother every time the father walks out the door but it's always a painful farewell own movie carefully helps her husband prepare for battle she knows he needs to go but each time he leaves behind the same an onset question. every day when he says good bye i wonder if you will come back or not like when he got injured he didn't come back i want to find him in hospital there are

a lot of men like him and women like me but not a lot of fighters have bought their families back to yarmulke the snipers are in shooting range and three days earlier shrapnel from a bullet blinded up to maurice lift eye but the thirty three year old doesn't have a choice he has nowhere else to move his family and while the southern part of your milk is still in the hands of the rebels his home or what remains of it has been freed by palestinians who like other war we are fighting alongside the syrian army and. when i go to the battlefield my mind is always with my family and i hope i will come back safe to them to take care of them and i pray that if i get more tired they will find tender people to look after him out of the front line is near two streets away but for other movie and his comrades the battle hits closer to home each time they take and to secure the streets for their families often it's

a neighbor friend and sometimes even a brother who is pointing a gun back at them porter c.r.t. yarmouk syria. meanwhile russia is pushing ahead with mediation efforts to bring all sides of the conflict to the negotiation table in geneva next month while the u.s. and its allies met this week to reiterate their support for the syrian opposition was saw was a one sided approach from a pentagon official michael maloof is says backing the rebels essentially amounts to helping the radical islamists the united states cannot be caught in the position of giving arms to the moderate so-called moderates when in fact most of those weapons would go to the opposition they just take them away in the at the extremists already control about seven of the eleven palestinian camps already and . in syria they're using them as a base of operations and they're intimidating the moderates in the moderates of

course are can't stand up against the more extreme elements and they just don't have the the capability of the fire and the fighting fighting power to do that. european leaders look for keys to solve the issue of a migrant immigrant influx while they use economic troubles and deadly shipwreck so seem to have no effect on the endless stream of refugees through the mediterranean some insight into that shortly plus. you're seeing what there is to to see. archie goes behind the barbed wire at guantanamo bay prison where the u.s. military gives us a carefully guided toward. john's lot angler america has been spied on by the n.s.a. for over a decade that's according to the leaks of published by germany's the magazine the surveillance goes back even before mccoll became the country's leader and this week

it's been revealed of thirty five world leaders have also been closely monitored by america's national security agency europe has voice anger complaining that its trust in washington is now. undermind former french prime minister dominique de villepin says that if the u.s. continues to strive for world dominance it could lead to conflict. we knew that. some practices were existed but the search and overall system this came as a surprise for everybody in fact what we are seeing today is the incredible privileges of the u.s. administration over the control of the world system we knew that the u.s. were controlling the financial system through the banking dominance of some big banks through the dollar currency as a reserve currency but controlling internet controlling the information in our world this is a privilege and monopoly if we are going to follow up in the same direction then

confrontation might be the lead to go president obama has ordered a review of the country's global surveillance operation promising changes in the meantime thousands have gathered on capitol hill for what the organizers say is the largest pro privacy rally in u.s. history artie's gannets you can has the details. thousands of people gathered here on the anniversary of the signing of the patriot act twelve years ago they believe that was the day when in the name of fighting terror their rights have been taken away from them they believe that the tradeoff between security and privacy is a false one people here say that they're tired of lies that the government has been telling to cover up their mass spying after all just a year ago the director of national intelligence james clapper said no when asked whether the n.s.a. was collecting data on millions of americans edward snowden's revelations of course confirmed that was a lie and the latest i've heard was that just within

a month the n.s.a. spied on more than one hundred and twenty four billion phone calls worldwide that means that every single person on earth is facing the risk of being caught up in the n.s.a. dragnet and the person edward snowden thanks to whom this protest is happening is now holed up in russia because here in the states he would sure be in jail by now people at this rally dows of people in fact demand a meaningful surveillance a long way for him they came with a petition signed by more than five hundred thousand people demanding congress investigate the n.s.a. spying programs the senate judiciary and intelligence committees planned hearings on those programs so they want to make sure that their voices are heard actually one of the main messages of this rally is watch the watchers but the question is is there really possible because so far any light that's been shed on the watchers was through whistleblowers in washington i'm going to check on. america's ongoing

a drone strike in pakistan should be investigated as a war crime that's according to a report this week by amnesty international get into the bottom of the so-called precision strikes program could be difficult now it all began in two thousand and four under the bush administration. two thousand and six was the deadliest year in his presidency when almost a hundred civilians were killed by two thousand and eight to the use of drones in pakistan has that escalated reaching a peak after barack obama was sworn into office in two thousand and nine now the next twelve deal bomb administration saw a record number of strikes one hundred twenty two and despite many damning reports of the drone war goes on now the obama administration is responsible for almost ninety percent of these showing strikes and out of the hundreds of civilians have been killed and up to two hundred children have been killed and investigation to

estimate the total number of the killings of more than three thousand plus the captain of looked into the latest report. 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 in some of these cases marty 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 us 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 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 we also spoke to the head of the drawings report she says people in pakistan fia the unmanned a cough of the same way they do terrorists what we have done it's conduct painstaking research into a specific time period in pakistan where u.s. house are 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. where ordinary residents suffer abuse from groups also disappearances and torture obviously detention for the focused on and. talk about out of the sky. being the types by u.s.

drone strikes. in some cases it is that some of those some of the. to extradition executions or war crimes we contacted the u.s. government in advance of our report being published. referred us referred us to the white house and the white house referred us to u.s. president barack obama's speech of may twenty third team which made promises of transparency we've seen little change to date. online for you right now there's a new government ministry in venezuela created purely to make sure everyone is feeling more cheery get more on the deputy ministry of supreme social happiness and how it's supposed to put a smile on people's faces through community programs. plus saudi women aren't officially banned from driving but getting behind the wheel they could get female drivers into a whole lot of trouble some are putting their foot down more to dot com.

this week or so records are being broken at our planet's most points now the olympic torch reaches the north pole for the first time in history after the fastest ever cruiser through the polar nights onboard a nuclear icebreaker artie's james brown was on board for the voyage. just in case you didn't actually believe we were going to the north pole i think that eliminates any damp doesn't it you might think it's just before the dawn or just before the sun sets but actually we're right smack bang in the middle of the day in fact it's just gone twelve thirty in the afternoon but of course the further north we go the less daylight we're getting the polar nights coming into full effect and as you can see our ice breaker is really having to prove our worth now. if they think you can see

everything is getting rather busy and excited up here and we're all on the bridge for the final approach. sorry lympics flame away from to make its way onto the north pole. her wasn't top of the world. was. well it's not often you get to witness a moment of real history but this is the first time that the maybe flame is ever been made of the north pole is exactly right. and i'm here to see.

despite the horrors of recent tragedies in the mediterranean very it's packed with refugees continue to head off for soldering the e.u. countries hundreds of the refugees were rescued off a cicely's coaster this week by italy's coast guard at a summit in brussels european union leaders a promise to revamp the blocs asylum policies and take active measures on the issue after a plea for help from rome along with greece italy is bearing the brunt of the flood of refugees while struggling to deal with their own economic the world's official statistics show the number of immigrants in the e.u. from outside the union make cvs twenty million italy every twentieth man is a registered immigrant in greece the number is even higher at more than seven percent . applications in italy have more than doubled in one year and greece is second only to germany when it comes to the highest number of pending applications you've

got he's going to take the issue initially skeptical. they want to buy the food from the opium to saddam then traveled to libya and finally reached sicily after what must have been the most nerve wrecking ball right off their lives these three women are hiding their faces from the camera since now they're risking being sent back when we were at sea now the boat with refugees sank into a three hundred people died but we were lucky and in sicily we managed to void getting registered it's illegal between need to go further north there is nothing for us here under regulation all newcomers must seek asylum in the country where they are right and under italian law any one of voting registration is sent home but nowadays more and more newcomers are ready to take their chances don't register to try to go to northern states where there are more opportunities probably when you arrive here they give you the very minimum there is no jobs no school and you sleep in the street for six months italy is one of the worst european states in

this regard youth unemployment has exceeded forty percent while the economy is in the worst recession since the second world war international obligations and plain human principles can't allow italy to turn away a refugee since for many it is the only chance for survival but the situation is now which to a point when this duty has become too heavy for it to handle on its own the e.u. has pledged italy would receive an additional thirty million euro or just over forty million dollars to deal with the refugee crisis but how will this help to distribute the more evenly throughout the union and integrate them into the economy is not clear they have been so on ideas so the cherry they may be some positive development and i see embodies a lot of. good hope but no concrete ideas and as governments and international organizations brainstorm the solution one thing is certain the flow of refugees is only going to continue you've got this going on r.t.

italy. and ongoing hunger strike a detaining detainees being forced fadden legal appeals. have the painful practice stopped that's a little off the daily reality behind the barbed wire at the dettori a prison gained rare access to the facility to see things for ourselves is what the u.s. military choice to show us. transparency is a word repeated by u.s. officials working at guantanamo like a mantra by those few who are comfortable speaking on camera you see the conditions under which the detainees live you get to talk to the people who are responsible for garnham we make it is transparent as possible and those preferring to remain on identifiable like the majority of officials we were permitted to speak to every week we get media like yourself international media or local media or whatever and they're welcome to come you know we tell them what we have any journalists workflow at guantanamo starts with

a mandatory introduction to media rules the so-called operation security briefing and the material that you guys are gathering to make sure that it divides by our policies here even though transparency is a word brought out by all the personnel we talked to on the ground we as journalists access to detainees aside are asked to be very careful about the shots we filmed all the backdrops and at the end of each day videos are reviewed and any shots deemed unacceptable are deleted this one will be ok because palm trees are not too controversial remind you of any frowned upon seaward like censorship it's in this series the program established to our car program accomplished with a very very good sorry old video and audio recordings and even sketches are carefully studied cellphones are banned from camps we're not supposed put anything on facebook or anything like that or you know even worry about talking about it over the you know anything over the phone the said purpose of these ground rules to protect the safety and security of get more operations the detainees you know they

get their vision so we try to photograph them down we are warned violations of media ground rules may result in restricted access denial of future visits and or remove all from guantanamo bay. people just kind of mislabeled it and i have a call to go for bia just not leading. giving the true picture i mean the only people who knows what goes on get more oss and to detainees and getting the detainees side of what goes on at good most apparently just couldn't be done after an extensive explanation of how exactly we are to film the prisoners the amount of detainee face time we get a total of one minute and five seconds through a dark glass window the reason we're given out of respect for them and then not using them is as you know. you know. making them some kind of curiosity you know on film a thing like that we don't want to do that despite our requests to not even film

but at least witness more real prison or life a high ranking guantanamo admiral convinces us that we actually have a lot more access than we think you're seeing what there is to to see you know. given the amount of time that you have here to to see it we are as transparent as possible after one minute glimpse at one detainee our schedule is in fact all booked up i think i mean they they were taken to the detention camp kitchen to witness how well things run their will since we're not really being allowed to close to the detainees this might be the closest glimpse of their life we might be getting today we're being told the that these are the meals that they're offered on a daily basis. we're also taken to the only local radio station all made up like zombies in the audience military personnel serving at the base do you do any news related to the time of detention camp that might. lead that to public media because you know there's enough journalists over there covering that music sports

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