a female suicide bomber kills the six people on a bus in a russia's city of volgograd will report from the scene of monday's bombing plus. more revelations from n.s.a. leaker edward snowden with a report claiming germany's chancellor has been spied on for over a decade that's a sounds of protesters gather in washington united in their anger at the country's global surveillance program and. syrian journalists are find themselves on the rebels' hit list of all pro our coverage of the spiraling conflict last. week they said some crisis they've clearly killed civilians and some of these cars is what we call. an amnesty international research talk show are about the bodies new damning report on america's so-called precision strikes in pakistan.

will come to. you with me to bomb one day let's take a look at our first story on monday a powerful suicide blasts ahead a bus in the country's assault their own city of volgograd killing six and wounding dozens many witnesses were unable to understand what had happened to describing the scene as a was our own are losing friends some of the survivors october twenty first started just like any other monday here in volgograd people woke up with places to go and things to get that 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 lie you see all about that is when things took a tragic turn and it starts to the very honorable it was on her way home from classes at the university laughing and talking with the other students crucially it was in the middle of the bus which say trade life it was the roof of our troops when the blast hit everything around me when flying and from that moment i don't remember anything on there recall 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 bus fuel systems but aside from the shop they felt to ask themselves if this was a gas explosion was the fire. in that boat was the same rock 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 shrapnel t.n.t. and a grenade the accident site became a crime scene while a jihadist from the 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 as the all of a had apparently taken a detour. she had purchased a ticket to moscow and boarded an intercity boss the pass through volgograd when the bus was almost at the city limits i see oliver got zero and went back to

downtown belgrade right now investigators are trying to find out whether this move had been planned in advance or asio altered the plan along the way looking for a place packed with as many people as possible also under suspicion are 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 has been dimitri sokolov 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 in different r.t. invoke regret. and today a larger cache of suicide belts and explosives was discovered in russia sovereign republic of dagestan that's after police detained a man carrying

a grenade and several blocks of t.n.t. on a bus going to moscow you can learn more about these and other and interoperation is here in russia on our website r.t.e. dot com. chancellor angela merkel has been spied on by the n.s.a. for over a decade that's according to the leaks published by germany's despicable magazine a surveillance case back even before merkel became the country's leader and this week it's been revealed that thirty five world leaders have also been closely monitored by america's national security agency europe has voiced its anger complaining that its trust in washington is now undermined for french a prime minister dominique de developing is also 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. for controlling the financial system through the banking dominance of some big banks through the dollar currency reserve currency but controlling internet controlling the information you know world this is a privilege and monopoly if we are going to follow up in the same direction then confrontation might be electable. president obama has ordered over a review of the country's global surveillance operations promising changes in the meantime thousands have gathered on capitol hill for all the organizers say is the largest pro privacy rally in u.s. history that is granted 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 through 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 it 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. that. as the syrian conflict spirals deeper into civil war civilians are increasingly becoming targets in the military standoff state media employees being marked for death by the rebels who want to oprah assad voices silenced artie's put a slim at some of those under threat. these pictures were a long time coming syria's state t.v. headquarters in flames the attack occurred just hours after rebel groups warned

they'd showered damascus with mortars. and young ones and i think their main goal is to intimidate people to stop us from working they want us to think twice about working for syrian t.v. like other employees of syrian state t.v. this woman is afraid to show her face she is one of the names listed in this website set up by the rebels and each a name and photograph is the word one to those with crosses through them are people who have already been killed. the irony is that those who make t.v. are now too afraid to appear on it this video editor was given an ultimatum either come work for us the rebels threatened or we'll kill you he managed to escape but a few weeks ago he came home to the message wherever you are you dog of the regime we will find you painted on his front door is with us i've lost the feeling of fear after i saw a man beheaded in front of me and mortar shells falling all around you forget what

fear is but the pain and heartbreak remain idea bus his brother ali carmel was an editor in chief of the syrian news agency he was killed by four bullets shot at close range after masked gunmen broke into his home. the strange thing is that we were never afraid for him we were afraid for my other brothers quine the army without our lead to severe i mean you'll be safe but they kill him because they don't want anybody to tell the truth even just those appearing on t.v. are being threatened they call a couple of time to adjust to it say that your body will be shot off from the head and they said we know who you are we know the location. we cannot kill you we can a cut your head from the body you are should be this is what they say exactly the fearful many is that this list is a long there were many names on it and scenes like this could well be repeated

until every last one of them is to. point to. damascus syria may now russia is pushing ahead with mediation efforts to bring all sides of the conflict to the bigger table in geneva next month that the u.s. and its allies met this week to regenerate their support for the syrian opposition which moscow calls a one sided approach us defense analyst ivan eland us says backing the rebels essentially amounts to helping the radical islamists but the al-qaeda groups are dying now dominating the opposition they're the most ruthless and oftentimes when you have a big civil war a chaotic civil war the most ruthless conning people rise to the top and i'm afraid that the west is in an illusion that these rebels are going to be some sort of a democratic force and i think obama now he's wised up to that i think and he's

always been a bit reluctant to get involved in this with heavy amounts of u.s. aid and i think even the turks are now attacking some of the rebel groups they're threatened by some of them on their borders and they have been supporting the rebel groups and probably steer are supporting someone so the situation is getting very chaotic but i think that the rebels if the rebels take over are you could have you know you could have an al qaeda dominated portion of syria. here's a little look for keys to solve the issue of the immigrant if. economy troubles and deadly shipwreck seemed to have no effect on the endless stream of refugees and seeking shelter across the mediterranean some insight into that class. you're seeing here is just to see you know. right now actually close behind the barbed wire at guantanamo bay prison the way the u.s. military gives us a tough league guided tours stay tuned for that. the fact that the

military is practicing in at any given moment in palestinian towns on palestinian people you know doing false arrests which is basically like like a normal arrest that you actually drag somebody out of his house in the middle of the night don't know difference is that the person that you are arresting is not really wanted for anything this is just for practice for training the soldiers now obviously one of the reasons that it's being done even older to actually train the soldiers which is problematic bites but i would say that if you look at the whole of the testimonies of hundreds of soldiers you will see that the main mission around this. is to declare the palestinian society as a whole not just the gunmen men women and children everybody needs to be afraid of you because that creates affective control over the palestinian population in.

the city. first street. and i think the trick. on our reporters would. be in the. thanks for saying with us here on our team america's ongoing drone strikes in pakistan should be investigated as a war crime that's according to a report of this week by amnesty international but getting to 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 of the deadliest year in the presidency when almost one hundred civilians away killed but

since then but you've also been an aid to the use of drones it pakistan has delayed it reaching a peak after president obama took office in two thousand and nine then the next twelve months of his presidency you saw a record number of strikes at a hundred and twenty two and despite many damning reports the drone war carries on now the obama administration is responsible for almost ninety percent of these strikes and out of the hundreds of civilians killed up to two hundred children which were killed and more children are made investigation estimate the total number of killings and more than three thousand mr cavanaugh of looks and the latest reports. 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. ling's in pakistan's northwest tribal areas and the lack of transparency surrounding drones this is a secret program in fact in our case we 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. by 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 that 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. on line for you right now there's a new government ministry in venezuela treated purely to make sure everyone is

feeling bored sherry it mauled the deputy of ministry of supreme social happiness and now it's a place to put a smile on people's faces to be read into programs. that saudi women aren't officially banned from driving by getting beyond the wheel to get female drivers into a whole lot of trouble now some are putting their foot down on the mall. this week or so records being broken at our planet more than most point a live picture or tree to the north pole for the first time in history after the flosses ever grew through the polar nights on board a nuclear icebreaker archies james brown was on board well the boy it. 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. the faith that you can see everything is getting rather busy and excited up here and we're all on the bridge for the final approach there. are a live picture flame away from sea to make its way onto the north pole. her. top of the world. was. i. was.

well it's not often you get to witness a moment of real history but this is the first time to be in a big claim is ever been made of the north pole is exactly right. and i'm here to see. citing the right to some other news this week and despite the horrors of recent tragedies in the mediterranean bernie it's packed with immigrants and refugees continue to head of the e.u. countries hundreds were rescued off cicely's curse of this week by italy's coast guard at a summit in brussels european union leaders promised to revamp the crops asylum policies and take active measures on the issues after a plea for help from right. this map draws a picture of what the roots are asylum seekers are taking the many of them said of

for europe because they fear for their lives of three homelands from come from countries with conflict like civil war in syria more move to find work and of course make money most northern african immigrants try to enter the e.u. through italy's south the red. sail either to france or spain now france is among the most popular destinations alongside germany as well as the united kingdom but is it really and greece that bear the brunt as according to e.u. laws asylum seekers entering without authorization are plies to remain in the country they first arrived in you've met some of them. they want to buy the food from and the opium to saddam then traveled to libya and finally reached sicily after what must have been the most nerve wrecking ball right of 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 refugees since for many it's 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 they cherry they may be some positive. 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 i'm going hunger strike detainees being force fed and legal appeals to have the pay. practice stopped that's a little of the daily reality behind the barbed wire at the notorious guantanamo bay prison gained rare access to the facility to see things for ourselves he has what the u.s. military chose 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 or the material that you guys are gathering to make sure that it abides by our policy here even though transparency is a word brought up 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 regulation sorry old video and audio recordings and even sketches are carefully studied cellphones are banned from camps we're not supposed to 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 to detainees you know make it their mission 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 removal from guantanamo bay. people just kind of mislabeled it and have a call to get before just not leading. giving the true picture i mean the only people who knows what goes on get more is os and the detainees and getting the

detainees side of what goes on and get 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 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 by their command paper 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 anything related to the time of detention camp. like. that to public media because you know there's enough journalists over there covering that music sports and talk radio pure infotainment rains here. and so we learned there were not the only ones simply being treated to a show and party one tunnel bay cuba. as judge and that take to the poll surveyed for the next head of state do we recap the controversial legacy of the outgoing president.

new zealand is boldly going where no government has gone before and according to reuters has decided to create a regulatory body to oversee recreational drugs that is their opening pandora's box it have at least temporarily given approval to fifty substances for sale at special stores which are banned in most other countries the body is trying to take a more scientific approach and determine which substances are actually harmful to the user you know i've heard the argument that the war on drugs just wastes massive sums of money effort and lives and you need turn a futile battle which is true it does but the only option people give is just legalize all drugs there are a few problems with this when something is legal that tends to make it ok is it really ok for you to spend your whole life in a trance to avoid reality is it really ok for everyone in town on friday night

after work to go on an ice crystal meth rampage the other problem is that the war on drugs fails because it's fighting the drugs and not the reason why people take them which is to escape reality why do people want to escape reality because in modern times or post modern times we live a soulless pointless isolated consumeristic existence of working in a pointless office job just to get poor so we can scrape by and get some cheap plastic junk at walmart when people's lives are empty they will fill them with something through a needle but that's just my. economic up and downs in the final. day of the deal sang i and the rest because i.